I give Lara a wide smile and grab my potato with cheese and beef and put it all in my mouth in one attempt and start messily eating it like a rabbit starved animal. With no shame in me I turn my head and look at Lara's face as I chew with my mouth open. Disgusting her making her look away in disgust.
Within 6 seconds I finish my food. I then feel the need to burp for some reason and hit the center of my chest to force myself to burp.
*BUUUURP*
"Oh man, that was good. Now eat you food!" I say cheerfully to Lara
She looks at me and takes her fork slowly and takes a small piece of her food and chews on it casually but slowly. Boring! I take her fork out of her hands in which she reaches to take it back but I put my finger up to stop her. Somehow the one finger gesture always stops someone.
"Eh! Stop right there, let me show you what a proper bite looks like." I say taking her plate and inserting the fork in it.
I then bring up the plate and have a larger chunk of her food on her fork and gesturing for her to put her face closer. I am going to feed her. Also make fun of her infront of everyone.
"Here comes the airplane!" I say jokingly
"What is an airplane?" she asks
"Oh right she doesn't know I am from another world technically. What is a good comparison for a plane?
"Uh...Are there wyverns in this world?" I ask cautiously not to appear like an idiot
"Yes, they live in the Southlands often. But they are relatively far from here. Mostly Beastmen territory. Why?"
"I will use that then. Now here comes the wyvern with the food!" I say mockingly waving my fork towards her.
"Eh? What are you-" I cut her off as this is my opening and put the food in her mouth but not shove it in her throat.
"Eat....Now...." I say overly mockingly to her
She makes a face at me and covers her face and turns away as she chews. I lean over to her and see a slight pinkish pigment on her cheek. She is so embarrassed. Perfect.
"Care to go again?" I ask with more food on her fork
"Fine..." she says while holding her hand over her mouth preventing me from seeing her smile.
*4 minutes later of feeding her*
As she is finishing chewing me and Lara kept laughing at how dumb we look with this childish behavior that I am sure if we had a camera this would have a few views on youtube. OR be cringey as shit.
"Well I guess we're done now. Wasn't that good right?"
"M-Maybe....Don't get used to it!" she says trying to hold herself back from admitting to me being right no doubt.
"C'mon, lets return the plates. These are not disposable so." I say as I get up from the carpet, followed up by Lara.
As we walk around the corner we hand the plates on the side of the stall near Kavin who seems to have a small bucket of water next to him where Shira is washing dishes. A great team, hope for the best for them in the future. Have a lot of potential.
As my and Lara barely walk 20 feet from the stall, I start noticing briefly the surrounding chattering isn't casual, but almost intense. Like a ruckus actually. I stop for a moment and turn around and notice a lot of people gathered around a single man holding a large bag with what looks to be rolled up paper. I hold Lara back for a moment and walk over to the group checking out why there is so commotion.
As I get up there it is hard to hear him but I can barely make out what he says.
"Hold up a moment I need to confirm what I have heard myself. I would be doing a disservice if I told people the wrong truth! Also because I would be held responsible for causing mass panic!" he says holding her bag close to him.
Suddenly a tap on my shoulder startles me and I turn my right to the right to see Lara signalling that both of us should leave. Doesn't really involve us I guess.
I walk away from the crowd and follow Lara back a the hotel grab her shoulder. But not to aggressively just passively. I move my hand off of her and move it down her arm to her hand. Our finger lock in and I don't feel a bit of hesitation in Lara.
*Few minutes later at the Hotel*
As we return to the Hotel the tiger waves to us without looking at us as he holds a newspaper closer to his face. But then he brings it down and stops us with a hand signalling us for a moment.
"Wait kids question, you're both apart of the Adventurers Guild right? Saw both of you with weapons occasionally, and I know you lizard boy, wear armor sometimes."
"Yeah we both are. Why?" I ask
"Lets just say you might get called up. I am a former adventurer myself and I got called up when it was needed." he says returning to his paper
"Huh...Thank you for the vague information?" I say unsure of how to respond except in a question form.
"Uhuh" the tiger says without making eye contact
I look at Lara and shrug my shoulders and go upstairs with her going first. I look up and see her butt's shape in my face and feel like staring as I go upstairs. I feel tempted to reach my hand and touch it. But she will likely kick me with the same amount of force like a horse would. Kill me instantly.
As we turns the corner we walk down the hall and enter our room and I fall face first into my bed with a jump. I feel stuffed since I essentially had 2 meals in less than 1 hour.
I turn my whole body onto my back and look at the ceiling and breathe deeply and let it out out. Sometimes it feels nice to just get out and eat with someone instead of fighting someone. I should probably embellish my adventures if I ever see Ariel again. Last thing I want is her to go "mother mode" on my for getting stabbed by Lara. Which I will likely be vague about entirely or not say it at all.
I pull myself up against the wall where my bed is leaned up against and see Lara standing at the doorway seemingly uncomfortable. I should make her feel comfortable.
"Hey sit down with me and lets chat a bit"
"Huh? Uhm, well okay"
She hesitantly walks over to me and sits on the bed but seems to be distant from me. Her aura is just, sketchy. Like she is thinking about something and wants to avoid me.
"Oi," I say swings my arms forward to lean me up, "Lets have a chat, again."
I move myself over to her next to her right and put my fingers together intertwining them in order to not be overbearing.
"So...How did you like the food?" I ask trying to make small talk
"It-it was fine. I think it was okay. Very basic in my opinion. Potato heated, with butter cheese and some grounded up meat. Doesn't feel to complex"
Thats my childhood food she just insulted. I ate that shit a lot when I was younger. Plus butter and potatoes is the best. I should reprimand her.
"I will have you know," I say bring my finger up as if I am announcing something like a politician, "Potatoes and butter is the ultimate simple pleasure of foods and because you called it simple and yet don't praise it's taste I call your opinion null void. Veto. Gone. None existent. Get out" I say pointing to the door.
"Uhuh...Sure," she says rolling her eyes in a exaggerated manner, almost in annoyance, "You wouldn't be able to make me leave this room even if you turned into your "monster" form." she says straightening her back as if to invite me.
"Oh really? Very well then" I say cracking my knuckles and getting up from the bed.
I walk right up to Lara and attempt to lift her up and move her out of the room but she slaps my hands away like she is disgusted by me. I give her a look of a challenger.
"Oh, it's on missy" I lean forward on the bed and grab both her wrists unconvincingly as if I am role-playing. Which I am. Hope Lara doesn't uppercut thinking I was serious.
I playfully wrestle her up and she brings both her legs up, her left leg around my neck and her right on the part of my neck and pulls herself up. Resulting in her whole weight over me and pushing me backwards onto the floorboards causing a thud. As a result we both playfully wrestle each other trying to get the upper hand on one another sounding like someone is rolling a bag of rocks down the stairs.
*Elsewhere downstairs*
The tiger man is reading his newspaper and hears a loud thud above him. He stops where he is reading and stops for a moment and listens again.
*THUDS*
He looks up at the ceiling and stops for a moment if the noise is of concern. He places his newspaper down for a moment and reaches under the bar counter where a one handed axe is. He then uses his heightened hearing and listens and he hears faints laughter and giggles and creaking on wood. He then realizes the voices he knows and moves his hand away from the weapon. He then smiles and continues where he left off.
Meanwhile back in the room*