Divine Liquor Banquet, Failed Withdrawal, All According to Plan, the Dwarf Girl's Challenge!

"Why are all those people gathered outside the familia?"

Chanis stood by the window with a frown, staring at the dense crowd outside the residence as he questioned his trusted follower.

The Divine Liquor Banquet was the Soma Familia's grand event, but it was also the day they dumped large quantities of inferior Divine Wine on outsiders. Chanis had recently been busy receiving Big Customers and had not paid much attention to the familia.

"Lord Chanis, they are all peripheral members who came to attend the Divine Liquor Banquet."

His trusted follower answered the captain.

"Oh? The peripheral members are doing pretty well this year. So many of them actually saved enough for admission and a drink?"

Chanis said in high spirits. In the distant past, the Divine Liquor Banquet had been an exchange meeting for brewing wine techniques, but now it had become a day for him to siphon off the wealth of familia members.

Admission to drink cost money, and anyone who wanted to taste Soma's newest Divine Wine had to bid for it. It was far more profitable than selling Divine Wine normally.

Of course, if Divine Wine were sold normally to outsiders, it would merely be somewhat expensive rather than unaffordable. Chanis simply chose to keep supplies scarce on ordinary days in order to better control the Soma Familia.

Only on the day of the Divine Liquor Banquet would he loosen the supply of Divine Wine and satisfy the thirst that had built up in those drunkards' hearts over the year.

"Uh, Chanis, it is not like that."

"Hm?"

"Some bastard spread word that this year's Divine Liquor Banquet would be free, and that everyone who came could drink a small cup of Divine Wine. That caused those peripheral members, along with other drunks who caught