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Can you? That would be great. I'll jot down the ingredients so I don't forget.

[ There he goes, typing away at the keypad again with one hand, but with his free hand, he'll casually grab Kido's as they walk to the farmer's market. ]

Some chocolate too... and fruits... seafood pasta ingredients...

[ His thumb sure is busy. ]

Yeah...

[ It takes a second, but Kido holds onto his hand too, and starts down the street with the hesitation of somebody who lengthens their stride to lead the way because somebody has to be the eyes while Terry's tapping away on his phone, but also she has no idea where they're going. ]

Do we need that much food? What have you been eating before this?

[ They pass by a bunch of middle schoolers loitering around on the street, and the whispers start.

"Hey, look over there! It's the Ghost Girl!" "Scary... Let's get out of here." "No way, you really believe that?" "Yeah, I heard she died in that hospital. That place is cursed, you know?" "I heard that too! That this girl got real sick and lost all her hair and died! That's not her real hair!" "Haha, that's gross!" "Prove it! I dare you to pull on it!" "No, you do it!"

etc etc kids suck ]

[ Middle school students probably don't know any better.

Despite that, Terry's not particularly in the mood to hear those things said by Kido, if ever, really. He looks up, stops typing away at the keypad and glares at the group of kids to serve as a warning.

If any of you kids even take a step in their direction, it looks like Terry will have to partake in the first NPC kill in the game. ]

[ Anyway, he turns to Kido, smiling as if that just didn't happen. ]

They're mostly for you! Chocolate and fruits help your body feel better by reducing pain and lower stress hormones.

[ The only reason why he can sound smart about it is because he often had to eat these during recovery phase back home, where Jace piled them on Terry because Jace couldn't cook for shit. ]

I thought it could help a little and... I just feel like eating pasta, I guess.

[ The kids freeze under Terry's glare and avert their eyes, whispering amongst themselves as Kido and Terry keep walking. Without a hood over her head and no earbuds in her ears, the whispering doesn't escape Kido's attention either, a glower working its way onto her face. Ha ha, sure brings back memories, being talked about like that... ]

I guess... I have painkillers prescribed that should work for the pain, and protein would be better for rebuilding the body and stuff. We can see what sort of fruit is on sale.

[ You can't just stuff yourself full of protein, though, and protein doesn't make you happy like chocolate does... Kido's not really sure her stress hormones have ever been low, especially not now, when she can hear the shuffling footsteps behind her.

Middle schoolers are stupid, and that stupidity makes them particularly fearless, splitting into two groups behind Kido and Terry and exchanging furtive glances between them. Can't back off from a dare. ]

Yeah, maybe there will be strawberries and bananas. I can make a smoothie from those too, so that would be perfect!

[ Terry, of course, hears the footsteps too. The roads aren't exactly paved here, so he spins Kido closer to him, holds her, and accelerates at top speed, which really kicks up a lot of dust and sand. It's not killing the kids, but whatever health detriment they get out of the huge cloud of dust isn't his fault. Yeah. Totally.

Though it's only a short sprint, so he gradually comes to a stop and lets Kido down again, but still holding her hand. ]

Oh, look. They're having a sale on apples. Five per household... Hm.

[ All the kids are going to suffocate...

Kido also lets out a shout of surprise when she's suddenly zooming through town, and by the time she's let down on the ground again, she tries to shake her hand out of Terry's grasp.

She will never ever get used to that, especially because he keeps doing it without warning ahhhh!!! ]

We're not a household! Then we can get ten apples!

[ Or they can just get in line several times with different cashiers like my parents do because the cashiers are too busy to care and my parents are shameless, this is how you beat the system. ]

Not a household, huh?

[ He laughs a little and lets go of her hand when she tries to shake it out of his grasp. ]

Yeah, we can get ten apples. They're really cheap too, for a fourth of the original price. [ He picks up a shopping basket. ] If you want to eat something else in particular, just put it in here.

Just for right now, we're not a household...

[ They are a household until sales demand that they can't be. She takes the basket so they can each have their own and be not the same household when it comes time to check out, but she's also putting things in Terry's basket. Potatoes, onions, beef... all the heavy things... Things that will keep for a long time or freeze well so they can use at their own leisure.

