Chapter 204: A Bloody Feast
I was so sorry for being so late with my friends until I just finished together. The indifferent eyes were like a sharp blade with a cold light, straight into Hiro's heart, the young human's face turned pale, his body kept trembling, and his whole body seemed to have lost support.
What the hell is wrong with these people!?How can such a bloody and terrifying scene appear in the streets of the city, how can they look at everything that is happening in front of them with such a peaceful and playful gaze!?A beautiful and lovely elf girl in her youth, but such a terrifying scene is hidden in a beautiful food box! If it weren't for the facts in front of him, Hiro would not have believed what was happening here!!
There is a bloody crime hidden in the elf girl's food box, and the onlookers all have cold and funny expressions, as if the scene in front of them that makes their hands and feet cold is just a commonplace! Is it because their brains are not clear, or is there something wrong with the spirit of the onlookers!?
"Aren't you going to inform the sheriff?" Hiro asked again, with the last glimmer of hope and his lips trembling, only to be met with a horrified sneer from the onlookers.
The young humans suddenly remembered some legends about the war hundreds of years ago, rumors that the demons possessed some kind of evil sorcery that could manipulate people's hearts, and it was this evil law that made many good civilians who could not help themselves become accomplices of the invaders in the war!
Something must be wrong with this city!, Hero told himself in his heart. Ever since he arrived in this city on the first day, he felt that everything here seemed so unreal, how could the demons be at peace with the elves and dwarves as the leaders of the city!?It must be because the son of the abyss, who called himself Andre, was brewing a conspiracy here that could turn the whole world upside down!Why would the elves, dwarves, and hobbits who faithfully believed in the goddess of the earth be indifferent to this bloody scene that existed in front of them!? It must be the evil children of the abyss who have completely twisted and corrupted the hearts of thousands of good inhabitants of this city! Hidden beneath the city's glossy façade is this sin that even the gods cannot forgive!
Hiro's face turned pale as he looked at the scattered ears, and a fact that he couldn't believe was like an unstoppable chill, instantly surging from behind his back to the top of his head - these twenty or thirty terrifying ears seemed to belong to all humans!
The first thing that came to Hiro's mind was the adventurers who accosted him in the shocking afternoon, what kind of mistake did they make to make those demon investigators use such cruel punishments?...... Could it be that they planned an assassination against the lord of this place!? But it would be better to put them to death on the spot than to be so bloody, cruel and senseless!!
No, the will of the people here has been twisted!
Immediately afterward, Hero thought of his former companions who were serving time in prison. By now, young people have begun to wonder whether the six months they spent in prison were real, or whether they had been instilled in their minds by evil laws?
However, after two days of not seeing each other, Hiro had begun to wonder what kind of life the adventurer's companions were living in prison, and all kinds of bloody and cruel scenes had begun to appear in the minds of young humans.
The fact that he couldn't comprehend before him had made Hiro seriously doubt his existence and memory, and he touched the sides of his cheeks with trembling hands.
...... Luckily, both ears are still there.
No, I must get out of here now! Escape from this city shrouded in demonic sorcery while I'm still awake!!
The fear of clutching his heart and the strong sense of survival made the young humans put aside the desire for dragon strikes, and the power that once made him yearn for so much was now subconsciously attributed by Hiro to the insidious tricks of the demons to lead people to depravity.
Forcibly suppressing the trembling of his body, Hiro straightened up in a stiff position, and the strange cat tabby, which originally made him feel very familiar, was now recognized by him as a terrifying ghost used by the demons to spy on him. Young humans adjust their steps in strange postures...... Even though he knew that the city gates had long been closed, he wanted to leave this strange city that made him stand upside down as soon as possible!
Elvia watched as the faces of the humans who had knocked her to the ground shifted between blue and white, and the young poet felt that the creature in front of him, who could not even walk, now knew what he had done. Miss Poet was considering whether to exempt the other party from liability, as the human face alone showed that the cost might be a little too much for him to bear......
Just as Elvia was cleaning up her dust-stained ears that had not fallen to the ground, the humans who had been in trouble began to turn around like crazy to break through the crowd!
...... was stopped by the enthusiastic crowd of onlookers.
Hiro struggled frantically, but the strength provided by his slightly slender young body could not compete with the people around him.
"Bastard, do you want to run away if you get into trouble!?" Elvia angrily punched the back of the hit-and-run attempt's head, though the young poet's soft, delicate fist could not even inflict the slightest "mandatory injury".
This bastard really hurt himself just now!
Hiro gritted his teeth desperately, his originally neat and capable hair became messy in the resistance, and in his frightened eyes, the pupils seemed to have contracted to the extreme. The frenzied young human, trying to break free from the crowd, let out a shrill cry of exhaustion: "Don't cut my ears!"
Then the people around him let go of their restraints on him without warning, and instead looked at the young human whose clothes were soaked with cold sweat with a mixture of surprise and sympathy.
The fur on the back of the neck of a tiger-striped fat cat stood straight and still howled at the crowd, but the fried-haired cat had no real deterrent power other than its voice...... In the chaos just now, people didn't even notice that it existed.
......
Hiro hid his hands behind him and rubbed his fingers repeatedly, and the expression on his face was very complicated. Like a child who has done something wrong, shame, grievance, and fear keep turning in front of him, and the young human who has become disheveled in the chaos and struggle is still a mess.
