Chapter 26: First Day of Business
The next day, Kim Gayoung and her group were preparing to open the cafe.
“Starting today, business begins. Everyone, give it your all.”
“Yeah. Let's work hard.”
“Yes. Unnies.”
Ten minutes before the cafe opening time, Liria and Silvia arrived at the cafe.
When they saw them, they smiled brightly.
“Liria. You came.”
“Silvia-nim also came.”
“Come quickly, both of you.”
“It is a pleasure to meet you.”
“Of course we have to come. It's Liria's cafe.”
Liria was satisfied with opening a cafe on Earth.
It had been Kim Gayoung's group's suggestion at first, but she had wanted to after discovering coffee.
Originally she had planned to open it in Selenia, yet it unexpectedly became one on Earth.
Liria found the first exchange with Earth being a cafe quite pleasing.
“People are waiting outside.”
“Yeah. I'm really nervous.”
“I'm really trembling too.”
Even though the cafe had not yet opened, people were already lined up outside.
Rumors about the Elf Cafe had spread across SNS, YouTube, and communities.
Customers were hoping Liria would come out.
They had considered the possibility that she might have gone to school since it was a weekday, yet they still hoped.
They could not imagine that Liria was a real elf.
Business hours: Weekdays 08:30~12:30, 14:00~18:00. Takeout cafe. Customers with red lights are respectfully declined.
Business hours were eight hours on weekdays, as Liria and the others had discussed.
Considering office workers' lunch breaks, they planned to close at 12:30 and take a one-and-a-half-hour break for lunch.
And they had decided not to treat red-light humans as customers.
Red lights filtered by the detector were unimaginable evils, so it was far better not to have them.
“But what is a red light?”
“They say they don't accept red-light customers?”
People could not hide their confusion upon seeing the signboard's message.
They did not know what a red light was, yet wondered if filtering customers like that was acceptable.
Since filtering customers was not legally problematic, many approached with the thought “maybe not.”
When the cafe opened, customers began entering one by one, and no alarm rang.
“Red light not showing?”
“Then it's fine, right?”
“What on earth is a red light?”
“Finally, entry.”
“Looking forward to it. Is there an elf girl?”
“She's the mascot of the Elf Cafe. I hope she's there.”
As customers flocked in, they began bustling about, and Liria watched the scene.
When customers saw Liria, they began cheering.
“It's the elf girl. Lucky I could see her.”
“Wow, she's really super cute. I only saw photos on the Elf Cafe site.”
“They said the real one is much cuter, so it was true.”
“Oh, it's Liria.”
“Hello Liria.”
“Nice to meet you, Liria.”
Customers greeted Liria.
Seeing Liria, the stress they felt was relieved.
Liria waved to the customers.
“It is a pleasure to greet you.”
“Oh, she greeted me. Her voice is really cute.”
“That's the elf girl.”
“She was in the top search terms.”
“She's really small and cute.”
“I want to pet her hair. She looks super soft.”
“Don't do that, it would be a crime.”
“No, damn. That's what you said. I won't do it.”
Customers headed to the kiosk with satisfied expressions, seeing Liria as the mascot.
“A cup of coffee is 6000 won, a bit expensive, but the taste is good and it has fatigue recovery effect.”
“Even just seeing the elf girl relieves fatigue?”
“So you're not buying it?”
“Of course I have to buy it.”
Customers began ordering at the kiosk, and they started making coffees as ordered.
Customers who had missed the free tasting yesterday were surprised when they drank the coffee.
Because they had never tasted such delicious coffee in their lives.
“Wow, this is really delicious. So there's a reason it's 6000 won.”
“That's why I came. To see the elf girl too.”
“Really glad I came.”
“If the fatigue recovery is better than regular coffee, I might come often.”
“I think it would be nice if the elf girl was there every day.”
“Can't be that she's not the mascot for nothing.”
Customers drank the coffee and left the cafe immediately.
They wanted to see the elf girl more, but there were many customers coming in, so they compromised.
They never wanted to make Liria unhappy.
“People are leaving so willingly.”
“That's good for the cafe's turnover rate.”
“I see. The jinsaeng hasn't come yet.”
“Just one of those humans would make it super tiring.”
No matter what, there was no guarantee that red lights were jinsaeng.
But those who understood some words and did not cause much damage to others did not trigger the red light.
Red lights separated by the detector were truly unimaginable evils.
Park Dahye's words were scary, and the alarm rang violently, and the red light appeared.
They had thought the opening would go smoothly, but it was not always smooth.
