18 Top [Part 1]

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Opening his eyes slightly after the sun rays reached his face through the opened window, Farid groaned in a low voice, before he stood up and stretched his body while yawning.

-Tap-

Walking towards the window with a refreshed smile on his face, Farid rested his armpits on the frame of the window and sighed softly after feeling the cold air of the morning.

"Another great day..."

It took a while before Farid stopped doing whatever he was doing, and glanced at the door of his room with a relaxed face.

-Click-

Closing the door behind him, Farid walked across the building at a steady pace, before he finally arrived at the kitchen and looked around to see if there was anyone inside.

'No one awake yet, huh?'

After making sure that there was no one inside, Farid walked toward the refrigerator and began picking up a few ingredients from there while humming a happy melody.

If anyone was indeed awake, it would be very probable that they would have heard several strange noises coming from the kitchen. However, because it was still 5:00 Am, there was no one really awake to notice those noises.

After a few minutes more, Farid came out of the kitchen while holding a big plate filled with scrambled eggs and a little bit of bacon in it.

Leaving the plate at a nearby table, Farid grabbed a chair from near, and soon sat upon it and started digging up his food with a satisfied expression on his face.

"Damn... It was really a good idea to learn how to cook by watching sister Elena do it, this tastes the same as hers! Hmm... Though, now that I think about it, I wonder if I can copy the recipes of all the restaurants in the city, that way, I couldn't need to pay for their food anymore!"

Grinning sinisterly at his sudden idea, Farid continued to eat his food until nothing was left anymore.

-Burp-

Expressing his satisfaction through a burp, Farid stood up from his chair and prepared to go and clean up his plate immediately. However, just as he was about to do it, the sound of someone approaching the kitchen reached his ears and startled him slightly.

'There's someone awake at this hour...?'

Moving his hands skillfully, Farid rapidly moved the plate towards the sink and started cleaning it at an incredible speed. Like a dish-washing God, in the end, the whole process didn't even take him ten seconds before he was already finished cleaning every leftover on the plate.

-Click-

Suddenly, as the door of the kitchen opened, the voice of a woman sounded out of nowhere and reached Farid's ears.

"Farid...?"

Cleaning his hands rapidly, Farid rapidly took a completely "normal" pose, as if implying that he was not doing anything bad, and looked at the person who had just entered the kitchen with an innocent smile.

"Sister Elena, long time no see"

"Farid, we saw each other a few hours ago at dinner. Now, what in the world are you doing here at this hour? Shouldn't you be sleeping right now?" Placing her hands on her waist while doing her best to apparent that she wasn't fainting because of the drowsiness, sister Elena raised an eyebrow and looked at Farid inquisitively.

"I was... Eating something?"

Squinting her eyes at Farid, Elena was about to say something, but suddenly her nose picked up a certain aroma very familiar to her and made her stop in her tracks.

'My special recipe of Eggs and Bacon...?'

Startled, she looked at the table where Farid had been eating just a few minutes ago before she glanced at the dishes that were still a bit humid because they had been washed just now, and widened her eyes.

"Farid, could it be that you know how to cook?"

Hearing her words, Farid visibly winced and retreated a few steps back away from her, his face expressing resignation at that moment.

'Damn, now she will get angry at me because I knew how to cook all along and I still made her cook for me just like all the other orphans...'

Sighing in his mind, Farid prepared himself to be berated at that moment and started praying to the Holy Cow to make his punishment a short one.

However, before Farid was even able to think of anything else, sister Elena suddenly patted his head and started smiling kindly at him, seemingly proud of what she had just heard.

"That's good Farid! It seems like you are starting to grow faster than I expected!"

It was the first time in a while that Farid had seen her smile like that, her expression seemed full of relief and peace as if there was something that had been lifted from her shoulders when she discovered that he knew how to cook.

Kneeling to be at his same height, Elena grabbed his shoulders and looked at him with a delighted expression on her face.

"I was worried because of your condition, and how would you support yourself in the future, Farid. You were bad at class, and you were always fawning over that screen that you see, not paying attention to your surroundings... It made me terrified of what would happen to you once you had to leave this orphanage. However, seeing how much you have grown during the last year, I see that I was worrying over nothing. You even learned how to cook from me without having to ask anything!"

Listening to her words, Farid couldn't help but feel confused. As he looked at her with a bewildered expression, as if not expecting her to say such words out of nowhere.

However, for the first time in a while, Farid felt proud of what he had done until now, and what he had achieved during this past year.

Before it was just a simple gratification of being able to do something he desired... However, seeing sister Elena smiling so kindly at him... It was something that made him feel the best.

She had been like the mother he never had and just knowing that he had made her proud, even if it was because of a minor thing, made Farid smile involuntarily.

Without knowing why, soon a tear came out of his eyes, and he broke up crying in the embrace of sister Elena. Unable to hold his own feelings anymore.

|Later that day...|

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"Hahaha, this place is perfect!"

Standing in front of an abandoned building, Farid grinned happily as he looked at it with satisfied eyes.

The windows of the building were broken, its walls wholly deteriorated, and there were spiderwebs all around the building, but even then, Farid was looking at it as if he was looking at the most beautiful object in the world.

"From now on, this will be my secret base! It cost me a fortune, however, with a small remodeling, this will look epic"

-Creaaaak....-

Opening the door of the building, Farid entered with a calm step, and he began looking around with a happy smile.

This place was...

"A palace worthy of me!"

...An abandoned building

Walking around while glancing at the several places in the building, Farid scratched his chin and closed his eyes seemingly in deep thought. Soon, however, he furrowed his eyebrows as he glanced at the place with a troubled expression.

"Where the heck should I place the 10 bathrooms? It looked far bigger from the outside..."

-Sigh...-

Sighing with a troubled tone, Farid shook his head before he continued examining the place, seemingly pondering what to put on every part.

It was only after a few minutes that he finally stopped doing so, and turned to look at thirty enormous bags that were hidden in a corner of the building under a lot of rubble.

-Tap-

Walking towards the bags with a sinister expression on his face as he rubbed his hands repeatedly, Farid soon reached them and opened them to show their contents to the world.

For some reason, as he did, Farid felt as if the insides of the bags were shining, unable to look at them because of the beautiful and bright sight.

Though, that only lasted for a second, before Farid started grabbing its contents and throwing them to the ceiling with a crazed expression.

"I'm rich, I'm rich, HAHAHAHA!!!"

Hundreds, if not thousands of bellys started being thrown into the air incessantly, as Farid danced around them in ecstasy.

Some of the passersby from outside the building heard his screams, but instead of peeking over to see what in the world he was doing, they preferred to just hurry up their walking to get out of there the quickest possible.

There were many people crazy in the world, and some of them are quite dangerous, after all.

Farid's crazy laugh continued for a few minutes more before he finally stopped and started picking up every belly on the ground and putting them back in the back with a grumpy expression.

"Mental note, never throw the money to the air again... Picking them up is a hassle"

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-To be continued...-

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