Ore wa Mada, Honki o Dashite Inai

"Hermes! A lifetime of pleas!

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I stared at Ortier with my clear eyes.

The usual (,,,,) whorehouse, the usual (,,,) room.

When she nominates Ortier as usual (,,,), she has done this again in her usual (,,,) "lifetime favor".

"Take it easy....."

"What?

"There's a lot of noise in the Mansion right now."

"Oh, I know, I know. Hermes has become royalty, so a lot of people are giving presents."

"Quasi-royalty, no. If it were royalty, it would be Eli."

I looked out the window with a distant eye.

Outside the window, the normal city of Pintos is just spreading out, but in my eyes, all the buildings in between became semi-transparent, and I felt like I saw the noise ahead.

The moment I learned that I had become a quasi-royal, the people who wanted to join me gave me various gifts.

It was a hassle to deal with it one way or the other, so I threw a round at the mistake and evacuated here.

"Hey, what's it like?

"All the gifts come in a cowhide or a wagon."

Hmm.

"It takes time to pick up and check, so I can't put them all together in the Mansion, so they make a line around the Mansion."

Oh, it's a helmet gift shop where you can queue up.

"The line hasn't broken in a full day."

"Wow, that's amazing!

Ortier blinked her eyes.

It's the same with Ortier.

Ortier doesn't change his attitude when he listens to people who just change their attitude with one more title.

As usual, Ortia "sneaks in" is relieved to be together.

"So?"

Huh?

"Huh? That's not true. What's your lifetime request?

"Eh? What the... what the hell is this?"

Greases Ortier's temples with poison.

Ortier has tears in her eyes and leaves her feet open.

After a while, let me go.

"So, what is it?

"There it is... yeah, you know. I got a new drink."

I see. Don't worry about the money, let me out. "

Ortier has asked for alcohol before.

From my memories back then, I thought it was another expensive drink.

"Ah, that's okay. I'm not that cute as before."

I see.

But, I had a little problem.

"Problem?"

"Yeah, that liquor. It's really hard to drink."

Hmm.

I see, I nodded.

Alcohol is a luxury among luxuries.

If it becomes a luxury product, it will age over the years, but it will disappear if you drink it just like regular alcohol.

Therefore, the more luxurious alcohol you become, the more obsessed you become with the way you drink it.

Ignoring that kind of thing, for example, if you just do it once, you can't complain about being shot dead by a maniac.

"So, how hard is it?

"You know, first, drink it cold."

Hmm.

"So, in the process of making it, we're going to age it for 20 years, then we're going to distill it once, and then we're going to age it for another 20 years with a new sake."

"That's a lot of work."

Right?

Somehow proud of Ortier.

With that kind of liquor... you'd be proud.

"I mean, that alcohol is a really big deal, but it's a mix of the two types of alcohol."

I see.

"That's how the taste changes depending on how it cools down. So when you drink it, half is cool, half is not cool, so it's the best thing to drink without mixing."

You're not going to mix it?

"Yeah, don't you mix it? The problem is, when you use ice, the ice thins out. Ice only cools one side."

Well, that's out of the question.

That's exactly what I know.

It is out of the question to put ice in a very fine drink and drink it diluted.

Of course, there's a way to drink it.

"But when I cool the glass itself, it's completely cold this time."

I see.

I thought about it a little.

"In short, I want to cool it, but I want to cool it in two stages in the same glass."

"Yes! That's right, Hermes, I understand quickly!

I put my arms together and looked up diagonally.

"Well then... as far as I can think of, there are two ways."

What kind?

"The first one is... it's hard right now, but I make a bespoke glass."

"Special order?

"Yes, the upper half is made of wood and the lower half is made of stone. If you cool that glass..."

I see! The trees aren't so cold, but the stones are so cold. "

"That's what it is. But it's hard to make it right now. You want a drink? Immediately."

Yeah!

Well then...

I stretched my hand.

I stuck my two fingers together and protruded.

I gathered magic at the tip of my finger.

Gwen... the cold air condenses.

After a while, there was pure white ice on the tip of my finger.

You can use this.

"Ice? But this will fade.

"It's not water ice, it's air ice."

"Air ice?

"Yes, air ice. I rarely bring cheap liquor."

Yeah!

Ortier went out with butterflies, and came back with butterflies.

The returning Ortier pointed to the wine in the glass.

I see.

You can see at a glance and smell it.

How much is it, anyway, just to get drunk?

I put air ice in it.

"Wow!

Ortier shocked by his voice.

The air ice began to melt as soon as it began to be put into alcohol, and the white smoke began to bubble up again.

"Wow! Oh, it's air ice, so the smoke is melting."

Well...

It's not really like that, but if Ortier is convinced, that's all.

"Hey Hermes, make more ice of that air. For 2 people"

Ah.

I nodded.

Stick out your fingers to make extra air ice.

Ortier jumped out of the room again and came back with an old bottle.

I chilled up and down with Ortier and poured an unmixed liquor.

Ortier was right, the wine at two different temperatures tasted like a different kind of wine.

"I like this way of drinking. Hey, is it hard to make ice in the air?

"No? It's normal."

The more alcohol came in, the better I felt, and I taught Ortier how to make air liquor.

"When you make ice with ordinary magic, magic cools down the temperature and cools the water vapor in the air, but when you make air ice, you simultaneously create the magic of cooling ice and the magic of wind that creates the air vortex."

Heh.

"When you create an air vortex, you can freely see the wet air and the dry air, so you can cool it in the dry air to make the air ice."

"That's right, but isn't it hard?

"You can do it alone. I'll do it alone. It's just getting harder."

Yeah, that's right.

I got drunk and I almost got soft.

You might say it's amazing if you do it alone, but if you treat the two Ortiers who want to do it in advance, it won't be a problem.

Yeah, all right.

I got more and more in a mood and enjoyed a cool, luxurious drink with Ortier.

For a while afterwards, I still didn't know that "hermetic drinking", which is to put air ice in cheap alcohol and drink it with white smoke, would become popular.