Isekai Hotel

After the conversation ended, Shirou left, and only Nahida and Rimuru remained seated at the table. The two remained silent for some time.

It was Rimuru who broke the silence.

"So, about the televisions. Do you need any more coins?"

"At a time like this, you're thinking about televisions? Three guys have just died."

"Who cares about them? Those guys deserved to die and they did. Nobody will miss them, I'm sure. Now about the televisions..."

"Right, right, I'll buy them tomorrow. Do you have a preference?"

"Get the best TV you can find, because I want to play games in the highest quality possible."

"Right, right. Does it have to be a TV that has wifi and apps like YouTube?"

"I wouldn't mind. Maybe in the future, I'll get internet in my world, so..."

"... I doubt you'll be able to get that, but I'll bring some smart TVs. And about the money, give me three more coins. That's enough."

"Three gold coins? You can ask for more if you want."

"I don't want to overdo it."

Rimuru handed Nahida the three coins and then stood up. "Now I'm going home, I need to do a few things."

"You're going to spend the rest of the day playing, aren't you?" Nahida smiled, mocking Rimuru. But the Slime just sighed and walked towards the door. Nahida followed him outside.

"The guests will probably start coming back soon."

"Good luck with that."

"Ah, thanks again for helping me level up."

"No problem. If you want to do it again, just let me know. We can go hunting in other places."

"I'll do that. I'll keep training in magic at my hotel, maybe I'll be able to use magic if I keep training."

"Good luck," Rimuru said goodbye and then disappeared into the streets of Tempest. Nahida closed the door and sighed before sitting at the reception desk and opening his system, which he hadn't opened for a time.

When Nahida opened his hotel's system after a few days, he was in for a pleasant surprise.

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To Nahida's surprise, he had already reached level 15, which was very surprising.

"I've probably gained all this experience in the last two days because of the number of guests and the level of satisfaction. It's the first time my hotel has been full." Nahida smiled.

He was very excited.

"And now that I've reached level 15, I'm getting 23 upgrade points per hour. That's an incredible number. Speaking of which, I've exceeded 1,000 points in the time I've been away."

[ Upgrade Points: +23 (32:12) ]

[ Upgrade Points: 1126 ]

"With these points, I can buy five more rooms, but I'll only buy two more to reach 10 rooms available. Also, should I buy the air conditioners?"

Nahida thought for only a minute before concluding that it would be better to get gold coins and buy the air conditioners in some store in Japan. It would be cheaper that way. The points were more valuable.

"Right."

[ You have acquired a new room! -200 ]

[ You have acquired a new room! -200 ]

"Two rooms bought, now I have 10 rooms."

[ Available Rooms - 2/10 ]

[ Hotel Level - 15 (345/2500 ]

[ Guest satisfaction - 820/10000 ]

"It's going to take a while for the hotel to level up again. In just a few levels, the amount of experience required has increased a lot." Nahida sighed and then closed his system screen.

He didn't want to buy new upgrades for his hotel now; he'd do it when things were calmer. He stayed at reception, waiting for Nazuna to wake up and the guests to return.

The first guest to return was an old man wearing a modern outfit. He wasn't from Rimuru's world. Nahida could see outside and saw that it looked like a world similar to his own.

It looked like the center of Tokyo, where he had gone on his "vacation" a few days ago.

The man entered and greeted him. He gave a weak smile. "Where's that little girl? Has she gone home? She's a very nice girl, despite her rather strange appearance. Oops! Sorry, I didn't mean to offend her."

The man had no bad intentions in what he had said, and Nahida realized it.

"She is feeling a little tired. She's resting. She'll probably wake up soon."

"I see." The man went to his room, and Nahida heard footsteps soon after. They were the light footsteps of Nazuna.

When Nazuna saw Nahida, tears appeared in the corners of her eyes.

"I'm sorry, I..."

"No need to apologize, it wasn't your fault."

"But... I should have taken better care of your hotel, but because of me everything went wrong, I'm sorry..."

"I told you, it's fine." Nahida stood up and approached Nazuna. Nahida looked into Nazuna's tear-filled eyes and put his hand on her cheek to calm her down.

Seeing Nahida's calm smile, the tears in Nazuna's eyes disappeared. After that, she closed her eyes, waiting for something.

Nahida then placed a light, brief kiss on her soft mouth. He then removed his hand from her cheek and sat again. Nazuna stood there with her hand to her lips, stunned.

"I told you, it's okay. You should eat something and continue resting, I'll take care of everything for today. And if you want to go home, I don't mind."

"... Will you let me continue working here?"

"Of course. Tomorrow I want you here to take care of reception. I'll start paying you, I feel really bad not paying you anything. I'd start to feel like shit if I didn't pay you a salary."

"Don't say that! I don't care about the money."

"I'll still pay you. This is a job and you're doing it very well, so of course I need to pay you. It's the first time this hotel has had so many customers, you know. I don't know what you did, but I appreciate it."

"I didn't do anything... The customers just started showing up."

"You may have an aura that attracts customers."

"No, of course not." Nazuna shook her head quickly, refusing to believe it.

Nahida didn't believe it either; it was just a joke. But even so, he continued to say it to tease Nazuna a little.