"Come ooooooon Lycoris, let go a bit. This is our chance to celebrate don't be a party pooper." Persica said, putting her ears down like a sad puppy.

"No, this beer is literally called "Jauche," sewage, why the fuck would I drink that?" Lycoris replied, putting his hands on his face. Persica was clearly getting on his nerves.

"It isn't thaaaaaat bad, give it a try."

War was waging around the world, with everyone out for everyone else's throat, it was a great time to be in the arms business. While nations fought wars of death and destruction, these arms companies fought in wars of capital, trying to make more money than everyone else and establish their place in the new world order.

A company named Sangvis Ferri, a new upstart in the arms business, had quickly established a large market share with their cheap, yet highly effective Jaeger sniper T-dolls. This concerned the Old Guard, led by the mega-corporation IOP, who have struggled to compete with the superior numbers and reliability of the Jaeger dolls.

When IOP researchers discovered a series of papers written by a group called 90wish that all changed. The papers published by this group were nothing short of brilliant, however, their information networks confirmed that the group had fallen apart due to internal power struggles.

After a long and exhausting search, they managed to track down two former members, Persica and Lycoris, and managed to get them under their payroll. After a daring extraction by a mercenary named "Kryuger," the two researchers were extracted from Russia and brought to an IOP compound in what used to be Switzerland.

IOP now had their ace in the hole, their knights in shining armor, however, they never expected them to be so… eccentric.

They were in their brand new lab, provided by IOP themselves, it had all the equipment necessary to design, program, and manufacture new prototypes all on base. Persica had decided to celebrate while they waited for IOP to assign them dormitories.

Persica leaned onto Lycoris' shoulder with one of the beer cans in hand. She had an incredibly smug look on her face and her ears were perked up straight. The entire thing made Lycoris very uncomfortable.

"Come on Lycoris, give it a try."

Lycoris figured the only way she would leave him alone was if he drank the beer, it couldn't be that bad right?

"Fine." He said with a frustrated edge as he ripped the beer can from her hand.

Persica's face lit up, this seemed to please her greatly. She was dead set on getting him drunk, and this was the only alcohol they could get their hands on

Lycoris pulled the tab on the can and opened it with a hiss. Although he was hesitant, he was so angry he started chugging it immediately. He didn't care anymore, he just wanted her to leave him alone.

That decision was probably the worst decision he had ever made.

The second it touched his tongue he was overwhelmed with the strong taste of ammonia and other chemicals that could only be described as literal alcoholic urine. The overwhelming sensation caused his gag reflex to go into overdrive, and he immediately began coughing uncontrollably. The beverage was spilled all over the clean stainless steel lab table as he gagged and coughed. Persica let out a childish giggle as she watched him suffer. Was she some sort of sadist?

Once Lycoris finally regained his composure he looked to Persica with a death stare. He was filled with rage.

"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT! IVE HEARD OF BEER TASTING LIKE PISS BEFORE BUT THAT ACTUALLY DID TASTE LIKE PISS! ALCOHOLIC PISS! HOW DO YOU DRINK THAT SHIT!" He shouted.

"It doesn't taste that bad, it has character."

"CHARACTER MY ASS, DO YOU EVEN HAVE TASTE BUDS?"

"Calm down Lycoris I thought you were a man, but it turns out I have more balls than you do." Persica said with a montone, yet oddly girlish giggle.

With that Lycoris just gave up. It just wasn't worth it, the more he fought the worse it got, he would just wait until the IOP rep showed up to take them to their dorms. The more time he spent with Persica the more he was reminded of why 90wish fell apart. Everyone in that organization was clinically insane.