Cosmic Ascension

CH 10: Two sneaky

Noah had been quite proud of his performance thus far.

He may have had to beat up an innocent woman on the way, however, he did manage to fool the pirates and enter one of their ships. More than anything— he would be finally able to eat some real food. It felt like eons had passed since he had eaten something worth eating. He was on cloud nine just thinking about it.

At least— that is what he believed would have happened once he was given the green light for some food and clothing.

“Where am I? And what… even is this?”

Noah looked at the person standing beside him and spoke. She, or at least he assumed her to be a female from the shapely form of the armor the person was wearing and the voice with which she talked, was very tall; she could even be said to be massive, more than thrice his current height. There also was only one eye on the armor but there were not many more indications for him to discern her gender.

The strange, tall, and towering woman aside, Noah found himself in some sort of room that was dyed in a pure white radiance. No matter where his eyes darted toward, all he could see was the color white.

His face twitched ever so slightly at the sight of this room. Memories he thought he had forgotten began dragging themselves up from the worst corners of his mind, reminding him of his nightmares.

“You need to be kept in a sterilized room until we can ascertain whether you are carrying any kind of strange bacteria that could affect us or not. The chances are extremely low, to be honest. But I do not like moving with a possible biological hazard near me.”

“Oh. Okay, I can understand that. But… What is this…?”

“Food.”

“Food? This? You call this… thing, food?”

Noah pointed his finger at the plate in front of him and couldn’t help but double take while asking in disbelief. The thing the strange being mentioned as food… was composed of one grey-colored cube, two green-colored cubes, and finally, a weirdly pinkish-red cube that all seemed like jellos of some kind but much thicker and blurrier in consistency. It looked like mush in a jello form, he didn’t really have any words to describe what he was looking at. Apart from the cube-like substances that seemed to be things out of a horror show, there was also a small bottle with a straw on top of it so that he could sip the drink.

It looked unappealing and honestly disgusting in a way. At least that was the case for Noah, even though he had been living in what could be considered one of the hellish places on earth with raw substances in the name of food. He distinctly remembered eating this kind of ration when he was in the army or at least something closely similar to this madness and while it was heartwarming in a way to find something that reminded him of home… this did not make the appearance of the meal any better in his eyes.

In fact, it somehow made it worse as he could clearly draw a comparison to that terrible food.

Noah was filled with utter disgust as he looked at the food before him. So much so, in fact, that he would rather go back and eat some raw meat after killing a few beasts than eat these disgusting cubes. Ultimately, the raw meat had some umami flavor in them; these looked like they would either taste like garbage or cardboard.

“You don’t have to eat if you don’t want to, you know? We are pressed for time already. You have five minutes to decide then we will start moving.”

“Ugh…”

Noah looked at the food and sighed to himself,

“This is enough to make me full? Are you sure about that?”