Tea Party

"What's Riesling?"

Bai Ye blinked, not quite understanding what Muelsyse was talking about. She was using the common tongue, and he understood every word she said, but when they were strung together, he was at a loss.

"Riesling is a kind of Grape, usually used to make wine," Muelsyse explained.

"So, it's grape wine?" Bai Ye said in realization.

Muelsyse snapped her fingers.

"That's right."

"Mm-hm, mm-hm. As expected, alcohol really isn't for me... Can I just have black tea?" Bai Ye pondered for a moment before tilting his head.

Muelsyse rolled her eyes.

"Coming to a bar for black tea—aren't you missing the point here? ...Fine, I'll get you a cup of hot beast milk. According to the information we have, the bounty hunter White Yaksha unexpectedly prefers beast milk to hard liquor."

"That's adorable~"

Silence blinked and turned her head to look at Bai Ye through her glasses.

"Yeah, it's hard to deny that—but has Rhine Lab's grasp of my information already reached this level?"

Although Bai Ye had always called it milk, it seemed there was actually no such species as cows in Terra.

Instead, there was a creature known as a tumor beast, which could provide milk with a texture similar to Earth's cow's milk—the "milk" Bai Ye spoke of.

Likewise, animals that provided meat were called meat beasts or livestock beasts, while those used for labor were known as pack beasts.

As they spoke, Muelsyse brought Bai Ye a cup of hot beast milk, sprinkling some salt grains over it.

"And what about you, Miss Silence?"

Silence shook her head.

"Plain water will do."

Bai Ye and Muelsyse exchanged a glance. As expected of Silence—he had known she would choose that.

Holding his hot milk, Bai Ye sat beside Silence, while Muelsyse took the seat