And then there's the seafood she stops in front of, because none of this is probably real fish. ]

[ As usual, he has no problems with carrying all that. Terry looks over at the bundle of licorice, ponders a moment, and gets it. This is just in case anyone gets a stomach problem in the household ever again... Yeah, that's it. When he's done getting the stuff he wants, he walks over to where Kido is. ]

Snapper, mackerel, or cod?

[ He grabs a pack of imitation crab meat off the shelf. ]

Mackerel, to lend flavor to the pasta, unless you're focusing on the flavor of the sauce, then cod might be better. ...Do you like sea food that much?

[ Why buy fake crab when you can buy fake fish that's at least shaped like what it's supposed to be?

Most of the lighter ingredients in her basket is stuff like curry powder and breadcrumbs, but despite what she said before, she does get herself two small boxes of chocolate: one with dark chocolate with mint inside that sort of tastes like toothpaste, and the other that's cone shaped and is half milk chocolate and half strawberry. These are for lying in bed while crying, if she needs to continue doing that for another week. ]

[ Hopefully she'll get to eat her chocolates in peace instead of mixing them with tears... Terry asks the seafood guy to get him a cod wrapped up and ready to go. ]

They're okay, but I don't like them that much. Also these are easy to eat. Everyone also makes boring alfredo pasta or with spaghetti sauce... I wanna eat something different for once. A different pasta...

[ This only applied to back home, since he hasn't had a chance to eat those things here. He receives the wrapped cod from the person behind the counter and puts that in his basket too. ]

[ Sweet and salty can be a good flavor combo okay ]

Hm... I know how to make things with somen or udon, but I don't know too much about that sort of pasta. Unless you want to try a bookstore to see if they have recipe books?

[ Does noodle soup count as pasta at all, probably not ]

[ Absolutely not!!! ]

I know how to cook pasta, so it's okay. I probably won't need a recipe book, since I get the basics of it! It's just adding a twist to it and I'll definitely make it taste good!

[ He sounds so! Determined!! To make pasta!!! As he plucks a himalayan-pink salt equivalent off the shelf. ]

[ Kido places the salt back on the shelf. ]

Salt is salt.

[ That pink stuff is expensive, Terry, stop that. ]

But it's cheap... [ ...er than usual.

Well, fine. He plucks out a container of kosher salt instead. ]

[ Kido put this one back too. ]

We don't have salt at home?

[ Regular cheap table salt ]

[ I was gonna say Terry grabs the sea salt container next but where the fuck is the ocean. ]

We ran out... C'mon Kido. At least this one is h300!

[ A 48 oz container of kosher salt... ]

[ There is no ocean and maybe they don't want locally sourced anything if the only other body of water is that lake. ]

You can use other spices and different ingredients for flavor, Terrence. We don't need salt.

[ Come on. She's placing a hand on his back to nudge him out of the aisle. ]

... Yes we do?!

[ HOW DOES SOMEONE COOK WITHOUT SALT?! EVERYTHING WILL TASTE WEIRD AND BLAND!! AAAAAAAAaaaaaaa

Though he'll swipe a container of iodized salt. This is the cheapest one at $1 equivalent. ]

[ There are other flavors besides salty!! Kido sets her basket down and attempts to wrestle the ionized salt out of Terry's hands. ]

We don't need it! You're willing to learn how to make different kinds of pasta, right? So learn how to cook without salt!!

It's like saying you won't put garlic into savory foods as you cook them and then it turns out they're not savory at all...

[ He doesn't really budge, since, well, salt and garlic are pretty much staples into what he usually cooks.

Like beef.

That he has in the basket.

Yeah. ]

Not all savory food needs garlic. I never use that much garlic.

[ They will both just be standing in the aisle clutching this little container of salt forever. ]

You can use things like shoyu or dashi for flavor— things with more flavor than just "salt." I'll teach you.

[ ... Okay. Soy sauce. He can understand that. But... dashi... hm...

oh. ]

Is "dashi" the thing where it gives a lot of... umami or whatever?

[ The heck is that. He gradually loosens his grip on the salt container though, so that Kido doesn't fall back onto the floor. ]

[ Soy sauce is liquid salt anyways, with dashi used to lighter things. Kido places the salt back on the shelf, picks up her basket again, and resumes trying to shove Terry out of the aisle so he won't be tempted again. ]

Yeah, that's it. It gets its flavor from kelp and fish, so it would go well with your seafood pasta too.

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