Banner of the Stars: Volume 1 by Hiroyuki Morioka
Author:Hiroyuki Morioka [MORIOKA, HIROYUKI]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2019-12-17T00:00:00+00:00
Alone in the Basrogrhâs Starpilot Mess Hall, Samson was nursing a distilled liquor made from corn. He was all for that rustic flavor.
One of the mess hallâs walls was showing video of the outside. Countless ships on a starry backdrop. Actually, there was no way to tell whether or not a handful of those âstarsâ were actually faraway ships themselves. It was a magnificent vista, but he was already tired of it.
âDrinking, I see,â he heard Sobash say.
âHello there, Senior Starpilot,â he replied, raising his head and his cup. âDoesnât look like Iâll be getting another chance for a while, so here I am, knocking one back while I can.â
âItâs a bad habit,â said Sobash, who took a seat facing him. âCan I have some?â
âYou just said itâs a bad habit...â said Samson, surprised.
âYes, what of it?â he replied with a puzzled air. âIâm fond of bad habits.â
âOh, I like you,â Samson laughed throatily, pouring the Senior Starpilot a cup.
âThanks.â Sobash had himself a sip.
âIs it true that Abhs-by-birth donât get drunk?â
âWe can get tipsy,â said Sobash. âBut no drunken stupors, no. Itâs in our genes. Though if someone were to inject alcohol directly into oneâs veins, that would be a different story... Come to think of it, they might die of acute toxicosis before they experienced drunkenness. In any case, we canât get âblackout-drunkâ imbibing orally.â
âTo genetic engineering!â Samson raised his cup once again. âBut if you ask me, thatâs a curse more than anything else. There must be times when you want to forget it all.â
âDuring times like that, we ought only to take sleeping pills and doze.â
âHow health-conscious.â
âWe Abhs are a race hale of mind and body.â
âThough it seems like half of humanity doesnât really agree with you there.â
âWe canât be meeting everyoneâs highest expectations all the time.â
âAbhs caring what others expect of them? This is the first Iâm hearing of this.â
âYes. In truth, I havenât heard of such a thing, either,â Sobash admitted. âBut I canât declare that itâs never happened. Never mind that; youâre oddly argumentative today.â
âYou havenât seen me drunk before, Senior Starpilot.â
âEven though I have a feeling this is not a rare state for you?â
âUsually Iâm just drinking. Iâm not drunk.â
âI see,â said Sobash, in all seriousness. âSo at the moment, you are drunk.â
âIâm up to my second bottle,â said Samson, picking up the bottle with a third of its contents remaining for Sobash to see.
âDo you always drink that much?â
âNo, I treat myself like this once a year. Usually I stop at the âtipsyâ mark.â
âIs today a special day for you?â
âSoon weâll have to deal with enemy ships in ten times our numbers. I think itâll be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.â
âThat is true,â Sobash concurred. âIf it werenât so rare, that lifetime wouldnât be terribly long.â
âYouâve got that right.â
Sobash polished off his cup in next to no time, and he pushed it forward for a refill without a hint of reservation. Samson poured him another glass, parting with the booze with some regret.
âWhen
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