Part 12 --Mukbang--

*We entered the cafeteria. It was an absolutely ginormous room. With a massively tall roof and huge walls. There where thousands of tables and chairs. I sat on one of the thousands of chairs. And coincidentally Victor also sat near me on the same table. A few other people also came and sat with us. And then we waited for the food to arrive. It took long, very long, extremely long, painfully long. In that time. One of the kids asked me and Victor about something.*

*"Are you two new". We replied "Yes". Then he started whispering to the two other kids. It felt uneasy. Something was not right about them. And that's when I saw it. A leather knife sheath on one of the kid's hips. I guess Victor saw it too, because the look on his face said it. I don't know how was he allowed to have a knife in the academy but what I do know is that he is a danger man.*

*I don't think we where allowed to leave where we sat until we finished our food which just so happens to arrive a few minutes after we saw the knife. We all where served the same thing. It was soup, stew and hash. Served in a bowl. And cornbread. Disgusting.*

*As someone who was born in a rich family of the nobility, this was too "degrading" and "poor people-ish" for me. The only good thing was the cornbread which I can eat without vomiting it. I saw the other kids and Victor also in disgust. And that's when the knife came out. It was a large curved knife, most likely a hunting knife. And they threatened me and Victor. "Give us your cornbread, now!". We had absolutely no choice but to give our cornbread, and then they slid us their stew and hash "Take this, and eat". The stench of the stew and hash was terrible. Those bastards started giggling and laughing. And then the kid with the knife put it on my throat. And forced me to eat the soup. For their own entertainment. I don't get why would anyone get joy from seeing the suffering of someone else eating what basically is food made of garbage.*

*We had no choice but to eat the disgusting stew. But that's when Victor spilled the soup on one of the bullies' faces. And then before the knife kid could attack Victor threw my soup on the knife kid. And we, illegally started running. And that's how we got a painful lash each as punishment for going "crazy" and no food, only water. And we also got sent to an empty room with a few chairs and a table for 20 minutes.*

*Victor was really hungry, so he decided to sneak out of our room, and grab some food. But the door was locked. So he had to do something else.*

*"Do you have a long sharp object?" He asked*

*"Let me check" I replied*

*I dug my pockets and found nothing but two broken pieces of Sea Biskets I for some reason kept in my pocket two days ago. Victor ate the bigger piece and I ate the smaller one. It was really hard as usual.*

*Once our punishment was over. We had to follow a man in a disciplined line. We where lead to a classroom similar to one at school. Except we didn't have any quills, wood and all of that. We just had a table and chair. And we waited for a teacher to arrive. I was sitting next to Victor and Henry was also there behind me.*

*Once the wait was over our teacher came to the class to give us Naval and midshipman education.*