"...So, as you can see."
The sound of Dragon Well tea and Selicia's conversation rose up from beside her.
Elle looked down at the coffee in her ceramic cup.
She wasn't quite accustomed to it and carefully pinched the exquisitely patterned spoon, imitating the way Dragon Well tea was stirring the coffee, watching the snow-white sugar cube quietly dissolve within.
She recognized it as the "Highland Wine" from the United Kingdom, a specialty from Highland Island. It could be used to make a natural energy concoction that resisted drowsiness and prevented nightmares, without needing any transformation or synthesis.
In the Kingdom of Noah, some old nobles would consume it in very small quantities—of course, only as a kind of brain-enhancing medicine; nobody would be extravagant enough to drink it as a beverage. Of course, whether it really had any brain-enhancing effects was another matter entirely...
