Slime Saint - Ch. 4 - Operation Friendship

[panzerkampfwagyu]

The bitterness of the tea is probably implyjng that it was chockfull with cyanide.
Teapot might've been tampered with beforehand

 

[zeinzki]

reading this manga about slime girl after reading manga about a girl getting impregnated by roper and slime give me a weird feeling for sure

 

[Goplan]

Me too, it's so hard for me to understand a girl.

 

[jackjack9]

Jelly getting along with Erin. She's taking her first steps towards rebuilding her reputation.
Want to give Erin headpats.

 

[Xalphire]

First friend got!

 

[Amariithynar]

After that maid handed that whip, I just imagined an alternate timeline where the slime is trying to imitate the original body's tyranny while being completely bad and embarrassed by it and the maids just plays along with it.

Oh wait, there's already a vampire playing that role somewhere in my backlogs. Just got to dig up a mountain.

If you dig it up, lemme know!

The bitterness of the tea is probably implyjng that it was chockfull with cyanide.
Teapot might've been tampered with beforehand

Maybe, but black tea is just naturally bitter on its own.

 

[Outflanks10]

This series is so good, I really hope it gets an anime in the future

Thanks everyone at ToruScans for the transaltion

 

[xironi]

Waaah slime made a girl cry how terrible

 

[Null_DreiAcht]

What do the two maids mean by "incredible girl" ?

 

[Shrimperor]

Worst decision she ever made?

Depends, Tea is defo one of the better ones xD

now they think she is harcore M lmao

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Maybe, but black tea is just naturally bitter on its own.

Usually, that would be correct, but in writing, you don't let a character react to how bitter something is and have it be for no reason.
Like, very bitter = heavily poisoned in fiction.

 

[zxdwas]

Usually, that would be correct, but in writing, you don't let a character react to how bitter something is and have it be for no reason.
Like, very bitter = heavily poisoned in fiction.

I mean, it's also the first time this character has ever drunk tea, and the experience of tea smelling really good but tasting bitter is a common one.

 

[Null_DreiAcht]

reading this manga about slime girl after reading manga about a girl getting impregnated by roper and slime give me a weird feeling for sure

WHAT KIND OF WORK IS THAT !?

 

[nekoyuuki]

is it still yuri if it's a slime? Let's hope we find out

you accidentally a LN title

 

[nekoyuuki]

Usually, that would be correct, but in writing, you don't let a character react to how bitter something is and have it be for no reason.
Like, very bitter = heavily poisoned in fiction.

Tea you don't brew correctly (Steeped too long, water too hot) is also bitter, especially to someone who drinks enough tea to have a palate. And it's been made fairly clear what would happen to someone who messed up Saint's tea in the past.

 

[Kyuketsuki]

At the end of the day it was oujo-sama x maid.

 

[Redice]

If you dig it up, lemme know!

'Twas The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess. Having a recent anime adaptation helped finding it easier.

Spoiler

 

[ARoyalidiot]

The bitterness of the tea is probably implyjng that it was chockfull with cyanide.
Teapot might've been tampered with beforehand

She probably just overbrewed it. Most of teas bitterness comes from steeping it too long.

 

[Laisy]

Tea you don't brew correctly (Steeped too long, water too hot) is also bitter, especially to someone who drinks enough tea to have a palate. And it's been made fairly clear what would happen to someone who messed up Saint's tea in the past.

Wait that just made me realise, that also meant the maid's family have been telling her white lies about her tea. She got really lucky to make tea only after the saint had been replaced.

 

[Amariithynar]

Usually, that would be correct, but in writing, you don't let a character react to how bitter something is and have it be for no reason.
Like, very bitter = heavily poisoned in fiction.

There's also what's called a "red herring" in fiction, where they present something that can be taken as nefarious, but isn't. Very common and popular trope, that one.

Tea you don't brew correctly (Steeped too long, water too hot) is also bitter, especially to someone who drinks enough tea to have a palate. And it's been made fairly clear what would happen to someone who messed up Saint's tea in the past.

She probably just overbrewed it. Most of teas bitterness comes from steeping it too long.

Wait that just made me realise, that also meant the maid's family have been telling her white lies about her tea. She got really lucky to make tea only after the saint had been replaced.

As someone who has drunk a LOT of tea in my life, prepared by myself and by a great many others, from old teas to new teas, cheap teas to expensive teas; any form of black tea is bitter up-front, period. Preparing it properly simply means that it's not bitter to the point of astringency.

The reason for this is in part due to the preparation process that black tea goes through; they're lightly fried (often termed as "withered" since no additional oil is used, only the natural oils on the leaves themselves) in a wok at high heat to begin the oxidation process, then rolled across a wicker plate (or industrial facsimile thereof) to release any leftover moisture from the leaves before frying them again to halt the oxidation process. The combination of oxidation, moisture reduction, and twice-frying over high heat using the tea leaves' own natural oils means that you concentrate the tannins (which are bitter/astringent and heat-stable) into a much smaller volume/weight of black tea tea leaf.

Additionally, black tea focuses on using mature tea leaves, which due to their longer growth time have fewer amino acids compared to young leaves (the fuzzy down on young leaves is exceptionally high in them) and thus lose a lot of the balancing sweetness associated with green teas, and also have a much greater volume of catechins, which are naturally occuring polyphenols that create the other half of the natural bitterness of tea.

Only green tea isn't guarenteed to be bitter at all, but can still have some bitter notes due to the catechins and tannins, still; here is where cultivar really matters to differentiate.

Also, "sweet tea" doesn't count because it dumps an absolute crapload of sugar in to negate the bitterness and swing all the way back into sweetness by changing the fundemental chemistry of the drink; it's basically no longer tea at that point. Rooibos and other herbal tisanes also don't count for a much more obvious reason: because they aren't made with tea leaves.