After 6 hours has passed it was now 3 am Lee woke up and started floating in the ground, he got out of the treehouse heading for the top of the tree where he saw the different plains of green space, he started admiring the starry night as in his past life he did not have the privilege of a starry night due to city lights.
After 5 minutes of staring at the sky, he remembered his system update so he said
[Open System]
And what he saw, let's just say his face being surprised was an understatement of his shocked expression.
[Status]
[Guest log]
[Map]
[Shop]
[Inventory]
[Skills]
[Relationships]
Lee stared at his new simple and easy to use green screen then said in his mind
'Status'
After which a simple blue screen showed with simple information to understand
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Name-: Marshall Lee.
Race: High Vampire.
Age: 800+ [ his age will be irrelevant to the story]
Title: great chef [can make your food taste 5 times better when equipped]
LVL: 7 [78/100℅]
HP: 4500
MP: 3200
STR [150]
DEX [150]
INT [120]
WIS [120]
LUC [120]
Available stat points: [70]
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Lee was very happy with his new system update it was very worth it, he regretted not seeking it before he slept as he did not need sleep, to begin with, and the update wouldn't take more than 30 minutes, Lee shrugged his shoulder helpless at his lazy and impatient attitude, he did not expect the update to be this advanced, sure a new function was to be expected but a whole new interface was added instead, his shop function moved from skills list and now he has a Guest function that he hoped would give him nice rewards.
He kept exploring for 30 minutes until he called the shop in his mind to open it
[Shop]
[Hello user]
Said a robotic female voice.
[You have unlocked the shop function, the shop has many sections and categories for different uses]
Explained the robotic voice, Lee was excited
[Other categories will be unlocked after a specific LVL is reached, this limitation was put so that the user does not harm himself as his body needs strength to obtain specific items or powers]
Lee understood most of it except the power thing, can he have a superpower? is the gamer, not a superpower? What are the available powers? will he be able to get them without harming himself? Does he need them? What is the price for a superpower?
Lee kept pondering for a while asking himself questions, some are useful some are not, it was all because of his excitement as the gamer's mind did not intervene with him because it did not sense any danger for the user.
He decided to open the resources function in his shop and saw all types of foods from steaks to even whale meat, he bought 12 steaks with 120 coins, each steak weighing 1 Kg, 6 bread bags each bag has 12 pieces of bread 30 coins, 3 cans of cola 3 coins, and finally, he bought 1 can of beer for 5 coins, he never had a beer in his past life and now he can have it as no one will stop him, he doesn't have to worry about being drunk as his gamer mind will cancel any side effects of drinking such as headache or drowsiness.
[Confirm purchase of listed items?]
Y/N
'Yes'
[Purchase completed, items sent to inventory]
He went to inventory and found them he pressed the I can that said [Stop] above the items to stop the time inside so that they don't spoil inside the inventory.
[Continue shopping? Coins left {732} ]
Y/N
'No'
Lee ordered and went back to the original system interface, the shop had many categories from electronic items to magic items, resources, superpowers which had many superpowers but we're mostly locked until a specific level is met, currently, the best available power for lee was [magnet man] which makes medal stuff stick to him, pretty useless.
Lee spent too much time on his system, when be checked the time it was 6 am, he spent 3 hours checking the system functions and the shop specifically.
Lee went down from the top of the TreeHouse and went to the kitchen he found some pretty basic food that he can make something with but he frowned as he felt that it lacked something, something he loved in his past life
"Yeah I ain't living here without Soy Sauce"
Lee said to no one in particular then he opened his shop to buy soy sauce ×4 bottles which coated him 20 coins.
[712 left]
The system told him as he exited the shop
He started to make egg-fried rice A Korean breakfast meal that he had no idea existed in his past life.
Due to skill [cooking] every time he looks at available ingredients he can see many recipes and pick one from.
[Egg fried rice]
A fast easily digestive mix containing
2 eggs
some cooking oil, I used rice bran oil
1 cup cooked rice
1/2 Tbsp soy sauce, regular (add slightly more if adding other vegetables or proteins)
1/2 Tbsp toasted sesame oil (optional)
1/2 Tbsp toasted sesame seeds (optional)
1 – 2 Tbsp green onions, thinly sliced (optional)
fine sea salt, to taste (optional)
[Recommended in the morning]
Lee started making the food, it didn't take much time only 20 minutes to finish, he put the food [he made a lot] on a big plate with new spoons and forks and one big butcher knife, he wanted to cut onions with a big knife for some reason, he got them from the system in kitchen and utensils category.
[642 left]
Jake POV
Jake woke up at 6:30 am to make a quick breakfast for his little bro, but was surprised to see Marshall Lee cleaning some dirty dishes in the kitchen while humming a soothing song to himself.
"Umm...Lee?"
Jake
"Oh hey Jake," said lee while finishing the last dirty dish and starting to clean the sink.
"Dude you don't have to do this you just arrived"
Jake
"Heh, don't worry man it's a routine type of thing, I can't start my day without finishing this small task and such"
Lee
Lee was so casual in his lies because of the skilled acting he got from his Skill acting [Acting LVL Max]
Jake just shrugged his shoulder helplessly and put a relaxed expression on his face.
"Well happy to have you here, dealing with all of this stuff can be such a hassle to do alone"
Jake
Jake said as he sat on the chair in the middle of the kitchen.
