The inn specially closed for a week. Besides needing to hire more people, it also gave a good excuse to the guests who had visited before.
Such a huge change in a week, like becoming arguably the most luxurious hot spring inn in all of Japan, was more or less explainable.
If a few hundred workers weren't enough, they'd just say a few thousand worked on it.
Plus, construction on the remaining sections had indeed been ongoing. Saying someone had invested to expand wasn't out of the question.
Perhaps because of this inn, this small town would gradually grow into a large town, even a city, a first-tier city?
During this time, Takeo could also calm his mind and diligently learn management and operations.
As for the others...
Kaito accompanied Kie, Mitsuri, Nezuko, and Hanako on trips to various places in Japan.
On the third day, they met up with Sayuri and her group on the road, and continued traveling together.
Anyway, they took it slow, traveling without using abilities.
They enjoyed the scenery, and any demons encountered at night were dealt with by Nezuko and Mitsuri in battle.
On the seventh day, the trip officially ended.
Since Kaito had become the second-largest shareholder of the Kamado Hot Spring Inn, as well as an owner, he had to show up for the re-opening ceremony.
While appearing, he used hypnotic magic to implant numerous suggestions into all the guests present.
For instance, that the owner, Kaito, was a very mysterious person not to be provoked.
In short, it was to prevent anyone from maliciously causing trouble, making them think twice before acting.
Even the town's mayor came and knelt before Kaito.
"It's about time. I should be heading back."
"Yes, it's about time for us to go back too."
After staying another day, having enjoyed themselves thoroughly, Kaito felt it was time to return.
Coincidentally, Sayuri and Misuzu also wanted to go back. After they mentioned it together, they bid farewell to the reluctant Kie, Mitsuri, and the others, and departed.
Upon returning to the real world, Kaito had also promised Misuzu that he would visit her world in a few days. But first, he needed to fulfill his previous commitment.
The one he had made with Ke Jie: to play a game of Go against AlphaGo.
Thanks to this, Kaito had been the talk of the town for the past week.
Coupled with the official match records sent by the Go organization—a clean sweep of victories against the AlphaGo AI, from the easiest to the hardest difficulty—it had shocked the entire world.
China, Korea, and Japan were the most surprised.
Ke Jie himself came forward with various explanations: how he met Kaito, with livestreamers as witnesses, how he lost, and so on.
He hailed Kaito as a young man like himself, but an even greater Go prodigy... no, a Go deity. After that, anyone who followed Go couldn't help but pay attention.
Ke Jie could have won against AlphaGo, but AlphaGo had been upgraded.
And now, Kaito?
Between humans and AI, who would be the ultimate victor?
Honestly...
When Kaito returned and saw all this, he couldn't help but twitch his lips.
Was this AI battling a human?
It was battling a deity!
Besides, no matter how you looked at it, a human's computational power couldn't beat a computer. Humans could only push boundaries, innovate, etc., under extreme conditions.
But faced with an AI possessing immense computing power, one second for a human was like ten thousand seconds for the computer!
You think of the next move; it has already calculated tens of thousands of outcomes.
There was simply no comparison; it all depended on the version of the AI.
The newer it was, the more incomparable.
That's why there's the meme about humans having limits, so one becomes a "JoJo".
But at the same time, human potential was infinite, though that was under special circumstances.
"Kaito, I didn't know you were so good at Go?"
"Didn't I play Go in front of you before? I told you I started learning in middle school, just in case something like a novel plot happened."
"Oh, I remember now!"
Xiao Yunyun suddenly understood. Kaito had indeed played Go before. But since she didn't know much about it, she hadn't paid attention.
She never expected Kaito to be this skilled!
The world's number one Go player, Ke Jie, had lost to Kaito. Even the current version of the human-AI competitor, AlphaGo, couldn't beat Kaito!
Ke Jie had faced the hardest difficulty!
And Kaito had a whole page of winning records!!!
"Daddy is amazing! I tried playing Go too. I want to be the world's number one player, just like Daddy~"
Hisui had a Go board laid out in front of her.
Because she learned Kaito was also skilled at Go, she had become interested.
Right now, she was playing against the Raiden Shogun!
Ram and Rem were watching from the side, while Beelzebul was constantly giving random advice and disrupting Shogun's thought process.
"By the way, Sister Makoto said you took on two female disciples out there. Is that true?"
Xiao Yunyun asked curiously. Kaito was momentarily stunned, then turned to look at Baal.
Baal shrugged helplessly, glancing at Hisui. Kaito roughly understood.
Hisui must have been asking about Kaito, and Baal, who liked Hisui, had revealed the matter about taking on two disciples in Akina's world.
Well...
That wasn't a big deal.
Actually...
He hadn't seen Akina, Ai, and Ginko in a while.
Why not have a video call and let everyone get to know each other?
It was something they'd have to face eventually. Slowly letting Xiao Yunyun get to know them was fine.
Of course...
Kaito also had to use Erasure Cards to remove all anime related to the chat group.
Not that he had to; Xiao Yunyun might even be excited.
But considering the existence of anime inevitably meant the existence of various "fanart" and "images", Kaito chose to make them disappear.