RP Chapter 37

Chapter 37 – Training Period

Volume 3, Resonance 5, Part 4

Novel Title: 共鳴熱情 オメガバース (Resonance Passion: Omegaverse)

Author：岩本薫 (Iwamoto Kaoru)

Illustrator：蓮川愛 (Hasukawa Ai)

Translator: K (@kin0monogatari)

Protagonists: MC- 遠峰一紗 (Toomine Kazusa), Lemur & ML- ゼロ (Zero)

*Please read at knoxt.space, the original site of translation. TQ*

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Preparations began at five, and in one hour, the staff completed the setup and cleaning. After the lounge opened, Kazusa would take the guests’ coats and belongings at reception, store them in the closet, guide the guests to the entrance hall, and serve them welcome drinks. While the guests enjoyed their holograms and drinks, Kazusa would fetch the cast members from the back to join the guests and guide them to the guest rooms on the second basement floor. He took orders through the intercom, served drinks and food, cleared used glasses, replaced ashtrays, checked the powder rooms to restock supplies—the tasks were endless. After each guest left, cleaning was necessary, and the setting up for the next guest followed. And after the lounge closed, there was the full cleaning of the premises.

By the time Kazusa finished the post-closing cleanup and returned to Room 601, it was past one in the morning. There was a 30-minute break between the first and second shifts, as well as a few other short breaks. But the amount of physical work was still overwhelming.

Going up and down the spiral staircase between the first and second basement floors a dozen times made his hip joints creak, and his calves were painfully swollen. On the first day, he collapsed onto his bed as soon as he returned to his room, falling asleep without even taking a bath.

On the second day, he woke up plagued by muscle pain (and resolved to stretch and take care of his body at the first-floor gym after work). That day, he helped out in the kitchen, washing dishes, polishing glasses and cutlery, preparing drinks, plating desserts, and assisting with simple cooking tasks—there was no shortage of things to do.

By the time he returned to his room on the second day, he’d completely forgotten about stretching and care, passing out in an exhausted sleep once again.

On the third day, he finally started to get a bit more accustomed to the work. He even found himself with enough mental bandwidth to observe the cast members in action as he moved in and out of the guest rooms.

Some cast members were great at getting the guests excited, some were skilled at drawing out their stories, others were good listeners, some excelled at being playful, while others were masters of negotiation. Each cast member had their own strengths and unique style of hospitality. Kazusa burned their techniques into his memory.

Though the physical labour was tough, having something to do and being able to move his body was a blessing. If he had stayed holed up in his room doing nothing, he would have likely been consumed by regret over what he’d lost and anxiety about the future.

Grateful to Serval for suggesting he work in the lounge and to Zero for allowing it, Kazusa focused intently on learning the job, and before he knew it, the three-day training period was over.

During those three days, the first thing Kazusa drilled into his mind was the layout of the building. He learned it by moving around and memorising it through experience.

On the first basement floor, there is the entrance, reception, cloakroom, entrance hall, the bar counter where welcome drinks are prepared, an office where Zero and Hawk usually work, and the employee backroom.

On the second basement floor, there is the kitchen, the powder room, and the guest rooms.

The guest rooms consist of three small box seats for up to four people, two larger box seats for up to six, and one VIP room that can accommodate up to eight. The box seats are open and partitioned by floor-to-ceiling dividers, and each has a different animal print, such as leopard, giraffe, or zebra patterns, creating an open and lively atmosphere.

In contrast, the VIP room has a more exclusive feel, with a dome-shaped ceiling displaying a starry sky projected from a single projector. A large aquarium is embedded in the walls, with water plants, water lilies, and freshwater fish peacefully drifting. A hammock hanging from the ceiling adds to the room’s unique charm.

Kazusa not only memorised the entire layout of the lounge but also learned where all the equipment and tools were and how to use them. He also got the hang of the operational flow from opening to closing. Thanks to Serval’s notes, he was now able to match the names and faces of all the cast members except for Lycaon.

(I’ve done everything I can for now.)

Reassuring himself with those words, Kazusa fell asleep. The next day—at 5:42 p.m., just twenty minutes before opening—Kazusa stood in the entrance hall of ‘NIGHT SAFARI’ on the first basement floor.

The first time he set foot here, he had been speechless at the sight of the holographic animals. But after three days of training, he was used to it, and no longer startled when passing by holographic rhinos or lions.

Before him now stood a man more imposing than the king of beasts—an incredibly beautiful man. Zero’s black hair gleamed under the lights, with golden highlights shimmering. He was tall, with a perfectly proportioned figure dressed in black—black shirt, black bottoms, and a black coat. He wore an intercom, and the aura he exuded was reminiscent of a ruler of the night savannah, a man about to lead the pre-opening meeting.

The cast and staff stood in two rows facing Zero. Seven cast members on shift today were in the front row, and seven staff members from the kitchen and hall were in the back. Kazusa was positioned at the far end of the front row.

“Good morning,” Zero greeted in a clear voice.

“Good morning,” the fourteen members replied in unison. Kazusa had already gotten used to this greeting, even though it was evening. 

When he had worked at the hospital, they used “Good morning,” “Good afternoon,” and “Good evening” depending on the time of day, but in the nightlife industry, the greeting seemed to be universally “Good morning.” Kazusa had looked it up online and found that there were several theories behind this custom. But the most convincing explanation was that “Good morning” was the only one that could be turned into a formal greeting by adding “gozaimasu.”

“We have two topics today. First, Serval, who was out due to injury, is returning.”

“Hey! I’m back. Let’s get along again~,” Serval said cheerfully, spinning around while waving his right hand. His left arm, which had just gotten its stitches removed the day before, was still wrapped in bandages.

Kazusa, as Serval’s former attending physician, had given him permission to return to work under the conditions that he refrained from drinking alcohol and didn’t put strain on his wound.

“Welcome back, Serval!”

“We missed you!”

“Yeah! We were waiting for you, brother!” 

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*Translator’s Note: I’m not ready to deal with Lycaon to be honest… -K

*GLOSSARY:

‘Good morning’ is ‘ohayou gozaimasu’. ‘Good afternoon’ is ‘konnichiwa’. ‘Good evening’ is ‘konbanwa’. Only ‘good morning’ has ‘gozaimasu’. The meaning of gozaimasu is ‘to exist’ or ‘to be’. I think they use this because it expresses their existence or being. It was to acknowledge their existence. I think that’s what Toomine-sensei understood from his research.

Next update: 2025.04.22

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