21 - Dinner

"Oh, there's something I forgot to mention to you." Remy looked at me as we got off the bus at his home bus stop after class.

"Oh, what?" I asked curious.

"My father is the current leader of the Thieves Guild." He said it while adjusting the backpack.

"That's an important fact." I answered. If Remy fought so well and was so well-trained, his father would probably be a monster in that business.

Unlike the way to my house, on the way to his house no giant wolf came towards us to disturb everything. When I got there, I saw a house very much like mine, two floors and with a big open field.

"Dad"? We're here." He said as we walked in.

"Hey, you must be John, right? Remy told me a lot about you." A man with long hair thrown back and a goatee on his face smiled at me as he dried his hand with a cloth and extended it to me.

"Hello, Mr. Jean, it's a pleasure to meet you." I say as I shake his hand that he extended.

"How polite of you, Remy, take him to put his backpack in his room and come into the kitchen. I'm finishing cooking lunch." He said as he went back to the kitchen.

I followed Remy to his room and not surprisingly, it was a very simple room, with the only difference being the huge amount of cardboard boxes that he left as decoration.

"Lady of hearts, huh." I said as I turned to his desk and saw a collection of checkers only.

"The best letter, beyond a shadow of a doubt." He said after he put our backpacks in a corner.

As we descended into the kitchen, we saw Mr. Jean put the plates on the table while two pots were still closed.

"The Lord needs help?" I asked as I looked in the kitchen and tried to find something that seemed to wait to come to the table. That surprised me, since the kitchen was completely tidy, which was not to be expected, since he was cooking and usually this process dirty some utensils.

"Don't worry, I've got everything you'll need." He said as he went out into the kitchen and took just a bag of straw potatoes and poured it into a small glass pot. "During that last job I did in Russia, I learned how to make that dish."

With both hands he lifted the two pot lids. One revealing a white rice and another revealing an orange sauce with some pieces of meat. This was a very different food from what I was used to, even for what I have tasted here.

At home my parents like to eat a lot of food with egg, so seeing a meal without egg is a bit of a novelty for me, a novelty that I will accept very well.

"The name of this dish is 'Strogonoff', where I cook the white rice with a little oil and garlic and in our dish we mix it with the cream sauce and the beef cubes. Finally, some people recommended me to add some straw potatoes, which for me, made it taste even better". Jean said with a satisfied look as he looked at the pots with bright eyes.

"Sounds delicious, Dad." Remy showed a slight interest as he picked up the spoon to serve himself.

My super sense of smell made me smell even more pleasantly, forcing me to swallow some saliva that was beginning to be produced in excess in my mouth.

The taste I felt when I put the cream sauce in my mouth was something sensational. Along with the crunchiness of the straw potato which completely complemented the taste of the dish, I could not resist and had to praise. "I can say for sure, that's one of the tastiest dishes I've ever tasted even with simplicity."

Hearing my praise, Mr. Jean opened an obvious smile on his face and answered me. "I'm glad you like it, John. I've done a lot, so eat till you're satisfied."

Seeing this man act and talk like this, if I didn't know that he was the current Leader of the Thieves Guild I would never have been able to imagine this possibility.

When we finished eating, Jean brought us some jelly and while we were eating his tone got a little more serious. "Boys, you've been making a little noise lately."

He was probably talking about our "acts of heroism." 

"You know what Scientists Guild is doing is very wrong." Remy told his father with a serious tone too while he put a piece of jelly in his mouth.

"What we do is also wrong." Jean said in a calm tone. But from his voice I could feel I didn't disagree with Remy.

"You know it's different, Dad. We just steal, they kidnap, torture and experiment on people." Remy responded with his tone of voice a little loud.

Jean ignored what Remy said and turned to me. "And you John, what do you think of that?"

I knew very little about things here, and honestly, I knew I wasn't a god. The world has always been full of hypocrisy, that I learned very well before coming from Krypton, so I wasn't ashamed of the possibility I thought, "Tell me, who was your last target in Russia?

"I could kill you for asking a question like that." He kept eating the jelly like nothing was happening.

"And I could ignore the question you asked me and not give you any answers." I told him while I took a piece of my Jell-O and took it to my mouth.

"A diamond, from a casino owner." He answered as he stared at me.

"Well, if you compare the last 10 jobs you've had with this one in Russia, how different were they?" I asked as I noticed his eyebrow rising.

"Equal in target and value." He answered a little surprised.

"That's what I imagined. Remy told me he was once part of the Thieves Guild, his attitude is not that someone would kidnap children to treat them like guinea pigs to test his there what". I said as I finished my Jell-O and remembered a story my parents had told me. "You asked me what I think, I think trying to compare you with them is like comparing Robin Hood to that guy we were studying at school... what's his name again Remy? From Germany."

Remy looked at me surprised and answered. "Hitler?"

"Yes, Hitler. It's like comparing you to Robin Hood and them to Hitler, but you're not so puritanical when it comes to goal, nor are you so monstrous when it comes to proportions. I think it's clear what my opinion is on both sides." I finished my answer while putting some more of the gelatin in my pot, the strawberry taste was delicious, I'm sure Krypto would love it.

"Hahaha, Robin Hood and Hitler? That's the first time I've heard that comparison." Jean really started laughing. "So you mean they're evil and we're good?"

"No, they're both criminals. But if I need to ignore one, I don't need to think twice about the answer while I plan to destroy the other." I answered.

"Okay, but other than us, you're being watched by other people." Jean said while he was eating his Jell-O back.

"By whom?" Remy asked worried.

"THE SHIELD." Jean said with a serious look.

<<Author Note: I got an aditor, this poor grammar will end soon guys!>>