Chapter 1185 - One Beautiful Night III (1/2)

Azief had never liked art. To him, art is simply equal to fraud. It did not do anything for the people. It did not fill a starving stomach and it could not be used to make shelter

It had no purpose.

As for beauty that people raved about in art, he could see it every day when he opens his eyes, looks out the window and see the sun rising, seeing the birds flying in the sky, the clouds moving pushed by the winds, the waves that kiss the shore, the green of the forest, the majestic beauty of mountains…. the beauty of nature.

When you see it, you find no other painting that could beat it.

But…. because Katarina likes it, he made the effort.

He became patrons of artist in Pandemonium and he even set aside some budgets for art related project, he collects beautiful painting and even sometimes bought some of the painting that is painted by the Immortal Couple.

There is a garden in the Centre Palace of Pandemonium. It is called the Garden of Pandemonium and it is the most beautiful garden in the world

It had a famous Botanist, a rare class of Herbalist that maintains the garden. Azief is known for his brutality and merciless punishment to his enemies.

But many artists in Pandemonium regarded Death Monarch as a patron of arts as he has many sculptors and painters in his retainer.

Azief had hired and recruited people to beautify the Garden of Pandemonium.

What some people don't know was that there is a section on the garden that he had dedicated to Katarina

One part of the garden is designed to look like Claude Montre's Garden, in Giverny of Northern France.

That area has a pond filled with water lilies. That area is a tribute to Katarina who loves Monet artwork.

The painting of the water lilies.

Azief created it simply because Katarina when she looks at arts, talks about it, there is this kind of light in her eyes

And Azief love to see that light. He loves to see her smile. It almost felt like her happiness infected him and he too become happy

He had never understood art. But he did not need to understand it. It matters that Katarina loves it and because it matters to her, he makes an effort to make it matter to him

And it is the same thing for Katarina. Katarina did not like coffee that much. But she has learnt to love it.

She knows that it is Azief most favorite thing to do, brewing coffee. And he is pretty good at it. To be more accurate, he is an expert in it

She likes her coffee a bit sweet. Azief called her having the palate of a child and he had always tease her about that.

And Azief…...this man that he loved always have a good story about coffee.

It is unthinkable, probably for the rest of the world, that one of the most fearsome person in the world, a threat to many world powers is a man that is so excitable when talking about coffee.

There are only a few topics that Azief would feel excitable about and Katarina knows each one.

She knows why Azief likes to brew coffee. It is not simply just because he likes drinking coffee. It is because he used to want to become barista.

Maybe some people would laugh and not believe it. A Barista? The strongest person in the world? That person who kills without batting an eye? That kind of person wanted to be a barista?

People forget that before the Fall, most of the powerful figures in the world right now from Azief to the World Powers high echelon, most of them are normal people

Raymond for example was a cosplayer stuck in a Comic Con when the Fall began.

He is basically a nerd before he became Raymond the Earthshaker. Now, no one could imagine Raymond as a young kid going to Comic Con

Before the Fall, Raymond every year he would go to Comic Con to meet his favorite celebrities, to buy comic, and connect with like-minded people who also likes comic

Of course, Raymond himself was quite an oddity among the more extreme nerd. He was a bit chubby but he was a confident person.

He likes comic but he was sociable. The stereotypes that people who likes comic and nerdy stuff are all people who could not socialize is not all correct

Of course, there are some nerds like that. But there are also the kind like Raymond who channels his inner kid once a year.

He was basically a normal guy with a normal hobby whose life changed because of the Fall

He became a leader and in that desperate times he leads the people that was trapped with him to fight monsters.

Katarina did hear that in the beginning of Raymond rise to power, he had a falling out with the leader of the group