Farewell Banquet – 2
Perhaps because it was a banquet prepared by the popes themselves, there was no other way to explain it other than how amazing it was.
Huge tables were lined up in a banquet hall large enough to accommodate an entire one-story house, and hundreds or even thousands of kinds of food were lined up on them.
Even if he only ate one bite of each type, he looked like he would be full before he tasted the whole thing. Even counting the number of dishes placed on one table was daunting.
Even the captains of the knights, who must have gone through all the battles, were frozen in place with their mouths wide open on an enormous scale. I wondered how a banquet of this scale could be prepared in a matter of days.
We were completely overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it, and only after the popes said it was okay and took me by the hand and almost led me into the banquet hall did we move forward hesitantly.
Fortunately, the stiff atmosphere did not last long.
As the alcohol started to go in little by little, Claudia, who was a little hot from drunkenness, was the first to start walking around the banquet hall without hesitation.
Rize and I moved next, and Erika and Iris were the last to move. Iris followed Claudia with a sigh, while Erica munched on snacks with sparkling eyes.
After that, I felt like I was in a good mood. Floretta clung to me with a big smile. Luna also took a seat near me with a blunt expression.
Since the Popes were like that, it was Lise who was anxious. Lize struggled to herself, as if she couldn’t bear to tell the Popes to leave. The hand holding my arm was full of strength.
I, too, couldn’t really push the Popes away, so I only felt like I was keeping a little distance, but Floretta and Luna didn’t think about leaving me, whether or not I reacted like that.
Time continued to pass.
“Now, I think I can hand it over to the distinguished guests.”
Around the time when complete darkness fell outside the stained glass, Luna called us together saying that she had something to give. All of the knight commanders were slightly drunk.
Except for Claudia, of course. Clearly, Claudia was the one who drank the most among us, but it was Claudia who looked the most well-behaved. At least there was no sign of his face blushing.
“Would you like to bring it?”
Luna lightly bumped her palms together and made a noise. The nuns who were waiting near the wall prostrated themselves in front of the pope, bowed, and then ran away as a group to somewhere.
We looked at it with bewildered eyes. I wanted to set an example like that to bring something.
The doubt was quickly resolved. Soon, a dozen or so nuns cradled a large oak barrel and approached with very careful steps. Claudia’s eyes sparkled when she saw the oak barrel.
No matter how much I thought about it, I doubted whether that amount of alcohol was right for a human.
“By any chance, do you know the identity of what is inside?”
“I do not know. alcohol… … is it?”
“You got it right. However, this is a little different from normal alcohol.”
The nuns stood still, holding the barrels. Luna approached the valve at the bottom of the barrel. I set the small glass down in front of it and turned the valve clockwise.
A liquid that looked like a mixture of half gold and half silver started pouring into the glass.
Since the glass wasn’t that small, it filled up quickly. After locking the valve, Luna held out the glass to Floretta. Golden divine power wrapped around him.
The holy, yet mysterious liquid trapped between the golden divine power and the transparent glass glowed quietly in the glass, bathed in the light of the chandelier.
“This is a drink called ‘Moon Kiss’ in the Holy Land. What covers it can be called ‘The Brilliant Sun’.”
“The kiss of the moon… … did you say?”
Round red eyes stared at the liquid in the glass. Erica seemed to know something.
“Yes. Have you ever heard of it?”
“All I know is that it is an alcoholic beverage that cannot be obtained with money because it is made by His Holiness the Pope himself, and the amount of production is so small. It can only be obtained through faith, not money.”
“You got it right.”
Luna nodded.
“Drinking this wine is only permitted to the Pope of the Sun, the Pope of the Moon, and the Heretic Judge and Heretic Questioner. The only way for other beings to taste this drink is to be directly chosen by our popes on the day of the Holy Birthday, but even that is only a few drops.”
“And, they say, just a few drops can keep you drunk until the next day.”
“You know very well, my honored guest.”
In response to Luna’s praise, Claudia patted Erica on the shoulder with an Ohh look on her face. Erica averted her eyes, saying she had only seen it in a book she read before.
I also knew nothing about that drink. Because it was an item that had never appeared in the game. A kiss from the moon and a brilliant sun was an unheard-of name.
All five of them, including me, seemed interested, but among them, Claudia’s reaction was the most unique. It seemed that curiosity was greatly stirred by the word that it was such a rare and strong drink.
“The process of concentrating pure divinity must be repeated hundreds of times, and since we are the only ones who can handle such pure divinity, the annual production volume is less than three bottles of wine. I would like to give this to the distinguished guests one cup at a time.”
Luna took another glass under the valve. The liquid inside the oak barrel was poured into the glass, and golden divine power covered the glass.
The process was repeated exactly as many times as the number of us. The four knight commanders, and me. A total of five glasses glistened on a golden tray.
