Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army 202 Apprentice chef

Sarah felt his hand move from the small of her back to her hair and gently brush his fingers through it, she wanted to cry again in his arms, but she held back her tears as she pressed herself against him, it was not her first time sharing his bed but it was her first time feeling like it was her privilege for as long as she lived. As always he was a gentleman, too gentle and generous and caring for his own good, although he could have claimed her body endless times in the year they spent together he simply was content with making her part of his family, even if that meant he could not have alone time with his wives.

She did not know when she drifted off into dreamland, and when she woke up she was almost hit by an anxiety attack when she did not find him beside her, however as the room was the same familiar one, she calmed her anxious heart and mind, she checked her body and found nothing out of orders she then stood up and put on a simple bathrobe before leaving the room.

She found him in the library petting 3 cute pets, an oversized cat content with lap pillow, a beautiful and elegant cat that was trampling her oversized mate in an attempt to gain a few scratches under the chin, and a dragon that seemed to enjoy getting the most attention by their master, Ophelia was also in the library pretending to read a book while looking secretly and jealously at the 4 of them.

As always he was first to notice her, he gave her a smile before the elegant cat decided to jump on his face and cover his eyes, she really did not want his attention to be given to yet another person, she giggled and went to pat Ophelia on the head, she was welcomed here and it felt like she was never away, she wondered what happened to the two maids but didn't ask, she wrapped her hands around Ophelia and she too watched with jealous eyes the four at their play.

Not long after, Debauchery arrived with Anne, they were quite joyful for the number of injuries they had, it seems they have just dealt with the boss that has kept them stuck and were now officially a level 80 adventurers along with Anne who joined as a dedicated healer. As the party was about to start Yunan told them that he knew a good restaurant where they can celebrate, they contacted the rest of the Valyrians and headed for chef Ro in the 30th floor.

Upon arrival chef Ro came out to greet them and was hit by a strange request, "can you cook our meal separately with our own ingredients", it was an insult to any chef if they heard this in his own restaurant, but Ro knew that Yunan had somethings that were not obtainable for others, or simply were exclusive to him, so his answer was a weird one too, have a feast here and we can go cook with your items in your place, and I will bring my apprentice to teach him a few lessons on how ingredients differ and how tastes differ as well.

Yunan went ahead and gave Ro a ring for of the most generic ingredients he had, simply because no one restaurant was able to feed Debauchery if they came unannounced, Ro accepted the ingredients and immediately started working on as many dishes as he could as fast as possible, the fastest dishes arrived 10 minutes later with a young man complaining how disrespectful it was to bring ingredients to a restaurant, and worse was having the main chef working on their table like he was working on an order for a few dozens.

The young man made sure his opinion reached Debauchery who just laughed at him for being a country bumpkin who had no business being a chef, his own retaliation was "even if you have the money to buy top-grade ingredients does not mean you have the money to buy the services of a master chef like my master, you are lucky he is just a simple man who loves cooking too much". And with this the young man was officially the toy of this party, he would be teased to death if he stuck around and Debauchery made sure he will.

"Listen here you little country bumpkin, those are not top grade ingredients, those are the things even the pets refuse to eat, but, since this is a special occasion we did not want your restaurant to run out of ingredients and we just had that pile sitting without use so we thought it would be nice if chef Ro can make even those trash taste good we can entrust his hand with the really top grade stuff, now run along, we need more food" Balin was as always great at baiting and enraging people, as you would expect from a shield bearer for Debauchery, neither wise men nor dumb beasts can escape his taunting.

The young man was shocked on two fronts, first the sheer arrogance of degrading such top-grade ingredients, and the second on how fast and messily they ate, even the most glamorous Leader was shoving food into mouths licking plates and generally act like there was no one watching, the most elegant eaters were the cat and the lizard who were munching slowly on a meat he could not identify, if he knew that they were only eating slowly because they did not want bloated bellies from eating too fast.

When the young man told chef Ro about what they said his answer was very relaxed and smooth "oh? I can't wait to handle the good stuff, last time I only got to touch what was needed for the broth, I hope they let me pick on my own this time, and for your information, there is no such a thing as the best ingredients, even these that we would dream about getting are like the rejects you get free from the market in their place, so here is a lesson, every ingredient is different, and the best ingredients change depending on the dish you are making, a ripe tomato is best for sauce but a solid firm tomato is the best for a salad, and if you have something you consider the best, someone has something better".

The ruckus Debauchery made turned the classy restaurant into your average pub, they attracted attention to the restaurant who seemed to have been getting more and more customers as the night went on, although there were no empty tables, the customers would share seats with others in return for a taste of their dish and with so many people the restaurant ran out of ingredients 3 times and the young apprentice had to ask Debauchery for whatever they had because there would be no delivery at this time of day, each time he approached Debauchery he would end up screaming at them before returning red-faced to the kitchen with a new ring full of ingredients.

Chapter end