52 Returning to The Dining Hall (1/2)
The moment they made their way out of the tunnel leading down to the underground forest, Sofie let go of Yang Meng's hand and quickly ran into the distance. Leaving behind a bewildered Yang Meng and Chen Chun, who both just stared at the Sofie slowly disappearing in the distance.
”I better get going… See you another time senior brother Chen Chun!”
Yang Meng said as he ran towards the disappearing Sofie. Not forgetting to wave goodbye to Chen Chun in the process.
”Wh-what just happened?”
Confused and bewildered at suddenly seeing his junior brother and sister disappearing as soon as they reached the surface, Chen Chun only managed to get out of his confused state when both of them were already long gone.
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”Yang Meng!?”
Sofie called out in a surprised voice as she looked at the chubby boy running besides her.
”What? Do you think that you are the only one hungry after not getting something to eat for so long?”
In a disgruntled voice, Yang Meng looked at the surprised face of Sofie with a sharp look in his eyes.
Sofie's surprise from seeing her chubby friend running full speed towards the dining hall together with her slowly died down. After all, Yang Meng was someone who could eat as much as her. Why would he not be hungry as well?
Remembering about their journey up the moonlight mountain. Sofie realized that she was the only one complaining about there not being any food, while Yang Meng never complained once. Even though he was most likely just as hungry as she was.
Feeling ashamed about how she acted earlier, Sofie felt her face flushing up a bit.
”Hm? Is anything wrong?”
Noticing the sudden shade of red appearing on Sofie's face, Yang Meng asked in a concerned voice.
”N-n-no!”
Growing embarrassed after being noticed, Sofie quickly sped up and ran even faster towards the dining hall.
”Wha- wait up!”
Seeing Sofie suddenly speeding up all of a sudden, Yang Meng tried his best to follow. Resulting in Yang Meng trying to catch up, while Sofie tried to run away from him.
Luckily for Sofie. The dining hall was not too far away, at least close enough for her stamina to hold up.
So even with the better stamina of the two, Yang Meng couldn't catch up with Sofie's short term sprint.
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”Hah… Hah… Hah…”
Exhausted to an extreme degree. The first thing Sofie did when she arrived at the dining hall, was gathered a few chairs and set them close together for her to lie down on. Earning a few weird looks from nearby disciples, wondering why she would bother making a chair-bed in the dining hall instead of just sleeping in a bed at home.
”Why did you run so fast? Were you that hungry?”
Yang Meng's face appeared above Sofie as he looked down at her with a unknown glint in his eyes.
”O-of course! I haven't eaten for so long after all, so of course I would be hungry!”
”I see…”
Clearly not believing what she had just said, Yang Meng decided to just ignore it and made his way towards the tables filled with food.
The food was still something you could go up and take however much you wanted or just order something to eat from a waiter or waitress.
Yang Meng quickly build a mountain of food on his plate and returned to the table where Sofie was laying down on the chairs, which she had gathered together to form her chair-bed.
Looking down at the chairs lined up in a row with Sofie laying lazily on top of them, Yang Meng realized that all the chairs from the table had been taken into Sofie's chair-bed.
”Sofie… Can I get a chair?”
Hearing the slightly annoyed voice, Sofie, who was still exhausted from running earlier, looked up and spotted Yang Meng and his towering mountain of food.
*Growl*