Dream Life

Tria Calendar, September 24, 2017, around 6 p.m.

I'm in the blacksmith guild assembly room.

And in front of me, preparations were under way for a banquet for three consecutive days - two consecutive days for us.

Today's protagonists are not the Dwarves, but Katrina, queen of the Kaum kingdom.

She had an attempted assault on me during the day (?) visited the Blacksmith Guild headquarters to respond, and presented a proposal that the blacksmiths were satisfied with and allowed to resolve without causing any major confusion.

The Queen's political sensation was a very smart one.

After offering a proposal that the Kingdom of Kaum would not interfere in any way with the blacksmith's guild in the future, we prepared it up to an explicitly cultured document, and as we found out later, we also looked at developing it as a law.

Interference from the kingdom would be very annoying for the blacksmiths, so the blacksmiths are fully convinced by that alone.

As far as I'm concerned, the direct victim of this one is certainly me, Zacharias Lockhart. But I'm not the empire's appointed knight, not to mention nobility. It is close to an unlimited number of civilians: the second son of a knight on the border. And what matters is that I didn't visit the kingdom as a public servant.

If this was the representative of a public organization, pointing a sword at that public official, even if he is of low status, is a major problem. This time, however, it is impossible to recognize that the Royal Government is the problem to the extent that it has been swept at by the Count, who is only one individual and usually a senior nobleman.

However, in my case, the circumstances are different.

A blacksmith guild is not only a member of the Lockhart family, it is also cordial as an individual, and it is because the guild is officially protesting that it has become a problem. I mean, to put it to the extreme, if the Alliance came up with a convincing apology proposal, even if I wasn't convinced, it would have been resolved as a kingdom.

This time, after understanding it, the Queen offered an apology proposal. If they say they apologize for executing Granger, it doesn't benefit me at least to be resented by the survivors, but I and the blacksmiths presented a proposal that would convince me, that is, a proposal that the Dwarves would most admire for giving me good liquor. Only in this respect can we say that we have excellent intelligence-gathering capabilities and sharp political sense.

But that's where it came from. What got me confused.

That wasn't such a strange development, but suddenly the queen said she wanted to be one of the Dwarves. And the reason for that was "because I want to drink the Zack collection”.

The Dwarves, acknowledging the queen's enthusiasm for alcohol, are about to begin a banquet to greet her with pleasure and taste the Zach collection.

I still can't keep up with this development.

(Until the Queen convinced the Ulrich to do so, why do we need the banquet? I can't follow this queen's thoughts at all...)

Surely the Queen's thoughts on alcohol would be genuine.

While he shows shame, he exposes his enthusiasm for the first person he loves. If that enthusiasm is acting, I guess the Queen is a far more than I imagined actor.

I've thought that far, but realize I don't need to think any more.

(Fair enough. If it's a banquet, you'll soon know if it's real or not. If you were acting, you'd show your horse legs where you took a sip. At least the Dwarves should notice. Do you really want to drink or just want to make connections on the pretext of booze......)

Preparations are being made at once at the hands of the Alliance staff.

There's always something I think. I was wondering if the biggest job of the Blacksmith Guild staff would be to prepare for the banquet.

The tables will be sorted in no time, and even more jocks and glasses - what I provided yesterday - will be available. The sooner you go to Japan, the more handy you'll likely be behind hotels and wedding venues.

More metal barrels with Zach collection and regular Scotch, Brandy, Calvato (...) s - apple liquor distilled liquor. The barrel of liquor - which takes the name of distiller Calvert - is also brought into the assembly room.

Not only that, but at some point the queen, who had disappeared from the assembly room, was in command of bringing in a new barrel.

"Should I put it here?... Where is this? … Yes, this is a sweet white wine…"

Apparently, he's setting it up in consultation with the staff about the barrels he took out of the royal palace.

This is rare for an active queen, but the Alliance's staff is not insulted.

We respond without fear of the queen of our country. Yesterday, he hesitated in loading and unloading the Zack collection without any fine dust.

(That is. You mean the Zach collection is more nervous than the queen of her own country... I feel strange, but if you look at the Ulrich people, you wouldn't know...)

In about thirty minutes, the banquet was almost ready.

"After that, we don't just serve food, but first the Zach collection. This guy doesn't need cooking."

When Ulrich says so, the queen shines her eyes.

"I can drink it the most!

