Number One Chef in the Intergalactic Era

Time passed by and in the blink of an eye, two weeks passed since Ann came here. Yes, now Ann knows that she has crossed over not only to a different body, in a different country or in a different world but completely to a different galaxy! This world is full of technology, where different species co-exist with humans. With new species and new races, this world seems like the updated version of her former world. This information shocked her so much that she stared at her brothers for half an hour. Her brothers at that time became anxious seeing her staring blankly at them. So she was forced to come back to her senses and gulp the information down with the tasteless nutrition liquid. But the thing that hit her severely was, people of this era don’t eat food! Can you believe it? They drink nutrition liquid or nutrition pills every time they get hungry or need to gain energy. None of the people of this era has ever tasted the amazing heavenly taste of food.

Ann couldn’t acknowledge it. She, as a chef, could never acknowledge the fact that they don’t eat food. Which means she can’t eat food anymore either! But what a shame, after coming to this world, Ann didn’t see any ingredients related to food let alone eat food, which made her fall into a depressed state.


How long do I have to stay without food?


“What’s wrong sweetheart?”


Blake asks when he sees his sister’s downcast mood. After waking up from that accident, his sister will always smile at them, act well behaved and ask questions curiously with her limited vocabulary. But everytime a dark cloud will be shown upon her face whenever it’s time to drink nutrition liquid. To avoid her mood from falling heaven to hell, they tried different artificial flavours in her nutrition liquid but to no avail. She would look sad every time she had to drink it, as if drinking it was a serious punishment for her. Blake could understand why she’s so listless but there’s nothing he can do.


“Is it the liquid again?”


Blake asks while rubbing the small of her back. Something flashes in his head like a lightbulb and he opens his mouth with a wide smile.


“Do you want to try a different flavour today? I’ve chocolate, strawberry and blueberry flavours. Which one would you like?”


“I don’t want any.”



Bella replies in a sad tone. She doesn’t want any flavoured drinks. What she wants is food. After coming here, cooking is the only thing she misses terribly.


Blake shows a worried expression at her answer. His sister is becoming more and more picky day by day. He doesn’t have the heart to scold his precious sister, so he tries to coax her using the things she may like.

Suddenly, Ann grabs his hand with an excited face. Blake becomes startled at the sudden contact and at the expression of her face.

“What’s wrong?”

Blake raises his brows and asks. The expression on her face is very different from her normal expression. He has seen her making many expressions on her face after waking up but it’s his first time seeing his sister so excited. As she has found something that she lost. Her eyes looking at him are sparkling like diamonds. Blake starts to think if he will go blind by the brightness of his sister’s eyes.


“B-Bella, what happened? Why are you looking at me like this?”

“Brother Blake.”

Ann takes a deep breath and calls her brother seriously before asking.

“Did you say flavours?”

“Y-yes?”

Blake becomes a little confused at her sudden question. It takes him some time to realise that she is talking about the flavours he was talking about just now.

“Oh, you mean chocolate-“

“You have chocolate, strawberry and blueberry flavours!”

Ann cuts him off before he could finish his sentence. Blake becomes puzzled at her questioning. The flavoured nutrition liquid he said was bought by him from a very expensive nutrition liquid shop in the city. One of his friends recommended the shop to him saying that the shop makes excellent nutrition liquid, especially for children. So he bought a few flavoured drinks thinking about his sister. He thought of giving it to her if she refuses to drink ordinary nutrition liquid. He didn’t know it will come in handy and begins to boast about it.


“Yes, I’ve bought a lot of flavoured nutrition liquid. There’s a famous pill making shop in the city which makes excellent nutrition liquid and pills. If you like it, I can bring more for you.”


Ann’s eyes lit up when she heard of the flavoured drinks. If there’s a shop that makes flavoured drinks, doesn’t it mean she can eat food? Even if the shop doesn’t sell food, she can buy ingredients from the shop and make the dishes on her own. Thinking like this, she asks Blake with excitement.


“Does that shop sell any strawberries and chocolates?”


“Strawberries and chocolate? You mean the flavours?”

“No.” Ann shakes her head before continuing, “I mean the fruit strawberry or cocoa or blueberry from which the flavours are made from. They can’t just make the flavour without the extract of fruits, right? I want to know if they sell any fruit.”


“Bella, those are artificial flavours. Why would they need real fruit to make flavours?”


Blake says with a helpless expression. His sister is really silly. Which year are they in now? Fruits have long been extinct from the planet. Even if there are some fruit trees, those fruits aren’t edible. They are either for experimenting or making medicine. He can’t understand where his sister heard about fruits from, but he’s sure she has heard the wrong thing. As a brother, it’s his responsibility to let her know the right information.


“Bella, there are no fruit plants on our planet.”


“That mean the flavours are completely artificial?”


“Yes, Bella. The flavours are made from different kinds of chemicals. But they aren’t harmful for the body so it’s okay to drink them.”

Bella feels like the little bit of hope in her heart dying down instantly hearing Blake’s answer. All her enthusiasm goes down the drain. She feels life is a waste, without food nothing is meaningful.


“Bella, why do you look down again?”


Blake asks gently seeing her mood dying down again. Ann shakes her head and replies listlessly.

“Nothing. I just wanted to eat some fruits.”


“Oh.” Blake nods before pausing, “What fruit?”


“Any kind of fruit is okay. Can you buy one for me, Brother?”


Bella asks cautiously. Since her brother said fruit has extinct, it means it will be hard to find fruit let alone buy them. But she still wants to eat them. Even if they are expensive.


“Of course.”


Blake’s eyes softens at her cautious attitude as he replies with a smile. He doesn’t know from where he can buy fruits from, but he can do anything to see his sister smile again. Even if he have to exchange all his fortune, he is willing to buy one piece of fruits for her.


“Thank you, Brother.”


“Anything for my sweet little sister.”


Blake says while kissing her on the cheek. Ann awkwardly smiles but doesn’t push him away like before, which makes in turn Blake hugging her.


“I will bring fruits for you but you have to promise me that you will drink your nutrition liquid regularly from now on.”

Blake says after hugging her to his heart content. Ann pouts at his words and says while raising her chin.


“I’m very obedient. Did I ever make any fuss?”

Blake can’t help but hug his sister looking so adorable with a proud face and kiss her on the cheek again. He’s glad that she isn’t pushing him away as she used to a week before. Thinking how much she improved in the previous week, he rubs her head affectionately while praising her.


“Of course. My sister is the prettiest, cutest, smartest and most obedient child in whole world.”


I’m not a child but whatever.


Ann rolls her eyes secretly. She is tired from refusing her brothers’ continuous affection. Their faces upon her refusal look so heartbreaking that she felt like she committed a sin by refusing them. She is guilty for occupying their sister’s body, seeing them like that makes her even more guilty. So she stopped refusing their kisses and hugs and tries to stop herself from cringing hard. Nevertheless, she is happy for having such loving brothers. Ann sighs, thinking while being hugged by her brother.


The things I do for eating food again.