We were invited to co to Raigan's house in the Peach Dragon village.
Honestly, I was really surprised since Raigan seems to treat us like parasites.
「Inviting a guest is common sense for the one who standing guard on the village's gate. It's also a way to prevent the humans of humble origin from doing whatever they want in this beautiful peach dragon village. Not that we can ignore you, who are the benefactor of dragon either.」
Said Raigan with a gloomy face.
Ramiel said to not ntion her na and only told us to say that we were told about this village by the dragon we saved.
「Thank you…」
Smiling wryly, I thanked Raigan.
Raigan had also smiled upon seeing thanking him.
「Since I invited you lots, I can't treat you coldly in my ho either. But, our village has a certain custom. Are you willing to learn our customs? This is sothing that both of you, the attendant of that little girl can participate too.」
「… So?」
I've got a bad feeling about this.
Raigan seems to want to do sothing to us by making us learn the peach dragon village's customs.
「At a glance, this place is far away from a human living place, that's why it's better to not make a ss while you're in this place. You must be hungry right? Oi, bring in the al… And don't forget to bring the dragon liquor too.」
Said Raigan loudly.
Two female dragonfolks-which seems like his employee- then appeared from the inner part of the mansion with prepared als.
Just as Ramiel had said, most of the dishes didn't seem to be cooked in the correct way.
The dishes were just grilled fish or chicken at and a huge pile of salad for the veggies.
The salad wasn't even cut properly and only focused on volu.
Though I've heard firsthand from Ramiel that their food culture was far behind the human, my only worries were whether we could finish all the dishes or not, not about whether it was edible or not.
Alas, this was the first ti I heard about dragon liquor.
「Let's start with liquor.」
Said Raigan as he poured the content of a jar with dragon relief engraved on it into the cup.
「This is dragon liquor… Low-level folks who drank this will feel like their body was on fire. Alas, things will be difficult for visitors from outside if they can't even drink a mouthful of this. This is also part of the custom in the peach dragon village that respects the strong.」
Said Raigan politely as he smiled at us.
I see now… No wonder.
He might thought that us-Who were treated as Philia's attendants- Had a low level.
「It's sothing that even I, can't drink carelessly like water… But, try to drink a mouthful for now. Not that I expect you can handle this with your weak, human body.」
Right after he said so, another employee-like dragonfolk brought in sothing like a tub.
「Use this water to clean your palate if you feel that you can't drink dragon liquor. Though it sounds rude, this much water is needed for your weak, human body.」
… aning that if our level was low, we would be embarrassed if we had to dip our head into the tub of water.
「… Philia-chan is a child so, can you spare her from drinking liquor?」
「That can't be helped. But, she will be regarded as lower than dragonfolk's kid in Peach Dragon village you know? In that situation, her qualification to participate in the 《Dragon's Trial》 is…」
At that mont, a huge mouth appeared on the desk and swallowed the jar along with so dishes at once.
The mouth shut and then vanished.
When I turned around to see Philia, I saw her mouth was chewing sothing.
「Philia wants to eat sweets…」
And grumbled like that.
The next mont, a fragnt of porcelain dropped from her mouth.
「Even I can't drink many cups…」
After he mumbled so, Raigen looked at the innermost part of his house again.
「B-BRING IN ANOTHER JAR OF DRAGON LIQUOR, NOW!」
His employee brought in a new jar of dragon liquor.
Raigan poured the new dragon liquor into another cup and gave it to .
I could see white steam floating above the surface, it was warm liquor.
After I sniffed the aroma from the steam, I took a mouthful of dragon liquor into my mouth.
It was bizarrely spicy on top of being hot. There was this tanginess that numbed my tongue.
Since the degree of alcohol seems to be quite high, maybe it was made by dumping alcohol into lumps of various herbs.
「I'm not an avid fan of liquor…」
I rolled the liquor in my mouth before swallowing it and saw Raigan chewing his lips.
「… Tch, false bravado. Next is you, Pora.」
「P… Pora too?」
Pora stuttered when Raigan told her to drink too.
At that mont, I felt as if a bucket of cold water dumped onto my head.
I completely forgot about Pora's drunken frenzy.
「U-Uhm, Raigan-san, can you spare Pora-san if I drank her share? I know that this sounds like breaking your custom but, please make an exception…」
Raigan furrowed his eyebrows for a mont before his face ford a smile.
It seems he thought that he just found our weakness.
「That won't do. She's not a child to the point of backing down from this. She has to try it at least. Otherwise, that will be the sa as looking down on us. That's why buckle up and drink.」
「D-Don't worry, Kanata-san… Pora will do it! No problem, Pora's level has risen too!」
「No, Pora-san, in your case this will spell a trouble…」
「The person herself has accepted the challenge. You can't just dismiss her, right? Now then, take it, Pora.」
Raigan poured the dragon liquor into the cup to the brim and gave it to Pora.
Pora took the cup nervously and brought it to her lips.
「Uhm, Pora-san! Just take a sip of that… Don't drink it at o—」
Thirty minutes later.
Raigan who was forced by the drunken Pora to drink more dragon liquor was blowing bubbles while he thrusting his head into the water tub.
The Pora in question had already drunk straight from the dragon liquor jar with a flushed red face.
「Ka~nata~sha~n! This liquor is yummy~!」
「… No thank you, I won't drink.」
My shoulders slumped down as if I were in the middle of the funeral service of my parent.
「Shall I feed you mouth-to-mouth? Mouth-to-mouth!」
「Thank you but no…」
「Oh my~, the embarassed Kanata-shan is so cu~te!」
Here we co, Pora's drunken mode.
I felt like sitting on top of burning hot charcoal right now.
Philia was being patted non-stop by Pora as the latter rubbed her face against the forr.
「Excuse ~! Raigan-sha~n, bring another jar of dragon liquor pwease~! Raigan-sha~n!」
Said Pora as she waved to the inner part of the house.
That Raigan had already passed out.
I could only massage my temple, and heaved a really deep sigh as I endured this hell.
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