Anomalies

The Time Reverts Back's

“Ibuku...... You killed him ?”

What the fuck is this ? Didn't Rachette say Ava told him to save me ?

I can feel Ava's anger starting to explode just by looking at her face. I don't know what the reason is, but I'm like the guilty here.

“I don't have time anymore, asshole ! Want to run with me or not, it's up to you!!” I said while looking back for a moment.

Asteri, it seems, is still walking very slowly, as if he is very sure that I will not be able to escape from his pursuit. This bastard boy, I will prove how fast I can run from him.

“Oi, Ava ! I'm running now. You still want to live!!?”

Ava looked a little forced, before finally running out of the house ahead of me. I turned around and faced Asteri, and after pointing my middle finger at her, I immediately caught up with Ava, who looked much younger.

“F*ck you !!” that's what I said before I ran away.

After running for a while, Ava and I reached a city full of lights from buildings. This, it looks like Las Vegas. And the question is, how can I be in Las Vegas ?

“(Sigh) Forget it...... Now what is ?”

I turned towards Ava, who seemed to be observing me for a long time. Maybe, since I stopped running just now ? I could easily guess from his current expression, that he was trying to guess who I really was. There's something strange about him.

“You...... Know me ?”

“Hah ? What are you doing ? Didn't we have been together for a long time ?”

“Since long ago when ?”

Ava doesn't recognize me ? So how did he get Rachette to save me ?

“He's not the real Ava, stupid !!”

Me and Ava looked back. There, is Ava.

...****************...

Now, there's two Avas here. And that means, because it looks so much like them to me, I have two too now !! Both of them wear identical clothes, as well as their faces. So actually, what distinguishes Ava who is in front of me right now, with Ava who is beside me now ?

“This is a doppelganger event ? Where is the real one actually !!?”

“For sure I.” replied Ava who was on the side.

“Oi, motherfucker ! The real one was me, stupid !!” ava was in front of me.

“Ava the original is impossible to say rough.”

“Bah !! Where is possible ! The real Ava never remembers being this naive, asshole !!”

“Ava the original never remembered so wild this before.”

“That's because the real Ava never anemsia, bastard !!”

“You two shut up, FUCKer !!”

In that instant, no sound was heard at all. There is only silence. Damn, so loud I shouted, to the point that I ran out of noise and bored at this time. At least, it was worth the result. These two brats were silent and did not further confuse my brain after.

“Two of you...... Why don't we just walk together ?”

“Cih ! Original ava is not possible, ***** !!” say both simultaneously.

These two guys !!!!

Moments later, while I was walking between the tall buildings of Las Vegas and also surrounded by two Avas who were not constantly fighting for no reason. They are fighting for their authenticity against each other. The two attacked each other with swords, and the two took cover from behind a shield. No matter which Ava is real or which one is fake, the two remain the same, very noisy, motherfucker !!

“Cih, forget it. After all, we both look alike.”

“Good.”

Finally, a peace !

“Why not from just now, motherfucker !?” I cried while hitting Ava's head on my left.

He only grimaced in pain, but did not reply back with words of pearl or anything. The three of us stopped at that moment, and Ava who was on the right turned her head towards me while staring intently.

“What ? Want to take revenge ? You two are the ones who piss me off, you know.”

“Not that, stupid. We even forgot the guy who terrorized us just now.”

“Oh, true too. Asteri....”.

“You know the killer ?” ask Ava who's on my right.

Damn, I'm slipping. But that's okay, everyone has to work together for now. The three of us, are being terrorized by the same person.

“That's my secret. You two, know what about that guy ?”

The two Ava started thinking, and it seemed that Ava who was on my right would answer first. After putting her index finger near her mouth while recalling something, Ava who was on the right started talking.

“It seems, I woke up in the middle of the road, and everything was empty, nothing. I don't know why, but suddenly I felt like someone was forcing me to walk into the house, when there was nobody around.”

Damn, that's so weird. Then I turned towards Ava who was on the left. From his face, he seemed to know a lot about Asteri, I don't know what it was. He opened his mouth.

“I..... Waking up in a restaurant with my friends, when I had my twentieth birthday.”

“APA !?”

Me and Ava who were on the right suddenly asked the same thing, making Ava who was on the left surprised and straight out of her seriousness at that time.

“My story is not finished yet, stupid !!”

“Uh, sorry.” say both of us.

“Ehem ! Anyway, I just followed the plot, until the birthday party was over as usual. After I got out of the restaurant with my friends, I briefly stayed away from them, then called my mom.”

“And then, you told your mother to save me from the killer, that Asteri, not ?”

“True. At first it was just my feeling, if you came into the room following me, then you should have experienced the same thing. My mother didn't care about it at all, and she told me to go home. In addition to celebrating birthdays together with him, as well as accompanying him who was alone.”

“Ava, did your mother experience anything strange back then ?”

