CORONAS
13. DEBATES
Thursday, April 12, 2046 at 12:30. I took Yuva to lunch at the campus cafeteria as usual. Yuva's face looked calm. Like it doesn't indicate something that he did last night.
“You know, Yuva? Last night at about two o'clock less, I felt restless,” I said opening the chat as relaxed as possible.
“Well, keep?” his response then stuffed a spoonful of savory rice into his mouth. His voice was not heard.
“I'll call you right away. Your number is not active. Though I was restless thinking of you back then.”
Yuva smiled while still chewing her food. Swallowed it. “That's it, I've been sleeping at that hour. I also used to have my phone turned off,” he replied.
“I'm worried if your actions last night with Aunt Viola and the four foreign men were caught and you were caught by the security forces.”
The sentence was thrown like catapult seeds that accidentally slipped from the grasp. My heart is currently beating loudly. My entire body seemed to be able to feel the whole rush of my blood rushing. I've prepared myself to say this before. But somehow the nervousness is still there.
Yuva's mouth stopped. The spoon he held moved to the top of the plate. The look on his face changed. The smile that he had just lost and now stayed calm but seemed to make the atmosphere tense. Yuva showed no signs of panic, anxiety, or surprise. He just acts calm.
“Eldan, since when are you a stalker now?” tanyanya relax.
“So you don't deny it? Can you explain why you did that?”
“You should answer my question first and then you ask.”
“Todied. I stalked you self-taught. And why can you do the action-.”
“Shouldn't you already know?” cut Yuva slightly rebuking me with a sharp look.
“I don't understand, so it takes a clarification from you.”
“You are still slow in thinking,”. Then sip a glass of water but do not spend it. “I did this to extend my age,” he replied firmly.
Yuva's answer was as if a hydraulic was installed inside my mouth. I'm gawking. Silence greeted me for a moment until I needed a pause to be able to gather words again. “How is it possible? To get Life Point, we have to-.”
“Help and help others, right?” cut off Yuva again.
Yuva, in each of his words, increasingly looks assertive and confident. Like no ordinary Yuva I know. This time too. Right now I am interrogating him. Like trying, a person who has been proven to be caught by the eye of doing evil deeds, usually his mentality will weaken and answer all questions with resignation. But Yuva is not like that.
“Since the beginning of this caldier system has been error, Eldan,” continued Yuva again. He still looked at me with a serious look and with a firm tone of speech. “System used to paralyze the disease and convert it as a residual number of lives. Then the caldier users are required to help normal people in order to increase their Life Point. By scanning the satisfaction of those who have been helped, the scanner will convert those emotions of satisfaction as numbers with a certain amount to be added to the existing Life Point. And do you know where the fault lies?”
Yuva turned the question around. My forehead crinkled with a downcast look to search for answers to her questions. My brain thinks hard. My weak brain didn't get the answer. I stared at Yuva's face, which still had a serious look. Then I shook my head.
“From my research and data collection. There is no single rule that says we should help or help in goodness!” said Yuva. “Rules simply mention that we have to help people who ask for help or are hit by problems.”
“If helping in the good does not produce much Life Point, then I decided to help in the case of evil. The principle is the same, right? Scan the satisfaction of the people we have helped. And you know?” yuva's speech came to a halt for a while. He lowered and raised his head to bring his face closer to me. Then he spoke again in a quiet voice. “Helping people do evil things brings a lot of Life Points. Only by helping them hack into a security system somewhere, could they steal quietly. They were very satisfied when they managed to steal it. Their laughter was loud, happiness was radiated, and I was able to obtain an additional Life Point of one hundred and two hundred in an instant. You can see for yourself, right?” he touched his caldier.
My eyes were about to crawl out of her petals upon hearing Yuva's confession just now. My body feels stiff. My fingers trembled to shout that what Yuva did was wrong. It doesn't fit my common sense. I unconsciously shook my head.
“You must be thinking that what I did was wrong, right? Ah that is certain even without guessing though,” he said again.
“Therefore,” I tried to reply to his words. “Therefore you must immediately abandon the deed.”
“Why? Is something wrong?” Yuva turned the question around again. “Didn't I just say, the calendar system has been error since the beginning. What is wrong with using this system error for profit? In fact,” Yuva took a momentary pause. “I think the scientists who created this tool deliberately allowed this error so that we could think more efficiently again.”
“How can you think like that? The scientists who created this system were good people who wanted to save humanity from deadly diseases. So that we who are sick can still enjoy life without having to lie in the hospital. I can't accept if you're prejudiced against them,” my argument is spontaneous. Yuva's thinking is getting crazy and I don't like it.
“Lantas, why don't they program it to distinguish what satisfaction is gained through good deeds and evil deeds? Why not make it clear that you should help in kindness?”
“It ... it ...” My eyes fell back and could not answer anything.
“You can't answer that, can you? Means my speculation is not wrong.” Yuva closed her sentence firmly and turned her face the other way. The quiet situation between us became awkward.
My brain was thinking hard to find a way for Yuva to stop this. Hand clenched. “Please stop this, Yuva. I'm very opposed when you do such a nasty act.”
“Do not force your idealistic thoughts on me, Eldan,” the response gets colder. “I have my own thoughts. Would that naive thought of yours save me?”
My chest is like a big wave. Yuva's face suddenly changed again. The look on the face is like showing sadness, burden, anger, but full of self-reliance. When I saw that expression on his face, my stance seemed to waver. I didn't even have the heart to warn him back. It's really complicated. My head can no longer think of what I should have said and done.
“Have it, it's okay. If you still insist on banning me, I don't mind. That means you don't want me to live any longer,” he said with a face that again looks firm.
“That's not what I mean,” my lips reflect back on his statement. This conversation is getting more complicated. “I just want to help you get to Life Point the right way,”.
“The right way you think, right? But not in my opinion,” denied Yuva. “Nobody can help me right now. Not even you. All that can help me is myself. And I'll do it my own way.”
“Yuva!”
“If you don't support my actions, at least don't stop me. I'm not like you lucky ones, who can get life numbers easily. I still want to live longer.” Yuva ended her sentence as she left me.
Then the rift that had existed all this time began to widen like a ravine. With her statement, with her sentence just now, it was as if Yuva was widening the distance between us. I can only be glued. Accept the consequences of what I've done. I'm just a stupid kid who can't think well of saving someone I really care about.
Yuva says I'm just a kid who's always lucky. I wonder where he could deduce such a thing. There can be no lucky child born without a father. There can be no lucky child born with a virus from his parents. Yuva seemed to have forgotten that I also shared the same fate with her.
Whatever. Maybe that's all I can do with my breath. If Yuva really thinks like that to me, so be it. Explaining to him would not produce anything that would stop him from helping evil. I'd better think of a way to stop him and make him sure to use a better way. If I can't do it myself, there's no harm in asking for help.
