Ryūsei was indeed prejudiced against nonhumans, but at least he had gotten one thing right: Hao Ren's bunch of freeloaders were far too carefree, and opening a restaurant was nothing more than fooling around. There was no need to mention Lily, and the May–Sanba siblings were hardly reliable either. Elizabeth was a purebred brat, and even her father could not help much here. The Nangong couple did work conscientiously, but once they got busy, they became hopelessly scatterbrained. In the end, only Vivian was even slightly dependable—but she could only cook in the back kitchen. Everyone was terrified that if they let her handle the money, she would have the Nangong couple lose all their savings...
Anyway, Hao Ren had never expected much from having a bunch of monsters help run a restaurant from the very beginning. He had not even expected the restaurant to actually make money. His main reason for supporting the Nangong couple in opening the place was to give them something to do. As for everyone else at home, they could come over and lend a hand when they had nothing better to do, but most of the time, they would certainly be busy with their own affairs—at the very least, Hao Ren had to take several assistants with him whenever he went on business trips to other worlds.
As for the restaurant, although today had been exhausting, there should not be any problems once the Nangong couple got familiar with the work and had their son and daughter helping them.
Still, no matter what, seeing the restaurant in such a noisy, bustling state made Hao Ren wonder what this little eatery would eventually become...
The busiest part of noon finally passed, and the diners gradually thinned out. Lily and Nangong May stood at the entrance