Chapter 21 – Too Many Customers
"30-hour Care Service, please," said a customer. This customer was one of the spectators. After Lucas won the battle, he did not waste any time and went to the counter. He knew that it would be packed and he would lose his chance. He chose the care service because he did not have any budget for the training service.
"We need your details and please leave you pet cards here," said Katheryn. The customer gave his details to Katheryn and Katheryn registered the customer's details on the computer. After that, she gave the customer a time he should come to pick up his pet and the customer left.
"I want a session of Training Service," after that one customer left, another customer that queued behind him came forward.
"We need your details and please leave your pet cards here," said Katheryn. Same as the previous customer, Katheryn registered the details on the computer. After that, she asked, "Do you want the training to be random or focuses on something?"
"Random or focus???" The customer asked.
"If it is random, the pet will improve randomly and we will not have any control over what improvement it will have. Focused training will focus on that one particular thing you want to improve," said Katheryn.
She continued, "For example, if you want to increase your pet's health, we will focus the training in raising the pet health stat. If you want to focus on improving the pet's skill, we will focus on skill training."
Katheryn had not done with the explaining and continued, "As you can see with the previous battle when training is focused on skill, you might get the same kind of improvement you see with the skill the white furball had."
"However, let me warn you that if you choose skill training, there might not be any result from just one session. You might need more than one session to see any improvement in the skill. I suggest that you focus on increasing its stats," Katheryn warned the customer.
The customers behind that customer nodded. They heard what Katheryn was saying and some of them started thinking about what they should focus on.
That customer was thinking. A few seconds later, he made his decision. "Let's focus on improving my pet's defense," said the customer, and Katheryn put the data on the computer. After that, more and more customers registered their pet for the service and left the nursery. Since it would take a while before they could get their pet, they left the pet nursery.
There was a limit to how many things could run at the same time in the nursery. For the nursing service, 10 nursing pens was the limit that could be fit in the nursery and ran at the same time. At the moment, there were only five nursing pens. Luckily, not many people wanted to heal their pets.
For the care service, 10 pet playgrounds could be placed in the nursery. Since one playground could fit 5 pets, 50 pets could be cared for at one time. Even so, there was only one pet playground in the nursery and thus, only five pets could use the playground at the same time at the moment.
Since there was only one pet playground, many customers that wanted to use the care service would need to wait a few days before the pet got to use the service. The reason was that there were too many customers that used the service for super long hours.
For training service, only ten pets could be put for training in one dungeon. Since each session took only one hour in real-time, there was not much waiting needed by the customers. Other than that, the training session was a bit expensive and thus, not many wanted to use the service.
While Katheryn was busy at the front counter, Lucas was in Room No 1, setting the Seven Stripes Cat, Raillow in the nursing pen for healing. After he finished setting up the healing, Sery said, [Master, when will you upgrade the system? You have finished a lot of missions. Did you forget about it?]
"Hmm? No, I am not. I am just waiting to accumulate many experience points and level the system in one go," said Lucas while he went out of the room to the front counter. He wanted to set up the pets left by the customer.
[… Oo. I suggest you upgrade the system fast. When the system upgrades, the limit of the nursing pen and pet playground will increase and you can accept more customers with the increased equipment] said Sery.
"Even if I upgrade the system, we don't have enough money to buy all those things… maybe the nursing pens but not the playground and the other items," said Lucas.
He knew that the business had just started and they would need a few days to get enough money to buy more things for the nursery. So, rushing to upgrade the system would not change anything except more items would be available in the system shop.
[What are you talking about? We now have enough money to buy one pet playground. As for the dungeon capture and tier breaker, we will need one or two more days] said Sery.
"…" Lucas was surprised and he asked, "Really?" He had a feeling that his nursery would be popular but not this fast. He predicted that it would be a month or two before it gained traction.
[I told you many times before that our nursery will be popular fast. I am not kidding. Our nursery is cheaper and gave better results than other nurseries in terms of services] said Sery in pride.
When Lucas got to the front counter, he was stunned to see a lot of people queueing up to use the nursery's services. There were many pet cards by Katheryn's side waiting to be sent for care service and training service.
'Sery, I will need machines that can automatically send these pet cards to use the services from the counter. With this many people, it will be tiring to walk to the service rooms,' said Katheryn in her mind while smiling and busying herself with the customer.
'Also, I will also need a scanner that can easily register the customer's data in the computer. Not only that, but we will also need a box or something to arrange the pet cards properly. Also, we will need a number system for our nursery so that they will not need to queue this long like this,' said Katheryn.
Katheryn immediately knew what improvement the nursery urgently needed. Of course, the equipment for the services was important but equipment that helped ease the customers and workers in the nursery was needed too.
Katheryn was too busy at the front counter registering the customer's data that she had no time to go back to set the pet cards. Even with Lucas's help, her workload was still massive. Serving the customers was not easy. It was stressful.
