202 Tabernacle Trade Prince and Guest.

"So which one do we drink today?

Kingdom of Anemone.

Prince Leon, the first heir to the throne, was in a good mood to entertain the guests he had invited to his room, sorting the wines to serve them from the wine shelves.

"... for the fact that my brother and I were about to be set up with booze, you're a lot thicker nervous, aren't you, boy?

"That's not exactly booze, is it?

Val. And, trying to keep going, Leon called the name of a man who looked grumpy at himself in front of him.

Prince Leon's "guest" was a delivery man from the Kingdom of Friesia, an ally of the kingdoms of Anemone: Val, Sefek and Chemetho.

From time to time they had been invited to Leon's chamber many times before.

Val and the others originally only came to deliver the letter to Anemone at the hands of the courier.

Yet every time I met Leon, who lined up next to the king between the sights, I was invited to drink. Furthermore, when I delivered my writ to Pride in the Kingdom of Freesia, I was persistently invited many times to always "If only I could stay anemoned and drink" if I stumbled upon Leon, who was visiting the Kingdom of Freesia.

And because of the small trigger, Val was now getting on that invitation as well.

As a result, liquor is behaved like this to him in the First Prince's chamber whenever he is invited in the Kingdom of Friesia or the Kingdom of Anemone.

"Oh, speaking of which, I definitely got a tasting today and some wine from my trading partner.

As I recall, Leon shifted his gaze from the wine shelf and lined the table with crates piled next to it. "It's my fault, and we'll have a drink together," he chuckles at Val as he goes.

Wine and food for tasting and selling purposes had been delivered in dozens by countries everywhere, as every day, to Leon, the first prince of the kingdom of Anemone, who was at the head of the trade country. Leon himself is now deeply involved in confirming it all with his own tongue, deciding where to sell it, how much to handle and import and export it.

"Drinking with you is fun. Did Chemetho and Cefek get the fruit right in their mouths?

If Leon had turned his eyes to Chemetho and Sefek sitting on both sides of Val, they would have carelessly cheeked on the rare exotic fruit that had been served out of Leon by both of us. There was no reply, and when Val muttered, "Does it fit the kid's tongue so well," they both suddenly looked up, "Well, it's delicious," "oh... it's delicious," even though they made some distance from Leon, returning their thoughts.

"... Damn. I don't care if I'm in the mood every time... come on, what's the point?

With that said, Val pulled out the cork of wine offered to Leon barefoot and turned only his eyes to Leon.

"What are you letting me do, mainly until I break the chain of contracts to you?

Leon had asked Pride to annul all disrespect, lies and concealments from Val, and even his right to order as royalty, exclusively on his own.

With that in mind, Val also became attached to Leon's liquor in what he called "interest oriented".

Even though I didn't know what it meant just to let the slave contract be broken, even more so if I went out with the liquor, they would treat me to every good liquor I imported, and Chemetho and Cefek would treat me to rare fruit.

"If that's the question, you answered it right the first time you had a treat of wine.

Smooth laughing Leon opened another wine and poured it into his glass. Just keep telling me to go ahead and put the rest in front of Val for each bottle.

"He wants to be friends with you.

I looked up to the ceiling so Val could weaken on Leon's words and exhaled fed up.

Even when I first drank it, I did.

To Val, who asks me what I'm going to do, it's a "I want to be friends" streak no matter how many times I say it. If you choose to choose me and give me back what I want, they will say, "Because it's you." I was forced to lay down all the good chatter I didn't care about while they drank a bunch of booze as it was. Leon didn't even try to listen any deeper, even if Val answered appropriately or overnight that it had nothing to do with Temehe.

"Yes, how was my kingdom of Anemone today in your eyes?

Recently, he has also put a lot of effort into distributing ingredients, and Leon's eyes shine quickly when he tells him. Val looked at every bottle of wine he had pulled out of his own cork while listening appropriately.

"Keh, that's crap. Only people outside the country or in the upper classes would be happy with Nnamon. Cheap fruits are worth a lot of money to people at lower levels like us.

