Private - Gluttony Overflow

One day ago. Private Message.
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Hanno Futaba

Hello Libitina! It has been a while since we got to kick those bandit's butts- That day was very epic, and we got some really nice reward for it! Hehe.

Anyway, I'm not sending this message just to talk about that. You know, a little bird told me that you have... Gluttony tendencies. Now, don't think I'm judging you for that! I'm also a fellow glutton, and I'm very proud to say that!

So basically, I have a little request for you that you won't be able to reject! Cooking in this game is a little different from cooking in real life so I need to practice more, and I need to know if I'm actually improving. But considering I'm a little bad at self evaluation, I need the help of a taster! A taster that can eat a LOT of food.

And by a lot food, I mean a loooooot of food... I've spent all the gold of our reward on the best ingredients I could buy, and I'm now spending a lot of time researching and harvesting the best ingredients in the forest!

So? Will you accept this service? If the answer is yes, please come to Maithe Woodland tomorrow at this same time, following these coordinates:

{Touch to show coordinates}
Location: Maithe Woodlands, Brisshal Region.​

If the pressure of being a taster go in your head, you can think of this as a friendly picnic on the forest if you want! After all, that's how I will see it. See you later!

- Hanno Futaba

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Present. Maithe Woodlands, Brisshal.​

It has been almost an hour since the Faerin took off from Honeyhome Village and entered in Maithe Woodlands, while carrying not only his loyal gargantuan shield, but also an enormous backpack that was roughly the double of his size. Luckily Hanno's vitality gave him a stamina that couldn't be bothered by this 'small effort', and it shouldn't take too long until he was reaching his destination.

The shield stared at Hanno, with a bored expression while poking the tip of it's tentacle on the Faerin's shoulder, making him look at the shield.

Seeing his gargantuan buddy's expression, Hanno chuckled and looked forward again. "We are almost there, Ghast. Hang in there!" He said with an happy tone, clearly being in high spirits. Ghast, as the shield was named, just looked up at the treetops.

"I will take the advice of that woman I met in that... Speed Dating thing-" The Faerin frowned with a silly smile, reminding himself of the very weird experience. "-I should really take a break from the battles and action sometimes, and take some time to appreciate this world a bit... In a more relaxing way." Hanno explained his reasons to the shield, even though it already knew his intentions.

'I've always been like that, more relaxed and more appreciative to the beauty of things.' He thought, letting out a sigh. 'I kind of lost my touch on it since I began stressing myself with not being able to protect everyone... But I need to get rid of these bad thoughts! It's for my own good!' Hanno nodded to himself. Training was good, but resting was very important... Besides, it's good to grow some new friendships.

Being lost in these thoughts, the Faerin finally snapped out of it and blinked. Finally looking up, he found himself in his destination.

Hidden: Picture and Music

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Hanno stared at the place with admiration, almost as it was the first time he has seen it. "This forest never fails to amuse me." The Faerin took a deep breath, making his nose twitch a little in pleasure. "Huh?" He stared at a certain direction after feeling a different smell.

Walking to where it seemed to be the source, he found a small field of blooming flowers, that made him smile warmly as he crouched to look at them closer. It seemed to be a flower that you could only find in Terrasphere, it was cyan in it's core and light purple on it's petals edges, it's sweet and soft smell clearly said it could even be edible.

After seeing the newcomer flowers, the Faerin looked up at the sunlight beams that went through the treetops. "I see, the season is almost changing right?" Hanno closed his eyes, taking a few moments to feel the refreshing and nice weather.

After this small break, Hanno stood up and placed his shield against a tree. "Take a time to look around if you want, warn me if you see anything interesting, okay?" The Faerin asked to Ghast, that simply nodded with a tentacle.

Satisfied with his buddy's answer, Hanno began working on getting everything ready. Brushing the excess of leaves on the place they would sit, stretching out the picnic rug, gathering a few dry leaves and finally organizing everything that he had to make sure everything would go smoothly. When the topic was having a nice eating food time, any mistake was unacceptable.

Looking at his UI, he noticed that he still had a few minutes before @Libitina Cerin appeared. "Well, she will be here at any moment! I think I already can start to do a few things." Nodding, the Faerin began to set up a firecamp.

'I hope we have fun!"

