H of Hangover

Prompt: when the discussion about their alcohol-tolerant was brought up, the drinking contest between the family occurred and obviously, they all had the hangover the next morning. How messed up it had been when the Melizabeth kids drunk, though?

People had their alcohol tolerance at various levels, including Meliodas and Elizabeth's kids. Meliodas told Elizabeth when the latter asked about it. At the end of the National Foundation Festival in the Boar Hat, they were having a celebration and that was when Elizabeth asked him. At first, it was only her, but the others interested and joined them.

Lancelot was a heavy drinker, but compared to his father and older brother, you still could count him as a light drunker. Well, probably.

Melody, the youngest daughter, was not allowed to drink because of her status as a Saintess. Not that she craved to drink alcohol, ever, (not when she didn't even understand the reason why people tended to drink something as dangerous and intoxicating as alcohol) so it was not a problem for her.

Lily could be a heavy drinker, but she never crossed her limit because she was afraid that she would act unladylike or cross the boundary in her tipsy state, so she would stop to stay sober.

Elizabeth nodded her head with an excited spark on her eyes, "then, how about the other four?".

"well, my oldest one is a clever girl. She knows how to handle her alcohol, just like Lily", Meliodas briefly glanced sideways to where Gelda sat with Merlin and Escanor, "I think her caretaker knew more about it".

Feeling his gazes on her, Gelda sat on the counter and leaned forward to Meliodas, lifting her thumb "oh, would you look at that? I guess the young King is going to be a hen-pecked husband".

They directed their gazes to where Guinevere and Arthur were drinking together, both were drunk and red-faced. When Arthur lifted his shaking finger, commenting about how could she not even tipsy, she grinned wickedly. Guinevere put her hand on her temple and cast Invigorate spell to sober herself up.

"before I lost it, I simply used the Invigorate magic spell. It's really handy, you know? After all, with my Invigorate magic spell, I can heal whatever kind of wounds, including poison. I just need to use it and I can drink for the rest of my life~".

Arthur flopped his head on the table, "it's cheating, Gwen…".

"Now, now, someone needs to stay sober, to help you back to the bed", Guinevere teasingly poked his cheek "now, shall we go back to our bedroom?".

Arthur wrapped his arms around Guinevere's waist, toppling them to the floor. With his head on her breasts, Arthur mumbled sleepily, "pillow… squishy and soft…".

Again?

Earning the mad laughter from others, Guinevere facepalmed, "…I guess I should get used with this. I bet he would make me as his pillow every night once we get married".

Back to the main topic, after Guinevere and Arthur retreated to their bedroom using teleportation, their conversation about alcohol tolerance continued.

Meliodas caressed his chin thoughtfully, "perhaps, you can say that Triss is the closest to me. He has a high-level alcohol tolerance, almost as high as mine".

As they were speaking about this, Tristan and Escanor were having a drinking contest. Isolde was ready to prepare the apple, pills, elixirs, and potion for their hangover (which they would get for sure next morning). On the other side, Merlin as the one who triggered this ridiculous competition between his ex-husband and newly official lover felt amused.

That was when Hawk realized, "oh, how about Tina and Merissa? I barely saw them drinking".

Elizabeth pointed to where Merissa was busy with her daughter, Meghan who sat on her lap while Tristina was busy helping the waitresses, "well, I guess they're just not drinking that much? Not to mention, Meg keeps asking to play with Lady Merissa and Tina is busy with the waitresses".

The next second, Tristina called out "Hawk! Help me with the carrying, could you?".

"oh, now you mention it…", Meliodas grinned mischievously as an idea popped in his head. He waved his hand to Tristina who just put the tray of empty mugs on the counter "Tina, would you give this to Merissa?".

"chocolate? Sure. Can I have one, too?", Tristina sniffed the chocolate's smell and she cringed with an awkward, restrained sheepish chuckle "ah, on the afterthought… no need".

"in case she will refuse, just ask her to open up her mouth and throw it to her mouth".

Tristina chirped, "okay! This is gonna be fun~".

Hawk narrowed his eyes and glared at Meliodas accusingly, "…what's wrong with that chocolate?".

Ban sauntered with a bottle of Aberdeen Ale in his hand "did I miss something?".

After Elizabeth told him about what they were talking about, Meliodas added, "just see. One thing for sure, I will never poison my children, right?".

Like Meliodas instructed, Tristina asked Merissa to open her mouth and Merissa cluelessly did it, "like this?".

Tristina nodded her head as she threw the chocolate "here we go".

After Merissa munched 'whatever delicious thing' that her sister threw into her mouth and swallowed it down her throat, Merissa asked cluelessly, "hm... it's sweet. What was that?".

Meliodas lifted his fingers, earning the confused looks from others "in three seconds…".

Tristina said innocently, "whisky chocolate from father".

Meliodas lowered one finger "two".

"oh, you—", Merissa looked like want to smack Tristina (or Meliodas) but she handed Meghan to her little sister, Lily instead "—just carry her".

