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Beautifying Brew.

Beautifying Brew is a type of alcohol.

It’s made by having people chew grains like rice in their mouths, spitting it out to collect it, and then fermenting it.

It’s mainly called Beautifying Brew because it is made by beautiful women.

It uses amylase in saliva to break down starch into monosaccharides.

Then, the sugar is fermented to create ethanol and carbon dioxide.

Before fermentation methods for yeast became widespread, it was a type of alcohol that could be found in various regions around the world.

The biggest difference from other alcohols is that it uses human saliva for fermentation.

There was no way Magical Girl Spica would miss out on such a great idea.

“Hmm… If I do this…”

-Sploosh, sploosh

Originally, Si-hyun and Spica had set rules to divide the housework in half.

Washing dishes was one of them, and at first, Si-hyun and Spica would take turns washing the dishes.

However, Spica couldn’t control her overflowing lust and love, and she committed this and that every other day, so as punishment, she ended up taking over Si-hyun’s chores one by one.

Now, Spica is in charge of all the housework every day.

It was a wonder how Si-hyun hadn’t left the house yet, considering how much she had done.

What’s the point of Spica doing all the dishes?

It meant Spica could naturally collect spoons with Si-hyun’s saliva on them!

After meals, Spica carefully collected Si-hyun’s saliva from the dishes using magic and stored it magically.

When she thought she had finally collected a sufficient amount, Spica decided to brew alcohol.

First, she made the starter mash.

She obtained the freshest glutinous rice, optimized for brewing, and carefully brought in carefully selected water.

She cooled the well-cooked rice, mixed it evenly with Si-hyun’s saliva, kneaded it, and crushed the rice grains.

She carefully managed the process of the saliva’s yeast mixing with the carbohydrates and breaking them down into monosaccharides.

After the most important and thrilling stage, she fermented it to create alcohol.

Managed at the right temperature, it would be completed over several weeks.

She didn’t know how long it would take to collect that much saliva again.

Spica put her heart and soul into brewing the alcohol.

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“That’s how I’m brewing Beautifying Brew with Si-hyun-ssi’s saliva. It’s still aging.”

“Wow. Gross.”

The usual waiting time.

The junior magical girl wanted to stop herself from a few minutes ago when she asked Spica, “What have you been up to lately?” just to kill time.

But it was already too late.

Information that she didn’t particularly want to know had already entered her head.

“Gross? It’s Si-hyun-ssi’s saliva from her cute mouth! It’s 당연해요 sweet, refreshing, and delightful!”

“I don’t care what your lover-ssi’s saliva tastes like. What’s gross is Spica-sunbae!”

“Huh? Why?”

“Do you not even realize that you’re doing and saying disgusting things?”

This magical girl was already hopeless.

It was too late.

The junior magical girl was staring at Magical Girl Spica with cold eyes.

The respect had disappeared, and the embarrassment that had filled the space was beginning to fill with disgust.

“No. Why did you even think of making alcohol with saliva in the first place?”

“Um… There’s a sad story behind it.”

“What is it?”

The junior magical girl asked Spica.

She asked.

The urge to poke at something you know you shouldn’t is something everyone has.

“Si-hyun-ssi’s saliva is delicious.”

“Only to sunbae, I’m sure.”

“Anyway, it’s delicious. It’s sweet and fragrant and totally amazing. I want to gulp it down.”

“You’re such a pervert…”

The junior vowed once again that she would never be like that even if she got a lover.

“But sadly, Si-hyun-ssi’s saliva is a limited precious item.”

“Doesn’t saliva keep coming out of your mouth?”

“The demand is higher than the supply. It can’t be helped.”

“You’re the only one with the demand, sunbae.”

“I can’t even buy it with money, which is really disappointing.”

“Please don’t try to buy saliva with money…”

“That’s when I realized. If I brew it into alcohol, the quantity increases!”

“That’s a truly awful realization.”

“Adding water just dilutes it. But if I brew it into alcohol, I can increase the efficient utilization of the saliva and increase the quantity! It’s made with sincerity and love, so I can gulp it down!”

“I don’t even understand the desire to gulp down saliva in the first place!”

Spica was disappointed that her junior magical girl couldn’t understand this revolutionary shift in thinking.

But she steeled her heart. She believed that someday, she would understand.

“No matter what, it’s weird to make alcohol with saliva!”

“What are you talking about? Beautifying Brew is a traditional alcohol that has been around since ancient times.”

“Who eats Beautifying Brew in this day and age! It’s unhygienic! And perverted!”

The junior shouted as if screaming.

“Um… There are quite a few.”

“How many could there possibly be!”

“If you count only the people in the Beautifying Brew Brewing Club, it’s quite a lot.”

“???”

The junior magical girl was shocked.

It was like a bug-hater finding one cockroach and searching it up online only to find out that there are at least 30 more in their house.

“Club… what?”

“Beautifying Brew Brewing Club. It’s one of the magical girl clubs.”

