Chapter 41 - Drinking Party

Chapter 41 - Drinking Party

"Zetto-kun, I've been waiting for you!

As they follow Edward's words and approach them, Edward puts his head on his table and throws Kaliman stretched out in a corner of the store.

Kaliman, like Amon who had inhaled her numbing powder, was unresponsive, draining her strength.

Kaliman, who had collapsed against her wall, lowered her head and started snoring at her in earnest with a growl.

"...Come on, sit down."

Edward turned her head away from Kaliman and looked at her at me, grinning.

"Never mind. He sleeps well anywhere."

Priscilla, who was sitting to her left, said to me as she slipped her arm over my shoulder.

Eisel, who was sitting on the right, was chewing on a long snack that appeared to be a snack.

Edward speaks first as I settle down and sit down.

"Since Cadet Jeto is here, I should introduce myself first. I stopped by his wife briefly on the way back from a trip."

"My name is Vanessa Klaus."

Edward's wife, Vanessa, introduced herself in her graceful voice as she placed her hand on her own chest.

"My name is Zeto, a class A cadet in charge of Instructor Edward."

I also gave Vanessa a nod of her head and introduced myself.

Next, Eisel, who was next to her, offers me the same snack she ate.

"...Do you want to eat?"

"How did Ms. Eisel come here...?"

I took the sweets that her Eisel offered her and asked her straight away.

"It seemed like Miss Eisel had just come to the bar by herself, so I suggested sitting together to have a conversation. Since Jeto was scheduled to come anyway, I thought it would be a good picture. Haha."

Edward, who was on the other side, answered Eisel's question.

'Good job?' Edward raised the corner of his mouth as if to ask for a compliment.

He had no intention of praising him.

I was planning to get out of the seat quickly, but thanks to that, it seems difficult to get out quickly.

"Aisel, did you drink quite well?"

Priscilla said as she patted her on the shoulder with her hand across mine.

"..."

Eisel's face was slightly reddish as she continued to nibble on her cookies.

He looked like he had already had a few drinks.

'Anyway, let's finish the business quickly and leave.'

She only had to accept the reward money.

I glanced at Rayna, who was sitting across from me next to Vanessa.

However, Reina, the person who should give the compensation, her eyes were already half open.

'...I'm gone, I'm gone.'

I checked Reina, who seemed to be still drunk, and felt her headache rise.

"Drink! Drink!"

"If it's alcohol... Uh... I won't lose...!"

"Gee, stop fussing and drink quickly!"

"Drink! Drink!"

Suddenly, I turned my head at the sound of chatter coming from behind, and it seemed that the rambunctious men were having a contest over who drank better.

[Drink! Drink quickly! ]

He was with them even when he stirred them up by waving his arms ardently.

Sierra seemed to be having a good time in her own way.

The unfortunate thing is that the cheering for them is ringing in my head.

'I can't help it...'

Sometimes it wouldn't be too bad to have a place like this with people.

"Are you going to drink jetto too?"

Priscilla looks at me and says.

'I have to keep my distance from Priscilla, but only because the physical distance is this close...'

The distance between her was quite close, probably because she was carrying her shoulder to her.

"Do you have any other drinks besides alcohol?"

"Doesn't exist."

"Doesn't exist."

Priscilla and Edward's firm answers to my question followed.

'It's a big deal.'

I wanted to get up right away, but I couldn't hit Priscilla's arm, who was wearing her shoulder.

"Then... I would like to drink alcohol with as little alcohol as possible."

"That's a good idea. Zeto-kun, it must have been a decision considering my class tomorrow."

"It's a model cadet, Jeto cadet... Hehe."

Vanessa and Edward don't seem to be a couple, so they look like they're getting along.

"Here, one butterbeer."

Soon Priscilla waved her hand and ordered her drink.

"I heard about it on the way. Jeto-kun worked diligently in and out of the labyrinth during the practice period... Thanks to that, I'm on my way to give the principal a shot. Haha."

Edward claps loudly and laughs.

"Eddie... What did you tell your father?"