The queen, who is past forty, holds her hands in front of her chest like a girl, expressing joy.

At yesterday's tasting, officials seem to have figured out how to serve the Zack collection, switching it to a bottle for decanters and arranging a nicely polished glass.

Next to it, Ulrich lifts the glass and laughs at the queen, "From now on, I have to have a glass for the queen, too," he said.

The queen smiles at the words, "Thank you,"

"But that“ queen ”is a bit. I'm already one of you, so I'd like you to call me Kati."

Ulrich laughed gahaha,

"Fine. This isn't the only place I'm going to call Katie."

"I'll call you Mr. Ulrich, too," the queen grinned, then turned to me.

"Sir Zacharias, please, too. I'll call you Mr. Zach, too."

I'm in a hurry for that word.

Ulrich, the head of the blacksmith's guild, who is comparable to the master of the country, can't be called the queen of a single country by name. Common sense must call her "Your Highness."

"Is that... unforgivable?"

To convey confusion, I tried to say so, but I was categorically refused.

"No, neither the queen nor the master craftsman matters on this occasion. The only people here are alcoholics.

Ulrich and the others, who were listening beside him, laugh as if to tear it up.

"Give it up, Zach. Katie's right. It doesn't matter who she is or where she stands."

"I don't care if you say so... it's the queen..."

say so to sound like Ulrich alone, but it certainly seemed to sound like the Queen,

"Oh, you say lonely things... I'm the only one in the Divider's Book..."

That's how I cry and imitate.

The blacksmiths also say, "That's not a good idea." I give up, I say, "Okay," and I bow my head.

"I don't know about just calling you out, so I'll call you Mr. Kati. Of course, this is the only time."

When this queen is opponent, she can't take the lead.

I don't know how far it is an act, but I've already completely broken it with the Ulrich guys. If this good relationship can continue, the Blacksmith Guild will never leave the Kingdom of Kaum.

Alliance staff start pouring long-aged liquor (Zach Collection) while we're talking.

As the glass began to be poured with amber liquid, as yesterday, the assembly room was engulfed in solemn air.

Our seats were at the same table as Ulrich and the other top blacksmiths, where, naturally, the queen was seated. Questions come from the queen sitting in the front, whispering.

"Can you tell me how to drink Zach Collection?

I repeat the explanation I gave the Ulrich and others yesterday to the Queen's inquiry, but in my heart I was wondering if I already knew.

(You must have a source in the blacksmith's guild. Otherwise, you can't possibly know how the Dwarves wept yesterday today. Then you must also be asking me how to drink... I guess asking me is like being polite for once...)

A glass filled with scotch goes by.

"Try to taste the Zach collection first"

In Ulrich's words, the Dwarves lift the glass in unison. As usual, it was an undisturbed move, and the Queen just about had her eyes round this.

Keep your mouth shut, just like yesterday, and the movement stops.

Exactly nothing made me cry like yesterday, but my expression was still tranced.

The queen speaks the same way.

Mouth elegantly as royalty, but the moment the scent came up, the expression changed dramatically. The gentle grin on his face began to crease between his brows, turning into a serious look. The serious expression did not last long and slowly, but surely, the expression wandered. At the end of the day, like the Dwarves yesterday, I was snubbing tears and stopping the movement.

Surrounded by Scotch in his mouth, he said, "Ugh!" Yelling, "the queen continued to smell the scent for about thirty seconds if the noise around her was not in her ears.

When Ulrich says, "Put it gently in your mouth," tilt the glass a little without snorting. The queen would have thanked Ulrich earlier, but he was just following instructions, as if his appearance had not been in his eyes.

The moment I contain it in my mouth, my expression changes again, but Liddy beside me pokes me with her elbow. Apparently, I'd say it's rude to keep staring at your lady's face.

Sure, you're right, so I move my gaze into my glass and slowly include it in my mouth.

(Again, you haven't...)

I was drinking and thinking about what was missing from this scotch.

(What's missing from our scotch is smokiness. Because I can't get the peat "Pete," but it can have a smoky odor that comes with guts like Rafroig and Ragavulin... well, I also like the non-petite that doesn't work...)

As for Pete, I looked around the village of Rasmore, but I didn't find him in the end. Because Scott's distillery does the drying of malt with coal, the peat is barely working and makes for a scotch that feels gentle.

