"Awooh!"
Nameless swallowed a piece of tofu in one bite, then immediately looked enraptured.
It tasted tingly and spicy.
It was as if countless little people were dancing in his mouth.
They held forks and kept jabbing at Nameless's taste buds. Some stabbed hard, others gently; some were especially diligent, others especially lazy.
Each jab brought a different degree of heat. Once the heat faded, the tingling came, as though his taste buds had been hollowed out.
Several minutes later, Nameless opened his eyes and smiled. "I didn't expect Tofu Star's tofu to be so delicious. If I used it as an ingredient and cooked it again, I wonder if I could make something even tastier?"
"Human?" A guileless voice sounded nearby.
Nameless looked toward it. A panda was slowly approaching. It was enormous, and compared with ordinary pandas, it looked more like a polar bear that had been dyed.
"Are you a mutated polar bear?" Nameless asked uncertainly.
The panda roared in anger. "I'm a panda! A panda! A genuine panda!"
"Oh, sorry. You just look too much like a polar bear," Nameless apologized without a trace of remorse.
He could hardly be blamed for thinking the creature in front of him didn't look like a panda. Anyone else would probably have thought the same.
The panda sat on the tofu not far from Nameless and asked, "Weren't humans wiped out by the Food God? Or are you a monkey that looks a lot like a human?"
"Sorry, but I am human," Nameless said, again without a trace of remorse.
The panda pulled out a pack of cigarettes, opened it, and took one out. "Want one? It's a lollipop."
"A lollipop?" Nameless took it, puzzled, and found that it really was one.
He put the cigarette-shaped lollipop in his