CORONAS
10. SUSPICIONS
Monday, April 2, 2046 at half-twelve p.m. The remaining half of the cup of coffee passes from the mother's hand to the table. He put it down slowly. But the sound of the collision between the porcelain cup and the glass table was heard quite strongly due to the silence of the night. No more tv. No more sounds of passing vehicles or pedestrians that usually pass in front of the house.
“How? Is there progress?” mom opened the question.
I glanced towards the wall clock hanging right above the tv. “Ada,” my answer is short. “However, something is troubling my mind.”
“What?” sahut.
I wanted to say it but I don't know how to say it. It's a complicated thing. Yuva who has again increased the coffers of his life point should make me happy and calm. But this one feels different. There was a feeling of unease that kept trailing from the shadows.
“Regarding the increase in life point Yuva that happened quite drastically, somehow I feel uncomfortable. Something is stuck in my mind. Weird, right?”
“What are you worried about? Something unusual happened to Yuva? The caldier system has been designed to improve our life numbers when we succeed in helping others. Is there any other way that comes to mind, Hami?”
There seems to be nothing wrong about that. Perhaps what I was thinking about was the change in Yuva's nature that also happened at the same time. Yuva will usually show a very striking excitement. Either it screams in excitement or it immediately slides up to me to tell her joy. This time it was very different. He seemed more relaxed about it. It was like there was a barrier that made him unable to show the true expression of his heart.
I'd like to waste any number of times this kind of thinking, it'll come up and come back again. It was as if an elastic cord was tying him. Keep sticking don't want to come off.
“So you think Yuva did something cheating? Like hacking his system to double his life point?” mother's comment as soon as I finished saying what I was thinking.
“The worst possibility is so. I don't actually want to think so. But the confidence and the things he was hiding made me suspicious. Am I too presumptuous if I suspect it, ma'am?”
The coffee cup on the table returned. He gulped down the rest of the coffee in one gulp. “No, Hami,” he replied in a still serious tone. “Once the suspicion is necessary to ensure a thing, but it does not need to be too shown. If you can solve things that make you suspicious secretly, it will be better.”
“So according to Mom, I should keep investigating?”
“If it makes you feel better, do it.”
No matter how ridiculous the things I thought, my mother never abused my thinking. He always takes it seriously when I'm not joking with him.
“At least it is the right deed.”
“That means you sacrifice your happiness too. But it's up to you. I think he's just acting like that to make him look more mature and less dependent on you. Don't forget to glance at other possibilities, Hami.”
Mother's hands covered her mouth that was wide open while her eyes were closed. Then he got up from the chair and went to his room leaving a sentence to tell me not to stay up too long. I replied with a nod. I turned on the tv in front of me to just lighten the burden I was thinking about. Measure the volume so slowly so as not to disturb.
Some of my tv channels move around periodically just to find shows that I think are good. But there are only movies I've seen before and some midnight newscasts. Suddenly my finger stopped pressing the remote button. I found my town on the news tonight. A businessman was found dead at his residence with a sharp incision in his neck. It is suspected that he was robbed because his valuables were also lost. According to the statement, the robbers managed to enter the house because their security system managed to break down. I shudder in horror. And the news I listened well\-good in anticipation of this insecure situation.
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April 9, 2046. My life as a student went well. Still with the busy work of college, also took the time to help others in order to extend my age. Besides, Yuva also looks fine. Now the life point he has has reached the number five hundreds. Though this has only been one week since the incident that occurred in the kadier center due to the actions of Aunt Viola and others. And all that time, my investigation into Yuva has yielded nothing.
Once I followed him secretly\, he just went home as usual. There was no sign of him moving out of his house even though I had been waiting for him outside for an hour. For the sake of finding out about it, I became like a rat that settles around when no one is looking. And I came home with a sense of regret that made me take heavy breaths many times.
One more thing I saw. About Aunt Viola who also managed to increase her life rate by leaps and bounds. In just a week, he returned with a figure of one hundred on the caldier attached to his neck. His face also looked more cheerful. I met him alone today to find out how he was. This is indeed amazing. In the midst of the paradigm of society that has deteriorated against us – caldier users – Yuva and Aunt Viola managed to survive.
This energy robs us of time and energy. There is joy and there is suspicion, and there is also a part that makes dumbfounded. Recalling Yuva managed to calm Aunt Viola's panic as she went berserk the other day. There can't be no connection. The two of them must have done the same way or maybe even worked together for the sake of dredging Life Point instantly. And the negative speculation for the two of them came back to mind. It makes me very uncomfortable to do anything.
After visiting Aunt Viola, I stopped to sit for a moment in a small garden. I found an empty swing and I sat on it. I sat down while looking forward which happened to be the direction in front of me is the direction the sun drowned itself. The sky had been flushed for about fifteen minutes, and the golden sunlight could be seen from between the leafy leaves of the tree.
“While waiting for dark sky?” a woman's voice managed to surprise and pull me from the daydream.