 

Libitina was peacefully sitting on top of a tree in the forest of Brisshal, about to take a nap until she heard her UI buzzing. 'hmm? Is there another world boss of some sort? That is odd. It just got over a few weeks ago' She thought as she checked her UI. The girl had never gotten a private message, Until now.

She read the message sent by Hanno and did not even have to think about her answer. What person in their right mind would turn down free food? And from their first encounter, she could tell he wouldn't be the type to lie her into getting her somewhere. The only question that ran through her mind was who told others about her eating habits? 'I do not have glutton tendencies, at least in real life' She thought.

"Victoria? Is that 5 packets of bread?" her highschool best friend asked as she watched the tall girl remove 5 bread pieces from her bagpack
"Ya. I'm not that hungry so I got only 5"
"uhh how much do you usually eat?"
"About 10 I suppose" Victoria shrugged. "why?"
Her friend sweatdropped as she watched the surprisingly thin girl eat away. "You have a large appetite"

As Libitina thought about that conversation she let out a sigh. "Maybe I am one."She mumbled as she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

The Present day

The girl walked through the forest, trying to find the exact location of where Hanno was. She always visited the maithe woodlands but never has she traveled through this road. She wasn't sure when exactly she was to meet up with him so she decided to take time and actually look at the surroundings. On her way to her destination the girl realized something.
'I should have gotten him something. Its the least I could have done for someone who is about to give me a feast...Then again, not like I asked him to' She shrugged as she convinced herself that there was no reason to get him anything. Lucky for her, she encountered a dire stage. "Well then. Maybe I'm not going to leave empty handed" She said as she took out her sword and attacked said beast

"I should have just left this." she grumbled as she pulled the dead animal to her destination. It was heavy and twice the size of Libitina's. She just hoped that the work would be worth it and he could actually make something good out of this animal.

It took her a few minutes but she finally reached her destination. She was pleased to see the beautiful sight in front of her. A perfect place to have a meal. She watched as the male began setting up the fire and walked towards him, pulling the dead stag from its horns. She let out a small cough, as to not startle the young man. "I have arrived. Thank you for inviting me. I will try my best to give you a feedback" she spoke, her voice monotonous as though she was not happy to be there. She pointed at the dead stag. " You think you can cook this up too?" She questioned, raising an eyebrow

 

Hanno finished to set up a firecamp, making sure it had some stone support to not start a fire on the forest. "She should be coming any time now." That if she didn't simply ignored his request, but the Faerin trusted that Libitina would come. After all, she was a fellow glutton... And no glutton would let this kind of chance slip so easily.

Nodding, Hanno went to his backpack to take out some of his material to prepare himself for the cooking time. As the Faerin was distracted by sorting some ingredients, he suddenly heard a small cough that made him turn to the girl. 'Ah! She's here!'

The Faerin smiled brightly seeing @Libitina Cerin. "Hello! And Thank YOU for coming here, I'm really glad you accepted my invite." Hanno nodded, if the girl hadn't accept his request, it would have only been him and Ghast there for the whole day.

After giving her a greeting, he looked at the stag, blinking a bit. He wasn't expecting for some gifts or an specific request of food, yet the girl brought both things up. The Faerin grinned. "Of course I can cook this up! Thank you for bringing this!" It was also still fresh, could it be that she got it on her way here?

Not minding much about the details, Hanno walked to his backpack, pulling out a few zabutons (Japanese cushion for sitting). He pilled two of them on the picnic rug and tapped it a bit, looking at the girl. "Come on! Sit here if you want, you are my guest!" The Faerin said walking off to grab the stag and a cooking knife, this was going to be some hard work to do, but he couldn't waste that fresh meat!

"Feel free to look around too, if you want. This place is wonderful, really." He smiled warmly, before starting to clean the stag. 'This kind of catched me by surprise... What should I do for a stag, huh?' Hanno thought as he tried to figure out what he would do with it, he couldn't do anything simple seeing it was a such wonderful meat.

 

"As if I would ever turn down free food" the girl replied. She nodded in acknowledgement of his thanks and went to sit down on the zabuton he laid out for her. "You are correct. This place is indeed really pleasing to the eye. I would have never known of such a land existing in Terrasphere if you had not invited me" Libitina stretched as she set removed her swords from her belt and was about to set them aside, until she realized just how bloody the swords were. 'I should wash them before they get rusted. I still do not have enough money to buy new equipment anytime soon' She thought as she stood up and went to the nearby stream. It was close too where Hanno was so he could actually see what she was doing if he turned to her directions.

