"Nom... nom... nom nom..."
Beside a pristine round table laden with steaming, fragrant dishes, Astrea held a plate of sliced meat in one hand and a forkful of spaghetti in the other. She alternated between biting left and right, her breathtakingly beautiful face puffed up with food and brimming with happiness.
"Clink..."
Natsuoto, wearing a somewhat incredulous expression, gathered up the clean plates one by one and set them aside.
On the other side, Ikaros was doing the same thing. However, she still wore that pitiful expression, without the slightest hint of surprise.
Before long, the plates on either side of Astrea had formed towering stacks, and they were still growing taller.
Already, they had piled up to at least twenty centimeters high!
Nagisa was completely dumbfounded.
Natsuki looked as though she had already become full just from watching. Her pair of azure eyes stared straight at Astrea, who was happily eating away, as she let out a faint sigh. The other students dining in the cafeteria had also turned their blank faces toward them, their mouths hanging wide open and their jaws nearly dropping to the floor.
What was even more amusing was that some of the Automatons who could eat and had accompanied their masters apparently thought their masters liked what they were seeing. They imitated Astrea and began stuffing themselves as well.
As a result, before long, they had all collapsed onto the dining tables, unable to get back up...
A deathly silence steadily spread throughout the cafeteria, making the atmosphere increasingly strange.
Even the cafeteria staff and the chefs in the kitchen had abandoned their work. They gathered in the distance, staring at Astrea as she filled her stomach like a bottomless pit, looking at one another in disbelief.
They were surely wondering how such a