Dismiss the story of Leon, who continues to talk extensively as he mouths the bottle with evil. As it was, Val gently played an empty glass at his fingertips that had not served as it was placed in front of him.

"Cheap, cheap, but worth it?

Leon twists his neck so that he doesn't care at all about being cut off from the story, rather listening to Val's words.

"It's expensive fruit. You can't buy it. I wonder if I can eat more than it is rare.

Kemeth and Sefek nodded over and over to Val's words, which he duly returns as they were. Give Val a slice of the fruit they stabbed at the fork as it were. "It's delicious," he said, tongue-in-cheek at the two of them, "and hung up the fruit being stabbed with a bite from each fork.

"... I can eat these monsters now, too," he added as he zeroed the chewing noise, comparing the grin of satisfied Chemetho and Sefek.

Leon nodded deeply as he listened to Val's words with interest. This is how many times Leon listened seriously to Val from mere chatter.

"... your story really helps. Because it's a perspective that I don't have.

"You mean you applied booze to me because you wanted to hear the lowest human values?

I'm not, and Leon laughs smoothly as he shakes his head. Containing only one bite of wine as it was, he rolled it with his tongue.

"Because you always clearly deny me. Your poor mouth and attitude make me happy with everything.

As the first prince, I received all the flattery from around me, and even more so, I had received few words of reprimand or denial because of my excellence.

If I did it, everything would work out, and as soon as I learned it, I learned and wore it. His name is high as the next king, and his support from the people is high. I don't even have that leg if I want to take the fried leg.

Who could have pointed out or complained to such a prince? And because it was a precious word of pointing out to myself that I couldn't hear, pure Leon listened to false allegations from my brother.

Hearing Leon's words, Val wrinkled between his eyebrows. "I'm glad to be disparaged. Why is it unusual," she smiled when she laughed with her nose. "Maybe so," she smiled.

"... so if it's true, I'm glad you don't hesitate to tell me about Cefek and Chemetho as well as Val...

And then, a little too bad, Leon calls out to the two of us. Then I noticed Leon's gaze, Sefek, Shit! and grabbed onto Val's sleeve, and Chemetho clouded the words "uh... uh". He stared with a harrowed look at Sefek as he put out his teeth and made a small vice to Leon with "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Sefek was much more alert to Leon than he was in the beginning, but it's still hard to say that he opened his mind. Val now looked ridiculously at Leon, who could drop his shoulders and drip at the reaction between them.

"I wonder if your friend is difficult if you can't break it with them...

I didn't have anything when you first shook my hand... and. In a way, Leon squeaks as he savors the few setbacks he's ever had in his life. Still, he's just better off now that he's exchanging words. Because when I first invited Val here, he never even replied.

"If you want to hear what I'm really saying, why did you let me cut my orders from the Lord?

I can't lie, I can't deceive. It's easier to order myself to ask. I put my mouth on the second bottle of wine that Leon had left me offering with that in mind.

"No, that's why I want to be your friend...

Ha... and sighed, giving up and Leon sticking his cheek. Lately he was also starting to look naturally crushed only in front of Val.

"I don't like me, values are different, the environment I grew up in, the country, everything is different. I want to be friends with you like that, but my pride and my contract with you are just out of the way.

Leon, who looked at the glass of wine all at once, grabbed a third bottle of wine as it was.

"... you can lie, you can hide things. What an argument as ordered.... I want to be friends with someone who can fool and betray me.

To keep things from happening like this again. Val replied tongue-in-cheek to Leon, who shrugged so.

For Val, who originally hated royalty and upper class humans, Leon's words were twisted and received.

... I thought it was an extension of royal studies and roads after all. It was then that I decided if I could practice successfully cheering the lowest level of human beings on an outer road like my own, and I thought that today would be the last time I would go out with an invitation.

"Besides, you're a good man.

"... ha?

Against Val, who raises a single eyebrow, Chemetho and Cefek stopped eating the fruit for the first time.

"And he talks more crushed to me than anyone. Pride is my most important ally, but I'm still..."