Libitina would admit, she wasn't a girl with words unless she was upset at the person or was mocking them, so honestly, the girl had no idea what to talk about. It was due to this fact that she had started playing virtual reality games. Something about wearing a face that was completely different ((and also short and less intimidating)), allowed her to speak more openly but that didn't mean she was good at conversations.

Should she talk about the bandits they killed? But it was in the past and wasn't that tough either. Ask him how's the weather? No,if he thought the weather was bad, he would have cancelled the outing for another time. Besides, even she could tell the weather was pleasant. She glanced around and noticed the tentacles on his shield.

"That shield" She pointed at the direction of the shield. "Did you buy this after defeating titanus or something? is that a part of that monster?"She question as she took her swords out of the water and swung it to dry the swords out. She sheathed her swords and walked towards the shield, poking the tentacles that she saw with eyes filled with curiosity.

 

The Faerin chuckled. "Yeah! Who would be dumb enough to turn down free food!" He said smiling, as he continued to clean the stag. It was a kind of dirty butcher work, but he was used to cutting fresh ingredients like that.

"I've found this place while I was looking around to find some different types of fruits, this game have a few fruits that only exist here. It's great for some camping and relaxing times." Hanno explained, separating the limbs of the poor animal. 'I will keep these for later, it can be used to make some feijoada! Gotta go for some really exotic food here-' The Faerin grinned, he was getting extremely excited.

After getting the stag completely clean, he began to chop it in smaller beef pieces, as he was prepared to make some sort of barbecue. Though the way he was sorting everything made it look like he was almost doing some sort of ritual to a temple. Why was that? Libitina wouldn't know.

The Faerin raised and pulled a big fork and a cleaver, looking at @Libitina Cerin. "You mean Ghast?" He looked at the Shield. "I didn't buy it, I asked someone to craft it for me using some of Titanus's essence. So he's like my big loyal buddy!" Hanno smiled.

"But don't worry, he isn't evil or anything. He's actually very loyal and helpful, a little playful too. Though sometimes he can be a pain in the ass." The Faerin grinned, and the Shield stared at him before stretching out a tentacle to slap his butt like it was an whip.

"AAH!" Hanno let out a startled squeak, staring at the Shield fiercely.

"Kukukuku..." Ghast chuckled while staring at Hanno with a smug expression.

The Faerin frowned, but chuckled right after noticing that it was mostly a small joke from his buddy. "Very well, you like to do things this way, huh?" He raised and pointed the cleaver at the Shield. "Maybe you want us to have some takoyaki?!"

The Shield widened it's eyes, shaking itself like it was rejecting completely the idea while retracting all his tentacles.

 

Libitina raised an eyebrow as he told her about the exotic fruits that could be found in this land. Did he actually make sure that those fruits were not poisonous? If not, then was it just luck that helped me live for so long without dying of food poisoning? If that was the case, the male had the ladybug on his side.

"So you even named your weapon" She mumbled. Libitina had heard of people naming objects that are precious to them, perhaps @Hanno Futaba thought the shield as something dear. He didn't possibly saw it as a pet or something, right? Because if he did, that was one terrible looking pet.

Of course, she didn't say any of her thoughts out loud. Her opinions were not needed, so she had no reason to say it. If he looked at the weapon as a comrade, so be it. It wasn't like it was harming her in any way.

She watched the playful interaction between the shield and its master in amusement. It wasn't everyday she saw a humorous scene like that. Reminded her of the time her friend in high school introduced her to tentacle hentai. Just by the thought, the young girl felt heat rise to her cheek as she looked away to calm herself, her cheeks starting to dust a light pink. She was never really the type who was good with lewd things.

After she believed she was composed enough she looked at Hanno. "That was a really cute squeak. No wonder your weapon likes teasing you" The amethyst eyed female looked the male up and down, thinking just how cute he would look if he put on a dress, like a cute plush. She was sure even the shield would get good laughs at that sight.

"How about we make a bet Hanno" she said, her voice stoic and serious in nature. "You claim to be a glutton yourself correct? I find that rather hard to believe. Maybe we should have an eating contest. Winner gets to give one order to the loser. What do you say?" her voice was confident and honestly, a little arrogant. She said it in that tone in an attempt to persuade the short male

 

"Well, my Faerin voice is very cute. I can say this much." Hanno pondered at the girl calling his squeak cute, but he couldn't see why that was reason for the Shield to tease him, that meant Ghast was a sadist?

