Welcome to Dungeon Hotel

Han Woohyun didn’t seem to be very picky about what he ate, which was a surprise.

He was an S-Class hunter, and because he was said to make as much money as most corporations, I was ready for expensive ingredients like caviar and truffles. 

Besides, when I said I wanted to serve a meal at the hotel after the raid, he said he didn’t mind any kind of food.

Korean, Japanese, Chinese, or Western food, which one do you prefer?

Han Woohyun

Do what you prefer. I eat everything well.

No…

Your preferences are more important than mine.

I have to make 80% of your satisfaction.

I was starting to feel a little groggy when he asked me to do everything that I liked when I had just asked him whether he preferred meat or pasta.

“To prepare for a week, I have to select the menu first…”

I had to decide the menu well and practice hard for a week.

All the food, from appetizers to desserts, would suit Han Woohyun’s taste.

But why are you so uncooperative?

I just turned off the chat room with Han Woohyun.

The next day after falling asleep thinking about the menu, the hotel business did not start.

Thanks to that, I woke up leisurely and served Toto and Geumdong with French toast and sausage for breakfast.

“Wow! The food prepared by the boss!”

“You are really good at it, boss.”

To say that I’m really good— it was merely mechanically following the recipe given by Geumdong.

Even the recipe described as a pinch of salt was quantified and used a teaspoon.

If I don’t do that, I’ll get nervous!

“Well. I can’t even pay a salary, so I have to feed you whatever you want. Eat a lot.” 

“Won’t you give me something better than a salary?”

Toto said while drinking warm mixed coffee and raising her steaming glasses.

“What is it?” 

“The hotel is getting stronger. Hotel guest satisfaction is also on the rise. Thanks to that, I can feel my body getting stronger. At this rate, the “evolution” of the hotel is not far off… As expected, the boss is a special person.”

‘Evolution’?

I asked what that meant, but Toto only answered like this.

“You’ll find out soon enough. Boss.”

At times like this, these spirits are suspicious.

Since it’s a course meal, I thought Western food would be good for Han Woohyun, so I tried to serve seasonal oysters as an appetizer, risotto as a main dish, and pancakes as a dessert.

“Risotto must be harder than you think. Risotto is different from porridge and rice, so it’s harder than you think to estimate the degree of cooking. It’s hard to match the water when you cook rice.”

“Then let’s go grocery shopping and try it, and if it’s difficult, we can change it to something else. Steak and pasta are not easy anyway…” 

If anything, I didn’t know if I should give up or postpone this quest.

In that case, EXP points and money must be collected in other ways, and the coffee machine must be purchased as a normal one.

Yesterday, I checked if there was a coffee machine with ‘random potion’ at the store, but there was no item coffee machine, let alone such a coffee machine.

‘It’s a bit unfortunate…’

It was when I took a few steps to think about the main dish to replace the risotto. Someone called me.

“Yeongchunjang!” (t/n : Yeongchunjang is like Yeongchun Sajang/owner/ boss. But I will just put it like this) 

It was the head of the women’s association. I bowed to the head of the women’s association and approached her.

“Hello.” 

“Yeah! How have you been? You must have been busy changing the interior? The door is always closed, and sometimes when it’s open, it’s very fancy inside?”

“Yes? Ah… yes.” 

There was only one official visitor to our inn.

“Isn’t business harder than you thought? I’ve been doing it all my life, but it’s really not easy.”

The head of the women’s association had a hard face, too.

Come to think of it, the head of the women’s association’s Aunt’s sashimi restaurant also had only a few groups of weekend customers who came to experience the tidal flats or to fish on a boat. 

Still, there are a few vacationers in the summer, but no matter how you look at it, it’s not a very profitable business.

I regretted thinking that Yeongchun-myeon was good because I can relax. 

Yeah. I hope that someday Yeongchun-myeon will become more lively.

‘Because I have no intention of getting involved with the tourists in Yeongchun-myeon anyway…’

Thinking this, I pointed to the stem of seaweed that Aunt had brought in her shopping basket to change the dark topic. 

“Are you making seaweed soup today? The seaweed soup I had at the raw fish restaurant was really delicious. How can you make it so delicious?”

It wasn’t empty talk.

The seaweed soup at the raw fish restaurant was delicious because of the soup, but the seaweed soup cooked by the head of the women’s association was really good. 

It was the most delicious seaweed soup I have ever eaten.

“Really? Was it good? Then come again next time and eat. I’ll just give you a few of the rice and seaweed soup for free.”

“N, no. What I mean is…” 

“It’s because I get attached to Yeongchunjang because it feels like I’m seeing my daughter who went to Seoul to study. My daughter is coming down tomorrow, so I bought it to boil a pot of seaweed soup. It’s my daughter’s birthday tomorrow.” 

“Wow. I see. A birthday…” 

Huh? Come to think of it, it seems that someone had a birthday around this time in November.

Who is it? Could it be Aunt Misoon? 

I turned on my phone and looked for the birthday section on social media.

There are three people whose birthdays are in November. The two were the twins of Uncle Junsoo.

‘Ha… It’s a relief. I almost forgot. If I forgot, there would have been an uproar.’

And the other was Han Woohyun.

November 10th. Coincidentally, it was the day after we decided to go on a raid together.

“I had a long conversation on the street with a busy person. Then come to my house later with a pot. I’ll serve you some seaweed soup.”

