116 – Water that becomes a beast (1)
After the food war ended, the excitement subsided and the tops apologized to Chester and Monia out of shame and sorry for the mess around the house.
On the other hand, the Warriors were plotting to catch more pigs and eat more. Their sinister plot was overpowered before it even started by a grown-up warrior who acted as an intermediary for them.
– Pigs are a valuable resource! Bastards who have no authority are trying to use it carelessly!
– No bastard! All grown up now! They even went through a warrior ceremony!
– Even if you go through the warrior ceremony, you are still babies! baby! these bastards!
– I’ll defeat you right now and become an adult warrior!
– That doesn’t make you an adult!
Chester, who was thinking about how to clean up the mess, sighed when he saw the warriors start fighting again.
“You fight again.”
“Do they not have any games other than fighting?”
“no way. Life is a leisurely creature, so of course there must be a culture of play. There can be no.”
Just as Chester and Monia build musical instruments, paint, or sculpt, leisure breeds boredom, and boredom naturally breeds fun.
Even wild animals do. For example, cats play with creatures much smaller than themselves as toys.
“Even if Ant doesn’t have anything to do, he wanders around, pounces on empty spots, or chases his tail and spins round and round.”
“Oh, was that what you were playing with?”
“Then what did you think?”
“I thought I was showing my cute side because they said I was cute!”
“Can it be? I can’t understand what people say.”
“no. My kid is smart, so he might understand. The last time I scolded you, I felt down!”
“That’s not what we’re talking about. You get a sense of what nuances are being spoken through the tone of voice.”
“No! My kid is smart!”
“Ugh.”
Chester said he couldn’t understand the words, but he pulled Monia’s shoulders and made her sit in his arms.
After hugging, stroke Monia’s shoulder or play with her fingers with her hair.
While Monia was also protesting how smart Ant was without avoiding his touch, a small old man approached them.
– Sorry for the fuss. You ruined your realm too. I’ll figure it out somehow later.
– If you do, I will be grateful.
– And it’s not meant to be an apology, but will you accept this?
The little old man said, and the baby head brings a leaf.
“What is this?”
“well?”
As you unwrap it layer by layer, which is tightly wrapped in several layers of leaves, the smell trapped inside slowly begins to spread.
“uh.”
“This.”
It was a very familiar scent to Chester and Monia.
The aroma of crude, watery ale from a cheap bar on the outskirts of town, which Chester enjoyed, and the top-notch wine that Monia drank mainly, carefully tuned everything as if making a work of art with grapes carefully grown by artisans. Even the scent is different.
At least one feeling was the same.
That smell that can only come from something that has alcohol in it.
Eventually, all the leaves opened, and Monia opened her eyes wide to find the liquid glistening with the crushed fruits in the middle.
“It’s alcohol.”
Monia looked at Chester.
“Is this possible? How can you make alcohol?”
“Oh, not impossible. Liquor doesn’t require more complicated equipment than I thought.”
“Yes?”
Chester nodded.
“Monia, the way to make it is simple, unless it’s for the purpose of making the same drink you drank in the kingdom. You can make it with the honey we ate.”
“how?”
“First, put some honey in your mouth and chew it.”
“Yes?”
“Chew a little and spit it into a jar or something.”
“Yes??”
Monia’s expression becomes dumbfounded when a strange word suddenly comes out.
“Originally, honey doesn’t rot, but if you mix water into honey in this way, it rots. If you chew a lot of honey in a jar and collect the spit out and leave it alone, it will rot on its own and become alcohol.”
“… … .”
“That’s what food is all about. Cheese and butter were also discovered by nomads living in an environment where milk could not be stored properly.”
“Ugh.”
Monia was in a bad mood for a moment, but decided to think positively because none of the foods mentioned were tasteless.
Yes, it’s okay if it’s delicious. If it’s delicious! It should be delicious!
‘… … .’
Shouting to herself like that, Monia looked at the fruit wine that the little old man offered her.
As it rots, the sweet smell of fruit and the strong scent of alcohol tickle your nose.
gulp.
alcohol. A drink I haven’t seen in a long time. A drink I thought I would never drink again.
