Quantifying "TASTE"

From a unique way of walking that is different from any other animal, to making a fool out of our own natural five senses, only human beings are given this special privilege to have the capability to go against the nature, because maybe only then would we have the ability to bend and change it according to our will.

After contemplating his old memories for a little more time, June finally started to slowly chew the small piece of the red fruit in his mouth, savoring its flavor to the fullest with his sense of "TASTE" still active.

As the chewed piece of this red fruit and it went down the throat of June, although he could not smell it, but the taste actually spread starting from his tongue, all the way to the stomach going through the food pipe.

He could actually feel the taste all around his food pipe, till it reached the stomach where it further dissolved and the taste then finally faded completely.

June couldn't help but enjoy this tingling sensation of the delicious taste of this red fruit that had spread throughout his entire esophagus or the food pipe. It felt like the taste of this red fruit was being absorbed and digested in very small amounts even in the whole passage of his food pipe and not just his stomach.

While June was enjoying this new feeling for the first time in his life, suddenly a sharp pain invaded his mind at the exact same place where it usually happened before, but it only happened for even less than a second. Then it became normal with no signs of it, like nothing had happened before.

Out of instinct, June opened his eyes, which automatically cancelled his sense of "TASTE" and then he checked out his surroundings, looking for anything strange around him, but he could not find anything out of the ordinary, obviously other than the dozens of Leaf Serpents on the tree.

He turned around his head and looked towards his left shoulder and saw that the little Tinum was relaxing on its usual place without any new kind of reaction which was normal too.

"What was that?", June could not help but question himself in his own mind doubtfully.

After looking around carefully one more time, and confirming that everything was same as before, June took another bite from the red fruit and closed his eyes, and once again turned on his sense of "TASTE" and got back to enjoying the taste of the red fruit.

But this time, as soon as the feeling of taste first came in contact with his tongue, a numeric digit in the blue color suddenly appeared in front of the June's completely dark vision.

[ -88 ]

"Is this what I think it is?"

Previously when the June had taken the first bite out of the red fruit there was nothing like this, but suddenly this number appeared out of nowhere, the moment he took the second bite from the red fruit.

It did not take too long for June to guess what this number meant, but he still could not dare to believe in the speculations that were going on in his mind.

So, he calmed his nerves and relaxed his mind.

"Well, I think the reason for the surprise headache is now right in front of my eyes", exclaimed June while taking a careful look at the number again.

Then he opened his eyes, and deactivated his sense of "TASTE", then took a look at the red fruit in his hand.

After that he peeled the red fruit by removing only a small portion of the outer skin of the red fruit with the help of the knife that he got from the Maka Soma in the morning, and then he put only that peeled outer skin of the red fruit inside his mouth.

One again he closed his eyes and activated his sense of "TASTE", and as soon as the taste of the peeled skin of the red fruit spread on his tongue, just as he had expected, a different number with the same blue color popped up in his vision.

[ -24 ]

After that, June once again opened his eyes and cut another piece from the red fruit. The only difference was that this time he removed the outer skin of that piece of fruit and threw the peel on the side and ate only the rest of that remaining portion of the piece of red fruit.

This time when June closed his eyes and activated his sense of "TASTE", yet another number with same blue color came in front of the June's pitch black vision.

[ -94 ]

Looking carefully at these three different numeric digits that June had obtained after his simple experiments with the poisonous red fruit, he further confirmed his hypothesis.

"Quantum Dot is actually capable of quantifying my sense of TASTE"