First, I hid behind a rock.
I’d rather avoid unnecessary trouble.
Even though it’s broad daylight,
there’s no guarantee those fish yokai are as harmless as Popo and Reubangyi.
【Balloon Gum Collector】─Wakya-pya! It’s a fish person!
【Maid】─Wakya-pya! They look weak!
【Meng Yao】─Why do they look so creepy?
【Maehwa Tree】─If it were a mermaid, maybe, but fish people are just naturally creepy.
【Maou Guburi】─Gyesekkihoon, let’s slice those guys up for sashimi.
【Min Ji】─That’s a good idea.
【Yoho】─What’s good about it? Even if they’re fish, they’re creatures that can talk. Eating them as sashimi is… barbaric, honestly.
【Maou Guburi】─Then let’s grill them.
【Reverse Rape Mania】─Steamed fish is delicious too.
【Big Girl】─It’s not about the cooking method.
【Handsome Licker】─Yeah, just don’t eat them. *Lick*.
【Drifting AI】─I’ll say it. Guburi’s personality is as cruel as a demon king’s.
【Qkrnfl892】─Maou Guburi, crueler than a yokai. ㄷㄷ
【Se-hoon Defense Team】─Makes me not want to teach you magic.
I peeked out slightly to see what they were up to.
[Hey! Adjust the angle of the table next to you!]
[Fishy, fishy!]
[The sign’s a bit crooked! Straighten it!]
[Fishy!]
【Maou Guburi】─They keep saying “fishy, fishy.” Annoying as hell.
【Yoho】─They don’t look great, but their little chants are cute.
【Min Ji】─Not cute at all.
The yokai were setting up tables and signs by the beach.
Are they opening a restaurant or something?
Curious, I took a closer look at the sign.
[Mermaid Restaurant]
It was written in Korean, so no problem reading it.
Anyway, it was indeed a restaurant.
Seems there are yokai who run restaurants like humans do.
“A yokai restaurant? First time seeing one. Is it for yokai customers?”
【Maehwa Tree】─Probably?
【Maou Guburi】─Maehwa, you’ve never been to a yokai restaurant?
【Maehwa Tree】─Never to eat, but I’ve been to exorcise.
【Maou Guburi】─LOL, you’re such a troublemaker.
【Min Ji】─But shouldn’t it be called a Fish Person Restaurant, not a Mermaid Restaurant?
【Yoho】─Right. In movies, mermaids only have fish tails on the lower half.
【Maehwa Tree】─They’re fish people, though.
【Qkrnfl892】─Then why call it a Mermaid Restaurant? Scam?
【Maehwa Tree】─Maybe the fish people cook, and the mermaids serve.
【Maou Guburi】─A mermaid serves? So the fish person has two?
【Meng Yao】─Guburi, just go die somewhere.
【Se-hoon Defense Team】─I don’t see any mermaids, though.
【Drifting AI】─I’ll say it. They probably haven’t clocked in yet.
Whether it’s a Mermaid Restaurant or a Fish Person Restaurant,
the name is up to the owner, so no need to overthink it.
“…Anyway, I should head back the way I came.”
【Balloon Gum Collector】─Wakya-pya. Why go back?
【Maid】─Wakya-pya! Who dares block Gyesekkihoon’s path!
【Reverse Rape Mania】─Since we’re here, why not check it out? I’m curious what kind of food they serve.
Honestly, I did want to take a look.
What kind of dishes do yokai serve?
I had a vague curiosity about it.
But.
“Check it out? They probably don’t serve humans anyway.”
It didn’t seem like yokai would welcome human customers, so I decided to leave.
Just as I was about to turn around and avoid trouble,
[Fishy?]
I locked eyes with a fish yokai.
“……”
[Fishy….]
The yokai stared at me intently, then—
Dada-da!
It stretched its arms back and started running toward me.
【Maou Guburi】─Why’s that guy running at us?
【Handsome Licker】─Running so cutely. *Lick*.
【Big Girl】─Isn’t it attacking? Be careful.
【Maehwa Tree】─Kill it.
The yokai stopped abruptly right in front of me.
It looked up at me with round eyes.
Seemed like it had no intention of attacking.
[Fishy! Customer?]
The yokai tilted its head and asked.
Wait, do they accept humans as customers too?
Just in case, I nodded.
The yokai smiled brightly and shouted happily.
[Customer! Welcome!]
The shout echoed across the beach,
and all the yokai in the restaurant turned their attention this way.
[Huh? A customer?]
[Fishy?]
[A human? It’s been a while since we had a human customer.]
[It’s too early. Fishy.]
The yokai’s reactions were indifferent.
They didn’t show any hostility toward me, a human.
They just treated me like any other customer.
Seems like this restaurant doesn’t discriminate against humans.
【Yoho】─They serve humans too, huh?
【Min Ji】─Wow.
【Qkrnfl892】─Wow. ㄷㄷ
【Maou Guburi】─Sex.
【Balloon Gum Collector】─Wakya-pya! They’re here to hustle customers!
【Maid】─Warkya-pya! They caught a sucker!
【Handsome Licker】─Wonder what kind of food they sell. *Lick*.
[I’ll guide you kindly! Fishy!]
The yokai grabbed my hand.
It started pulling me toward the restaurant.
I could’ve easily shaken it off, but there was no reason to resist.
I was curious about what kind of food they served, after all.
***
Led by the fish yokai, I arrived at a table set up on the beach.
[Welcome. Sorry, but we’re still preparing to open. Could you wait here for a moment?]
A nearby octopus yokai politely offered me a chair.
