Chapter 100 – Finally. We Finally Met

“Whew, the work is completed, boss. It was firmly and well fixed. “If the light doesn’t come on or something seems strange, please call my number.”

“Ah yes. Thank you! Thank you for your hard work!”

“No. We are grateful. “Then let’s go now.”

Buuuuung-

I turned my eyes away from the back of the truck moving away and focused on the freshly hung sign.

A maroon-colored sign that matches my small but neat atmosphere with the name ‘stay this place’ written on it.

Having a sign on the building meant that my store, which was just a meaningless building, gained meaning.

“Whoa…”

And now that my store has a name, a new meaning has appeared in my life.

This means that it is not the life of a hero who went into debt, but the life of a café owner.

I was intoxicated with the epic-level power of the status window and wanted to live a more special life than anyone else, but the place I ended up in was the owner of a café.

“Well, I heard life is ironic.”

But I really liked where I was standing right now.

It was not a position I obtained by being swayed by a special ability called a status window, nor was it a position I was forced into to repay a debt, but a position I chose solely of my own will.

That was ‘stay this place’.

“Yes, finally… I paid off all my debt. I also opened a café.”

It was a great day when my own café, which I had only dreamed of, finally became a reality before my eyes the moment the sign was put up.

But for some reason, rather than a sense of accomplishment, I felt a sense of emptiness in my heart first.

I’m definitely happy, I feel good, and I’m feeling excited about the immediate reality of starting a new life, but why do I feel empty?

I thought about it for a while, and it didn’t take long for me to find the answer to my question.

“Well, isn’t this how it is supposed to be? “When something you’ve only dreamed about comes before your eyes, everyone feels defeated.”

It’s just that it doesn’t feel real.

It was something I had hoped for and dreamed of so much that when it became reality before my eyes, it didn’t even feel real.

However, the fact that I had achieved something that I had only dreamed of was a reality that would never change, and so the longer I faced this dream-like reality, the more the despair in my heart gradually turned into motivation.

“At las. Finally, I can do normal things…! Sleep eight hours a day! Take care of your holidays too! I go on vacation once or twice a year! “Living such an ordinary life!”

As my motivation grew, my tension naturally increased, and the memories of my time working as a janitor in the emergency room served as kindling, giving vitality to my whole body.

An ordinary life that others would take for granted.

That ordinariness was more precious to me than anything else, and that’s why excitement filled her heart as she was about to start a normal life.

“There are no more housekeepers or caregiver stays without a daily routine! Now, all that remains is the owner of ‘Stay this place’, Stay to enjoy the leisure of everyday life!”

When my excitement reached its limit, I shouted out loud with all my heart.

If Nir and Mary had been by my side, there was no way I would have been able to do a monologue like this, but there was no one around at the time, and I was overflowing with motivation, tension, and excitement, so I couldn’t help it.

“Whoa…! Okay, first opening. Let’s get started.”

Now is the beginning of a truly ordinary life, a leisurely daily life!

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“······Hmm.”

No one is coming.

When I dreamed of opening a café in a quiet countryside, I expected there wouldn’t be many customers, but I didn’t expect there to be this many people.

No, I would have expected it if even a few people passed by, but I haven’t even seen a shadow of a person outside the window for three hours since the store opened.

“Could it be that the reason there weren’t many people in the building when the moving cake was delivered wasn’t because everyone was out working, but because the room was vacant…?”

As I worked as an emergency room attendant and was surrounded by people, I came to want a quiet countryside, but I didn’t want it to be this quiet.

There had to be at least enough customers to make a living, but if there were no people even during lunchtime, this was a serious problem.

“Is this why the previous building owner looked at me like a savior when I signed the contract for the store? It was because there were no customers at all, and it was a dead commercial area…”

As soon as it first opened, I was delirious from the red pill I had taken.

Of course, it was my fault for signing the contract without doing proper research, but I was confident in the menu I was making, so it was inevitable that I would feel depressed when no one came.

“Even the person who got the cake from me won’t come. “If I ate that cake, I would have no choice but to come.”

