'Cocktail Potion' by Transworld Transfer Bartenders

"So, how are things with Mr. Torisu?

At my house, when I'm drinking with a few friends.

One of my friends, Aoki, came to visit abruptly. Immediately after that word, I will also try to peek into my face, Umehara, who is also surrounding Kotatsu.

I just get a little sick of visiting the intent of the question.

"What do you say?

"So it's been quite a while since you two got along, hasn't it? Progressive stuff."

"So he said he hasn't dated yet"

"Why not!

I'll just state the facts, but Aoki will bite the answer with a grand bite.

"We didn't say anything about dating each other, so you're not dating."

"That's not what we're talking about confirming the facts! Are you that one? I got a fiancée, but I'm not married yet, so I'm not family. Is that what you're gonna say? Are you allowed to cheat?

I feel it's just that forceful. I lean my neck a little, but the other two were nodding, yeah, as I agree.

I open my mouth to point out the difference between the metaphor and the status quo.

"Well, there's something more coercive about engagement, but if it's just a man and woman socializing,"

"Wait, evening mist. We'll explain."

Aoki tries to control me with his hands, and then he puts his eyes on the other two.

Then, first, Kirii points to the dish on which the dish we are now pinching is on.

"Did you buy this dish, which is stylish for a man to live alone?

"No, Ibuki bought it and left it. I mean, like," O'Shanty or something. "

"That's not important right now. Next"

You don't even hear back from me, but Umebara keeps going.

"So what's a stuffed animal that's too fancy for the guy to live alone?

"It's Ibuki's personal belongings. I told you to take it home."

"But you probably put it away."

Why should I leave someone else's personal belongings when my room is small in the first place?

Where I think, Aoki visits at the end.

"So. Who said you bought the ingredients for the dishes we're eating or the booze we're drinking?

"You're Ibuki. It'll be good, White State. Oh, but just one drink, huh?

Because of today, we all decided to drink one drink at a time, but personally I'd like to taste it more slowly and slowly.

And where I'm thinking about the drinking plan ahead, the three of them said it at the same time.

'So you're not dating, or are you out of your mind!?

The three voices overlapped beautifully and became louder than thoughts.

While I'm a little worried about getting complaints from my neighbor in the apartment, I'll whisper it back.

"No, but you haven't said anything yet about both of them, so you're not dating"

……………………

Each of the three people who distorted their eyebrows in my response starts to ignore me and talk.

"Really, Mr. Torisu is lovely."

"Yeah, brilliant, brilliant eyebrows, any compliment would apply."

"If you go out to the city, you're gonna get numbed, you're gonna get scouted, you're gonna hear that."

"And the communal power, Max. You'll be nice to me even though you're like us."

"Well, it's also a high point that you're a little weak. It feels like a weakness."

"Besides, you're more stylish than anything else, and you don't know Mr. Birdsu, the one you've never fantasized about dating."

I wanted to wait a little longer for a friend who praised Ibuki.

"No, no. You don't just praise me like that. First of all, it's thick, and it's depressing on top. Stop telling me not to, but I won't listen, and I'm going about things that people don't like. It's my hobby to tease you and take your fried legs off, and I'll be fine with you saying bad things. At the end of the day, you're always exposed to drunken, sloppy sleep."

Explaining Ibuki's appearance from me, Aoki and the others stare at me with slightly white eyes.

"... that's a story in front of you, isn't it?

"... oh, no?

When I asked them back, they sighed and started talking again.

"Really, that's usually what you look like, just to yourself, sometimes."

"Really. Besides, it's great to have a sister whose hobby tells her all sorts of things with alcohol."

"Her only drawback is that a guy doesn't have a good taste."

As I said, I was curious when the people who were going to look at the flicker at me did.

At a time like this, I only drink once.

I include a bite of White State that I made [highball].

The same refreshing taste seems to wash away the moya moya in your body.

And Aoki asks, as if he doesn't like my behavior.

"On the contrary, I'd like to hear it. What if Torisu, for example, was walking with a man he didn't know?

