Such an incident wasn't anything unique for this household. Such instances happened in multiple homes. Of course it wasn't as bad as Aoi and Takeo as they weren't the ones who smoked it while drinking sake. The others had other kinds of reactions. Almost all of them felt instant relief and most of them got high after smoking the whole thing.
It lasted for 1 to 5 hours for people depending upon their tolerance.
Aoi and Takeo woke up quite late in the morning. They were both sleeping beside each other as Aoi's mother had dragged them to a big futon in Aoi's bedroom. Aoi woke up seeing that he didn't have a shirt on him and when he looked at his side he saw Takeo also shirtless under the blanket.
This scene made him go into full panic mode. He was trying his best to remember what had happened the previous night and everything came up blank. All he could remember was smoking that cigarette and after that everything went pitch dark. But that wasn't the issue here. He was fearing the worst!
Anyone who saw half naked men in the same bed would definitely think something was up between them.
"Oye Takeo, wake up.. Takeo.."
"Umm.. What? Let me sleep some more. Today is a weekend."
"Shut up and see where you are." Aoi almost shouted at Takeo. That shout was enough to make Takeo open his eyes. At first he didn't understand why his friend was shouting but then the first thing that seemed odd was that he was shirtless. And then the realization dawned on him that he was in a different room.
Slowly everything came back to him and just like Aoi, he panicked after seeing himself. They looked at each other in horror.
"Oye Aoi, what the fuck is going on?"
"I am asking the same question. What the hell happened?"
"..."
"..."
As they looked at each other, Aoi's mom listening to the shout of Aoi came and opened the door. Both Aoi and Takeo almost jumped up from the bed. At this vulnerable time, they didn't want any other person to see them in this way and Aoi was even ready to tackle the person who had just barged him just so that he could shut the person up.
But stopped seeing his mom. Both Aoi and Takoe felt awkward and didn't know what they should say. They didn't know what had happened the previous night and were trying to understand what was going on.
"What are you kids looking at me with weird eyes? Get dressed up. You both don't have any tolerance for alcohol."
"Uhh. Mom, did you bring us here? What happened last night?"
"Last night you both were busy drinking and singing. At the end you both started to throw sake at each other before passing out. Who the hell throws costly sake at each other? No sake for the next 2 months. I had already washed your shirts. Go and wear them."
Aoi's mom was really annoyed the previous night when she saw this. Of course she had to take the shirts off from both of these grown ass men. She felt like she was back to those days when her son was a child and had to look after him.
She didn't know that both Aoi and Takeo were really happy to know what had happened. They were expecting the worst but what she said made them sigh in huge relief. This meant that everything was fine.
"Aoi, what did that child give us? I have never been so drunk before that I can't even remember what had happened."
"Are you sure it was that cigarette? And not that cheap sake."
"No sake was ever made to make us that way."
"True.. True. So it must be that cigarette. Was that drugs?"
"It might be like drugs. Is the child so much in debt that he is selling drugs?"
"Don't accuse him when we know nothing of the true picture. Maybe because we smoked it with the sake it made us more drunk. We will have to ask Aoto-chan."
"Yes, today we will definitely go but first I need to freshen up. I really smell like sake."
"Yeah me too."
Both Aoi and Takeo then went to their respective bathrooms of their own houses to wash themselves and have a clean bath. They also realized that they had a headache and they needed to eat something to soothe the pain.
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After 12 pm. Aoto again opened the shop after working the whole day. Like yesterday, Teuchi came and helped him in making bread. Today he fared better than yesterday, as he took care of many things and wasn't ignorant. Teuchi also commented on that.
And thus after making the bread, he sat at the counter where Ayame joined too. Few regular customers came and some of them said that the bread was better than they expected which brought a smile to his face. He didn't give the cigarette to all the customers, only to those who he thought would be able to handle the weed after going through his previous memories.
He was expecting people to come and ask about the cigarette but nobody came until Aoi and Takeo came running to his shop after an hour of opening the shop.
"Aoto-chan, what did you give us yesterday?" Takeo and Aoi were pretty much shivering when they asked him. They feared that Aoto had gone the wrong path and might be selling drugs, though they had never heard of any drugs that could make a person high with just smoking.
"Oh.. Aoi -san welcome back. Why? Was there anything wrong with the gift I gave?"
"We smoked it yesterday when we were drinking sake and we got super drunk. Was it something bad?"
Aoto stiffened when he heard that. When he sold the weed he forgot to mention some precautions while taking it. It might be very helpful for PTSD and give relief to the one who was smoking but if it was smoked while drinking alcohol, it might lead to a Hangover movie.