I Was Kidnapped By The Strongest Guild
Chapter 207: Lack of Accommodations?

The most secluded booth looked like a child had made it for promotion.

Yang Jumin, an internet streamer, thought it was just some kind of gimmick.

A concept to catch people's eyes from a secluded spot.

But it turned out to be a booth actually made by children with great effort.

And it was the beast-kin child that the Yeomyeong Guild cherished the most.

'I think she looked at the chat.'

The child was looking at the smartphone screen.

What kind of chat messages were exchanged?

Yang Jumin tried to recall.

He couldn't remember clearly, but the chat was full of mockery towards the booth the child had worked hard to make.

Since beast-kin supposedly had good eyesight, there was a high chance she'd seen all the chat messages.

'I'm screwed!'

Yang Jumin looked at his smartphone screen.

Chat messages from viewers sensing his downfall were rapidly popping up.

[Down]

[fall]

[fall]

[Down]

[fall]

[Down]

The speed at which single-character messages were rising was considerable.

The number of viewers was increasing in real-time, as if rumors had spread to internet communities.

People had come to watch a famous streamer's downfall.

"Ah, no, guys! I didn't say anything! It was all in the chat!"

[You clearly went along with it to get content for your stream lol]

[True lmao]

It was accurate.

Though he didn't curse, he did turn the camera towards the child's booth to get content for his stream.

Thanks to that, more mocking chat messages had popped up.

"Argh!"

Yang Jumin chased after Gyeoul.

Gyeoul, who turned around, couldn't help but be startled.

"Uh, uh...!"

A man with a flushed face was running towards her.

As Gyeoul, not knowing what to do, let out only a frightened groan, Yoo Sang-ah quickly hid Gyeoul behind her back.

"Stop right there."

Gyeoul heard Yoo Sang-ah's angry voice for the first time.

Feeling a sense of security from her voice, Gyeoul peeked out from behind Yoo Sang-ah.

The frantic-looking man was right in front of them.

Did he come to get angry?

Gyeoul tightly grasped Yoo Sang-ah's clothes.

Though she braced for the man's anger, what came was unexpectedly an apology.

"I'm sorry! I'm really sorry!"

"Huh...?"

Yoo Sang-ah expressed her bewilderment at the sight of the man practically prostrating himself.

It was because she didn't know why he was acting like this.

"Well, earlier..."

Yang Jumin honestly confessed everything to the one who seemed to be the child's guardian.

Thinking it was the only way he could survive.

"Haah... The children worked so hard to make it."

"...I'm truly sorry."

Yang Jumin apologized while looking at Gyeoul behind Yoo Sang-ah, not at Yoo Sang-ah herself.

At the sincere apology, Gyeoul's tail, which had drooped, regained its spirit.

"Y-yes..."

Gyeoul, who had been hesitating, nodded.

Is this considered handling it well enough?

Haah, Yang Jumin sighed and looked around.

He was planning to buy a few cat-shaped fish bread out of courtesy.

"Gyeoul, how much are these cat-shaped fish bread?"

"Uh... I can't sell these. They've all gone cold."

"That's fine, I like them cold!"

Unsellable goods.

This was nothing but good news for Yang Jumin.

He could improve his image by helping dispose of leftover stock.

"You like them cold?"

"Yeah. I'd eat them all the time if I could get my hands on them."

"Then I'll give them to you for half price."

Gyeoul used tongs to put the cat-shaped fish bread in a bag.

Perhaps because her hands were small, she was clumsy at putting them in the bag.

Yang Jumin ate one of the cat-shaped fish bread to promote the store.

"Oh...?"

This tastes good?

It was good enough that it didn't even need promotion.

Of course, he still planned to promote it.

"Guys, you absolutely must eat the fish bread here! Don't do anything else, just come here right now!"

Yang Jumin looked at his smartphone.

Thanks to the interesting incident, the number of viewers was approaching 10,000.

The stream clip would also spread to communities and such.

This should be enough to make up for his mistake.

Instead of breathing a sigh of relief, Yang Jumin decided to eat more fish bread.

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The internet streamer left.

I watched his retreating back and dropped my shoulders weakly.

"King, what's wrong?"

Levinas, with a carrot in one hand and fish bread in the other, approached.

I felt sorry towards her who had worked hard to prepare the booth.

"Well, it seems our booth is a bit lacking compared to others..."

Honestly, I knew it too.

That the booth we made with the children was quite amateurish compared to others.

Still, it was pretty disheartening to have a booth we worked hard on be mocked and attract few customers.

I wondered if Levinas was disappointed too.

Did I bring up something unnecessary?

I looked at Levinas worriedly.

For some reason, she had a confident expression.

"King! Then just trust Levinas!"

