Streamer Crazy About Slaughter - Chapter 101

After ordering sushi, I didn’t order any alcohol separately.

Since Sua said the wines we brought weren’t that strong, I thought that would be enough.

Ding.

With the notification that the food had been delivered, Sua took the food and began to set it up on the living room table near the window where we could enjoy the night view.

Sruuk.

Sruuk.

I wondered if we ordered from a rather expensive place; as I unwrapped each food package, I looked at Sua, thinking how could the food packaging be so luxurious.

“Oh, it’s not as expensive as I thought, noona Serin.”

Maybe she sensed my gaze, as Sua smiled shyly and said that, but honestly, I couldn’t believe it.

I looked at the packaging.

It was wrapped in golden silk, making it look expensive just at first glance.

“How can this not be expensive?”

“It’s just that compared to the wine noona Serin brought, that’s what I meant. And noona, are you really going to keep looking at me like that?”

She tried to change the subject as if embarrassed, and while I played along, it felt odd.

With the food set up on my side, I turned my attention to the wines we brought today.

Thud.

I took the bottles out one by one from the packaged box and placed them on the table, and suddenly, Sua burst into a small giggle.

“Noona Serin, how many bottles did you even buy?”

“…Looks like four bottles.”

I replied as I placed the last wine down.

“Noona, are all these wines sweet? I can’t handle bitter or sour wines.”

“I ordered them all marked as sweet, so they should all be sweet.”

So, we exchanged some small talk and finished setting everything up.

The luxurious-packed sushi boasted beautiful colors as they decorated the table, and the wines with elegant labels lined one side of the table, looking quite sophisticated at a glance.

Sruuk.

Sitting at the table and turning my head, the huge window naturally filled my view with the dazzling colors of the urban nightscape.

I inadvertently opened my mouth.

“When I sent the message, I had only thought of a light drinking session, but this feels quite luxurious.”

The situation felt amusing, leading me to glance at Sua.

I hadn’t expected this kind of gathering at all; the food, the drinks, and even the setting had a certain charm.

“Isn’t it all because of the wine you brought, noona?”

Sua fiddled with a bottle of wine at one side of the table, laughing as if it was absurd.

“Oh, right. And if we change the lighting like this…”

She suddenly started fiddling with her phone, seemingly adjusting something.

—Thud.

All at once, the interior turned dim, but soon, a soft light brightened around the table set with the food.

As I glanced up slightly, I saw a light directly above softly illuminating the table.

“How is it!?”

Sua was looking at me with an expression that seemed to be waiting for my reaction, like a child seeking praise, which made me smile involuntarily.

“It has a nice feeling to it.”

“Right? It has a nice feeling! Even when I have no particular thoughts, just sitting at the table and looking at the night view makes me feel at ease.”

Listening to Sua, I grabbed the wine opener that came with the luxurious packaging.

“So, what should we drink first?”

Figuring it would be better to have at least one drink before we eat, I asked.

“I don’t know much about wine. Noona Serin, please pick one.”

“I’m not that knowledgeable about wine either.”

I hardly had any experience with drinking at all. The only memory I had was when I had too much money in the world of Black Ark, so I just tried expensive wines out of curiosity.

“Still, you know more than I do, right?”

Hesitating at her encouraging words about what to choose, I slipped my hand to the wine right in front of me.

From what I remembered when ordering, the wine name was Gonzales Bias…?

It was a wine with a name that was hard to read.

All I could see was a black wine bottle covered in a golden label.

Carefully lifting the wine, I peeled off the entrance label with the sharp end of the wine opener and corked it without hesitation.

Kzzak. Sruuk.

Thud!

The cork popped out of the wine, making a subtle sound.

“Wow! Noona Serin, why are you so natural at this? You sounded like a sommelier just now. Truly.”

As Sua was in awe right in front of me, I felt embarrassed. I wondered what real sommeliers would think if they heard that.

“First… can you pass me a glass?”

I accepted the glass from Sua and carefully poured the wine.

Swirl.

After pouring an appropriate amount into the wine glass, I gently handed it to Sua.

“Noona, do you have a specific way to drink wine?”

As she took the wine, Sua asked, and I shook my head slightly.

“No, there’s nothing special, just that since the wines we brought all have a certain alcohol content, we shouldn’t drink too much at once.”

Swirl.

Pouring some wine into my own glass, thoughts of wine etiquette came to mind, but the truth was I had never adhered to such things.

I had only drunk because there was nowhere else to spend the money piling up in another world. Talking about wine etiquette while being the way I was seemed even more ridiculous.

Thud.

With that, I set the wine down and looked at Sua while holding the glass.

She seemed to be anticipating something, her eyes sparkling as she held her wine glass, and I lifted my glass in response.

Cheers.

As our glasses clinked together, the sound ringing out with the rich golden wine in the glasses swaying gently.

“…”

“…”

Then we each brought our glasses to our mouths.

The first sensation of the wine I felt was that of a dense nutty flavor hitting me strongly.

And afterward, a surge of sweetness came flooding in.

