Chapter 20- Welcome To Real Steel!

The doors of the cafe opened and Cryd couldn't help but turn his head towards the door, entering inside is a young man of average height 5'5" (165 cm) weighing 120lb (54 kg) with slightly spiky chestnut-brown hair and brown eyes.

He wears an adventurer outfit consisting of a gold-trimmed green mantle, white shirt, pants, and leather boots. He wore a short sword on his belt.

Cryd couldn't help but freeze as he saw this person.

'An anime character?'

His mouth couldn't help but twitch, it really is a multiverse cafe as an anime character in flesh is standing in front of him right now.

The said young man is curiously looking around, his eyes were twinkling as he saw some of the items inside.

"Is that soy sauce?"

The young man said as he looked at the cabinet where Cryd placed his condiments.

"Yes, it is, welcome to the Multiverse Internet Cafe customer, May I know your name?"

The young man flinched when he heard Cryd, he didn't seem to notice Cryd when he first entered.

"H-hi, nice to meet you, My name is Satou Kazuma, I didn't notice you earlier, sorry for my rudeness"

Kazuma rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment, he thought it was rude not to greet the owner of this place, but this place just looks really amazing, and if he looked around carefully, he noticed that there are some Japanese products here.

For example, soy sauce, yes, there are also soy sauce in other countries but the one he saw is packaged in japanese and the other items too which is why he came to this conclusion.

"Don't mind it, please feel free to relax"

Cryd's etiquette is very refined and is very respectful.

"Oh, I see, I wonder what this place is, I just picked up a ticket a few minutes ago and a game like panel suddenly appeared in front of me, asking me if I want to enter a place called Multiverse Internet Cafe, so it is this place"

Kazuma is very curious about this place, he knew the term of Internet Cafe as it is very popular in his past life but this place doesn't have any computers which made him a little confused, and what were the coffins laid around the room?

"You must be curious? why don't you come and sit here in front of me while I explain about the internet cafe"

"Okay"

Somehow, due to the professionalism and respectful attitude of Cryd, Kazuma is under a little but pressure not to act like an idiot in this place.

He then sat at the table near the counter and he saw Cyd seemed to be making something.

"Customer, would you prefer Coffee or Hot Chocolate? Don't worry, this one is the house"

"umm, Thank you… I'll take hot chocolate"

Kazuma isn't someone who would refuse a freebie, it didn't take long Cryd to make the hot chocolate and a few moments later, Kazuma saw a small orange colored astronaut serve him the hot chocolate.

Kazuma has been very tired lately due to his party hunting more and more monsters, and they also keep making a lot of mistakes which made him step-up a lot of times and save them.

Kazuma sighed as he tried not to remember the bad day and took a sip of the hot chocolate.

*Swoosh!

The sweet, bitter taste of the chocolate assaulted his taste buds and it felt extremely comfortable, the taste is also superb, Kazuma has never tasted a hot chocolate this delicious before!

"It seems you like it, I'm glad"

Kazuma heard the voice again but this it was close to him, he closed his eyes savoring the taste of hot chocolate earlier which is why he didn't notice the person was already close.

Kazuma opened his eyes and when he saw the gentleman person he is talking earlier he couldn't help but be shocked.

"Umm…. not to be rude but are you a dwarf?"

Kazuma couldn't help but ask because Cryd is just too small.

"*Chuckles~, no, come to think of it, I haven't introduced myself yet, the name is Sanzenin Cryd, I am the owner of this place and I am 12 years old"

"So young?"

Kazuma was shocked, he half expected for the owner to be young, but to be this young? he seriously thought Cryd is a dwarf or a being who just likes to take form of a kid but after hearing it from the person, it was more shocking.

"well, now let me explain about the internet cafe"

[The Multiverse Internet Cafe is as its names says, its connected to multiple universe, and no, no same person can enter this place, anyway, you can think of this place like a gathering tavern for people who are chosen, or what I like to say, those who found the tickets]

[Here, you can play games, VR games to be exact,(explains what VR is) and while playing games you will also gain power, if put in terms of games, your stats will increase while playing games, You can play games by exchanging money with me, next is there is also the mission board, in the mission board, players can do missions and receive MIC coin]

[MIC coin is the most important currency in this place, with MIC coins you can exchange a lot of things, for example, a weapon, power, ability, travel to different world, resurrect a person, or return to your own world]

[Note that doing missions without sufficient strength are dangerous as unlike in VR games, there is a chance you will die while in mission, and will not be revived, but there is a way to avoid this and that is to buy a resurrection point from me, which will allow you to resurrect back here in the internet cafe]

Cryd threw a lot of information to Kazuma who was now frozen because a lot of the things he is hearing doesn't make any sense to him but somehow he could understand it, but after thinking about it, he has already died and reincarnated to another world and he even has a useless goddess by his side so it is what it is.

The explanation of the place took quite a long time and fortunately, Cryd didn't have to repeat this to each of his customers as the system recorded all of his explanations so after that, the system will be the one to explain to customers.

Well, it's actually read, and if they have some questions, they can ask him, Kazuma is quite smart… somehow?

But anyway, he understood somethings about the cafe and as a shut-in NEET from his past life, he was.quite interested in the VR game so after asking about the exchange system.

He had some gold coins on him so he immediately exchanged it with some tokens, with the amount he has, he can play for about 3 hours, which is 15 days in the game.

Kazuma was surprised when he found this.

"Isn't this the ultimate dream of gamers?"

Kazuma couldn't help but exclaim but anyway, he was quite excited and after Cryd taught him how to use the VR pod, Kazuma smoothly entered the game.

As Kazuma entered the game, Cryd couldn't help but smile, this guy is actually fun to talk with, he didn't seem to treat him like a kid but like a normal person.

He then looked at the screen on top of the VR pod and saw, Kazuma has finally entered the game.

Just then.

*Ring~

The door opened once again.

A new customer has arrived!

"..."

Kazuma entered the Real Steel game and smoothly created his character, thankfully, he could use his real appearance and after making it a little more handsome… just a little.

He entered the game, as for his character name, he just went with Kazuma as usual, he remembers the owner saying this is like a real world so using an xGamerx name will be a little difficult, since there are times where he needs to say his name to NPC's.

Just thinking of saying xGamerx is my name made him shiver in cringe, he then chose his country as japan as he is a Japanese person after all.

Soon after he finished his character creation, the first thing Kazuma felt was that he was falling.

Then…

*Bam!

He hit some kind of metallic surface and continued falling, he rolled around a few more times before hitting the ground with puddle.

Kazuma looked at the dark sky, rain hitting his face, the smell of oil, rust, assaulted his nose and he could feel the wetness in his body.

He was in a daze, he didn't mind falling to a puddle of mud, but he was more amazed by what he is feeling right now, it felt like he was sent to another world.

This feeling is too accurate, it isn't his first time being sent to another world after all, so he knew the feeling, and he can confidently say, the feeling is the same.

Then a floating blue panel appeared in his vision.

[Welcome to Real Steel]