When the red light appeared, Silvia went in front of the cafe door.
“What's up? Why am I a red light?”
“Oh, it's finally here. An unidentified red light.”
“Eh, I don't know. I'm going in.”
“What on earth are the conditions for red light?”
The red light man ignored the sign and entered the cafe.
Seeing him, they thought it was as expected for a jinsaeng.
But Silvia was standing in front.
“Evil human, where do you think you're going?”
“What, what? Hic.”
He was surprised to see Silvia blocking his way.
Because it was the first time he had seen such a pretty and attractive woman of his taste.
He fell in love with Silvia at first sight.
And immediately confessed to Silvia.
“You're so pretty, could you give me your number?”
“Get lost. Human.”
“I don't know what the concept is, but the cool look is cool too.”
He had come because he knew the Elf Cafe was a concept cafe.
So, despite Silvia's sales pitch, he thought it was the concept and did not think of leaving.
People watching started whispering.
“Is that person a YouTuber I've seen a lot somewhere?”
“Yeah, that's the YouTuber who was involved in an incident and was in seclusion.”
“She's so shameless. To ask for a number like that.”
“Is it that? The red light that filters jinsaeng.”
“Honestly, I don't think such a thing exists, but looking at the situation, it might be true.”
“Hey, are you done watching? Don't leave.”
“As expected, her temper is dirty too.”
“Acting tough is disgusting too.”
“She's full of arrogance.”
He was irritated because other customers were whispering about him.
He discovered Liria, was captivated by her cute appearance, and tried to approach.
Silvia blocked him.
“Wow, this kid is the elf girl. She's really cute. Like a doll.”
“Get lost. Human.”
“Can I pet her?”
“Do you want to die? Human?”
When he tried to pet Liria's head, Silvia used Dragon Fear on him.
Liria had never seen Silvia get so angry.
A normal human could not withstand Dragon Fear.
If used properly, it could cause fainting, so she controlled it.
He almost fainted from the Dragon Fear and even peed a little in his pants.
“Who would say it's not a crazy person. Now even trying to molest.”
“But that human didn't pee, right?”
“She's really a disgrace.”
“If not, that elf girl would have been contaminated.”
“She's really dirty.”
He finally came to his senses and realized he had peed a little in his pants.
Even with a steel plate on his face, seeing people whispering, he had no choice but to run out of the cafe.
Liria thought he had not spilled to the floor but was dirty, so she immediately used purification magic.
“You should have left earlier. As a human.”
“Wow, that silver-haired woman is really cool. Her appearance is so pretty, how can she be so cool?”
“A super pretty young lady chased away the jinsaeng.”
“Real red lights aren't for distinguishing jinsaeng, right?”
“Have science and technology developed so much? There is a machine that filters jinsaeng.”
“Where is such a machine in the world?”
“But that YouTuber is a jinsaeng. He even does bullying.”
“You think YouTuber is a celebrity. What do you think you are.”
“Even celebrities get scolded for that, what is a YouTuber that does bullying?”
“She's the worst. I don't know what kind of person sucks up to such a YouTuber.”
“They're the same kind of people.”
“Always doing garbage things, but only posting what benefits them on their YouTube.”
“There are so many witnesses here, how can she do such shameless acts?”
“Yeah, that's right. She was trying to touch Liria.”
“If she really touched her, I wouldn't have let her.”
“That guy is all talk and acting tough, but there's nothing to it.”
Liria learned how famous the YouTuber was from the customers' reactions.
It was fortunate that she had installed the Good and Evil Detector.
From the red light, it was clear it was a human who had committed a big evil act.
“I hate bad jinsaeng like Liria.”
“Now, whenever jinsaeng come, I should just use Dragon Fear right away.”
“Good idea. Silvia unnie.”
After a while, the blue light alarm rang instead.
People started whispering about the blue light.
“What? This time it's blue light?”
“There was no talk about blue light?”
“Eh? What is blue light? Can I not enter?”
Na Sujeong said in a tearful voice.
Na Sujeong was a YouTuber who honestly reviewed food at various restaurants.
But due to her personality, she could not criticize, so she did not review food that did not suit her.
No matter what, as a YouTuber, she did not want to leave someone out by giving bad reviews.
Thanks to that, she was too biased a YouTuber and could not properly release her name.
When the alarm rang, Na Sujeong was surprised and tried to leave the position.
She did not want to attract attention and cause trouble to the cafe.
But Silvia approached Na Sujeong who was trying to leave and said...