Claudia laughed wryly. It seemed like I was really happy. Not only that, Rize and Erika also made their eyes shine. Only Iris had a calm expression as usual.
Luna beckoned to one of the nuns. When the nun was called, she approached with a half-crying face and held up the tray with both hands. A look of envy was evident on the faces of the rest of the nuns.
“But, can you really handle it?”
“… … Yes? What do you mean by that?”
Floretta, who picked up a glass, smiled and continued.
“The kiss of the moon is so severe that even a single drop can break a person’s mind and make them lose their reason. If it’s a liquid in this one glass… … Probably no one except our popes will last. I asked if you could really afford it.”
Green eyes scrutinized this side. It was as if they were testing us.
we looked at each other Of course, Claudia had an expression that said there was no problem, and the rest of the knight commanders’ faces showed no particular fear.
“It is all right, His Holiness the Pope. I am confident in alcohol.”
“I will ask you again, my honored guest. Are you seriously saying that you can handle what’s inside?”
“of course. Even if I can’t, I have no regrets just being able to taste this sake.”
Facing the confident Claudia, Floretta smiled benevolently. The small glass in his hand was pushed forward. Receiving it, Claudia examined the liquid inside.
At most, the glass was about as long as my little finger and as thick as my little finger.
However, if that alcohol really makes a person unconsciously drunk with just a few drops, there is no guarantee when they will wake up the moment they drink it.
“Thank you, His Holiness the Pope.”
Claudia, who thanked Floretta, swallowed it down.
After emptying the glass in an instant, Claudia put her hand on her neck and chest to check where her esophagus was extending, then turned her head this way.
“… … Wow, this is really poisonous-”
And, it went straight to the side.
From the side, Rize and Erica could hear sounds of astonishment. Claudia was the one who drank beer not by glasses but by oak barrels and never got drunk or even blushed.
How could Claudia be like that with just one sip of alcohol?
“I asked if I could handle it.”
Fortunately, the combat nuns responded quickly and supported him, so he didn’t roll to the floor. A step later, Claudia’s face began to turn red.
One of the nuns retrieved the glass from her hand and placed it on a tray. Luna’s self-eye and Floretta’s green eyes turned toward us once again.
It was a gaze asking what did we say.
“What about the remaining people?”
Luna picked up the next glass. Floretta said with a smile.
“It’s okay if you refuse. It is said that the people of the Empire are weaker in alcohol than the people of the Holy Land. That is completely understandable.”
‘… … .’
As soon as consciousness dimmed, he reflexively grabbed his head. My head hurt like it would break.
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My memory was interrupted at the place where I drank the alcohol that Floretta and Luna emphasized as ‘specially’ prepared. I looked back at my memories step by step.
After hearing Floretta’s words, the knight commanders drank the moon’s kiss in order, as if to wait and see, and spread out in the exact order they drank. And I was the last one.
As I groaned, clutching my head involuntarily at the overwhelming headache, something soft wrapped around the back of my head. And even his ears were wrapped in soft, soft material.
“Are you a little out of your mind?”
At the sound of a hard voice overhead, my mind, which was about to be clouded, returned to some extent. I tried to forcefully lift my heavy eyelids. But even after trying for a long time, it didn’t work out.
Something warm closed my eyes. From its shape, I guessed that it was probably a finger. Long, slender fingers were pressing down on both of my eyes and massaging them.
The hand fell. When I opened my eyes again, I was greeted with a much clearer vision than before. I raised my head.
“I’m glad you’ve come to your senses.”
Above my head, Luna was looking down at me.
“… … Luna?”
“Yes, this is Luna. dear guest You’ve been sleeping longer than expected. I’m glad you’re conscious now.”
“Than you think… … ? No, more than that, what the hell is this situation right now… … ?”
I tried to raise my body reflexively, but I sat back down due to Luna’s hand pressing down on my shoulder. I felt the soft touch again on the back of my head.
I was sitting on a large sofa. A pale spherical object was dimly visible at the edge of my field of vision. It seemed that this was the identity of this soft touch that I had been feeling since before.
“Luna, what’s behind my head right now… … there is… … .”
Stop talking and stop moving. It was because I recognized what the object holding my head was. Large, hemispherical, fluffy, with two hanging heads, about the height of a seated person’s head.
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My head was buried between Luna’s breasts.
Luna was standing up behind the back of the sofa, burying my head in her chest bone and hugging her breasts tightly, staring down at me.
It wasn’t too difficult to guess whose the smell of flesh that had been lingering on the tip of his nose since earlier belonged.
“What are you doing?”
“Shh. Please don’t move, my honored guest. Isn’t your younger brother still serving the distinguished guests?”
After hearing the word “service,” a thrill of pleasure ran through my lower body for a moment before I even stopped thinking. The gaze was directed downward.
“Um… … Uh… … .”
A woman with long, luxuriant golden hair was bobbing her head up and down with her face buried between my legs.
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