Chapter 186 First Guests (1/2)

”Whoa, Grandpa, I had no idea you had so much booze here!” Benji exclaimed in surprise as he looked around at the bottles and barrels filled with beer, wine, or whiskey before Benjamin sighed loudly.

”It's not 'Booze,' some of this is expensive stuff. I made a lot of this myself, but alcohol like this is one of my favorite things to collect.” He explained, crossing his arms proudly.

”Huh, gotcha… That's why you didn't want Dad and Uncle Nats down here? Afraid they were gonna get drunk?” Benji asked, but the old man simply looked at him in surprise, while Tony and Natsuo looked at each other with similar expressions, before Benjamin shook his head.

”Not really, no. I never cared too much if the boys drank alcohol, as long as they didn't overdo it. I began traveling at 17 and drank all over the world as well, so it felt wrong to not allow them to, my issue was rather that I have some bottles of different alcohol worth around ten thousand dollars down here, and I didn't want them to drink that. By the way, that's why the cellar was almost a vault because down here are the items with high value amongst what your Dad, Uncle, and Aunt will inherit.” He explained, and now Benji and Kyle simply looked back in shock.

”Wh-Wait, what? Grandpa, I knew you had a lot of money, but you're like some super rich guy…” Confused, Benji continued looking around, now completely confused at what was going on, before Benjamin simply sighed, looking over at his two sons.

”You two, please grab a small barrel of the aged beer, the one from the summer five years ago and bring it to the regular beer keg we bought yesterday. I'll pick out a few nice bottles of wine with Benji and Kyle.” Benjamin asked them with a smile before they quickly nodded and did as Benjamin requested. Walking over to some of the barrels standing by the side, while the old man gave them a small tour of the cellar that was about the same size as the rest of the house in itself, and there was even another floor underneath where the really old stuff was stored.

”The majority of the alcohol down here was some that I made myself. I have some large equipment for it in the back. I don't come down here too often since the general alcohol surveillance and security are all being taken care of by those little SafeDrone thingies.” The old man explained, showing a few 'rails' attached to the roof of the cellar as well as a few stations on the ground where the different little bots were loading their batteries right now.

”This is actually a certified distillery, and I even won a few prizes back in the day, and it how I made most of my money. It was a good thing to do from home while I was taking care of the kids.” Benjamin then rambled on and on about a few different stories about when he got which of these bottles, before they reached something of a 'display' where different liquors were standing on their own.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.

First, Benjamin stepped up in front of a grey bottle in the shape of a gourd. ”This is a bottle of Kuchikamizake, a rice wine made by chewing cooked rice and spitting the liquid from that back into a container, where it will then ferment.” He said with a nostalgic smile, which seemed somewhat weird to Benji and Kyle, considering that it actually sounded somewhat disgusting if one thought about it.

It seemed like Benjamin noticed that as well, so he gave them an explanation. ”The Kuchikamizake in that bottle was made by your grandmother, Benji. She was a shrine maiden in Okinawa, and although they didn't make it for religious ceremonies since 1930, there were still some ceremonies for traditional sentiment every once in a while for special occasions.” He explained, and now it actually didn't seem as weird anymore, despite still being quite abnormal if one thought about it again.

And then, Benjamin looked at two bottles of whiskey that were apparently made in the same years that Tony and Natsuo were born. ”I bought these two bottles a few weeks before your father and uncle were born respectively. And then, on the days of their weddings, I drank a glass with them.”

The old man explained and turned toward another, a much older bottle of whiskey standing next to those two. ”And that is the bottle that my father bought for that purpose. He died before I got married, so I drank two glasses of it that day.”

And before Benjamin could get sentimental because of his old man, he took a look at some other bottles, before chuckling lightly. ”It seems like the most prominent type of memento I took from my travels were bottles of alcohol, huh? Look, this one is a bottle of wine I got from my year in France when I was working with a Clockmaker, and the bottle of scotch is from when I was in Scotland with a Leatherworker.” He told the two teenage boys with a gentle smile, feeling incredibly nostalgic when looking at these bottles.

”Maybe I should pursue Gordon's Quest soon,” Benjamin muttered with a smile before Benji looked at his grandfather in curiosity.

”Gordon? Who's that?” Benji asked before Benjamin smiled lightly. ”Ah, it's just someone from the game. He asked me to make all sorts of weird liquor that he came up with, and I promised I would. I didn't follow up on it yet, though, and I think I should probably do that soon.”

”Huh, interesting… Like, Snake-Wine Weird?” Benji asked, and Kyle listened in just as curiously before Benjamin thought for a while. ”I think there was a recipe or two with that kind of style, yes. But that's not the kind of 'weird' I mean. It's the kind of weird that literally turns you into a dog, or will make you completely weightless.” He chuckled, remembering his transformations back then before continuing to walk around the cellar, picking up a few bottles of wine as well as one bottle of Whisky, handing them to Benji and Kyle so that they would help Benjamin carry them.

”So that kind of alcohol is a thing in the game..? Really?” Kyle asked, wondering what the hell the limit of things in there was before Benjamin slowly nodded. ”Yes, it is. Although I won't be making the necessarily super weird drinks, many are quite useful despite not seeming so at first.” He explained as the three of them made their way back to the stairs and Benjamin began to talk about some of the most peculiar drinks in the 'Perfect Booze' Recipe book he got from Gordon, while Benji and Kyle listened curiously.

When the three of them got back upstairs, and Benjamin locked the door again, they could hear some talking in the distance, and from the sound of it, it wasn't a happy talk at all.

”Again, what the hell do you mean? We're just bringing this outside, so let us through, please.” Tony exclaimed, obviously trying to be as civil as possible before Michael responded extremely angrily.

”No, you will not. You will not serve alcohol here, do you understand?” He said in a commanding voice before Benjamin told the teenagers next to him to place the bottles down at a table while the old man himself stepped up to the group that was currently fighting.