Chapter 102: The Wine of Disappearance
Rie Sakai walked into a frequented water bar near the Tokyo University of the Arts and saw Ryoumi Sato and Saki Watanabe in a remote corner.
“You guys made me look for you, why did you choose to sit inside the corner?” Sakai Rie said with a smile on her face as she walked towards them.
She walked over to the table and pulled out a chair and sat down at the same time, removing the headphones inside her ears and added, “I’ll show you guys a piece of high technology that I haven’t seen before.”
Rie Sakai placed the MP3 on the tabletop and presented it for her two classmates to see. Not only Satou Ryoumi and Watanabe Saeki, but also the waitress who came over to ask the customers what they needed to order showed unreserved curiosity about this little cube.
“Rie, what is this?” Watanabe Saki had never seen one before.
“It’s called an MP3, for listening to songs. It’s the functional equivalent of a CD player, but it’s lighter to carry around than a CD player.” Rie Sakai explained.
“You’re fooling us! You can listen to songs on such a gadget?” Sato Ryoumi said in utter disbelief that this could be true.
“If you don’t believe me, just put on the headphones and listen to it and you’ll understand everything.” Rie Sakai said as she picked up the headphones on the desktop and handed them towards her.
Satou Ryoumi took them and put them on her ears left and right and said, “Why is there no sound? I told you Rie was cheating!”
“I haven’t clicked play yet, so of course there’s no sound. Look how anxious your nature is.” Sakai Rie smiled.
As soon as she spoke, she clicked the play button, and immediately the sound of the song traveled from inside the earbuds into Satou Ryoumi’s ears.
Sato Ryoumi’s surprised expression was exactly the same as Rie Sakai’s first encounter with MP3s, and she even danced around a bit and said, “There’s sound, there’s really a song to listen to.”
Watanabe Saeki’s head leaned towards Sato Ryoumi’s direction, reached out and took off one of the other party’s earbuds and put it into one of her own ears, and also showed her excitement, “It’s really singing, it’s the theme song of ‘Tokyo Love Story’, ‘Sudden Love’.”
The waitress, who was standing next to the table to see the novelty, looked at the excitement of the two of them and believed that the thing placed on the table could be used to listen to songs.
“Give me a Pepsi with ice.” Rie Sakai said as she ordered the drink she wanted.
The waitress responded with a “just a moment” before turning around and leaving with some reluctance. In fact, even she herself wanted to listen to the song coming out of the earbuds.
“Where did you buy this thing? I’m going to buy one too.” Satou Ryoumi asked with a smile.
“It’s currently not available in Tokyo for the time being. These are all the accompanying gifts he brought back for me from abroad.” Rie Sakai said truthfully.
“Look. Rie is dead set against admitting that her one fianc茅 is good to her above her mouth. But now, the facts are in front of us.
How is it that there’s no one who specializes in bringing me such good things from abroad? I am the woman who has no one to love.” Watanabe Saki laughed softly and grumbled to herself.
“It’s not like I’m the only one who has one, my sister Meiling has one too.” Sakai Rie defended.
“Is it okay if I give you a sister? Just give me this one!” Sato Ryoumi said with more than a playful smile.
“No more talking to you guys. What’s the burning matter that you had to ask me to come out and meet with you to tell me?” Rie Sakai said as she cut to the chase.
Sato Ryoumi didn’t rush to say anything, but waited for the waitress to bring Rie Sakai’s order of a cold Pepsi to the table and set it up, and walked away before she was ready to speak.
She took off her earplugs, deliberately lowered her voice, and said in a mysterious manner, “Have you guys heard? Just last night, Maeda Mana, a Western Painting major, was f**ked by a man from off-campus who hangs out with the community inside one of the bar’s restrooms.”
“Really, fake?” Watanabe Saki also took off her headphones, not quite believing it.
“Would I talk nonsense about something like this? This one source of mine is absolutely reliable. Last night, she just drank two small bottles of beer and passed out drunk. Then, the getting f**ked happened.” Satou Ryoumi gossiped.
“I know, I know, it must have been drugged inside the alcohol.” Watanabe Saki naturally associated it with a certain scenario that appeared in a bar inside a movie or drama said.
“Do you think it’s an act? I reckon that nine times out of ten, Maeda Mana drank Belgium’s Delirium beer. This kind of beer is also known as the Lost Body Wine.
For people who can’t hold their liquor, or those who haven’t drank before, they would definitely drink it and fall down. What’s more, a small bottle of beer is 330ML, that is, the amount of a Coke there, it is even easier for people to put down their guard.
Once you open this kind of beer that also has a fruity flavor, it is easy to be attracted by the taste. Not only that, the flavor tastes quite good when you drink it.
Completely do not feel is drinking, which the alcohol flavor by the wine inside the fruity flavor is well covered, there is a kind of illusion is to drink fruit juice drinks like.
The blue one is called deep pink elephant beer, don’t look at the label on the pink elephant feel a little cute, but the goods inside the wine can not be cute, 8.5 degrees of alcohol concentration is very high.
Red called pink elephant to give strength to the cherry beer, elephant ears on the hanging two cherries, in addition to the degree is also a little lower, alcohol 8 degrees, still does not meet the appearance of its adorable, very lethal. Maeda Mana got hit on this.” Sakai Rie objectively analyzed.
“You know your stuff!” Satou Ryoumi and Watanabe Saeki exclaimed in unison while staring at her in silent unison.
“Turns out I don’t even know anything about it, it’s all he told me. Told me to be more mindful when I go to bars to have fun. Thousands and thousands of times don’t go alone as a girl.
Even if a lot of people go together, don’t drink what strangers buy. Don’t drink even a small beer opened in front of you.
He has also told me that there is another 695ML listening cocktail Four Loko, originating from the United States, with a high alcohol content of 12%, which is much more lethal, and is also called the Lost Body Drink.
To be precise, it’s the PLUS version of the Lost Body Drink. Even people who are good drinkers are still able to put you down for good with just two cans.
This wine is about as deceptive as a little pink elephant beer, and not only does it taste great, but the alcohol is well masked by the fruity flavor.
These drinks don’t feel like much for the first ten minutes of the night, but they have a strong aftertaste that can easily knock you over once you’re on top.
What unsuspecting men show up inside the bar will do everything they can to encourage you to get a quick drink.” Rie Sakai said one by one.
“Your fianc茅 is so good to you.” Satou Ryoumi said with feeling.
“That’s just it. We wouldn’t have known about all this defense against going to a nightclub. A girl must be more careful, and it’s true that you should never drink a drink bought by a stranger.” Watanabe Saki said seriously.