Welcome to Dungeon Hotel Chapter 381

 

Webtoon Side Story: Welcome to Dungeon Hotel Branch 4 (52)

 

“Why did you follow me here?”

 

At my question, Han Woohyun spoke with a stiff face.

 

“Because it seems like you’re doing something dangerous. You never tell me when you’re about to do something dangerous.”

 

“….”

 

At those words, I clamped my mouth shut.

 

Honestly, he’s right.

 

I looked up at Han Woohyun’s face.

 

Looking at his stiff face—

 

‘He’s angry.’

 

I could now roughly read his emotions just from his face.

 

But with nothing certain at the moment, it was difficult for me to share anything with Han Woohyun.

 

It was the moment I was about to soothe him.

 

Someone clung tightly to Han Woohyun’s side.

 

“Oh my~ Our handsome scholar, you’re back again?”

 

A ‘Nine-Tailed Fox (C)’ has appeared ahead.

 

…It’s a monster.

 

My face crumpled as I watched the Gumiho smiling airily while linking arms with him. 

 

Han Woohyun gently gently took the Gumiho’s hand off and looked at me. 

 

‘To think he took it off gently.’

 

I thought he would shake her off.

 

Thinking that, I bit my lip.

 

“You came to see Bihyung, right?”

 

“Uh-huh, that’s right.” 

 

Whether he noticed my reluctant answer or not, he looked down at the nine-tailed fox and said.

 

“I came to see Lord Bihyung. Do you know where he is?”

 

His voice became quite affectionate.

 

‘Is it to extract information?’

 

Even if that’s the case, I still don’t feel great about it.

 

‘It means he knows that even a nine-tailed fox would be bewitched if he speaks like that.’

 

Sure enough, the nine-tailed fox, whose gaze had changed, twisted her legs coquettishly and said.

 

“Lord Bihyung is currently enjoying a game of Seunggyeongdo in the annex over there.”

 

“…Thank you.”

 

He said that and gestured to me with his chin.

 

The nine-tailed fox, whose face had turned bright red, shouted at Han Woohyun’s back as he headed toward the annex.

 

“Scholar~! Come back again next time~!” 

 

Come again, my foot.

 

Thinking that, I arrived at the annex with Han Woohyun.

 

The place called the annex looked completely different from the original tavern building, which had still retained a bit of a serene atmosphere.

 

First of all, all sorts of ghosts were singing in the garden, and the guests were dancing to that song.

 

Inside the building, everyone had the windows open and was excitedly enjoying games.

 

No, actually, ‘games’ is a nice way to put it—

 

“Isn’t this gambling?”

 

Han Woohyun pointed to a sort of currency exchange booth that was exchanging brass coins for the ‘games’ boldly written on the door.

 

Wow.

 

So they set up a casino, something not even the Youngchoon Hotel has?

 

“Bwahahaha! I won again this time!”

 

It was when Han Woohyun and I were feeling bewildered in front of the imposing sight of the flashy casino.

 

At a pavilion in the annex, a man was about to leave with a hefty sum of brass coins. However, a hand grabbed the man’s pant leg.

 

“Just one more round. Let’s do just one more round. Please?”

 

“Hey now. What’s wrong with you? My wife is waiting for me!”

 

The man was quite resolute in shaking off the desperate hand.

 

As a result, the owner of the hand was squatting next to the pavilion, huffing in frustration.

 

I furrowed my brow at the sight.

 

‘A leopard really can’t change its spots.’

 

That’s right.

 

The owner of that hand was none other than Bihyung.

 

And the one clicking his tongue next to Bihyung was Gildal.

 

“Oh? What brings you all the way here? You want to play a game with me? What are you betting this time?”

 

As soon as Bihyung spotted me, he smiled brightly and ran over to me. His eyes were completely glazed over, making it clear he had drank quite a bit.

 

I looked around at the people who were completely engrossed in all sorts of ‘games’ while heavily intoxicated.

 

‘Good grief.’ 

 

It’s the perfect sight of people on the road to ruin through gambling.

 

Hmm. There’s a way to deal with times like this.

 

I shouted into thin air.

 

“Forced checkout for all guests in the annex.”

 

“…?!”

 

It’s a skill.

 

The ‘Front Desk’ skill.

 

As confirmed last time, the Goblin Tavern is also a hotel, so this skill applies.

 

And this is the proof.

 

The annex, which was completely emptied of guests except for the ghosts.

 

The music that filled the annex cut off abruptly, and the ghosts shouted in shock.

 

“A-A ghost!”

 

What are you talking about. You guys are ghosts yourselves.

 

Thinking that, I looked at Bihyung, who had fallen on his behind with a dumbfounded face right in front of me.

