'Cocktail Potion' by Transworld Transfer Bartenders

"Huh. Tired......"

Getting out of my banquet seat, I finally took a breath.

So far, I've been making cocktails fast enough to turn my eyes.

For some reason, the banquet turned into a bleeding service event, where you can drink all you want until closing with a single piece of silver coin.

While calling it a temporary holiday, I thought it was Boulder Oyaji who was firmly collecting the cost of the event from the regulars gathered.

Maybe even at my welcoming party, it was tight in the back.

So I even worked until just now, and that was already working.

As much as I was supposed to be celebrated, I wanted to complain about why I was working the most.

But it's not all about complaining.

Whether my arm hurts from too much shake or my shoulders are heavy, I had fun today.

Happy to have someone to enjoy my cocktail.

I felt much fuller now than when I used to work in Japan.

I wish times like this would last forever, so much so that I thought a little.

"... oh boy. You were here."

"Mr. Oyaji?

When I was blurry outside, Mr. Oyaji showed up from the entrance to the store.

Mr. Oyaji said next to me... no, I got there a little further from next door.

"Who's the jerk? I don't know what you're gonna call me."

"... haha"

As always, I look hated.

Mr. Oyaji is just looking at the sky without saying anything from there.

I looked at the sky blurry, too.

Eventually, Mr. Oyaji said quietly, not to anyone.

"Sui's been having fun lately."

"... Yes"

"... Until someone came, he always had a dark face. I'm desperate every day, I'm stuck, but no one can admit it. I was worried about the situation."

I tried to remember the first time we met.

When I first talked to her, I thought, what a little emotional ups and downs.

When I was eighteen, how would it have been?

For once, towards the dream of that time, I think I was moving on.

Sui must have felt more muddy.

Still, call yourself a 'potionist'.

So, when I said I wanted to try it, I looked so happy.

"That's what I've been doing lately, like an age-appropriate daughter, with a soft smile. Little by little, he's moving on."

"... I hope so"

"At least, it's better than before. It's better than just ideals and not seeing the way there. It would be better if narrow beast paths continued."

Sui's dream.

I want to save a little bit of a human being who spreads a cheap potion that even the poor can buy and dies without the skill of making it magical deficient.

No, isn't it limited to magic deficiency? I'm sure she wants to save everything she can.

For the first time there, I was asking Mr. Oyaji.

"Sui, why did you start a potion store?

"Ah?"

"If you're as strong as Suey, that's how you can save people, even if you're not bound by potions."

"... sure, there will be"

As Mr. Oyaji bites, he thinks of something,

And I went on with the words.

"But what he really wanted to save was his mother."

"Huh?"

"His mother... I mean my daughter-in-law, Talia Vermut, died of a magic deficiency"

I didn't think so, I peered into Mr. Oyaji's face.

But Mr. Oyaji says to himself, looking at the stars as usual.

"Me and my daughter-in-law used to be famous adventurers there. I'm the avant-garde, Talia's the rear. It was a balanced combination."

"... Yes"

"But not forever young. When the two of us saw our limits, we decided to retire and work in the city. Married and two daughters were born."

I can see that, too.

I'm sure they loved the city and decided to live here.

But if you stopped the adventurer, why did you suffer from magic deficiency?

"So I started training in a little shop, which I liked to cook from the beginning. Talia used her knowledge to act like a pharmacist."

"Huh? Are you a potionist?

"A little different. It has nothing to do with magic. It's a Chinese medicine store."

I see. Is it for the pharmacist's sake to sell something that will help you with your daily health?

Around there, Mr. Oyaji's eyes suddenly sharp and dark.

"But that's one day. It just so happens that we're all on vacation. I went to one spectacle that was coming out of the city. They were a bunch of circuses who taught the demons."

"No way?"

"No way. Unfortunately, that's when the demon escaped and became havoc. Talia used magic over minutes to protect the gathered people."

Full season and after retiring... I don't know how my body magic is different.

But if you can't do it and the recoil won't come, there will never be.

