Haku's Visit

Hey, Shun here!

If you ever experienced setting up a business, you know how sentimental having your first customer is.

It seems like someone wants to attack that spot in order to get some big sister points.

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(Shun's POV)

"I hope I'm the first visitor to my dear sister's inn?"

That was the first thing that Haku asked while coming through our inn's entrance. You aren't even halfway through entering through the entrance, and that's the first thing that you'll ask? As expected of a siscon.

I kinda want to mess with her. Also, Seiko, don't look at me with that expression as if you're saying, "I told you so!".

Well, I guess it's to be expected when Haku is an ultra siscon. She probably skipped work just to visit our inn.

"Sorry, you're going to be the fourth visitor…" To add some extra effect, I even showed a sorry smile. However, I did not expect the next thing that happened.

"W-What!? What in the world…?! Hm… Could you please tell me the names of the three prior visitors? Everything will be fine if I can just eliminate them."

Now, it's my turn to be shocked. What the… This woman's nuts!

"I rushed over immediately to be the first visitor of Rokuko's inn as soon as I heard that it's already finished." Haku was visibly disappointed and her energy seems to have deflated.

I wanted to mess with her more but Rokuko came running through the front door before greeting her dear elder sister. It looks like she ran towards here from the Master Room when she saw that it was Haku who is visiting.

By the way, the Heilen Bunny, Fenny, seems to be mimicking Tsuka and is riding on top of Rokuko's shoulders.

"Haku! I'm glad you came! You're our very first customer!"

The moment Rokuko said that, Haku shot an intense glare my way, which I nonchalantly shrugged off. That's what you get for cheating on our Dungeon Battle.

"Congratulations on becoming our first visitor Haku and Chloe! Since we wanted to offer you the best service possible, would you like to stay inside, and be the very first person to visit, our grand capsule suite?" I had put a lot of effort into making every arrangements in the grand suite top-tier. I'm kinda proud of it.

It had a [Memory Foam Mattress (200 DP)] that was much better than a plain [Futon (50 DP)] placed within a high quality wooden frame I had made and decorated myself. It even had a [Feather Comforter (100 DP)].

As for the bed itself, it's filled with wooden carvings and, since I used [Create Golem] on it to freely change it's shape, I gotta say that the final product is unique to our inn. It was a fun experience as well.

There were some neat flower decorations inside the room made out of wood, along with some rabbit sculptures to go along with it. Since Rokuko requested, I even made sculptures of Fenny and Tsuka playing together.

There were a ton of other minor improvements over normal rooms, like carved reliefs in the furniture, a candle-shaped light magic tool on the table that emits a very fresh and aromatic scent, a sliding glass window with some fancy curtains, and so on. It even had its own bathroom and bathing room.

Yep, you heard it right, there's a bathroom AND a bathing room. We wouldn't make our valued A-Rank guests take a bath in the same room that has their toilet.

The bathtub was made from the nice smelling lumber I picked up when I was doing the reclamations nearby. If it was in my world, it could be classified as a high quality piece of lumber. Just smelling it's aroma would make you feel like you're inside a lush virgin forest.

To finish things off, I added a massage chair on each grand capsule suite. It's a massage chair but it's also a golem.

I made it from the memory foam and leather materials that I bought from the [DP Catalog]. After some trial and errors, the final product was extremely satisfactory.

My previous self seems to love massage chairs so I wasn't lacking in knowledge about it.

Anyway, the idea about having a massage chair inside the grand capsule suite was so that guests could get out of the bath wrapped in a towel and go to sleep while getting a massage. They could get their food delivered by pressing a button in their room, so they didn't need to go down to the cafeteria to eat their meals.

We had everything taken care of. Though, since I made it with A-Rank adventurers in mind, I'm not expecting adventurers below A-rank to stay in it. Well, I guess only Haku could stay in it right now?

