Bar
A certain building in the shaded back alley.
All kinds of alcohol are placed on the wall inside the store, and the store owner’s many idiosyncrasies can be seen. By no means, does it have a high-class feeling, but it has a sense of cleanliness, and the atmosphere is also pleasant.
“What a beautiful tavern huh”
“……please call it a bar”
In front of where they’re facing, there stood a single bartender. A middle-built middle-height middle-aged man. A chin-bearded man with a slightly lacklustre scalp that one can’t help feeling that it has a grim future.
“Hey, Rick. It’s been a while huh”
Parin.
The bartender, who held a cocktail glass, demonstrated his astonishment by slipping his hands and breaking it.
“A……Asch=Dahl. You were alive!?”
“Kuku……I won’t die. I’m glad; this store is still operating. I’ll be in your care, again”
“……”
Rick’s expression was saying.
‘Are you serious……it ain’t funny, you know’
Asch immediately sits at the counter and looks for a drink that suits his taste.
“Hmーm……there are tons of branded products I’ve never seen before huh. As I thought, 8 years is a long time……first, I guess I shall have your recommended cocktail. Also, for this kiddy, milk”
“Plea, please don’t make fun of me! Café au lait, with more sugar!”
“……”
Rick, hearing Mira’s order, thought.
‘Go to a damn cafe’
“Now then……first, before we talk, the regular stuff to that individual over there”
He boldly rests his elbows on the table and glances at a beautiful woman who’s drinking a cocktail alone in the distance in a cool manner.
“N, no, but……”
“You can’t?”
The Dark Magician’s eyes glisten.
“……uu”
Rick, reluctantly, starts making the cocktail.
Shaka Shaka
Shaka Shaka
“……here you go”
A blood-like crimson red cocktail.
“Oh my……I didn’t order it though”
The beautiful woman, who’s lightly tinged in red, looks at Rick.
“……it is from that individual over there”
“Well……”
She’s not unsatisfied. As for why, it’s that Asch, he has a tall height and sweet looks.
For a woman, who desires an encounter day after day, he’s a stimulating party.
“Still, this is a really beautiful red cocktail……what is its name?”
As soon as he heard that, Asch stood up, walked all the way to the mature beauty’s side, acted cool with all his might, pinched her chin, and said.
“True Love”
“……”
Bakii!
A fist that drew a beautiful cross, intersecting with the hand that did a chin pinch to her, struck the narcissistic Magician’s chin directly. The liquid called True Love went, ‘Bicha Bicha‘, and poured down on top of his head.
With the mature beauty who leaves angrily in the corner of his eyes, Asch goes, ‘my, my’, returns to his seat, and wipes his head with the towel Rick had prepared.
“……fuu, time has changed huh”
“No――――, wait――――!?”
A vehement retort from Mira, who’s beside him.
“Wha, what is it? It can’t be helped that you’re following me, but think about the store’s atmosphere”
“What are you doing trying to make it the time’s fault!? It was tremendously disgusting, you know!? Isn’t that right, Rick-san”
“Wh, who knows”
With a look like he’s saying that it’s troubling even if you pass it over here, the bartender wipes the glass.
“Fuu, it might be difficult for a kid like you to understand an adult’s charm huh”
“It is not the problem with age either!”
“Well……whatever you say”
“Wha, what is with that cynical smile”
“If you look at it from the result, I failed miserably. However, if I had succeeded, you wouldn’t have said that, right?”
“We, well……”
At that moment, she was probably harbouring immense respect for that woman’s magnanimity.
“An encounter is, once in a lifetime. There are various kinds of women. If there are failures, there are also successes. That’s how it is”
“……”
Speechless.
He’s terrifyingly bad at picking up girls, and furthermore, he doesn’t realise that.
In the middle of all that, a female customer entered again.
A serene, gentle-vibed, prim-and-proper-type beauty she is.
“The regular stuff for that individual over there”
!?
“N, no, but……”
As expected, even the bartender is hesitant.
‘Are you planning to, destroy this store’
“No need to worry. It’s a probability issue; it’ll go well next time”
“Tha, that’s……”
“Can you not hear what I say?”
“……uu”
Reluctantly, the bartender starts making the cocktail.
Shaka Shaka
Shaka Shaka
“……here you go”
A blood-like crimson red cocktail.
“Oh my……I didn’t order it though”
The beautiful woman, who’s lightly tinged in red, looks at Rick.
“……it is from that individual over there”
“Oh my……”
As expected, she’s not unsatisfied. Asch’s appearance is, unwaveringly cool.
“But, it’s a rare red cocktail huh……what is its name?”
When she asks, Asch stood up, walked all the way to the mature beauty’s side, acted cool with all his might, pinched her chin, and said.
“True Love”
“……”
The following, development, was abbreviated.
