Unexpected dinner

Nathan froze when he heard the words that came out of Lynn's mouth.

'You really don't know when to shut up?!'

The man stopped eating and dropped the cutlery as he slowly turned his head to look at Lynn with murderous eyes.

Nathan just wanted to ignore it all, but then everything would become a bigger problem.

It was then that the man shook his head and picked up his cutlery again.

"It's rude to attack someone from behind, miss"

Lynn took the piece of chicken out of her mouth again.

"I see...sorry then"

Nathan looked at Lynn without understanding what was going through her head. Then he heard a faint chuckle inside his head.

'What's wrong?'

The voice stopped laughing and sighed cheerfully.

"It's just... no, nothing"

Nathan knew there was something behind her attitude but he didn't ask anything and instead just reached for a piece of meat and began to cut it into small pieces, then he unfastened his mask a little and began to eat.

It was a bit uncomfortable to eat with the mask on, but he really had no choice, so he just ate what he could.

Suddenly, the man looked at them again and asked:

"What are your names?"

Nathan looked at the man turned and then at Lynn, who didn't take long to answer.

"My name is Lynn, and this is..."

Lynn pointed at Nathan for a couple of seconds not knowing what to say.

"Come to think of it... What's your name?"

Nathan finished swallowing the meat in his mouth and answered.

"Nathan"

"Oh! So, it's Nathan and Lynn then" Lynn said cheerfully.

The man nodded and pointed to the man in front of him and then to himself.

"He's called Seinor, he doesn't usually talk much so bear with him. I am Herfir"

Lynn nodded.

"Nice to meet you!" Then she went back to eating without a second thought.

Nathan continued eating without bothering to speak.

'She really don't know they're from opposite sides?'

According to what Nathan had heard from the man, the man belonged to the outskirt's mafia, while Lynn was a government agent. Something her uniform fully revealed.

"She's too carefree" said the voice in his head.

Nathan nodded as he continued to eat. 

With some interest, he watched the silent man who continued to eat uninterested in them.

He could sense from Herfir that he was a first rank of the third category, but from Seinor he could sense nothing. Maybe because the man wasn't using essence at all, or because he was stronger than him.

Senior was tall, and even if he was sitting down, Nathan could tell that he was 2 meters tall. Not only that, the man was too sturdy, he could barely fit in the chair.

He still didn't trust them, although he agreed that it was more important to get out of the realm than to fight each other.

So regardless, he continued to eat, filling his stomach to bursting. He didn't know when he would be able to eat again, so he took advantage of the unexpected dinner.

It was then that his hands froze, and he lost his grip on both pieces of cutlery. Not just him, everyone else stopped eating and stared at their plates in horror.

In a single instant, the food in front of them had completely changed. Now there was no feast of luxurious and exquisite food, instead, rotting food filled the place with a horrible smell.

It seemed as if months had passed in an instant and the food had rotted.

It was then that they all heard a cadaverous voice around them.

"Are you enjoying your dinner?"

Nathan gulped.

Never before had he felt such horrible pressure as he was feeling right now. It was like a god of death was sitting next to him.

He could barely turn his head slowly to the side to look at the last chair at the table. That chair he had seen when he was escaping from the converted humans.

Sitting there, a figure stood with his hands folded as he looked at them all... only for the fact that he had no eyes as his eye sockets were completely empty.

That being had an elegant and luxurious suit, with several ostentatious military medals and a beautiful gold chain hanging from one side of his coat collar to the other.

But the suit was the only thing elegant and beautiful about the person sitting in that chair.

His face had no skin, instead there was pure red-hot, rotting flesh, even Nathan could see some maggots crawling in and out of his facial muscles.

It was like a rotting corpse from the grave.

The man cocked his head in confusion.

"Didn't you like the food? I'll have to change chefs... how pitiful"

Then the creature snapped its fingers and as if by magic, from the ground beside him a reddish black portal opened, and a skeleton dressed in a butler's jacket emerged.

"Will, bring some food for our guests"

The skeleton butler bowed respectfully and seemed to open his skeletal jaw to speak, though no voice came out. In the end it was a skeleton and had no vocal cords. Then the skeleton left the dining room and entered a room near them.

When Nathan saw this, he simply began to tremble... with anxiety.

'Are those... calamities?'

Not only could the man sitting at the table speak, and it was obvious that his intelligence was comparable to that of a human. If it weren't for his physique, Nathan would think it was a human talking to him.

Even the skeleton, who, although he could not speak, was intelligent and had accepted the man's orders.

None of the four could say anything, let alone move. Their bodies simply did not react, the pressure they felt in the face of this calamity was absurd.

A few minutes later, the same door that the skeleton had gone through opened and dozens of other skeletons carrying plates of food began to come out of it, surrounded the table and stopped behind each chair, even if most of them were empty.

Then they picked up the plates that were already on the table and set the ones they had brought.

The new plates were covered by a silver plate cover, so they could not see the food, but they all swallowed instinctively.

It was then that the man clapped his hands, and the dozens of skeletons lifted the plate cover, revealing the plates.

Not much changed, the food was still as rotten as the other. Then the man clapped again, and the skeletons retreated several paces and started back towards the door they had come out of.

Once all the skeletons had left the dining room the man opened his arms wide and smiled revealing his equally rotten teeth.

"Enjoy the dinner!"