Novel Catchup
Chapter 1141 A Feast
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The door opened automatically as Emilia and Henriette entered the room in a hurry, before the door were to be closed right behind them. Emilia left her guard robots outside to not disturb our dinner.
"Oh, it's Emilia- Henriette?!" Patrick screamed. "W-What are you doing here miss?! A-Ah, did you come to apprehend one of us? Did we do something illegal?!"
"Patrick, was your name?" Henriette squinted her eyes at him. "I have checked your record just now using my glasses, you're clean, and you better stay like that, you heard me?"
"Y-Yes ma'am!" Patrick ended bowing before her, something unnecessary.
Henriette seems to enjoy the power of her position within the hierarchy…
Yes, most definitely.
"Ah, Henriette, it is nice to see you," Hermes said.
"Hermes," Henriette smiled, nodding.
Ah, I see, so she has a much better impression on Hermes…
"Hello guys! How are you? I just happened to find Henriette here, so we came together," Emilia smiled with her usual relaxed smile. "Hmm! This place's nice and cozy! Blakeeee! What are you cooking though? Smells so nice!"
She ran to the kitchen, as she saw what I was making, fish, fried rice, and I was also baking a huge pizza.
"A lot," I said. "I know you guys don't get to eat this much, so let's have a small feast."
"Hmmm! You're so niceeee!" Emilia hugged me from behind. "Hehe, look!"
She showed me a bag with beer cans.
"Wait, alcohol?" I wondered. "Not even Hermes… he just brought soda."
"Yep these are pretty expensive, but we earned so much damn money today that I wanted to give me the luxury, hehe," she giggled coquettishly. "Let's drink to our heart's contents~!" she winked at me.
"I don't know if drinking would be a good idea, tomorrow we still have duty day, right?" I wondered.
"Aw come on dude, don't be a party pooper!" Patrick said from behind. "Emilia, give me a drink!"
"Haha, you wish! Only after we start eating dude!" laughed Emilia. "What did you brought though?"
"B-Bread…" Patrick sighed, looking down embarrassed.
"Just bread? Pfff hahaha!" laughed Emilia. "You and your broke ass aren't saving anybody, lmao!"
"S-Shut up! What else did you want me to bring? I didn't kill as many and I'm saving money," said Patrick, sighing.
"Emilia don't be like that with Patrick," I said. "Even some bread could become a delicious meal. Patrick, bring me your bread. Let's cook half of it."
"Cook? But how?" he wondered.
"I know of a few ways to use some good bread," I nodded.
First, I turned some into breadcrumbs and made fried chicken with crunchy batter and crumbs to give it the best texture.
Then, I also put some with cheese and ham on the oven, and added some tomato sauce and some herbs, making pizza bread.
Lastly, for dessert, I made some French toast with a lot of sweet milk, leaving the bread as fluffy as pancakes.
"Bon Appetit."
Once everything was done, I served it over the table, my friends were fascinated by the meals.
"Uooohhhh! Everything looks so good dude!" Patrick said. "You made chicken, these things, and dessert with my bread?! Amazing!"
"I-I guess bread can be used in ways I had no freakin' idea, huh? Well, Blake still added a lot of ingredients…" said Emilia, sitting down. "Anyways this looks delish! I have only eaten fish once before! It was so good!"
"Ah, what a blissful meal… Thank you so much for the meal," Hermes said, there was as small pile of floating furniture sitting on his head in perfect balance.
"Hmm! I'm honestly impressed…" Henriette tasted the fish, then ate some pizza-bread and drank some of the wine she brought. "This is an incredible five-star meal! The fried rice is also delicious, I never imagined rice could have so much flavor before."
"Hmm, yeah! it's amazing dudeeee!" Emilia was really happy.
Eventually, we all started eating, I was quite hungry so I began eating heartily and without holding back, I also enjoyed the fine wine that Henriette shared with me.
"You like it? It's a rather expensive fine selection," she smiled pridefully. "You'll be drinking this every day now, it is what the elite such as ourselves drink."
"Is that so?" I raised an eyebrow. "Elite you say… Hah."
Once I finished the cup of wine, Emilia gave me a cane of beer.
It was called Strongest Zero, it was a moderately priced beer drank by common people, Henriette was not fond of it.
"Why are you giving him something like that?" Henriette sighed. "Who even drinks beer, right Blake? You should just throw that away- Aaah?!"
She gasped as she saw me drinking from the can directly.
"What?"
I was already an adult so drinking these things every now and then wasn't bad.
However, I don't really like drinking alcohol that much anyways.
It doesn't even have an effect on my body to begin with.
So it's like drinking flavored water… bitter water, with some other flavors here and there.
"It's fine," I nodded. "Hmm, a bit too bitter for my tastes."
"Oh so you like sweet stuff better?" Emilia smiled teasingly. "Heheh, didn't knew you were a sweet tooth baby! Hahah!"
"Quite lively today, aren't you, Emilia?" Hermes sighed. "Anyways, let me try some of that too."
"Eh? Why should I give you anything…" Emilia smiled maliciously.
"You brought enough for everyone; I know for a fact that-"
As Hermes was talking Emilia launched a can of beer at him, and he barely managed to catch it in time.
"W-why did you do that?! I almost… what if it hit my head?!"
"That would have been funny lol!"
"Ugh…"
And this is where things started escalating more than I imagined, everyone got drunk and started laughing and talking very loudly.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
"Oh man, beer's the best! What the hell?!" laughed Patrick. "It's like… like… Whichimacallit?"
"Ugh, I think I'm going to puke…" Hermes groaned.
"Hahahah! Puke! Puke! Puke!" laughed Emilia.
"Ahhh… Blake, you're… Hic… you're so handsome… have they told you that before?" Henriette wouldn't stop flirting with me. "D-Do you have a girlfriend?"
"…"
I was regretting having invited them for dinner.
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