Chapter 82 - Alphie's Supper

"You might feel all good, but the vet said that you will suffer episodes of weaknesses for 2 or 3 days. Don't tire yourself. Come, accompany me for dinner."

"Arf! Dinner! Sir, Yes Sir!"

Alpheus jumped to Sir Junshik Hyung's arm and went to the dining table. Cha Junshk had already prepared the dinner for them, and Alpheus was surprised when he saw a portion twice the usual size.

"Bai Gege, is this really for me?" Alphie asked as he stared at the meat. "Did I do something correct today?" 

Cha Junshik chuckled, "You did great today. I'm happy that you obeyed me, even though I know that you're so scared when getting your health check-up with the vet before."

"So this will be your food for today. You can enjoy it."

Alpheus started drooling as he imagined gobbling on this big portion.

Alpheus ate a big portion in Elune Forest before being transported in this world. For supper, he could eat a giant snake, a big tiger, or even a man-eating crocodile. 

But now that he was in this world, his food was rationed. The taste was better than any food he had ever eaten, mostly because Sir Junshik Hyung prepared it for him.

But Alphie would miss the big feast he would get whenever he hunted for something in the Elune Forest before. Since the forest was the home for many dangerous and mythical creatures, a place unfit for any human to live. 

Alpheus started gobbling on the meat that was served for him. He was still in his small black pomeranian form, and the stack of meat was actually twice the size of his body.

Cha Junshik ate his meal while watching Alpheus gobble everything. His small stomach seemed to be a black hole because he ate everything and didn't show any sign of feeling full.

"Are you not full enough?"

"Sir, I will never be full if it's the food that you cook, Sir! No matter what it is, I will eat it!" Alpheus said. "I can eat anything that you made!"

Alpheus then looked at Sir Junshik Hyung's food, a grilled chicken breast. But for Alpheus, he never saw the food that small in his world.

"Sir, for a strong man like you, you eat so little!" Alpheus commented.

"Haha, this is not really little compared to me. It's you who eat a lot," Junshik replied. "What kind of food do you eat for the day in Elune Forest?"

"Um… I like feasting on mother deer, but only during their migration season. Because their blood would be pumping around that time, and their meat would be a lot tender. But for daily food, I usually ate humans, Sir!"

"H—Humans?!" Cha Junshik dropped his fork. He was stunned because Alpheus told him once that he didn't eat humans. "But you said that eating a human is forbidden because it's a grave sin."

"Oh, no, Sir. It's not like that! Alphie would never eat human… directly!" Alpheus said. 

"What do you mean by that?"

"Um, Alphie's main dishes are usually the fellow predators, Sir. Alphie likes to eat carnivores daily because their meat is chewier, so it makes me feel fuller for the day! Alphie likes to eat a man-eating crocodile, ferocious tiger and jaguar, and giant snakes. They are the true predator, Sir! They would eat humans that strayed too far into Elune Forest or were just unlucky because they happened to be the unfortunate target of the day."

"Those beasts would drag and eat the humans even to their skeletal remains, and I will eat those predators just right after they ate the human. So that means I get 2 nutrients at once! 1 from the predator, and 1 from the human that hadn't been digested! Alphie usually sucks them to the bone! Sir, do you know that human meat is very crunchy! I especially loved it when that predator hunted a strong man as food because the human meat is very crispy in my mouth!" Alpheus said with sparkling pomeranian eyes. His tail wagged left and right happily while his tongue stuck out.

It seemed that Alpheus wanted to be praised for his ability to beat the system.

Since he could not kill humans, he let other predators kill the humans first and then ate the predator + the undigested human remains inside the predator's belly.

It was clever, very cruel, but clever. 

Alpheus was very naive and somewhat stupid in many things, but he suddenly had 1001 ways to do it when it came to being evil.

…

Cha Junshik gulped. No matter how many times Alpheus told him about his true nature as the King of Elune Forest, he was still left unprepared to hear all those scary facts. 

