Freeport 10's "Sylvania Dome"

[JaaY]

Although he thought of it as a triviality, he had to take on this "challenge" at this point.

Kenji Sato entered the dome and took a deep breath of the moist air. He continued to walk along the path and ended up at the bar. Feeling obviously uneasy, he took a seat on a stool and let his glance wander around the interior.

To understand why Kenji felt so uncomfortable and why he eventually left the labours, one has to know about Kenji's philosophy of life.
When he finished his degree course, he decided to devote his entire life to research ancient technology and run xeno-archeology. But at some point, he noticed that something was missing in his life.

So far he tended to avoid contact with other people and evade a social life. He locked himself in the laboratories and let work be the central point in his life, which unfortunately had the unfavourable side-effect that he was not aware on how to deal with the opposite sex.

After the first breaking into a sweat when a waitress asked him what he wanted to drink, Kenji picked up courage again and took a look around. He discovered a lone woman, probably in her early twenties, who was standing next to table some meters away from him. Kenji planned this endeavour already several weeks ago, read countless of articles on "how to speak to women" in magazines, but it took him multiple days to overcome himself and enter the bar.

Shaking from tension, he clutched his glass and poured it's content down his throat. While the latter was still aching, he drew himself up and waddled towards the young woman.

When he arrived she didn't seem to have noticed him, as she was standing with her back turned to him. He gathered all of his courage and decided to start speaking to her. Sweat seemed to pour down out of every single pore of his body.

"He-HEY!" , he croaked in an utterly gruesome and squeaky way.

Immediately shocked and embarrassed by the faux pas he just caused, he blushed and hoped to not have startled her.

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