The Faerin frowned at the possibility, to think his loyal buddy would be a deviant. "I'm not sure if that's how things works. What you think Ghast-" He turned to see the Shield, that was staring at the girl with a 'you know how I feel' look on his eyes. "Hey. Drop it." Hanno said in a playful yet flat tone, before turning to see the girl again.

Suddenly the girl said something about a bet. "A bet huh?" Then, he heard the girl telling that it was rather hard to believe he was a glutton. 'What?'

"Oh? So you want to have an eating contest? Heh." Hanno turned around, raising his cleaver and his fork. "This isn't even a competition, it's a complete win-win for me. If I win I get to make you do anything, and if I lose I get to eat a lot of food. So yeah, you can count me on it!" He closed his eyes.

"But right now, it's time for me to cook." The Faerin said with a very deep and serious voice, while he made a small stance of preparation. Everything slowly had a small air of epicness... Why?

Hanno raised his arms as high as he could, slamming them down to flip all the raw meat on the air.

CATERING OF GRANDCHEF!

The Faerin jumped and everything suddenly looked liked it was moving in slow motion, except for Hanno... Peharps, it wasn't everything that became slow... But instead the Faerin was just moving extremely fast!

He began slicing the raw meat smoothly, as the cleaver passed through the meat like it was a knife cutting through butter. Such precision didn't mean he was moving slowly, in fact his arms were moving so fast that it looked like he had more than two arms.

"GWAAAAAAAAAAH!" Hanno gave a war shout and punched the meats to send them upwards, before pulling out a bottle of several types of spices and throwing all the spice up to the meats, that finally stopped going up and fell down to the barbecue grill. After landing on the ground, the Faerin didn't take a second to breath and instantly threw some type of liquid at the grill's fire, making a huge fire explosion that engulfed the meats.

Before the fire completely dissipated, Hanno shoved the fork in the middle of all smoke and pulled the meats to a plate where he dropped the final ingredients along with a brown-ish sauce that looked very creamy.

After this incredible presentation, The Faerin held a tray with enormous steaks on it. Each steak being big enough to feed an average family for three meals. Hanno got close to @Libitina Cerin, to show the incredible art of gastronomy.

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The juicy and very well roasted steak were pleasing to the eye of anyone, it was the dream of anyone that appreciated a good meat. It's creamy sauce that slowly scrolled over the meat enchant the viewer, inviting any curious palate into trying it out.

"Mmm? What you think about it? Looks good, right?" The Faerin smiled at his own creation, the powers this game had to offer mixed with Hanno's real life abilities of cooking were an unbeatable force.

 

Libitina let out a low dark sounding chuckle as the shield gave her the look. She did not feel an inch of regret on arriving. Coming here gave her a possibility of making an ally who knew how to cook. It was all too perfect. She watched in surprise at how fast his hands moved, it almost felt like she was watching an anime. His hands moved with grace and confidence, as though they had a mind of their own.

She looked at the shield with a raised eyebrow. "Does he always get so passionate when it comes to cooking?" she questioned as she began poking the tentacle with her finger. She still couldn't believe the shield was once a part of the monster of titnanius. She thought it was rather ironic. The faerin tried to help restore Astorea with a part of the monster that destroyed it in the first place. Even though Faerin told he was harmless, she made it a mental point not to trust it too much. She wasn't going to let her guard down just because of someone else's words. Libitina would come to that conclusion by herself.

She snapped out of her thoughts when her nose was filled with a wonderful fragrance. She turned to see the man had finished making her the meal he promised. It made her eyes sparkle with delight as she took the plate from him. Her facial expression still remained monotonic though. She took a bite and felt the soft texture of the meat that almost melted in her mouth like butter, the flavors bursting in her mouth. Libitina let out a sigh on content. "This is indeed well done. Do you cook often in the real world?" she questioned as she took another bite, a much larger one, from her steak. "Also, won't you give some to your shield buddy right there?"She asked, pointing at the tentacle shield

 

Ghast stared at the girl with vivid eyes, giving a nod with a tentacle and patting her back with a tentacle, it was clearly in a very good mood.