 

“I’m not betting with you today. I’m going to blackmail you.”

 

“…?!”

 

I crouched down in front of the squatting Bihyung to meet his eye level.

 

Then, I narrowed my eyes and said.

 

“Speak before I kick all the guests out of here. How did you persuade Ilmiho?”

 

“…Ha.”

 

Bihyung blinked his bright yellow eyes and laughed.

 

“Wow. You’re fun. To dare blackmail a goblin.”

 

Saying that, he tilted his head.

 

Then, in an instant, his face changed.

 

Wrinkles appeared, and his hair turned stark white.

 

‘That face—’

 

Where have I seen it?

 

He had turned into a grandmother with an incredibly familiar appearance.

 

“This face is the face that fox b*stard misses most in this world.”

 

“…What?”

 

As I blankly asked back while looking at the guy who had turned into a grandmother in front of me, a photo popped into my head.

 

The master of the Liber Hotel.

 

It’s the grandmother from that man’s profile picture registered on AirC&C.

 

“I heard this person is the original master of the tavern called Liber?”

 

What the.

 

Then that man is—

 

‘A disguise?’

 

I furrowed my brow.

 

I could feel Han Woohyun beside me was also taken aback.

 

Han Woohyun asked.

 

“How did you know that?”

 

The one who answered this question wasn’t Bihyung, but Gildal.

 

“When it comes to ways to torment fox yokai, Lord Bihyung knows about fifty thousand of them.”

 

It was a voice steeped in the sorrow of an office worker.

 

Whether he heard that voice or not, Bihyung continued speaking.

 

“There’s a liquor specially prepared for foxes. When they drink that liquor, foxes are bound to spill every truth from their own mouths. And after drinking that liquor, that fox told me a story from the past.”

 

Bihyung smiled his usual cunning smile on the face of a benevolent grandmother.

 

“He said he’s had a relationship with this face for a thousand years.”

 

Tilting his head playfully with the face of a benevolent grandmother didn’t suit him at all.

 

“Ah, and he said this face will soon disappear. He looked quite desperate, you know? Unlike the nine-tailed foxes I know…….”

 

Bihyung clicked his tongue and added.

 

“It looked like pure love.”

 

Bihyung’s face, with his hands clasped behind his back, shone in the moonlight. Then, for a moment, a shadow cast over his playful face.

 

* * *

 

“Thirty bottles of wine, all finished.”

 

The mice, whose already red eyes had become even redder, presented the wine to me.

 

They really made it.

 

Thirty bottles of wine.

 

Looking at it, for some reason, I felt a sense of deep emotion.

 

Seeing the mice exhausted from doing farm work and hotel work day and night, it felt like I was looking at comrades-in-arms.

 

“Thank you.”

 

I said to the mice with a smile.

 

The mice also smiled brightly at my exhausted face.

 

They’re probably all thinking the same thing.

 

“Alright, then let’s get the large group of guests….”

 

It was the moment Gray was about to say that.

 

I put 28 bottles of wine into the Goblin’s Pouch and uncorked one of the remaining two bottles.

 

“What are you doing……?”

 

Gray asked with a puzzled face, but instead of answering, I drank straight from the bottle.

 

It was when I had emptied about half the wine in front of the bewildered mice.

 

I spoke to Ilmiho, who had one arm restrained by Han Woohyun.

 

“I’m going to find the White family head.”

 

“…!”

 

Ilmiho’s expression stiffened.

 

He bit his lip.

 

It seemed he had caught on to some extent. That’s probably why he ruined the grape farming.

 

The mice beside me looked surprised.

 

“Lord White?”

 

“Where did they say Lord White is?”

 

I looked at them and answered.

 

“In the past. I plan to find him and try to persuade him to stop sharing the power of time with humans.”

 

“…You?”

 

Ilmiho looked at me with surprised eyes.

 

“Normal humans are dying to get a share of that power, you know?”

 

“Because I’m not a normal human.”

 

I said.

 

“I’m a hotel boss.”

 

“…What does that have to do with anything?”

 

“A hotel boss doesn’t need something like the power of time. The spirits of the catering industry might, though.”

 

At those words, a blush spread across the mice’s cheeks.

 

It was when Ilmiho was scoffing at that sight.

 

I said to Han Woohyun.

 

“I’ve told you everything now, so do you want to go together?”

 

I reached out my hand to him and asked cautiously.

 

“Will you go with me even if it’s a dangerous place?”

 

At those words, Han Woohyun’s face instantly lit up brightly.

 

Watching the smile spread across his face, Gray muttered.

 

“Page 35, a person in love beams happily at whatever the other person says…….”