First Guest
“Yuil Hotel, welcome sincerely.”
“Huh? What’s that now?”
The group stared at me with bewildered expressions at my sudden words.
“Yuil Hotel..? Is this place a hotel?”
“Yes.”
It seemed they finally understood.
“Then, where is the owner of this place?”
“Ah.”
It seemed they didn’t think I was the owner here.
“I even dressed up in a suit.”
“Hyung. That person isn’t the owner, right?”
Fortunately, someone had sharp eyes.
“What? Isn’t the owner of this place supposed to be a person?”
“Is that so?”
“Hmm. That was the meaning.”
It seemed they couldn’t imagine that a high-class hotel was operated by a single awakened person.
But unfortunately.
“I am the general manager of this hotel.”
“......Eh? Then, does that mean we can stay here?”
It was finally the question I wanted.
“Yes. The daily accommodation fee is 1 million won. We accept payment in magic stones.”
At my words, Kim Taeseok looked at me with a scam-artist expression.
“Do you think the room prices are expensive?”
At my words, Kim Taeseok flinched.
“......To be honest, yes.”
These people still don’t know the ways of the world.
“Or are you going to pitch a tent and camp at night, or use a sleeping bag?”
“We use a sleeping bag, but why are you asking that?”
Sleeping bag.
It was the answer I wanted.
In fact, since pitching and folding a tent takes a long time, few awakened people use tents.
Anyway.
“Until now, when spending the night, you haven’t been able to sleep comfortably on your sleeping bag while taking turns on watch, right?”
“Y, yes.”
“But! If you stay here, you don’t need to take turns on watch or have trouble sleeping due to discomfort.”
If the sleeping place is uncomfortable, there are many disadvantages to rest.
Especially if it’s a mixed-gender party, there would be even more inconveniences besides this.
“Still, 1 million won is a bit......”
“Then, how about you look at the room and decide?”
At my suggestion, Kim Taeseok pondered for a moment and nodded.
“Understood.”
At that, I guided them to the room.
“First, as you can see inside, there’s a bed and a table. And.”
Click.
One side of the room, the shower room is revealed.
Gulp.
“......Can we shower in the tower?”
“The bed looks super fluffy.”
“Hyung. There’s an air conditioner here too, right?”
“What? There was an air conditioner.”
Naturally, I turned on the air conditioner.
Cool air blew from the air conditioner.
“Of course, you can use the air conditioner freely.”
I don’t know if the electricity bill is deducted, but telling them not to use it where there is one looks odd.
“Wow......”
The group was opening their mouths in amazement at the room’s appearance.
At that moment.
“Everyone, pay attention.”
Kim Taeseok gathered the group’s gazes.
“1 million won is a huge amount, reaching 20% of our daily profit. You know that, right?”
“Hyung! It’s the bed, the bed.”
“......Yeah. The bed. But the discomfort is only for a moment. If you endure that moment, you can save 100 each day. No, since you’ll need to rent two rooms, you can save 200 each.”
Silence fell in the room.
“Should I tell them the buff I was planning to surprise them with?”
There is a buff on the bed that increases fatigue recovery by 50%.
If I tell them this, their reactions will change.
However, before I could open my mouth, the woman who had been quietly observing until now spoke up.
“Um......”
“Hm? Yuna. Do you have something to say?”
“Yes. As the leader said, if we accept a little discomfort, we might earn more profit.”
“Yeah! That’s what I wanted to say.”
“But.”
Yuna cut off Taeseok’s words.
“Due to that discomfort, if we can’t properly rest and recover our condition, it will interfere with tomorrow’s hunt. Do you remember how today Hyeontae-hyung dozed off and almost hit me with an arrow?”
“Hey, I apologized for that!”
“......Be quiet.”
At her sharp words, everyone closed their mouths.
“Hyeji noona.”
“Eh? Me? You called me?”
“Yes. Noona is a mage, right? You said the fastest way to fill mana is a good night’s sleep, didn’t you?”
“Yeah, that’s right?”
“Since we have to take turns on watch for 2 hours, if we add that time to sleep, how much more mana will we fill?”
“Hoo.”
Only then did I realize what she was trying to say.
“About 20%..?”
“Hm. The difference is bigger than I thought.”
“Yuna. So what is it you want to say.”
Kim Taeseok pressed her.
“I think it’s not bad to rest here. Besides Hyeji noona’s mana recovery, if our condition is good, we can earn more profit from hunting by that much.”
