'Cocktail Potion' by Transworld Transfer Bartenders

Then we took Sui, recovered enough to get up, and we left Mr. Kamui's house.

I lowered my head three more times, but they said warmly, "Never mind, come again".

And the current location is enough to have stuck one foot in the city, a dozen minutes walk from their house.

"... So, are you okay?

"... yeah. I'm sorry."

I was still going to walk slowly on this, but I hear Sui hadn't recovered enough to move around yet.

"I knew I couldn't" stop on the road and give her a voice when she crouched.

If I take the 'water' out of the porch and give it to him, Sui will thank you and have a little drink. Then I leaned over to apologize.

"Well, rest for a while"

"... sorry"

So, would it have stopped for a few minutes or so?

"... what were you talking about?

In an unwell voice, Sui asked blushing.

It's a dark night lane, like nothing but moonlight.

I don't even know what she looks like if I don't take a good look at her expression.

"What?

"Mr. Kamui and I were serious, weren't we?

"Ah."

Sui asks in the body of doubt, but I guess he really knows.

That the matter she was talking to Mr. Kamui is telling me.

And based on that, what Mr. Kamui and I were talking about.

I crouch in and look at her as she leans down. But she turned away so she could escape my gaze.

You don't want me to look at you, but like I said.

"... I still have something to do"

That's for real.

It's the simplest reason I'm here right now.

And run.

Nothing answers the anxiety she would have.

Sui may be unhappy with my answer. But before I tell her anything, I have to be honest with myself first.

"Hey Sui. Sounds like you could stand up enough?

I crouched next to her, too, and tried and said gently.

Sui says back slightly in a bad mood, thinking I was deluded.

"... why?

"I'll bust you. Does that sound okay to you?

To my suggestion, Sui rounds her eyes like a surprise.

After the frequent tour, he answered with a blur and a sweet voice.

"... yeah"

"All right, well, get on it"

Tell me, I turn my back on her while I crouch. I put my hands behind my back and said to come any time.

Also, I got a little while free.

My hand touches my shoulder first.

Still a little, my body reacts with a bikri by being touched by others, but I don't put it on the surface consciously.

Shoulder hands turn to my neck in surprise. Then, it conveys a creeping sensation of the leg around the waist. Thin, soft feet.

I grabbed that leg with my arm and told the faceless girl.

"I'm gonna get up, I'm gonna need you to do more."

"... but"

"It's okay, 'cause I don't care"

"I care. Total idiot."

They called me stupid, but I don't know what else to do for safety.

Sui says, he can put his strength into his arms. The weight goes to me and inevitably the feel of her chest goes to her back as well.

I got rid of it and got up.

It was stingy and weighed such a human being, oddly light on its beak.

"Not heavy?

"It's heavier than a bottle."

…………

To my response, I think Sui lost track of whether I should stick it in or laugh.

Re-establish your temper and answer as you step forward.

"I'm kidding. It's light."

"I'm not pushing you?

"Mm, 'cause I didn't push it."

Truth be told, I can't tell you anything because I've had very little experience with people.

What if the habit of saying cool things requires a break before you get home?

Well, whatever it is, we walked out again.

It's a beautiful night on the moon. Even without the conversation, that could have been all.

But I shouldn't have misled you earlier.

"I told you before. I like cocktails."

What I told you abruptly. He also told Sui what it was about.

She got a quiet listening attitude and nodded invisible but cocky.

"... yeah"

"But at first, I wasn't interested in cocktails."

When I first came to this world, all I could see was a cocktail.

I'm reminded of why. Why were you blindly indulging in a cocktail?

"I've resented him before. Without this, without the promise of that day, Ibuki Torisu would never have died."

"But Mr. Torisu... ha"

"Oh. I don't know. Maybe Trice is his. It's good now."

I was interested in cocktails because Ibuki Torisu is dead.

The last time she said it, she wanted me to drink it because she wanted to know who the 'cocktail' was.

So I approached the cocktail.

"It wasn't fun or anything at first. I only thought it was a mixture. But I'm starting to understand. The cocktail is mine."

"... what do you mean?

