Our Cafe is Open as Usual - Chapter 34

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Episode 34

 

I already had plenty to do, and the revealed truth was a bit overwhelming.

 

I thought I could finally make progress. I believed that by getting involved with nobles and widely promoting Yonggari Cafe, I could reach the end.

 

‘I thought it was good that things were going as I wanted…’

 

“This isn’t right…”

 

‘Ha, should I offer prayers to the gods?

 

Or should I have performed a ritual when opening? Should I have sprinkled alcohol while praying not to let the business fail?’

 

“Should I at least offer water and pray…?”

 

I muttered while biting my lips. I felt like I’d been driven to a cliff’s edge in an instant.

 

I irritably gulped down the remaining coffee. Right now I desperately wanted alcohol instead of coffee. I wondered if getting completely drunk would ease this complicated feeling.

 

Perhaps seeing my suddenly darkened expression, Hyu approached hesitantly.

 

“Master! You have Hyu! Can’t we overcome this together…?”

 

Moisture mixed into his cheerful voice. Hyu massaged my hand while watching my reaction as he spoke.

 

“Hyu believes in Master! Millen surely believes in Master too! And… Basha must have prepared something for Master!

 

Oh, and… the coffee beans she left behind are still fine. And there haven’t been any problems making drinks so far!

 

“We’ll definitely get through this without any trouble! Hyu guarantees it!”

 

Hyu chattered earnestly. He said if something was going to happen, it should have happened already. Though it was called a soft opening period, it had been well over ten days since we started the coffee business.

 

So it would be fine, Hyu continued saying.

 

“And the statue was restored too! That all happened because the statue cracked…”

 

Ah.

 

Come to think of it, the statue was restored through a miracle. But the disasters started happening after the statue was damaged.

 

‘Then… it might be okay?’

 

I looked at Hyu with wide eyes. Then Hyu smiled brightly and bounced in place.

 

“Right? Hyu is correct, right? But if Master is still worried, I’ll let you pet my belly! It’s a belly I don’t even let Basha touch easily, but I’ll specially allow Master to touch Hyu’s belly!”

 

“…Really?”

 

“Yes! If Hyu can be helpful, Hyu can do anything!”

 

‘Is it okay for a hamster the size of my hand to look this reliable?’

 

Hyu standing proudly on two feet looked very dependable. If Hyu were just a little bigger, I would have held him tight and showered him with kisses.

 

Instead, I slowly stroked his head.

 

“Thank you, Hyu. Thanks to you, my head has cooled down a bit.”

 

“Hehe, Hyu didn’t do anything.”

 

Hyu scratched his head shyly and smiled foolishly. Then at Iliyana’s call, Hyu scurried over to her side.

 

Left alone in an instant, I stood up from my seat. I stretched, rotating my stiff back this way and that.

 

Then I opened my eyes with determination.

 

“Still, I can’t let my guard down.”

 

I need to face the statue again.

 

‘If the disaster is related to the statue, wouldn’t the Dael Sect’s statue tell me something again?’

 

Just like how it gave me exactly the coffee machine I wanted last time.

 

“I should meet Parhan again…”

 

Since I agreed to offer coffee as tribute once a week, it was about time to offer fresh coffee anyway.

 

Since both I and Parhan were busy, people from Dael Temple had been handling the coffee delivery.

 

‘I have an excuse, so I just need to make time to meet…

 

I really need to hire someone.

 

Someone who can make drinks.’

 

That way I can leave the cafe during the day. Since I’ll be leaving the cafe frequently for Antonio’s matters, I needed to hire someone as quickly as possible.

 

Of course, as Iliyana said, hiring someone would be very difficult.

 

“Hmm…”

 

But do they have part-time job hell or job monsters here too? If there’s a place where job searching is active, I could leave it to them.

 

‘There must be something like an employment agency…’

 

That’s how people here would earn money to live.

 

“Hmm…”

 

Let me finish today’s business first and think more about it.

 

Since closing time was gradually approaching, I returned to the kitchen. Throughout preparing to close, I kept thinking.

 

After pondering for a while, I was able to get an unexpected answer.

 

* * *

 

“If you need someone to work, I’ll find them for you.”

 

It was Millen.

 

Millen, who had come down to prepare dinner, said this after hearing my muttering.

 

He casually said this while serving me juicy meatball pasta.

 

“Why didn’t you ask me first? Thanks to that, I learned the ‘truth’ too.”

 

“…Why on earth did you hide that?”

 

“Because it’s no fun if you know the future in advance.”

 

“…Millen!”

 

He smiled by lifting only one corner of his mouth. It was a rather mischievous smile. He only sat down after finishing preparing Hyu’s meal too.

 

“More importantly, does it have to be a person?”

 

“…If not a person, then what, what else is there?”

 

“There’s Hyu, so wouldn’t there be other races too.”

 

“…Ah. But why do I feel like when Millen says it, it won’t be a person…”

 

‘How should I put it, I have a feeling he won’t bring a life form with a heart and flowing blood?’

 

The nuance was strangely different. When I looked at Millen with suspicious eyes, he shrugged.

 

“You’ll know when you see it.”

 

“It’s not a ghost, right?”

 

“Just asking in case, are you very scared?”

 

“I’m normally brave. Non-human things are a little scary though.”

 

“Ah.”

 

His smile deepened. Uneasiness swept through my entire body.

 

“I’ll just find a person by myself, Millen.”

 

“No. I already have a method in mind. Basha worked alone using this method too. So trust me, Lailah.”

 

The smile was still deep.

 

How could I trust him after seeing that expression? I made a tearful face. Then Millen chuckled.

 

“That expression is quite funny.”

 

After saying that, he focused on his own meal. It was a firm stance that he absolutely wouldn’t give any hints.

 

I sighed and took a bite of the meatball pasta he made.

 

The juices flowing from the meatball, the slightly sour tomato sauce, and the properly cooked short pasta went together very well.

 

It was annoyingly delicious.

 

Only when I had almost finished the entire bowl did he wipe his mouth with a napkin.

 

“Wait here. I’ll show you the real thing soon.”

 

“Now?”

 

“Yes, now.”

 

With those words, he went up to the 2nd floor. Watching his disappearing figure, I just blinked.

 

Then Hyu made a loud “Ah!” sound and looked up at me.

 

“Hyu thinks he knows!”

 

“What Millen is introducing?”

 

“Yes! It worked with Hyu before too!”

 

“R-really? What does it look like? Is it alive?”

 

Hyu tilted his head. He had an expression as if pondering something. Then, as if he remembered the answer, Hyu opened his mouth.

 

“Um… when Hyu saw it, it was alive! It’s soft and fluffy and also transparent!”

 

“…Transparent?”

 

“Yes!”

 

Hyu tried hard to show the shape with his hands. However, with his small hands, a circle was the best he could manage.

 

Thanks to that, a creeping fear of the unknown began to emerge.

 

‘My imagination is lacking in this area, so I keep thinking of ghostly things…’

 

I rolled my eyes frantically. When I gave up thinking after failing to find anything plausible, Millen appeared.

 

But he was alone.

 

No, he wasn’t carrying anything in his hands.

 

“You said you’d show me the actual thing.”

 

“Yes, it’s right behind me.”

 

“…Behind you?”

 

Millen nodded casually and approached me. But contrary to his words, I couldn’t see anything.

 

“…I don’t see anything.”

 

“Ah, I didn’t set it to be visible.”

 

He replied lightly and then lightly tapped the air.

 

Then.

 

Whirr-!

 

Along with the sound of something starting up.

 

“…A mannequin?”

 

A mannequin wearing rags revealed itself.

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