There were many kinds of people in the world and it was hard to please each one of them. If the customers were understanding, it would be fine but not all of them like that and many of them were pricks.
In the world where the strong rule, the strong, powerful, highly potential tamers were usually a prick. Although they rarely caused much trouble, their arrogance made Katheryn feel tired. She had already faced three arrogant customers. Just those three alone were enough to make her tired.
This was the reason she asked for those machines. It would ease her job and she could focus on serving the customers. 'Use whatever money we have to create these machines. We need them,' said Katheryn.
[Roger! We have more than enough money to create the machines you ask, Madam] said Sery. Sery had known of this problem a long time ago but he had no money to implement it. He was also waiting for orders from his owner.
The money in the cash register disappeared and Sery did his job and created the machines. It would take a bit of time to create them. Since there were too many customers queueing, Sery decided to create the number system first.
Lucas saw how Katheryn was busy with serving the customer and he immediately took the pet cards and went to Room No 3 where the big monitor was located. Since the monitor could be used on all three services, it was easier to use it.
"Why are there so many people? You said that it will take a few days for us to get enough money for the dungeon catcher and the tier breaker," said Lucas.
[… Well, I am surprised too with the number of customers. From what I understand, many of our customers that saw your battle with that kid recommend the nursery to their friends. Not only that, but some of them also show the video of your battle in their group chat and attracts a lot of other customers] said Sery.
"… Just from my battle?" Lucas could not believe that. Other than the new and improved skills, there was nothing impressive from that battle, in Lucas's opinion. Also, there was the gimmick of using white furballs. Even so, Lucas felt like that was not enough to be able to attract this many customers.
[Yes. Maybe there are other reasons too unknown to us] said Sery.
Lucas and Katheryn got busy while waiting for Sery to finish creating the machines. Hailey came downstairs too and helped with the nursery. Even so, more and more people came, shocking the four of them.
'Why are there so many people???' Katheryn was confused too. There were too many customers at the moment. 'Sery? Is the nursery supposed to be like this on the first day?' Katheryn asked Sery.
[…] Sery did not reply. 'Sery?' Katheryn asked again.
[Wait a second. I am trying to investigate this] said Sery and Katheryn continued with her work. While Sery was trying to investigate, Sarah had been waiting patiently at the waiting area and she was shocked by what she saw too.
"Why are there so many people here?" Sarah wondered. "Is it because of the battle? Even so, the video can't get popular in less than an hour," thought Sarah and while she was looking at all the customers, she saw something.
A girl around the same age as Qin Yun was among the crowd looking for something. Behind her were many other kids around the same age. They were all waiting in line for their turn. When the girl was looking around, she saw Qin Yun and the old butler.
Qin Yun sat silently on the chair with his head down. The shock of losing was still on his mind. The old butler was by his side patting the back of Qin Yun and was saying something to him. Possibly trying to cheer him up.
"I am going to see Qin Yun," said the girl and the other kids behind her nodded their heads. When the girl got out of the line, her clothes fluttered and on it was a small picture of a Phoenix. Not only her, but the other kids behind her had the same picture on their clothes too.
"The Phoenix emblem… The Phoenix Clan?" Sarah pursed her lips. She found it weird that many of them were there. "Are they trying to exert revenge on the young man?" Sarah wondered. She knew that Qin Yun was a young master as well as the super genius of the Phoenix Clan. They might have come to the nursery to challenge Lucas to a battle.
"Qin Yun," said the girl.
Qin Yun looked up and saw the girl and he was confused. "Why are you here???" Qin Yun asked.
"The elders in the family asked us to use this nursery for training starting from today," said the girl.
"??? Why so suddenly?" Qin Yun asked.
"I am not sure either but the elders also said that we need to treat the people of this nursery kindly. They even warn us to not cause trouble in this nursery and also to help everyone in this nursery if they are in danger. If it is a danger we cannot handle, we need to report to them fast," said the girl. She looked confused too when she said that.
The order came out of nowhere. When the old butler heard that, he smiled in secret. He had reported about the nursery to the elders in the clan after the battle ended. He even included the video of the battle between Fury and Raillow.
'The elders make the right decision. This place is a gold mine! We better protect this place properly,' thought the old butler.
"What are the old farts trying to do?" Qin Yun was confused too when he heard that. He was not in the mood for deep thinking and decided to let it go. The girl left Qin Yun and got back in line.
As for Sarah, she caught on something. 'Is there something in this nursery that the Phoenix clan wants?' thought Sarah. 'Is it the pet trainer?' Sarah wondered.
[…] Sery was listening to everything and said, [They are acting fast. It looks like they intend to use this nursery to train their clan members. Well~ as long as they pay, they can use our service as many times as they want]