305 – Side Story: Everyday life in the Aethernum Empire – 2
“I am a poor knight leader who is weaker than Delta… ….”
“Number 97. There are three left now.”
“I am the leader of the Knights of Hue, who is weaker than Delta… ….”
“Number 98. Two more times.”
“I am the leader of the Knights of Hue, who is weaker than Delta… ….”
“Number 99. Last.”
“I am the leader of the Knights of Hue, who is weaker than Delta… ….”
“Okay, that’s it. Good work, Claudia.”
I was sitting on the sofa and got up. Claudia was kneeling right in front of me, shaking her cheeks as red as tomatoes.
Perspiration was pouring down my skin. Beads of sweat trickled down the skin along the abs that were stretched out in the shape of 11.
I handed over iced juice. Claudia, who ingested it all at once, chewed on the ice in succession. The glass soon became empty.
“You can do that three times. Why are you stubborn when you’re about to die of shame?”
“I told you a hundred times with my own mouth. You must keep your word.”
I said I would do it myself, but I couldn’t stop it. I simply emptied the kiss of the moon that I had poured out last. Its unique aroma and taste slowly went down his throat.
But I didn’t feel the bitter taste of alcohol at all. Rather, it felt much closer to a sweet drink. Claudia stared blankly at me like this.
It was a look of regret and doubt mixed in half.
“Rize ended up like that, but why did Delta… ….”
Claudia muttered in a hollow voice. Light pink eyes turned to the bed behind me.
In the bed, Lise lay unconscious and lying flat, giving off the smell of alcohol.
It was a disaster that happened when I drank 3 cups of Kiss of the Moon in a row and still felt fine.
It was a very small glass, but since I took half of it and drank it down, the actual amount that Rize drank was only about one little finger.
They just drank that much and went into a complete stupor. However, since I drank more, I feel fine, so Claudia might not understand.
“Is the bet over?”
The door opened at just the right time. It was Iris and Erica who said they would bring the members to their respective rooms.
Perhaps it was their own consideration, the two of them moved the members to the room when Claudia performed the penalty 10 times, and avoided their seats, saying they would come back.
“…… It’s over. I’ve said it 100 times for sure.”
“Thank God. From now on, don’t put too much faith in her own drinking capacity, Claudia. As you just declared, aren’t you a lame Knight Commander who is weaker than Delta?”
“… ….”
Claudia narrowed her eyes as if she didn’t know that even Iris would make fun of herself. Iris walked towards us, raising the corner of her mouth slightly.
“What should I do with that? Shall we clean it out?”
Erica, who followed right after her, looked at Rize stretched out on her bed in a stupor, and put on a pathetic expression.
At least, since even the title was ‘that one’ rather than ‘Lise’ or ‘sister’, she could have known how Erica felt about the drunken Rize now.
“If it’s just Lize, it’s okay to sleep here, so leave it alone, Erika.”
“What…… It is. All right.”
Taking her wine out of her refrigerator, Iris lightly unscrewed her cork with her thumb, then sat down on her sofa, clutching the entire bottle. Her chest recoiled and she swayed wildly.
Claudia also opened a new bottle with a gloomy expression. He looked at the bottle and thought it was whiskey. Erica calmly raised a wine glass that was only about 1/4 full.
‘That’s casual wear… ….’
All of them had pink bumps clearly showing through the sleeveless sleeves, so it was unclear where to look. As she looked down, the incredibly short Dolphin pants caught on her mind.
While I was wandering around looking for a place to rest my eyes, Iris, who had emptied more than half of the wine in her seat, stared at me. It was a look that was half playful.
“So what was the secret you were hiding, Delta?”
“Secret? What secret?”
I passed that gaze off as if it was nothing. Iris smiled and poured the remaining wine into it.
“I am confident that I know you to some extent. Given your personality, if you accepted the bet with that much confidence, you must have had a corner to believe in something. Now that the bet is over, isn’t it time to tell you what that corner of your belief was?”
“Looking at what you said, I think you roughly guessed what that corner of your belief was.”
“Maybe it could be.”
We exchanged meaningful smiles. Claudia, who had already emptied the whole bottle of whiskey and was picking up the next one, stopped moving.
“Wait. Can’t keep up with the conversation? Where do you believe? Secret?”
“Simple.”
Taking her new wine out of her refrigerator, Iris lightly twisted her cork open.
“After I drank the kiss of the moon in Holy Land, I searched for information on my own. I wondered what kind of alcohol it was that made it so strong. Fortunately, there are records left by Minerva in the Great Library.”
The contents of the bottle were reduced by more than half at once.
“The kiss of the moon and the brilliant sun are alcoholic beverages that become poisonous in inverse proportion to the divine power and faith of the drinker. The more sacred power and faith you have, the lower the degree, and the less you have, the higher the degree. According to the book, it seems to be slightly stronger than this wine for the Holy Fathers.”
Iris shook the bottle with about 1/3 of her contents remaining.
“That is why the people who can normally drink the kiss of the moon are limited to His Holiness the Pope, Inquisitor, and Inquisitor. Because those four people have the strongest divine power in the kingdom.”
Silver eyes glanced back at me. She seemed to ask if her explanation was correct. Nodded her head. If it was the record Minerva left behind, at least it wouldn’t have been wrong.