The life in that forest seemed to be very dangerous, and Alpheus was thrown there at the age of 4 in human age, which was another level of coldheartedness from his parents. 

"Do you still love eating that meat now?" Cha Junshik asked. He was alerted, thinking of a way to put Alpheus on a leash, just in case he went rogue and made Junshik as his supper.

Alpheus hummed for a while. He imagined a life without those tasty, bloody raw meat. Would he be able to leave them? Well, if Sir Junshik Hyung wasn't here, of course, he couldn't leave them! 

Because those were so tasty! 

But now that he had tasted all the meaty cooking from Sir Junshik Hyung, he realized that his late queen mother was correct. 

Alpheus loved eating raw meat because he was still a teenager who liked to experiment and taste many things. So it was natural for him to love eating many things.

But once he hit young adult age and found his mate, his taste would be different. He wouldn't want to eat raw meat because his mate would always cook him something delicious.

Even if his mate couldn't cook at all, it would still taste like heaven for Alpheus.

'My late mother said that my mate's cooking would be the tastiest food I will ever taste in my life. Sir Junshik Hyung's food is the tastiest! I cannot live without eating food that's cooked by Sir Junshik Hyung!' Alpheus thought. He was happy that he could spend his time with Sir Junshik Hyung and taste such heavenly food.

But that also made him sad, 'But how about my mate? Can my mate cook better than Sir Junshik Hyung? But I thought there is nothing more delicious than anything that has been touched by Sir Junshik Hyung….'

'Wuwuwu, it's so sad. Why is Sir Junshik Hyung not my mate? Why is he only my SUPER MEGA BEST FRIEND? I want my mate to be like Sir Junshik Hyung….' 

Cha Junshik saw a range of emotions in Alpheus' face, from happy, ponder, and now sad. 

It made him wonder what was in Alpheus' head right now, since his question was simple, whether Alpheus still had a taste for those crazy mixes of carnivore + human meat and such. 

"Why are you sad?" Cha Junshik asked.

Alpheus shook his head, "Nothing, Sir. I'm just thinking about my mate. I want my mate to be like you, Sir."

"To be like me?" Cha Junshik was quite appalled. "Why?"

"Because Sir Junshik Hyung is amazing. Sir Junshik Hyung has the best food Alphie has ever tasted, Sir! I think, after eating Sir Junshik Hyung's food, Alphie doesn't like that raw meat anymore. Alphie wants everything to be touched by Sir Junshik Hyung first. Alphie also wants Sir Junshik Hyung to eat first before Alphie."

"So… you want your mate to be able to cook?" Cha Junshik asked.

"Un! Alphie wants my mate to be able to cook like Sir Junshik Hyung! Handsome like Sir Junshik Hyung, kindhearted like Sir Junshik Hyung, and have a big cock, just like Sir Junshik Hyung!!"

"Alphie wants my mate to be just like Sir Junshik Hyung!" Alpheus said excitedly. The idea of having Sir Junshik Hyung as his mate excited him so much, even though it was just in his imagination right now.

Cha Junshik chuckled and rubbed Alpheus' head, "So demanding, what if your mate doesn't have a similar trait to me?"

Alpheus, who was enjoying the head rub, became sad again, "Sir, I will be really sad if my mate is not like you…."

"Well, I can always help him to cook. So he will be able to know how to make your favorite food, okay?"

Honestly, Alpheus wanted to say that he wanted Sir Junshik Hyung to stay with him, even after finding his mate. Because Alphie couldn't imagine someone better than Sir Junshik Hyung.

But he knew that Sir Junshik Hyung disliked being forced, and he also didn't want to make Sir Junshik Hyung angry.

So Alphie just nodded while looking down dispiritedly.

Cha Junshik exhaled heavily at Alpheus' reaction and cut the chicken breast he made, "Come here, you've been eating red meat for so long, it's time for you to taste chicken. I'll feed you."

"Arf! Sir, Yes Sir!"