Labyrinth Restaurant

One summer morning.

Cosmos and Alice were walking together.

Even though it's still early, the heat is likely to seep out sweat even if you're in the shade.

But it's natural for summer to be hot.

That if you know that, you can be quite prepared.

"Well, only in hot weather."

It was a globally made water bottle with thermal insulation that was removed from the pochette that Cosmos was raising. The contents are homemade barley tea boiled from roasted barley. Thanks to the cold ice thrown in together, the aromatic barley tea is cold on the kink.

"Oh, that's good. Can I have a bite, too?

Humanity wants me too if I see you drinking cold drinks right next door in the heat.

Of course, Alice is not soft enough to turn up the sound in a bit or softly hot - maybe with a magical guard she will survive intact even if she jumps into the mouth of an active volcano - but that only means "bearable" and "tolerable," and not wacky enough for this heat to feel comfortable as it is. On hot days, you'll miss cold things just like normal people.

"Yeah, sure. Don't say a bite. Just do what you want."

Even as a cosmos, it's not as narrow as turning down Alice's favor here. I was happy to offer you a water bottle. Alice, who received it, leaned at once because she was thirsty...

"Yes, this is it. The flavor of this soy sauce and cuttlefish stock...... Huh!?"

It was noodle tsuyu.

And it stays at room temperature even if it's not cold.

The combined stock of aromatic cuttlefish and kelp creates exquisite discomfort throughout the mouth.

"Hehe, it's a preliminary trick. We had the exact same looking water bottle in the pochette in advance. All you have to do is look at the gaps and switch."

"Yu, I'm alarmed..."

"Ha ha, then have this water bottle over here to reword it"

"Give it to me quickly, not at all! Yeah, yeah, this spicy flavor. Speaking of summer after all...... curry!?"

It was curry.

Apparently, there were other dummy water bottles.

Flavors of meat and vegetables blended into oil and juice in stimulating spices. This one and again will ravage your taste with exquisite raw warmth that is neither cold nor hot.

"Alice, aren't you behaving badly to blow out the food in your mouth?

"More than that. So you say!? Now it's time to get a properly reworn water bottle...... no, now I won't take my eyes off you on the way, cosmos will poison you first before you give it to me!

"Yeah, I don't mind...... well, summer is still limited to cold barley tea. Oh? Excuse me, I drank all that was left. This was accidental."

"It's on purpose, isn't it!? Absolutely, you're doing it on purpose!

Let Cosmos try swinging the water bottle upside down, but not one more bite of barley tea left.

Of course, on purpose.

The twitchy reverse horizontal chops are tapped in continuously from Alice, but Cosmos was smiling really happy because he was able to pull out the reactions he was aiming for.