"Are you boiling your head, Temehe?

At the same time as tongue strike, Val again struck down Leon's words.

"I can't tell you what I'm looking at.

I told you that if you helped me in the tavern, it was merely the Lord's command, and I stare at Leon with a gubbing throat at the wine.

Furthermore, Leon has already heard from Pride that he has taken Val's priors and the knight of Anemone into captivity. I was surprised at that time, but while decorating it with words in such good shape, Leon even accepted the fact by saying that he had "already atoned for his sins with the covenant of slavery". And Val still doesn't think he figured out what Leon thinks in his belly. To that evidence, Leon's remarks made shortly after that conversation across pride were blindfolded, even for a moment, but with a small intent to kill.

Honestly, even when I was invited to drink, I thought at first it was a pride or a trap to fit myself in.

Leon looked casually at Cefek and Chemetho, who were beside him. But even if Val notices that gaze, he doesn't understand the intent at all. On the contrary, I frown and laugh like Leon was a little more in trouble at Val, who flaunts his face and returns it in a frustrating manner saying, "What is it?" Spin the words without explaining the intent of the gaze as it were "and..."

"The only thing Pride ordered back then was my watch and to protect him from finding out who he was, right?

Uh? Answer with a raw reply. He opened his mouth again with a smooth smile when he returned it to Leon with a voice color he wanted to say what it was.

"But I have never been commanded to drink with me like this.

Chipped again tongue pounding overflowed from Val. Poking a ton of tongues and a table at his fingertips, he made a noise, staring at Leon abominably, "Where are you, boy, so persistent that he dies?" and intimidate. But Leon put up a glass of wine in such a way that he didn't care at all.

"Besides, as I've said before, even if it's an order of pride, it doesn't change the fact that you helped me.

To Leon, who goes on without hearing Val's reply. Val stared at its clear face harshly.

"At least you're a good man to me now.

... dialogue as I've heard on one side or the other, Val unconsciously turned that eye to Sefek. Sefek tilts his little neck so he doesn't know what Val's gaze is all about and wants another one? and stuck the fruit piercing the fork out again to Val.

"It's good with you as it is. Because if you stick with the chat this way, that would satisfy me now.

With that said, Val sighed in dismay at Leon, who put up his fourth bottle of wine. Turn down the fruit thrust out of Sefek with your hand and throw it with Temehe. I laid my gaze on the empty bottle on the table so as to keep my eyes open.

"... while I can serve good liquor.

Drink the third bottle at once, empty it and roll it onto the table, then give it to me and grab the fourth bottle of wine from Leon again.

"So how far do you have to go to be a friend?"

He pulled out the cork and poured wine rampantly into Leon's glass, which had been emptied earlier. The wine poured out of the glass with a goop of noise.

"Well... though the Chancellor also said to me that if we think so of each other.

Speaking in a pleasant manner, Leon opens a fifth bottle of wine and puts it in front of Val for the rest of the fourth bottle, which will soon be empty anyway.

"If we gave up on each other here and twitched appropriately that we were friends, would this obsession with Leon's self end, Val took it slightly seriously?

Think about how Leon's words, which connect with "the rest -" can be used to serve more booze, and the fourth bottle of wine is in your mouth all at once

"Talk about love, I wonder if I can...

Buhhhhhhhh

Sefek and Chemetho raised their voices in surprise to Val, who could whistle and choke the wine out of his mouth.

Chemetho blued his face wondering if he really threw up blood for a moment because the wine he blew out was bright red. I guess that complexion makes Val wipe his mouth clutteringly with the sleeves of his clothes as he wrinkles between his eyebrows.

"... how boiling your head, Temehe.

I glance sharply at Leon, who seems to enjoy watching himself and Sefek and Chemetho panic while stabbing him with those words. But he replied in a mild tone, "No, listen to that from the people," he said.

"Is this how friends blossom in love stories about their liquor dishes? Because I've never had any friends before, and I had nothing to do with love.

Pride and I have dissolved our engagement, and Val drifts his head behind his back to laugh bitterly at Leon.

