The Arrival of Another Alpha

Several people from outside the kingdom attended the banquet given by the king, being a disciple of the kingdom was a great honor, only a few were able to enter and be accepted as official disciples.

Like me and Melva who were invited to receive a free cooking school, as well as several other people who attended a cooking school, for those who did not get a free school, they would pay to the kingdom in the form of taxes, or become royal chefs, a privilege if Being a royal chef is that they can get a career path, and also a definite income from the kingdom is only deducted by a few percent for the school fees they have taken.

"Welcome the best disciples in the Liovor country" The king stood up and gave his speech opening a speech.

"You come from all corners of the country, bringing the honor of family and also our kingdom, you become a valiant soldier on the battlefield or become a chef who prepares food or becomes experts in the field of medicine, do the best, study as well as you can and be someone useful to this country." With a loud voice, the king ignited the spirit of the whole kingdom.

The whole room applauded the speech that was spoken by the king, then lunch was held, everyone who was part of the guests was invited to sit down and eat the food that was served, we all started school the next week.

Armed with the skills that I have learned with Melva, plus later with cooking techniques from the kingdom, it will be very easy in the future for me to be able to understand the meaning and importance of food, the presentation and taste that is combined is an amazing technique and processing.

"Wow the food is made with rare ingredients" Melva was fascinated by the presentation of food on the table.

"The aroma and taste are also good." I tasted and started to eat the food that was served.

"Yes, we have to be able to make foods with this kind of taste and presentation, Verona," she said while eating the food that had been prepared.

Seen everyone eating it voraciously, a really big meal together with lots of people the first I did, but the fun didn't last long.

"What smell is this? How fishy." A woman with yellow hair and a long pink dress said a word that made the whole room excited.

"It's fishy," added someone next to her the atmosphere of the room turned into very chaotic.

"Calm down everyone, the king is eating with us, please calm down" The king's servant tried to calm down.

"How can calm down, the fishy smell fills the whole room." A man who provoked again put down his spoon and fork and stood up.

"Sit down everyone," said the king.

Everyone sat down in their respective places, covered their noses with their hands, and looked cynically at me.

"See that his body is full of skin diseases" was a word that came back out.

"Yeah, how can he be a chef when his body is dirty, it might make all of our food unhealthy later?" One by one, provocation words came out of their mouths.

"He can still use the cover when he's cooking" Melva defended me and challenged the rest of the room.

"Verona Laquiny, with a heavy heart, we cannot accept you here, please leave this room" The king shooed me out of the dining room.

My tears fell when I heard the words of the person I admired, I didn't expect it to be like that, and I still don't understand the policy of a kingdom, I who was disappointed quickly wiped my tears, and stood up, step to the exit.

My vision started to blur because of the tears that started to gather in my eyes and were about to drip, my steps were irregular, it was so feel piercing and made me want to leave.

"Verona wait" Melva stood up and followed me.

In front of the door, a man had just arrived, with neat and clean clothes, as well as fragrant perfume, his shoes were clean, suddenly my tears subsided, surprised I crash him.

"Are you all right miss?" he asked with his body slightly lowered to help me up.

"What is this commotion, King Xamzul?" Said the man I hit curiously and asked the king Xamzul.

"Oh, apparently you Mr Belbatom, he wants to be a chef but he can't even keep himself clean, what if the food served is contaminated with dirt from his illness?" King Xamzul said firmly.

"Is this the attitude of a king? Can't it still be done more wisely to find a way out?" asked Belbatom who dared to speak his voice.

"That's the way out that has been decided," said the king who did not want to withdraw the decision from his words.

I went out after hearing their conversation, not wanting to take too long in responding to it, because for me hearing the king's words maybe that was the truth, sometimes reality is painful, dream to make people love me is just wishful thinking.

Making everyone friends or making them like me for who I am, that's just a child's wishful thinking I thought. It's because someone is with us because we have something, and because of that, I am at a greater my weakness than my superiority, where it is possible to be in a public place with people.

I stepped on my feet, out of the palace gates, Melva followed me and we chatted as we walked.

"Don't worry, you don't need to have many friends beside you, you only need one person who understands you?" said Melva who walked next to me.

"Thank you for always accompanying me Melva" I replied while wiping tears.

"Hey!! wait a minute. ." A man shouted from behind.

"That's the guy you crash earlier, maybe he wants to talk, I'm going home first, Verona" Melva stepped forward and looked at me.

"Eh, accompany me, Melva," I said while raising half my hand trying to grab her hand, but she just smiled and winked instead.

"You walk very fast," said Belbatom who chased me and still managed to find me.

"I didn't even realize it was as fast as you think" I smiled at him.

"Belbatom Ansorus" His hand shook me his lips smiled his eyes looked at me.

"Verona Laquiny" How many times have I met today I thought.

"Beautiful name" he continued which fascinated me.

"Your name is good too" I continued.

"Oh yes? Thank you then." He smiled.

"Smile, that way you can cover the sadness you feel" He continued to comfort me.

I smiled at him, he walked with me and took me to a place, where we walked slowly.