God of Crime: Strongest Mafia Boss
Chapter 445 - 445: CH 431: BELIEVE IN ME

Adam and Natasha were seated at the very center of the dilapidated yet clean restaurant, giving them a perfect view of Ahmadou's work in his kitchen.

One thing worth noticing in this situation was that despite watching him cooking at such a short distance, Adam could not really smell a single thing. It felt like he was watching a very realistic scene on a good quality TV or a VR image in front of him, which didn't make sense as Ahmadou really was in front of him.

"One of the most important senses when eating is actually the sense of smell. Since I have many clients who have very developed nasal senses, I installed this system to make the experience better for them. Think of it like a surprise but for the nose not for the eyes."

As if he could already guess what he was thinking, Ahmadou spoke indifferently as he arranged his utensils and took out different ingredients from the box prepared next to him.

The kitchen had a sort of U shape, one of the most useful and efficient when it came to professional cooking.

Once he seemed ready, Ahmadou closed his eyes and breathed in deeply, "Let's pray for the souls of the animals that were sacrificed in order for us to eat."

He did not gaze at Adam as he placed his hands together and made a short prayer for the departed animals before continuing his work, "Let's thank Mother Earth and the farmers who worked tirelessly to bring us the vegetables that will be used for the dish I am about to create."

He made a second short prayer before washing his hands and finally… It was time for him to start working on his dishes.

'Impressive.'

Adam whistled inwardly as he watched Ahamdou cook. The way he moved, the silence in the kitchen as all instruments were moved with such precision that they emitted basically no sounds whatsoever was a true sight to behold.

This wasn't just cooking any longer, this was literally a work of art. A veritable presentation and display of someone's unmatched skills.

But it didn't just stop there.

'He is adding his Prana into the cooking.'

The meat was cut with a special knife covered in his aura; Adam used his [Eyes of Truth] to identify the different ingredients but whatever he looked at, they seemed to be some legendary things or at least things with a lot of lore added to them.

Meats of a moonlight cow, sacred ginseng, and tomatoes that were created with holy water. Ingredients after ingredients that seemed to be of mightly impressive proportions followed along, making even the impassive Adam salivate a little at the display.

Those ingredients weren't just impressive, they were also proof of the hard life Ahmadou had lived.

Natasha watched all this as well with clear respect in her eyes. It was impressive how simple humans, because of their dreams and aspirations, managed to grow so fast and reach such great heights.

This also reminded her of all the things people, with less than she had, managed to accomplish even when they were facing guaranteed despair with no hopes of success in sight.

Natasha's fists tightened into balls. It was too soon to give up on her life. She still had many things to do and she wasn't without chances. All she needed to do was to fight on and keep fighting until she won.

Her hand naturally found Adam's and the two of them gazed at each other from across the table.

In many ways, her current situation was due to Adam. If he had not been here, she might have been kidnapped back then and become nothing but a breeding tool for people who wished to simply use her to meet their goals, a means to an end, and nothing more.

"Thank you for coming into my life."

They clasped hands quietly as she expressed her gratitude and Adam smiled,

"It's still too soon to say thanks."

She grinned at him and he smirked in return,

"Indeed. it's too soon. I still want to bother Sae. It wouldn't be fun if I died too fast."

"You two are very weird friends. It would be good if you were a little more honest with your feelings."

"Oh, we are. This is exactly why we fight every time."

She chuckled and looked out the window. From there, she could see the waves slowly taking a scarlet color and shifting toward a night blue.

"Pfft!"

Adam chuckled when thinking about the diminutive Sae and the tall Natasha fighting back and forth. One was like a cute dog and the other a luxurious cat.

"Thinking about it, how did the two of you become friends in the first place?"

"Honestly? I don't even remember anymore. This is the kind of thing that happened naturally over time."

Natasha smiled as he thought of her relationship with Sae. There wasn't some grand origin story about their friendship but it was a story of their own.

"The same happened with you and Alberto. We just became close because we were the highest-ranked students. Then we slowly learned to know each other and before we knew it we were close enough to insult each other without any problems."

This was a simple and normal friendship, without any grand twist to it but Natasha would never change it for anything else.

"Though I would have never imagined that the two of us would become so close to you."

She gave him a meaningful look and Adam was forced to cough to hide the awkwardness he felt from that look of hers.

"Trust me. I never imagined our relationship would evolve like this as well."

They shared another quiet laugh and continued to talk and have fun while waiting for the food to arrive.

The relationship between them was something worthy of a Drama.

Fighting together back to back, facing adversity, growing up and so much more.

It wasn't easy by any means but they were able to somehow get through.

"I guess if this was a drama, I would be the princess waiting for my knight in shining armor to come save me from the fearful Dragon."

"Only in this case, the princess doesn't lead a Kingdom but a Criminal mafia and

the Dragon is a giant wolf God killer and the Knight is a criminal."

"Pfft! They are simply small details that can be easily ignored. Or you know, as they say, classics are made to be changed."

"I think this kind of change is a little too avant-gardist."

"Heh. We will have to see for ourselves."

Adam took Natasha's hands in his and gazed at her beautiful eyes.

He could see the worries hidden in her mind, worries that she veiled behind that beautiful smile of hers.

He knew that she wasn't alright. That she was afraid and was even anticipating her death.

This was why,

"Believe in me and believe in yourself. I can swear that I will do all in my power to protect you and I will even go into the deepest part of Hell to recuperate your soul if necessary."

"Why hell and not Heaven?"

"I don't think a naughty girl like you can go to Heaven though."

Adam knew that she was just changing the topic here and decided to play along with her.

Like this, they continued to chat while waiting for their divine meal.