Dimensional Hotel
Chapter 327 On the Day of Turning 18

Chapter 327: Chapter 327 On the Day of Turning 18

On the eighteenth birthday, what will happen?

Little Red Riding Hood had spent the past few years of her life avoiding thinking about this question—as she had always appeared as the most mature character in Fairy Tales, a trustworthy older sister in the hearts of her younger siblings. Despite sometimes talking nonchalantly with people about coming of age and the possible future, when someone truly asked her how she planned to spend her eighteenth birthday, she would say... there’s nothing special about the day.

She thought that this day should be like every other birthday in her past life because that’s how the previous generation of Little Red Riding Hood taught her. She would go to class, talk to people, observe the world, and then return home before dark, back among her younger siblings, where everyone would prepare cake and gifts for her, but perhaps this time she wouldn’t need to make a wish.

Finally, before curfew time arrives, she would go to a special room in the West Building, lock herself inside, and unwrap her birthday presents one by one—perhaps with the King or Bai Xue guarding the door, or other children skilled at fighting.

If she absolutely had any plan for that day in her past life, her only thought was to insist on unwrapping the last gift and surrounding herself with them.

But now, that special room in the West Building is gone—it turned into a bubble upon waking from a nightmare during Anka Aela’s fall.

As for the other parts, they were as she once imagined.

She went to school, saw the teacher and classmates, didn’t mention her birthday much to the outsiders, yet some informed or sensitive classmates still brought her small gifts, not many because senior year students generally have little energy and she had very few friends at school in the first place.

Today’s classes weren’t difficult, half of the content was revising previous knowledge, and she almost fell asleep during the last class... in fact, she did fall asleep but was quickly woken by the commotion of her deskmate jumping up and running to the cafeteria.

She had a good lunch and ordered braised pork—something she rarely ate during difficult days at the orphanage. But now, due to the greatly reduced consumption of Sanity Blocker and... thanks to someone skilled at exploiting resources tricking various funds from the Special Service Bureau for the orphanage kids, the conditions were much better than before, and all "guardians" no longer had to live those tight days.

The afternoon classes were even more boring than the morning ones, and they contained things she had long mastered, so she spent half the time using a wolf’s perspective to secretly browse posts on Border Communication. She saw the Special Service Bureau’s warning notices to all Spirit Realm detectives and investigators, reminding them to pay attention to various mirror-related abnormal phenomena and clues related to "Mist City."

Three days ago, the Special Service Bureau publicly announced the existence of "Mist City," and in today’s announcement, they mentioned the exploration progress of Mist City and released a series of confirmed safety rules—the discussion area under the post was lively, amid many serious and proper replies, a bizarre post near a mirror with a humidifier was inexplicably pushed to the first page, full of comments asking about the humidifier’s brand, and a Mermaid using a small account posted a "Welcome to follow Fishfish official Meow~" in the comment section, with a bunch of people shouting, and she liked all the comments.

Until close to the end of school, that Mermaid post was deleted by the administrator. Little Red Riding Hood felt it was quite embarrassing but was not surprised, as that Salted fish being bizarre wasn’t a day or two, everyone thought she played Fishman Slaughter with a group of sailors on board every night...

Then, it was finally time to leave school—the teacher didn’t drag the class today, announcing dismissal promptly as the bell rang.

Little Red Riding Hood diligently packed up the books on the table, stuffed the homework that needed to be brought home into her backpack, and then stood at the classroom door, taking a deep breath.

She would still come to class tomorrow.

Leaving school, finding a secluded place, boarding the Shadow Wolf, and leaping with the Wolf Pack into the shadow world, within moments, she arrived at the ruins of the old orphanage—entering the valley’s entrance was on the old orphanage site, now cleaned into an empty space, with a small hut standing in the corner of the old walls. Little Red Riding Hood greeted the guard on duty in the hut and pushed open the door to the Exotic Realm.

As soon as she stepped inside, there were two "bang bang" sounds.

But Little Red Riding Hood was too familiar with the group of bear kids around her in daily life, tensions high before entering, she sprang out simultaneously with the two cannon sounds, confetti and glitter fluttering behind her, not a speck landing on her hair.

"Hey, this is no fun!" The long-haired princess at the door holding the firework tube immediately shouted, "Ceremony, ceremony, do you understand?"

Little Red Riding Hood looked up and saw a group of familiar faces, Yu Sheng among them, with the long-haired princess glaring this way, puffing with anger.

Little Red Riding Hood laughed, about to retort to the princess, when suddenly the golden hair burst behind her, and over twenty firework tubes popped out from that pile of hair—she barely managed to say "oh crap" before hearing a series of bangs, and was covered in confetti...

