After her friends went home, the team began discussing different places to celebrate. Some of them wanted to celebrate at the local bar but some rejected it.
"We can't celebrate at the bar you guys, Alice still can't drink so we'll have to settle somewhere else," Sugimoto told the team.
"Eh? I don't mind if we celebrate at the bar, I'll drink the apple juice provided there" Alice told them.
The team began to reconsider the option but the manager rejected it.
"No, I have to agree with Sugimoto. Let's go to a fancy restaurant instead and celebrate there." The manager told them.
The team accepted the alternative option and drove in packs to the restaurant where the manager treated them. They all eat at different tables not far from each other. A certain group managed to sneak some booze into the restaurant and had their own little drinking club.
"Tsk, just when I thought they weren't going to drink. I guess it can't be helped." The manager muttered to himself.
Alice, the manager, and Ghazali sat together at their table and began chatting about stuff while Sugimoto on the other hand had a couple of drinks with the drinking club. While eating, Alice noticed that the manager and Ghazali were not drinking and she became concerned that she was being a killjoy.
"You know you can just drink right guys? I don't mind" Alice reassures her.
"Don't worry Alice, we don't drink those things." Ghazali told her.
"Huh, why not?" Alice asked them.
"Well for me it's against my faith to drink so I'll pass." Ghazali told her.
"I don't drink because my wife would throw me out of the house if I did. I'm also driving so it's fine." The manager assures her.
"Ah, I see. Glad to hear it." She said and smiled.
Alice took a chomp out of her burger and the gang enjoyed their evening as they ate, drank, and told jokes and stories. After Sugimoto was done drinking, he went up to meet with the others and sat down on the opposite side of Alice. He placed his head on the table after the effects of the alcohol set in.
"Jeez Sugimoto, I thought you changed when you decided to avoid the bar but here you are getting drunk." The manager teased him.
"I only had a few drinks." Sugimoto said drunkenly.
Alice and Ghazali awkwardly smiled after looking at Sugimoto who seemed to have passed out from all the drinking.
"Hey manager, has Senpai always been like this?" Alice asked him.
The manager thought for a while.
"Well I don't say for certain but he does drink his life away when he sees this stuff. Usually after a celebration like this." The manager told her.
"I see, I guess I can see that." She said and chuckled.
As they talked more, the manager's phone began ringing. He took a second to read the phone number and decided to leave the restaurant for a while.
"Ah, excuse me for a moment." The manager said politely.
The manager politely stood up and exited the restaurant. Alice and Ghazali talked with each other and Ghazali began telling stories about his wife and kids back at the Peninsular.
"Here Alice, this is my wife and kids." He said while smiling.
Ghazali showed a photo of his wife and two children on his smartphone.
