Bartender Chapter 18 – The Visage of a Bar (Part 3)

All right, here’s the last part to this story.  Wanted to get this out before the weekend so you guys won’t be left hanging.

Update: Weird… can’t upload png files from my home computer.  But whatever, got it up as a jpeg

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Drink of the Day:

Moulin Rouge

• 3 Dashes of Grenadine
• 1/4 Apricot Brandy
• 1/2 Lemon Juice
• 1/4 Gordon’s Orange Gin

Thoughts (Spoiler Alert):

So the whole story is now revealed.  Minegishi is broke, but he is so mesmerized by his past that he wishes to live the same way even though he can’t financially do it.  He should be applauded for not going down any wrong paths and sticking to it to achieve his goals.  And once again, Sasakura is shown to be less-than-perfect, since his service for Minegishi was not all that suitable.  But I have to say in his defense that he was unaware of Minegishi’s condition.  If Minegishi didn’t have an illness, it would have been right to live for the future instead of dwelling on the past.  The past is sweet, no doubt, but everyone needs to let go sometime.  Saito did not tell Sasakura the whole picture, so it makes sense that Sasakura would give such a service.  Perhaps Saito intentionally hid that piece of information to teach Sasakura a lesson; to show him the reason why bartenders should not interfere.  Sasakura also commented that he may never reach the level that Saito is at, but I think he may have surpassed him already in some ways.  The moral of this chapter is two-fold.  One, we shouldn’t dwell on the past, since everyone have a future to live for.  Two, we shouldn’t throw away our past, since it signifies who we are and what we have been through.