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Chapter 7: If I should throw God away

Emerald Mist: Don’t you think you’re moving a bit fast today?

MC: I think I’ve gotten the hang of making these cocktails. I think I’m slowly becoming more like a bar master. It’s exciting.

Emerald Mist: The test we gave you was made to test your skill on basic cocktails. Clearly the difficulty of that test wasn’t enough.

MC: Are you trying to say that I’m unable to arrange them properly with where I’m at now?

Emerald Mist: Exactly. When you had your test, you were able to connect memories to the Hot Brandy Milk you made for master. However, if a first time customer came to the bar, I’m can't say you would be able to make something generic to satisfy them.

MC: So I’m still at the starting like when it comes to serving cocktails….This is going to be a long process.

Emerald Mist: Understanding that you are still unable to do it is improvement in itself. There’s still plenty of time. I’ll tell you more about arrangements and how to do them. Let’s hypothesize about a customer…. Say a young, female customer comes in who is still not used to drinking cocktails, and she orders a salty dog. If this is a new situation for you, it will be easy to think of a way to arrange a cocktail for her.

MC: Right. If she’s not used to drinking cocktails, then the best course of action would be to create something easy to drink for her.

Emerald Mist: Of course, because you’d ask what sorts of flavors she likes. You must be considerate when serving female customers in front of others.

MC: This is all in the case of female customers? I wonder why.

Emerald Mist: Hm… Perhaps in your case, you wouldn’t think of it…

MC: You mean… their lipstick? You mean I should take into consideration their lipstick when suggesting an order??

Emerald Mist: You may find some trouble since they will wonder “is this safe?” or “is this bad?” but yeah, that’s exactly it. We would make them a salty dog with a snow style full moon, salt all along the rim. However, in order to help regulate the flavor of the drink or be considerate about how the salt will stick to the woman’s lipstick, we only put salt on half the drink, make a half moon.

MC: So we should also do the same thing for customers who want to hold back on their salt intake?

Emerald Mist: Precisely. Next, we will talk about how to arrange drinks to make them easier for customers to handle.

Moulin Rouge: Hey, you guys are here early. Are we disturbing you?

White Lady: How sneaky of you… interesting…

Emerald Mist: Fools. I’m only teaching her how to be a better bar master.

White Lady: You’re doing this all on your own? Amazing, Emerald Mist.

Emerald Mist: If you have free time you can just throw around, then spend it cleaning the bar before we open!

White Lady: Ah! Scary! I’m gonna head to the kitchen

Emerald Mist: As for the cocktail arrangements, I’ll tell you another day. Just review everything we went over for today. I’m going to put our sign out, you, start getting things ready.

Moulin Rouge: Hahaha, next time I want to be the one to teach you.

MC: It’s really not like that. There are still things I don’t know how to use. He was showing me…

Moulin Rouge: I guess tutors are some of the only people who don’t hate teaching

MC: Ah……

Moulin Rouge: Well, let’s get everything ready, shall we?

MC: Table 7 is asking for a Blue Bird and a Daiquiri… huh? You’re supposed to stir it, aren’t you?

Moulin Rouge: It’s not a standard cocktail, but you’ve learned how to make it, huh? So why do I shake it? Take a look, the girl who ordered it, she seems like the type of girl who likes drinks that go down smooth. When you shake it, it creates more air bubbles in the drink, and makes it easier going down. Why don’t you try it next time?

MC: (Even though Emerald Mist said doing things like could change the flavor, he does it)

Moulin Rouge: I want you to be careful when carrying this. That table over there looks like they’re fighting a bit

Female Customer: What is this?? Are you saying you’re lying to me?

Male Customer: I don’t want people to hear this. Ayaka, I told you to calm down.

Ayaka: I will not calm down!!! 10 women?? What the fuck is wrong with you? You’re saying you’re going to bars just to meet women? You bastard!

MC: Um…. Do I still have to take this over there?

Moulin Rouge: Sorry…. All I can say to that guy is good luck when she starts attacking…
*punch*
Yikes…

Ayaka: You bastard! You’ve been doing this for that long! Never call me again!

Male Customer: Wait! Please! Ayaka!

Ayaka: Fuck you! I wish I never would have come here!

MC: Wait! Please wait a moment!

Moulin Rouge: Hey!