"This... are you kidding me boss?"
"Hmm? Is there a problem?"
"We... are going to sleep in the same room?"
"Ofcourse... there's no way, I'm paying anything more than 3 bronzes for a night."
"I... Can pay the remaining amount."
"Haa... that's inconvenient you know, Why do you have to pay extra when you can just pay the same amount for 2 people."
"But... i can't have Boss sleep next to a women like me."
Haha! You seriously saying that?
With a straight face?
You probably Don't wanna sleep next to a man like me... rather than the other way around.
"It's fine... I wouldn't mind sleeping next to you!"
"But!"
"No buts! If I'm sleeping next to you, than I'm sleeping next to you. And obviously you are gonna pay half of the room's Money."
While i'd love the idea of sleeping with a women as beautiful as you... i can't have you hate me any more than you already are.
"Ok... Boss."
She seemed like she had given up.
"I'll be right back than!"
She said as if making up her mind.
and left the room soon enough.
...
After an hour she came back.
"I'm back boss."
She said, in a cheery tone...
She seems to have found a way to avoid this situation.
Way to go.
but... too bad...
All your effort was for not.
She saw me... and startled she asked me.
"Boss!"
"Hmm? What is it?"
"Why... are you sleeping there."
I was readying myself to go to sleep because i was hella exhausted.
too bad for her though...
"You... should have a meal and come back inside. Aren't you hungry?"
"Huh?"
I aksed her and soon enough her stomach growled
*Growl*
She looked embarassed.
"Well... I wanna ask you as to why you didn't tell me that you already ordered an extra futon and are sleeping down."
"Obviously... i can't go about sleeping with another women Who's beneath me."
I said as if a matter of fact.
"I have standards too you know. Anyway, have your meal and come Back up. I already paid for a plate so better go down quickly."
"O... Ok!"
She said... and than left the room.
Currently, i was sleeping down.
On a futon i ordered in advance.
Obviously i wouldn't wanna die quickly by irritating her too much
The hug before was necessary.
I was feeling very dejected so when i saw her hug me... even though it was 100% not real, i still needed that hug.
It was truly a shame... how she just pulled away but... it cannot be helped.
I was too eager and desperate.
I wouldn't do something unnecessary and inconveniecne someone who's important to me.
...
Aah... i slept well.
With highened senses, i could sleep comfortably.
When i woke up once at midnight.
I saw the peaceful face of Algeria sleeping.
She was truly beautiful.
Before she was like a sister to me... but the more time I'm spending with her, the more I'm coming to like her.
Which is mostly admiration but... it's the charm she's giving off which is making me very conscious of her.
But right now... she was nowhere to be seen.
The bed was nicely folded and the pillows were in their normal place.
She probably went to have her breakfast.
Heh... didn't even bother to wake me up haa?
That's kind of sad.
"Ooh you- Boss! You are awake."
Probably in a half dazed state... she let out a little bit of killing intent when she saw me which she suppressed almsot instantly.
She talked in a much more cheerful voice than that stone cold voice she used moments ago.
"Aah... good morning Algeria."
"Boss! You shoukd have breakfast quickly or else it'll be over before you get there."
"You should have called me... Why didn't you?"
"You... seemed like you were in deep sleep so i thought i shouldn't bother you."
Yaa... bullshit! You just didn't wanna have breakfast with your father's Murderer.
If she did... I'd have to question her sanity for a bit.
Travelling with me, sleeping in the same room was fine.
Because, i instigated it... but if she woke me up telling me to have breakfast with her... that'd mean she's already given in to Insanity.
"I see. Fine, I'll go there after i wash my face. Thanks."
...
Wow... the food looks good.
Since i am a vegetarian and don't like eating animal flesh, I just make do with whatever vegetables i get in the forest.
They have varieties but they are truly delicious.
Especially with all the various available spices, I can make the best curries.
I can use dairy products to make things i like.
Living in this world wasn't bad at all.
Since the vegetables were easily found everywhere.
In the markets, in the forest.
Cooking them, i sue these utencles that i bought in the city of utencles.
I usually go there once every 2 years to restock.
I just went there last month so i have all the necessary equipment.
What's left was to find vegetables and spices so i can make things from it.
I make meat dishes but i Don't eat them myself.
They say i make excellent meat dishes but... i couldn't care less since i hate eating meat.
It's got nothing to do with taste, nor does it have anything to do with morals to let animals survive.
It's just... that i Don't like the idea of eating flesh no matter how fancy it might look or how good it might taste.
People criticize vegetarians asking if they eat leaves while completely forgetting that if they were talking in that context, all non vegetarians are doing is eating monster flesh.
Yaa... flesh.
If non vegetarians can get disgusted by the idea of vegetarians eating leaves, i have all the right to not wanna eat Meat because I'm disgusted by the idea of eating flesh or skin.
That's all... idc about vegetarians or non vegetarians.
