7 Chapter 7 Return of two characters and new guest.

Once the hotel had been placed in Tempest, Rimuru opened the door.

"Welcome! Ah, it's you again." Shelly, who saw his face, put a smile on her face. "Are you here to talk to Nahida again? He's taking care of some things upstairs."

"I just came here to tell him that the hotel is already in the city, and he can start receiving guests from now on."

"I will talk to him."

"Ah, Rimuru, are you back? Did something happen?" Then Nahida went downstairs and found Rimuru at the reception desk. He was holding a bucket and a cloth that he was using to clean the rooms.

"I came here to talk about your hotel. I put the 'permission' on an empty lot in Tempest, and your hotel appeared there. It was surprising, you know?"

"I wish I could have seen that..." Nahida smiled bitterly.

"Well, get ready that from now on, you will start receiving guests."

"About that, I have only five rooms for now."

"Only five rooms?!"

"Well, yes. I need to earn more points to buy a new room. I'll have to stick with just five rooms for now."

"I see. I hope you get enough points soon. Well, now I have to go; I hope you get along well with the people of Tempest."

"Me too..."

Rimuru said goodbye to Nahida and left the hotel.

"Hey, Nahida, who is she? I didn't ask before, but now I'm curious." Shelly asked.

"It's not a woman... It's a man."

"Huh? A man? Are you kidding!" Shelly widened her eyes and slammed her hands on the counter. "You're kidding. How can a man be so handsome? I think I'm in love with him."

"You'd better forget it. Besides being unable to have sex with anyone because he doesn't have a dick or pussy, he's got some complicated women on his side. You'd be killed."

"... What vulgar words."

"What?"

Shelly sat up, and Nahida sighed.

Nahida changed the water in the bucket and finished cleaning the other rooms. As he was going downstairs again, the bell above the door rang. They had received a new customer!

Riing~~

"Welcome~," Shelly said before Nahida could say anything.

Who had come in was someone Nahida had met earlier.

"You two..." It was Natsu and Lucy again. However, both of them were very bruised and dirty. "What happened to you guys?" Nahida asked, concerned.

"Nothing happened. We're completely fine." Lucy gave a forced smile. "Right, Natsu?"

"Yes, exactly. We certainly didn't get into a fight in the middle of town."

"Ah, I get what happened... Would you guys like a room?" Nahida asked with a smile.

"Hey, that's my job!" But Shelly complained.

"I hired you, so keep quiet and sit down." Nahida glared at Shelly, and she shrank back in her chair. Lucy and Natsu looked at the interaction between the two and didn't quite know how to react.

"We don't need a room. Can we get something to eat?" Natsu's stomach rumbled.

"That's right. I'm starving." Lucy's tummy rumbled too.

"Sit at one of the tables. I'll attend to you." Nahida escorted Lucy and Natsu to one of the tables, and the two sat down. Since he didn't have a menu, he explained to them the dish he would serve today.

Since most of the meat in his freeze was chicken, he asked Lucky to prepare grilled chicken with vegetables and a large amount of rice. There could be no shortage of rice in a Japanese hotel!

Chef Lucky prepared everything quickly. Nahida watched his every move to try to learn something, but he did everything very fast, and it was impossible for Nahida to replicate what Lucky did.

He would never cook in this hotel again.

'I'll study a bit more and try to cook in the future, but for now, let's forget about it. I'll leave everything to Lucky.'

"Here it is. Grilled chicken with vegetables and two bowls of rice."

"It smells great!" Natsu licked his lips and started to devour all the food. Unlike him, Lucy ate everything calmly.

Nahida was standing at another table drinking coffee while watching the two. However, a new customer arrived while he was distracted. It was a mysterious girl with blue hair.

She walked up the stairs quickly, and Nahida didn't have the chance to talk to her.

[ Available Rooms - 1/5 ]

[ Hotel Level - 2 (51/200 ]

[ Guest satisfaction - 65/10000 ]

"Huh? Satisfaction is pretty high. Maybe it's because of the two?" Nahida looked at Natsu and Lucy. They enjoyed the food, which was probably one reason for it.

[ You have received 3 experience points! 54/200 ]

'Oh? Three experience points. I think I understand how that works. I'll get 1 experience point for every 20 satisfaction points. At least that's what it looks like.' Nahida thought it was a low value.

So Nahida got up and walked over to the reception.

"Shelly, who did check in?" He was curious.

"Let me see." Shelly took the notebook Nahida used to write the names of the guests since he didn't have a computer. "Her name is Bulma. She looked exhausted... She must be asleep by now."

"Bulma?" Nahida gave a gentle smile. "An interesting new character has appeared." But unfortunately, he didn't get the chance to talk to her. Maybe he'll get that chance when she's leaving.