“Huh? That exists?!”

“It’s one of the clubs with a surprisingly long history.”

“Really?!”

“Club members are spread all over the world. They actively share and talk with each other.”

Spica went to the website and showed the bulletin board to the junior magical girl.

Looking at the time the posts were uploaded, the posting speed was faster than she thought.

“Wow. There are really more members than I thought.”

“Isn’t it amazing?”

“It’s really embarrassing.”

The junior magical girl couldn’t help but be surprised to see that there were so many perverted people among the magical girls like herself.

“Making alcohol is profound. There are so many things to manage, such as temperature, humidity,灭菌 sterilization, and fermentation time. If you do it wrong, it’s easy to rot, and if you do too much, it becomes vinegar.”

“That must be difficult…”

“The hardest part is that the ingredients are limited. The question of how to collect saliva well is always a major source of debate.”

“Ehhh…..”

The junior was starting to get bored.

Was this something that had to be done this far?

What is a magical girl? It seemed certain that they weren’t 소녀 girls.

“What are some ways to collect saliva?”

“The most certain and fastest way is to kneel and beg. Beg your lover to please give you some saliva.”

“It’s a complete mess from the start.”

“Some people do it willingly, and some people do it while giving you a look of disgust. There’s even a bulletin board where people brag about the insults they get from their lovers.”

“The karma is deep. The karma is deep!”

The junior wanted to apologize to the lovers of magical girls all over the world on behalf of the magical girls.

She decided to at least think that way in her heart.

“More than anything, if you persuade your lover well, they might even chew grains and spit them out for you. Such posts always receive comments of envy and admiration.”

“That would be the most difficult since it takes a lot of effort.”

“That’s truly authentic Beautifying Brew. Sometimes there’s a heated debate between the faction that only recognizes chewed Beautifying Brew and the faction that recognizes Beautifying Brew that only uses saliva.”

Could there be a more pointless debate in the world?

The junior magical girl thought about it, but nothing came to mind.

It would definitely be in the top rankings if you were to rank pointless debates.

“Collecting it while they’re sleeping is also easy. You use magic to collect it while your lover is sleeping.”

“Ah… Then you wouldn’t get caught.”

“But people who are asleep produce less saliva, and if their mouth gets dry, it could be a health problem… It was popular for a while, but now hardly anyone uses that method.”

“Health is important.”

“That’s right, that’s right.”

The junior thought it was fortunate that the magical girl’s good heart remained, even if she was a pervert.

She thought that for a moment, but she was still a pervert.

“There are also people who steal saliva that mixes during sex…”

“Is that a common method?”

“No. Some magical girls don’t like it because it mixes with their own saliva…”

“……”

“After all, making alcohol with your own saliva is a bit perverted, isn’t it?”

Isn’t your own saliva the same as someone else’s saliva? the junior thought, but if she said that, she would have to deny Beautifying Brew itself, so she decided to hold back.

It wasn’t that she had come to understand Beautifying Brew after hearing about it so much, but because she had been denying Beautifying Brew itself since the beginning, but it hadn’t worked.

“More than anything, there are many opinions that you should only focus on loving each other at that time!”

“Um… That’s a valid point.”

“Right?”

The junior magical girl nodded and then realized.

So, what method did Spica use to collect saliva?

“Weren’t you just talking about difficult or unused methods since earlier? So what method did sunbae use to collect saliva?”

“Ah~ That’s right, that’s right. Since I do all the dishes, I collected saliva little by little from the saliva on spoons and cups.”

“Is that enough?”

“I collect it diligently whenever I have time. I also collect saliva that flows out of my mouth when I sleep. I also collect saliva droplets that come out when I talk. It’s definitely not enough, as Luna said… But I still collect it steadily while preserving it with magic, so I was able to collect enough.”

The junior magical girl couldn’t decide whether to praise the persistence or be creeped out by the obsession.

“Since the amount is so small, I’m afraid of failure. I heard that people cry when they collect saliva and brew alcohol, but it goes wrong.”

“That must be true.”

“But those worries have decreased a lot these days.”

“Why?”

“The ‘Magic-Beautifying Brew Edition’ that allows you to easily brew alcohol at home has been released.”

“…..What magic?”

“If you just hang this in the container, it will analyze the amylase concentration in the saliva, the amount and condition of the grains, the amount and condition of minerals in the water, and perfectly control the temperature, humidity, sterilization, and sealing. All you have to do is wait until the timer is up!”

“Who makes that kind of magic!”

“Christian got into Beautifying Brew a while ago and created it quickly.”

“A waste of talent…!”

The junior magical girl also knew Christian, Spica’s friend, a magical girl.

She was in the same branch, so they sometimes waited together.

She had heard that the magic development speed of the genius of magical research had slowed down since she got a lover, but she didn’t know it was because of this.

“I’m worried about the future…..”

Unlike the junior magical girl’s worries, the world was peaceful today as well.

It was the season for alcohol to mature.