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It was a sunny afternoon, and since I had no particular plans and was a bit bored, I decided to play with Bell and Lynn and headed for the backyard, where I saw Nebula and Illness-san.
Well, the two are good friends and usually have tea in the backyard, but today, they were standing and discussing something with what seemed to be a book in their hands.
[What are you two doing?]
[Ahh, I was going to talk to Milord about it later, but weāre thinking of buying a kiln.]
[Yeeeees. Nebula and I have been talkiiiiiiiing about making prototypes of teacups and suuuuuuch. Thatās whyyyyyyy weāre thinking of buying a ceramic kiiiiiiiln. Weāre planning to find a magic tool one that doesnāt exude fuuuuuuumes, but for the time beiiiiiiiiing, we thought of checking out their plaaaaaaaaaace.]
ā¦ā¦Theyāre making their own teacups? Come to think of it, I think both of them had been making wooden tableware and such latelyā¦ā¦ Theyāre finally getting into pottery huh.
[We would try to place it in a position where it wouldnāt be a hindrance to Bellfried and Lindwurmā¦ā¦ so would it be alright to buy it?]
[Eh? U- Unnn. Well, I have no problem using the space with whatever you want. Thereās more than enough space even in just the backyard anyway, so if thereās something else you want to put there, youāre free to do so.]
As for Illness-san and Nebula, I donāt have anything to worry about them. Whenever they do something, they would always come to me for permission before doing it, so Iām never surprised and they donāt really do anything strange.
Even so, Iāve already thought of Nebula as a bit of a meticulous person, but I never thought she would make her own teacupsā¦ā¦
[Thank you. Milord would be the first one weāll show our tea cups to when we finish them.]
[Unnn, Iām looking forward to it. Speaking of which, it looks like the tea plantation is growing quite wellā¦ā¦ No, I mean, werenāt they growing too fast? How is that possible?]
[Ahh, weāve magically accelerated their rate of growth, and weāve actually already harvested some of the leaves to make tea.]
The tea plantation Nebula created in the backyard really grew up before I knew it, and according to her, it has already been harvested.
[The tea leaves are very nice, you knoooow? Nebulaās ideas really amazes meeeee. Itās no exaggeratioooooon to say that her tea leaaaaaaves will revolutionize the tea industryyyyy.]
[As expected, thatās just an exaggeration. I was going to offer them to Milord when it was a little more perfectedā¦ā¦ but if you donāt mind, would you like to try a sample?]
[Is it alright? I certainly am interested, and I would love to try it if I could.]
Hearing that top-notch maid Illness-san, who has drunk many kinds of tea, saying that those tea leaves would bring about a revolution certainly makes me curious, so I nodded at Nebulaās suggestion and sat down at the table in the backyard where they often have tea.
Thereupon, Illness-san went back to the house once before coming back a few minutes later pushing a cart towards my table, skillfully brewed a pot of tea and served it to me.
[ā¦ā¦Arehh? Isnāt this Glorious Tea?]
[Yeeeees, thatās riiiiiight. Buuuuuut, as a bleeeend, I have added a small amount of Nebulaās tea leaaaaaaves.]
[The tea leaves I had made are not to be drunk by themselves, but to be blended with other teas.]
[Heehhhā¦ā¦ I seeā¦ā¦ Well then, letās take a sip-!? Eh? The heck, this is greatā¦ā¦ This is definitely Glorious Tea, but itās clearly tastier than the Glorious Teas Iāve had so far.]
It was very difficult to describe how I felt. The taste is definitely Glorious Tea. I donāt feel any other flavors added to it.
But for some reason, it was clearly tastier than the Glorious Teas I had had several times before. Itās hard to describe it, but it just first right into my tasteā¦ā¦
[ā¦ā¦What kind of tea leaves did Nebula make?]
[The tea leaves I make adds an āoff-flavorā to the tea.]
[Ehh? Off-flavor? Wouldnāt that make food less tasty?]
[On the contrary, that really isnāt the case. This may sound a little strange, but what is the most delicious tea? Is it the one in which the taste and aroma had been enhanced to the utmost limits? No, in the pursuit of the ultimate taste, no one can arrive at an absolute right answer, as long as personal preference is added to the equation.]
Saying this, Nebula takes out the tea leaves that she probably made herself and placing them on the table, she continued.
[Then, the role of these tea leaves, so to speakā¦ā¦ is to add a subtle off-flavor to the tea, which āgives the tea its unique tasteā. This range of flavors allows the tea to suit individual tastes, and raises the original taste from 100 points to 120 points. Of course, itās very difficult to adjust the amount of these tea leaves to be used in oneās drink, because you canāt use too little or too much of it, but by using these tea leaves, you can add a different taste to a tea that you are used to drinking.]
[Thanks to thaaaaat, it enhances the taste of the existing teeeeeeas, and although itās difficult to uuuuuuse, itās very interesting to try different bleeeeeends.]
[Of course, these tea leaves are only for those that are really skillful, as it requires a great deal of skill and sense of taste like Illness-sanās to bring out 100% of the flavor of the tea leaves used as base.]
[I seeā¦ā¦ By daring to add a little bit of extra flavor, youāre bringing out more of the teaās flavorsā¦ā¦]
It may be a little different, but I suppose itās like sprinkling salt on a watermelon to enhance its sweetness. It certainly is an interesting idea, and in fact, this tea is tastier than the usual Glorious Teaā¦ā¦ and itās to my liking.
ā¦ā¦Well, if people on their level were saying that using these tea leaves are ādifficultāā¦ā¦ Itās probably something that normal people canāt use at allā¦ā¦