"Dinner's served!"
"This is steamed king crab..."
"And this plate is spicy salmon!"
"And..."
"Rich, fragrant petal soup!"
"Honored guests, please enjoy!"
The feast in the palace continued, while the round, plump Pandaren maids kept bringing all sorts of delicious dishes to the guests, both big and small, in the dining room. They seemed intent on using wonderful food to dispel all the "bloodlust" the guests had been building up before the meal.
Unfortunately, their efforts were doomed to be in vain...
Because as soon as the maids had served the food and left, the girls of all sizes sitting on either side of the table—who had just been looking around with anticipation and curiosity—immediately changed their tune. They all fixed the people across from them with wary, unfriendly looks.
Then...
"Hmph!"
"What are you looking at? The king crab is ours!"
"Damn it!"
"Then you can forget about eating this salmon!"
Sure enough, the moment Kuroko Shirai used her spatial movement ability to snatch the entire platter of steamed king crab, Luvia very rudely joined Illya in standing on their chairs and hauling the plate of spicy salmon over in front of them.
Not to be outdone, Mikoto Misaka grabbed the huge bowl of rich petal soup, which no one had claimed yet, and hauled it over to the table in front of herself and Index.
"!!"
"Hey!"
"Can the three of you even finish that whole bowl of soup?!"
"No problem!"
"If we can't finish it, we'll take it home and have it as a late-night snack!"
"You...!"
"What about me?"
"Hmph!!"
"Go ahead! Drink up! I hope you drink so much you wet the bed tonight!"
And so, after a few more arguments, the two sides once again faced each other across the long table in tense