DINNER

12. Chapter 12: Dinner

Leaving the guild, I visited the market to buy groceries I would prepare for dinner tonight.

My choice stopped at a shop that had just left a buyer, and he provided a variety of meat of the highest quality.

"Please buy 5kg."

"Fine, that's 5 silver coins."

I gave the requested amount of money for good quality meat. I was reluctant to bargain. Not only meat, but I also had to buy some vegetables and other supporting spices.

After everything, I went back to the shop. Even though it is called the shop, this place is also our home, and the lower floor is for buying and selling transactions, while the second floor is our resting place.

The bathroom and kitchen are included.

It looked like Miss Heliet had come home. I checked her to the second floor and found her sleeping in my room.

This girl doesn't have any rules, just showing her thighs in front of a young man like me. I pulled the blanket to cover her entire body.

My teacher looks like an ordinary adult woman with a beautiful face and unpredictable personality. Usually, she will show a smile at me. Even so, it feels like there is something she always hides from me, even sometimes I often find her sleeping face in pain due to nightmares, as she is showing now.

I stroked her soft black hair before closing the bedroom door. Like me, maybe teachers also have painful times. I lost both my parents in an accident, and my aunt and uncle took all my parents' money and threw me into an orphanage.

There I lived alone when the other children went for adoption until one day when I was 10 years old, and I decided to leave the orphanage. I lived several months on the streets, often starving or being beaten by thugs.

Just when I thought I was going to die, a girl my age was standing in front of me while pointing a wooden sword at the thugs, and she easily overpowered them and then stretched out her hand towards me.

"Come with me… you must not have a home right."

"Who are you?"

"My name is..."

Many things happened in the past, but I chose to forget them and focus on living my life now.

I started to put each ingredient on the table and then processed them one by one. Today I decided to make a simple potato meat soup that didn't take too long.

Miss Heliet appeared in her nightgown, yawned widely, and sat down with one cheek against the table.

"Welcome Aksa, it smells very good."

"Wash your face before eating."

"Fine."

After she did, she sat back down in her chair. I started putting the various dishes I had made on the table. I filled a small bowl with rice and thrust it with disposable chopsticks.

"There are a lot of sales in the market because of that, I buy a lot of groceries."

"I see, everything looks good. Enjoy your meal."

I picked up the vegetables with my chopsticks and put them in the bowl.

"Eat the vegetables too."

Miss Heliet flashed a faint smile at me.

"What is it?"

"If someone were to ask who the person I love is? I would say that my disciple Aksa is the one."

"Don't say weird things, finish your food quickly."

"What do you think of me?"

"I respect you as a teacher as well as my older sister."

"That's all, I thought you also considered me a mother and lover."

I just smiled wryly in response.

If my mother already has someone I consider like that, for a lover, I'd better think about it again.