As the Faerin gave the great meal to the girl, she went on and took a bite. The clearly amused eyes of the girl were enough to make Hanno smile satisfied. 'Heh, this means I'm good at making a good barbecue in this game.' He grinned internally.

Hanno nodded at the girl's question. "Yeah, I cook everyday basically. Except when I'm playing the whole day." He explained. "I always liked food and cooking, so I'm studying gastronomy in an university. It's very relaxing." The Faerin turned away, with a relieved expression. "And there isn't math tests or anything... Well, it does have some amount of math, but it's mostly a intuitive math instead of massive math."

Then, the girl asked something that maybe she shouldn't have done, specially by being someone that fought Titanus once. "Uh... You want to see Ghast eating?" Hanno looked at his Shield, that stared at him intently. 'Ah, it's no use. Now he won't stop looking at me until I give something.' Hesitating, the Faerin handed the Shield a big steak.

Ghast waved it's tentacles in a very childish and happy way, stretching out one of them to attatch it's suckers on the enormous meat. Giving small pats on the meat, the suckers began to make a very unsettling noise that sounded like a meat grinder. Something that looked like a tongue slowly emerged out of every single tentacle, as it curled around the steak while letting out a viscous and purple liquid that had a light but bad smell.

When the steak was completely curled by the tongues, the Shield began to do a slurp sound while widening it's eyes. It was clear that the meat was slowly shrinking as it lost some of it's red-ish blood color until it was finally completely dry. Seeing the meat completely dry, Ghast began ripping it in several pieces by pulling it with it's tentacle's suckers while dragging the whole meat inside of it's tentacles. Anyone that saw the battle of Titanus would easily be able to tell the similarities.

Being finished, the Shield stared at Hanno and @Libitina Cerin, with a very pleased expression. "Kukuku... Kukuku!" It was almost adorable, if it wasn't for the gore mess that it just have done.

The Faerin just stared at the whole process with a blank and flat look in his eyes, no matter how many times he saw that, it was always completely disgusting. But luckily the Shield wasn't a glutton, so it wouldn't be able to handle another giant piece of steak like that.

"As you can see... Even if it's a good and loyal buddy, he can't get rid of it's... Interesting nature." Hanno frowned, getting a slap on his forehead as retaliation. "Welp! Stop that, You know it's true!"

Scratching his head, Hanno looked back at the girl. "Anything else you want specifically?" He gave a smile, despite the horrible situation.

 

'Ah, it would be nice to have him as a personal chef of some sort. If only he was my roommate' she thought as she chewed her meal rather quickly before taking another bite.

"Gastronomy...That is the relationship between food and culture correct? Sounds fitting for you" she said thinking just how open the short male was. Usually, people tried to keep real life personal information to themselves unless they were close to the online friend. This was the second time she met him and he was already telling her what he was doing.

She watched as his shield ate messily. It reminded her of the players or npcs (she didn't know who they were) get eaten up during the world boss. If the meal wasn't so good, the purple eyed female was sure she would have lost her appetite. She didn't let her disgust get shown on her face. She continued eating her meal as though she was unfazed. "He is quite the messy eater. I bet he would make the perfect rat exterminator" Was she talking about actual rats or low life people who lived their lives miserably, one may never know.

"You seem to be pretty chummy with him but you might want to teach it some manners. May I?" After she got the approval, the girl stood up and went close to the shield, take two of its tentacles and putting them in a knot. "Give your master a break. He wasn't wrong with what he said." she stated before sitting back down, a few meters away from the shield. For all she knew the shield did not like having its hands (?) in a knot. "hmm..how about something sweet then? Maybe even some drinks.. And some other food so we can see who eats the most" She answered, not even hesitating with her requests.

 

The Faerin smiled at the girl saying that gastronomy fitted him, though this made his ego about cooking grow a little bit. 'That's dangerous, I can't let this go up on my head.' He nodded, taking a mental note about it.

He looked at the Shield again, giving a sigh at the girl's statement. "You have no idea..." 'If she saw what Ghast does to squirrels she would puke...' The Faerin shivered by just remembering the horrible sight, last time he saw it he promised himself he would never ever feed Ghast a living creature.

"Go ahead?" His eyebrow raised in curiosity, then it widened as he laughed seeing the Shield's tentacles get tied. "Hahahahaha!" Hanno pointed at Ghast, that was desperately trying to free his tentacles, staring at the Faerin with a pleading expression. "You deserved it, sorry!" He said giving a small shrug, making the Shield become even angrier.

