Demon World Boba Shop: A Cozy Fantasy Novel by RC Joshua

Author:RC Joshua [Joshua, RC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-06-28T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

SOURMOUTH MELTDOWN

“What in the world happened in here?” Milo said, staring at the thoroughly pulp covered room in awe. “It looks like an orchard exploded.”

“That’s not… Kind of. I’m doing some tea experiments. I’m not sure how it’s working out so far.” Arthur gestured towards the juice combinations he had accumulated on the counter. “Want to try some out? I could use a second opinion on some of them. All of them, I guess.”

“Oh, absolutely. But wait a second while I get mom. She wouldn’t miss this for the world.”

A few seconds later, Ella entered the room, her eyes widening only slightly as she took in the carnage.

“What’s all this? It looks like you lost a fight with a farmer’s market.”

“Har de har. Very funny, everyone.” Arthur picked up a cup and shoved it at Milo, then took another and gave it to Ella. “Milo, that’s a sour fruit mix, with sweetberry to make it tolerable. Ella, yours is just a bunch of sweet things. I don’t know the name of everything, yet.”

Milo tried his, his beak somehow puckering against the sour.

“Whew, that’s got a kick.” He took another sip. “Do you have ice?”

“Yeah, here.” Arthur pulled a few cubes out of a bucket and tossed them in the cup. “Try now.”

“Oh, that’s better,” Milo said. “Refreshing even.”

“Yeah, that’s my thinking too. How’s yours, Ella?”

“Sweet.” She took another sip of hers, then traded out with Milo. “Not a bad mix of flavors, but too sweet for me.”

“Think I should tone it down?”

“Absolutely not. Some people like the sweet. Especially children.” She took a sip of Milo’s sour mix. “That’s more like it for me. It’s very good. Have you tried mixing it with tea? Or cream?”

“Tea yes, cream no. But there’s some cream over there if you want to try it. Here’s the tea mix for now.”

“Interesting. I think you should offer all of these with tea.”

“I thought about that. But it seems like it would make the menu complex.”

“It doesn’t have to. Just say you can mix and match between the categories.”

“That’s chaos,” Arthur said. “I can’t control the flavors that way.”

Ella took a sip of her citrus beverage now-mixed-with-cream. “Oh, shush. You can’t control all the flavors all the time anyway. People have their little preferences. They like to have their little special requests. Let them. It’s part of the job.”

Arthur tilted his head a bit, accepting that tidbit. “Fine. I guess I can warn them about the grosser combinations.”

“Oh, interesting. What are the gross ones?”

Arthur motioned to a cup on the table filled with purplish-green liquid. “That one is gross. I was trying to do something with one of the purple sweet ones. It didn’t quite work out.”

Milo rushed over to the table, taking a quick slug of the drink and grimacing.

“It tastes like someone tried to sweeten a lawn.”

“Agreed. Most of these were failures, really. It’s just a few that ended up being good.”

Arthur guided Milo and Ella through the rest of his successes, and in most cases, they agreed with his impressions of how good they were.

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