# 9
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Our destination after work was a restaurant near the healing center.
It is my favorite restaurant that excels at serving the “Azrahil” fish dish, and I always enjoyed having a drink with “Brie” there.
“Director, I order fried fish and two glasses of black beer!”
As soon as we sat down and ordered our food, the good-looking manager appeared, smiling, carrying four glasses of black beer.
“The other two cups are a gift from me to the therapist who works so hard.”
Kyaaa, that's why I'm a therapist! As soon as I saw the cold beer I drooled.
The first cup is one dose!
While I was sipping a cold beer, I saw people entering the restaurant dressed as healers.
"Oh? Miss Kay? And Miss Bree too!"
There was the “bald” director of the center, senior therapists, some colleagues, and even new therapists! They waved happily at us as soon as they saw us.
Shit, the taste of the drink has spoiled. Do I have to see my bosses even here?
Let them eat and go quickly.
I bowed to them in confusion, but the “bald” center director approached our table without any consideration.
"Oh! Kai, you're here. I was going to invite the colleagues who have been tired lately at my expense! Let's join you!"
N… join? No thank you. Does he want me to get indigestion while drinking?
I tried to refuse firmly, but the center director called the rest of the colleagues:
"Guys! Everyone sit here!"
Then, the colleagues who were at the entrance rushed towards our table.
“I want to sit next to Miss Kay!”
One of the newcomers smiled brightly and sat next to me, holding my arm.
“Ahahaha, manager! Order us some wine.”
‘Celantonia’ freed for thirty years!”
The center director laughed enthusiastically and called the restaurant owner to order the finest types of wine.
With the table full of colleagues and the fine wines ordered by the manager, I could no longer refuse to join them.
Whatever happens, I will drink and have fun with them.
I started drinking with an open heart.
With the first and second cup, I started to feel euphoric and my mood improved.
Ha-ha-ha, the envoy is asking me to leave these interesting sessions! What a handsome envoy!
“This wine is for you, Kai! I brought it especially for you, so drink a lot today!”
The manager, who was always assigning me extra work, offered me a bottle of fine wine. In that moment, all my hatred for him disappeared.
"Oh! Thank you."
I drank the cups that the director poured for me over and over again.
Bree was next to me poking me in the side, but I didn't understand why. When I shrugged and looked at her, she put her hand on her forehead as if she couldn't stop me.
“Miss Kay! I can make amazing wine blends!”
At that time, the newcomer sitting next to me looked at me with sparkling eyes.
"Oh, really? Make us one!"
The manager encouraged her to do so, and the newcomer started smiling and mixing different types of wine.
"Tadaa! This is Mika's special blend! Hehe!"
The new lady offered me a cup.
Hmmm, it was cloudy in color and I did not want to drink it, but I could not refuse the request of the newcomer who was looking at me with admiration.
So, I slowly took the cup and took a sip.
The sweet taste spread in my mouth.
Hah! How can it be so delicious!
It was a taste that made my eyes widen.
I finished the cup in one go with a loud swallowing sound.
"Wow! Mika, this is so delicious!"
When I praised her in amazement, Mika shouted even more happily:
"Kyaa! I'll make you more!"
Mika excitedly started making more.
As the beer, wine, and unidentified beverages intermingled, my mind began to wander.
The world revolves around me.
From here, my memory tape was cut off.
“Ah… my head.”
I woke up with a severe headache as if my head was going to explode, and I opened my eyes with difficulty.
I saw the familiar ceiling of my room.
My body ached as if I had been beaten, my mouth was very dry, and the strong smell of alcohol came from deep inside me.
What happened exactly?
I tried to turn on my barely functioning brain.
Oh, I drank with my colleagues yesterday.
It's the effect of hangover.
No one tells me I made a mistake...
I groggily got up and opened the door.
My roommate, Bree, was eating breakfast at the table in the front of the room.
As soon as she saw me, she started laughing hysterically.
“Kkkkk…hahahahaha!”
Oh, if she was laughing like that at the sight of me, some misfortune must have happened yesterday.
I felt anxiety creeping over me, so I sat down at the table and asked groggily:
“Why are you laughing?”
Her laughter increased, then she wiped her tears and asked me:
“You, don’t you really remember anything?”
Yes, my head hurts so much that I don't remember anything.
What happened? I want to know! I wanted to answer like this, but because of the severity of the pain, I could not open my mouth, and I threw my face on the table.