I was inwardly admiring.
She wasn’t blindly suggesting to use the room, but explained the reasons to use this place with cold analysis.
“I don’t need to intervene.”
Kim Taeseok looked around.
“......What do you think of Yuna and Hyeontae’s opinions?”
“I agree with Yuna~”
“Hyung, I think we can decide after using it. Additionally, Hyeontae-hyung hitting me with an arrow because I look like a goblin-”
Puff!
“......Uwa, something seems broken.”
“What? I adjusted the power, so stop being dramatic. And if you say ‘goblin’ one more time, I won’t hold back next time.”
“S, sorry.”
He slowly walked away from there.
“Have you decided?”
Kim Taeseok slowly turned to me.
“We’ll use it.”
“Yes. Then, how many rooms will you rent?”
The bed is double size.
That is, if you rent one room, the two of them would have to sleep on the floor.
Kim Taeseok pondered for a moment and said.
“Two, please.”
“Understood. Then, check-in will be done at the front desk.”
“Yes.”
We returned to the front desk again.
“Advance payment.”
“You said you calculate with magic stones, right?”
“Yes.”
He took out a magic stone pouch from his backpack and placed 20 low-grade magic stones on the front desk.
“Twenty. Accurate.”
I manipulated the front desk computer.
Click.
CHECK-IN COMPLETED.
ROOM KEY CARD ISSUED.
At the same time, two plastic cards from the slot in a corner of the front desk table appeared.
“As written in the guide.”
I picked up the card emitting a faint light and handed it to Kim Taeseok.
“Room key cards for 101 and 102. They will automatically disappear after a day, so no need to return them.”
Kim Taeseok looked at the cards from various angles at my words.
“They disappear automatically?”
“Yes.”
He received the cards with surprised eyes and returned to the room.
“Rather, I’m curious about tomorrow’s reaction.”
I didn’t tell them, but there is a fatigue recovery buff on the bed.
“Well, it doesn’t matter.”
It would be much more intense to experience it directly.
After that, I placed my hand on the magic stones on the table.
“Convert.”
The magic stones on the table turned into light and dissipated.
200 POINTS ACQUIRED.
And the message didn’t end.
Success! Received the First Guest!
📍 Location: Yuil Hotel
🎁 Reward: Hotel Grade ★ → ★★
“O?”
2.
D-grade awakened. Kim Taeseok.
He was blankly staring at the two cards in his hand.
“I’ve never heard of a hotel in the tower.”
It wasn’t false.
In fact, they had checked the room, checked in, and left.
“2 million won......”
Kim Taeseok’s party is a party with an average exploration layer of 5th floor.
Average daily profit is around 6 million won.
Even this level of profit is thanks to Yu Hyeji, the mage in the party.
“Yuna’s words are right.”
If she stays here, she can use magic a few more times, earning more profit.
Whether that is worth the room fee or not is a question, but Yuna’s words to use it at least once were entirely right.
“Anyway, since I paid the money, I should rest properly.”
No need to have trouble sleeping on the uncomfortable sleeping bag or take turns on watch.
Thinking that, I felt my body relax.
I headed to the assigned 101 room, brought the card to the door.
The card emitted faint light.
Click.
The door locked itself.
“Interesting. I should bring the card for the next room too.”
At that time, Lee Hyeontae, who had realized he had entered, ran over.
“Hy, hyung! Lie on the bed here.”
“Huh? I haven’t showered yet.”
“No, that’s not the important thing! Anyway, hurry!”
At the moment I sat on the bed after reluctantly patting my butt at Lee Hyeontae’s excessive demand.
Fatigue Recovery 50% Increase
“Huh?”
“Hyung, you saw it too? This is crazy. There’s even warm water coming out. In the tower!”
“......”
Kim Taeseok thought.
“Did he know about this effect?”
If that’s really the case, he was an incredibly conscientious person.
“Even I, who said 1 million won is expensive, am in a position to feel ashamed.”
The advantage of this hotel is not just this.
In fact, Kim Taeseok’s party had fled here after being chased by an angry orc.
And they could flee because this hotel blocked the orc’s invasion.
“That means it’s safe from monsters too.”
“Hyeontae. You shower. I’ll go give the card to the next room.”
“Really?!”
“Yeah. Shower slowly.”
It was already a bit sticky after almost 5 days of continuous hunting.
“I should bring it quickly.”
Kim Taeseok headed to room 102 of the next room.
Since it was right next door, it was quick.
Click.
