I think it's ti to make liquor.
Liquor huh I think that's a nice idea.
i-chan readily agreed with a smile on her face when I tried to make that suggestion during one of our idle chatter inside the clandestine room.
Since how my deciphering the ancient language hardly made any progress, I felt the need for a change of pace.
I've already considered that option.
We were fooling around like idiots in the resort area of the deserted island without caring a sh*t about dungeon capture, but we still couldn't brew liquor. Starting with honey, lemon, we only went as far as making juice with available fruits.
Now that we have more people, there might be a demand for it.
Yeah, so high school students have already tasted sake before adulthood after all.
The adults would be enraged if they heard our remark, alas, they would have also drunk liquor once or twice during their high school era. They might have used excuses such as, "It's just barley juice".
As for , Ive unfortunately never drunk any liquor.
Sohow, I had been uselessly serious in that regard. It was more because I had no interest in such things though. In my case, I rather use my money to buy a light novel than waste it on buying liquor.
Well, even if I tried to buy it, the cashier would stop due to my appearance. And I don't think excuses such as, "I'm running an errand" would work either, right?
I see, that's great, Kotaro-kun.
It wasn't a big deal though. The hurdle of garnering praise from i-chan was too low, it was like I was being spoiled by her.
What about you, i-chan?
I have tasted it A little bit.
A~h, you can't handle it, huh!
Yo-You're mistaken. I just heard that there's delicious sake and also a lot of foodbut we don't know if it'll be delicious without sake!
Is she referring to the snack that goes well with sake? Is she referring to those marriage thingies? There are too many difficult words related to wine*.
[*TN: Marriage here is a wine-related term]
aning that you understand the taste of liquor.
Whether it was delicious or not, the judgnt was not up to who had never had any liquor. In the first place, my childish tongue might not even be able to tell the taste of delicious liquor.
The world of liquor is deep, I'm just a beginner.
aning, you're pretty much addicted to that profound world while still a high school student. As expected of i-chan, always surpassing my expectation.
Alas, you have far more experience and knowledge in that field than , I'll leave the sake brewing to you, i-chan.
Okay, but I've no experience in making liquor, so don't expect too much okay.
And then, exactly two hours after i-chan said that
I've made it. This is liquor.
She brought back a reddish-purple liquid in a cup.
It had the sweetness of the fruit which blended perfectly with the bitter aftertaste. But, it wasn't just bitter, there was a kind of unique aftertaste mixed between a sour and astringent taste.
Honestly, it wasn't that tasty.
That was my first impression of wine.
How can you make wine so easily?
Since there was no rice or wheat in this dungeon, the only available material for liquor was fruit. And even with those fruits, we should be limited to making cider. Alas, the representative of the fruit liquor wasn't cassis orange It was wine.
To begin with, we could harvest grape-like fruit in the resort area. Since the one we found over there was dubbed by i-chan as yamabudou (crimson glory vein [grape]), I decided to call it yamabudou too.
The Witch's Kettle is really convenient.
Even I, the owner of the skill, could only marvel at i-chan's remark since I could only use it, not utilizing it as skillfully as i-chan.
I'm really glad that I learnt how to control ferntation during the experint in making fish sauce.
I had no idea it could be used like that though
Ferntation is a phenonon that won't happen without yeast and yet It was possible to accelerate ferntation by making the yeast more active. Honestly, I had no idea if I could replicate such a feat.
I guess this was the huge difference between i-chan who understood the ferntation process word-by-word and who only knew how to make simple stew or grilled dish. I couldn't replicate her feat without proper understanding. In short, it was similar to magic.
This is it, the ferntation might be enough!
This is aweso, i-chan, you can use the kettle way better than .
i-chan was in a good mood since her liquor brewing turned out pretty well. Okay then, it's not like I'm going to get drunk from wine tasting anyway.
Next is white wine, sweet and salty flavour And cider made from apple-like fruit
Since i-chan had already turned into pro-liquor-maker-mode, I quickly made another new kettle for her. This was the only thing I could do for her. Futaba liquor maker was open for business.
The night quickly turned into a tasting assembly.
Co in, three drunken musketeers!
Three drunken musketeers?
Self-proclaid as one of the thugs in the school, since you smoke you surely drink too, Tendou Ryuuichi!
Oh shut up already, Momokawa.
Tendou-kun was properly perched in his seat, albeit fed up.
One of the girls has surely tasted liquor before, Randou Kyouko!
Eh, how did I end up in this place too? Momokawa, are you by chance drunk?
I'm not drunk. I've a skill called Vessel of Poisonthat negates the effects of poison. Too ba~d, I'm not dead dru~nk!
Woow, this guy is drunk for sure.
Ah, stop shaking my shoulders, Randou-san. My head is spinning.
Perhaps my Vessel of Poison stopped alcohol poisoning, but it didn't prevent from getting drunk. Wine, surprisingly, has a high degree of alcohol.
Since i-chan and I had sampled all the prototypes that we were going to drink tonight, the total amount sampled was quite a lot.
And since you two have a boyfriend in college, you naturally would have had a taste of liquor too right, JuryMary!
You're starting to spout nonsense now!
I've told you right!
Eh, are they just making an appeal to Tendou-kun? Trying to impress him as innocent girls who have never associated with n before, huh?
What's with that look?
Don't look down on us, Momokawa~
I was just telling the truth, but perhaps because they guessed it would give a bad impression, JuryMary combi sandwiched between them. Honestly, it felt like I was about to ascend to heaven.
A~h, please stop, dear custo~r, please sto~p, a~h, dear curso~r.
Shut up~.
This drunkard.
Let go of him slowly, who do you think will look after him if he vomits?
Worry not, I shall not stoop to a disgrace such as vomiting during my first ti drinking liquor. It was so close just now, but that was absolutely just my imagination.
Anyhow, call the three drunken musketeers.
The three is actually four though.
Why are they called three instead of four then?
D'Artagnan, the protagonist isn't a part of the three musketeers.
I-I see That was embarrassing since I only vaguely rember the content of the movie I saw in my childhood. It's sothing like the four heavenly kings is actually composed of five people it was a rare event, but it did exist.
Anyway, the four I called this ti were mbers of Tendou Yankee team.
It was only for a short ti, but they did take good care of during that ti. That's why I wanted to keep a good relationship with them after this and chose them as the first ones to taste the finished product.
Looking at the current Momokawa, he's definitely drunk right now. Well, since that's the case, toriaezu nama*!
[*TN: catchphrase when drinking in Izakaya, ans beer please!]
Cassis Orange for .
Fuzzy Navel for .
i-chan, four orders for red wine~.
I ignored the orders of our dear custors to finish the sampling quickly.
Since we had prepared everything, we treated our quartet of three musketeers with a lot of red wine made from yamabudou.
And by the way, we were not in the dining room but the clandestine room on the 5th floor of the school tower. We kept the fact that we were brewing liquor a secret for the ti being. The public moral committee would definitely make a ruckus about this, not to ntion that the vice-president of the said committee was a mber of the quartet of three musketeers too.
Don't expect too much from its taste, this is a trial product after all.
After giving them a reminder, the four of them then tasted the wine in their cup.
Ah, Tendou-kun was the only one who sniffed before drinking it.
Yeah, it's not that delicious. Alas, being able to make it this far under this condition is amazing in its own way, right?
I heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing Tendou-kun's praise.
It seems he did have the experience of wine tasting.
Well, you would all have different opinions, right?
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