"Oh, and about the money... She gave me some yen-like notes. It's called Zeni. What do I do?"

"Just keep all the money in the same place, then I'll see what to do with it."

Nahida wondered how Bulma had gotten to his hotel.

His hotel was probably turning up in the most unusual places.

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While walking through West City in the middle of the night after a tiring day, Bulma mistakenly walked into a strange alley and found a peculiar building very different from all the other buildings in the city.

It was a small, wooden building unlike anything else around it.

The small building was between two huge buildings with a somewhat futuristic appearance, so it caused strangeness. And on the building, written in the language of that world, were the following words:

[ Hotel Yamato ]

"Is that a hotel?" Bulma looked confused. Could such an old building be a hotel? Usually, hotels in that region were big, technological, and luxurious buildings.

'But I'm feeling so tired.' However, she eventually gave in and entered the building because of her tiredness.

As soon as she entered the reception, she was surprised at how clean the place was, despite the smell of old wood.

"Welcome to the Yamato Hotel!" The receptionist said to Bulma.

'She's so beautiful.' That's what Bulma thought when she saw her. "Excuse me, is this a hotel? I want a room so I can rest until tomorrow."

"Right, it's 4,000 daily and 5,000 if you want a meal."

"Okay, here you go." Bulma handed the money to Shelly and headed towards the stairs without caring about the amount. However, before she went up, she looked to the side and saw a large room with a few tables.

There, she saw a muscular boy devouring a plate of food and a pretty blonde girl eating happily.

Beyond the two, she saw a handsome man with a mature appearance sitting while sipping something from a cup. Their eyes met for a moment, and she hurried up the stairs.

'Damn, he's so handsome.' Bulma's face was red. She had forgotten how tired she was.

When she entered the small room she had paid to stay in, she didn't stop thinking about Nahida until she slept.

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After eating, Natsu and Lucy stayed at the hotel for another hour before leaving. They paid with 'Jewels,' but Nahida didn't know how much that was.

He kept the money and would see what to do with it later.

"I'm gaining a lot more experience points now. Still, I don't have many upgrade points yet."

It had only been two hours, so he only had 5 points. He couldn't do anything with that. But luckily, he would level up faster because of the guest's satisfaction.

Which had gone up again.

[ Guest satisfaction - 81/10000 ]

Nahida didn't know why the satisfaction increased, but he was now gaining four experience points every few minutes. He would probably wake up tomorrow with his hotel at level three.

"And that's great. If I start gaining 3 upgrade points per hour, I can upgrade many things in one day."

"What is it, Nahida? Is something bothering you?" Shelly approached him.

"It's nothing; I was thinking about what to upgrade when I have enough points."

"I suggest you save points and increase the number of rooms. You can only accommodate ten people if you have two people per room. It's too little."

"You're right."

Nahida glanced at the timer. He was very close to gaining two more points.

"I think I'll save a few points."

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When Bulma entered the hotel, it was the afternoon in Japan. However, for her, it was night.

When she woke up the following day, it was dawn in Japan, and Nahida was still sleeping in a secret room on the first floor. The hotel was also his home.

Bulma came downstairs after combing her hair and washing her face.

"Good morning."

"Good morning! Did you sleep well?" Downstairs she found only Shelly. Shelly never slept.

"Well, I'm going now. Thanks." Bulma looked around, searching for Nahida.

"Hmmm..." Shelly gave a smile. "If you're looking for the boss, he's asleep right now. You can come back later."

"..." Bulma's face turned red, and she left the hotel.

Shelly giggled and then sat silent, staring at the wall.

"How boring..."

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When Nahida woke up, he sat down at one of the tables to have a cup of coffee, and Shelly approached him to let him know that Bulma had already left before he woke up.

"I see. It's a shame."

"But she was curious about you."

"About me?"

"I think she liked you. I can understand her since you're quite handsome, but still..."

"What do you mean by that? I'm handsome but not attractive?"

"It's not that. You're not my type." Shelly went back to the reception and left Nahida speechless. He took another sip of his bitter coffee and started thinking about Bulma. It was a little strange.

Shouldn't Bulma be together with Vegeta? Or did his hotel appear on a different timeline?

"If she's married to him, I don't even want to get close to her. Trying to steal the wife of a guy like him would be pretty stupid. I'd be killed on the spot. But what am I thinking...?"

Nahida knew getting involved with these characters would take a lot of work. But couldn't he try?

'It's too early, though. But I'm feeling so lonely after my girlfriend left me. But I'm not desperate for a relationship... Right?'

But even if he wanted a girl in his life, Nahida refused to humiliate himself for it or run after a woman. Things would have to happen naturally.

If he happened to get involved with one of these characters... "I would find that amazing."

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The protagonist will not be a woman-chasing beta, don't worry. I know the webnovel readers hate that kind of guy lol

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