HACS 21

Aila broke her own limit by twenty whole minutes.

I tried the coffee too—but it wasn’t as effective as I’d hoped.

“If you brew it really weak, it tastes similar to barley tea.”

It had such a mild stimulating effect that I thought it might be better to just chill it and drink it as a barley tea substitute.

“…No—maybe it just doesn’t work as well on my body. Then I’ll have to find another way.”

In other words—since it’s just Aila and me, the sample size is too small. Let’s run a clinical trial.

And the test subjects were already decided.

The ones most familiar with experimentation and who hate variables above all else—

The graduate students.

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Since the new student welcome festival, one of my routines has been setting up shop in front of the Graduate Building a few times a week. I can’t do it every…