"I'm the one who makes the cocktail. Making cocktails delicious or unpleasant is all about me. That's why I can't know the cocktail if I don't care."

How did you realize that? I don't remember how.

But then I realized I was having fun.

I felt like I could grow by taking everything about cocktails.

"Then I made, made, and kept making cocktails. I've lived all the hard and fun things on a cocktail."

It could be daunting to be alive.

I haven't been a bartender in years. Paper. He's a bad guy who's been entrusted with the chief, but understudied.

But there was only one thing I could say for sure.

"I like it here."

Here.

That is, of this world, of this country, of this city.

It's in the corner, it's my little place.

"First Sui admitted my cocktail. I was glad I was admitted. Little by little, more people admitted to cocktails. Little by little, it seemed like my place would spread and I'd be happier"

Cocktails were foreign molecules in this world. If they denied it, it would disappear with it, it was a tiny being.

But this place warmly welcomed such a heterogeneous molecule.

"So sui. Don't worry too much. This is where I live. Suey's here, Rye's here, and Mr. Oyaji's here. There are staff, there are regular people, and occasionally great people come. I can't believe we're going anywhere now."

That's how you make me laugh, but I never see that face in the sui behind you.

But somehow, I felt that Sui was laughing as relieved again.

But then the words Sui said blush, the temperature is just a little low.

"But that means that if there was a more interesting place, I'd be gone."

"Oh, my God, I'm such a cheater."

"─ Because..."

Because words don't go on after.

But I felt like I understood what Sui was saying.

'Cause even now, the best part of the whole thing is' Ibuki Torisu ', right?

I imagined her words like that, the look on her face that said it.

She looked lonely, she cried, she gave up, she pushed all those emotions to death, she smiled.

Blurry, looking up at the night sky to delude.

I wasn't used to seeing it when I came to this world, it's a starry sky that I still don't understand well.

Instead of replying to Sui, I said something that came to mind.

"'Do not ask what we mean by life. We are in a position to be questioned by life, and we must give the answer to life'".

"Yes?"

Sui was returning the missing voice in between because I said there was no more clapping.

After I bit that word in my mouth, I said it.

"The meaning of life is to decide for yourself. I live for me. I'm not living for Torisu Ibuki."

"... I mean?

"What if he showed up in front of you? Here's my statement of intent to get you into my place."

There are fun and hard things in life. It's up to you how you take it.

Then it is the freedom left to man to try to enjoy them all.

I'm not giving up something of my own for anybody. Not long ago, it was also a decision I made when I held Sui back.

Cocktails solve everything.

"... you're trying to deceive me by saying the right thing."

But I hear my statement of intent hasn't reached Sui's mind.

... Well, I haven't answered who's best or anything like that. In the first place, I've never even given that answer.

"It depends on how you take it."

"sloppy"

Sui's quiet voice stabs me in the chest.

Yeah.

As always, he's so indecisive a son of a bitch that he can fool himself. How much easier would it be if Sui could only see me like this?

... a little lonely though.

"... but I think I figured it out too"

Oh, I thought.

Until just now, I'm not an anxious, weak, unsweetened voice.

It's the usual, somewhat emotionless, high-calorie, swimsy voice inside.

"If you think about it, even I have that freedom."

"... yeah?

"I don't care if the total goes somewhere, but if I followed him with me, it was just good"

To say I'm not going anywhere like this, I seemed like a man of no credit to Sui.

No, if we cut only the second half, it's just nothing else.

It's just that Sui, laughing "hehe" as if she had regained her energy behind her back, reassured me.

Now, should it be time to step into the other issue as well?

"... By the way, if you're feeling better, can I stop you?

I made a suggestion, anticipating the timing.

Actually, quite well, there's a load on my arm.

"I still can't. So please."

"Well, it's hard to say, but my arm's about to be limited."

"It's light, isn't it?

I regret being the first to be a little mean.

And I think tomorrow's sales.

What if I get muscle aches and I get in the way of waving a shaker?

Tomorrow, me and Sally.

... It's a good opportunity, and don't make me say I'm not good with him either. I'll leave all the shakes tomorrow to you, no more.