The angels and Sherman were currently sitting at a table within a corner of the enormous two-floor cafetorium. Sherman had ordered for them lunch using his student Id and had also ordered for dessert afterwards. He played with his cutlery as he watched the angels eat peacefully.
He kept tapping his right foot on the stone floor and would run his fingers through his hair every so often.
Hannah was the first to notice this odd behaviour and asked Sherman about it. To which he simply smiled and tried to change the topic. He stabbed his knife through the hot steak on the plate. He pulled the knife out and then stabbed it again. Now Kyle couldn't ignore it anymore.
"Something's disturbing you, Sherman...at least that's what it looks like."
"I assure you, nothing is disturbing me... I'm just trying to remember something important for the meeting later today."
"Oh, alright if you say so."
Kyle then returned to his eating, and Sherman eyed him for a while before resuming his stabbing. A butler headed to their table with a tray of cakes and tea and dropped it onto their table. Sherman stared at the cakes and pulled on the tails of the butler's coat to get his attention.
Sherman then gave him a serious look and asked a question.
"We had ordered no cakes... I had requested for peach pie with milk tea and assorted biscuits. I do not remember asking for this."
"My apologies student Sherman, but please consider these as gifts from the students sitting at table 105. They gave me a request to deliver these to your table."
The butler gave a small bow and turned to attend to another table. Sherman let him go in silence and picked up a slice of cake covered in frosty icing. He took a large bite and felt a sweet and warm liquid trickle over his tongue. He finished the cake and took some hot tea.
He finished all the cakes and drank all the tea after 20 minutes and had no more room for the dessert he had ordered earlier. Alicia and Kyle finished it while asking Sherman questions from time to time.
Hannah played with her teaspoon. Sherman stood up and gestured for the angels to do the same. He wanted to finish the tour as soon as he could.
"We've still got more than half the school to finish this tour. I honestly doubt we can finish it today, but I want to fit as much as I can into our schedule."
They left the cafetorium as a group past the giant glass doors that stretched from floor to ceiling. As the doors closed, three sharp pairs of eyes watched silently as the group's figures disappeared into the crowd of students outside.
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Three students sat on the second floor around a table meant for 6. They ate their cake silently and with elegance. They seemed to ignore all other events that weren't a part of their dessert.
The oldest student amongst them lifted his head and showed his dazzling white teeth in a bright smile. He placed his teacup onto his saucer and moved it to the side. He then clapped his hands twice and a female waitress arrived by their table.
"How may I be of service to you?"
"Well, we seem to have ordered more cake than we could finish today."
"I'm sorry to hear that, sir."
"Yes, well, we would like to share some of our goods with those students sitting on the first floor."
"Which students are you talking about exactly?"
"The four students sitting on that table."
The boy pointed towards the first floor over the railings on the crescent-shaped second floor. He retracted his finger when the butler understood who he was talking about. He set aside the teapot and certain cakes, and the butler placed them onto a nearby cart. She neatly organized them and with a smile left the group to their own business.
The only female in the group dropped the letter she had been reading onto the table. She glared at the oldest and repeatedly tapped her foot on the floor in agitation.
"You know well that those were my cakes, and I was planning to eat them later... why the fuck did you just give them out."
"Relax, Phylicia... I was only sharing some of it. I want to see how those three eating with Sherman would react to it."
"So you just gave away my cakes for a few seconds of entertainment?"
"You needn't think of it in such a way..."
"I want a better answer right now!"
"Well... what would you say if I thought those three could be our greatest protagonists?"
"What? whatever are you talking about."
"Nothing... just nothing."
The boy's name was Sandee... and he was now planning to make the most of what they presented before him. He pulled a notebook from his shirt pocket and turned to the first page. Sandee stared as bright red letters burned themselves onto the fragile, thin pages. He couldn't help but smile and gained the attention of his companions.
[1. Become familiar with your desires/ (74/6)]
[2. Kill general Suk Degiulio of the dark elves/ (1/1)]
[3. Identify threats to the goal/ (3/3)]
[4. Become familiar with the threats/ (??/??)]
[5. @#!$^^#*?]
{Things just became a lot more entertaining!}
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(Somewhere within the Gorlacost galaxy in the far crowding point of divine beings.)
A large ball of burning flames was being contained within a Spacial alteration device in the captain's office of the Armonica. Captain Hisako of the special forces unit was currently eating some cake that her commander had gifted her. She admired the view from her office and counted the little dots of vibrant colours that stretched far beyond her glass window. The neutron dust was heavy in this part of the crowding point and was almost like a cloud surrounding the Inter-galaxías spaceships. She had given orders for the ship's crew to put on their Palados suits to reduce the constant radiation and to help in collecting the neutron dust. She had orders to collect at least Kilo-tonnes' worths of the dust for the people back at mission control.
"Honestly... I would have thought we would take part in the Soras galaxy mess, but here I am... collecting dust."
She stopped her munching and walked over to her tablet on her desk. She picked it up with her delicate fingers and swiped through the applications and tapped on the icon representing the photos section.
She had been receiving reports from headquarters about the sudden wave of anti-matter that had destroyed half of the Soras galaxy. The source was a Blackhole that had consumed three neutron stars that were orbiting it before sudden implosion.
The anti-matter had consumed all matter within 45 billion kilo-metres from the source and had even consumed all light within the galaxy within a matter of seconds.
It was an utter mess.
None of the gods in that Galaxy could react in time, and more than half of them were consumed and warped into lost dimensions with their powers disabled.
They had found only four of them so far, and only two still had their sanity intact. Her galaxy was planning to offer refuge to the refugees that were escaping from the crumbling galaxy. Deep down she knew that what her unit was doing could be considered important, but she wanted to be doing more to help.
Neutron dust, if allowed to collect in large quantities around a star, could trigger an imbalance of radiation from the nuclear atoms within the cores, and they almost guaranteed an implosion. Afterwards, a Blackhole would come to fill the large empty mould left by the lost star and could expand as far as 40,000 times its original diameter.
She hated Blackholes since they never had the same effects twice whenever they appeared. A certain Blackhole could consume several worlds and stars and permanently stop all flow of time around these things, or another could suddenly shrink them to the size of toy models. The effects were never the same, and thousands of them had appeared and disappeared in the universe.
Hisako grumbled to herself as she tapped a different app for documents and tapped the report she received. She scrolled to the near bottom where she found what she wanted.
For enough neutron dust to destroy half a minor galaxy with no one noticing, it must've been hidden by someone and investigations were carried out by the Olympian gods.
She frowned as she read the last page.
{Large residues of chaos have been found in the empty void replacing the destroyed space. They're spread all across the void and were influencing the powers of all the divine beings present. We found the largest deposit to be 9.7 litres of chaos at co-ordinates -4567Garos, -8765 Paros and -9999 Geructos.}
To Hisako, there was something about this report that was really disturbing her.
No form of matter could withstand the effects of 'Void' when it appeared as it disintegrated all matter just as effectively as anti-matter would.
"So just how can anti-matter create Chaos within Void?"
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