Welcome to Dungeon Hotel Chapter 375 - Webtoon Side story: Welcome to Dungeon Hotel Branch 4 (46)

Webtoon Side story: Welcome to Dungeon Hotel Branch 4 (46)

 

That night.

 

Ilmiho’s scream echoed through the old Liber Castle.

 

‘Arghhh!’ 

 

I had asked him to ‘captivate’ the fox, not to ‘capture’ him.

 

I was worried, but surprisingly, Ilmiho returned the next morning looking completely unscathed.

 

I asked Ilmiho, who looked somewhat dazed.

 

‘…You met Bihyung, right?’

 

‘I did.’

 

He replied to my words with a displeased expression.

 

‘Some Goblin Tavern? I never should have drank at a place like that…. That damn bastard… ended up doing something weird….’

 

He went to the Goblin Tavern?

 

Bihyung must have used some sort of trick.

 

I wanted to ask more, but somehow Ilmiho’s expression told me I shouldn’t.

 

You could say he looked a bit sullen.

 

Normally, he would have snapped at me much more, so it was strange that he didn’t.

 

‘Is this what they call being bewitched by a Goblin?’

 

Just as I was thinking that.

 

Ilmiho opened his mouth, his face heavily scrunched up in a scowl.

 

‘From now on, if there’s work to do, split it with me. I’ll help run the Liber, too.’

 

Oh…….

 

He really did ‘captivate’ the fox, didn’t he?

 

‘I thought you hated humans swarming all over Liber, are you sure you’re okay with this?’

 

‘Liber needs to be swarming with humans so….’

 

Ilmiho was about to say something, but then looked at me as if he had suddenly snapped out of it.

 

He scrunched up his face and clamped his mouth shut.

 

‘Ah, whatever! I’ll help out for now, so don’t get any other ideas and just focus on running the hotel well! Got it?!’

 

And that brings us to the current Ilmiho.

 

“Oh my, the bellboy is so handsome! What’s your name?”

 

“Excuse me? Ah… I’m… Ilmiho….”

 

His face stiffened completely whenever the guests spoke to him and acted friendly, but he still stubbornly managed to answer them.

 

The guy who used to be busy running away with his tail between his legs when Vincent came was now even carrying luggage for the grandmothers.

 

“Thank you, young man.”

 

“Excuse me? I am a bellboy of this hotel….”

 

“I’m thankful even if you’re a bellboy! My luggage must be especially heavy…!”

 

Watching the grandmother smile brightly, Ilmiho’s face stiffened strangely.

 

“I came because my granddaughter really wanted to visit here, and it’s truly wonderful!”

 

“I-I see…….”

 

-5

 

The number above Ilmiho’s head changed.

 

How did that…… happen?

 

It was getting harder and harder to understand how Ilmiho’s affinity worked.

 

Anyway.

 

Thanks to that, we now had an extra bellboy.

 

Instead of dispatching employees using the remaining slots, I made up my mind to utilize the existing spirits.

 

What do I mean by that?

 

“Darams, have you by any chance heard of acorn jelly?” 

 

It meant I decided to get on the good side of the mice. 

 

There were still mice left in the old castle who had not yet evolved into human forms, meaning I couldn’t squeeze 100% of their labor power out of them.

 

And most of them were squirrels.

 

I decided to name them ‘Daram.’ (t/n : 다람이들 is like multiple squirrels) 

 

“…Stop calling us that weird name!”

 

“No small talk during the holy blessing of the oak barrel!”

 

“No small talk!” 

 

Of course, they didn’t accept my goodwill so easily. 

 

However, after finding out that the Darams could also eat human food, I pursued various methods to win their favor.

 

And one of them was this.

 

Acorn Jelly (E)

 

—Jelly made from Forest Acorns (F).

—Bounciness is increased by 200% compared to regular jelly.

 

Jelly made with the power of items.

 

To find this, I had gone into a farming dungeon and picked a ton of forest acorns even while I was busy taking reservations from guests.

 

And the effect was massive.

 

It was when I, having been chased away by the Daramis who acted like holy priests, sullenly stepped away from the oak barrels and secretly hid to watch them.

 

A few Daramis who had finished the ritual saw the dotorimuk and tilted their heads, chattering among themselves.

 

“What is this?”

 

“It does have a familiar smell….”

 

“Ah, whatever, I’m hungry so I’m just going to eat it! The oak barrel blessing works up an appetite!”

 

A few Darams picked up the jelly and slipped it down their throats, and their expressions instantly transformed.

 

“…I-It’s delicious!”

 

“It’s a familiar scent, but so chewy!”

 

“There’s no need to use our front teeth!”

 

Their expressions began to look blissful.

 

At the same time, the numbers above several of the Daramis’ heads increased.

