What Do You Mean I'm The Captain Of A Yandere Mercenary Company?

A bell chimed throughout the club and I thought something happened until I saw the timer on top of the drone showing a bunch of zeroes.

Guess time was up.

I wiped my hands with a towel hanging at the side before stepping back from the bar, my opponent also doing the same to the side.

She had clearly seen the shift in the crowd as quite a number of them had chosen to start buzzing for my drinks instead of hers but she still had several loyal followers who refused to try my drinks and kept to her side of the bar, which meant that both of us did not have any drinks unclaimed when the timer ran out.

Valiea then looked directly at the drone before crossing her arms, "Now, the audience shall cast your votes on who they believe is the better mixer. The poll will close in five minutes!"

There was a short pause before the people in front of us suddenly reacted, as though they had just remembered that this was a competition between me and the four armed bartender.

While they were busy with that, she then turned to me, "Now we shall also both mix a drink that we would give each other, both as the final piece and also as a bartender handshake. You can mix anything you want but just limit it to one glass."

Right, she did mention that she could also give the win to me if she believes that I was better than her.

I decided that I'll just try something new instead of using beer so I grabbed a few shot glasses, poured in a few of the liquids from the bottles on the speed rail, then crushed up a few of the synthfruits before I tasted them one by one.

Hmm, hmm… I'm not really familiar with my alcohol so I'm not even sure what each of these liquids taste like…

Then again… For all I know, they might all just be new types of alcohol that were made in this universe or even made by aliens so I can't compare them to the alcohol I knew.

Still, what's important to me was the taste of each of them so I figured out what I want to mix for her.

Since she works behind a bar, it would not be good for her to get drunk so I don't want to make anything that is too strong.

Let me just take a little bit of this… Then take some ice over here… Add in some of these synthfruit that I crushed and mixed together… And then just mix them together… There we go~

I turned to see how she was doing and I was treated to the sight of her spinning two bottles in her top left and right hands while her bottom two hands were busy shaking up a cocktail mixer.

She tossed both bottles up into the air before deftly picking up a martini glass with her freed left hand and catching both bottles in between her fingers of her right hand, striking a pose with them as she poured her mixture into the glass, revealing it to be a blue liquid.

I realised that the mixture in the glass was glowing slightly but she wasn't done yet.

She picked up some tiny things from the counter and sprinkled them on top of the glass, causing white mist to start exuding out from the ice to give the drink an ethereal look.

Someone from the crowd gasped, "She made the Blue Nebula?!"

"What?! That's something she even refused to make for that arrogant idiot a few nights before! He even offered her a hundred thousand Credits for it!"

She picked up the glass and walked over to me, placing it just out of my reach.

I picked up my own mixture and also took a step closer to her and placed it right beside her glass, the four armed bartender eyeing my mix curiously.

I had made mine in a rocks glass and it was nowhere as pretty as her mixture since it pretty much just looked like a normal glass of beer with some of the crushed synthfruit sprinkled on top of it.

She slid her glass over to me, prompting me to do the same.

No words were exchanged as we picked up each other's creations to bring it to our lips for a sip.

Right at that moment, before I could even taste her cocktail, the screen changed to show the results of the voting.

Instead of just showing who won, the screen displayed both my face and Valiea's on the left side of the screen before four numbers appeared with two beside me and two beside Valiea's.

I then realised that the crowd had to vote on two things, the first being for 'Taste' and the other for 'Flair'.

And well…

A quick count showed that there were a hundred voters and I had seventy eight for taste and four for flair. I have no doubt the four voters being my girls who had basically voted all for me despite me not flaring at all.

And of course, inversely, Valiea had twenty two for taste and ninety six for flair.

Honestly… I don't know what those results tallied to… Are we seeing the total number of votes to decide the winner? Or is this a draw because I won in terms of taste while she won in flair?

I noticed she had also peeked at the screen first before she took a sip of my drink, so I also went ahead to take a sip of hers as well.

Hmm… Ohhh! This actually taste really good!

There's a good burn going down my throat but it still feels really smooth and it's not too bitter while it also leaves the aftertaste of blueberries in my mouth! The mist as well! It wasn't just for show as it also has a sweet scent to it which enhances the tasting of the cocktail!

This is really good!!

Even though I was just taking small sips, I realised I couldn't stop myself and I drank half the glass before I even noticed it.

I looked back at Valiea and I found the drink I made her was on the table, the glass still relatively full.

Ah… It seems like she has only drank that single sip before putting it down.

I guess maybe she didn't like it after all?

She suddenly leaned forward and narrowed her eyes at me, "I don't believe we have been properly introduced, have we?"

Oh, now that you mentioned it, I don't think we did so I shook my head.

She stretched out the right hand that wasn't holding on to the glass towards me, "I am Valiea Mestile, best bartender in this entire station. You can call me Valiea."

I had to switch the glass to my left hand before I reached out my right hand to grasp hers, "Tera. Mercenary."

She frowned at that, "You're… Not a professional mixer?"

"Well… I have some experience with mixing… But it's limited to beers as you can see… And I definitely don't know how to flair at all."

She released my hand and took a step back, her eyes wide in surprise for some reason.

Did I say something wrong?

She turned back to the screen, then to the glass on the table, then back to me, then she repeated the motion one more time.

She then took the glass of alcohol that I made her before pulling out a bottle that looked like a thermos before she poured everything inside said thermos.

Err… Why is she doing that?

She then turned to the crowd and swung all four of her arms out in an arc while facing the camera, "I, Valiea Mestile, declare that this challenge to be a draw!"

My girls were the first to respond with cries of outrage before their voices were drowned out by the others who were clearly confused by the result.

"What?! You got more votes, Miss Valiea!"

"That's right! Even though her drinks were good, you still won overall!"

Ah… So it's by total number of votes to decide the winner. Which means Valiea should have been the winner in this case but she called it a draw instead.

Even from here, I could see that my girls were not happy about the result despite that revelation.

"So what happens in a draw?" I asked.

She leaned on the counter and smiled out at the crowd, "Nothing. Everyone who took the drinks will have to pay for it~"

The crowd suddenly went silent before most of them started to clutch their heads.

"No… No way! I drank so much!! That's… That's going to be half my salary!"

"I… How much… Are her drinks even worth? If I don't pay enough, it feels like I'm lying to myself…"

Valiea ignored the cries from the crowd and turned back to me, "You… Feel free to have fun in the club for now. But after I finish work, you're coming with me. I have some things I want to talk about."

Err… Ok?

At least we get to have fun now?