I handed out moving cakes to my neighbors, gave them business cards, and told them about the opening date of the store. But I guess they’ll come by at least once.

“Yes, because you can’t become the owner of a café and solicit customers just because there are no customers. For now, let’s wait until someone comes.”

I was attracted by the aggro of the newly opened café, hoping that someone would come, and since I had finished cleaning and checking the dishes, I had nothing to do, so I turned on YouTube on my phone.

“There’s nothing better than YouTube to pass the time. “I have to watch the bakery making video again… Hmm?”

As I was trying to access the YouTube channel for commercial baking, where I’ve been receiving a lot of help since I acquired the building, a familiar name caught my eye.

“‘Dain Adamas, successfully defeated over a hundred S-class gates alone. ‘Resolve the position that was shaken after the vegetative state?’ What was he doing like this?”

It was a video showing that Dain Adamas had read more than 100 S-class gates without a single day’s rest from the very night he woke up after receiving treatment until the early morning of this morning.

It was a feat I couldn’t even imagine, as I, an F-level bastard, had consumed so many elixirs and even completed the hero-level training camp.

“Wow… By the way, I can’t believe you destroyed over 100 S-class gates in one month. It really is the strongest in the world.”

I remember Dain Adamas when she was in a vegetable state, so she was clearly the world’s strongest hero, and she was proving that she was the strongest every day.

If it were me in the past, I would have felt inferior to the performance of Dain Adamas, who was my classmate, but now I am just the owner of a café.

“Yes, I’m glad you seem to be living well.”

Now that the area I live in has completely changed, all I can feel about her performance is admiration.

“Now that I think about it, what happened to the other two?”

After hearing the news about Dain Adamas, I suddenly became curious about Mir Ryuin and May Ruina, who were patients in the same situation as her.

“YouTube’s popular videos are all over the place with Dain Adamas, but those two have no videos at all…”

However, the video of the two people was strangely invisible, so I had some doubts and searched for Mir Ryuin and May Ruina in the search bar.

“Eh? Hiding…?”

And at the top, ‘May Ruina, Mir Ryuin disappears. I couldn’t help but believe my eyes when I saw the video ‘Why?’

It’s Mir Ryuin’s normal routine to stay in her own magic tower and do nothing but study, so it’s not surprising that the word ‘hidden’ comes up, but in Mei Ruina’s case, it was different.

Because Mei Ruina is a saint, and she lives a busier life than any other hero.

The fact that a saint, the symbol of the Vatican, disappeared into hiding was something that could not and should not have happened.

Did something happen to Mei Ruina? Wasn’t she completely free of the curse?

The moment my thoughts reached that point, the urge to help Mei Ruina arose in my body.

But that was all.

Now, as an ordinary person and not even an awakened person, there was no way I could meet May Ruina if I wanted to, and I wasn’t even sure if I had the ability to help her.

“······Ugh, since there are no customers, I end up doing strange things. You’ll take care of it. “He’s such a great guy.”

After realizing the reality, I awkwardly sat back down on the chair and completely turned my attention off the three S-class people I had previously been in charge of.

Now, these people are completely unrelated to me, and my job was not to care for and treat those three people, but to welcome customers at this café.

With that fact in mind again, I moved my fingers to watch the bakery video I had originally intended to watch.

[Hello, this is baking teacher. What menu are you going to make today?]

That time when I was trying to learn a new menu to practice.

Tiriring~

I heard the bell hanging on the door ringing. He was my first customer.

We are the honored first guest who will make the historic start of ‘stay this place’.

This time, in order to do what I had to do, I jumped up from my seat, put on a friendly smile, and opened my mouth to give a warm greeting that was controlled enough so that the customer would not feel burdened.

“Ah! Welcome… Yo…”

However, the moment I made eye contact with that guest, my greeting lost its warmth and was replaced by embarrassment.

“Haha. At las. We finally met…”

“Dine…?”

This was because my historic first guest was Dain Adamas, whom I had just heard about through YouTube.