The head of the women’s association hurriedly concluded the conversation when I saw the cell phone. It was then.

A window came up before my eyes.

Unexpected Quest ‘Ultimate Recipe—Abalone and Seaweed Soup’

—I met a master who has the ultimate recipe—abalone and seaweed soup. Learn the ‘ultimate recipe’.

— Completion Reward: 100G, 100% customer satisfaction when casting recipe

100% customer satisfaction!

My eyes lit up the moment I saw it.

If that’s the case, I can finish the quest quickly.

The ultimate recipe in the quest window right now is probably referring to the seaweed soup recipe.

The head of the women’s association’s seaweed soup tasted so good that the expression of the ultimate recipe was not a waste.

“Excuse me… Can I learn how to cook that seaweed soup?”

The head of the women’s association looked at me with a questioning look.

I answered with a slight smile.

“The guest coming next week said it was his birthday. I’m trying to put it out as a service.”

“Is there a guest there?”

I nodded at the head of the women’s association’s question. 

“Of course. Our guests… Hmm… They are mostly foreigners, so come early in the morning.” 

“Wow, really? Yeongchunjang as expected is also a new generation, so it is global!”

“Oh, by the way. It’s not free to teach me seaweed soup, but I’ll pay you.””

I’ll give you enough to earn 100G.

Paying with just money can be repulsive.

So I did a little trick.

“I was going to buy some food for dinner tonight, so if you could give me a large plate of sashimi…” 

The head of the women’s association’s eyes widened when I said a large plate.

“Come on in, then!”

* * *

However, the road to the ‘ultimate recipe’ was surprisingly difficult.

Freshness is debuffed because the skill of trimming “Plump Abalone (E)” is less than 50%.

Time remaining: 00: 15: 00

“Ah… Again…” 

What I’ve realized over the past week is that seafood is difficult to clean. 

It seems that it wasn’t hard for me to take a bone of Archeopteryx’s meat, but the seafood was small, so the intestines often burst. 

However, I did not give up and practiced diligently preparing the abalone to put in the seaweed soup.

The course cooking quest is the same, but thinking it was Han Woohyun’s birthday, I wanted to make a decent birthday table.

So I went grocery shopping several times and often went into farming dungeons.

Thanks to it, I leveled up three more times.

Name: Lee Junghyo

Title: Heart Sniper

Class: Hotel Manager (Hidden) (Lv.13)

Skills: Housekeeping (B), Front Desk (B), Hotelier’s Eye (A)

Stats: Stamina 15 Strength 12 Agility 14 Intelligence 13 Luck 28

Leveling up three more times didn’t mean there was a big change in the status window, but at least it was enough to not be surprised by the sudden appearance of monsters.

A ‘Giant King Crab (E)’ has appeared in front of you.

Swoosh!

You have succeeded in hunting the ‘Giant King Crab (E)’.

Would you understand if I wasn’t surprised to find a king crab the size of me and used a fail-not? 

I calmly took out the bellboy’s mixed coffee from my pocket before inserting a dagger into the hard shell of a king crab the size of my own.

Is it because my body got stronger? 

I was able to drink up to two cups of mixed coffee without the symptoms of caffeine addiction.

Then I thought as I took the king crab’s body apart.

It would be good to steam the legs of the tongs and use them for appetizers.

After putting the claws into the item bag, I returned to the hotel.

And as soon as I returned to the hotel, I closed the business and started cooking again while watching the video on my cell phone.

[Now then, the next step is to pour the simmered fish bone broth over the well-roasted seaweed and abalone. Okay?]

The person in the video was the head of the women’s association.

The head of the women’s association was good at cooking, but she didn’t know the manual I needed.

For example, the expression that it should be boiled for several hours is expressed by boiling it until the soup becomes milky.

So, I put the head of the women’s association’s whole cooking process on camera and followed it exactly as it was.

After following it like that, I felt like the taste of the food came out better because I was able to copy all the delicate touches of the head of the women’s association rather than just following the manual.

Then, at some point, the freshness of the abalone stopped falling and the taste of the food revived.

Congratulations! You’ve completed the ‘Ultimate Recipe—Abalone Seaweed Soup’ quest.

As a reward, you will receive 100G and 100% customer satisfaction of the ‘Ultimate Recipe—Abalone Seaweed Soup’. 

The moment I looked at that window, I was happier than ever.

The basis of the birthday table is seaweed soup, not anything else.

So no matter how satisfactorily the other dishes were completed, it was difficult if the seaweed soup was tasteless.

“Then, the main meal, seaweed soup, is complete, the appetizer is complete after learning from Geumdong, and the dessert is prepared with all the ingredients and the coffee… Instead, I froze the sujeonggwa.”

Then all I have to do is go meet the birthday person.

Han Woohyun

I’m entering the dungeon now. See you in an hour.

After answering Han Woohyun’s message, I packed my things and stood in front of the revolving door an hour later.

The fear of entering a dungeon had completely disappeared within me for a week. 

Still, since it was going to be an A-Class dungeon, I had to stay alert.

“To the dungeon where Han Woohyun is.”

It was when I inserted the master key into the revolving door while chanting.

Something moved the revolving door quickly and I was sucked into the revolving door.

Soon I was thrown out of the revolving door.

The ‘Dark Dreamer (A)’ has appeared in front of you. 

When I looked up with a dull pain in my butt, there was only pitch-black darkness instead of Han Woohyun.

“….?”