Once back home and exhausted, I decided to start cooking something for an earlier lunch than usual. I wanted to log-in just after eating lunch, so we could start the World Quest right away and look for clues about Cloudia and Hephaestus' Forgery.
And as for my daughter, she went directly back to her room, finding Monica playing Kirby. She was a bit surprised and apologized for having used her console without permission, but Elena didn't seem to mind and joined her as a second player, playing as a Metaknight.
I decided to use some of the cold rice that was stored in my fridge from past yesterday, chopped some veggies such as green onions, carrots, tomato, and added few other things such as eggs and made some delicious fried rice.
To accompany it, I decided to take some of the chicken breasts I had bought recently, cut them into thinner pieces, covered them on some flour, eggs, some species, and salt, and then panko, and deep fried them.
Frrsssshh…
The calming sound of the chicken slowly deep frying echoed in the background, I sat down nearby, and started looking at my phone, I had a few messages from my friends and Mark. I also had a ton of notifications from comments, likes, and views in my recent videos… But I ignored them for now, they were tens of thousands!
<Friend: Mark (Boyfriend)>
[Mark]: [Hey, did you bring Elena to the gym like you said you would?]
[Elayne]: [Yep, she did a lot of exercise and ended tremendously exhausted though… She's resting now, playing Kirb with Monica.]
[Mark]: [Oh alright, is Monica fine too? Nothing weird?]
[Elayne]: [We went to the hospital for a bit, to talk with the girls she had hurt due to Dorothea's control over her… It went better than I expected. Things are alright now.]
[Mark]: [Wow, you did that? Well, alright. If things are fine then that's nice. I was thinking on ending my work earlier today so we can log-in in the evening. I think I can get there to have some lunch and then go back to work for an hour or two more.]
[Elayne]: [Sure! I'll be making fried rice with karaage!]
[Mark]: [Oh nice, that sounds good! I love your fried chicken! Now this got me pumped up, I've got a bunch of paperwork here, ugh…]
[Elayne]: [Do your best! Love you <3]
[Mark]: [Love you too, se ya soon <3]
He has always been so cute when we chat on Whatsapp… He's now spamming me with stickers of cute bears sending hearts or hugging.
FRSSSH!
"Uwah! R-Right!"
I quickly took out the small pieces of chicken before they had yet to fry completely, waited until they cooled down a bit more and dropped the rest of the oil, and then placed them inside a plastic ball with soy sauce and some sweet oyster sauce.
This was the way my mother-in-law taught me how to make karaage, and I still do until now. My husband's mother was a lovely Japanese woman. She passed away a year before my husband… It really makes me sad whenever I think about her.
He still have some uncles living here that are alive, it's a big family that I meet many times. There's also obviously his father, a Canadian that lives with them in another side of the countryside. However, I recently heard they moved back to Japan after my husband's passing…
Elena's very loved by them, maybe we should go meet them soon, I want to reconnect more with my family, and even if we're not related by blood, I consider the parents of my husband, the father of my daughter, as my family too…
"And done, now let's fry them a last time…"
placed the still not completely fried chicken back in the oil, until they ended becoming perfectly crunchy, with a nice soy sauce and oyster sauce flavor to it.
As I prepared the last things for lunch, I looked at my phone, Rita had sent me a few messages… This girl's always so chatty.
<Friend: Rita (Bestie)>
[Rita]: [Sup! When are we logging in today? We just had a meal here. My hubby's back to work and my kid's at school. The baby's sleeping after drinking his milk]
I always wonder how Rita can handle her life in that small apartment with a baby, a teenager boy, and her needy husband while always being so cheerful all the time… She's definitely superhuman.
Also her kid is incredibly good-mannered despite her crazy mother's personality. I guess the boy is more like his dad.
[Elayne]: [I'll log in after eating, so maybe in around an hour? You can wait me in there and do stuff yourself too, no need to wait me for everything, Rita…]
[Rita]: [Ehhh? But where's the fun at that though? Well, if my bestie says so… I'll go explore the forest and maybe hunt monsters for fun. Some of my familiars are soon to evolve, hehehe…]
[Elayne]: [Alright~ Have fun.]
[Rita]: [Hey, wait… My hubby has been pretty curious about the game lately. Now that I've been earning a lot from it, he got interested out of the sudden.]
Oh, right, Rita has been earning some revenue I share with her from selling magic items IRL, which she handled to me from her BNLO account, she also has her own channel and is uploading videos, and they're having a lot of views too, perhaps because she's so pretty and charismatic, so she has earned a few thousand bucks lately.
[Elayne]: [It would be fun if he joined! John's a rather mild-mannered man, I remember he used to be such a rude thug before, but he has changed a lot, I would gladly be his friend and stuff!]
[Rita]: [Well he's still got some thug-like features SOMETIMES… but yeah, I've changed him a lot! It's all on the bed, bestie. Anyways, I MIGHT get him a game and the console, if he begs for it and gives me some good sex.]
[Elayne]: [Don't be so mean with him… Also do you have to be so open about it?!]
[Rita]: [Oopsie… I bet you're having some nice sex with that stud of Mark too, right? I've seen you more energetic and youthful than ever before! You're having good sex! I know it!]
[Elayne]: [Stop it! Ugh, so embarrassing…]
This girl's seriously always like this!