"Trust Levinas?"

"Yes! If we decorate it prettier, that's all we need!"

Levinas pulled out a mana stone from her pocket.

It was a mana stone that shot out something, which she had received from a neighboring booth person a few days ago.

"What are you going to do with that?"

"If I do this with this...!"

Bubble bubble.

Soap bubbles started coming out of the mana stone.

Hundreds of bubbles per second kept coming out without pause.

"W-what? How did you do that?"

"Don't know! It just worked when Levinas thought about it!"

Giggle.

Levinas covered her mouth and laughed.

I was proud of Levinas for not despairing in a difficult situation and finding a new method.

"Wow, this makes us the prettiest, doesn't it?"

"Yes! Soap bubbles are pretty, so lots of customers will come!"

"Yeah. So many... Huh?"

I turned to the side at a sudden presence.

Numerous people were approaching our booth.

"I saw on the stream that the fish bread here is really delicious."

"Really? I just came because the soap bubbles looked pretty. I guess I should try one."

Did they come because of the stream and Levinas's soap bubbles?

We moved to find our positions.

My role and the children's was packaging and serving.

"Saebyeok, could you serve some tea?"

"O-okay..."

Saebyeok, who had been playing by popping soap bubbles, reluctantly turned her feet.

She had won against her feline instinct that wanted to catch the soap bubbles.

"Levinas, you package the fish bread."

"Okay!"

Levinas picked up the tongs and moved next to the fish bread machine.

Click clack, people smiled watching Levinas grab the tongs.

"Please package three fish bread here."

"Got it...!"

Levinas put the cat-shaped fish bread into a bag.

She looked quite meticulous.

"Is the fish bread here tasty?"

Someone playfully asked Levinas.

Startled by the sudden question, Levinas took a bite out of the fish bread she was packaging.

"It's yummy!"

Levinas held out the fish bread she had taken a bite of to the customer in front of her.

It was rude, but no one was displeased by the child's innocent action.

"Levinas, you shouldn't give customers food you've already eaten."

"R-really?!"

"Yes. From now on, only give them clean ones, okay?"

"Okay!"

Levinas hid the fish bread she had been eating behind her back.

For some reason, the customer seemed disappointed.

Was it because the free fish bread disappeared?

I put one more fish bread in as service.

But for some reason, the disappointed look didn't disappear.

I'm not sure why.

For now, I decided to focus on doing business diligently.

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Night fell.

The children and I collapsed exhaustedly on a bench near the booth.

The bench was so small that we had to lie down stacked like a tower.

Saebyeok was at the very bottom, and I was on top of her.

Levinas was lying limply on top of me at the very top.

"Ugh..."

I'm exhausted.

I had hoped business would go well, but I didn't expect it to go this well.

Even though the sky was dark, there were still many people walking around near the booth.

Some people smiled seeing us collapsed.

"Gyeoul!"

Yeoreum waved her hand and approached us.

Chae Juyeon was beside her.

"You're here?"

"Yeah! Big sis won twice today? Just five more wins and she'll be the champion."

"Wow."

Did she fight twice in one day?

The festival lasts three days but she's fighting a total of seven times.

The stamina of people in this world was amazing.

"You have to cheer for big sis so she can win, okay?"

"Yes. I'll definitely cheer. I'm sorry I couldn't watch the matches."

We had to diligently guard our booth.

We did have some time, but Levinas was very scared so it was hard to watch the matches.

Yeoreum seemed to know this and just smiled lightly.

"It's okay. Not watching doesn't mean you're not cheering."

"That's right."

Hehe.

I looked up at Yeoreum, feeling my tail wag.

But for some reason, Chae Juyeon's expression beside her didn't look good.

"Master, did something happen?"

"Ah... It's nothing big, I'm just worried because a lot more people came than expected."

"Was there an expected number?"

"Yeah. We received notice in advance from each guild about how many would come. But most guilds exceeded that number by a lot."

Did they break their promise?

It was certainly a headache-inducing situation.

"Is it a problem if there are too many people?"

"The biggest problem is that there's nowhere to sleep. We booked more accommodations than the number of people, but it's still not enough. At this rate, people might have to sleep outside."

Sleep outside, she says.

It wasn't that big of a problem.

"Then can't they just sleep outside?"

"Outside?"

"Yes. They can just lay out boxes on the ground and sleep, right?"

"No, that's..."

Of course, I knew that sleeping outside was psychologically difficult.

But homelessness was surprisingly doable once you tried it.

"It's actually not bad if you try it. If there's not enough accommodation, I can sleep outside."

We had a lot of spare boxes at our booth.

I ran towards the booth.

Chae Juyeon and Yeoreum chased after me.

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