I was blinded

Dish 3: shenanigans

By the time the sky turned dark, the other students have yet to arrive.

That and the old lady was starting to bother me asking me too many questions for me to answer.

I was under rapid fire and all I could do was shield myself from it by ducking into the kitchen.

It wasn't until 10 that the dorm residents started to trickle in. Mostly first years I realised.

By then I was already preparing dinner for the night. After incessant poking by the old lady, I had succumbed to her requests of having Chinese cuisine.

Tonight's menu consisted of the main dish, Dan Dan mian as well as a small dessert of fried sesame balls.

I quickly plated the dishes and set it in front of the rather exhausted group of first years. And one second year.

I sat by the old lady in the corner of the table, cleaning my chopsticks with wet wipes before digging in.

I quietly ate my noodles, savouring the flavour and giving myself a lot of self praise for how spicy it was.

How I love my spice.

The kitchen was silent..... Awkwardly so, causing me to look up to see many pairs of eyes gleaming at me.

I could only blink.

What did they want.

They blinked back at me.

I turned back to my noodles, glancing up at them with every mouthful.

Only when I was halfway through my dinner that the maple tree finally spoke up.

" You passed the test?"

Duh.....

" Yes why?"

" That's great! I challenge you to a shokugeki!"

What.

Why?

I could only echo out my words to him before shovelling another chopstick full of noodles into my mouth.

" I mean. You're a Nakiri right? You gotta be good. Were you a former first seat?"

I blinked at him.

Setting my cutlery down as well as my bowl I scratched my cheek trying to delay time in answering.

" I wasn't a totsuki student at all. "

A few gasps were heard before then whole table screeches out a what.

I could only blink back in response before shovelling more noodles into my mouth, bloating my cheeks out like a hamster.

The table soon grew quiet again and I looked over my bowl to see the maple head looking at me.

Very intensely might I add.....

What could he possibly want.

I already told him that I wasn't from totsuki so what could he expect?

" Shokugeki. "

Please tell me I have clogged ears.

I replied him with a hybrid between a squeak and a yelp. So in other words..... A squelp.

I could hear cicadas in the background.

It took a while before I finally muttered out a reply.

" I wasn't from totsuki. As in the school. I don't do shokugekis. "

That smirk on his face.... Ooooohhhhhh I really want to give him a good smacking.

He brandished out his set of knives, pulling out what seems to be his prized one, showing it to me.

" Doesn't matter. I want to see how good you are. " He will not stop will he?

All I could do was .....

Run.

And so, I ran.

Ran like I've never ran before.

Straight into my little mole hole. ( A/N. It's a room...... ) And locked the door.

Leaning back against the wooden seemingly worn out door, I let gravity do the work for me and I slid down, sitting down on the creakey woof. Heaving a sigh of relief through my nose.

It wasn't long before I heard footsteps pounding on the old wooden floors heading towards my way.

Then came the banging of fists on my poor door before silence came.

It felt weird.

Not a single peep. And I was sure there was more than one person chasing after me. Not just that maple tree. Pretty sure there was a herd of mammoths after me.

It was just uncomfortable silence, with my skin prickling with the feeling of dread.

Damn..... I left my knives in the kitchen.

It wasn't until a few minutes later that things got really creepy and I hurriedly got up, pressing my ear against the door.

All I heard was white noise and I huffed, trudging back to my bed.

Crumbling into the bed and sinking into it, I closed my eyes sighing once more before opening them.

And what I saw was something that would freak me out till the end of my days.

Above my bed, in the ceiling.

A square hole with 5 heads poking out, with eyes gleaming and mouths full of sharpened teeth.

I screamed like I've never screamed before.

What is up in that ceiling...... A labyrinth?

Next thing I knew. 5 bodies landed on my bed, tangled up in a squirming ball.

And of course...... All the weight on my poor stomach.

The ball kept squirming with limbs poking out and smacking around. Some caught my face, causing my cheeks to heat up nicely with numbing pain.

I just lay there until an elbow jabbed straight at my bladder, causing me to double over.

FUDGE CAKES! THAT HURT!

YOU COULD HAVE HIT ANYWHERE ELSE BUT NOOOOOOO YOU HAD TO AIM FOR THE FULL BLADDER!!!!

THATS IT

A quick roll and all of us landed on the wooden floor. The floor boards knocking against each other and the frame of the bed slamming against the walls.

Ignoring whatever collapse I may have caused the house to go through, I quickly rushed to the toilet.

My poor bladder...... T^T

I opened the door, shutting and licking it behind me before turning to face the toilet bowl.

I unzipped my

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And I stepped out of the door, sighing in relief.

I've been sighing much lately.

Yes I censored that bit. You don't need to know my toilet adventures.

Upon my arrival back at my room, the 5 demons were- oh wait.

Look at that.....

THE WHOLE BLOODY DORM IS IN HERE!!!!!!!!!