Chapter 12 Bathroom

            The next morning, I woke up, and got up from my bed..I left my room, and walked downstairs..At the downstairs, I noticed, Chis was sleeping at the back with two big pillows: one for her head and one for her cuddle…I walked toward the entrance door, opened it, and saw a morning view, from above the sky…I did some small morning stretching on the balcony..

I came back inside, went to my room, took my toiletries and my towel. Because this was my home, the bathroom was used to take a bath for me, beside used for the customers…I went back downstairs, and straight into the bathroom in the back…I took a bath…

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After taking a bath and changing my clothes, I went to the kitchen and made my own breakfast…I checked the inventory system to see if the ingredients were there: rice, bay leaves, chicken broth, candlenuts, turmeric, orange leaves, garlic, red onion, and chicken…All the ingredients were in the inventory, I took all of that…now I wanted to make chicken porridge.

While I was making it, I sensed there was someone watching me, I looked at it, and it was Chis…She already woke up…She walked toward me, and beside me, she asked,

"What do you make?"

"Not your business…"

She kept looking at me in different positions, until she noticed the oven, the small one…She pointed at it, and asked,

"What is that??"
"Oven…" I answered…

She took a look closer in front of it, and said, "Oven?? What the hell is that…"

"It used to heat food, ingredients, or meals…"

I looked at her, and she tried to open the oven while my candlenuts were still there, immediately said,

"DON’T OPEN IT!!"

"Why??"

"Because I am still using it, you can look inside of that glass.."
She took a look at it, and noticed there was something inside of it, "Like you said, there is something inside of it; what are you heating?"

"Candlenuts…"

"Candle-nuts...candle...nuts...candle...nuts..." she said, puzzled. She rushed at me, and her face was in front of me, she asked, "Are candles made of those nuts??"

I asked her, "What candles are you talking about?"
She used her hands to describe the candle, "Their color is sometimes yellow, white, and brown, sometimes they are longer or big or small. Come on! You know it, it's a candle…Are candles made of those nuts?"
There should be a candle in my inventory system; I checked it, found it, and brought it into my hand. I answered her, "Firstly, is this candle that you are talking about?"
She nodded…

"Those nuts are not the ingredient to make this candle; this candle is made from animal fat or tallow…"

"Animal fat????? So why are those nuts named candlenuts?"
"Because it used to be cand…le…

"Aha! That means, candles made from those nuts…"

"What I said it used to be candle, it doesn’t mean, those nuts are the main ingredients of candle…before candles existed, those nuts already existed because the nuts are easily burned and have a high oil content that makes them burn like candles. so that’s why those nuts are named candlenuts..."

"I don’t know there are some nuts like that…"

"Yes, there are; now, could you please not bother me?"

"Sure…but, there must be mine right?"

"Yeah…yeah…"

Some cooking segments later…

I brought the chicken porridge to the Chis…

"What is this??"
"Chicken Porridge…"

"What is the white one?"

"That’s the rice…"
"What is rice?"
Goddamn it, it started the thousands of questions, I said, "You want it or not?"
"Of course, I want it, it's just that I want to know about this, you call it food."

"Okay then, so you don’t want it…" I took her bowl out of her…

"Give me that!!!" She begged me to give back the bowl..

I gave her back the bowl, and we started to eat the chicken porridge…She ate like she hadn’t eaten for a week..After a few minutes later, we finished eating…I took her bowl and mine, brought them to the sink…While I was walking toward the back of the kitchen, Chis said in front of the counter,

"Your scent is different than yesterday…"

I asked, "My scent??" I put the bowls in the sink.

"Yeah…your clothes and your body smell are different…"

I came back from the kitchen, and walked toward the counter. I said, "Ah!! I have taken a bath, so the scent you are talking about may be that…"

Her eyes were sparkling, her face showed some happiness, and she said, "There is a bath in here? And you just soaked in there…"

"Yes, there is a bath here, but soak? I don’t think so.."
She asked, "What do you mean by that??"

"You want to see the bathroom? Maybe it will change your mind about soaking.."

I led her to the bathroom…in the bathroom, she was surprised...

"What the hell is that?" She said,

"It is a bath…"

"That small thing is a bath; how the hell do you soak in there?"

"I was not soaking in there…"

"And why did you say you had taken a bath when you were not in the bath?"
Good question. I remembered my English teacher talking about the difference between taking a bath and taking a shower. For my people, we used to take a bath, but we didn’t soak in the bath, Like Chis asked, why did we say take a bath, when we weren't in the bath?

