"Th-This... whose chewed sake is this?"
Sirin immediately fixed Kaede with a stern stare. If it was the worst-case scenario, she felt like she might kill someone.
"...K-Kikyo's... sister's."
Feeling the disturbance emanating from Sirin, Kaede felt as though she were caught in a raging storm. She glanced at Kikyo and hurriedly answered.
Chewed Sake
"What? Kikyo... Kikyo! Thank goodness... thank goodness!"
Sirin froze, then immediately looked at Kikyo beside her. Once she realized what was going on, she let out a huge sigh of relief.
If it had been someone else's, Sirin felt she really would have killed someone.
Anyone who had seen your name probably understood what chewed sake was. Or rather... its name alone made it obvious what kind of liquor it was.
Chewed sake was made by chewing something in one's mouth, spitting it out, and then fermenting it into alcohol.
Still... that was actually considered acceptable. The important thing was what kind of person made the chewed sake.
If it was made by a loving couple, many couples fed each other mouth-to-mouth anyway, which was basically no different from chewed sake.
So for many people, if a beautiful woman—a goddess—fed you mouth-to-mouth, would you refuse?
Obviously not. They would be thrilled beyond belief. So if the person making the chewed sake was a goddess, a pure and beautiful woman, plenty of people would gladly accept it.
And wasn't Kikyo exactly that kind of goddess?
Chewed sake was actually not that bad. There was also an extremely expensive liquor that had to be mixed with a young boy's urine. Compared to chewed sake, wasn't that even more disgusting?
What Sirin did not understand was... why would Kikyo make chewed sake?
It clearly had never been mentioned in the original story. Although the plot had completely