Chapter 54 One From The Nine Families

Chapter 54 One From The Nine Families

The cafeteria was a long hall, arranged with chairs and tables while at the end of the place, two waiters could be seen responsible for serving food.

The trio moved toward the direction of the waitress as Zeras felt his stomach rumbling even more.

"Um, can we have one plate of Mizashi Twale and three fruit juice?" Quinn ordered like a gentleman looking like he had rehearsed this more than thousands of times.

The two waitresses giggled looking at the trio as they went in and out of the place. A big box was brought out with a tray holding three cups of juices.

"Thank you, officers..." Quinn said dragging them towards a particular table as the trio settled down.

Opening the box, Zeras saw it was like some type of gigantic pizza with different colored ingredients on top of it.

Immediately ripping out a piece, he shoved the entire thing in his mouth without care as Zera's eyes suddenly became a black hole.

"This... It's so sweet..." Zeras said tears almost slipping out of his eyes as he just couldn't believe a taste like this also existed. All he had known in his life was stale hard bread with water but now that he tasted this. This was the first time he realized he also had taste buds for sweet things in his mouth.

Looking at the duo, he could see they were looking at him with strange expressions on their face before Quinn suddenly blew up in loud laughter, while a mocking smirk just appeared on Triton's face.

"What? Did I do something wrong..."

"Um... You're using your hand to eat..." Triton said pointing to the knife and fork that was placed beside him.

"Besides, what do you mean sweet, the Mizashi Twale is more of an in-between food of bitter and sweet when it comes to food and you're savoring it as if it's the number one sweetest food in the world. That's weird man..." Quinn said as he slowly picked up his knife and fork.

"That's not true..." Zeras said firmly denying the accusation.

"Yeah, it's not..." Triton and Quinn said with a smile as they both stared at him with a knowing smile.

"Ok, maybe a little..." He was really afraid of Triton finishing up the entire thing that's why he hurriedly tried to learn the spoon-knife thingy.

"Now when I think about it, it's really weird not being able to see you guys' eyes. It's like I can't see who you are..." Zeras said as he looked at both of them.

Triton has no pupils, with his eyes just covered by the entire white making it hard to see what he was thinking about.

As for Quinn, he always covers his eyes, the last time he used a blindfold, this time he used a dark glass, so dark Zeras couldn't see his eyes at all. Not being able to see their eyes seemed to also tweak a nerve in him sometimes.

"We Elvians don't have pupils according to you humans but we have the same experience as pupils when looking at another Elvian. I believe some humans too can see our real emotions with time. It's because this is your first time, you'll later understand after spending enough time hanging out with Elvians." Triton explained to him.

Zeras nodded as what he said made sense, and he directed his attention towards Quinn instead who didn't say anything but just continuously dug into the food.

"What about you Quinn, why did you always cover your eyes like a blind person but I can tell you can see as clear as day..." Zeras asked him.

"Oh, covering my eyes? It's due to my genetic ability. It's related to my eyes and leaving them open wastes some energy." Quinn replied.

"I'll only open them if I need them..." Quinn said as Zeras felt his curiosity piqued. A genetic eye ability that uses energy just to open them. It's a first for him.

"Um... I feel like I've heard that ability before, but... Are you from the Nine families Quinn? Particularly from the Voidspace family?" Triton asked suspiciously as Zera's jaw dropped to the ground.

One from the Nine family?