Chapter 2

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“I’m serious,” Lin Ge said with a smile, “You’re such a cute girl. There must be many people who like you. Why should you be sad because of one person’s rejection?”

The girl lowered her head and hid her face under the wide wizard hat. She felt her face burning.

“You, you have misunderstood. I’m talking about my application to join a team being rejected and no team is willing to accept me. It’s not that kind of thing,” Her voice was trembling slightly as she tried to suppress her embarrassment.

Lin Ge finally understood.

“I’m sorry. I made a mistake.”

“No, it’s fine,” The girl’s soft voice came from under the big hat.

“What do you mean by no team is willing to accept you? You can’t find a job?”

“My magic isn’t very accurate and I can’t hit the monsters. Sometimes I even accidentally hurt my teammates, so no team is willing to take me in. There have been some occasional ones who were willing to accept me, but their eyes looked scary, and I didn’t dare to join… That’s why I’m always alone, but I can’t do anything by myself. Sob, what should I do?” The girl sobbed under her hat.

Lin Ge was stunned. What was this? Live-action role-playing?

It seemed that the girl had completely integrated into the character, so Lin Ge went along with her setting.

“Well, you can consider forming a team yourself to recruit new players and grow with them. One day, you will have trustworthy companions too.”

The girl suddenly raised her head. Her light purple eyes were watery but clear, like crystals, “But the newcomers will all choose the more famous teams.”

“As long as you wait patiently, they’ll definitely appear,” Lin Ge said with a gentle smile.

“If I invite you, would you be willing to join?”

“Umm …”

The girl’s eyes were glistening with tears, “Sob, look. Even someone gentle like you isn’t willing to join. Who would want to form a team with me?”

Forget it, it’s just a game setting. He would just take it as comforting her. It wasn’t like he was really forming a team with her to go on an adventure in another world.

“Of course I’m willing,” Lin Ge said.

“Really?” The girl rubbed her eyes while confirming.

“Really, if I were an adventurer…”

Before Lin Ge could finish, the girl passed out.

It seemed that she was not good at drinking. The alcohol content of the Emerald was too high for her.

Next time, before he served a customer wine, he should first judge the other party’s alcohol tolerance… Lin Ge silently concluded.

The bar returned to silence, and only the soft music flowed like water. Lin Ge washed the girl’s used glass, and Elise walked to the bar and lifted the girl’s hat to take a look.

“Uh, she’s even drooling.”

“Elise, you’re not allowed to lay your hands on the customers. Respecting the customers is a basic quality of bar work.

Elise made a face at Lin Ge, “It’s none of your business. You’re not the manager. Who are you to lecture me?”

Even so, she still put down the girl’s hat.

The girl seemed to have jolted out of her sleep as she mumbled under the hat, “My, my name is Lanya…”

Lanya… Was it the girl’s name?

Seeing that Lanya seemed to have fallen asleep, Lin Ge had Elise carry her to the sofa and wait for the next customer.

Time passed by. Forty minutes later, the girl named Lanya still had not woken up. While she was sleeping soundly on the sofa, the wind chimes rang again outside the door.

Another girl walked into the bar. She looked to be in her 20s, with a beautiful oval face, bright red hair, and black light armor that accentuated her snow-white skin. A red-sheathed sword hung on her delicate waist.

The girl’s beauty and appearance surprised Lin Ge.

Today’s second customer also seemed to have quite the personality.

The red-haired girl sat on the high chair in front of the bar and turned around curiously, her bright red shoulder-length hair fluttering with her movements.

“Hey, this chair is really fun. Elise, when did you guys change the decorations in the shop?”

She sounded like an old customer.

“Just a few days ago,” Elise said unhappily.

The red-haired girl laughed heartily, “Haha, I haven’t been here for a while. Not only have the decorations changed, but you’ve also become an errand girl.”

“Shut up, Karina,”

The girl who Elise called Karina stopped teasing her and turned to look at Lin Ge, who was standing behind the bar.

“You’re the guy who kicked Elise out of the bar?” Karina’s bright eyes were sizing up Lin Ge.

Lin Ge calmly passed the menu to the other party.

Karina flipped through the pages and pointed at the name “Long Island Iced Tea”.

“Is this tea? Why would it appear on the menu?”

Lin Ge smiled while explaining, “Although it sounds like tea, it’s actually a mixture of four strong spirits. It’s just that its color is similar to black tea, which is why it’s called Long Island Iced Tea.”

“I’ve never heard of it. Why don’t you give me a glass?” Carina had a look of anticipation on her face. The man in front of her seemed to be much more professional than Elise.

“Alright, please wait a moment.”

Lin Ge took out a tumbler. The glass was wide at the top and narrow at the waist, with a thick bottom, and he placed some ice in it before setting it aside.

Then, he took out the shaker and added ice. He added curacao and lemon-lime simple syrup into the shaker in a 1:3 ratio. Then, he added vodka, rum, aurum, and tequila, four strong base liquors. Following this, he closed the lid, held the shaker with one hand, and began to shake it.

Karina stared at the shaker in his hand that was moving in an S-shaped trajectory curiously. She listened to the rhythmic clanking of the ice cubes in the shaker, and her eyes shone with interest. She had never seen such a way of mixing wine.

“What are you doing?”

“By shaking it, the high alcohol content taste is suppressed, making it easier to drink.”

Lin Ge suddenly stopped and smacked the shaker down in front of Karina. She blinked and stared at the shaker. She realized that a layer of frost had appeared on the surface of the container.

“Are, are you done?”

“Not yet.”

Lin Ge smiled and opened the shaker, then poured the wine into the tumbler he had prepared earlier. After that, he added an ounce of coke and a little iced tea.

“Why didn’t you add the black drink to the mixture and shake it too?” Carina asked curiously.

She was referring to coke.

Lin Ge pushed the Long Island Iced Tea to her and smiled, “It’ll spray everywhere.”

Karina’s face reddened slightly as she looked away from Lin Ge.

“Oh.”

“Don’t you want to try it?”

“Ah, yes.”

Karina seemed to have snapped back to her senses. She raised the tumbler and gulped down the wine, revealing her long, fair neck. As the wine entered her throat, her fair face quickly turned red, and even her neck was covered in pink.

Sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy tastes exploded in her mouth at the same time. The strong and rich layered taste ravaged her taste buds over and over again. It was like a thousand troops and horses stepping on a rich wheat field. The stimulating feeling made her so comfortable that she wanted to moan.

When she put down the tumbler, the extra-large glass was already empty.

Her face was flushed as she let out a long breath.

“Great! This is just awesome. What’s your name?” She asked.

“I’m Lin Ge, a bartender,” Lin Ge replied with a faint smile.

Karina stared at Lin Ge excitedly, her eyes sparkling.

Elise, who was sitting in the corner of the bar, clenched her fists unwillingly.

“That detestable fellow, he’s successfully acted great again.”