Bree continued to laugh, then said cheerfully:
“Maybe it's better not to remember. You threw up on 'Sandal' senpai yesterday.” (Colleague Sandall)
Sandal…? Who is Sandal...?
While I was trying to remember the name, an image of the kind colleague who had worked at the center for seven years and who always greeted me politely came to mind.
Did I throw up on that person?
With that word, a faint memory began to appear in my foggy mind.
'Kay, kay! Wake up, are you okay?'
Someone was shaking my shoulder.
Ah... who is this?
I tried to hold on to my awareness and opened my eyes a little.
I saw Colleague Sandall's confused face.
The expression on Sandal's face, who was always so kind to me, was never good.
“Why did you make her drink all this if the envoy knew...”
Sandall was scolding someone.
“Wake up, Kai, you don’t have to stay here. Let’s go home.”
Sandal grabbed my arm to pull me up.
'Oh...what? 'Senpai (my colleague)...don't hold my arm like that.'
...Because my stomach has been really hurting for a while!
But my words were just an incomprehensible mumble inside my mouth.
And at that moment.
Awwwwwww! (vomiting sound)
So, I vomited directly on Colleague Sandall's recovery uniform.
. I'm done.
I felt desperate and buried my face further.
“Of course, that wasn't the end. Do you remember when you were tapping the director on the head?”
Upon hearing Bree's words, I raised my head in shock.
Did I tap my boss on the head?
Because of her words, a fragmentary memory of something round shining in the torchlight emerged.
"Wow! There's a pumpkin here! Do pumpkins grow here too?"
The pumpkin was so smooth that I started tapping on it
Knock knock knock.
Whenever I clicked on it, the noises around me became louder.
I thought those sounds were encouragement, so I continued tapping with more enthusiasm.
That was... a human head. He was my boss... my boss.
Due to extreme embarrassment, I hit my head on the table hard.
With that slight shock, another memory emerged.
"Hahaha, I'm sorry! Director! I... made a mistake, Fahika. Director... I vomited on your head! Fahhaha! Ahahaha, I thought it was a pumpkin! Fahhaha... However, since your head has absorbed a lot of nutrients, you will now have hair growing! Hahahaha!"
I felt a foreboding surrounding me.
“It’s impossible, Bree. Tell me this didn’t happen.”
"What? For a guy who's so sensitive about losing his hair... you told him his hair would grow back because you gave him too many nutrients after you vomited on him?"
Aaaaaagh! I'm crazy, I must have lost my mind.
It was a huge scandal.
Everyone was there, from newbies to veterans.
How am I going to go to work like this?
°Oh Kay, wine is the root of all evil, and the beginning of diseases. When Satan is too busy to visit people, he sends wine instead. Isn’t this the root of evil? It is right to stay away from alcohol.°
I remembered the envoy who was always repeating the teachings of the Terena religion.
Mr. Envoy, you were right.
Alcohol is the food of the devil and one must stay away from it.
It is too late to regret, I have crossed a river from which there is no return.
I felt like vomiting again, so I ran to the bathroom thinking:
I have to stop drinking now.
Alcohol is forbidden! If I drink again I'll be an animal!
❁Safa: Exactly true😑👍🏻❁
Aww!
I went to work groggy from the effects of hangover.
Fortunately, my work starts in the afternoon.
After rounds of vomiting, my body was extremely tired, but I had to work, so I pulled myself together and headed to the recovery center.
As I was dressing as a therapist and heading to the treatment room, the colleagues I passed asked me anxiously:
“Miss Kay, is your stomach okay?”
“You really shouldn't drink a lot of wine.”
My stomach was churning because of the alcohol, and my mind was almost exploding with embarrassment because of people's stares.
I was in real trouble.
The most difficult time was the meeting that included the director and all the therapists.
As soon as I entered the meeting room, everyone's eyes turned to me and the director.
Surprisingly, the director was calm.
“Let's start the meeting.”
The director looked as if nothing had happened.
When he was explaining the center's situation last week and reading the reports, he was behaving as usual.
Will it go smoothly...?
But that was just an illusion.
“Finally, regarding the issue of the mandate for the ‘Durkan’ region....”
As soon as the director said that, there was suddenly silence.
Durkan was a place where a lot of monsters usually appeared, so there were many missions there, but it was said that an army of monsters had appeared this time.
The risk of the work will certainly be greater.
So, despite announcing a request for volunteers, no one came forward.
The center director looked at me and smiled slightly.
Sweat began to pour out of me due to a vague feeling of danger.
Doesn't he tell me that...?
“This time, Kay will go.”