Next Zick spent his time trying to make Varine change her decision. Seeing it getting nowhere, he could only 'give up' and eat the food on the dining table.
He also ordered Varine to eat looking at her gawking wordlessly at him.
'The matter of Varine is taken care of, I just have to destroy the evidence which led her to find her parent's whereabouts later on.' Zick ate with a single hand, with a spoon, not caring about ethics in the least.
There were many kinds of dishes made of meat that Zick had never tasted. The beef was also especially juicy letting Zick enjoy his first dinner in a long time.
No one noticed but even now Zick was training in mana nonstop.
'By doing this I should be able to become a peak rank knight in three months.' Zick immediately cut a month from his initial estimation of four months.