Fantasy Pristine: Our Bond

Chapter 3

Above the bloody sea, a purplish-white-haired youth was lying on it. Letting the thick liquid stick to his back while feeling the cold sensation of the puddle.

However, nothing had changed but him who could not feel anything but the emptiness that was imprinted within him. That cold flat gaze was only directed at the classroom ceiling.

The classroom is empty and cluttered. There were some teenagers lying limp after a short fight with them.

"Huf... It's exhausting."

The teenager went to stand while looking for a moment at the teenagers he had just defeated. In fact, he had no intention whatsoever to beat up the teenagers other than something possessing their bodies.

He who is not a native in this world feels very troubled to have to face problems involving other worlds. Not to mention the fight and some missions that he had to complete.

Feeling that there was nothing more she needed to do in the class, the teenager decided to leave with some of the fainted teenagers.

"Friend that girl huh? I hope what Midnight said is true." He said while focusing on stepping both his legs out.

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"Good morning bestie! It's me, Rara. Do you have no time today? If there is, meet yuk! Today was a day, I admit. Plus, we haven't seen each other since High School, have we? Chloe's. Please, comeon!"

Chloe stopped her morning routine of frying potatoes. He found his phone ringing madly on the dinner table and found three boxes of messages from Rara - his best friend - on his phone screen.

Chloe placed her fries on a shiny white plate then, approached her phone.

"Your adultery once mbak." chirps Chloe briefly and goes back to frying her potatoes.

It's not that Chloe was indifferent to the message. He was just confused whether he wanted to go there or not. Because, his present self is not as good as his former self. Always put the pleasure of others above his pleasure. He also wants to have fun too.

Well, still. It is past and in this present day, exactly where Rara-her friends send the message, depending on her heart and mind alone determine.

8 Years passed and Chloe realized that it was repeatedly hurting her. Such problems are common in friendship circles. However, if it continues, his patience will slowly be drained by the emotions he craves.

"Huf... If I come with... What's gonna happen? Must be the same thing again." Guess lazy.

He often remembers one of his five friends acting like a child and hating to see Rara with others. Especially himself.

On average, his friend is on all egotistical. Only attach importance to their pleasure and refuse to think of other pleasures.

"My blessing is completely impure. A pure bond is formed because of pain. I want to accept their pain. But, they didn't want to listen to my pain." Chloe's inner sadness in the middle of those painful memories disturbed her mind.

Everything he had, was forcibly taken by his other friend. Whether the chair, his best friend, his opportunity, and the time to pour out all his heart is difficult.

Even the most imprinted in his memory was when his clear seat bench belonged to him and even all the students in the class including the teacher knew that the bench belonged to him.

The bench in the middle is next to the bench Rara. The bench that was then seized casually by one of his friends for the sake of playing with Rara.

From then on, Chloe lost a lot of her laughs in a month until they graduated Junior High.

Chloe breathed a heavy sigh. He sat down and grabbed his phone. Leaning her back on the body of the chair then, replied Rara.

Chloe really hates that bond. She is grateful to have only met Aoi and Jacqueline while in High School. Although from a different country, they are always willing to accept its existence. Including his obsession towards the fantasy world and also for the time being, Black Aura.

For some reason every time she thought of that name, Chloe was always made to chuckle. Just funny...

2 Minutes passed, Chloe finally had the courage to answer and send a message to Rara.

"Where, Ra? Anw.. It's just the two of us, right?"

Chloe was silent for a moment. Thinking about how to talk via Wasap it. "Am I not being too selfish?"

Shortly after, a message from Rara appears.

"But it's definitely dong! Hehe... You want to follow the story?"

Chloe was shocked in silence. He suspected that the next 30 minutes, not happiness, was approaching him. Rather than standing in the end of the happiness of others.

"Yes... Because I miss you... So, I need more time just you and I."

"Again selfish... But not papa. Honest is better."

"Oh, okay... Bentar... I want to tell them that today is not. I know, there must be times when you want to have fun with me, right?"

Chloe smiled with relief. In the end, Rara was willing to understand her feelings. Chloe hope, Rara did not betray her words.

"If so, where do we meet, Ra?"

"In the cafe where we played first. I'm sure none of our friends know that place. That way, we'll both have fun!"

This time, Chloe did not respond to anything. Just showing his smile in front of the phone screen. Finally, he has a chance to play free with Rara.

"Do I need to tell her this book?" Chloe looked at the thick history book. Now his existence is not far from him.

The history books that lately grew an excessive obsession in him. Books with a variety of colors attract him to explore whatever is in it. A book with millions of races and magic that will bring his imagination to a beautiful place.

"The world where human pain is reborn becomes a great race. That's Aura. Mega Vile is an aura formed from human pain. Eh? A race born of human feelings? Ah, whatever it is, they are the images of human grief that derive great power from their grief."

Suddenly, the world around him was silent again. There was no disturbance in it. His head was 100% distracted by the Carnater world. A world without pain. A world that holds millions of mysteries in it.

If Chloe finds the world, she's determined to find out the uniqueness in it. Even if the impossible could be achieved, he could have interviewed the residents there in a language they could easily understand. He hopes so.

Now, both of his eyeballs were fixated towards the juvenile figure with a flaming violet bead plus a piercingly cold gaze. The teenager who had become his idol at first sight. Black Aura's.

