My Curse? A Different Yandere in Every Reincarnation
Chapter 62: Drinking

Chapter 62: Drinking

After the conversation with Aiden, we reached the carriage and left the castle, and the first place Aiden takes me is 100% unexpected.

"Aiden... do you want me to throw you in the castle dungeon by any chance? Or do you not have a love for life?" He brought me to a corner bar, I see a bunch of people stumbling out of the place drunk.

"Oh princess! Don’t be so cold," he says with fake guilt.

"I’m 17 years old, do you want to get arrested?" Mentally, I’m not 17, but in this world, I’ll be 18 in a month, and in this world, the maturity of women is at 18 and the maturity of men is at 16.

"...Princess, could you at least try it? I’m trying to give you a new experience, I know you can’t drink..., but if we wait until you’re 18, you’ll never get a chance to drink."

"This will be our little secret, okay?" He speaks pleadingly while trying to sound convincing.

"...Haaa... you’re right... okay, I’ll let it go... I’ll keep it a secret, but you owe me one..." I agree with him as he opens the bar door. At least the place isn’t dirty, it’s quite clean and organized.

"..." I follow him to the main counter, soon Aiden enthusiastically greets the bartender, it seems Aiden comes here sometimes as the bartender seems to recognize him.

"What would you like?"

"Give me the strongest drink you have and a weaker one for my companion," the bartender confirms and goes to the back to get the drinks.

"Aiden, why did you bring me to a bar?"

"You’re a princess, you’d hardly be able to have this kind of experience since you have etiquette and all. Here, you can let loose, you don’t have to follow strict rules or anything like that."

"..."

"You’re a weirdo, you know that?" This wasn’t quite what I expected, it was very unusual.

"Hahaha, that’s a charm I have," he says with a small smile while chuckling softly.

"I bet you’re not popular with women," I say mocking him.

"Not very, but I think I just need to be popular with one woman," I know who he’s talking about, but I’ll pretend I don’t.

"Who?"

"...You, of course," he says as if it’s strange I don’t know, even though I know well who he’s talking about.

"What a pity, then I guess you’ll never be popular in your life," There’s no way I can love him.

"Ouch, that stab! My self-esteem is going to become a trashcan with your icy insults, princess,"

"Great, then you can pour all that alcohol without worrying,"

"Urk, ow, ouch," He makes exaggerated sounds while putting his hand over his heart to pretend he’s in pain.

"Stop making those sounds! It’s weird and draws unwanted attention," some people are looking at this weirdo making these jokes, he’s embarrassing me by doing this.

"Here’s the drink," the bartender delivers the drinks to us.

"...Drink up, princess, or are you afraid of the drink?"

"Hum!" I take the glass and drink it in one gulp to prove otherwise, in my previous life as a man this was nothing.

’T-The world is spinning!!?’ I only drank one glass, okay, it’s probably a medium-strength alcoholic drink and I drank it quickly, but my tolerance was too low.

"Pfff HAHAHA," Aiden bursts out laughing as I hold onto the table for support, everything is spinning too fast, I can’t believe my tolerance is so low that just this almost knocks me down.

"Princess, you’ve never drank before, you should take it easy. Don’t try to drink so fast or you’ll get sick, the alcohol acts quickly, so chugging it like that was a bad choice."

"But don’t worry, you’ll get used to it soon. Hey, bring another glass, but a lighter one, it seems my companion is a lightweight," Aiden tells the bartender as I start to lose the extreme dizziness.

"Here you go, princess, but savor it slowly this time, no need to rush, we’ll have time to enjoy things calmly."

"...Okay..." I take the glass with the lighter drink and start sipping it slowly.

’It’s delicious...’ I didn’t even get to enjoy the other drink, so I’ll savor this one more slowly, I don’t want to be knocked out by the drink.

"Aiden... seriously, why did you bring me here to drink?"

"I just want to give you new experiences."

’But I already know what it’s like to drink... although this is nice of him... it doesn’t hurt to enjoy it...’ Since I got this curse, I’ve always been so tense about everything and never truly relaxed.

Maybe I should enjoy these simple things.

"Aiden, I appreciate it," I say and take another sip of the drink, but I put the glass back on the table, I don’t want to drink too much and risk getting too drunk and saying stupid things.