Compared to what I know, there was nothing different.
However, it was unknown what would happen to the current kingdom, where the average had risen tremendously because of me. Maybe there will be more people who can endure without getting drunk.
“… ….”
It was only then that Claudia noticed the truth. Her mouth fell open.
“If the power of alcohol is in inverse proportion to the divine power it possesses, it is highly likely that the alcohol was insignificant to Delta. In other words, it was an impossible bet to win from the start. How about it, Delta? Are there any mistakes in my explanation?”
“All right. Except for the part that doesn’t matter to me. It wasn’t that it wasn’t a big deal, it was that it didn’t make any sense at all. All I could think of was a drink.”
“You heard that, Claudia?”
Iris grinned. Claudia’s expression began to change into a mesmerized look.
“Delta you…… Did you know Did you ask for a bet even though you knew everything?”
“You were Claudia who suggested we make a real bet first? That’s why I shouldn’t have skipped over it when I said I wouldn’t get drunk even if I drank.”
“Oh no, I… ….”
“Did you really not know that kissing the moon was such a drink, Claudia? You didn’t even know how strong of a divine power Delta-san was, right?”
Erika, who was sipping wine while watching Claudia talking gibberish, asked a question.
“…… She seems to have informed me, but I don’t know. She forgot To be honest, I didn’t pay much attention to it because I thought it was a drink I wouldn’t drink twice…….”
The volume of the voice gradually decreased. It was Claudia’s answer that she didn’t pay much attention to it because she thought it was a drink she wouldn’t drink twice.
Perhaps I was shocked that it was an impossible bet to win from the beginning, Claudia, who had been staring blankly at me, staggered to her feet and picked up the glass filled with the kiss of the moon.
Then we drank it all at once, without even having time to stop.
“When I wake up, this time…… Forget it…….”
Her body collapsed onto the sofa. It seemed that he could not bear the shame and shame that came over him and eventually chose to escape from reality.
Erica let out a sigh and lifted Claudia up on her back and set her down next to Lize. Perhaps because the height difference between the two was so great, it suddenly made Lize feel smaller than usual.
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“Now there are only three of us left.”
When the surroundings became quiet, Iris calmly sipped her wine.
“I will. I thought it would be a mess because it was a drinking party attended by all the Knights of the Silver Dawn, but it turned out to be a mess in a different way. On the contrary, it became quieter than usual.”
Not to mention Iris and Erica, and compared to Lisena and Claudia, I also lacked the ability to lead conversations. There was an awkward silence as a result.
“…… What are we going to do now? Don’t drink.”
“Uh…… Well? Between us…… Except for a few conversations.”
While Erica and I were scrambling to break through the awkward atmosphere, Iris, who was looking at me while repeating the words that there were only three left, emptied the entire bottle she was holding.
Tak where the wine bottle meets the table! The sound focused our attention.
“Ughhhhh… ….”
Then, she got up from her seat and sat down next to me, moaning loudly that she was forced to do so. Iris’s thighs and her thighs were pressed against mine.
“…… What are you doing, Iris?”
“Ah, I must have been drunk. That, a little bit dizzy…….”
“Drunk?”
I looked around. The only alcohol Iris drank was a few bottles of wine.
It’s because there’s a monster named Claudia nearby, and Iris was also a pretty strong drinker if you look at it objectively. Is that kind of Iris drunk on just two bottles of wine? It was a sound that was not worth half a penny.
But even though she was so shy, she forcibly pretended to be drunk, and subtly rubbed her breasts against my forearm, so the purpose was obvious. I’m not the kind of person who doesn’t notice things like that.
Iris, who had been clinging to my side and rubbing her breasts and thighs, looked away.
“Aren’t you drunk too, Erica?”
“Uh…… I don’t think so? I didn’t drink a few sips.”
Erica must have figured out why Iris was like that. Her cheeks, flushed red as if in anticipation of what was about to happen, were a bonus.
“Really? An opportunity like this won’t come twice, right?”
“… ….”
The worry didn’t last long. Erica, who seemed to hesitate for a moment, watched Iris rubbing her hand between her thighs, then closed her eyes and emptied the glass in her hand.
“Ah. Uh, dizzy I guess I’m drunk.”
Then, with a dry voice, he creaked himself up and sat down opposite me.
I could barely hold back the momentary burst of laughter. Because she seemed to be self-aware that Erica herself hadn’t even shed that she was just messing with her acting. Her face was shaking.
“It’s no big deal that both of you are suddenly drunk, isn’t it? What do you think is the reason?”
“…… I had no intention of drinking to get drunk. But, since both Rize and Claudia have collapsed…… It’s like I’m in the mood for something…… No, forget it I do not know.”
“Me too…… I feel like something should be…….”
So, I didn’t mean to do something like this originally, but after seeing Lize and Claudia in a state of confusion, did I do it out of the blue?
It was a completely unexpected reason.
‘…… Do you think it’s okay to be drunk?’
Iris is absolutely not the type to act based on the atmosphere, and isn’t Erika similar to Iris? To think that these two were in a mood, all I could think of was that they were drunk.
“That, and. Okay. Haven’t you ever said that you would repay the grace of saving us with your body…… That, there is that too.”
“In this state? How?”
Iris, who dyed her cheeks red, took action cautiously.