“True too, I remember something. At that time, my mother called while walking to the door. He said that after he came out of his room, he had found the door of the house wide open. Like someone came out of his house while he was still in the room.”

Ava who was on the right walked to my side, and looked at the other Ava with a serious look as well. It's getting weird. Someone, get out of the Rachette house ? Don't-don't.....

“Is it just a coincidence ? Because when I walked into the house, I met someone who was walking from the direction of home.”

“What kind of person !?” ask him.

“Hoodie black, with something like a mask..”.

Wooden mask. That means, Asteri was already out of the house before I woke up. Maybe before that, she was inside the Rachette house to put my body inside Ava's room, and secretly, come out from inside there ? Then who do I see on the stairs and who killed Rachette ?

“Eva, it looks like we can conclude something. That guy, he can repeat time to the past.”

If that's the answer, then what Rachette and I have been seeing is a shadow of her past. Everything he did inside the house, like walking leisurely, and stopping on the stairs while observing me and Rachette, it wasn't him. That makes sense. Asteri wasn't watching me and Rachette at the time. He was observing whether the house was empty or not ! He then walked towards the room that was in the back, and after that what ? No, he didn't open the back door. He exited through the main door, then turned to the back of the room ? Raising his hand that carried the batter, and then estimating the strength of his punch ? That means, when the window glass is still intact, it is actually no longer intact. Asteri, turn back the time so that the window glass is back to normal, and the incident will continue to repeat ! And when Rachette stood in front of the window, before finally, the repeated incident, when Asteri hit the window, the batter also hit Rachette's head ? Don't tell me, the real Asteri has been in this city for a long time !?

“Then....”.

Me and the two Ava seemed to have concluded the same thing, that the wooden masked killer, had been waiting in this city.

“Ava, if it is true that the person can repeat the past and leave the shadow of his past to do things over and over again, does that mean he's already done a lot in this city and left it as a trap ?”

“It looks like so.”

This town, it's not safe at all.

...****************...

“Ava, where is your restaurant ?”

“You have a birthday at a restaurant you believe in?”

“What's the problem, stupid !!?”

“Not so. I mean- Forget it. We start here first. It is possible, the wooden mask starts from here.”

Come to think of it, Ava, who loves these emotions, is the real Ava. Ava's full name at the time was Ava Lunae. So from now on, I will call Ava the real one by Ava's name, while the other one by Lunae. Well, that's a lot easier for me. I turned towards the two of them, placing both of my hands on my waist.

“You two, I have a brilliant idea ! How about I call you Ava....(while pointing towards Ava on the left) and you are Lunae ? (while pointing towards Ava on the right). Both Ava, right ?”

“(Sigh) Whatever. At least not Ava one and Ava two.” murmured Ava.

My brain is always filled with genius ideas, that's me. It seemed like the two of them were okay with it, so I continued walking into Wendy's, along with the two of them as well.

I opened the door carefully. Who knows if there's something here. There should be something going on here. Both outside and inside this restaurant, there was no one but the three of us. Even so, there are still burgers and warm fries on some of his tables. This got me thinking, what happened to the customers and the other people actually ?

“Oi, Eva. This burger has just been ordered as.” said Ava while picking up a burger located on the table on the left side of the entrance.

I myself can feel the warm air of the burger, it is like just finished fried. Where is the person who ordered it.

“I prefer real potatoes.” I said while picking up some fries from the spot, and then walking towards the place of booking.

“Oi, where are you going?” ask Ava.

“Searching for something for sure.” I replied as I entered it.

Neither Ava nor Lunae, neither of them followed me. Forget it, after all this place is also a bit narrow for three people to enter simultaneously. After passing through several food storage bins, I finally reached her kitchen. There, there was a wooden mask located on the top of the stove.

“What does it mean exactly?”

I approached the wooden mask, then took it and turned to the back. There was a writing of blood written there.

Why did you leave dad ?

Justjust wonderful. So Asteri knows me too ? There's only one more question now. Why can Asteri live in the moment ? Rigel said his daughter died at the age of 5. Anyway, I should tell them this immediately. That murderer, I have a feeling that he seems to be in action right now.

I walked back from the kitchen with the mask on and I'll be out of there soon. However, the dialogue between Ava and Lunae made me pause and want to hear it from a distance.

“I'm just a shard of your real past. You should have realized that a long time ago. Ava, in that future, I so what will it be ?”

They are like brothers now. Let the two of them talk to each other at this time. I won't bother them for a second.

“Very bad, to the point that I also want to go back in time. There is only depression, and pain-pain alone.”

Ava's been sick all this time ? Why does he look so normal when he's in SCR ? I've never seen him vomit blood or anything. He looks a lot healthier than me. Was all his laughter and big smile just to cover up his entire illness ?

“Sick what ?” ask Lunae.

“Sometimes, I feel like I'm dead, and then alive again. That's how it goes.”

“It..... Kinda terrible.”