"Aura Black. He endured his pain as well as the human pain out there. He was once tied to a teenage girl. Unfortunately, the girl died for a reason. That's what kept him out of the pain. Moreover, despite not having any emotions, Black Aura could feel the emotions that humans felt that time were tied to her. Black Aura is also given the advantage of being able to visit THE HUMAN WORLD??? WHAT?!"

Chloe's wide-eyed for the umpteenth time. Go to the human world? Meaning my world? Just sec... It's just fiction. Where it might happen.

Feeling that her time has been wasted, Chloe decides to make up for herself and goes to her destination cafe.

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"Hi! Long time no see!" welcome Rara to find Chloe approaching her with breathless breath. "You seem so exhausted... Here, drink!" Rara offers a glass of lemon ice to Chloe.

"Thank you! You know I like lemons! Anw... It's just the two of us, right? There's actually something I want to tell you. Before that, you answer my question first." ask Chloe seriously.

"Gee... Cool this! I like the one that smells serious." Rara said on target.

Chloe took a deep breath. "Do you think that fantasy world really exists?"

"CHUCK! I thought you were serious, Chloe! This kid! It always confused me." Fortunately, Rara was not angry except for an amused grunt at the question Chloe had just uttered.

"I guess you found a new handsome guy, didn't you? Congratulations!" rara exclaimed accompanied by her light clapping.

"Hehehe... But, my friend says, they're real. He said I'd be very lucky to meet him."

"Ah, the hell time? Fantasy is fantasy. Where can be found in the real world." Rara's comments are relaxing

"If there were any, we might have lived for a long time in an age full of magic. Or maybe, in our world there will be a history where humans and strange creatures have fought. You're Chloe! You haven't changed!" Next after that sip his cool lemon ice.

"Let's... Rara! I hope they show up in the real world. L'm... I also want to be a novelist. I want to write a pure fantasy novel. I mean..." Chloe's words hang and are answered quickly by Rara who seems to already know the answer.

"You're having the fantasy yourself, right?"

Chloe nodded quickly.

"That sounds impossible, anyway. But, yes it is... Think of it as if you were plunging into a fantasy world. Ah, no. Think of the world as fantasy and the creatures around you as elves, werewolves and whatever! Including your problems in the real world.

"For example... You fail to get a hundred and you will face the anger of your parents. Think of it as your hurt friend and your parents' anger is your enemy. Your patience was you who was facing a monster back then.

"You know? We just need to imagine as wildly as possible and make your readers sink into your story. That way, his fantasies will feel pure." A break that ends with a smile.

Chloe as her interlocutor was amazed by Rara's greatness in composing sentences and giving her advice. He is the best at anything.

"Oh, yeah! Yesterday, I found a book under my reading. Miris. No one is aware of its existence. Good thing there's Chloe." Obviously Chloe with the style of speech that engages her as a hero from the book.

"We got the point! That book you think of as your girlfriend locked up in prison. You are a hero who is desperate to risk anything to save the book!" Chirps Rara fast.

"Where's the book? I wonder what the book looks like?"

With pleasure, Chloe immediately took it out and thrust it directly in front of the long-haired brunette girl.

Rara's hand lightly grabbed the thick book. He seems to be trying to blend in with the appearance of the book.

"The simple cover... It contains... So thick. Can you read this much?"

"I can do it as long as the man I like has his name on every page." Chloe cried while folding both her hands.

Rara who heard it, automatically exploded her laugh.

"It looks like us! The important thing is there are people we like in that story."

"Hehehe yes. Nevermind! Read it, book! I won't read it either. Interesting story. And more importantly, this book taught me how to be healthy." joked Chloe who was followed by her laughter ala mak attached.

"Basic... My best friend has never changed!"

"Yes, right? But at least, it's still the same as it used to be."

Rara smiled knot. After that, take a sip of lemon ice.

"How were your days with Aoi. Since High School, we have met less and less. Our campus is different too..."

Chloe let out a heavy sigh. Apart from her life with Aoi, Chloe honestly misses Rara a lot even though she has a lazy feeling when invited to meet Rara.

Rara is her best friend in Junior High. Never replaced by another. Although he already has a very loyal Aoi, he also has Rara who can heal his wounds and give him a million laughs even though Chloe doesn't really need them.

Unfortunately, the choice made them separate. Chloe went to college and settled in Chicago. Rara chose Oxford.

"Honestly... I feel somewhat regretful about my choice as well as this fate. We can't be..."

"Don't talk like that. After all, if you choose to come with me, you won't be able to meet and befriend Aoi. Look around, he's a nice and considerate man. You should feel grateful for the man's presence."

Rara quickly interrupts Chloe's words that she thinks are not good for the girl to say.

"I'm also sorry about my choice. Well, actually not because I still have our other best friend."

"I know. They're lucky to be on campus with you." Chloe said in a tone that sounded like a whisper.

"Whatwas? Sorry I didn't hear."

"Ah, it's nothing..."

Chloe distracts Rara and chooses to change the subject of their conversation to become more colorful.

Although it feels a bit annoying if the past continues to be imagined in his mind, however, it is not the right time to spill it at a time like this. Especially meeting with old friends.

Never at all.

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