"So, how much does it cost? I'll pay the money as I should. Don't think I'll let you get away with claiming I'm not the first visitor because I didn't pay." Oh, she saw through me. I was thinking of telling her stay will be free as long as she tell us her honest thoughts about her stay but… Oh well.

"You know, I actually haven't decided on how much the grand capsule suite should cost yet. So, if you don't mind, could you please give us your input after you experienced staying inside one of our grand capsule suite?" This way, she could also finally decide whether or not she would want to partner with us.

Haku hesitated for a moment before looking at Rokuko.

"I helped him decorate the inside of the room. Haku, how much do you think we should charge?"

"Oh my, you did? I'm quite looking forward to that. And, mmm… I suppose I'll think up a price and pay after I've stayed the night." Wow. She changed her mind pretty quickly.

Truth be told, Haku's input here would be really helpful. I already asked Seiko, Ichika, Maichi, and Koharu about this but they all have no idea how to price it since they never stayed at a high-class inn.

As expected of an extreme foodie, she was more interested in paying tons of money for food, not sleeping arrangements. Like, I could understand her somewhat, but still…

"Oh, and you'll have our A-Rank meals for food. We're passing things off as if you're giving Rokuko the ingredients through [Storage], so keep that in mind." We needed a front regarding where we are getting all of our ingredients. Since Haku volunteered, saying that we should tell anyone who asks that she is the one giving us the ingredients, we have a pretty solid excuse.

By the way, I know for a fact that this is just Haku's way of thinking up an excuse to visit Rokuko once every two weeks or so.

"Very well. Ah, and I imagine the food comes from your world as well? Here, have two gold ones, for both Chloe and I. I'm looking forward to the meal." It would've been fine if I give her the food for free, but sure. I'll take what I can get. I have a quest to complete and gayhering many gold coins are a part of it.

Her way of handing over the money as if it was nothing reminds me of myself when I'm out shopping with Miu. Man, she's really living in the different side of society in this world.

We're worlds apart when it comes to wealth in this world. Well, I mean, she's literally living in a different world from my own and we're in that 'other world'… but you get the point!

Anyway. I know it's kinda late to say this, but I really don't think our current A-Rank meal is worth a million yen. I should probably turn it into a full course French meal fit to serve an entire table of people if this will be the price.

Man, the common sense of my world doesn't apply in this world.

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(Haku's POV)

Reading the reports I got from Chloe, it seems like my dear little sister Rokuko already managed to build an inn. I thought that it would take more time for them to be able to afford an [Inn (400,000~ DP)] but I guess I underestimated them yet again.

I'm quite surprised that they had it ready even though the dungeon isn't known to the public yet… I did give them quite a good amount of DP but still, that still wouldn't cut it.

Based on the reports, it was quite a big inn so just 400,000 DP wouldn't be enough. I wonder how in the world they earned so much DP so fast?

Did they perhaps build a human farm? Mmm, even then, they wouldn't have finished it this fast. Did they stumble upon a vein of orichalcum while mining? This is rather likely.

Either way, I used [Teleport] to speedily visit her inn to become her first (customer). Thankfully, I managed to be the one. I even have the opportunity to take two of her firsts(as a customer) by staying in the inn's grand suite, or what they call the grand capsule suite.

Also, they gave me the heavy duty of determining a proper price for the room. Fufufu. I have built countless inns throughout the imperial capital, and as part of work, I've stayed in various grand suites in the Holy Kingdom and beyond.

In fact, I've even stayed in a wide variety of inns while traveling as an adventurer. They could not have picked a better woman for the role.

"Now then. Could I ask for some hot water?" I could just clean my body with [Purification], but it actually feels quite nice to wipe your body off with a towel wet with hot water.

Cheap inns who aimed at Low-Rank adventurers don't bother offering this service though. I expect a grand suite to have hot water on hand at all times. Let's see how many seconds it takes for them to get the water to me.

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※~To be continued~※

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Author's Remarks:

※ I think I'll do one more chapter introducing the grand capsule suite before we move on to the capital and the time when Tsuka is going back.