8. Angel quickly prepared breakfast

Angel quickly prepared breakfast with Shelly at her side. Their movements in the kitchen was swift and precise, vegetables diced, meats sliced, there was no wasted movement the entire time they were in the kitchen. Before long an aroma drifted its way out of the kitchen and entered everyone’s nose.

Oh, what heavenly smell. Everyone tried to control the drool leaking from their mouths as dishes upon dishes was brought out for their morning. Samuel impatiently hurried behind a maid carrying the dishes out hoping he can grab a piece of sausage before everyone else. However, who inside Samuel’s home was weak? She quickly evaded his hands that were heading towards the piece of meat and immediately darted straight for the table.

“Ahaha, let’s go sit down.” Samuel could only play off his embarrassment in front of others who had seen him attempt to peck at the food early. Breakfast was neatly arranged across the table. Meats, eggs, sausages and waffles along with fresh bread rolls all perfectly combined to make masterpieces.

“Hm? Where’s Boss?” Arthur quickly noticed an absent person.

“Don’t worry about him, he had a big feast himself last night” Samuel said as food was placed on their plate.

The glistening golden waffles warmed everyone’s plate with a side of honeyed berry syrup to match. Bread, omelets and sausages so simple in design yet so elegant and refined.

The door to the kitchen as the chef of honor took her place beside her husband, and her assistant beside Arthur. Samuel couldn’t wait any longer, he went straight for the first bite, the juice from the sausage exploded into his mouth as he let out an indecent moan. That was the start to their breakfast, a second bite a third bite, everyone busied with their own plates.

Breakfast came and went in a moment notice however; the memory of that breakfast etched its way into everyone’s heart. Eyes are closed in satisfied delight still savoring that last lingering taste.

“Mommy, can I have some more?” Arthur was the first to ask for seconds followed by Samuel joining his son. That breakfast was just too delicious! However, Angel remained calm.

“No, anymore and you’ll have a tummy ache.” Angel declined Arthur’s plea.

“What about me? I’m a big man I won’t get a tummy ache, I promise.” Samuel tried to play it cute.

“No.” Angel remained resolute in her response. Breakfast is only for them to start the day, she didn’t want everyone to go back napping from eating too much.

Dejected they could only sit at that table staring at the empty plate.

“Mommy, how come breakfast was so good today?” Arthur curiously asked. The breakfast she made was always good but not to the point where they’d lose control.

“It’s because I’m a great cook sweetie.” Angel said with no hint of modesty.

“Benjamin bought imported meat from the Tillowisk Empire at the marketplace this morning.” Shelly answered Arthur.

“Why is their meat so tasty?” Arthur asked Shelly hoping for an answer.

“I’m not sure, it was just extremely larger than the normal ones we’ve always had. Perhaps Mr. Benjamin could explain?” Everyone’s eyes darted towards the direction of Benjamin hoping for an answer.

Putting down the tea in his hand he responded saying that animals in the Tillowisk Empire started becoming massively large due to being closer to origin of the dispersal leading to more tasty meat. However, besides that he’s not sure why animals were getting larger and what the dispersal had to do with it.

“Perhaps I can explain that!” The sounds of footsteps slowly arrived before them as the door to the dining room opened up and a black-haired black-eyed Boss carrying an adorable labradoodle puppy shuddering his arm and a silver kitten perched upon his shoulder walked in.

“Barkie!”

“Silver.”

Both Arthur and Shelly instinctively spoke out the names of their pets being carried by Boss. As if on command the puppy dog hopped off of Boss’ arms and slowly walked towards Arthur. However, a meow from a certain kitten in response to Shelly sped up Barkie’s pace.

Safe and sound in Arthur’s arm Barkie lifted his head up and raised his chin at the kitten who was in Shelly’s lap as if to triumphantly demean the kitten below it. But once the puppy saw the kitten hop onto Shelly’s shoulder it hid back into Arthur’s arm and began to shudder.

“There, there Barkie the meanie kitten won’t hurt you.” Arthur whispered trying to soothe the fragile puppy.

“Boss! What do you mean you can explain it?” Arthur continued while petting the puppy. The vicious kitten at the moment is lying flat on Shelly’s shoulder sound asleep.

Boss settled down on an empty seat and began to explain why animals were getting larger and tastier.

“Just imagine that everything that happened before the dispersal never happened because that is what’s going to happen.” He flatly stated confusing everyone in the room.

“What do you mean?” Shelly was the first to respond.

“Pretty much~ that! Your entire plants, animals, country, continent, planet is all going to excessively balloon in size until the planet’s energy settles. Say goodbye to the planet you once knew and say hello to a whole new world.” He bluntly stated shocking everyone in the room to utter silence.

It wasn’t until they calmed down that he finally began to explain their situation.

“Your planet right now is undergoing a massive change, judging from its energy dispersal I’d say it’ll be at least 10 times the size as it currently is. The plants and animals will be the first to be affected by the dispersal growing in tremendous size from all the energy in the air.”

“The planet will be next as it expands like a balloon, the entire ecosystem will change and new creatures and both large and small, familiar and unfamiliar. This is where your technology you’ve built up such as the tissues you’ve thrown at me yesterday will become the past.”

