Chapter 31: Unwanted Overnight Stay (2)

“…it’s blocked tightly.”

They say that if you don’t get off to a good start, nothing will work out from the beginning to the end.

I finally hummed a tune and came to the basement of the mart, but the door was completely blocked.

No, the door was simply gone.

There was definitely a door here…

I reached out and pushed hard against the wall where the door had been, but there was no response.

How hard had they blocked it?

Well, these guys had built a lab of that size underground, so blocking one door would be easy.

“Should I go back?”

I had planned to spend the whole day exploring the underground lab without going to the hotel Emerald had prepared, but my plans were already messed up.

Ah, I don’t know. I should just go in and sleep.

With that, I turned around and left the mart.

“It’s gloomy…”

Just like my heart.

The sky, which looked like it might rain at any moment, made anyone who saw it feel gloomy.

No, my only hope…

“It seems things aren’t going the way you want them to.”

“Haa.”

Why on earth does this person keep pestering me like this?

How can a person who is called a doctor follow a monster around so leisurely?

He looks like a mastermind, but he has nothing better to do.

“How about you follow me? If I were you, I’m sure you’d want to—”

“Please get out of my sight. I’m barely holding back from trying to kill you right now.”

You look like my mother.

Oh, to be exact, the doctor.

That’s why I can’t stand it anymore…

I thought that someday when I meet the doctor, I’ll make him pay for abandoning me, but at this rate, I feel like I’ll take out all my anger on that person.

“I can’t waste all my accumulated anger on a worthless person.”

Emotions are consumables, and if I use the emotions I’ve kept for the doctor in this way, I’ll definitely regret it later.

I didn’t know how the person in front of me would take it, but if I went too far and developed emotions just for that person, then who knows?

Who knows, I might end up killing that arrogant person with my own hands.

“Well, fine. It’ll be quite interesting to see how long you can hold out.”

He speaks as if he knows something about me.

To me, it seemed like he didn’t know anything about me, but it felt strange that he was talking as if he knew me.

That kind of person is probably called a fool with a lot on his mind.

Saying things like ‘watching’ and all that other unpleasant stuff, tsk.

It was just creepy when I saw bugs occasionally, but if I kept seeing them, it was just disgusting.

Anyway, when I arrived at the hotel, ignoring the bugs I saw the second time, the staff inside looked at me with sparkling eyes.

“Welcome! Are you the guest who made the reservation under the name of Midori?”

“Yes, what…”

His overly sparkling eyes were too burdensome.

This person, is he exuding hope while looking at me?

Why?

Even hope was hope; hope was hope.

Just like how someone allergic to peaches would get hives if you fed them just a little bit of peach, I was the same.

I felt like I’d get hives if I touched them with just a little bit of hope.

It didn’t really feel that way, but it felt that way.

“Your room is on the top floor! Oh, shall I show you?”

“Yes, well…”

It seemed like he kept saying the same thing, but it must be because he was feeling it.

I listened in one ear and out the other as the employee babbled about introducing me to the best room in the hotel.

Emerald must have a lot of money.

He reserved all these rooms.

“There’s only one room on the top floor. It’s even perfectly equipped for safety against monster invasions—oh, to put it another way, it’s as strong as the top floor of a shelter?

It can even stop a Gamma-level monster!”

It was a topic of no interest at all.

He was just guiding something worse than a Gamma or something into a room.

“Well, have a comfortable stay! Thank you so much for visiting our hotel!”

“Yeah, what is it…”

Ugh, it’s creepy.

I had just gotten used to people being hostile towards me, but this was the first time I had seen someone who was so polite to me.

When I was in an unfamiliar situation, what should I say… ugh, ugh, ugh…

My body suddenly started shivering as if I had just been put into cold water.

Huh…

Anyway, what I did after that was bed diving.

I don’t know. I’m going to sleep here all day, so don’t bother anyone.

I slowly closed my eyes, hoping that it would be morning when I wake up….

Wheeee …

Even though I woke up, I sighed as I brushed my shiny hair back.

Oh, come to think of it, didn’t I say that this room was as safe as the 5th floor of the shelter?

It seemed that humans had flocked here because of the monsters that had appeared.

‘I don’t really want to open it.’

I was just resting alone, but now that I’m here, I’m going to let humans in?

I’m going to get neurotic, no matter what.

“I know there’s someone inside! Open the door right now!”

“Damn it, the monster’s coming up!!”

“Are you going to live alone?”

Oh?

The louder the voices of the humans outside got, the more the scent of despair grew.

At this point, there was no reason to open the door.

If I just kept making noises and holding on, I thought that this would be an opportunity to suck out the despair of the humans.

‘Welcome! Are you the guest who made the reservation under Midori’s name?’

“Ah.”

Then suddenly, a thought occurred to me.

This room wasn’t reserved under my name, but under Emerald’s.

If it had been in my name, then it would have been different.

Since it was in Emerald’s name, Emerald would have definitely heard about it.

That won’t do.

If I acted like a monster after building up my favorability, things could get messed up in many ways.

I was already kicked out of the house, so if I got hated on top of that, it would really be—no, this wasn’t just hating; it was more like advertising, “I’m a monster, so catch me!”

“Haa…”

I really hate it. I really hate it.

Or should I just wait until all the people outside are dead?

That might be better.

The monsters would eat all the corpses anyway, so there’s no need to worry.

“S-save me! Please! Open the door, please!”

“A monster came to this hotel, damn it! Damn it!”

The timing was definitely weird.

The monster showed up the moment I entered the hotel and fell asleep?

Anyone could tell it was artificial.

It wasn’t hopeful, but it was so foul-smelling.

Was it better to kill that guy after all?

Tsk, and I stood up.

I don’t know what they’re aiming for, but if I just sit back and watch this situation, something bad will happen.

Anyone can tell that this is a stage set up to win my favor.

If they accept this, they’ll definitely leave a record and use it to blackmail me.

I didn’t think I could be blackmailed with something like that, but…

“… Is there something going on outside?”

At least I should at least act a little.

I messed up my hair as much as possible, pretended to look tired, and opened the door.

It was really funny to see the people who had been despairing that they were all dead now wide-eyed.

What if a monster were to tear the door open like last time?

Oh, don’t these people know?

“I, I’m alive! Go, thank you!”

“You were sleeping, student… You didn’t even know…”

“You can tell just by looking at it that you’re pretending to be asleep. Look at how you’re only opening it now because you’re afraid of getting cursed at, tsk.”

“Yeah! There’s so much chaos outside, how could you not have heard that?”

The way he spoke was so arrogant.

As soon as the door opened, the crowd of people rushed into the room, and I let out a deep sigh.

The monster was better.

At least the monster didn’t talk.

There were special cases like the doctor, but most monsters that couldn’t talk were much more comfortable to me.

‘Oh, I suddenly miss that guy.

The monster that came out of the shelter and was a good match for me.

There was something special about it because it was a doctor’s handiwork, but when I thought about it again, that guy was a fairy.

In a way, the only flaw was that he was tied to a rotten rope called the doctor, but everything else was close to perfection.

‘He would have definitely been a good partner?

Don’t I have a partner made of a lump of despair?

It felt like the complete opposite of May, who Emerald carried around.

“Hey, are you listening? I asked why you opened the door so late!”

But my serious thoughts were lost deep in my head due to the human’s shout.

I don’t really like rudeness.

It seemed like a human with multiple lifelines.