Heath made a very ordinary lunch. He was thinking of making just one distinctive dish, a rice bowl topped with Red-Braised Pork with Fried Tofu. Apart from that, there was nothing else in particular he needed to make.
Heath had originally considered making a few other side dishes, but he was simply too tired this afternoon, and a rich, fatty bowl of Red-Braised Pork with Fried Tofu over rice would be more than enough to replenish his energy. After thinking it over for a while, Heath decided not to make any other side dishes. The side dishes he already had were enough anyway, so there was no need to consider making others for the time being.
Of course, the main reason was still that Heath was feeling rather lazy. Today's cleaning had reminded him of the big cleanup before the Spring Festival in his previous life. Once he was done, he was so tired that all he wanted was to lie down in bed and sleep. Besides, whenever he remembered those densely packed cockroaches, he felt uncomfortable all over.
Perhaps because the Pokémon world's climate was relatively humid and warm, the cockroaches that bred there were also the larger southern kind. Each one was the size of a lighter, and the largest was almost as big as a palm.
Here was a horror story: when living in the south, if you saw a strand of hair in a crack or a power strip, it was best not to pull it, because you had no idea whether what you pulled out would be a hair or a giant cockroach.
And if you saw cockroaches appearing in broad daylight, that proved there were already so many cockroaches in the house that the others were forced to give up on hiding and come