"I'm sorry, I really don't know......" Hiro said halfway through when he was interrupted by the discouraged young poet.
"You've said this a fifth time!, as a resident of Andrari, don't you usually care about the affairs of the city!?" As soon as she remembered the misunderstanding that made her cry and laugh, Elvia felt as if she had to reprimand the other party to drain away.
In the brightly lit kitchen, Chef Hobbit is mixing pumpkin puree with grape juice and red jam to create an uneven, strangely coloured, semi-gelatinous mixture. Freshly fried french fries are scooped into a small dough with a mixture of pink and red, then rolled into a circle of delicate wheat flour to stuff the oval-shaped pastry into a mold brushed with soybean oil. And the strangely shaped dim sum mold unique to this dim sum shop is the key to making young people frightened tonight.
"I really didn't expect anyone to make dim sum in the shape of an ear...... And they're still so realistic!" Hiro tried to argue, but was glared at by Chef Hobbit.
"Boy, do you have any suggestions for our most popular specialty, 'Bloody Feast!'?"
"No, no, I don't have any opinions! It's just that this kind of uniquely shaped dim sum makes a mortal like me a little unacceptable......" Hiro scratched his chin weakly, and the grievance in his eyes could only be understood by the tabby who was "meowing" beside him.
Elvia glanced at the young man with an unkind face, and naturally did not have a good tone when she spoke: "You have been working in Andrarui for a few months, and you don't know the 'bloody feast' that has swept the food street during this time?
Hiro was very innocently labeled as "out of society", and the young man who was bent on saving money only for Valhalla's admission qualification could only defend himself aggrievedly: "I usually buy my own ingredients and cook my own food, I rarely buy cooked food outside, and I have never tasted dim sum here......"
"Hah, you don't even appreciate the beautiful enjoyment in front of you, how do you plan such a boring life!?" For the guy who has no taste for Andrari's dim sum, the young poet can only say that he has no common language with the other party.
"But why on earth are they made like this? Doesn't it feel ...... Isn't it uncomfortable?" Looking at the other odd pastries in the glass cabinet, Hiro still couldn't understand the reason why the bizarre food "Blood Feast" appeared in reality.
"Your Highness Andrew, do you know?" said Elvia's expression turned serious.
"Of course I know the young and learned lord of the castle. ”
"Young Highness is now in the formative years of being a child of the abyss, so it's inevitable that you will awaken some strange hobbies, right?" the young poet's expression became a little strange.
"Huh?" said Hiro, who was completely confused.
"Do you know the tradition of cannibalism of demons? In their culture, humans are regarded as a food with special magical powers. All demons believe that they can gain unparalleled power from the process of cannibalism!" Elvia explained in a discretionary tone, "So it's only natural that His Highness Andre has grown up interested in cannibalism!
Hiro had a thunderous expression on his head, and he really couldn't understand how the appalling hobby of cannibalism and the ignorant feelings between young men and women were connected by the elven girl in front of him.
The Hobbit chef on the other side naturally took over the conversation: "The harvest festival is almost coming in two months, and this year the compatriots in my hometown of Chishi Hills have achieved an unprecedented harvest through the new planting techniques promoted by His Highness! Naturally, such a desire to eat people cannot satisfy His Highness, but in order to thank him for his contributions, we gathered all the chefs of Andrarui to develop a perfect alternative to the 'Bloody Feast'!"
“...... I just don't know who brought out the news that His Highness is interested in cannibalism. The short dim sum chef added nonchalantly.
"yes, who the hell is it!?" said the young poet with a subtle look on his face.
With a mouth-watering aroma, the dim sum in the mold is finally baked, and it seems that with different heats, the ears with slightly different shapes in the mold can also show different "skin tones" effects. Master Hobbit broke off the neat "ear roots" of the ears one by one, revealing a pink, terrible "wound" that made people can't help but think about it, and the bright red fruit pulp that was not well mixed slowly flowed out, making the innocent young humans instantly lose the exuberant appetite that had just been aroused by the sweet smell of the dim sum.
"Chenghui, twelve 'bloody feasts', a total of thirty-six ampi...... If it weren't for the two of you, I would have closed today. Master Hobbit was a little unhappy on the surface. In fact, the food in the dim sum house can be known by more different people, but it makes him feel full.
That's enough to eat a week's worth of breakfast on the street...... Although it was still difficult to accept it in his heart, Hiro still counted the corresponding copper coins happily.
"Open your mouth. ”
"Huh?" Before the young humans could react, Miss Poet had already shoved a freshly baked "ear" into the other's mouth.
Holding back the discomfort in his heart, Hiro's expression stiffened and he began to reluctantly chew the "foreign object" in his mouth under the unkind gaze of Miss Elf...... To the surprise of the young human, the soft and glutinous taste accompanied by the sweet and sour slurry made him can't help but taste the tongue, and the moment when the crispy fries inside are crushed by the teeth give birth to an indescribable sense of satisfaction......
"How?" said Miss Poet, who turned to observe the young human's expression out of the corner of her eye.
"Like...... Not bad?" Hiro replied, and then he had the privilege of seeing the irresistible beauty of the most striking green flowers of the "green sour plum", and he lost his mind for a long time.