The Buggiest System

28 - Showdown (2)

The fried egg was dropped!

"Oh, s**t!"

The moment Zhou Xiang saw the egg drop, her grip on her daughter was released, and she tried to grab the falling egg with her now free hand.

Zhou Jiahao was also thinking of the same thing. They were both reaching for the falling egg, not caring about their daughter anymore.

Zhou Zhenya was free from her mother's hands, and used this slight second to escape, grabbing the egg in the process.

"Yes!"

Zhou Xiang and Zhou Jiahao both missed the egg, but their momentum was now unstoppable. Their lips hit each other, causing them to kiss.

Zhou Zhenya, who snuck a glance while she was running away, saw her parents accidentally kissing. "Yuck" was the first word she thought of. Of course, she was still just an eleven-year-old, why would she understand romance?

The parents didn't understand romance either.

After they kissed, they stood up straight and immediately chased Zhou Zhenya, not caring about what just happened at all!

But that was just on the surface. Inside, they almost lost their cool. Luckily for them, the image of their daughter watching them both popped up in their peripheral view, causing them to break out of the daze they were almost in.

"Ah, crap!" Zhou Zhenya ran towards the kitchen, which was located beside the dining room. It was also the last room in the house. She closed the door on the way.

'This place is unbelievably small!' Now that she ran through it did she understand how tiny their house was. A diner just across the street was bigger than their house! And that diner isn't even considered a big diner...

In any case, she was cornered. With nowhere left to run, she looked for a place to hide in the kitchen. The curtain that covered the underside of the kitchen sink entered her sight.

'That place...

That place could be a good hiding spot...

...Wait, no!'

She recalled how the egg her brother cooked fell into a puddle there. She could vividly remember the picture of her brother biting into that very same egg.

'Wait a minute... an egg?

Where did father get this egg from?

And what was with bro's door shutting?

Did he... cook this egg?'

As soon as she thought of this, her parents opened the door to the kitchen.

Zhou Jiahao and Zhou Xiang had made a truce. They were to work together to get the egg from their daughter's hands.

When they opened the door, they saw their daughter... docile. She was standing there, looking down. But the most important thing was... that she was handing over the egg!

"What?!" An unexpected move from their daughter caught both Zhou Xiang and Zhou Jiahao in surprise! How could they have anticipated this? How could they have anticipated... that their daughter was crazy enough to give the egg away?!

All of a sudden, Zhou Zhenya opened her mouth. "Before you take this egg... I want you to answer a question, dad."

Her sight then turned to Zhou Jiahao. Zhou Xiang's also turned to Zhou Jiahao. With both of his most beloved girls staring at him, Zhou Jiahao could only blush inside.

Her words continued. "Did big bro... cook this egg?"

In front of his abnormally beautiful daughter, Zhou Jiahao could only nod helplessly. "Yes, he did."

As if she was excited about something, Zhou Zhenya nodded her head as well, before handing the egg over to her father. "I see..."

She exited the kitchen, making the image of an enigma in her parents' minds.

"What... what magnanimousness!"

.....

Zhou Lei was sleeping peacefully, his face not morphing yet. He was also snoring loudly as well.

Until suddenly, someone barged into his room. It was his beautiful little sister, Zhou Zhenya!

"Big bro. Big bro. Big bro. Big bro..."

As soon as she entered the room, she started repeating two words. "Big" and "bro". This wasn't enough to make Zhou Lei stand up from his bed, but it was certainly enough to wake him up.

'Hmm, so annoying.'

Zhou Lei covered his ears with his pillow. The movements under the blanket were seen by Zhou Zhenya, and thus she knew that her big brother was already awake.

"Cook me an egg. Cook me an egg..."

Her set of words changed when she learned that her brother was already awake. Instead of just two, it turned into four!

'AaAaAh...'

Zhou Lei grumbled while he was still trying to sleep. He was ignoring his sister.

Seeing that her brother was not faltering, she strengthened her attack! Her voice became louder than before.

"Cook me an egg. Cook me an egg..."

'AaAaAh, obnoxious brat!'

He finally gave in and removed the blanket from his face, then looked at his sister's increasingly desperate pleas to cook her an egg.

However, once he saw his little sister's beautiful face, all feelings of resentment disappeared. What was left was her command: cook her an egg.

He stood up from his bed like a robot. Zhou Zhenya was pleased with her brother. Her expression brightened as she opened her mouth.

"Follow me!"

The door was already open, so there was no need for Zhou Zhenya to open it again. Are you crazy, why would you open a door two times? Is that even humanly possible?!

They walked out of Zhou Lei's room and headed straight for the kitchen.

Zhou Xiang and Zhou Jiahao halved the egg in two and were eating at the dining room which was right next to the kitchen. That meant that whenever someone would walk in or out of the kitchen, they would see it.

They saw their daughter and their son going to the kitchen.

'Wait, what?' Zhou Xiang had a dazed expression. Why the heck would she wake her brother up, just to bring him to the kitchen?

She was already confused enough when her daughter gave them the egg and walked towards her son's room.

On the other hand, Zhou Jiahao was dumbfounded. 'Of course!' He could've just woken up his son to cook again! What a genius plan!

Zhou Lei and Zhou Zhenya arrived at the kitchen.

"Give me an egg from the refrigerator." Zhou Lei ordered his little sister.

"Okay." Zhou Zhenya responded quickly.

As she was right beside the refrigerator, she could just turn her body and open it, and she did exactly that. She looked for the egg tray.

"Ahah!" Zhou Zhenya found the egg tray right in the corner of the refrigerator, next to a milk carton and a cabbage.

She grabbed the egg tray from the refrigerator. However, she noticed that it was surprisingly light. Too light, in fact. Her face full of anticipation turned grim as she opened the tray.

Zhou Lei was impatiently waiting for the egg as he stretched out his hand. "Come on, give me the egg!"

"But... we are out of eggs!"