Before I could swallow the wine a few times, I pulled the glass away from my lips.

Somehow, this wine felt too sweet for me to handle.

“Wow, it’s really good.”

In contrast, Sua was sipping the wine repeatedly, clearly a perfect match for her taste.

I picked up a piece of bright pink sushi with my chopsticks and brought it to my mouth.

Soon, the firm texture of the sushi and the taste of the sauce filled my mouth.

“…It’s delicious.”

“Noona! Is it tasty?”

“Yeah.”

“Thank goodness.”

Seeing Sua say that it was a relief made me chuckle involuntarily.

……

After a while, even though it felt like we had just clinked our wine glasses, our faces were flushed red, making it clear to anyone that we were both drunkenly intoxicated.

Feeling the heat in my cheeks, Serin placed her hand on her hot cheek and stared at the table with blurred focus.

“…Ha.”

The colors of the food reflected in the lights looked strangely overlapped.

‘I’m drunk.’

Even while realizing that I was quite tipsy, I picked up an abalone to eat.

I could feel its unique chewy texture as I blankly lifted my head to look ahead.

While Sua was taking a few bites of sushi as if sampling it, she hadn’t actually touched the sushi again.

In reality, I was the only one eating.

“Come on, Sua, honestly, you don’t really like sushi, do you?”

“Huh… I don’t know… I don’t know… By the way, noona, what kind of wine did you buy? It’s really delicious…”

With her flushed face and silly grin, Sua quickly changed the subject, but it was clear she didn’t particularly like sushi.

‘If you feel that way, why didn’t you just say so beforehand?’

With a blank sigh, I shook my head, and suddenly recalled a few days ago like déjà vu.

It was my appearance, barely nibbling on the fried food while ordering tteokbokki.

“Should we order a new snack?”

So I opened my mouth, looking at Sua.

But I was startled by the sight of Sua bringing the wine bottle to her mouth like a bottle of beer.

Swish.

Before it could even touch her lips, I snatched the wine away and set it down far away from Sua.

Thud.

“Oh, noona Serin~!”

She flailed her hands as if dissatisfied about having the wine taken away, and I couldn’t help but wonder what she was doing.

I had told her beforehand that the alcohol content was high; I couldn’t believe she was trying to chug the wine like that.

How would she deal with the hangover when she woke up tomorrow?

“No… when did you finish it all?”

Then I noticed the wine bottles scattered around Sua.

Ever since I poured her the first glass, she seemed to have completely fallen into the wine; it looked like she had nearly only drunk wine.

“Ah, noona~~~ give me the wine quickly.”

She reached out, begging for the wine, but I held her hand to prevent her from touching the wine, letting out a blank chuckle.

Her childish demeanor, resembling a kid who had a toy taken away, was cute, but it seemed necessary to calm her down.

“Hold on a second; I’ll get you some water.”

Raising myself up from my seat, I took the wine away and headed toward the kitchen.

Swirl.

I pressed the water dispenser button and filled a cup with cold water, and to wake myself a bit from the alcohol, I pulled out another cup to fill with cold water.

“…Oh, noona is back.”

As I returned to the table, I found Sua poking at an empty wine bottle, and I couldn’t help but be amused.

“What are you doing…?”

I placed the water cup right in front of her, wondering what she was up to.

“Noona… where’s the wine? Didn’t you just go to get wine?”

She spoke in a babbling manner, making no sense, which caused me to burst into laughter.

Initially, I intended to chat about something while drinking with Sua, but now it didn’t seem to matter at all.

“Here, drink this; it’s wine.”

Jokingly pointing to the water cup, I said that, but she looked at me as if I were absurd.

“Noona Serin… this is water.”

Why was she suddenly being so serious?

“Sua, you’re not actually drunk, are you?”

“Uh… maybe?”

Seeing Sua smile ambiguously made me let out a chuckle.

…

After that, their night continued with meaningless bickering.

***

My head felt like it would split open.

“Aah…”

I unconsciously groaned at the headache, bringing my hand to my head.

As I habitually smoothed my hair… I naturally opened my eyes.

Something felt off.

“Where… am I?”

Muttering words that came to mind, I tried to gather my thoughts.

“Noona, when will you come back with the wine…?”

Then I heard muttering and turned my head to see a familiar figure.

“Sua?”

And only then did I realize I had woken up in Sua’s bedroom.

Sruuk.

As I lifted and arranged my disheveled white hair, I blankly tried to recall my memories.

I clearly remembered moving a drunk Sua to the bedroom to get her to sleep.

But the memories after that were gone.

Sua clinging to me like a child and whining for me not to leave until she fell asleep was probably the last thing that happened.

I must have drifted off to sleep myself in the process.

Thud.

Just then, struggling under the covers, Sua revealed her pale legs, capturing my attention involuntarily.

“When exactly did she take off her clothes?”

Seeing her vulnerably exposed prompted a strange sensation, despite being a woman myself.

Although it’s summer, I reached out my hand to cover her with the blanket again.

“…?”