Staring at the man and his friends, the bartender says, "Gurmand, you couldn't not scare away all my customers?"
"Doru, I don't want to hear that from someone who so blatantly has an affair with me. Did I not tell you your cooking is only for me?"
"I serve customers who bring in money. If you so happen to be one, you can come here, but you're not allowed to scare off any of my customers. Don't let the door hit your scaly tail on the way out."
"Oh, how you wound me, Doru. I have invited you many times to join us as mu exclusive cook. Your life would be way better than merely running a chain store."
"I am content enough, I don't need change. Besides, I don't feel like becoming a criminal at this stage of my life."
"Criminals are convicted. Have I ever been?"
"No, but every time it appears, you will be someone else who ends up going to jail. You currently hold the record for last-minute appearances of the true perpetrator. "
"What can I say, the messiah loves me. But he also loves you, that's why you were able to wield such skill in your cooking, now whip me up some of your best. I feel like Fish Aspic today."
"Sorry, but we're all out of ingredients. I used all we had left to cook up some for the six over there."
Gurmand turns his face towards them all, and while the three kids continue to eat undisturbed by the ruckus, Ivana, Gheorghe, and Wadim start to cover to hide their faces in their cloaks and shake. So Suzuka asks, "Are you guys going to eat that?"
One of the many nightmares with the same symbol as Gurmand walks up behind Suzuka, and then he says to Doru. "Well, if we take everything these kids have on their plates, I am sure Gurmand would have a rather nice meal."
Doru says, "Stop, you fool."
"Why should I? It's like you don't understand, WHAT THE BOSS WANTS HE GETS!"
Iancu turns his head around and glares at the man, saying, "You should let out a prayer for forgiveness before if you plan on touching my food. It would suck if you had regrets before going to hell."
Infuriated, he stretches his hands forward towards Iancu, but his head is picked up by Gurmand, who uses two fingers. Staring at his man, Gurmand says, "Mihai, was it? Rule 1 of those apart of the family is to value hard work, and if you think you can do something as disgusting as interrupting the meal that was cooked, I don't think you deserve this life, now do you?"
As Gurmand squeezes tightly on Mihai's head, he says, "Please forgive me."
With a smile on his face, Gurmand says, "Let's leave it up to god."
With a fierce swing, he throws Mihai at one of the animal bones in the room. But a moment before Mihai's body is about to be pierced by the domes, Orb appears behind him, grabs him and places him on the ground, then says, "Looks like god's on his side."
"I guess he is," Gurmand says.
Licking his fingers, Orb moves back to his seat, and as he does, Gurmand stares at all of them eating beside him.
"You three in the back."
"Yes!" the three idiots say with a fright.
"You better start eating that. Or you might as well and go spit in Doru's face."
"RIGHT!" They say right before they start eating.
From Gurmand's mouth, a bit of fire comes out and he says, "Just so you all know, making the aspic is an incredibly time-consuming process, but the genius before you is someone who can do it in mere minutes. Can you believe that? It's utterly entrancing, and should be appreciated as the smily, and cool flavour moves through your mouth giving both a sweet, and umami flavour in your taste bu-."
Suddenly, Gurmand freezes, and then, looking at Orb beside him, his eyes open up in shock.
Using his finger, Orb reaches into the aspic and removes pieces of meat little by little into the side of his plate, while also destroying the structure of the dish.
"Hey boy, what are you doing?"
"Oh, I am just removing the fish meat and leaving the vegetables. I don't really like them."
With his fist shaking, Gurmand releases some cold air from his mouth, and faces forward, saying, "Everyone has days like that. It must suck for today to be the day your tastebuds feel like rejecting fish meat."
"Oh no, nothing like that, I just think all seafood tastes like shit."
In a lightning-fast instant, Gurmand smacks Orb's body with a backhanded strike that sends him flying out through the doors.
Φ As I fly through the sky, I flip my body around and use spirit energy to reinforce my legs. Then, landing on the ground, I slip back and look at my arms.
Seeing them regenerate, I say, "If I didn't move my arms to block my fast, I could've died."
As Gurmand walks out of the store, I say with red hair, "HEY, IT ISN'T NICE TO HIT SOMEONE OVER AN OPINION!"
"DON'T TRY AND PASS THAT SHIT OFF AS AN OPINION! THAT'S BLASPHEMY YOU HERETIC!"
Soon Suzuka, Iancu, Wadim, Gheorghe, and Ivana exist as well, and I say, "Can you believe this guy, he is insane?
But each of them gives me a cold stare, confusing me, so I say, "Right, guys?"
Suzuka says, "You really are subhuman, Orb. I knew things were wrong with you, but this is a step too far."
"WHAT ARE YOU ON ABOUT, IT'S A SIMPLE FACT. ALL SEAFOODS TASTE LIKE POPO!"
Everyone in the area comes to a halt, and soon all of their eyes fall on me.
Wadim, Gheorghe, and Ivana start to clap and say, "Kill him, kill him, kill him, kill him, kill him!"
And soon the crowd join in saying, "Kill him, kill him, kill him, kill him, kill him!"
"You've heard the people! They have spoken of your demise."