I pointed at a dipper, I said, "I used that…"

She looked at it, asked "Again what is that??"

I walked to the dipper, and demonstrated how to use it, "It’s used to scoop the water for you……so the water will be all over you…"

"But I want to soak in the bath…"

"Well you can soak in there, if you bend your legs…"

Her eyes went somewhere, and she said "Forget about the bath, there is a strange thing beside this bathroom…"

"Strange thing??" I asked..

She grabbed my arm, and brought me to a room beside the bathroom, said "That!" She pointed at the flush toilet…

I said, "That’s a toilet…Flush Toilet especially…"

"You separate the toilet with the bathroom…"

"Sort of…"

She went inside the toilet room, and her eyes went everywhere, she turned back at me and said, "Where is the water?? Or something else??"
"The water?? For??"

"You know to clean yourself…"

"If you use water to clean yourself, there is a sort of shower beside it…

She took it beside the toilet, showed it to me, and said, "You mean this??"

"Yes, how about you push the different color side of that.."

She pointed at it, and asked, "You mean this side?"

"Yes, push it…"

Immediately she pushed it, and the water came out, at once she threw it…Her clothes were wet…She looked at me fiercely and said "YOU TRICKED ME!!"

"Well, now you know what is the purpose of that…and to flush, you can push something above that…"

She saw it, but eager not to push it, she said, "I don’t want to get tricked again…how about you show me…"

"Sure sure…" I went inside, and pushed the flush, immediately the toilet flushed with water, I said, "There, it flushed…and there is a soap over there, if you need it…"

"You surely have a weird thing…"

It would be more weird if you had a Japanese toilet, a talking toilet, heat seats, and many more..

I said, "Now you want to take a bath or not??"

"Surely I am…"

"How about your clothes??? Do you have any more clothes than that??"

"I can use magic for these clothes, so you don’t need to worry about it…"

"Okay then…I will go back to the counter…"

I walked out from there, and toward the counter, left Chis.

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At the counter, because there were no customers, I tried to use my smartphone…and the network was working, somehow, my smartphone could connect to the internet…but with restrictions, it couldn’t connect with social media networks, so I couldn’t tell someone or watch someone on the internet…I could still search for something else with this smartphone…

While I was looking at my smartphone, the sound of the door opening could be heard…I turned down my smartphone, and looked at the door…It was HUMANS…finally humans…or some demon or other creatures whose appearance was perfect as a human, with just a small minority of their ears. It was four people who came inside the cafe…Their eyes went everywhere, like those creatures who visited earlier…

I greeted them, "WELCOME!!"

They were surprised…I looked at their appearances; it was sort of like a party game: there was a man sort of knight with heavy armor; there was a woman priest with the nun clothes; there was a woman magician with a magician appearance; and……Was jester part of the adventure party?

The priest came toward me, and asked "What is this place??"

"This is a cafe, or shop, or whatever you want to call it…It’s a coffee shop…"

The magician asked, "What is this cofiii you talking about?"

I pointed at the jar of beans, and said "You can see those jars, those are coffee beans, so coffee is a drink made from those beans…"

They went to the jars, and took a look at them…The magician asked me, "I never see these things…where do you get these?"
"Well, that's a question I will not answer…Beside the coffee, this shop has a cake if you want—"

Immediately the priest and the magician dashed toward me, their faces in front of me, and said, "CAKEEEEE YOU SAID!!"

"Yes a cake, how about I bring you the menu, and you can take a seat wherever you want…"

"MENU?" The priest asked,

"It’s a paper, where there is a list of the drinks and the foods…"

They started to look around to find a seat, then the priest found the big pillow…she pointed at it, and convinced the others to go there…When they wanted to take a step in there, I stopped them…

I said, "You need to take off your shoes, if you want to sit there…"

"Why??" the knight asked…

"As you can see, in that area, I used a carpet, so it is comfortable if you are in bare feet, and if you wear shoes in that area, it will easily taint the carpet."

They took off their shoes…and started to go there…I walked toward the counter, to take the menu, and bring them…When I wanted to take the menu, I realized they didn’t know what the drinks were, so I went upstairs and brought the illustration of the drinks, like what I did with Lilith.

I went to them to bring the menu and the illustration. I saw the priest and the magician played with the pillow…When I wanted to put the menu on their table, Chis shouted,

"DARYA!!! YOUR MAGIC IS STILL IN ACTIVE, I CAN’T USE MINE IF YOUR MAGIC IS STILL ACTIVE…"

Immediately they looked at me…