Chapter 28: 28 - It’s not the right time yet

Chapter 28: 28 - It's not the right time yet

[Buff Acquired!

Cooking with an Instructor!

Effect: +40% bonus when learning cooking related content.

Duration: While I'm in this kitchen].

Unfortunately, the bonus from learning to cook with my mother wasn't as high as the bonus from learning in a classroom. Looking at this, I could only come up with two hypotheses. The first was that the problem is that the kitchen in my house is not characterized as a real study environment, and if I studied in a real kitchen to learn, this bonus could increase. The second is that my mother is not a very good teacher, and if I studied with a more capable teacher, this buff might increase.

But even though the buff is only 40%, it's not like this 40% bonus is too little, especially since the system already greatly increases the speed with which I learn things. Adding the speed of the system to the 40% buff would be a great improvement.

"All right Noah, making an egg is very simple. First you have to put some oil in the pan and let it heat up for a few seconds." My mother began to explain what to do.

Just as she said, I did it.

"Now that the oil has warmed up, you're going to take an egg and tap it lightly on the edge of the sink, just enough to make the egg crack, but not break," she went on to explain.

When I gently tapped the egg, it just cracked, and I managed to crack it open on top of the pan. It may have seemed like my first attempt to her, but with all the eggs I'd had to eat in my other life because I didn't have anything else at home, at least I had the confidence to do it. More complicated dishes? I didn't even have the ingredients to make them, so at that point I really had to rely on my mother to teach me how to do things like that.

While I was preparing the eggs, listening to her tips on how to make each egg the way each of my siblings liked it, a notification appeared in front of me:

[New Skill!]

Surprised by the notification, I looked around to see how my cooking skill was improving.

[Cooking Lv 1 -> 7:

Effect: Develops a better understanding of cooking techniques, speeds up the learning of new recipes by 7%, and promotes more efficient execution of cooking techniques by 7%. Also improves flavor retention and practical application during food preparation. Gain a tangible advantage by absorbing the fundamentals of cooking and harmonizing ingredients].

When I saw that the skill was at level 7, I wasn't too surprised. Even though I knew how to cook in my previous world, it wasn't like I was a good cook; I just knew the basics. So it was understandable that the skill wasn't even at level 10. But as soon as I learned the skill, it became easier to understand my mother's tips and control both the fire and the pan. Some simple ideas even popped into my head about how to make this egg a little better.

By the time I'd finished making all 8 eggs, 2 for each of us, my skill had risen to Lv 8. Even though the gain from this skill wasn't much, and I didn't even need this skill that much, I noticed that my mother was smiling a lot more since I offered to learn to cook from her.

-------- Lauren's Comment --------

Only Noah's old friends didn't talk to me anymore now that Jackson wasn't at school anymore, but considering that we wouldn't have much in common to talk about, I didn't have too much of a problem with that. I could use this free time to continue studying at school and improve my academic skills. Would this knowledge be useful after graduation? I don't know... But who knows? It's not like I have anything better to do at the moment.

During classes I studied the subjects in the textbooks or used my cell phone to look up more advanced books on the Internet, during breaks I studied programming while practicing my singing, and everything would still be normal if it weren't for something I heard during the break.

Sitting alone at a table, the only sound I heard was my humming, which I was humming softly, and the conversation of the other people around me. What surprised me was not anyone's conversation, but a boy singing a song to his friends while it played on his cell phone.

??????

I tried my best, went so far...

But in the end, it's just a scar...

I had to fall, to lose it all...

But in the end, I just needed a call...

??????

As soon as I heard the guitar, I knew I knew the song, even though the volume on his phone wasn't very loud, but when he sang the chorus of In The End, I knew it was my song. I tried to look at him covertly and realized that the boy was singing it to a group of friends while showing them the screen of his phone with a clip playing.

Judging by the look on his friends' faces, they were surprised but didn't quite know how to react. Fortunately, they were bobbing their heads to the beat, which was a good sign! It's hard to like a song you're hearing for the first time, but it's easier to like the rhythm of it, and from what I saw, I was doing well with that. I didn't want to go up to them and tell them it was my song; just watching from a distance was fine with me. It was the first time I'd seen the approval of people other than my family for my song in person, and it was pretty cool.

Seeing that boy singing my song made me want to sit next to him and sing along, but I know now that wasn't the time.

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