What is needed for a Dungeon expedition?
Strength? Supplies? Valis?
They all matter, but there is one thing just as important as any of them.
That is...
"Drink up!!!"
""""""Ooooh!!!""""""
Camaraderie among companions.
The Loki Familia was drinking as if they had completely forgotten that they had an expedition the next afternoon.
Aiz and I arrived late after sorting through what we'd obtained in the Dungeon and exchanging it for cash, then took a seat with the executives.
"Oh, you're late."
"We were in the Dungeon. Here."
I showed Finn the barbarian's tooth.
"You went pretty deep, didn't you? How did you get down there so fast?"
"I broke through with a magic sword."
"That's a method only you could use."
Finn kept gulping down ale and beer.
"Got something on your mind?"
"Yeah..."
Finn let out a sigh while looking at Loki, who was talking to Aiz across from him.
"You get it, right?"
"Ah..."
Right now, Loki was...
"Waaah!!!"
"Loki, you're being clingy."
...sobbing while hanging onto Aiz.
"...She isn't drunk?"
She was completely sober.
"The child she treated like a daughter has become independent... no, is living with a man, so she turned out like this."
"..."
A daughter-like child...
"Her hand is going to her chest, though?"
"...Hahaha."
Finn took another swig of alcohol.
Watching him keep drinking without even any side dishes made my vision blur a little.
"Should I make some snacks?"
"Hahaha... please do."
I had to eat too, so maybe meat would be best...
"Mia, mind if I use the kitchen?"
"Sure thing!"
Now then... there were plenty of ingredients...
"...Maybe skewers would be good?"
I quickly made some corn cheese and grilled skewers and brought them out.
"Tastes good... Next time, please make salmon too."
"If I have it, I'll try."
The executives' faces had gone a little red from the drink.
"Aren't you drinking?"
"No."
I didn't especially like alcohol, so I wasn't drinking.
If I drank for no reason, then Aiz—
"Hic!"
...Aiz had a weak tolerance for alcohol.
Two years ago, she drank a little leftover ale I'd had and immediately got drunk and caused a scene.
She probably pinned me down and slept while hugging me that time, didn't she?
That was why the Loki Familia executives never offered Aiz any alcohol.
They never knew what would happen if Aiz got drunk.
"Hic!"
"Damn it..."
Lately, I'd been blocking her from drinking beside me, but...
While I was busy cooking for a moment, it seemed Aiz had managed to drink some.
"Uuunn..."
Aiz was Level 7 now.
"Bellf... where are you...?"
Therefore,
"Ah... found you..."
there was no one in Orario who could stop her now...!