"I don't know, I guess I'd be content to get along with you enough to thrive on such a story.... so far.

Leon finally leaked out to inclusive laughter as he seemed to enjoy watching the dripping Val.

"Ask Lord Ng and this prince Sama or the knight kid for that kind of floating story more than I do.

Empty wine bottles get in the way and roll appropriately from the top of the table onto the floor. Sefek and Chemeth looked up at Val looking shabby in front of him with a plate of fruit they had finished eating. Seeing that, Val grabbed the fourth bottle of wine he had just drank up, and as soon as he tried to open his mouth to say it was time to go home next time. "Huh? But..." Leon raised his voice first.

"Doesn't Val like pride?

Vicky and Val's grasping wine bottle screamed with only a grip.

"... ah?

Guillaume, and his blood-running eyes were pointed straight at Leon, not because of the booze.

"Because when you and Pride are together in the castle, you must be the one dictating Pride.... you don't?

"Who the fuck is that?"

I don't know if you're just teasing me. Leon laughs smoothly at Val yelling at me. "Sooka," as it were, was still cut off in a mild tone.

"... good. Are the people under the castle thrilled to talk about this every day in a tavern?

Drink out the wine glass, then take out the sixth bottle of wine and place Leon on the table with the stopper on.

"If you envy me, now is the time to get out under the castle of Temé's will?

Keh, he looks up at the fifth bottle of wine as he throws up. Or do you want that help and think I'm trying to get in my mood?

"I won't, I won't.

Clearly.

Val turned to Leon in that voice, which he said no with firm will. Seeing it, a straight eye and a white skin face that didn't make me feel drunk at all was directed at me.

"I will defend this integrity until I die. Live and die for this country and its people. Sometimes they will take dangerous long trips to distant countries or throw themselves on the battlefield for that reason. I will gladly go for the good of my country and my people. [M] But... I won't break discipline just for my own greed.

Even if it's an invitation from you. and laughing Leon, Val caught him in the front, tied his mouth and wrinkled between his eyebrows, looking straight at him.

'Thank you, Val.... I'll try harder.

Live and die for your country and your people. That's what I thought Leon's eyes looked like somewhere and someday someone else.

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Leon twisted his neck in Val's face. Keep saying, "Did I say something? I ask back," but Val didn't give me a second response.

To Val, who would shut up to think of something, Leon unplugged and poured a sixth bottle of wine cork into his glass. For the first time, a glass of wine was poured and shined.

"... I'd love to hear what you really are someday.

Smooth grin, offering him Val's share of the wine glass. Faced, Val appropriately rolled under the table as he looked back at the fifth bottle of wine in his hand at once and received a glass from Leon.

"... Boy, you should start to raise your liquor more than I do.

Gu, Leon's eyes glistened at Val, who tilted the glass very hard.

"Does that mean you'll drink again?

Chip, Val turns a blind eye as he tongues. "It depends on the booze," he returned as his mouth slipped.

"Then I want you to call me Leon this time. Friends are what we call each other by name, right?

"Ah?... first you start to drink as much as I do, then go straight out"

"Shall we drink now?

Kang, kang, kang, kang, kang! and.

With Leon not breaking his smile, he arranged six wine bottles at once on the table. Returns a smooth grin as it is to Val, who rounds his eyes and sees it.

"I drank some with you, but if I could drink all of this, I don't think it would be easy for you.

Hey, wait, Val looks at Leon with a little pull. Though from myself, it would be troublesome if Pride found out, such as crushing the First Prince with alcohol.

Pour wine into your glass and think about whether you should stop Leon, who tastes and swallows gracefully. But even while he was watching, Leon would empty a bottle or two of wine as if he were drinking water. Much faster than Val if you just say the pace of drinking. I didn't have too much hype and an open mouth blocked by Leon, who, like myself, didn't change his complexion at all.

"Because every wine is delicious," Leon replied, laughing. Naturally, that's not the problem.

"I've never been drunk with alcohol.

Leon laughing carefully wiping his mouth with a cloth towel said so shortly after emptying six bottles of wine as declared. "Since that one incident, I've tried to know my tolerance," he says.