"You’re welcome, princess, I can guarantee I’ll give you a fun night. Want to hear some stories? I’ve got some good ones," he asks me as he takes a sip of his drink.

’...’

"Sure..."

"Princess, you... strangely seem to me like someone who’s been hurt, you know? The type of person who drowns their pain in alcohol, I say that because of your gaze."

"So I think I have a good story to tell."

"...Then tell it, what story would take away my sorrows?" I doubt such a thing exists.

"It’s the story of a girl who wanted to go to the moon."

"Is that so? And what happened?"

"She was poor, had no magic, and to make matters worse, had a bad family, but she still kept her dream of going to the moon."

"Okay... and what did she do?"

"She started working hard to save up money to go to the moon, she was going to ask someone with magic to help her with that," In that regard, I understand, if you can’t do it on your own, you ask others for help.

"Makes sense, so how does it continue?"

"Princess... stop interrupting," He says with fake irritation at me constantly interrupting.

"Ah... sorry," I think I’m a bit too drunk and that’s making me keep asking questions.

"It’s okay, I’ll continue the little story. The girl worked hard for years, saving money and separating from her family."

"After years of hard work, she finally saved up enough money to look for someone with magic to help her reach the moon."

"..." I remain silent, trying to understand the context of this story.

"..." "Why the silence? How does the story end?"

"...The little girl dies when she finds the magician who knows how to use magic, she died from overwork."

"WHAT A SHITTY STORY!!" I yell at him, drawing the attention of everyone in the bar.

"Seriously, what a crappy story! What’s the moral of that? How would that cheer me up?" This doesn’t cheer me up, it just pisses me off. How can he say this would cheer me up? He’s throwing in my face that I’m going to die?

"Princess, look for a deeper context, the little girl in the story died from overwork."

"The context of the story is to try to live without focusing 100% on one thing, if you focus 100% on a single thing, you’ll miss out on a lot of wonderful things around you."

"You have to enjoy life, Princess. You have a privilege and a curse with your problem, you have the terrible curse of knowing when and how you’ll die soon."

"But you also have the benefit of knowing when and how, almost no one knows how and when they’ll die, and that’s why those people don’t enjoy their lives."

"Since you already know that, you can just choose to enjoy it. 25% of the royal treasury budget, you can do many fun things."

"So don’t be so hurt, try to enjoy a little, I’ll take care of you, I’m your loyal butler." He says as he gently pushes the glass I stopped drinking back to me.

"What an incompetent way to motivate others, your story is super depressing!"

"...But thank you, you really... are... the best butler of all," I can’t help the arrogance, and saying he’s the best of all was strangely difficult.

"Even your compliments are prickly, princess, I think I’m going to cry."

"If you cry... ah, forget it," I take the glass and start drinking, I’m going to give him this vote of confidence, considering the many memories I have.

"If I get too drunk, take me straight home."

"Of course, princess, after all, your father would be worried if we took too long."

"And Aiden... why did you bring me to drink during the day?"

"...I admit I didn’t think that through well..., but I think it’s better this way, during the day it’s safer, this bar usually gets complicated at night, and it wouldn’t be good for me to bring you here."

"Aiden, you can be so stupid, you should have brought me here at night, or taken me to another bar at night... at least the drink isn’t bad... give me a sip of that," I take his glass.

"W-Wait, princess, don’t drink that!"

Ignoring him, I take a drink before he can take it from me, and my first reaction is to spit it in his face.

"..." He takes a handkerchief from his clothes and starts wiping the drink dripping from his face.

"Princess, that’s too strong for you."

"Strong? It felt like my throat was going to burn! Is this a drink straight out of the oven?" I barely put it in my mouth and everything is spinning, if I had really swallowed it, I would have passed out.

"...Princess, this drink is only for those who are used to it, it’s so strong that the bartender here only serves it to people with prior experience, that’s why I’m using a glass."

"I’m good at drinking, but even for me, drinking this drink in large quantities quickly isn’t good."

"...Haaa..." I sigh as I take my glass back.

"Next time, could you warn me?" I murmur to him, and he bursts out laughing. How was I supposed to know this thing was so strong? What a joke! He didn’t even bother to warn me.