I Am Tired Of Being A Hero-Chapter 216: Breakfast chat

"Five languages?" Ravi widened his eyes as he looked at Asher who was sitting on the kitchen table swinging his legs. There was a laptop in front of him. It turns out that when the school claimed that they would provide resources, they had not been joking.

He was sure that his laptop could not buy even the charger of the powerhouse system in front of him.

Asher nodded, "Many of my classmates already know two or three but I just know one." A disgruntled expression appeared on his face and Ravi knew who he was going to talk about next, "Elene knows how to speak all five languages. She was grinning at me during the entire class."

"Didn’t you say that you had a pop quiz for biology and you passed everyone? You win one, you lose one. Seems fair."

That seemed to have sparked Asher, "But she knows more Math. During the lesson, she kept raising her hand and the teacher ignored my hand...Ravi, are you laughing? Stop laughing."

Ravi tried his best but he could not really control himself. He covered his mouth and patted Asher’s head, "No pressure. You are there to learn. Isn’t the result at the end of the term the one that matters?"

Ash widened his eyes and then nodded, "You are right. I am going to surpass her in every subject."

That was not what he said. He had returned home quite late from the case so he had not had much time to talk to Asher who had a pile of homework to do last night. Ravi had entered the kitchen to meal prep for breakfast this morning.

He planned on making soup dumplings. Soup dumplings were a little more tricky than fried dumplings, one needed to pay good attention or the skin would rupture. Making the dough, raising the dough, kneading the dough. Maybe he took his frustration out on the dough for the kneading part.

When he left work that evening, Arlen was still here. He claimed he would work a little then go home but Ravi did not believe those words. He should not place his lack of empathy on Arlen, after all the way he cared so wholeheartedly was one of the main reasons he loved him, Arlen was the kindest and warmest person Ravi knew but when he recalled just how he had jumped into the fire to save that woman, he could still recall that terror.

That fear had never felt anything like that. Even the memory made his fingers tremble. And that woman had been a villain, compared to the picture this new victim drew, he had a terrible feeling that Arlen might even be more reckless in solving this new case.

He had focused his entire mind on the soup dumpling. Every process must be carefully attended to. The stuffing should be the same with the right fat ratio. The ginger and green onions should be chopped finely. He worked for hours last night until he could feel his mind calming down.

This morning, all Ravi needed to do was to steam the dumplings. He placed some in the bowl and passed it to Asher who shifted his laptop to have his breakfast.

The dumplings were small, exquisite with translucent skin that was so thin one could see the meat and the jiggling soup inside.

"It is hot so be careful."

Asher nodded and he packed a dumpling with his chopsticks. As he clamped it, the soup inside swayed as if it would burst in the next second. Knowing that the dumpling was still hot, he ate it carefully.

As he ate, Ravi started preparing lunch. It was still 6;15 a.m. and he had all the time in the world.

"Spo have you made any friends?"

Asher paused eating to drink some fruit juice and shook his head, "Not quite. A lot of people want to talk to me but I think it is only because I am The No 1 ranked student. They want to be friends with the No. 1 ranked student and not me." He looked at Ravi’s worried gaze and corrected himself, "It is not like I think I am not worth being friends with, it is just that they didn’t know me yet. So I will take my time before I make any new friends."

Ravi nodded at him, "You are amazing." He still said, the boy awed him with how strong he was.

Asher smiled, "This is the 20th time you are saying it. I know."

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Asher laughed.

Ravi smiled at him and focused on the ingredients in front of him, he diced the mushrooms and the vegetables, some red radish, some carrots, and some green beans, he added a cup of corm and stirred them with some diced beef.

Rice that had just been steamed was too soft to stick to a ball when it was fried, overnight rice was the best to use for any kind of stir fry rice.

The vegetables danced in the air as he flipped the work. They looked very colourful, and enticing to it. After constantly flipping, the rice began to warm up. Ravi opened his curry sauce jar and added two spoonfuls of the dark spicy sauce to the meat.

Making the curry beef fried rice did not take more than twenty minutes and by the time Asher started washing his plate in the sink, Ravi was done.

He took out two lunch boxes and added the rice into them before he started frying the eggs. He added some oil to the frying pan before adding the eggs, He stirred them quickly with his chopsticks rather than a fork, when the bottom of the egg was just right, he raised the handle to tilt the pan before using the spatula to shift the egg to one side, shaking the pan so the egg would not stick and watching the egg form into an egg hill.

When it was almost done, he divided the egg into two, lowering it into the lunch box and adding a teaspoon of the sauce to finish it. He covered the bowl and placed it in two different bags.

He heated the thermos and ladled some soup dumplings before putting it in the bag.

"Ash, do you still have those strawberry smoothies? Can I take one?" Ravi asked as he looked through the rows of smoothies for the clear red one.

Ash dried the plate and kept it in the rack.

"It is behind the fermented vegetables. I don’t trust Sage." He said as his excuse for hiding it.

Ravi chuckled, he placed the smoothie and closed the bag before taking a bowl to scoop some breakfast for himself.

"It is 6:35..."

"Shoot! I have to go and wake Lana up." Asher sprinted to the other house as Ravi carried his bowl to the living room, switching on the television.

He wondered what Arlen was doing now, he was hoping that the other person did not sleep in the station.