He ordered a drink

While the young woman headed behind the curtains to prepare the drink, he took a seat near the counter.

In actual fact, there were only two chairs and a table between them within the bar. The rest of the bar was mostly empty. Weird.

He then questioned how he hadn't noticed the existence of the bar before. This was the path he took every single day. There were no signs of construction or its opening. It's as if the bar appeared out of nowhere.

As he was about to take out his phone to look up the bar on the internet, the door opposite the entrance slowly opened.