Monster Oath Wine 1

"C-Cross-cup wine?"

Hearing Kano's words, Dark Seele froze, taking a moment to process it. How had the conversation suddenly turned to drinking cross-cup wine?

And even if she were going to drink it, it should be with Bronya! Since when was it Kano's turn...

No, this wasn't Shenzhou. There was no custom of drinking cross-cup wine at weddings here. At the mention of cross-cup wine, Dark Seele suddenly remembered that in this country, sworn brothers and the like drank cross-cup wine.

There was also a cross-cup wine ritual among monsters.

"You mean Monster Oath Wine?"

Dark Seele thought for a moment and stared at Kano before her. Monster Oath Wine was cross-cup wine, and it was drunk the same way. She had learned of this wine long ago in the world of the Nurarihyon.

Nura Nurarihyon had relied on this very method to gather a force of Hyakki under his command.

Generally speaking, monsters placed great importance on promises. Once they drank cross-cup wine, they would not lightly betray that oath. Nura Nurarihyon and his Hyakki's centuries of history made that clear.

"That's right, Monster Oath Wine!"

Kano nodded directly.

"Thirty-seventy? Or fifty-fifty?"

Dark Seele did not answer immediately, instead asking her outright. If it were fifty-fifty, Dark Seele would refuse without hesitation—or even kill her.

Cross-cup wine was divided into thirty-seventy and fifty-fifty. Fifty-fifty meant the two parties split the wine equally, signifying that they had become sworn siblings of equal standing. A thirty-seventy split meant the one who drank the lesser portion voluntarily pledged loyalty to the one who drank seventy percent.

Given what Kano had done before, Dark Seele naturally would not drink fifty-fifty with her.

"I would prefer to say fifty-fifty, but... you wouldn't agree to that, would you? Then thirty-seventy it is... I'll take thirty,