Chapter 79: 79: Wizard Chef
"What’s happening here Your Majesty? Why is a wizard known to kill people allowed to make meals for us? I wonder how appropriate this is. Or are you wishing for our deaths?"
Others followed, complaining about what was happening right before their eyes.
The king didn’t know how to explain. He too wasn’t in support of any of it.
"Calm down, It’s not like that" He could only say.
But no one seemed to be calming down.
Eden stood there watching them complain. He didn’t bother but only cared to see his food get served.
He didn’t seem bothered at all. If they don’t eat it, they could leave it and go off hungry. It was to his benefit after all, he would take them and stockpile to enjoy for the upcoming days.
"We won’t have any meal made by this monster. We don’t walk into our deaths like that" One pointed out.
"It’s also disrespectful to us to have him make meals for us. I wonder what this tradition has turned to"
"I know right?"
They weren’t having it. And were expressing themselves in front of the king. The king said nothing.
"It’s not like I’ll gain anything useful if you all die here from my meal" Eden said, rolling his eyes "Why are you all acting as though your lives are even that important"
"....."
They were speechless.
"How dare you..."
Prince Lysander cut off the person who was about to speak by opening the plate before them. All eyes turned to see him open the place.
Now all they had to say wasn’t that the wizard of EL had cooked for them, but the look of the food!
"What’s that?" Someone asked as he too opened the plate. "What the hell is this?"
They all began opening it. Including the King and Queens. Shocked filled their faces as they stared at what they didn’t even know how to describe sitting on their plates.
"What’s this?" They stared at each other "Where’s the meals that’s supposed to be made? Why is this here instead?"
They all began mumbling.
King Edward was stunned as he stared at the plate and glared at Eden "And what’s this supposed to mean?"
Eden smiled "I found the old meals rather boring, so I decided to turn things up this time around"
"....."
king Edward was not having it "And how dare you think that you can do as you wish? Are you the King?"
Eden glared at him "I’m the cook. And so your job is to sit down there and enjoy the meal"
"...."
"This is absurd. What a joke! How did things get this crazy?" One of the young men questioned.
"In what era does such nonsense happen? Traditions are already falling apart and chaos stepping in. This is wild"
"This is certainly one of his schemes to have us killed. Heaven knows what poison he infused into this now"
"I won’t be having any of this!"
The king was already frustrated. But he didn’t even know what to say. He could only leave killing Eden in the hands of the man he would hire to kill him off..
He didn’t wish to talk much anymore.
"If you all won’t have it, then stop blabbing and leave already. I’ll gladly eat it all up if you won’t" Eden snapped.
"The audacity..." someone pointed out "I can’t believe such a thing. What an insult to my name" A young man said, folding his arms with his chin up.
"You’re just a duke’s illegitimate son. What name do you have?" Eden rolled his eyes. He knew this character from the book. The one who always blabbed at the haunting event.
"You- !" The young man was speechless.
"We don’t have much time left" Elvis said as he took his utensils and took a bite.
Everyone stared at him, shocked.
"He’s eating that?"
"Is he willing to die?"
They stared in shock and curiosity as they watched Elvis take three more bites.
Lysander, having seen Elvis eat, also took a bite in front of all.
"You..." Queen Lea glared at her son.
The young men watched as the two princes take bites off the meal. And watched as Lysander’s expression lit.
"This is actually good" He sounded excited as he stared at Eden with a smile "It’s good"
They were all confused as they stared at Lysander. They wondered if he was lying to help Eden out or he was being real.
They had thought it might be poisoned. But if the two princes had it, then they figured it might actually not be poisoned.
Prince Lysander happily had more bites. Leaving them all confused.
One of the young men was pushed to try it out of curiosity. He was also heavily hungry. And so he also took a bite and found his eyes widening.
He could feel a thousand mesmerising fresh and unique flavours dancing on his tongue. His brain almost exploded at the taste of what lingered on his tongue. It felt ecstatic.
He felt out of this world.
The rest stared at this young man, curious to see what his reaction was going to be. They wondered if his initial expression was out of amusement or if the poisen was actually taking effect.
In few seconds, The young man’s expression lit into an pleasant smile. He was almost drooling as he took another bite and melted yet again.
"This... This.. what’s this... It’s..." He shuttered, leaving them all in suspense.
"This is sensational..." The young man blabbed.
"...."
They all blinked. So it wasn’t terrible?
They watched as the young man happily pound on the pizza.
Others also got curious.
"I won’t be having such degrading meal" The Duke’s illegitimate son claimed, saving face.
He added "I can’t bring myself this low to have such strange meals. A tradition has been put in place for a reason. And it’s jarring to see it being tossed out like that just because an untamed monster stepped in. What an embarrassment"
Eden glared at this brat. He felt like beating him and his proud ass up.