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"Hey, Meme. Are you here?"

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"What is it, my comrade? I thought you moved to the city of Fontana, but you seem to come back here often."

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"Oh, there you are. I've been on a bit of a wild goose chase here, and I wanted to ask you a meme."

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"Hmm. I wonder. Is there something you don't understand about the antidote?"

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"No, that's one thing I'd like to ask you, but this is something else. Meme, do you know what disinfection is?"

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"...... disinfection?　No, I don't know, my comrade. What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

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　Dude, seriously.

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　Horrible words coming from a meme of a doctor who even makes antidotes.

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　These doctors don't seem to have a concept of disinfection.

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　But this does not mean that the doctors of this world are so low that they do not even think of disinfecting.

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　On the contrary.

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　It means that disinfection is not necessary around here.

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　According to my knowledge from my previous life, the streets were very dirty in the Middle Ages.

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　They used to throw their excrement everywhere, so the smell was quite bad in daily life.

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　Moreover, it could be a cause of death.

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　In the Middle Ages, the unsanitary conditions spread diseases many times, and many lives were lost due to the diseases.

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　But this is not the case here.

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　It was the magic of life given by the church.

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　When any person reaches a certain age after birth, he or she is baptized by the church and given life magic.

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　This is a system for the church to gather magical power, but it is actually a great benefit to the residents.

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　Things like [lighting], [igniting fire], [drinking water], and so on, which are like living infrastructures in themselves, are given as living magic.

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　However, among these, there is one that is actually the most effective.

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　That is the life magic called 【Cleaning】.

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　With the use of [washing], you can clean your house in an instant.

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　Washing is used to wash dishes and to clean houses.

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　It is a magic that removes dirt, not a magic that makes things wet with water.

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　It is a magic that is standard for all things.

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　Because of this magic of [washing], there was no custom of taking a bath at all in this area.

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　People who saw me soaking myself in the bathtub after boiling water would, without exception, treat me as a freak.

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　And then there was disinfection, another practice that disappeared with the washing.

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　There is no need to disinfect the human body when using a knife to heal it.

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　Because the body is cleaned.

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　I don't know if it actually gets rid of the germs.

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　But the dirt and blood would definitely be gone, so everyone was [washing] their bodies instead of disinfecting them.

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"So, what is your point, comrade?　I guess you don't like the fact that [washing] is being used in place of that disinfection or whatever."

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"No. No, it's not. No, I was asking, if you don't have to disinfect, are you sure you don't use alcohol to wash the wound?"

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"Do you pour alcohol on the wound to clean it?　It would definitely be cleaner to [wash] than to do that."

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"I knew it. That means, meme. You've never even seen a strong alcoholic beverage?"

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"Liquor or ....... I've never heard of anything particularly strong. Some types may be stronger than others, though: ....... I don't drink alcohol because I think it's bad for you to begin with."

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"No, that's enough. That's all I need to hear, Meme. It's good. I got a new moneymaker."

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　I'm still a kid and I don't drink.

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　But the other day Carlos came to the spa and showed me what he was drinking.

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　It seemed that there were liquors made from barley as well as those made from fruits.

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　But all of them had a low alcohol content.

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　I was curious, so I asked Carlos what other liquors he had.

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　After all, he is the head of a noble family that unites many knights.

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　The castle where Carlos lives has many alcoholic beverages.

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　But I felt that none of them seemed to be so strong as the one mentioned in the story.

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　I tried to figure out the reason why, and I found out the existence of the aforementioned life magic.

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　When there is the magic of "drinking water," there is no need to worry about drinking water.

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　Therefore, alcohol that can be stored for a long period of time is completely a luxury item.

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　And the idea of increasing the strength of alcohol for disinfection was not created by magic.

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　I think that the culture of making high alcohol content did not develop much due to the magic of convenient life.

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　If this is the case, then it's a quick story.

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　Let's build a distiller.

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　By heating the liquor and cooling the vapor appropriately, we should be able to produce alcohol with a high concentration.

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　By repeating the process over and over again, we could raise the alcohol to a degree that would make it unfit for drinking.

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　It is not certain, however, whether it is necessary for disinfection or not.

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　For now, let's make something with a high alcohol content as a luxury drink.

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　Thus, I moved from Meme's place to Gran's and instructed him to make a distiller that day.

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　This winter, Barca was to be served with a high alcohol content, something that had not been common so far.

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