Alcohol and Ogre-girls ch32

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>The Musical Research Society, known as the "Musearch Club" for short.
>Their activities mainly revolve around the appreciation and study of musical stage performances.

>This association, whose clubroom is located deep inside the circle building,
>>Musical Research Society

>has a rich history even among the other clubs at Keiei University.

>Its shelves are overflowing with countless merch, CDs, precious images, catalogues and photo albums collected by its members.

>It is truly a stratum of love passed down through generations of club members...

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>A lost soul has ended up in that stratum...
>I'm sensing a lot of pressure...

>I wanna go home~!

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>I smell it...
>I smell it...
>The scent of delicious alcohol...

>Have you seen any musicals, Shida-san?
>Any plays?
>How did you become so friendly with the Ibuki-sans?
>Would you like to come to a stage show that I would recommend?
>You say making cocktails is your hobby. What sparked that?

>Hey, you girls.
>I know you have a lot you want to ask her, but those who appreciate the arts should always keep their backs to their seats.

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>Leaning forward is taboo.

>Shida-san, welcome to the Musearch Society.
>...Tsukahara-san.
>I knew you were part of the Musearch Society, but I didn't know you were a representative.

>But still, this clubroom is amazing...
>All these various things really let you know it's a college circle...
>Also, why is everyone
>wearing glasses...?

>>Cheers everyone~
>Back in high school, I'd thought I'd be able to make cocktail buddies just like that and have some fun when I got into college...

>But here I am now...
>But Miss Representative... We brought her here as you requested,
>but she's so fidgety and gloomy.
>Shida Naori-san is clearly "one of us".
>Shouldn't the reason someone with her personality was able to capture the hearts of Ibuki Hinata-san and Ibuki Mikage-san...
>be worth pursuing...?

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>Is making cocktails really her hobby...?
>No, she's right...
>I'm completely worthless.
>Anyone can make a drink...
>>Gloom...
>Don't be rude! It's true!
>Although I only heard that from Kei, so I don't know for sure.
>I'm Settsu Kei~

>T-
>Take this tea, for example!

>What alcohol... do you think would go with this tea?
>Eh? Erm...
>This is sudden...

>...
>This scent is Darjeeling, right?
>I believe rum would go well with that.

>Adding rum to it will make an Indian cocktail known as Tabula Tea...
>Or if you want to spend more time on it, maybe an Irish Afternoon? The scent of apricot kernels used to make amaretto have a good affinity with black tea...
>If you mix whiskey and tea, you'd get "whis-tea".

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>...I guess you wouldn't know unless you've tried it for yourself. Sorry...
>Hah! Sorry, we were just so surprised...
>Tabula tea can made with just rum and maple syrup, but I don't have those on hand right now...

>Well it just so happens...
>Why?

>Here you go.
>One Tabula Tea.

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>Oooh!
>Sorry. It really is a simple cocktail...

>Not at all! If anything, having a cocktail with so few ingredients makes it hard to pull the wool over our eyes!
>We'll drink it with care!
>Here you go, Miss Representative!

>>*Artist's interpretation

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>Aaaah! The scent of the run intensifies the full-bodied splendor of the tea and really slips through your nose...!
>It's as warming as taking a hot bath after attending a Matissoiré and spending the evening at the pub talking about it with a friend...! [tn: In Takazura Revue terminology, daytime performances are "matinees" and evening performances are "soirées". "Matissoirée" is a term used by those who attend both in one day.
>I know what you mean, Miss Representative...!
>Say what now?

>I knew my eyes didn't deceive me!

>We can leave the campus festival in your care!

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>As the members suggested... we want your help with preparing something for the campus festival, Shida-san.

>Our circle volunteers to both perform and watch musicals, but after the senpais retired, only those who would rather watch remain...
>We were worried about what we should put out for this year's festival...

>I mean, this year is the 20th anniversary of "Yuri of Vermeille", the production that pushed the Awaji Opera Troupe to fame in an instant, y'know!?
>Sorry, I don't...
>We can't just do nothing on such a momentous year!
>We need to celebrate it!
>Hah...

>That's where you come in, Shida-san!
>!

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>With your varied cocktail sense,
>we want you to make an original cocktail based on "VerYuri"'s image and sell it with us at the campus festival!

>We'd try it ourselves, but we're not sure we can do it right...
>So that's why they had rum...

>Of course, we'll give our full support to tell you about the musical!

>Please, help us...!

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>...Making a cocktail for the school festival, huh...

>Making and selling a cocktail for the masses
>would surely be hard work. I'm not very confident about it.

>But if I can overcome this,
>maybe I'll be able to get closer to Grandpa?

>I might even be able to make more delicious drinks for Hinata-san and the others.

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>I'll do it...

>If you're okay with me,
>I'll give it a try...!!

>Really!?
>Wah...

>Good job, everyone!
>With this, this year's festival is in the bag!
>Praise "VerYuri"!
>I'm looking forward to it, Miss Representative!

>Thank you!

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>Would you like more tea, Shida-san!?
>Ah, alright then...
>Have some snacks too as a token of our friendship!
>Thanks...
>Here! Would you care for this patisserie specialty that we've taken a liking to recently?
>I-I don't think I can eat that much...

>Phew...

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>That was a really good memory...
>The tea and snacks... were both so delicious~
>Is this how they normally treat their guests~...?
>The Musearch Society members went all out to show their hospitality.

>Everyone was really nice, though.
>I need to watch that "VerYuri" DVD they lent me.
>Was it really okay for me to give them such cheap assurance...?

>...That being said, I'm glad I accepted it quickly.

>The reason why... is because the campus scenery, which felt like being outside a mosquito net before, doesn't hurt my eyes anymore!
>It's like I went from away to home just like that...
>So this is the world as seen from someone taking part in the campus festival...

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>I had a late start...
>but starting now, little by little,
>maybe this place can become somewhere I can belong...

>Yeah, right.

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>You noticed me, huh?
>As expected of the human that Ibuki ogre had her eye on. You've got keen senses.

>Are you the fabled "bahtenduh"?
>I've been looking for you... If I drink your alcohol, I'll have the power to kick around any ogre or human who gets in my way...

>It was careless of you to walk around by yourself during twilight with that sweet scent lingering on you.

>A human girl coated in the scent of alcohol and ogres.
>And now you've got the sweet scent of pastries added to that.

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>I won't eat your arms.
>So make me a drink.

>What's a monster
>doing here on campus...?
>Eep...

>Get down!

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>Gyaaah!

>Curse you...
>I'm remember this!

>???
>Wretched creature... It got away!

>I came here because I felt an ominous presence...
>Honestly. I can't keep my eye off these monsters for even a second!
>Even if it's twilight, I never imagined one would creep their way into the human habitat!

>Are you hurt?
>N-No...

>Tha-...
>Then that's one problem sorted!
>Now let me ask you.

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>You've got the presence of ogres lingering on your body, don't you?

>No wonder the mountain spirits were getting restless.
>What are you? Some new species of monster pretending to be a human?
>Be careful how you answer...

>As the descendant of Sakata no Kintoki, one of Yorimitsu's Four Heavenly Lords
>that slayed Shuten-doji...
>I, Sakata Isuzu, shall punish you!