Recomnded serpent wine
The chief then called over one of the won, and she poured a cup of wine.
She was also drunk and seed to be having a good ti.
“Uh, this wine…”
It was a very dark red.
Not only that, but it was filled with chunks of sothing…it must be serpent.
“Obviously, it is the wine we are most proud of. Serpent wine. Your friends are drinking it already.”
“…Well, Phillip is used to it… Ah, Nicholas is drinking it as well…”
Phillip was drinking quite happily, while Nicholas was sipping it with more hesitation.
I had thought that he would be avoiding it like … Perhaps he had no choice? Besides, I had given him herbs, just in case.
“Now, you should drink too and enjoy the feast.”
“Uh…”
It would be fine if it was just ordinary wine. But this one had monster chunks inside. It did not look very good…
Perhaps it tasted good. But I still hesitated.
“What? Are you too good to drink wine made in this village then? Well, the actual wine isn’t made here, but in a different village. We just improve it with so snake chunks.”
“Uh, that’s not what I ant…”
The chief looked very sad, but I was sure he was doing it on purpose in order to make drink it.
I know… Once it reaches this point, I have no choice.
If it was just one cup… No, one sip… Or one lick…
“Ve-very well… I shall drink it.”
“Oh, that’s the spirit!”
He said, imdiately happy. And it confird that he really had been acting.
Regardless, I picked up the glass cup before I changed my mind.
“Here goes…”
I closed my eyes and poured it in my mouth.
“Oh…it is kind of numbing…”
“It is special wine, after all. That sensation is quite addicting.”
“…Is it really?”
Perhaps it was because I wasn’t used to it yet, but there was both a burning and numbing sensation in my throat.
As for the taste…it was quite bitter. A little spiciness as well, but I was not in the right state to enjoy it.
It had none of the sweetness of the wine from Range village, so it was not a sip that I enjoyed.
“Still, the fact you always drink wine with numbing serpent venom…”
“Huh? What are you talking about? It’s not the venom, you know? The numbing is caused by the herbs we mix in along with the serpent.”
“Herbs? You put sothing else in as well?”
“Well, I doubt many here would be eager to drink it if it was poisoned. Didn’t Delia tell you?”
“No…”
But if they enjoyed the numbing sensation, and that was caused by herbs…what was the point in the serpent?
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