[+5 relationship with make]
A voice in Lee's head told him which made him surprised.
[Relationships]
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Finn [35/100℅]
Jake [20/100℅]
Princess Bubblegum [5/100℅]
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'Oh so he was not very trusty of me huh'
Lee thought while closing the interface, he has to increase his trust meter with Jake.
'Maybe his fear of vampires affected his views me, and I'm a stranger, to begin with so I wouldn't blame him if he was wary of me, being a big bro must be hard'
Lee thought to himself while cleaning his hands with a towel
Finn, on the other hand, is very easy, perhaps it's due to his young age he is 12 after all.
Lee thought to himself but was interrupted by Jake.
"Hey man why don't you sit down, let's have a little talk"
Jake
"Sure"
Lee
Said Lee while sitting on a chair.
"Sup" *smiling*
Lee
"Oh nothing serious, just wanted to know a little more about you and stuff"
Said Jake awkwardly, he felt as if it's not right to question his new bro about his life, but he couldn't help it as he knew too little, he was influenced by his Lil bro Finn to bring him home after his chat the other night but he still was warming up to him as Lee's appearance so far has only brought good things such as his good cooking, nice ongoing attitude, polite manners and actions such as cleaning the floor and the dishes, and even making food for them, be was like the caretaker Jake never knew he wanted!
'Man is just too good there must be a catch'
Jake
"Well... it's a long story so get ready"
Lee said with a sad face.
"I'm all ears"
Jake said as he made a bunch of ears on his body with his stretchy power.
"*Chuckle* alright well here it goes..."
Lee started telling a fake story about why he became a wandering traveler and how he became a vampire by a weird old woman who bit him trying to drink his blood and would have died if not for an old man with a shotgun saving him, his sad origin story made Jake make a Teary-eyed face but he still kept listening to Lee without interruption as he thought this was very important to both of them.
Lee told him about the man who raised him when he was 5 in the aftermath of the mushroom war, about the zombies, lack of resources, the old man always fighting to bring him food and take care of him while traveling in the empty dry land.
Lee kept telling him about how hunger killed the man while sleeping in his bed and how his last words for Lee was "live on son" and so died the man while Les himself was shouting and crying in the cave near his dead father figure, the man was not his father but after spending so much time with him he started calling him Dad and so did the old man started calling him a son and teach him about life or so he told Jake which was all faked lies done very well.
Jake stopped Lee from going any further as his Big heart can't take in all of this with an indifferent attitude.
"You can stay here bro *cleaning nose sound*, we will be your new family we will take care of you"
Said Jake while crying in a hand chief, he was very pained by Lee's past and had to
"You know I'm not a5 year's old anymore right?"
Lee said while floating to Jake's seat and poking his head with his finger.
"it doesn't matter, you can always lean on me."
Jake said with a series face while looking at Lee's eyes, which made Lee feel bad for lying to Jake about his past, but you don't expect him to tell him he was the reincarnation of his former self and how he met his and chose this body, he would think Lee is a madman!.
"Alright sheesh, you such a sweet guy aren't you"
Lee said while pinching Jake's check which made Jake frown as he felt he was not taken seriously here
'He is seeing me a little kid, is this how it feels like to be Finn..?'
Jake thought to himself.
Now it was 7 am so Lee said
"I will wake up the little guy"
Lee said while floating to the sleeping room.
"Wait, when you said you were transformed to vampire, does that mean you were a human before?"
Jake said as he suddenly remembered lee's story.
"Duh"
Lee said with an "obviously" expression.
He went to Finn and woke him up, Finn number out of bed full of energy to start a new day went running to the bathroom to wash his face after saying morning to Jake and Lee
Mornin' {Jake & Lee}
Less took the meal he made from his inventory and put it on the table, which smelled like heavens decided to descend on Earth.
"WOW, That Smells Good!, What's that by the way?
Jake said as he never had this meal in his life but the nice smell was promising.
"I present to you Egg fried rice, a recipe that's 700 years old and one of the finest ways to start a new exciting day"
Lee said while bringing out small dishes to scoop some for the boys.
"700 years old! that's like super old!" Finn said as he came from the bathroom all fresh and with a smile on his face, bmo was next to him as bmo was brushing his teeth (fake teeth).
"Hey Lee"
Hey Bmo, you brush after the meal, not before it.
Lee said as he put a small plate for bmo to dig in.
"Okay"
Bmo said while poking his food with the spoon.
"Well then let's dig in"
Lee said as he started eating followed by making Finn and be make was ecstatic from the taste and started crying and hitting himself for making bad food all those years!
Finn ate the food, plate after another at a very fast speed which worried Lee as he might choke so he gave him a cola to drink just in case.
BEST.FOOD.EVER.
Finn said while squeezing both of Lee's checks and staring at his eyes.
"I-um..thanks?"
Lee said awkwardly as he felt weirded out by The way Finn stared at his soul.
After 30 minutes of none stop eating Finn and make stopped eating with a huge stomach full of food.
They sat the chairs without moving, Bmo imitated their actions and pretended to he had a big belly like them which made Lee go all "Awww" on him after 120 minutes of digestion and a little chit chats about the food and how Jake wanted the recipe, Finn & lee were on top of Jake heading to the house of lady unicorn to introduce Lee to her.