"Do you have any weaknesses in Temehe...

embedded. Somehow thinking so, Val leaned down with one hand holding his head like a pain. Sefek and Chemetho peek into his face worried on both sides wondering if he was drunk.

"That's how strong you are.

Tongue back to Leon's words. Val herself, I've never been crushed by alcohol where I said how much. But this was the first time I had ever seen a person other than myself who wasn't drunk.

"Do I look like I could be a good drinking buddy? Yours."

"I wish I could empty all of Temehe's liquor shelves. … Leon."

Returning the loudest tongue blow ever, Val drank the sixth bottle of wine in his hands all at once. It's okay, because it replenishes every day. And fed up with laughing Leon, Val just dropped in his seventh bottle of booze and showed Leon his hand.

"Huh... Va... Val Ha Ha Ha Ha"

Suddenly, Sefek, who had remained silent until just now, raised his voice. Grab Val's arm, stretched straight to Leon, and pull him toward himself. Suddenly he said, "Ah?" He lurked his eyebrows, and Leon rounded his eyes.

"Val is our family."

Kemeto grabbed Val's hem from the other side this time as he responded to Sefek, who seemed like Val's arm. "Damn... yes, it's ours!" staring at Leon as he hid in pulled Val's clothes.

"... Hey, Temehe et al. What are you talking about now?

I can't believe you got drunk with the smell of booze, and Val, who half-seriously thought so, compares the two left and right. Instead of both of us sticking together and staying away, he stared at Leon to intimidate him still, not himself.

You two, I know.

That Val doesn't like it and doesn't drink with anyone more than once.

That Val doesn't hate Leon at the point where he's already exchanged liquor several times.

Sometimes, that Val seems to enjoy chatting with Leon without a choice.

To the Lord, Pride, that Val's view of Leon had definitely changed since the day he somehow unraveled his "command" to Leon.

That's why.

"Huh... hahahahahahahahahahahaha..."

In those four eyes that intimidated him, Leon laughed uncomfortably. It was the first time for him to laugh out of his belly like this.

Val, who does not know what it means, rounds his eyes and compares them, now frowned between his eyebrows at Temehe or Leon.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Funny and funny, I laughed too much and tears accumulated in my eyes.

Leon finally understands. Tell me why it's been cold since Chemetho and Sefek started drinking with Val, who have treated me normally so far.

I thought I wasn't trusted yet, they hated me. I also wondered a lot about Val, Pride, and whether they hated me because I caused them a lot of trouble too, or whether the person I was was the object of disgust for both of us. But now I know.

They're jealous of me.

To Val, who is important to them, to me, who is starting to get closer.

"Jealousy. It was hard and sad when I found out that the emotions were being directed at me by my younger brothers.

But for the first time, I think there's some cute "jealousy" that keeps your chest warm up to this one you're looking at.

"... then I guess the evidence is getting a little closer...

I manage to finish laughing and look up and see Chemetho and Sefek pinching Val again. Two people who grabbed Val's arm, grabbed his sleeve, stuck together perfectly and couldn't leave.

I remember and think of the brothers and parents and children I saw several times when I went down the castle.

How sweet and adorable.

"I don't know... I'm starting to like you guys extra much...

A grin spills from the love that overflows from the inside. Val, who saw it, "It's not like it's a creepy thing," he cramped his face unwillingly.

... I knew I wanted to be friends with him, with them.

It's because they're the ones who have everything they don't want to do to themselves and don't hesitate to bump it.

It's just so much fun to exchange words.

And every time I get involved, my chest rises to various emotions.

Now I can even rush to "friend."

"... I wonder if I could give up my pride to you.

The roar echoes from Val, who is half confused, to the outside of the room. Soon afterwards, he was angry with Leon, who laughed teasingly, "I think it's hard," and it was shortly after that that that Val pulled Sefek and Chemetho's hand this time out of the room.

And it will only be a week before the contents of a large number of wine bottles disappear regularly overnight in Leon's room again.