Then Hanno looked at @Libitina Cerin, giving a happy grin 'This girl...' "Hahahah! I like you already, Libitina. You don't hold back!" The Faerin clenched his fists on each other. "Very well! Our small eating contest will be with sweet food! You better prepare yourself to eat a huge pile of the most sticky and sweet pancakes you will ever find in this world!" Hanno winked at the fellow glutton girl, already being able to predict this was going to be a very fun duel.

He walked back to the camp 'kitchen', grabbing some ingredients and an enormous frying pan. Putting the frying pan over the grill, it would heat enough to give the right amount of heat to make the pancakes. The Faerin throw on it some different types of sweet spices, before grabbing a copper bowl and putting on the grill.

Hanno began smashing a few blueberries and cranberries together, mixing them in the heated copper bowl as it slowly became some sort of dark purple syrup. The soft yet inviting fragrance would easily increase the girl's appetite.

After the pancakes and the syrup, the Faerin grabbed a few mangoes and made a huge jar of concentrated mango juice, sweetened by honey. That mixture made a juice that had a deep and creamy consistency.

Grabbing everything he has done. The Faerin placed the giant pancakes pile, that had the same size of a pizza, on the table, along with the giant juice jar. Hanno looked up at the girl, pulling out the dark purple syrup as he slowly poured it on the lovely looking gargantuan pancakes.

Hidden: Pancakes

Feeling the epicness (And the nice smell of food), the closeby animals appeared randomly, staring intently at what was going to be a big eating battle. The duel suddenly had a small wild crowd to witness it... Witness the day where the gluttony clashed with another gluttony... That was a special day.

Hanno smiled, sitting down when the last drop of syrup fell... "Are you ready, Libitina?" He grinned at the girl. 'We are now going to duel with all our gluttony! Whoever that wins, the important is that the gluttony is with us!" The Faerin cheered on.

 

The girl blinked in surprise as he stated that he liked her. That was definitely the first time someone stated that they liked her in their first meeting. She had been told once that she was fun to play with but never did anyone tell her that they liked her. "Thank you" she mumbled, slightly embarrassed by the male's comment. The girl smirked in amusement as she tilted her head. "Alright then. Get ready to eat your words" She told the male, watching him as he made the pancakes. She watched him with curiosity as he prepared the meal and felt her stomach rumbling with hunger as the sweet smell covered the land. He presented her the pancake that had an adorable little cat on top of the pancake mountain. "How cute.."she said as she grabbed a fork and poked the little kitten slightly, her eyes sparkled at how cute the presentation was. "Do you know? There is a curry house that a man named Ivan's has opened. You should work there as a chef" she said looking up at the male.

She let out a dark chuckle as he called himself a gluttony with pride. "You do know pride and gluttony are sins right?" even though she said that, she wasn't really religious and felt both the sins weren't that bad. She did get into trouble due to having excess of the two sins but at least that made her life amusing.

Libitina did not need an invitation to begin. She sliced the pancakes and began eating, finding pleasure with the texture and taste of the pancakes. It would be an understatement to say that it was the best pancake she had tasted. The flavor was too good, enough to make her stop. She used her palm menu to turn on her realistic mood before going back to devour the meal in front of her. "I do not think I could ever get tired of this" she answered in between bites.

 

"Yeah! I know about this Curry House. I've met Ivan already." He smiled. "I plan to work there next time it opens, not as a chef though. I will work as a waiter. If I keep my shield inside that Kitchen everyone will think bad things about his Curry."

"Yes- Both are sins, but don't worry. I do a lot of good deeds, so it's balanced enough to me not go to hell! I think." Hanno grinned while letting out a defiant laugh, he was clearly having fun with all that. 'It's exactly what I needed.' The Faerin thought while looking at the pile of pancakes, that were soon going to be inside his mouth.

Turning his head to face the girl that was obviously enjoying his cooking, a warm smile covered his lips. 'I don't need to go around risking myself every time to make people smile, I see.' He thought before turning to his own pancakes now. "Hah! Let's do iiit! TIME TO EAT!".

Hanno pulled a fork and began shoving several pancakes inside his mouth, one pancake after another they were hastly disappearing from the table. Before @Libitina Cerin could even finish two pancakes, the Faerin was about to finish half of the pile he needed to eat to win the duel.