(... so far, other than me, I don't think it's a problem. Naturally this...... I definitely need Pete's strong whiskey when I start making blendets from now on. Rather than that, the problem is that there is nothing that works for Pete...)

I was thinking about that, and suddenly the queen stood up.

"Mr. Scott!

Suddenly, he was called by name, and Scott stood up unexpectedly. But the queen doesn't care about that.

"Even Ars will be able to build this! Build a distillery and you'll have the same thing as this!

Scott is called by the royal family by name, is completely atrophied, and cannot be answered.

Scott becomes pitiful and I answer instead.

"You can do it. But I need artisan arms, passion, and, most importantly, time. This Zach collection is a decade old. I mean, we need ten years since it was built as booze. If you want to go up there, you'll need 20, 30 years."

"Ten years," the queen murmurs, sitting in her chair. But I immediately reconsider and turn to Ulrich.

"Definitely make it! I don't care if it's thirty or fifty years! Give Mr. Scott something to drink. Say anything I can! I'll name a country and help!

(Well, isn't that inconsistent with the story of not interfering with the guild?

Looks like you thought the same thing I did, and Ulrich laughs bitterly and cuts it out.

"I know what Kati's trying to say, but then the country's going to make booze. We'll do something about it, so Kati needs to wait on the big boat."

So you finally realize you're excited, say "ah" and hide your face with both hands.

"It's not worth the age, I'm so excited. I'll leave the distillery to all the blacksmith guilds. But let me do something for you, too. I can't believe you didn't do anything to make alcohol so good... Mr. Zach, is there any good wisdom?

That's what they asked me, and I said there was only one.

And when I told her the ploy, the queen was snorting loudly.

Then we enter the grand banquet.

The wine brought in by the queen, Wine, was a sweet wine. With the concentrated sweetness and refreshing acidity of the grapes, it tasted more like German ice vines than it did of the French Sauternes and Hungarian Tokaj, famous for their precious rotten wines.

"I can rarely do this anywhere else. It's something that can be made only in a village with my parents. I'm going to give Mr. Zach a barrel of this a year. And my parents' sweet apple liquor."

The queen has a naughty grin on Mel and Sharon, who are drinking well,

"But if you drink too much, you'll be in this shape, so be careful."

For a moment, the two stop their hands holding the glass and look at each other.

"Ugh, it's okay. This just happened because I drink a lot and eat a lot of alcohol. I haven't been drinking so much lately because it's too sweet... but watch out for too much."

That being said, I never let go of my right hand jock. There's a three-year scotch in it, and it's already entering its second cup.

Next to the queen, Ulrich groans, "Kati doesn't drink too much," but there was never any sign of stopping her hand.

(Are you all right? I stopped the Zach collection just in a glass, but then I'm drinking Scotch... and I'm over my level of acute alcoholism. I know you're drunk because you're cheerful, but I don't think I've ever seen a woman who can drink more than Beatrice...)

A cheerful queen gave me details about this procedure.

"We will have proper laws in place to prevent things like this from happening again to Lord Shergold..."

The Shergold Marquis of Reason Fall deserves the job, but I wondered if that would dispose of him.

"Not only will you not interfere with the blacksmith's guild, but there are many other things… we will make laws for everyone to follow. Including Your Majesty. It must be hard for someone who made such a law. They'll say a lot of things..."

Sure, you're right, but wouldn't it make sense if Marquis Shergold abandoned his job of developing the law? When asked about it,

"If the Marquis renounces it... it wouldn't be strange if it were taken as a rebellion to his covenant with the Blacksmith Guild. Your Majesty will understand where you are, so we will dispose of the Marquis for neglect of duty."

The queen said so with a full smile. If he escapes, Shergold will not only lose his position as the king's sidekick, but he will also be forced into hiding. Maybe the Marquis will be crushed by the Queen. It looked like such a miserable grin to me.

To change the subject, I asked him about Uncle Granger, who put his sword to me, as if for a moment he had forgotten its existence, "Uncle Granger?" and put on his little neck,

"Oh, he said he'd be stripped of his countenance and become a civilian. On top of that, they're going to keep the Norrish family..."

I hear it's the Norrish family depository, and I think it's a pretty light disposition.

"... of course, I won't let you stay. I ask you to work powdered as a soldier of the Knights of the Holy Silver... you lose your title and become a civilian, so you have to bow your head to the nobility below the Viscount you have been looking down on. That must be the best punishment for him..."

