Chapter 635 (1/2)
Chapter 635: The Apartment of Souls
Translator: TransN Editor: TransN
“Zero?” asked Roland hesitantly.
She rolled her eyes and bent down to lay the plates before sitting cross-legged at the coffee table.
“What’re you doing there? Don’t you want to have breakfast?”
The little girl had a soft tender voice and a slender figure. She wore a light blue dress and white silk stockings. Her feet were about the size of his palms. She was totally not like that crazy Pure Witch who threatened to kill him.
However, she did not deny the name, which meant that she admitted that she was Zero.
“What should I do? Kill her?”
“Now that she’s just a little girl, isn’t it impossible for her to tear me into pieces bare-handed like an Extraordinary?”
Roland sneaked into the kitchen and hid a fruit knife which he got from the knife shelf into his belt before he slowly walked toward the coffee table.
There was a fried egg and two fried bread sticks on his plate. Well, he got one more than her.
The fried egg had a golden outer ring and slightly scorched edge, its lightly bulged center revealed a faint orange. It was obviously a perfect fried egg with a soft yolk.
Zero skillfully picked up the fried egg with her chopsticks and devoured it in a few bites before she began to eat the fried bread sticks. “What were you doing yesterday? Had you seen some cockroaches on the ceiling?”
“No… I found it a bit dirty so I wanted to clean it.” Roland casually made a reason.
“Really?” She glanced at the ceiling and asked, “Why didn’t you clean it with a rag tied on a clothing pole?”
“It didn’t work. Anyway, it’s clean now,” he coughed and asked, “you made the breakfast?”
“Uncle, are you alright?” Zero appeared to be a little worried now, “Since I moved here, isn’t it I who has always made the breakfast?”
“Since you moved here? So where did you live before?” Roland opened his mouth but did not ask. Obviously she would suspect his identity if he kept asking.
Zero quickly finished her breakfast. She stretched one of her hands in front of him and said, “Give me some money to buy food.”
“What?”
“We are running out of food in the refrigerator. I have to go to the food market to buy some. How can I go without money?”
“A middle school student already knows how to buy food from the food market?” Roland thought while fumbling in his pocket for his wallet but found nothing, “Well…”
“In the second drawer of your bedside table,” said Zero with a sigh.
He returned to the bedroom and found a nearly empty wallet, in there were about 300 Yuan and several lottery tickets.
“How much do you need?” Roland returned to the living room.
“20. I can’t carry more food anyway.”
Since it was not his money, Roland generously gave her a fifty Yuan bill and said, “You can keep some for the next time.”
Zero took a surprised glance at him and tucked the bill into her coin purse.
“Your hand…” Roland noticed the two band-aids on her fingers.
“I was hurt when I picked up the broken glass. It’s not a big deal. Of course, it would be better if you don’t litter.” She shrugged and carried her schoolbag before walking to the door, “I’m going to school. I won’t come back in the noon, so remember to clean the dishes.”
“Wait, isn’t it summer vacation now?”
“Of course it’s the tutoring center,” said Zero, putting on her shoes and poked her head out from the door. “Uncle, if you think your head is still hurting, go to see the doctor. And don’t do stupid things anymore.”
After half a minute, Roland walked out of Room 0825 and looked down while leaning over the corridor railing.
Soon he saw Zero walk out of the building. Her white hair was particularly eye-catching in the crowd. Strangely, people on the street seemed to be used to it as no one walking by her would cast any curious glance at her. She waited a while until another two blonde-haired girls skipped toward her and they left together through an alley.
“So she has made friends in this world?”
Roland could not help rubbing his forehead and thought, “What an absurd dream!”