Vanessa's cold dagger pierced Edward.

"Um... I said it right. I wonder if it's because of you taking good care of me that I was able to give the cadets a good education."

"It's a lie. At least, it must have been this time, so he boasted to his father."

"Kuhm..."

After a direct hit from Vanessa, Edward clears his throat.

When he meets Vanessa, he sees Edward in her immobility in her like this.

That's why I didn't skip when I met Vanessa in the game.

You can't miss this fresh scene.

"A good education is a piece of shit... It must be thanks to my bracelet, haha!"

Reyna, who was listening to Edward's conversation while shaking her head, clapped her wrist as if showing off her wrist and laughed out loud.

"Well, isn't it because I taught acupuncture so 'hard'?"

Even Priscilla, she helped out a word and looked at me eagerly.

'Work hard...'

The image of Priscilla in her underwear, who taught me acupuncture with all her heart and soul, flickers in her head.

Judging by her smile, she didn't seem to care about that at all, but I couldn't help but be bothered.

His eyes focused on her chest, which had been unbuttoned for some reason.

[What are these guys talking about? Our disciple has been raised by the original woman since childhood! That's why it's her original daughter's power...! ]

Meanwhile, Sierra, who did not know when, interrupted their conversation.

Of course, it was an argument that they would not hear.

Besides, the fact that she took me as her apprentice in her childhood was just a kind of 'set-up'.

After Sierra is so condescending, she goes to watch her drinking contest again. The drinking contest looks like a lot of fun.

"That... Instructor Reina?"

Before the alcohol arrived, I handed her words to Reina just in case.

"...Hmm? Cadet Zeto..."

At my call, Reina blinked her eyes.

"You called me..."

"...Did I?"

Soon, Reina frowned at her.

I doubt if I can get the compensation money.

Priscilla, who was unable to do this, explained to me on her behalf.

"I called because of the compensation for the Lycanthrope Gun."

"...I see."

"Since Rayna is like that, I saved her reward money. She'll remember to give it to you later... Don't worry and enjoy it for now. I tend to be a heavy drinker."

'I'm not worried about that,' Priscilla said in a friendly voice. I held back the words that almost came out.

"This may be a rude question, but... Is it easy to tell the cadets apart? Other people seem to be familiar with it."

Vanessa, who was watching my conversation with Priscilla, asked me with her eyes wide open.

So... Just as she was about to continue the explanation, which is customary for people meeting for the first time, Eisel opens her mouth.

"With pulses, voices and heartbeats... Right?"

Eisel answers on my behalf, then she glances at me before she takes a drink.

"Wow, the sound of the heart... Hehe, that's very romantic."

Vanessa put her hands together to see if she was satisfied with Eisel's answer.

Soon Vanessa is whispering to Edward. Is there even a close conversation between the couple?

Rayna was lying face down on her table, counting the stars in the air, and Priscilla was drinking in silence.

... Eisel was lying on her desk, staring at me.

The sound of the heart reminds me of the 'prank' that Eisel and Sierra played on me.

I drank some of the alcohol that came out in the middle of the conversation to clear my head.

As she drank, she looked at Eisel, who was next to her, and her ears were red.

'Are you really drunk?'

Her ears were red, but Eisel kept her sullen face.

He drank just enough to keep him from getting drunk, and then put the glass down.

The alcohol that Priscilla ordered was really low alcohol, so I didn't feel like I was drunk with just one sip.

Rather, I was curious about the alcohol content in the coffee at the cafe I had been to with Eisel before.

You should never fall down in this place.

'Reina and Kaliman are already drunk, so even so...'

Regressor Eisel.

Priscilla's hidden past.

Except for these two, only the Klaus couple remained.

'At least Edward is safe...'

ã…¡ Tak!

Soon after, Edward, who empties a glass of alcohol and sets it down on the table, begins to lead the story.

"Looking at the two cadets reminds me of the past. Isn't that right, Miss Priscilla?"

"When we go to the academy?"