He is stripped of his title and further insulated about his blood ties with the King. If we let court security on top of that, we must continue to bow our heads against the lower nobles and knights we have ever despised.

I thought I should just quit the Knights, and when I heard about that,

"My father, Lord Norrish, will take good care of it. It is the relatives who have made great mistakes who have been given the opportunity to atone. If you relinquish your duties… it is the Duke's poorly supervised. I guess the Norrish family will take responsibility..."

The Queen said she would let the Norrish family oversee the problematic Granger, and if he were to fail and relinquish his duties, she would hold the Norrish family accountable for it. Lord Norrish must protect and make work of the rangers he wants to insulate. Failure would impose a penalty on the Norrish family, and we must continue to control the problematic Granger in order to succeed.

"... If Lord Granger is hit by an accidental death, there will be a rigorous investigation. Because the kingdom must explain to the blacksmith guild. Even if you can do something clever, such as leave no evidence in Lord Norrish and assassinate him, you are responsible for the Blacksmith Guild. If, in case the Norrish family is discovered to be involved... you don't have to say any more."

For a moment the face of the queen, like the general of the shop, looked different.

If Granger dies, the Norrish family will be disposed of in the name of their responsibility to the Blacksmith Guild, no matter how "involved" they are. In other words, it's a mechanism that makes Granger's death detrimental to the Norish family.

He also told me what to do about the king.

"Your Majesty will do a good job from now on. Promote the young and competent civilians to supervise, no, advise...... Your Majesty tends to think lightly about what goes down, so this should have been a good lesson. If you haven't learned a lesson…"

The queen did not speak any more, but perhaps she will be forced to hide.

"But the truth is this... I'm sorry. I apologize for the inconvenience caused to Mr. Zach. But I don't want to do this. This is how I enjoy drinking and making noise. I wish someone could take my place."

If you say so, I'll take a look at you, but I'll keep my eyes open.

"But there are dozens of barrels of alcohol in the Rockhart family mansion that taste so good... I'd love to see it too..."

That being said, I was sipping a third cup of Scotch grunting.

Exactly what the word whale drinking deserves.

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In the year 318 of the Tria calendar, the following laws were enacted in the Kingdom of Kaum:

“Act on the Quality of Distilled and Long Aged Liquors”

In order to maintain the quality of distilled liquor, it was stipulated that:

To be named Scotch from the Kingdom of Kaum, all of the following conditions must be met:

'distilled from water and germinated barley (to which only whole grains of other cereals may be added) in distilleries in the Kingdom of Ca' … fermented exclusively by the addition of yeast in such distilleries or breweries in the Kingdom… aged only in the Kingdom of Ca 'in oak barrels of a capacity not exceeding seven hundred litres, for a period of not less than three years (thirty-six months) … retaining the raw materials used in their manufacture and maturation and the colours, aromas and flavours derived from the methods of their manufacture and maturation, to which no substance has been added and which, by national inspectors, more than 40% of the total quantity has been determined to be alcoholic may be referred to as Scotch from the Kingdom of Ca…'

The law was promulgated by King Albert XI at the time, but the enactment of the law supposedly had the extraordinary dedication of Queen Katrina.

It is also alleged that Sir Z. Lockhart advised against the enactment of this law.

In order to further protect quality, periodic audits have been carried out to eliminate malicious vendors, and measures have also been implemented to reduce tax rates on distilled liquors above a certain quality.

Especially when it comes to long-running liquor, it was so harshly controlled that it became known as "Kati Soak” with "Witch Kati” and "Soak" meaning severe punishment.

Note that this “kati soak” also means “alcoholic kati” - "soak” also means “drink painfully” - and the blacksmiths preferred to call it that.

This designation “Kati Sauk” continues to live as a brand of Blendett whiskey, which later represents the kingdom of Ars.

Queen Katrina's involvement in politics was ostensibly limited to those related to distilled liquor. However, as far as the situation in the Kaum Kingdom since Sir Z. Lockhart's attempted injury is concerned, it is said that Katrina was likely to continue to be involved from behind.

It is also highly appreciated that a large number of young and competent bureaucrats have been nominated to renew the King's proximity.

Harsh controls on malicious distillery liquor manufacturers, but the theory that this was a means of clearly launching the rule of law in the kingdom has become a predicate. In fact, there were many laws and regulations enacted and amended after the Tria calendar 3018, and they were further systematically developed.