'Heheh. This girl really thought she would win from me? She's totally hypnotized by my food- She's eating it slowly!' Hanno grinned internally, that match was going to be a piece of pancake!

The Faerin was completely erasing the pancakes, it was just a matter of time for Libitina to lose... Everything was looking pretty much lost to the girl- And on the second last piece of pancake Hanno needed to finish, as soon as he shoved it inside his mouth, it slipped and got stuck in his throat.

"GFUUUH?!" His eyes widened, feeling the pancake stuck inside his throat and blocking any air to come, Hanno began hitting his chest trying to cough the piece of pancake off. 'DAMN IT, I WILL DIE.' The Faerin hysterically tried to free his throat from that torment as he vainly attempted to breath.

He curled while asphyxiating at the food, it was a very ironic situation. 'THAT'S IT?! THAT'S HOW MY SECOND DEATH WILL COME?!' The Faerin's face was becoming pale.

 

"Huh? A waiter huh? I see. Now I am really excited" She smirked at the young man as she wondered just how cute the tiny male would look in a main outfit. Normally, she wasn't this excited. Only when it came to cute things or food and Hanno, no doubt was cute. He reminded her of a child that could dress up as the opposite gender and still look just as cute. Who wouldn't want to dress up such a person? Besides, it would also be amusing.

She watched as the Faerin ate quickly, not even trying to savour the meal. For Libitina, quick eating depends on many factors. Was she eating only because it was a meal and not because she was starving? was she in public? was she enjoying the moment she was in? was she wearing an outfit she found cute?

If all questions were answered with a "yes" , one could expect her to take her time to have her meal. Even still, in the manner he ate, she wondered whether he would be alright. There wasn't any time limit right?

Just as she wondered that, the young male started choking on the pancakes. Even though he tried to hit his chest to get the food out, it was no use. It seemed to be painful since he curled up. In a rush, the long haired girl made the faerin sit properly, making a fist and placing it on his stomach. She placed her other hand on top of her fisted one and made a thrusting motion with her hands. Unfortunately, the food was not coming out and he was still choking. She stood in front of him. "My apology" With that said, she punched the male as hard as she could in his stomach. She looked up hoping that the piece of food was out, but she wasn't sure because he seemed to stop responding.

'It is a good thing I learnt first aid during high school' she thought as she laid the man down and placed her lips against his, giving him CPR.

 

Hanno struggled and struggled... Vainly trying to breath- That was the end. Death was slowly embracing the poor glutton, that could only helplessly see his HP bar dropping harder than an anvil falling in a canyon.

But in the last moment, @Libitina Cerin came for the rescue, slamming a powerful punch on Hanno's guts- "GUHA!" He groaned as the stupid food jumped out of his throat... Relief reached the Faerin, that finally was able to breath as he trembled on the ground. 'I thought I was a goner...' Hanno thought, trying to catch his breath.

Then he opened his eyes, only to see a very confusing sight, Libitina's face was getting closer and closer to his... "Wha-"

SMOOCH~!

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"Mm?" The Faerin blinked perplexed.

A warm and soft feeling on his lips was the only thing Hanno felt for the first seconds, he frowned deeply as he tried to process what the hell was going on... And soon enough, he noticed that it may have been better to not try to think about it at all.

As soon as he realized what exactly was happening, the good and cozy feeling on his lips turned into a source of huge embarrassment for the Faerin, that widened his eyes as he squirmed to get out of that extremely shameful situation.

After freeing himself from the infamous CPR, Hanno jerked away from the girl. His face, redder than a tomato drowned in chili sauce, expressed nothing more than a flusttered emotion. "A-Ah!" Hanno opened his mouth, but no words would come out.

'DID I RAISED A FLAG OR SOMETHING?! I DON'T REMEMBER SIGNING UP FOR THIS!' His mind was almost exploding, he barely knew this girl and yet- Why? Just why she did that?! Was that sort of 'reward' for him, because he saved her from getting hit on that previous battle? That didn't make sense! How someone can be so straightforward?!

Little the Faerin knew that it was all a misunderstanding. "I-I- ... I'M SORRY!" He bowed so hard that his forehead smashed the ground. "Y-You see! W-We barely know e-each other! S-So this kind of th-thing is..." Steams were poofing out of his ears.

'HOW THIS CAME TO THIS?!'