I placed a bundle of pasta into the pot and some beef into the frying pan. I cooked up a steak and carbonara sauce after roughly looking up the recipe online. Then I drizzled the steak with sauce and garnished it with vegetables. I also plated the carbonara with garnishes.

It would be lackluster to only have western cuisine, so I cooked a pot of rice and kimchi stew with pork neck.

All in all, the entire meal could feed more than ten people. I set all the food in front of Rachel.

“Thank you.”

She didn’t decline the feast.

Rachel initially tried to mind her table manners, but slowly became a pig. Her eyes widened like Evandel whenever she took a bite. I couldn’t help but find it adorable.

I looked out the window and thought about a few things as Rachel stuffed herself. This stage took place in South Korea during the year 2018. I used to rent this two bedroom unit with a twenty million won deposit and six hundred thousand won a month in rent as a novel writer. Of course, I knew the door’s passcode since I used to live here. The code had been my birthday.

I always missed this world where neither...