"Yes, disinfectant. Sodium hypochlorite was the last thing added to the whiskey, an ingredient that should never be present in the whiskey, and because it has stronger volatility, it completely masked the expression this bottle of whiskey should have had." Sean Lowell gave Artie Vaughn a very certain answer.
Seeing Artie standing there in a daze, with cute eyes, a cute face, and a cute mouth but not speaking, Sean had to continue explaining with great patience:
"I wrote down 'murder and profiteer' because I think mixing toxic chemical elements into the whiskey is unacceptable to me. You can't ruin a soulful whiskey with a prank. After writing it, I still felt that the expression wasn't enough, so I said 'murder and profiteer' again. What I wanted to emphasize at the time was that I don't want such things to happen again in the future."
Publicity has already given the official explanation of "murder and profiteer" twice, half an hour ago.
Master Sean Lowell is not someone who usually explains to people.
Because those who trust you will always trust you.
And those who don't understand or believe in you might not accept your explanation no matter how you phrase it.
Having already stepped out of the Stockholm syndrome, Sean just wants to focus on brewing whiskey.
He lives a life isolated from the world, no longer caring about others' opinions of him.
Being able to explain to Artie to this extent must definitely be because of the possible emergence of Summer Fairmont that haunts his dreams.
With the example of disinfectant being so simple and easy to understand, Sean believes that the girl who splashed him with water would definitely have no problem understanding.
Just when Sean was waiting for the misunderstanding between the girl with a lolita face + devilish figure + mysterious actions to be resolved, Artie, who had been full of aura moments ago, started crying directly.
This time, The Pouting Siren's tears escalated from a drizzle to a downpour.
After the downpour, hail began to fall in Artie's heart: "What am I going to do, brother? Little Artie has become the kind of vicious female friend she despises the most! Boo… hoo… And I call myself a Wine Winters Ambassador… Clearly, I'm just a master of screwing things up..."
The big brother heart hidden within Artie's 36D chest shattered, completely and utterly.
Leo Vaughn rushed up to support his sister, who looked like she would cry herself faint in the next second, leaving Sean at a loss.
Could it be that he's been out of touch with face-to-face communication with girls for so long that what he thought was a simple explanation couldn't be comprehended by this girl at all?
Artie couldn't forgive herself.
Turns out, she had always wrongly blamed Publicity... uh... Master Sean Lowell.
Turns out, she herself is the real culprit of 'murder and profiteer'.
Turns out, she is no different from the vicious female friends in novels and dramas.
Apart from having a slight cleanliness obsession, Artie also occasionally has a stumbling problem.
On her way back with whiskey from the Fairmont Family, the girl with The Pouting Siren face blocked by her 36D bust, tripped three times.
The second time was nothing, but during the first and third times, both she and some of the contents of her pink PRADA killer bag fell out.
Although the killer bag has a zipper, the largest compartment in the middle is open.
Being as obsessively clean as she is, The Pouting Siren couldn't stand her belongings spilling out without disinfecting them.
Artie used her travel disinfectant kit to thoroughly disinfect both herself and the Fairmont Family whiskey indiscriminately and completely without leaving any corners unturned.
This wasn't the first time Artie did something like this.
The liquor in her own cabinet is often taken out for disinfection by Artie.
Especially those bottles that have been taken out by others for careful appreciation; Cleanliness Enchantress could never just put them back directly.
Disinfecting liquor that's come into contact with the "outside world" is Artie's regular operation.
It has always been this way, without any trouble.
But Artie forgot that this instinctive disinfection action had no impact on her home stash, thanks to the meticulously strong packaging, such as corks sealed with foil, sometimes in multiple layers.
If not that, then other types of vapor-tight sealing packages were used.
To make this last-minute "Gasse" earth-shattering, The Devilish Lolita specifically selected one aged fifty years in an original oak barrel from Summer Fairmont's family whiskey.
The whiskey stored in the original cask for half a century had never been bottled, so it came without the attention to design typical of labels and packaging.