 

25

 

“Uwahh, my body feels weird!”

 

“You turned into a human!”

 

And right at that moment, I sent Gray inside.

 

“Now’s the time. Bring them here.”

 

“……Could you please phrase it as ‘scouting’?”

 

Gray went to fetch the Darams with a reluctant look on his face. 

 

The method of scouting was promising them more ‘acorn jelly.’ There was also the method of tempting them by giving them work for a few days in exchange for money that could buy ‘acorn jelly’ and grapes. 

 

Because the catering spirits who had only ever lived in the old castle had never experienced a monetary economy, they received a huge shock seeing how currency allowed them to effortlessly buy several bottles of the wine they worked so hard to make…….

 

“I, I want money too!”

 

“Please give us lots of money, Boss.”

 

“We’ll do anything!”

 

…And like this, they were won over.

 

No matter how I looked at it, this was closer to corruption than scouting, but still, thanks to this, our personnel was solidly reinforced.

 

Housekeepers, waiters, and even kitchen assistants.

 

Thanks to the reliable staff reinforcement, Dungeon Hotel Branch 4 drew more and more guests, and rumors about our hotel began to spread even further.

 

And naturally, the unavoidable moment arrived.

 

My friend’s story about visiting Dungeon Hotel Branch 4 (Proof attached) 

 

…The news was becoming known in Korea.

 

Not as Liber Castle, but as Dungeon Hotel Branch 4.

 

I went to school in France, so I have a lot of French friends, you know?

 

But a while ago, my French friends kept sending me weird things.

 

Pictures of ramen, eating raw fish with soju, and recently, they even sent a picture of them eating dotorimuk and green onion pancakes.

 

So I just brushed it off, thinking it was because K-culture is trending these days, right?

 

But then a few days ago, one of them was complaining about how frustratingly slow the internet is in France, and saying they wanted to go to Korea?

 

As far as I know, they’ve never even been to Korea before.

 

It was weird, so I asked, and they told me they actually went to a hotel called Liber.

 

They were so hyped up talking about it, saying it was practically heaven lol.

 

So I listened to their story, and apparently all the food is Korean, the staff service is insane, and there’s nowhere in the French countryside with Wi-Fi that good lol.

 

That area is a rural village in northern France, and the internet there is crazy slow…… Plus, there really aren’t many countries with internet as fast as Korea yet anyway…….

 

But ever since they came back from the Liber Hotel, they’ve been completely soaked in dopamine lololol. Always looking for Buldak spicy noodles lolol, only hanging out in places with fast Wi-Fi lolol, and getting annoyed at how slow French food comes out lolol.

 

So I asked more about it, and apparently it’s the hottest spot in France right now. People in France usually go to Nice or places like that for vacation, but lately everyone is dying to go to Liber. Hearing about it, it totally makes sense lol. It’s a rare dopamine-exploding hot spot in France lol.

 

And it turns out, the owner of that hotel is Korean?

 

They said the owner is a world ranker, so at first I was like, ‘Why would a ranker run a hotel?’ but then Dungeon Hotel suddenly popped into my head. So I asked, and it’s true. They said the hotel owner built Dungeon Hotel Branch 4 in a thousand-year-old ancient castle called Liber.

 

Crazy. I saw a speculative post on the message board a while ago saying Dungeon Hotel Branch 4 might be opening, but to think they’d make it so quietly? In France? And in a rural village at that?

 

Boss Junghyo really knows what viral marketing is. An absolute viral genius T_T

 

I want to succeed in booking a reservation with my friends when I visit France next year too T_T but it’s become such a hot spot, it probably won’t be easy……

 

Oh right, the proof photo at the end is of a wine my friend received at Liber, and there was even a note for a review event stuck to the back of the bottle lololol. If you post a review on AirC&C, you get a free night, and the event is only running until the end of this month!

 

I want to convince my friend to go together with this event T_T Oh, right. My friend also said this wine is freaking delicious. They said the owner will be running a winery together with it, and once parcel delivery becomes available, they’ll order it by the crate haha.

 

+Edit) Han E.H. suddenly took a multi-month leave from the Hanwoon Guild, so people were wondering if there was a problem with his safety or if he was going to the US like the old articles said, but it turns out he’s at Liber haha. According to my friend, the two of them give off total newlywed vibes hehehe. It’s obvious they’re dating just by looking at them, but they stubbornly pretended not to know each other, so the guests were sweating trying to pretend they didn’t know either.

 

…Posts like this, captured under the title ‘Liber Reverse Export’, began circulating everywhere.

 

I blushed as I read the text in the ‘Edit’ section.

 

Newlywed vibes?

 

We definitely, absolutely didn’t act like we knew each other!