It seemed to be the one giving orders to the other yokai.
“Ah, sure…”
After sitting down,
I turned to the fish yokai that brought me here and asked,
“So, this restaurant serves humans too?”
[We don’t discriminate against customers. Fishy.]
[Don’t speak casually to the customer! And you, go help with the opening preparations!]
[Fishy!]
The octopus yokai scolded harshly, and the fish yokai hurried off to join the others.
Seems like they don’t get along well.
Or maybe the octopus yokai just dislikes the fish yokai.
The octopus yokai sighed,
then turned back to me with a gentle expression.
[As my colleague just said, we don’t discriminate against customers. Of course, our main clientele is yokai… but we don’t turn away human customers either. Whether yokai or human, all customers are the same to us. Haha.]
【Maou Guburi】─Why’s this octopus bastard laughing so creepily? I’ll turn you into takoyaki.
【Handsome Licker】─Guburi’s been so angry lately. On your period? *Lick*.
【Balloon Gum Collector】─Wakya-pya! An octopus with a customer service smile!
【Maid】─Warkya-pya! So fake!
【Yoho】─Their service spirit is impressive.
【Reverse Rape Mania】─What’s up with this yokai? ㅡㅡ
As the viewers’ chat suggested,
the staff was strict but endlessly kind to customers.
“Really? So humans visit often too?”
[Yes. Not only that, but we also welcome exorcists. Not long ago, an exorcist visited, and we served them without any issues.]
“…An exorcist? At a yokai restaurant?”
[That’s right. We were a bit surprised when the exorcist visited, but they just ate quietly and left without causing any trouble.]
The octopus yokai nodded as it answered.
The exorcist who visited must’ve been different from Maehwa, one of my viewers.
『‘Maehwa Tree’ has sponsored 5,000 won.』
└An exorcist just ate at a yokai restaurant and left? What kind of idiot is that? Can you describe them?
Maehwa sent a voice donation with a question.
But this time, the voice didn’t leak through the bracelet.
I’d set it up so only the earbuds would pick up the sound.
Anyway,
since the octopus yokai couldn’t hear the donation, I decided to relay Maehwa’s question.
“Do you remember what the exorcist who visited looked like?”
[Why do you ask?]
“Just curious.”
[Hmm… It was a cat exorcist wearing yellow clothes.]
The description felt familiar.
‘A cat in yellow clothes…?’
After a moment of recollection,
I remembered Maehwa’s junior, the Cat-eared Woman.
【Handsome Licker】─A cat exorcist? *Lick*.
【Maou Guburi】─You mean Maehwa’s junior?
【Yoho】─Could be. She was wearing yellow last time.
【Maehwa Tree】─That crazy b*tch…
【Qkrnfl892】─LOL, Maehwa, is that your junior?
【Min Ji】─Couldn’t it be another exorcist?
【Maehwa Tree】─Pretty sure it’s her. She went to Jeju not long ago. I’ll beat her half to death when I see her.
Seems like it was indeed Maehwa’s junior.
What a crazy coincidence.
Sometimes the world feels so small.
[Well, I’ll go finish the opening preparations. Let me know if you need anything.]
The octopus yokai left with those words.
From start to finish, it was a yokai with excellent service spirit.
***
[Today’s the day the Mermaid Prince visits. Is it okay to accept other customers?]
[It’s fine. He won’t be here for a while. Did all the fish people on the menu arrive?]
[Just waiting on the salmon… Ah! There they are!]
[Fishy!]
Listening to the fish yokai’s conversation, it seemed the opening preparations were almost done.
I didn’t have to wait long.
It was only about ten minutes.
[Sorry for the wait, customer! Here’s the menu!]
The octopus yokai returned and politely handed me the menu.
I took it and opened it immediately.
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『Fish People』
「Flounder」
「Skate」
「Octopus」
「Squid」
「Salmon」
「Mackerel」
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『Mermaid』
「Out of Stock」
『Side Dishes』
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Surprisingly, the menu was pretty ordinary.
【Qkrnfl892】─Fish selling fish.
【Reverse Rape Mania】─Do they eat their own kind? ㄷㄷ
【Se-hoon Defense Team】─Intraspecies conflict is pretty common.
【Meng Yao】─Yeah, humans cannibalize too.
【Min Ji】─But technically, they’re not the same species, right?
【Big Girl】─They’re not. Yokai are yokai, and fish are fish.
【Maehwa Tree】─Se-hoon, be careful. The food might be poisoned.
【Balloon Gum Collector】─Wakya-pya! Even cats have eaten here, so what’s there to worry about?
【Maehwa Tree】─They might’ve been too scared to poison it after realizing it was an exorcist.
【Maou Guburi】─Gyesekkihoon, let’s eat skate!
【Yoho】─Skate’s good.
【Handsome Licker】─Ugh. *Lick*.
【Maid】─Wakya-pya. Maou-sama likes skate?
【Maou Guburi】─Nah, I hate it.
【Qkrnfl892】─Then why’d you recommend it, you idiot.
【Maou Guburi】─LOL. Sex.
While I was looking over the menu,
the octopus yokai beside me explained that all the fish could be prepared in any way.
Sashimi, grilled, steamed, etc.
All options were available.
‘What should I eat? I don’t really want skate…’
My dilemma didn’t last long.
I handed the menu back to the octopus yokai and said,
“One serving of octopus sashimi, please.”
[Got it! One serving of octopus sashimi!]
As soon as the order was placed,
the octopus yokai pulled out a knife from its waist.
And then it started slicing into its own body.
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