The moment I opened the door like that.
“Kyaak!”
“S, sorry!”
When I opened the door to 102, what I saw was Yu Hyeji undressing.
I quickly turned my head, but the furious Yu Hyeji threw the towel in her hand at me.
At that time.
Hotel Rule 2
- All forms of attacks are prohibited in the hotel.
Thud.
“......”
The towel didn’t reach me.
A towel blocked by something fell powerlessly to the floor.
“Was that just now..?”
“Close the door!”
“Ah, yeah. I’ll leave the card here. Sorry.”
Kim Taeseok placed the card down and closed the door.
“Rather, what was that message just now?”
I checked the system log.
Hotel Rule 2
- All forms of attacks are prohibited in the hotel.
“All forms of attacks are prohibited in the hotel...?”
It was indeed strange.
Working alone in this vast hotel is risky.
At first, I thought it was because of my skill, but in the first place, there was no need to worry.
“......Crazy.”
Anyway, Kim Taeseok returned to the room again.
“Huh~ Hooong.”
Lee Hyeontae was humming a tune, as if in a good mood.
“Hey, I don’t want to hear a guy’s whistle tune. Shower quietly.”
“Huh? B, already here?”
“......There’s a reason.”
I couldn’t say that I accidentally opened the door and saw my party member’s embarrassing sight.
“But since he was wearing underwear, it’s safe.”
If it wasn’t, Yu Hyeji would have used magic on me right away.
“Hooong. Hooong”
The whistle tune came again.
Pfft.
“He seems to be in a good mood.”
Kim Taeseok thought that maybe just this was enough to justify the value of using the room.
“I might not mind using it occasionally.”
3.
The hotel grade increased and functions were unlocked.
“What unlocked, hotel management.”
Hotel Management
Hotel Name: Yuil Hotel
Hotel Grade: ★★
General Manager: Han Doyun
Fixed Cost: 0P
Points: 300 P
▶ Rooms
▶ Staff
▶ Facilities
▶ Shop
▶ Upgrade (Locked)
“Wow. Three unlocked.”
Excluding the originally open rooms, staff, facilities, and shop functions were unlocked.
“Shall I look at them in order?”
I clicked on the staff item.
At that moment.
New Hotel Support Benefit
- To stabilize hotel operations, the first contract is supported for free.
▶ Staff
- Bellboy (2000P)
- Front Desk Staff (3000P)
- Cleaning Staff (3000P)
- Chef (6000P)
- Facility Manager (Locked)
- Security Manager (Locked)
- Private Security (Locked)
......
......
“Free support..?”
Of course, choosing the high-paying chef was correct.
The problem was.
Currently, the hotel facilities have the kitchen and restaurant locked.
Even if I hire a chef now, it means I can’t do the kitchen work.
“Should I hire the front desk staff first?”
This would be right to get immediate help, but the chef’s price is overwhelmingly high compared to other positions.
If I hire the front desk staff now, I’ll have to buy the next chef at full price.
“......It’s not like the chef can’t do other jobs, right?”
I, who was a porter before, took on all sorts of odd jobs.
If the chef has no kitchen, he should at least look after the front desk.
Finally, I went through the confirmation procedure.
“Can the chef also handle other jobs?”
If it’s system-blocked, it would be a loss, but I think hiring the front desk is right.
Ding.
Answer. Efficiency decreases when performing tasks outside the assigned duties.
That meant it was possible.
“Front desk work is possible for now, right?”
Decided.
“Do you want to hire a junior chef?”
- Due to hotel support benefit, the first contract is free.
※ Note: Employee salaries are determined according to grade.
“Allowance or something.... Of course I have to pay.”
Right now, I need someone who can help with work immediately.
“System. By the way, roughly what is the salary and how is the payment cycle?”
I asked into the void.
Fortunately, the system answered kindly.
“...Crazy. 5000 points means 50 million won a week?”
How much work do you have to do to eat 50 million won a week.
“For now, 1 star. Even if I give in a bit, 2 star is the max. Above that...”
I couldn’t afford it now.
“...Should I hire later if I don’t know?”
At that time.
“Employee dismissal is also possible.”
Oh.
It also prepares for the possibility of hiring someone I can’t afford.
“Then, hire!”
“Hotel Staff Contract Concluded.”
“Employee Summoned.”
Light gathered and formed a human shape.
“Congratulations. 『Chef - Emily』 has joined the hotel!”
“Junior Chef Emily. From today, I will do my best for the hotel!”