"Happy Birthday!" "Happy Birthday Red Hat Sister!" "Eighteen!" "There’s a bonfire today! Big bonfire!" "Barbecue—and fireworks!"

People around shouted chaotically, Little Red Riding Hood, caught off guard, stumbled as she tried to brush off the colorful confetti, about to say something to assert parental authority, only to be surrounded by siblings and ushered forward, she could only struggle in the middle, shouting: "Hey! My backpack! Can I put my backpack inside first... I’ll let the wolves out if you keep this up!"

Yu Sheng, with a bright smile, walked forward with others, casually glancing at the time on his phone and waving his hand towards the sky.

The clouds started to gather, making today’s "night" come earlier than usual.

Little Red Riding Hood saw the big bonfire already set up outside the town and noticed the barbecue racks being pushed out from the warehouse. She saw the clouds in the sky gathering early, and a group of colorful royal court musicians assembling in the square. As soon as she approached, lively tunes began to play.

"Isn’t this a bit too much..." The girl felt somewhat overwhelmed by the scene, knowing that everyone in Fairy Tales had been preparing to celebrate her birthday, but the scale clearly exceeded her expectations, "if it’s just a birthday, isn’t the budget overblown?"

"Red Hat Sister! Today’s not just any birthday," Dorothy shouted, "you’re the first among us to celebrate your eighteenth birthday since the curse ended, it’s very significant! I originally wanted to arrange eighteen cannons around the square, then when you come in, there would be aerial stunts by a flight squadron, and on the ground, my Lion Heart Armored Division parade formation, but my brother didn’t agree..."

"From now on, every Fairy Tale member’s eighteenth birthday will have a grand celebration," Yu Sheng patted Little Red Riding Hood’s shoulder, "coming of age is worth a big celebration, especially for your coming of age—though Dorothy’s plan was indeed a bit over the top."

Little Red Riding Hood listened in stunned silence, and when she didn’t know how to react, the huge pile of wood had already ignited into a blazing bonfire.

The streetlights inside and outside the town had already lit up. In the light and fire, several familiar figures appeared in the square again—they were the Council employees, including Teacher Su.

They were pushing a very large food cart, on which was the biggest cake Little Red Riding Hood had ever seen in her life.

The cake was decorated like a forest, with chocolate-shaped "Shadow Wolves" traversing through the forest, and on top of the cake was a big sign that read "Happy Birthday Wang Jiajia."

"The cake was sent by the Special Service Bureau," Yu Sheng said beside her, "the words on it were personally written by Baili Qing—she said she once wrote a similar card back in the day but never got to send it, today she’s fulfilling a wish."

Little Red Riding Hood’s expression seemed a bit dazed, and she looked like she was about to cry.

But the long-haired princess always interrupts people’s emotions at the right time—this quirky-haired girl came hopping over, reaching out to pinch Little Red Riding Hood’s face: "We’ll talk about the cake later! First, accept the gifts!"

"Oh, right! Everyone prepared gifts for you!" Bai Xue eagerly came up, "I picked mine for a long time!"

"I also prepared one for you," Yu Sheng said with a smile.

Little Red Riding Hood stood there stunned, watching as everyone brought the gifts to the open space beside the bonfire, piling them up like a small mountain.

She didn’t have to open them in that special room by herself; she could unwrap all the gifts right here.

Cinderella urged on the side: "Open them, open them~~ let’s unwrap them right here! Let’s see what everyone gave!"

Little Red Riding Hood hesitated for a moment, then finally walked towards the "small mountain."

She first picked up the box with the long-haired princess’s name on it—the gift felt heavy, unknown what’s inside.

Long-haired was immediately happy: "Oh oh! You’re opening mine first!"

"Because you’re the one who’s most likely to be mischievous," Little Red Riding Hood wiped her eyes, glancing up at the long-haired princess, "opening yours first for peace of mind later."

With that, she casually tore open the wrapping paper and opened the sturdy thick cardboard box.

Inside was still a box: a brand new set of "90 Days Until College Entrance Exam," boxed edition.

A "Oh——" sound instantly rose from around, some were praising how imaginative the gift was, the long-haired one laughed like Erin, spinning and waving: "Thank you, thank you, just normal performance, you’re too kind..."

Little Red Riding Hood was torn between crying and laughing, gave a side-eye to the long-haired, raised her hand to pick up the gift Yu Sheng prepared, intending to console herself.

Yu Sheng’s face looked a bit strange at this moment: "Well..."

Little Red Riding Hood wasn’t paying attention, she’d already opened the similarly heavy gift box.

Looking inside, "120 Days Until College Entrance Exam," boxed edition.

Little Red Riding Hood: "...?"

After a long silence, the girl slowly looked up at the two people in front of her.

"Are you guys nuts?!"