"He used his magic to the point of depletion. Thanks to you all, we rushed into a nearby potion shop."

"... and yet?

"Oh. I still remember every word of it, don't I?" There's no potion to sell to the poor. "

…………

It's a bad story about chest feces.

There are people who stood up and saved people, and on the other hand, there are people who didn't show their hearts for money.

Neither, I guess, is ever wrong.

And yet, I can't wait to spit out Moya Moya.

"The store just crumbled, but I don't care. We lost Talia. But this is the difference between me and Sui."

Said Mr. Oyaji with a sad, ambiguous look to his delight.

"I thought 'potion shop' would crush everyone. But Sui wanted to make a" Potion to Sell to the Poor ". I was supposed to help my mother that day with the potion."

"Your father hates potion shops"

When I first met Mr. Oyaji and the negotiations broke down, Sui said.

But why don't you listen to me now?

If I were in Mr. Oyaji's shoes, I wouldn't be sure I wouldn't hate a potion store.

And if my daughter wanted to do a 'potion shop', how much would she disagree?

Mr. Oyaji meditated on his eyes only a little, saying that he had finished talking about what was important.

"Sui must be able to keep the potion shop going forever. As long as his mother is in his memory, he can keep saving people forever. Everyone in my eyes is the object I want to save. Otherwise, you'd have stopped being a potion shop a long time ago."

"... I don't think so"

When helping Corsica, Bergamo's sister.

She tried to do everything she could. Over the potion store minutes. But she tried to save Corsica.

I'm sure that's because her real wish is' to save as many people as possible '. Don't make money, don't protect... don't save.

The most efficient way to achieve that 'as much as possible' just happened to be a 'potion' for her.

Mr. Oyaji opened his meditating eyes and turned straight to me.

"So, what about you?

"Huh?"

"Assuming you guys are right, 'cocktails' have spread to the world. How long are you going to keep doing the potion shop?

Ston and the words that have fallen.

I couldn't return anything to that word. [M]

"Your technology is a lot. I can't imagine how much effort a young builder like you made to have that skill. So that's all the power in the 'cocktail' you make. Because you mean it."

I can't say anything to Mr. Oyaji again.

'Cocktails have' power.

That, I mean, what does that mean?

But what about yourself? Now, there's still a pile of things to do right now, and just do it and you'll have a great day. With the cocktails spreading like this, more people will drink delicious and one day their goals will be visible "

…………

"Even when it's such a fun time, it'll be over someday. The first goal, the day goes by."

Now, I want to have more than one ingredient.

Because that's what it takes to make a cocktail.

But what if we're all set?

If all the ingredients you want are ready...

What do I want next?

"Is that a lot of smiles for one person? More heights? What's the future you draw? What's 'self' other than 'cocktail'?

At a time like you read my mind, Mr. Oyaji's words pierced me.

Other than "cocktails," myself.

I'm still a long way from being a bartender.

So I wanted to be a bartender in public sometime.

But... suppose I could be. If it reaches that goal......

Mr. Oyaji said one thing to me that he couldn't answer.

"... one thing, for example, is to marry Sue and keep saving a lot of people for both of us"

"Keck!?

"You're saying, for example. I'll kill you."

When I raised my voice to my surprise, Mr. Oyaji ran blue on his forehead.

But there wasn't always a flying fist bone, just a snort.

"I don't mean to, but I'm staying with you right now. I can take your place. So talk to me if anything happens. From what I've seen, you're still a kid."

"............... kid"

"You got it, kid!

"Yes!

That said, Mr. Oyaji stroked my head grizzly.

The hand was gentle for some reason, even though it was too powerful and a little painful.

"... you said mean things. Now you can forget it. But sooner or later, it's something to think about. A month later, six months later, a few years later... we're talking about keeping our minds open for then."

Leaving only that word behind, Mr. Oyaji went back inside the store.

I've been left alone, I'll think about it.

But now, I still don't feel like I can give you an answer.

I shook my head just a little and tried to think about the immediate first thing.

I think I can improve my skills for the potion review.