To Aoki's question, I'll imagine a little bit of it.

"... well, nothing. I care, but only for him."

"Only him. What is it?

"You're never gonna get caught by a weird guy, and you're gonna be fine"

To my answer, the three of them had some hard eyes to say.

... somehow, but as a result of imagining what it looked like. Because of this, I felt that the [highball] was only slightly unsavory. but let's keep that down.

"Well, that's good. It's your problem. But I think it's better to keep it decent."

You were unwilling to say anything more, Aoki and the others nodded and took the glass.

I'll just say a few words about how to settle it.

"So you're looking at opportunities to make things right."

"Whatever that opportunity is, what is it?"

"So make sure you have a good opportunity to do what you have to say at that time."

"There's no other time than when I thought it would be."

Aoki's words shook my mind a little bit.

Aoki says something pale without even looking at me.

"You come on. No matter how much we like each other, we have to put it on properly. Or something. He said he was cheating even though he didn't have it."

"... I know."

"Because you don't understand, you're doing it right now."

I'm not going to be doing this right now.

I just don't want to give you an answer without making my feelings clear.

"I mean, maybe you're easier and better off as you are, but from Torisu, it's just hard."

"... Ibuki?

"Talk about how you think you can wait forever believing without any basis"

I remember what I said to her the other day when I brought this White State.

That's when I told you to wait.

Don't even think about how that might be received by her mind.

"That guy, yeah, it looks pretty complicated like home or something. You don't even know why you're studying the program, or the evening fog, do you?

"... well"

If you ask me, I don't know why she chose this university.

In the first place, I didn't even ask about her family because she didn't seem to want to be asked.

Maybe Ibuki is waiting, even for such a question.

"Look at it objectively. How do you look like me?

Suddenly, I wondered how I looked at her now.

In those words, Aoki said it without even looking at him.

"Don't eat."

"... Shut up"

I didn't feel like I could say anything back, and I just gave it back.

Aoki, who said what he wanted to say to me scattered, put his consciousness back on the table after sending a sympathetic gaze as it was.

In that state, Umebara says to follow.

"Well, but the evening fog, you're thinking, aren't you? I don't really care what Aoki says. This guy says this, but I couldn't confess to the kid I liked before, because he had a boyfriend and he was dented."

"Umehara!

To Aoki, who screamed like a hurry, now it was my turn to send a white eye.

"You blamed people for something you couldn't do yourself."

"You know how successful you are, but you don't, so you're just a jerk, you idiot!

Aoki returned it with a little majesty.

In the end, it's my friend who's gathering here all the time.

I'm here because I feel big and small. That means there's no such thing as a hundred wars smelling human being when it comes to love.

"... ok, I'll try to step in for a little while on my next trip"

I only said quietly, making up my mind.

To my words like that, each of the three of them had their eyes round.

"What the hell. Is it weird what I say?"

"Uh, no, it's not, travel?

I think back to the three of us.

That. Didn't we talk about the White State Distillery?

It's in this distillery in White State.

"Alone?

"Alone"

"So it's not weird that we're not dating!?

All of a sudden, I'm surprised.

But before I make that complaint, Aoki seems more surprised than I am.

"What? There's no progress, but you were planning on doing something that big."

"You know, the plan was Ibuki, and I was forced to participate."

"... you are the one"

The three of them, including Aoki, looked disappointed again in my posture.

He kept saying nothing and even went in to clean up what was on the table.

The subject changed, when we were talking about a new game.

The kind of stir-fry that was made disappeared.

"Oh, I'll get you something to pick up."

"Hmm? Why? I'll make it again."

I said it because I still have ingredients in the fridge, but Aoki went to the neighborhood convenience store without asking because she said it was a drunken awakening.

And as soon as he came back, he offered me a bag.

"This is a gift from me"

When I was told and received the bag, there was...

"Look, I knew it was a trip, and you better have it, let me sneak it in your purse"

"I don't need it because it's a day trip! No, I don't want to stay here yet."

Although I want to avoid making a clear statement.

I dare say it contained a bag of rubber.