Monia enjoys drinking as long as she doesn’t get drunk. Not every day, maybe one or two glasses of wine with a little cheese on one day a week.
With just that much, Monia could drink enough and enjoy the pleasant feeling of floating for a long time.
‘drink? don’t you? drink? don’t you? Rotten fruit… It’s still alcohol! Aren’t all other drinks the same anyway? That’s what subtracting it from now on!’
However, even Monia, who was accustomed to eating all sorts of things, was not ready to reach out after knowing that it was ‘rotten’.
Originally, what you don’t know is the cleanest thing, and if you didn’t know, you wouldn’t have cared and drank it, but now that you know how to make alcohol, it’s annoying.
When Monia was worried, Chester was the first to hold out the water bottle.
After pouring the sparkling fruit wine into the bucket, he carefully brings it to his mouth.
The first thing I noticed was the fruity taste and sweet scent. Eventually, I wondered if I could feel the hot presence unique to alcohol, and as I swept down to my stomach for the last time, I was trapped in the leaves inside that distinct presence, leaving behind a subtle scent of leaves that permeated the alcohol while it rotted.
“… … Whoa.”
A fruit wine made from the fruit that comes from the top of the floating island. Since even a small amount of favored fish can satisfy Monia’s picky appetite, the taste of the favored fruit up close above all else can of course be guaranteed.
‘Awesome.’
For Chester, it was the first ‘luxury taste’ drink he had ever had.
Chester drank again without a word.
“… … !”
Monia’s eyes widened in surprise as Chester drank again in silence.
And the moment I saw Chester’s reaction, the awkwardness that arose when I learned how to make alcohol disappeared at once, and the desire to drink that alcohol welled up.
When Monia took out a bucket of water, the little old man smiled and held out a leaf.
Carefully pouring the wine into the bottle, Monia shakes the bottle and shakes the bottle to wake up the smell, as she does when drinking wine.
“… … Wow.”
Of course, the fruit wine made by the people at the top was completely different from the wine Monia had enjoyed.
There was no feeling of luxury, and it was emitting an infinitely violent and intense fragrance.
At the strong scent, Monia carefully tilted the water bottle and took a sip of the drink into her mouth.
“town?!”
The moment the alcohol entered her mouth, Monia shut her mouth involuntarily at the stimulation of the high-alcohol alcohol, which was full of punch, completely different from wine.
“town! town!”
Hiccups are coming out of his surprised body, but Chester is already drinking his third cup next to Monia.
– You drink well.
– That’s right.
Chester was so good at drinking that the people at the top were surprised to see him.
“what’s the matter? Is it hard to drink?”
After drinking his third glass, Chester looked at Monia, whose face was red with cider in her mouth, and tears welling up.
Monia nodded involuntarily, and Chester reached out and cupped her face.
“Can I help you?”
“Um?”
And the next second, Chester pulled Monia away and stole her lips.
‘uh.’
Normally, the two of us kissed, kissed, and hugged in our spare time, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they suddenly kissed.
It was after Chester kissed that Monia was embarrassed.
Chester gently stroked Monia’s hair and then began to covet Monia’s lips like a man who has been starving for a long time.
Unlike usual, his tongue entered in a rough and violent way and gnawed at the inside of Monia’s delicate mouth.
Surprised Monia unknowingly moved her throat and swallowed the alcohol in her mouth. Noticing this, Chester removed her lips and smiled mischievously.
“how? Is this easy to drink?”
“Uh, off, um. Hiccup.”
something different than usual
Seeing Chester smiling mischievously at herself with animal-like eyes, Monia realized right away.
‘Ah, Chester is drunk.’
Monia, who was thinking that way, was also getting dizzy from the alcohol rising from the sip of fruit wine she drank a while ago.
Chester took a little cider and kissed Monia again, blowing a long, deep kiss until Monia sipped the cider and drank it all.
‘Chester.’
Accepting the kiss quietly, Monia thought.
‘I become a beast when I get drunk.’
How does he change when he gets drunk?
– Hmm. It seems to have enough water. Okay, let’s drink too!
– Wow!
– I waited!
The prepared fruit wine overflowed.
Watching the two men and women passionately kissing, the people at the top began to drink fruit wine with their hands as plates.