"Seriously, this guy..."
The System was appalled at Jörmungandr's behavior.
'It took his siblings, paying for his inn stay and food to get him willing to listen to me...'
Currently, Jörmungandr was shoveling as much food as he could in his mouth, as quickly as possible at that. While the System wanted to gripe that it wasn't going anywhere, she was simply too taken aback at the sheer quantity of food to be angry at him properly.
In fact, she was a little impressed.
'How long do the legends say he was down there? A millennia or two? ...I'd be hungry too I guess.'
On the subject of the millennia of sleep there was no answer, and he would simply stare at her with an eerie silence about him, and an awkward silence would overcome them.
Then he would go back to eating, and she would feel like flipping the table to make him talk to her properly—seriously, even when bargaining for the inn stay and the food, he pointed and stared at her, his sunset eyes a bright burst of yellow in his otherwise pale avatar.
The avatar in question assumed an androgynous appearance, so much so that discerning the gender was impossible from simply looking at him, but she sensed that he preferred to be regarded as a male, though she wasn't sure why or how.
Seriously, the guy was attractive enough be a girl, and yet was also almost too masculine to be a girl.
It was weird trying to tell which he was from simply face value.
"Um... isn't this enough?" she cautioned to question when a second serving of the food was given to him.
He simply stared at her inquisitively, blinking twice, and then continued to court his food, tearing apart the food quickly like a beast.
She sighed again—it was going to be a long negotiation...
———
"... Siblings..."
The System perked up, her dull eyes brightening into a rainbow of color as she exclaimed with a relieved smile, "Are you finally ready to talk about it!?"
Jörmungandr gave a small nod, his eyes lowering to his plate of food; it had been the first taste of human food he'd ever gotten, and he had to admit, it was excellent. He kinda wanted more...
"So, about why I had your siblings and your father come here..."
Jörmungandr perked up, food being pushed to the back of his mind as he stared at her attentively, eager to hear more about his siblings. Why he was here, why they were here... whether or not she was or wasn't here... he wanted to know all of it.
"I want to make a game."