“Finally, it’ll be your turn to evolve, while you won’t get extremely large like the plants and animals, you’ll become far stronger and live longer than you currently do.”

“Alright, one question each person, go!” He concluded waiting for people to ask their question.

“I don’t mean to be rude, but how do you know this?” Samuel raised the first question.

“I’ve been through it. Next.” Boss said waiting for the next question.

“What do you mean you’ve been through it?” Samuel asked for an explanation.

“Next.” Boss said not giving Samuel an answer.

“You said the planet will grow at least 10 times in size, how long will it take?” Benjamin asked his question.

“I can only use my planet as an example, the energy dispersal from it was significantly higher than yours but that probably meant the changes happened faster, I’d say maybe in 100 years?”

“Won’t we be dead by then?” Arthur asked, the current average lifespan was 75 for men and 80 for women.

“That depends on whether you can adapt, you guys will be the last to evolve, but the planet isn’t out to exterminate you, in fact they’ve given you an abundance of resources to cultivate. For example, the plants and animals, hunt and domesticate them and you’ll live through this century easily.” Boss gave Arthur a longer response than the expected ‘yes”.

Samuel pulled one of his maids over and whispered a question in her ear for her to repeat.

“Boss, sir, what do you mean you’ve been through it? Care to explain?” The maid asked repeating Samuel’s earlier question.

“Nope.” Boss dismissed the question causing Samuel to steam in frustration. Damn you just explain damnit

“I’d also like to hear your story” Angel also asked.

Sigh

“Fine, I’ll explain.” He said causing Samuel to inwardly erupt in anger. The heck? Why didn’t you explain when me or my maid asked? Do you hate me for throwing tissues at you? is that it? Huh? Samuel could only conclude before taking mouthful of tea.

“As you can tell by now, I’m not from your planet. I used to live on the planet called Earth. We didn’t have powers like you guys, we had technology an advanced society where planetary exploration was imminent.” He said reminiscing about the past.

"Then one day everything changed when the…”

“the…?”

“The dispersal happened. Duh.”

“…”

“Anyways, once it did, it happened fast and fierce, animals will grow and mutate at an alarming rate. People who once had technology and weaponry capable of killing anything started to lose out on the evolutionary race. We were becoming the prey almost overnight.”

“If our technology didn’t get destroyed by the wildlife here, the expansion of the planet definitely did. The expansion was brutal, buildings collapsed, cities torn apart, abyssal chasm sputtered all throughout the world. Mountains higher than the clouds became the norm making visits to places that once took us a matter of minutes months to traverse.”

“By then the global population of almost 10 billion of us diminished to less than a million.” He paused for a moment before continuing “Then we got super cool powers and became invincible. The end.” Boss finished his story abruptly signifying that he won’t explain any more than that.

Surprise and shock at his response most people at the table gulped in anxiety for could come. Everyone then turned their head towards Shelly waiting for her to ask the final question. Noticing the gaze upon her Shelly calmly asked.

“How old are you?”

Samuel spat the tea he was drinking out coughing in return. The question wasn’t what he was expecting Shelly to ask about.

“Errr…” Boss thought about the question, even he wasn’t expecting her to ask him his age? Don’t you know it’s not nice to ask a person their age.

“Ahaha, I don’t know, I’ll get back to you on that, I’ll have to ask my lady friend that question she’ll probably know.” Boss answered, he really didn’t know exactly how old he is.

“You have a girlfriend?” Arthur jumped up and asked.

“She’s a lady friend.” Boss repeated.

“Where is she now?” Arthur continued to pester.

“In space.” Boss replied pointing at the sky. Eliciting a “wow” from Arthur.

“That’s that no more questions! For now, you guys can just enjoy yourself your planet is expanding slowly so you’ll have a few more good years. Maybe long enough for your kids to be in school.” Boss said as he looked at the two children no older than 10.

“Speaking of school, where the heck does Exotics go to?” Boss finally asked his question.

“Same place, either Lumiere or Naturelle, there’s an Exotic department there that’ll oversee all the Exotics. Speaking of which, enrollment is coming up on a few months.” Samuel replied.

“Cool, let’s go to school you two.” Boss said as he looked over the two.

“Mr. Boss, you’re too old to be a student at Lumiere or Naturelle.” Arthur bluntly stated his thoughts.

“Eh? How old do I look?” Boss curiously asked.

“25?”

“100! No. 1,000!”

“18?”

“30?”

“20ish”

Everyone gave their response with a certain old man being a different answer than the rest.

“School starts when you’re 10. You’re old enough to be a teacher and your black hair and eyes is too different than all the other Exotic it’ll draw unwanted attention.” Shelly intervened giving a proper explanation.

“Oh? How about now? What color is my hair and eyes?” Boss said as his hair slowly changed to that of a deep shade of purple. Along with eyes becoming a bright yellow.

Everyone in the room became speechless at the sight, he now looks like a normal Exotic.

“I should be fine right?”

“You’re too old!” Arthur shouted hoping to see what Boss will do about his age.

As if on cue to Arthur’s response Boss’ appearance slowly transitioned to that of a young adult followed by that of a teenager. All the way till he was half his original height that looks like a child no older than 10.

“How about now?” He said in a childish voice that made everyone in the room utterly speechless.