They can kill all animals and eat them for all i care.
They can savour the taste for all i care.
For me, it's just like when non vegetarians watch people eat leaves and savour the taste... i feel the same way when people eat flesh and savour the taste.
Ahm... nonetheless... this world is vaste for vegetarians.
And a meat hater like me... it was a perfect place to come to.
They even have wheat with which i can make round bread.
It's a part of the sputhern region's cusisine.
When i saw the varieties that existed there.
The things they made with vegetables, i was awestruck.
They turned powder into perfectly edible food.
They turned diary products into toppings for products.
They used every means necessary for meat hating people like me to survive life.
I... in essence was a leaf eating man until i had a taste of that food.
And god damn... a new world opened up for me.
I no longer had to savour the tatses of different leaves.
All this was possible due to 1 ingredient.
It's called spices.
And my god were there infinite number of spices.
Each having their own individuality and reason to exist.
And the moment i had a taste kf this hotel's vegetarian food.
I gave up.
I went back...
I took my coins that i used for lunch reservation...
It's apparently a very good place for food but... it aplears that it's only for non vegetarian food.
So, I'll be buying ingredients with the money i wasted on that meal and make food that isn't so bland and flavourless.
No wonder people hate vegetarian food.
Only the northern region can pull off food like that.
Others are just eating leaves and calling themselves vegetarian.
I feel sorry for such people.
Truly.
...
"What kind of dogshit food was that?"
I hurled as i came back to the hotel room.
It appears that Algeria wasn't here, so i made myself at home and started preparing food because i was hungry.
"Huh? What are you doing so early in the morning? What's that suffocating smell?"
"It's just spices?"
"My noce is gonna fall off because of that... can you please stop."
"Sorry, can do! I have a dosease called hunger and another one called meat-hating i can't get out of it... and the vegetarian food here is disgusting so I'm making my own."
"What? I have a lot of questions... first of all you hate MEAT?"
"Not a fan of eating flesh!"
"..."
"Can you let me concentarte... even a lil bit of the wrong amount and the entire dish will go to shit."
"... Fine."
...
I put a poetion on her table while i put mine closer to me.
I had the higher portion while she had the smaller one.
"You are giving me some?"
"Yaa... don't want it?"
"I... just ate!"
"It's fine... it's not that heavy."
"Waht is this anyway? This round thing with white sauce? And there's... vegetable curry inside too."
"It's called dosa. And that's not sauce... well, just apply that white thing to the dosa and wat it, It'll taste good."
"Haa... seriously? Here goes."
She said as she took a fork and tried to cut it.
"What are you doing?"
"... Cutting it?"
"Just use your hand... it's inconvenient to cut it with the knife."
"Huh?"
"Did... you not wash your hands?"
"Ofcourse i did... i always do. I am a n9ble women afterall!"
"... well than it should be fine."
she looked at me for a bit and than at her hand and than at the food.
She did that for a bit and than... probably feeling the whiff of the hot and piping curry she gave up.
*Sigh*
"Aahh whatever."
She said as she took the dosa and than put it on top of the curry and than applied some white paste on it.
It's made of spices and peanuts.
The moment it went inside her mouth she looked at me with surprise.
"The heck? Are you serious? Is this... vegetarian? Veg? Made from leaves and everything?"
"Well... not really leaves but... yes, it is vegetarian. That's the power of spices."
I said with a smug look on my face as i started eating my fill.
She had already completed her fill and went out for a walk for better digestion.
It's not very balanced so i'd suggest she not eat it frequently.
I'm fine since I'm not much of a meat lover and care not for health that much.
I'm not gonna start eating something i Don't like just because it has better balance.
But... than i wouldn't make her eat this food too much.
I'll let her eat it sometimes while i'd suggest she eat more balanced doets because shes has to live for much longer than me.
For that she needs good nutrients.
So she's better off eatibg meat and fish than this.
...
"Hey... make me that thibg you made yesterday."
"no!"
"Huh? Come on, Boss! Why?"
"I'll only make it for you 5 times a week. Rest of the times, You'll need to have a balanced diet. What i eat isn't balanced at all. You'll die if you eat things that i eat."
I replied.
"You... are unnecessary caring aren't you?"
She said with a puzzled expression.
Ofcourse i am... You are someone important to me.
Someone who'll take the world to greater heights.
You can't have an unbalanced diet now can you?
"Well... whatever. Since it's 5 times a week, that means i get to eat it atleast 5 times a week. I'm fine with that."
"That's good... but, I'll make different things every time. Additionally, I'll sometimes serve it at breakfast, sometimes at lunch and even dinner."
"I see... I hope it's good... Since I'm going to skip those meals when eating it."
"Ofcourse i won't disappoint you."
It's weird... how I haven't felt any killing intent at all this past few days.
It is because she's not been that close to me or is it the food?
Nonetheless... i have a bad feeling about this...
Like the calm before the storm.