Chapter 7. Blazing Salmon Rice Bowl (2)
[Pitiful lumps of flesh who require constant organic consumption. Sit in the empty seats.]
Robert stepped forward to greet the new customers.
The men who had just entered looked at him with interest.
“What’s this?”
“Some kind of kiosk?”
“Then why does it talk to customers like that?”
Yukgap quickly stepped in for Robert.
“Ah, sorry about that. Our waiter’s a little rude. Sit anywhere. Just order whatever you want and I’ll make something suitable, so don’t worry too much.”
The men glanced toward Jeonghan and Yuhan and became interested in what they were eating.
“Hey, what are those guys having?”
“That? Salmon rice bowls.”
At Yukgap’s explanation, the men exchanged glances and nodded.
The man in front placed the order.
“Looks good. We’ll have the same thing.”
“Sure. Wait a bit.”
Yukgap immediately headed toward the kitchen.
The men loudly chatted among themselves and took empty seats.
Then one of them noticed Victoria sitting in a corner.
“Hey, miss.”
“Me?”
Victoria tilted her head.
She apparently had not expected him to speak to her.
The man openly showed interest.
“You work here?”
“For now. Why?”
One of his companions pointed toward an empty seat with a grin.
“Nothing special. We just wanted to have a drink.”
Victoria smiled and deliberately provoked them.
“Really? I can drink a lot. Are you confident?”
“Perfect. We can drink a lot too.”
Victoria cheerfully took an empty seat.
Then she looked around at the men.
“Great! Then I can order the drinks, right?”
“Of course!”
The men already seemed delighted just because Victoria had sat among them.
Victoria immediately called Robert.
“Waiter! Bring us the most expensive alcohol in the restaurant!”
A red light appeared in Robert’s eyes.
A valve emerged from his body with a mechanical hum.
[Producing edible ethanol known to cause hypertension, diabetes, and fatty liver disease.]
Alcohol began pouring from the valve.
Robert filled their glasses with liquor made inside his own body and presented them to the men.
[This is edible ethanol that will cause your bodies to deteriorate through your own actions. Consume it.]
“This kiosk is useless. Everything it says kills the mood.”
The man beside Victoria glared at Robert.
Victoria picked up her glass first.
“So, you’re not drinking?”
At those words, the men immediately grabbed their glasses.
“Of course we are!”
“Obviously!”
“Hahaha! Cheers!”
Their faces were full of strange excitement.
Victoria, sitting in the middle of them, raised her own glass.
“Cheers!”
“Salmon rice bowls are ready!”
Yukgap came out carrying enough bowls for all the men.
But for some reason, the men who had ordered them were completely drunk and collapsed across the tables.
“Gulp, gulp!”
Victoria was the only one still sitting upright, calmly emptying another glass.
Yukgap stared at her.
“What happened to all of them?”
“They said they wanted to drink, so I played with them a little.”
Victoria put down her empty glass with a satisfied smile.
Yukgap knew her methods well enough by now.
He sighed.
“Seriously. You found another group of suckers.”
“Suckers? Making customers spend money is part of my duty as the owner!”
Plenty of men tried flirting with Victoria because of her young and exotic appearance.
Victoria took advantage of that and pretended to play along, encouraging them to order expensive alcohol.
The problem was that Victoria had an absurdly high alcohol tolerance.
In the months Yukgap had known her, he had never once seen her drunk.
“More importantly, these guys tried something funny with me.”
Victoria reached into the pocket of one of the unconscious men and pulled out a small packet.
Even at a glance, it looked suspicious.
“What’s that?”
“A crude mixture of sedatives, muscle relaxants, and several hallucinogens. Absolutely amateurish. They dumped several packets of this into my drink.”
Victoria shook the packet with disgust.
Apparently, the men had drugged her glass while trying to take advantage of her.
“You knew and drank it anyway, right?”
Yukgap asked casually.
This was hardly the first time Victoria had done something like this.
“Of course. A lady should never refuse a drink offered to her.”
Victoria smiled and pulled out a syringe.
Then she casually tilted her head back.
She inserted the needle directly into a blood vessel in her neck.
Red blood slowly filled the syringe.
“And thanks to them, I’ve already produced an antiserum for this crude drug.”
There was another reason Victoria acted so fearlessly.
Poisons did not work on her.
Even if she swallowed something toxic, her body immediately broke it down and allowed her to create an antiserum.
It was an extremely convenient body.