"You're a criminal!"
"One who fights for his people."
Sighing, I mumble, "I will try to freeze him solid."
Iancu, beside Gurmand, says, "He has an ice legacy, and his body regenerates as long as you don't hurt his brain. So to inflict maximum pain, make sure to not smash his head."
"IANCU!"
"Thanks for the information."
Gurmand, with his muscles flexing hard against his suit, says, "Now it's time for you to experience the consequences of your words!"
He lunges forward, throws a punch that hits me and drags me through the street as his 24-foot body pushes me with him.
Finishing the blow with an uppercut he sends me into the air, then jumping up he smashes me with his furry and scally tail that send me bouncing off the roof like a pebble in the water.
Then, kicking off the floor as he lands, he says, "Be gone!"
Another punch at high speed flies towards me, but I dodge, jump up and smash him in the face with my fist infused with spirit energy. But as I land, I hold my fist and say, "You're way too hard."
Φ With a trembling body, Gurmand looks at Orb, and then says, "Fish is known for its ability to help muscles grow and repair themselves, so after every fight it allows me to rebuild myself. Do you see what you mocked!"
"Mocked? All meat has the same properties, with others being far more efficient and far better tasting. There is a reason the meat was left in the ocean instead of the land!"
He swipes his tail at Orb, and then throws a series of punches, saying, "Seafood increases heart health, brain activity, eye health, while also being less fatty than other meats like chicken."
Dodging all of the blows with the elegance of of dancer, Orb says, "Do you think their all the foods that do that. The truth of the matter is you people have been so brainwashed by the collective hivemind of stupidity that you people cannot see the truth, that all sea food tastes like butt checks!"
Jumping into the air, Orb activates his legacy and then smacks another punch right into Gurmand's face, but creates ice as he does this, time blocking Gurmand's eyes.
As Gurmand uses his hands to rip the ice off, Orb creates a giant wave of snow, and then, as it covers Gurmand's body, Orb changes it all into ice. And as Orb stares at the sculpture in front of him, he says, "Take some time to cool off, and think about your foolishness. SELF REFLECT!"
Orb's ice starts to melt, and looking at Gurmand's mouth, a flame catches Orb's eye. So Orb quickly lunge backwards using snowboost, and Gurmand lets out a wave of flames from his mouth, melting all the ice around him.
As more and more flames emerge and move towards Orb, he creates a few giant pillars of ice in the ground to counteract them. But as Gurmand breathes fire, he runs at high speed, eventually breaking through Orb ice and striking his fist towards Orb.
Which Orb dodges, and using the arm, plunges into the ground in front of him, Orb climbs it and flips around as he does, building up rotation.
As he moves up the arm, Gurmand tails tries to swipe Orb off, but he manages to outmanoeuvre the tail while continuing to build up more and more swipes.
Gurmand then moves his head to his right side and starts to blow fire, pushing off Orb advances, and landing in front of Gurmand. Orb looks at his jacket, which is on fire, and quickly uses his legacy to freeze it.
"HEY, THIS WAS A GIFT AND IT'S DAMAGED NOW!"
"Whoever would give scum like you anything is just as complicte."
Taking off my jacket, I wrap it around my waist, and then say, "That's enough out of you, fire breather. You've crossed a line, and now I am going to beat in discipline into you."
"Just try and you'll see. Now, remember my curse allows me to rapidly increase or decrease the temperature of the air I breathe out."
"You're giving me a handicap."
"No, I am just evening the playing field, as the superior nutrition that seafood gives me is far too much of an advantage!"
"You seafood cultists need to be stopped. It's just a meal. You pretend it is something like vegetables or fruits, it is just shitty meat from creatures who where too stupid to ever leave the ocean. It's gross, and tastes awful!"
"This generation has truly become too foolish to think that they could even compare something like samestables to fish meat."
"Wait, I minute. What did you just say about vegetables?"
"You didn't understand. Well then, let me spell it out for you, just like bread, all vegetables taste the same."
Orb freezes, and his hair turns teal, silver, coral, black, grey, cream, and then dark red, and he says, "HOW DO YOU HAVE ALL THE WRONG OPINIONS!"
Then, with snow boost, he lunges forward, and then moves into a flying kick, but at the end of his leg is a giant ice spike, which ends up meeting the flames made by Gurmand.
The clash sends him back, and Gurmand makes his advance towards Orb. His speed increases, and he sends blows so powerful that the wind pressure ends up hitting Orb even if he doesn't.
Each blow pushes Orb from rooftop to rooftop, sending him flying into buildings and people around the city, but even as he crashes into the buildings, Orb takes special care to move all of the people. Including the old woman whose bed he was flung into next.
Picking up the old woman with a curse that has three horns sprouting from her head, and charcoal skin, he says, "Sorry about this."
Gurmand shouts, "HE SAYS ALL SEAFOOD IS TRASH!"
"Because it is!"
But as those words leave he mouth, Orb is hit with a right hook so powerful it sends him right out of her room into the middle of the air, and above Orb Gurmand stands with his hands locked together to form a giant fist, and with a powerful swing he knocks Orb right down into the ground of the city.