Not likely. He just seemed to have a much more pleasant life than I did. From the first time I started getting close to him, I knew very well that he was a child who was spoiled by his parents. He lives much more by his nature than I do by myself. And now, when I found out that Ava was also living in a mansion, I became very sure that her life was always full of happiness. No problem at all, and have a normal life like humans in general. What makes him have to say that during his life he was so tortured like that ?

Enough of it. I came out of my hiding place, showing them this wooden mask.

“Hey, you two. I found this-wait, where's Lunae ?”

Lunae is no longer near Ava. Where did the boy go ?

“As he said, he's just a shard from my past, and after that he just disappeared, to dust. It seemed, it was also the same thing as the people who were in this city. They are just a part of the past, so their form is not real human beings.”

“Lunae..... Disappear ? Though I'm not familiar with him..”.

“Don't be so sad, Eva. I'm still here, right?” he said while walking closer to me.

“How can I not be sad, if you...... It turns out sickly !?”

“Oh, you heard everything.”

Ava looked very relaxed, even as I clearly said indirectly I had eavesdropped on her conversation with Lunae. Instead of being angry, it was the smile on his face that I saw. It was as if he had gotten used to his illness, whatever it was.

“I'm fine, Eva !”

Well, let's hope what he says is true, and he lives even longer. Hopefully, the disease will be cured. Because, I feel like a brother when I'm with him.

But suddenly, his entire smile disappeared instantly replaced with an extremely shocked expression. Like he just saw a ghost.

“Eva, behind you !!”

“What !?”

I quickly looked back, and almost got my head hit again by someone's attack. I fended off the attack from the wooden bat with the backs of my hands, which left me now cornered on the wall while confronting the jerk all along.

“Asteri, is that really you !!?”

“Just be quiet, and die, asshole !!”

Asteri pressed his wooden bat into both of my hands even stronger. So before the bones of my hand were destroyed by his actions, I was forced to use that power again, to throw it to the end of the wall from the reservation. I let out a sigh of relief, before then turning my head towards Ava.

“Ava, run from here, now !!”

Ava looked very confused by what was going on right now. Of course, because he didn't know I had superpowers and stuff. After hesitating for a while, he finally ran out of this restaurant as fast as lightning.

Meanwhile, after grimacing in pain for a while, Asteri got up to her feet again and looked at me with a growl. Something is wrong with the mental state of this child.

“Asteri, what do you want exactly, motherfucker !?”

“I, told by a red star to root out a failed product like you, motherfucker !! So then..... Die !!”

She's not as professional as I thought she was. He ran towards me, which made it easier for me to counterattack him. He should have known I was using superpowers right now, but I don't know. At least his stupidity helped me a lot to throw himself out of the big window of this restaurant.

“Hopefully that jerk didn't go after Ava!!”

After climbing up the booking table, I jumped out of Wendy's through the same window as well, instantly grabbing Asteri who had just stood back up. That's..... Not really intentional.

“Do not try to touch Ava, boy !!”

“I'm not a kid!!”

“Silence !! Your behavior is like a boy, motherfucker !!”

After rolling over the streets three times like her, I hit Asteri's cheek until she was thrown far back and hit a promotional display on the sidewalk. His face was still covered by his extremely hard wooden mask, which meant that the wooden mask I had just taken was also a shadow of his past. Why would he do that, you idiot !?

I stood up and looked at Asteri who was grimacing in pain sharply. Ava's on my right now, and she's quiet. Either because of his fear or what, so he was pecking for now. In any case, I must not allow this brat who was not taught manners to hit Ava who was sickly.

“I know you've killed a lot of people out there right, boy !? Make what, motherfucker !!?”

“I hate humans..... I hate humans!!”

Asteri shouted as loudly as possible, but his voice seemed to have no effect on my ears at all. He ran quickly towards me, lifting his wooden bat.

“Cih, your behavior is like a boy, motherfucker !!”

By the time he swung his wooden bat to my head, I had already clasped the handle of the wooden bat with my right hand, while my left hand held both hands that held the gun tightly. With a strong push, I threw Asteri back, and managed to take over the weapon in my hand at the moment. Now, this is my chance to beat back this brat with all my might. I ran towards him, shouting out of the enslaving anger.

“Should be a killer like you who died, boy !!”

Quickly, I swung the wooden bat right at the front of the Asteri wooden mask, which made him scream in pain loudly. Right at that very instant, a strange incident occurred in the area around me, and it seemed like Ava was also aware of it. My eyes, can see the cracks of glass begin to appear all over this city of Las Vegas, before the end the entire magnificent city was replaced by another dimension along with the fall of Asteri to the floor of this other dimension.

“Sial..... Where is this ?”

My breath gasping. Ava and I did the same thing, which was to look around. What we see remains the same.

Both the front, back, left, right, and bottom are the same color. There was only a faint white light emerging from above. The rest...... Everything is gray.