Chapter 20: Chocolate!

[TOWN ENTRANCE]

"Did she calling Gilbert's name?",

" Snicker, there's no way. I know he's a regular but there's no way a strict guard like him to have any relationship with the goddess",

"Hey, do you think she comes here to see me?",

" Haha, in your dream! There's no way the goddess will acknowledge you",

The guards are so cheerful because of my presence at the town entrance.

"Geez, why did you suddenly vanish out of nowhere without saying a word after cleaning the restaurant this morning?", I asked with worried.

The guards were thinking did they ever clean and leave my restaurant in the morning and start searching for the person that I talk with.

"Ah, sorry! So why are you here?", Gilbert apologize and asked my objective.

The guards were surprised after Gilbert replied to me and starts showing him some hostility and glaring at him intensely.

" You work so hard lately that you looked kinda stress so I thought that I bring some dessert for you", I replied kindly to him.

"Okay, but why desserts?", he asked me with confusion.

" This is not like any other dessert. I add something extra so that it can help you to reduce your stress", I replied with a zest.

In my previous life on Earth, I remember reading some books about chocolate history. It is said that dark chocolate can help people to lower their stress hormones after eating it every day for two weeks.

"Food that relieves your stress?!?! Ah, I'm not a person that really enjoys eating too much food", he misunderstood it by thinking it was like the personality for fat people.

" No, I'm not saying that you are like fat people I meant that this can relieve your stress by eating it every day for two weeks", I clarify him.

He then takes the desserts from the basket and looks at it closely with a doubt.

"What is this chocolate thing?", Gilbert asked me hesitantly.

" Haha, she hates you so much that she feeds you a mud!",

"Maybe it's a burned bread!",

"The goddess has brought upon you her wrath!",

The other guards snicker and laughing at him after seeing chocolate on the desserts.

Somehow Gilbert doesn't seem to be affected by their taunts. Instead, their taunts are piercing me really bad as if I'm not fit to be the chef.

Shortly after, the guards went silent after I give them a menacing glare for badmouthing my food.

" Ah, please enjoy your food!", I said to Gilbert with a smile.

Gilbert began shivering to his spine after seeing me smiling to him to eat the dessert that I prepared for him and he hesitates to take the first bite of the chocolate.

I ran out of patience waiting for him to eat the chocolate so I shove it to his mouth angrily. He was surprised since I did it out of the blue into his mouth.

"Hmm, it's delicious!", He commented after taking the first bite of the chocolate.

He paused for a while when he sees my hand near his lips after shoving the chocolate into his mouth forcefully.

" Eh, what are you doing?!?!", he back away quickly while his face turns beet red.

"I'm feeding you the chocolate since you're unwilling to eat them", I said angrily with a pout.

" Oh, uh, thanks?", he said unsurely.

[AT THE RESTAURANT]

I went back to open the restaurant and start preparing the cooking wares in the kitchen.

For some reason, after Gilbert took the first bite, he seems to be more relaxed and happy.

Is the cocoa or chocolate in this world have an instant effect to reduces the stress hormones?

(Gilbert was content because he actually wants me to feed him)

I was distracted by the chocolate and didn't realize that the bell on the door rang while the customer is waiting for the menu.