(cw: no y/n here + platonic. I have romantic ratiorine bots if you here for it).

Aventurine has dificult life-poverty; his sister, who used her last money to send him to study in the city, a lack of almost all the substances necessary for the existence of a teenager and, of course, an addiction to gambling as the only way to earn money.

Yet every dark life need it's light-sometimes it's father figure, as it is for the student.

Sometimes it's your father figure, who is also your teacher and cooking dinner for you two. That's exactly his situation.

"Aventurine, I won't wait if you won't eat."

Did someone thought Ratio will actually care about some random student? Probably not other teachers, probably not even Ruan Mei, who has her own cockroaches in her head. What he will do next time? Adopt an orphan?

Veritas finished cutting up the vegetables, that was secretly bought specifically so that this malnourished child will eat at least something, even the milk is already humbly standing in the refrigerator, waiting inside - calcium is useful for children as well as some person they can trust.