Welcome to Dungeon Hotel - Chapter 54

When roasting coffee, of course, use a stainless steel frying pan.

 

I pulled out a stainless steel skillet with a lid on it.

 

Congratulations! Random Potion Coffee Machine Tutorial Quest achievement reward has arrived.

 

You’ve received 100p EXP.

 

You’ve received Market Gold 20G.

 

After that, another quest arrived.

 

Random Potion Coffee Machine Tutorial Quest (2)

 

— Adjust the heat to roast the coffee properly.

 

—Reward: 150p EXP, Market Gold 30G 

 

…?

 

Is this tutorial still going?

 

I put the coffee beans in, closed the lid on the skillet, and started roasting the coffee gently over medium heat.

 

Without the lid, it was clear that the inside would have been filled with smoke.

 

I don’t know what ‘properly’ stir-fry is, but first of all, I carefully mixed the beans while watching the color so that I could stir-fry them with my favorite medium roast.

 

It smells great.

 

Maybe because I bought the coffee at the market, the scent of coffee was definitely strong.

 

I purposefully set a large amount of coffee beans and decided to make an Americano for myself.

 

“It looks so good.”

 

It was when I was excited to drink coffee from a coffee machine after a long time.

 

The coffee was properly roasted. Congratulations! Random Potion Coffee Machine Tutorial Quest (2) rewards have arrived!

 

…It was always like this.

 

I can easily accumulate about 10 cups of coffee as a quest reward by grinding well-roasted coffee on a millstone twice.

 

I want to be able to earn money just like this.

 

It was then.

 

The effect of ‘raw coffee beans free from caffeine addiction’ is enhanced by the effect of the S-grade millstone.

 

‘Raw coffee beans free from caffeine addiction’ have become ‘coffee powder with great vitality.’

 

…?

 

Coffee Powder with Great Vitality

 

— No matter how much you drink, you will never get addicted to caffeine.

 

—Increases vitality by 200%.

 

This is a huge buff, right?

 

I quickly gave up my thoughts of wanting to sell an S-class millstone.

 

I extracted espresso with coffee powder with vitality and then made a latte by shaping it in the tumbler with heated milk and a whisk.

 

Of course, I never created latte art.

 

‘I’ll have to buy some disposable cups or glasses.’

 

I thought so and picked up a cup of caffe latte and an Americano, which I completed by scraping up my experience points and money.

 

It was then.

 

‘INFIYLAELB!’ Caffe Latte (D) 

 

—A positive potion that relieves mental fatigue.

 

It’s no fun if you live an easy life, bingo!

 

—It is made of ‘coffee powder with great vitality,’ so no matter how much you drink, you will not get addicted to caffeine, increasing your vitality by 200%.

 

INFIY…LAELB?

 

Why is living easy not fun…?

 

It sounds like a lot of fun?

 

On top of that, Americano had an unusual explanation.

 

‘Mana Buff’ Americano (B)

 

—Mana does not decrease for 1 hour.

 

On the back, there was an explanation like Caffe Latte.

 

Mana doesn’t decrease for 1 hour?

 

It was an explanation worthy of a B-class potion.

 

With this amount, you can use the Fail-Not unlimited times for an hour!

 

It was said that it was an S-class random potion coffee machine, and when the drink was completed by adding espresso extracted with this coffee machine, the function seemed to come out randomly.

 

‘I got a great reward for the quest.’

 

I was amazed and went downstairs with a caffe latte.

 

* * *

 

“Are you not waking up?”

 

Jang Sookja, who ran the Yeongchun-myeon women’s association and owned the Yonggung sushi restaurant, stood in front of her daughter Miyeon’s door with a worried face on her face.

 

Miyeon answered in a weak voice from inside her door.

 

“Wake up.”

 

Stay up and lie down for hours.

 

She would have liked for her to be sleeping, but she was worried about her daughter, who was slouching and didn’t seem to have the energy to do anything even after she woke up.

 

It was clear that she had come down because something had happened in Seoul.

 

Otherwise, she wouldn’t do anything like that after paying Hyejin’s school for her absence and bringing her other two daughters down here.

 

What was worse is the husband didn’t even come along.

 

When asked if they had fought, Miyeon stubbornly avoided answering, saying she would tell her later.

 

She only ate half of the birthday food that she prepared for her birthday.

 

Sookja sighed and put the tumbler glass down in front of the door.

 

“Hyeyu and Hyejin went out in the morning and bought your favorite coffee with milk. Drink this and cheer up. Eung?”

 

“I know.”

 

Sookja, tired by Miyeon’s disappointing response, trudged downstairs to the Yonggung sushi restaurant.

 

“….”

 

Miyeon only opened the door when she heard Sookja’s footsteps disappear.

 

She looked down at the rustic floral tray at the door. Brown sugar in a tumbler and a glass bottle were neatly placed on a tray.

 

She honestly didn’t want to do anything right now.

 

She knows that her mother is worried, but what can she do when she doesn’t have the energy to step out of the blanket?

 

‘Please divorce me. I have someone I love.’

 

Miyeon’s mind went fuzzy after that damn Nam Jiseok told her all of a sudden that he wanted a divorce.

 

Jiseok and Mi-yeon were an in-house couple at a well-known e-commerce company.