That reform transformed the Kingdom of Kaum from an oligarchy by the royal family and some senior nobles into a state governed by the rule of law by bureaucracy, a strong nation with vast resources and talented blacksmiths. However, it took nearly twenty years, just like Scotch, to become a strong country.

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Former Earl Oswald Granger was executed under the law a year after he lost his title, for being slaughtered by a knight who was in the royal palace. The knight who became his opponent was the troop leader who lost many friends and men when Granger was the commander of Fort Toa. He succeeded in avenging his men by continuing to fool and ultimately dramatically elevate the Granger, who became a civilian.

Duke Theodore Norrish, his father, ceded the Lord's seat to his eldest son in a manner that would take his supervisory responsibility as a result of Grenger's blade wound sharpening in the court. He left the royal palace with disappointment, pulled into the territory, and then died of illness.

Marquis Jerome Shergold lost his seat near the king in the form of being pushed out by the rising young bureaucrats. He makes contact with the senior nobles who become old institutionalists in an attempt to rewind, but no one dealt with him for enacting tough laws against the nobles. Was he distressed, or tried to join hands with the Duke of Theodore Norrish, who was a political enemy, but when Lord Norrish hid because of the scandal caused by Granger, he became merely a being where the batter disappeared and leaked his dissatisfaction. And as a result of leaking statements that might be taken as critical of the king, he was also neglected by the king and left the court in disillusionment.

When Count Adolphus Edgekamb learned that his boss, the Marquis of Shergold, was losing his nearby position, he immediately looked at the Marquis and approached the Three Dukes, but in the end was not dealt with by anyone. As a result, a distillery was built in the territory to create a pipe with the blacksmith guild, but the flow of funds quickly became bitter as it originally carried out insignificant asset management. He tried to sell the distilled liquor without waiting for the maturation period of three years as a measure of bitterness, but was arrested for violating the distilled liquor law by a distilled liquor quality audit team made with Katrina's intention, which ended up leaving only a large debt.

King Albert XI is officially to have ceded his throne to his son-in-law, Prince Wang, in 328, and to have taken refuge. But now the theory is powerful that he was forced into hiding by the Queen and the Crown Prince as a result of his unsuccessful attempts to seek a royal government like the one he had before and expel the bureaucrats. After his departure he died ten years after his departure without attending any official events.

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G. E. Merchant, author of the famous book "Grand Total Tria Whiskey” on distilled liquor, describes Queen Katrina in the section “Kati Soak” as follows:

"Katrina Brentwood was an indispensable figure in the South Highland region, that is, in the production and dissemination of Scotch in the Kingdom of Kaum. The" Law on the Quality of Distilled and Long Aged Liquors "that she supposedly enacted was extended not only within the Kingdom, but also to other countries and contributed significantly to improving the quality of Scotch. In fact, the quality of distilled liquor rose at world level as a result of the popularity of this law. It should be noted that the blacksmith's guild supposedly pressured countries against the spread of this law, but it has not been revealed to be as true or false… '

This is also the case with Blendett Whiskey Kati Soak.

'... Kati Soak is a leading South Highland brand of Scotch, commonly referred to as a slightly sweet drinkable Scotch. In addition, in response to Queen Katrina's intention to spread Scotch from South Highland, prices are daring to be kept down and can be seen around the world. However, not only is it sweet enough to drink, but it also gives the impression of a deep taste and punchy aroma. It was said that this represented the multifaceted nature of Katrina from which the name came…'

It also describes the design of the label (etiquette) for this whisky.

"… this Kati Soak label (etiquette) always shows a picture of the sailboat. To the whiskey of the Kingdom of Kaum, a mountainous country without sea, why sailboats. Famous anecdotes remain about this… Blacksmith Guild Headquarters asked Sir Z. Lockhart to design the label when creating the whisky brand" Kati Soak ”. When he first met Queen Katrina, the tunic and skirt shades she wore resembled the sailboat - a tunic with shades like canvas and a dark brown skirt with hulls on record - plus the fact that her physique looked like a sailboat, it is assumed that she adopted a sailboat-inspired design... This anecdote also retains the testimony of Sir Lockhart himself and is highly credible, but at that time I am not sure why Sir Lockhart, who should not have seen the sailboat, had such feelings... '