"Yes, me, Mr. Kaliman, Ms. Reina and Ms. Priscilla. Those were pretty good times, right?"

Edward smiles at Priscilla.

"The good times... If only there hadn't been a war with the demons in the middle... Yes, it would have been good times."

When Priscilla brings up the word demon, Eisel reacts in a daze, albeit for a brief moment.

She was Eisel, who had no choice but to be sensitive to demons.

The others didn't notice, so I let them go.

Suddenly, Reina, who was drooling on the floor, suddenly stood up from her seat and raised her arms up and shouted.

"...Jeonjaeng? Sobbing! Samingbang!"

Reina got her tongue twisted because she was drunk a lot.

A trio of black blood.

It was a nickname given to Rayna, Kali Mann, and Edward, who had served in the war during her cadet years.

Other people don't know, but Raina remembers that she especially liked that nickname.

Cool or what

Of course, it must be her taste that she reveals only when she is drunk.

"I don't miss the days when I was drenched in black blood. ...Because the smell of demon blood is stinky."

Edward adds her words to Rayna's cry.

"..."

Priscilla, still with her arm draped over my shoulder, takes a sip of her drink, sparing her words.

Priscilla also had a tinnitus acquired during the war.

Priscilla of the Blood.

Her nickname attached to her who was her medical officer.

She was so alive that she was drenched in the blood of her allies at the forefront, and it was a nickname given to her because she healed her allies, but she doesn't like it that much.

Even when she was an assassin of the 'Cult' in her childhood, there was always dark red human blood on her.

The others here had a long relationship with Priscilla.

She didn't know about her past, but she knew that she was reluctant to go by that name, so she didn't ask anyone about it.

It was the same with Aizel.

As a regressor of hers, she seems to already know how much Priscilla is reluctant to use her nickname.

By the time the smell of alcohol in her shop was ripening in her nose, Sierra's impassioned shouts continued to resonate in her head as if the drinking confrontation was still not over behind her.

Sitting at the table, we chatted about each other's trifles.

It was mainly about the instructors' academy days.

"Oops, it's already time like this after we've exchanged a few words. We'll have to get up first."

Edward said as he got up from his seat.

"It was a short time, but it was fun. Cadet Jeto and Cadet Eisel come to my house to play anytime. I'll prepare delicious food."

Vanessa stood up after him and spoke with utmost elegance.

I stood up to see them off with a smile.

For me, there was no greater good news than this.

I got up from my seat to check if they were drunk, and greeted them and saw them off.

Eisel also followed me to see them off.

I thought as I bowed my head to Edward and Vanessa at the bar entrance.

'I'll have to leave my seat naturally now.'

That's what drinking parties are all about.

One person goes and another follows, and then the number of people decreases and they scatter.

Back at the table, I tried to talk her out of Priscilla.

But when Reina, who was supposed to be lying on the table, regained her energy, her eyes wide open and she was waiting for me and Eisel.

"Cadet Zeto! Cadet Eisel! Have a drink...!"

"...Yes?"

I questioned Reina's appearance, which had suddenly become fine.

"...I just wrote the Divine Clear."

Said Priscilla, sipping her drink as if it were nothing.

"Haha! This is why I like coming to the bar with Priscilla."

Even though I was standing dumbfounded, Reina grabbed her stomach and laughed.

'Divine Clear', which purifies the state, belonged to high-ranking magic among divine magic.

'Is it okay to abuse high-ranking magic just for sobering up...?'

Only now, the question of how Reina, who is weak in her drinking, was able to remain at her bar for so long is answered.

"Game 2! Cadet Jeto! Let you shoot today!"

Rayna cried out loud.

"What are you doing? Sit down."

Priscilla then glanced at me and spoke in a low, quiet voice.

"...Are you not going to drink more?"

Eisel, who was next to her, grabbed my arm and whispered to me, then her big eyes turned to me.

Kali Mann was still there in the corner, snoring at him.

Soon, unable to overcome the burdensome gazes pouring from the three women, I sat down and thought.

'Should I ask for Divine Clear if I get drunk too?'