Sake wa Nondemo (Even If I Drink)

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>Where is the line between being a child and becoming an adult?

>Mm...
>Mmm...

>Is it when you graduate from high school?

>Is it when you start living by yourself?

>...Miho!

p4
>Why...you....
>Geez...
>Hah hah
>Quit screwing around...!

>E-...

>Erika-san...!
>Ah...!
>Wait...
>Or is it...

>Mi~ho~!!

p5
>See here!!
>You need to do something about this habit of getting drunk and leaving hickies everywhere!
>I've told you that it's a pain to hide this many of them!
>Like with make-up or bandages and stuff.

>S-
>Sorry...! When I drink I get the urge to put something in my mouth and I just kinda...
>"I just kinda"... How many times have I heard that already?

>...Honestly.
>Are you gonna be okay at our reunion next week?

>Reunion...

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>It's been three years
>since me and Erika-san started attending the same university.

>And one year since we moved in together.

>Oh~!!

>Miho! Erika!
>Long time no see!
>It's been a while, Anzai-san.

>Good to see you two being so cheerful!
>There's still a few people yet to arrive, but feel free to sit where you like!

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>Hm? You guys...

>Are you two fighting?
>You're so far apart from each other...
>I-It's not that...

>It's only been a year...
>but it's still a year.
>Eeh?

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>Like I said!
>It'll be bad if the hickies you leave when you get drunk got seen!
>Therefore, we'll be keeping our distance at the reunion next week! We mustn't get near each other! Got it?

>Y-
>You don't have to go that far. I'm not gonna do something like that when others are around.
>Besides, won't I be too nervous to drink alcohol?
>Have you forgotten?

>You guys~~
>Anzai-san, who's organizing next week's event, picked the place going "it's got your favorite booze, Miho!"
>They've got wine and Japanese sake
>as well as special cocktails
>Do you have the willpower to go against the happy-go-lucky momentum of Anzio?
>They've got pizza and pasta too~~~
>Uuh...

>...Well
>[It'll be bothersome if you give just anyone a hickey... so try to abstain.]

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>Hey!
>Miho~!! You drinking~??
>Kei-san!
>It's been so long~ Glad to see you!

>Huh? Where's Erika? In the bathroom?
>Ah, Erika-san's over there...


>Wow

>A good ol' Kuromorimine assembly~!
>You can almost see the Tiger tanks~
>It does look like it since they all chose beer.

>Aren't you gonna join them, Miho?
>Eh?

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>Hmm~... I wonder.
>I'm pretty much... with Erika-san every day, so...
>I might just be a nuisance...

>...Hmm~

>Alright then, let's get plastered tonight!!
>Wawa

>...That's right
>I'm with her every day and yet...

>...I ended up drinking a lot.

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>Waha! Your face is beet red, Miho!
>Oh my... Maybe you should drink some water?

>Kei-san...
>Darjeeling-san...

>...Aah...
>...I guess...

>I really don't want to kiss anyone except Erika-san...

>It's kinda frustrating...

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>At the start
>We drank alcohol together but nothing really happened.

>We just talked quietly
>and watched movies when we were in the mood...
>And yet...

>Miho.

>...Come here.
>...I...

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>Just when did I sink this deep?
>Ooh... She's totally plastered, isn't she...?

>It's been three years since we began attending the same university...
>One year since we started living together...

>She's so close, yet so far away it makes me feel lonely...
>Even now...
>I'm feeling jealous of Onee-chan...

>Miho~
>Here, I brought you some water.

>...Her lipstick is the same color as Erika-san's...

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>...Miho?
>Is there something on my lips?

>Ah
>U-Um...! It's nothing!
>I was just... thinking that your lipstick was a cute color.
>Ah!
>Grazie!
>You mean this, right? Cute, right?
>I bought it recently.

>Oh yeah! Do you want to try some on, Miho?
>Eh...!?

>...The same lipstick as Erika-san...

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>The same color as Erika-san's lips...

>...on my lips...

>If I do this... I'll...

>There! Looks great!
>Miho! Take a look in the mirror!

>I'll...

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>See you again~

>It's seven more minutes til we reach the station...
>A forty minute train ride...
>And another fifteen minutes of walking until we get home...

>...Miho.

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>Wawah

>Why are you...
>We're
>stopping here.

>...Erika-san.
>This is...
>Silence.

>...Don't say another word.

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>Mm
>Fu...
>Mmm
>Hah...
>...We...

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>Mm...
>Mmm...
>When was it that we stopped needing "nothing" between us?

>...Your lips...
>the color must've come off...

>...That color doesn't really suit you.

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>...Then...
>You pick out a color of lipstick for me, Erika-san...
>From the same maker...

>It doesn't matter... if it's a different color...

>The two of us
>really are...

>completely hopeless...

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>Someday in the future...

>will there be a time... where I'll be apart from Erika-san
>in a much bigger meaning compared to today's seating...?
>I don't want that...

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>We were finally able to be together again.

>I want to go deeper.

>I want you by my side forever and ever.

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>I think I'm gonna give up drinking for a while.

>...Sure, if that's what you want?
>It is...
>..

>...Was saying this
>a bit too heavy...?
>Hey... Erika-san.

>Once in a while...
>Would it be okay if I left a mark where nobody could see it...?

>...Miho.

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>Take a look
>at the inner thigh of your right leg.
>Eh?

>...!!
>N-

>No fair! I was holding back so much yesterday!
>Let me give you one right now!
>Stocking are too itchy.
>So no.
>Ah, if you're quitting drinking, then I guess I'll have to drink all the sweet potato shochu I got from the school heard all by myself!
>Ah...