Return of the Fallen Volume 11 Chapter 137
Very quickly oven after oven opened in the air above them and out came one unrecognizable dish after another.
Meats grilled even though they were in an oven, soups, stews, fried dishes, again and again, one unexplainable dish came flying out before resting perfectly on the table below.
Every recipe came from Earth and was modified to fit the enhanced ingredients Kazuki grew in one of his small worlds. Many different kinds of Pasta and rice dishes. Several different kinds of fish and pork and so on. In the end, Kazuki had made well over a hundred different main courses all with sides included.
It was a literal feast he had prepared and to their shock, all of it had taken seconds to make.
Viz’s eyes widened.
“You…made all of these?”
Kazuki smirked.
“Who else? The ovens certainly help and with them, the cooking time is reduced greatly but all of it is based on the recipes I know and the special ingredients I have. Try it and don’t be too shocked by the taste.”
Kazuki laughed but he wasn’t kidding. To brag was pointless but if someone could do it overcooking, he would take it to that level. His cooking was something most masters would never be able to reach and he considered it second only to his skill in fighting.
“TIME TO EAT!”
Mei shouted and Kosaru followed her example. The two waited for no one and immediately dug in.
“No fair!”
Right after she made her move, Samuel dove into his own food along with his servants and Marty. All of them ate like wild beasts and stuffed themselves without reserve. Mei rubbed her cheek with a bright smile as she ate as much meat as she wanted. Kosaru tilted his bowl of rice back and gulped it down with a giddiness that was hard to describe. Each and every one of them looked like a psychopath in their own right.
Viz and his servant Gider found this to be bizarre. Not just the pair but all 50 slaves looked down at the other end of the table watching this scene as if it were the oddest thing in the world.
Finally, Viz’s curiosity got the better of him and he cut into a thick slice of meat. The moment he did this, a new aroma hit his nose as tons of savory juice spilled out. Viz actually felt his shoulders shiver as the smell was so enticing.
(This savory aroma, how could it smell so delicious? I…I can feel my saliva building up in anticipation. I…I can sense my own impatience.)
Viz gave Kazuki a look and Kazuki had a stupid grin on his face. It was almost creepy by this point as Kazuki goaded Viz on.
“Well…What are you waiting for? Try my meat.”
Just before Viz put the meat in his mouth, his servant Gider piped up.
“Master, shall I try it for you just in case it’s been poisoned?”
Viz turned to Gider and was about to tell him how stupid the idea was. Him becoming poisoned was an impossibility and Gider knew this. As soon as he turned to him though he could see drool spilling from his snake servant’s face. Gider’s eyes were locked onto the piece of meat as if he were caught in a trance.
(He just wants to eat it. Fool. You can’t eat before your master and you know it so you try and pull this to get ahead. No way am I letting you take a bite of this before me.)
Viz could see right through Gider and without a second thought, Viz bite down upon Kazuki’s meat.
(OHHH!)
An explosion of juice and flavor hit his tongue and spread through his soul the moment he took a bite. It was a bite unlike any he’d ever had. He had not needed food for eons and had stopped eating food for countless years but at this very moment, he felt that he could no longer stay away from food ever again. Rather he could not stay away from Kazuki’s food.
Viz began to chew rapidly and after swallowing this piece of meat down, it was like his soul had been freed from his body.
(This is…Incredible.)
Viz paid attention to nothing else as he began piling food onto his plate and he too began to devour every morsel in front of his face.
Since his master had eaten, Gider was now free to eat as well. He picked up one thing after another and ate away like a monster.
At the other end of the table, the slaves sat there in absolute shock at the scene unfolding before them. Their stomachs unbelievably growled. Something that they had not experienced since before they could remember. They actually felt…hungry.
One by one, knives, forks, and spoons were picked up and they all took their first bite. Chills ran down their collective spines one after another as they took a bite. This feeling they got, the taste, and flavor mixing and combining in ways they never thought of nor had before, it was something they simply could not explain. This wasn’t food to them, this was a miracle and they could not stop.
These slaves had experienced the worst kinds of treatment known to both men and beasts, yet they endured. They overcame all of it, and never could they have ever imagined someday it would lead them to this particular situation. A stupid, foolish thought entered many of their minds at this moment.
(Thank the Gods I became a slave!)
This thought was a flash in the pan. A fleeting moment in time yet even after thinking how stupid of a thought it was, none were upset. Instead, some began to cry or laugh with joy.
Even though Kazuki was not a Demigod, since he was now these people’s master, he could sense their souls and read them. He did not expect they would have such a strange thought at that moment but he also did not find it to be too weird.
(To have freedom is a right that everyone should have but that is not the way of the world. If my freedom were taken like theirs and in all of those terrible moments in time, something like this food appeared before me. Would I have such a foolish thought as they.)
At this moment Kazuki was reminded of the past. He had never been a slave but he had experienced a lack of freedom when he was in the abyssal trench and the monster hunted him. It had played and toyed with him and stalked him in the vast darkness. All the way up to the moment he was eaten by that dumb fucking monster, he only wished to escape and return to the surface.
He did not know if he would have a similar thought to his slaves but if he did…Would that have been so wrong he wondered? The moment this thought appeared in his head, Mei grabbed his shirt and tugged it gently.
She held her plate up and asked.
“Big brother, what’s for dessert?”
Her voice shot him back to reality and he was reminded of everything else. All of his friends and loved ones. It was them that pushed him forward whilst he was in the depths of despair time and time again.
(No, to have such thoughts, it is a weakness. These slaves are weak in mind but I…I will never break. I will never return to a time when my fate was decided by the strength of another. I will destroy every enemy and I will become a God so that no one will play with my life ever again.)
Kazuki felt his rage rise when Mei tugged on his sleeve once more.
“Big brother, did ya hear me? DESSERT DESSERT!”
When Mei said this, Kosaru had just finished licking his plate clean and he began copying his big sister.
Kazuki’s ki circulated automatically and his fury cooled as he smiled.
“Of course. What would you two like? Pudding, cake, ice cream, just name it and it’s yours.”
Mei began cheering for cake while Kosaru kept repeating ice cream ice cream.
Kazuki put all the bad thoughts to the back of his mind while making the two the dessert of their desire. At the same time, Arc looked on with an unnoticeable, yet pitiful look.
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Several days later, after grueling training and delicious food day after day, Gider came racing into the courtyard where he found Viz.
“Master! I have word.”
In a large office deep within the castle, Viz, Kazuki, Samuel, and Marty sat around a table. Gider stood behind Viz unmoving while Chaka and the others waited outside.
“You called a meeting for all of us. I assume this means you have news of some kind Viz. Care to tell us what this is about?”
Viz wore an annoyed look.
“Samuel, it seems your delivery has arrived.”
Viz tossed a storage ring across the table where it landed right in front of Samuel. Samuel recognized the ring immediately.
“This! it’s one of my brother’s rings!”
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