“Heh heh heh, well now. This is an excellent beverage.”
Even in the Papal See, where they preached restraint from desire, there was such a thing as fashion.
And this quarter's trend was none other than espresso.
“How much sugar do you tend to add?”
“Perhaps because I'm old, I tend to add quite a lot.”
“Oh my. Are you bringing up age in front of me?”
“Heh heh!! Saint, am I not getting on in years myself?”
More precisely, if they did not drink this, it became tantamount to denying their bond with the Heavenly Lord,
Apparently, there had even been cases of people teasing them over it, saying, “What, are you a heretic?”
Of course, they had done it as a joke, so the Pope had given them a token punishment and let it slide. At any rate...
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