Meliodas lowered one more finger "one".

Merissa instructed, "make sure you put me on the bed, in the same bedroom with my daughter".

Meliodas lowered his last finger "zero".

The next second, Merissa fell asleep, curling into a ball on the table.

Ban sputtered, "she fell asleep just because of a whisky chocolate!?".

Meliodas explained, carrying Merissa bridal style. Giving instruction to Tristina to bring Merissa and Meghan to the bed upstairs, "even soda water is enough to make Merissa drunk. I guess it's because she is a mermaid. Their alcohol tolerance is low".

Ban twitched his eyebrow "seriously?".

After they put Merissa and Meghan on the bed upstairs and went back to the bar, Elizabeth apologized because she thought it was her fault for being curious, that Merissa had fallen asleep.

Tristina waved it off "eh, don't mention it. It's Dad's fault. He's just having fun teasing us, his children. I guess Merissa just will want to smack my head tomorrow, for feeding her the whisky chocolate. Or to head-lock Daddy's head, since he's the main culprit".

Elizabeth chuckled nervously "…I guess I'm the part of this".

Feeling thirsty, Tristina took the glass with beautiful colors on the table. There was a slice of orange on the edge of the glass, and cherry inside the glass. Sniffing its smell, she thought it was just juice. At least, until they heard Merlin said "huh? Tina, that's my wine".

Tristina hiccupped and froze. Her body was squirming with her bangs covered her expression before she collapsed backward. Though, before she fell flat with her back on the ground, Howzer caught her, but they felt confused when Meliodas warned "Howdy boy! Watch out!".

Lifting Tristina on his hands, Howzer was about to ask "huh? What do you—?".

The next second, Tristina wrapped her arms around Howzer's shoulders and kissed him. On. The. Lips.

The stunned spectators gasped and Meliodas facepalmed as he explained "sorry, I'm late to warn you. When she's drunk, Tina will turn into the 'little devil kisser'. She will kiss whoever nearby, no matter it's a girl or a boy. That's why I never allow her to drink".

King shouted indignantly, frantically waving his hand "tell us sooner, Captain! Also, is it alright to let your daughter kiss another man in front of your eyes?".

"well, well, well, it's not like she truly wants to do it intentionally from her heart. After all, she's drunk. I can't help it because it's her who started it when she's drunk", Meliodas shrugged before he cracked his knuckles and smiled with an ominous aura, "but~ it will be an entirely different case if it's the man who started it".

Before Meliodas could kill him, Gelda halted him "wait, something's strange. I never saw Tina drunk previously. However, you and Tristan clearly said that Tina passed away when she was only 9 years old previously. She was only a child. How could you know about how she behaved when she's drunk?".

"oh, remember when I told the story about how Tina was curious about the taste of an ale? She sneaked out of her room and went to the storage room. She found my ale, and she—".

Ban chuckled "—tasted it? Man, who knows that she has it on her?".

"—not only she tasted it, Tina even soaked wet, bathed in ale. Tina accidentally fell into a barrel of ale when she wanted to taste it. Tristan who found his twin barely drowning, kicked the barrel to the side and knocked her out of the barrel. However, when Tristan scolded her for being so reckless and helped her while calling us, Tina 'attacked' him. Now, you understand how I could know about it, right? I have to admit, I was quite panicked as well when I knew what happened, but the ridiculous situation revealed in front of my eyes that night was quite enjoyable to watch".

Tristan smacked Meliodas' head, clearly drunk in his rambling, "think about how did I feel that time! First, I thought I've gotten the heart-attack because she was barely drowning, only turned out that she attacked me, her twin! You and mom weren't helping at all! You two laughed at us instead! Well, that's before mom dragged us, telling that we would get a cold if we didn't dry ourselves…".

"in the end, they're even, huh? Though, it seems Tristan's alcohol tolerance is still higher compared to Escanor. Well then", Merlin shrugged, gathering Escanor's body in her arms, "do you need help, sis? I'll bring Escanor back to my laboratory".

"no need!", Isolde chirped as she dragged Tristan, lifting her thumb "I can handle myself".

Tristan purred as he leaned his face on the crook of Isolde's nape, "where'd you go?".

Isolde sighed and shivered delightfully, mewling, "err, let's just sleep, okay?".

The next day, no doubt, several of them were having a headache.

Guinevere casually sipped fresh water and started to cut several apples, "why should you drink too much if, in the end, you grumble when you'll be having a hangover in the morning?".

Howzer lifted his shaky finger "we don't want to hear it from you… cheater…".

"whatever", Guinevere shrugged and carried the tray which filled with two glasses of milk and freshwater, also a plate of apples and slices of bread "I will have breakfast in my bedroom with Arthur. He's suffering a hangover as well".

"What a good wife you will be—OW!", Ban caressed his nose where Guinevere's shoe had landed "it hurt, li'l Gwen!".

Guinevere rolled her eyes nonchalantly, casually putting back her shoe "whatever".