As usual in the morning, Faust is in the early riser club with his mother Lily, he got up from his bed and checked that Angra is still asleep on his bed. Faust didn't know why, despite having a long day yesterday, he still woke up early in the morning where the sunlight still didn't have its heat and the wind was still cold just like the wind from the night before. The usual chirps of the morning bird that he heard every day are still there accompanying him.
He wondered what he should do today, after having an eventful day yesterday, he thought that sleeping all day long might not be a bad thing to do for today's agenda. Faust then pondered if he should play the annoying kid act today and annoy his dad from early morning again since he said that he had a question about magic yesterday. But after considering that his dad must be tired from yesterday, he decides not to do that, instead, he goes downstairs to see what his mom is doing.
He got up from his wooden bed, the mattress is made with a mixture of hay at the bottom layer and feathers at the top so that the hay doesn't poke them when they sleep. He walked to the door and opened them and headed straight downstairs.
The creaking of the wooden stairs announced Faust's arrival to Lily who is currently preparing to cook in the kitchen.
"Morning Isaac"
"Morning mom, what are you doing?"
"I want to cook breakfast, do you want to give me a hand?"
Faust looked at Lily confused because he had asked her a lot of time if he could help her cook, but she always refuses with reasons such as fire is dangerous and a six years old kid is not supposed to cook yet because they might not be able to handle the tools properly, despite his unordinary strength skill he has from having a demon bloodline Faust still respected his mother's wish to not help her in the kitchen, but right now she suddenly asked if he wanted to give her a hand, 'is there something wrong or something special happening today?' he pondered.
After dazing for a while and the monologue in his head stops, Faust then replied
"Sure!"
Faust walked up to his mother who is at the kitchen counter which is a little too tall for Faust's body right now. Faust then grabbed a chair from the dining table and floated it right behind the kitchen counter so he's able to stand on top of the chair and reached the kitchen counter.
"So what should I do mom?"
"Can you handle knives?"
"Of course mom, this shouldn't be more difficult than skinning an animal right?"
"Don't underestimate cooking Isaac, a nice dish can even lighten up your mood or even warm a person's heart."
"Yes, I'm sorry mom, I will treat cooking as almost as important as my magic!"
Knowing that her son is literally obsessed with magic, she didn't know if the statement he just said is a good thing or a bad thing, but Lily considers that being able to cook is an essential skill so she didn't mind it.
"Can you peel and dice the onions?"
Faust actually knows how to peel, cut, and dice the onions since he sometimes cooked on his own back on earth, he can make simple dishes like onion rings when he wants to, so cutting an onion should be an easy task and he needed no explanation, but because he is acting as a child right now, he needed to act his part right so he asked,
"I just need to peel the skin like an apple right?"
Lily then stood beside Faust to show him first how to dice the onion.
"No Isaac, so what you need to do is to cut the bottom part where the root is horizontally. After that, use your hand to peel off the outer skin. Next, you cut horizontally like this at the bottom and upper part. Then you cut vertically this way 2 times. Finally, you chop them up from the side. Understand Isaac?"
"Yes mom!"
Isaac then did just like how his mom showed him. Lily actually quite worried that Isaac won't be able to do it right since Mark told her that Isaac is quite upset when he wasn't able to skin the animals properly, she didn't want Isaac to be upset about cooking either, so she is quite happy that he is able to do it well on the first try.
"Okay next, help me beat the eggs and caramelize the onions."
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Again, as usual, Angra is woken up by the bright sunlight that invades his room every day in the morning, the sunlight is still considered warm and not sharp and hot like the sun at noon, but for Angra, this kind of disturbance in his nice sleep is enough to ruin his mood for sleeping.
Angra then looks at the other bed next to him and sees that Faust's bed is already empty and tidied up just like usual in the morning. So Angra decided to go straight downstairs to see what kind of thing Faust is up to. He goes out of his room and walks down the stairs and sees that Faust is currently cooking together with Lily.
"Aiden, can you wake up your dad first and tell him that breakfast is ready?" Lily said
"Okay mom"
Angra then turns around and walks up the stairs before going into Mark's room and tries to wake him up, apparently the always-annoying sunlight didn't have an effect on disturbing Mark's sleep which makes Angra jealous that he can't be like that.
"Dad, dad, wake up, mom said that breakfast is ready." Angra said while shaking his father's body.
"15 more minutes please, I stayed up late last night." Mark replied while grabbing Lily's pillow beside him to block the sunlight hitting his face.
Angra actually wanted to join Mark himself to go back to sleep, but he knew that his father certainly can't handle his angry mother so he did the best course of action for this situation.
"I'm sorry dad" he muttered slowly
Angra then used fire fusion only on his right hand, he heated up his hand to about the heat where water would boil when it came in contact with his hand. After feeling that the temperature is right, Angra then touchen Mark's feet with his boiling hot hand. For a normal person, this kind of heat should leave a permanent burn mark on their skin, but Mark being a full-fledged demon, it will only be a bruise that disappears in some time. But being touched by something as hot as boiling water still has that shocking effect that will surely help him wake up.
Mark jumped from his bed and floated up in the room, near the ceiling and looked below him to see what thing just attacked him, although the attack he felt was not dangerous, just in case it's something he needs to beware of, he decided to float up and see the situation first.
But his worries turn out to be wrong, what he sees below him is his son that is waving his hand at him at the moment and said,
"I'm sorry dad, but you know that mom doesn't take 15 more minutes as an answer right."
"Ah, yes, you're right." Mark then came down from the ceiling back to the wooden floor in his room, he noticed that there was a small bruise on the skin of his feet.
"Why do you have to do that Aiden? This bruise will make my feet look bad"
Mark is quite conflicted which method of waking him up that he likes more between his two sons, the older one wakes him up by annoying him every second until he drags his body out of bed and the younger one didn't even give him a second warning and just straight up cook his leg up with fire fusion. 'Can they at least wake me up more gently?' Mark complained in his thoughts.
"Can you just tell mom to use her life magic and heal the bruise?"
"Aiden, do you remember why demons can't use life magic?"
"Umm… No?"
"You should remember important stuff like these too, you know."
"Yes, I'm sorry dad."
"The reason is that demons will get hurt instead of healed when being in touch with life magic."
"Why? But Me and Isaac are alright when mom heals us."
"I don't know the exact reason why, it's been like that since the beginning of history. Maybe the reason is that we demons have overall higher talent in using mana than other races. And the race with the most people to have an affinity with death mana is us the demons so maybe the world gave us weakness to life magic. While the elves are the most proficient in life magic. The dwarves and the humans are not adept in certain attributes but they have their own specialization."
"And about you two, you guys are half-demon,half-human from what we know, you guys still won't be able to use life magic, but life magic won't hurt you guys. Remember this okay?"
"Alright that, but don't worry dad, even if I forgot. Isaac will remind me."
"Don't rely on your brother for everything Aiden, there may be times when you two are not together and you have to do things on your own."
"Okay dad, but dad..."
"What?"
"Aren't we taking too much time talking, making mom wait downstairs?"
"Ah…."
Mark then hurriedly opened the door and darted downstairs.