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Chapter 3: I still don’t know

MC: I feel like my will is going to break already. I just know I’m going to mix up the bases; there’s so many recipes that look the same. Argh! It’s useless!
Ah, come in!

Tom Collins: Seems like you’re….not making progress with your studies. Kiss in the Dark brought some tea and snacks. Why don’t you take a break for awhile?

MC: But I haven’t learned any recipes yet…

Tom Collins: You know, it’s also bad to push yourself so hard. You need to take appropriate breaks. Come on, I’ll make you some tea.

MC: Alright, you’ve convinced me

Pink Lady: The sweets Kiss in the Dark brings home are always so cute and delicious!

Kiss in the Dark: If it makes you that happy, then I suppose I should bring them more often

Emerald Mist: Oh, how are you feeling?

MC: I’m having a bit of trouble. I keep mixing up the recipes I’m studying.

Emerald Mist: Maybe because you’re studying them like you would study flash cards for math equations. If you separate the information into categories, then you wouldn’t get stuck like that.

Tom Collins: Speaking of which, aren’t those of us who are good at studying already in this room?

Emerald Mist: Are you planning on asking for my help? I should tell you, I am very strict.

Moulin Rouge: Wouldn’t that be a good thing? Instead of studying per se, we’d be talking about cocktails. And wouldn’t it be good for her to increase her knowledge about them while talking about them?

Tom Collins: There we go. I guess you could say there are many stories about cocktails. For example, Moulin Rouge’s name.

Pink Lady: It’s the same name as a club in France. It’s a place where women provide customers with sexy dances night after night.

MC: Sexy dances… I see. That’s why he’s like this.

Moulin Rouge: That’s not it! It’s because it’s an elegant show where high class customers go to watch!

MC: So if you and the cocktails you’re named after have some sort of connection, then that means…. The recipe for an Emerald Mist requires chili peppers, doesn’t it?

Emerald Mist: You sad idiot. You stir together 45ml of Drambuie and 20 ml of Blue Curacao, then Old Fashioned Douglass, and your pour it over crushed ice. This is the recipe for an Emerald Mist.

Kiss in the Dark: And due to the crushed ice, the exterior of a chilled glass will appear as if it’s covered in mist. It’s such a beautiful and fantastic cocktail. It’s also sweet, so many women ask for it.

MC: I guess the cocktail doesn’t relate to your personalities then

Pink Lady: But Kamikaze is just like his cocktail. If you take out cranberry juice from the recipe for a cosmopolitan, you get a Kamikaze.

Moulin Rouge: And if you were to add juice, he'd have more courtesy and charm.

MC: So just by changing one ingredient, you’d have an entirely different drink. This is so difficult.

Emerald Mist: Of course, the flavor can change even according to the order you make the drink. This is where the bartender’s personality really comes out.

Kiss in the Dark: It’s really interesting when you think about it. Whenever you change the proportions of the ingredients, even if they're all the same, you'll have a different cocktail that goes by a different name.

MC: Even though the recipe is the same, it will have a different name? Can you give me an example?

Tom Collins: We’ll tell you about them later. For now, why don’t we go over what you just learned and prepare for your test?

Pink Lady: If you think it was easy learning the ingredients this way, why don’t you try talking to everyone else too?

MC: Good idea! If I can speak to everyone, then this way of learning won’t put me to sleep.

Emerald Mist: It seems like you can learn that way. I hope you can get some good practice in. Everyone learns things in their own way.

Moulin Rouge: I feel bad that I couldn’t offer you any advice.

Emerald Mist: You helped plenty. If it wasn’t for you, she would have given up already.

MC: Okay! Once I finish my tea, I’m going to talk to everyone!