BXBX NOVEL Chapter 201: Insatiable Hunger
"What\'s wrong, Kafka? Why are you looking at the ceiling like that?...Do you want me to on the ceiling fan?" Camila asked when she saw me looking up at the heavens, to which I shook my head. "If it\'s nothing, then stop staring up in a daze and quickly eat your breakfast before it gets cold."
"And while you eat as much as you can, I\'ll start packing the extra food so that I can take it to the park and feed the doggies there."
Camila got up from her seat to get some containers from the counter, but I didn\'t let her do so and pulled her back down to her seat, and said,
"You can go to the park to play with the puppies if you want to, but you won\'t be bringing any of this food with you since I\'m going to be finishing it all myself and you\'re going to sit here and watch me do it."
"We\'ll see about that, Kafka." Camila said with the corner of her lips curled up as she looked at the mountain of food on the table. "Whether you\'re going to finish everything here and prove me wrong, or you\'re going to help me carry all this food back to the park where we can both play with the cute little doggies there."
"I\'m perfectly fine with going on a park date with you, Camila..." I said, which made her realise that she was basically inviting me on our first date, which made her feel shy. "...But unfortunately, the dogs over there won\'t be getting a crumb of anything on this table, so I think it\'s better if we stop by a deli and get some fresh meat for them."
"Hmph! We\'ll see about that!~" Camila harumphed as she watched me take another bite of her rissoto.
And then two more big ones, which were enough to finish off the entire thing in a matter of seconds, to Camila\'s surprise.
I then moved onto the other dishes on my plate, like the pasta, curry, and enchiladas, and threw them all into my mouth and munched down on all of them, while having a satisfied look on my face and a look in my eyes that made it seem like I was going to orgasm at the taste of her dishes.
"Idiots...Absolute idiots, both your husband and daughter are for ignoring such delicious food and taking it for granted." I scolded her family and picked up a full plate of noodles from the side, while Camila was shocked at the speed at which I was eating, like I was sucking in all the food into my mouth.
Clang~
She didn\'t even have enough time to think about how I was scooping up all the food into my mouth and banging the table at how good it was, like I was a starved man who hadn\'t eaten in weeks, as I had already scraped the second plate clean and was moving onto the grilled fish I had been eyeing for a while.
Clang~ Clang~ Clang~
One by one, Camila saw me stack a bunch of empty plates on top of one another that only had a few remnants of grease and sauce on them and witnessed me plough through all the dishes, with a plate of food in my hand and a spoon in another that was scooping it all into my mouth.
Clang~ Clang~ Clang~
The stack of plates started getting too tall, so I made another stack to Camila\'s disbelief, and it had been about 5 minutes since I started eating, and less than half of the entire dining table had been cleared out.
The most shocking aspect of it for Camila was that even though I had already eaten so much food and stuffed my stomach, I looked completely fine and not sick like she thought I would be, and I continued to gorge myself in a rather barbaric manner at the same pace.
"Kafka, why do you hate the doggies at the park so much?" Camila asked a rather peculiar question that was quite wrong since I really loved dogs to bits and even volunteered at several shelters out of my love for them.
"Aren\'t they so cute and adorable with their fluffy fur and tails that just keep wagging around when you see them?...So why do you hate them to the extent that you\'re gorging yourself to death just so that you don\'t have to share your breakfast with those poor pups?"
"...Wait! Don\'t tell me that you got chased by one of them when you visited the park, and you despise them for that?!" Camila came to her own conclusion as to why I hated those dogs, much to my dismay. "If it is, then I apologise to you on behalf of those pitiful doggies for scaring you like that, as they never usually act like that and are actually quite friendly to everyone."
"But at the same time, I\'m also wondering if you did anything to those pups that made them chase you, like teasing them or stealing their food and running off with it, since you seem like someone who can\'t hold back when it comes to food..." Camila said as she stared at me with a suspicious look on her face, labelling me as someone who was shameless enough to steal something from a dog bowl.
"I don\'t hate dogs, nor did I steal anything from them..." I reluctantly said to prove my innocence, while she looked like she still didn\'t trust me. "In fact, I haven\'t even visited that park you\'re talking about and don\'t even know where it is."
"I\'m simply eating all this food because I\'m quite hungry and have a massive appetite that\'s bigger than the average, and not because I have a grudge against the dogs you love so much." I said as I started making a third stack of plates.
"Really?~...You have such a big appetite to the point you can finish a meal for a family of 10 in one sitting?" Camila gasped when I revealed the truth about my hunger, which was insatiable. "Do you normally eat this much for every meal?"
"I try to, as without this basic amount of food, I feel hungry and dizzy wherever I go. And sometimes I even get a bit shaky if I don\'t take in a certain amount of food every day."
I said to her surprise, which was all true, as even though this body of mine had superior senses and abilities compared to the average human due to me being the son of a God, it also had high energy consumption levels to compensate and balance for it.
And it was especially my brain that seemed to need the most amount of energy supplied to it, as I always seemed to get headaches whenever I didn\'t eat as much and always feasted during every meal so that I could prevent that aching sensation in my head.
I guess with great power come great consequences as well...But I don\'t really mind the consequences I face since I just have to eat a lot of food, which is conveniently something that I really enjoy.
"Wow~ Wouldn\'t that mean that you would be a nightmare to all the all-you-can-eat buffets out there?" Camila asked in amazement at the sheer gluttony I possessed while watching me speed through the last of the plates on the dining table.
"Funny that you would ask that, as back in my hometown, the restaurant committee over there, which was basically the union for all the restaurants in town, sent my picture to every single restaurant that had a buffet service, so that they could guard against me and kick me out if I tried to come in." I said, remembering the dark day when I was a child where I couldn\'t take advantage of the buffet system anymore to satiate my hunger, since they had gotten wary of me after demolishing several buffets across town after the owners had enough of watching me eat their profits away.
I also only targeted rather well-off restaurants, so I had no guilt while going on my eating rampage.
"Well, I guess I should warn the restaurant owners in this town to close down their buffet service, unless they want their business to go into debt because of your overwhelming gluttony~" Camila laughed when she thought of me wrecking havoc in this town\'s restaurant scene while passing me the plates on the other side of the table.
She then seemed to have realised something when she saw all the plates stacked up, looked at me, and asked with a gasp,
"Wait!...If you\'re saying that you always eat this much for every meal, then does that not mean I have to cook so much food for you three times a day in the future?"
"N-No, you really don\'t have to, as it would be quite the burden for you to make so much food, which would take so much time and effort, so I\'ll just handle making it myself like usual since I usually just make a large batch of one dish, which is much easier for me and something I\'m used to, even though it\'s quite tiring and bland for my taste to eat so much of the same dish in one sitting."
I said with a wry smile on my face, as I could understand why Camila was so scared at the thought of making such a feast for me every day since the one she made today itself took her all morning, so I could only imagine how hard it would be to do the same every day.