 

Miyeon originally had no intention of getting married but changed her mind when she met Jiseok.

 

‘I love you. I want to wake up with you in the morning.’

 

Could it have been the wrong choice to trust Jiseok’s sincere-looking eyes and decide to marry him?

 

‘I think one person should concentrate on raising children.’

 

Or did she leave the company for Jiseok even though she could have stayed a little longer and it would have been a waste of experience?

 

Miyeon looked down at the tumbler that Hyeyu and Hyejin bought for her and cried.

 

If she hadn’t had children, she might not have become the career-breaker clinging miserably to her husband’s insistence on divorcing her.

 

How could she raise her two daughters by herself?

 

Miyeon burst into tears with an upset heart only when she felt resentment toward her two daughters, whom she loved the most in the world.

 

“I’m sorry… Hyeyu… Hyejin…”

 

I have to be strong. I have to work up my strength, explain this situation to my daughters, and take care of my body and mind to become a wonderful head of the family.

 

Why do I not have the strength to even lift a hand?

 

Miyeon picked up her tumbler with a depressed heart.

 

It was when she opened the lid because she wanted to show her children that she was drinking all of it.

 

The scent of coffee spread throughout her room.

 

Miyeon’s eyes widened.

 

Is this coffee sold at a cafe in Yeongchun-myeon?

 

It was amazing.

 

In fact, Miyeon was known as a coffee mania when she worked before giving birth to Hyejin.

 

She drank five cups of coffee a day, and as she drank it often, her coffee taste became picky, so she couldn’t drink coffee at most local coffee houses.

 

However, as Hyejin went to school, she stopped working and had to drink only cheap instant coffee.

 

Twenty-four hours a day wasn’t enough to ride Hyejin from school to the academy and back home, so she didn’t have time to drink slow-brewed coffee at a famous cafe.

 

But this coffee scent—it wasn’t the smell of instant coffee, nor was it the smell of burnt coffee from a fast food restaurant where cheap beans were hastily roasted.

 

This subtle yet deep coffee scent was the coffee scent that made Miyeon’s heartbeat for the first time in a long time.

 

Miyeon could not control her fluttering heart and took a sip of the coffee.

 

“…This!”

 

Soft milk bubbles and deep coffee were mixed in harmony in the mouth.

 

In addition, the coffee aroma lingered in the mouth and nose for a very long time, making it pleasant.

 

Miyeon sat down and emptied the caffe latte.

 

A bright smile hung on Miyeon’s lips as she put down her empty tumbler.

 

She suddenly looked at the messy bedroom.

 

‘Let’s start by arranging the bedding.’

 

She began tidying up her bedroom, feeling her strange vitality rising.

 

Then, as soon as she opened the bedroom door and went down, she found the children.

 

“Hyeyu, Hyejin!”

 

The children ran excitedly after seeing their mother with a bright expressions after a long time.

 

“Mom! Are you up? You woke up early today?”

 

“Eung? Eung… I’m going to wake up early now. I’m sorry Mom woke up so late. But this coffee… Where did you buy this form?”

 

Hyeyu answered her mother’s question clearly.

 

“At Yeongchunjang across the street! The Boss Unnie over there is so pretty and kind! Dogs and rabbits are cute too! I think that’s what our paladin would look like in real life!”

 

“Yeongchun…jang?”

 

It’s not a cafe…?

 

* * *

 

“I’d like a drink today, please.”

 

A woman with an excited expression ordered a latte in front of me.

 

She said that this person was the successor of the Yonggung sushi restaurant and the mother of Hyeyu and Hyejin.

 

Hyeyu and Hyejin had been stamping their stamps every day since they bought the latte.

 

“If I don’t drink coffee here, I feel strangely low.”

 

I flinched for a moment at her words, but I knew it was a normal greeting and nodded to her.

 

“Thank you for saying that.”

 

“That’s why I’m working hard to promote here, boss.”

 

She grinned.

 

Somehow, suddenly, in the past few days, some anglers’ guests have come in to order coffee.

 

The head of the women’s association had a neighborhood reunion here.

 

The sudden rush of orders forced me to pour out all the cups in the room to make a coffee.

 

‘Thank you so much. Thanks to you, my daughter seems to be in good spirits. But after drinking this coffee, I understand why.’

 

Still, when I recalled the tears welling up in the eyes of the head of the women’s association, my tiredness seemed to vanish.

 

‘First of all, there were no hotel guests.’

 

I don’t think my body would have remained if there were hotel guests.

 

I’m sure I dreamed of Yolo, Young, and Rich, but how am I living my life so hard?

 

It was when I was puzzled for a moment.

 

The successor of Yonggung Sushi Restaurant proudly showed her cell phone screen.

 

“I bragged on Instagram that the coffee here was delicious. Isn’t the picture pretty? Actually, I used to work for an e-commerce company…”

 

She was very proud of the picture she showed me, which was a combination of beautiful beach and coffee pictures.

 

There was a tag like this underneath it.

 

#HealingCoffee #IsItAPotion? #It_no_fun_if_you_live_an_easy_life_bingo! #Start_my_life_again! #Come_play_in_Yeongchunjang

 

 

Wait.

 

But the last tag is weird?!