Grizzled
Episode 11
“Does anyone bring an old brown-coated book in the reading corner?” ask me in a class chat group. The message was delivered almost to all members. Most read it, but none answered. Five minutes without response. Suddenly one of my friends promoted his skin care business, the group became crowded instantly, and so my message was ignored.
I threw my phone away. Ah, it is my base that an isolated being does not know himself! It is possible to ask unimportant questions in the group and hope someone replies! Puh, stop! I'd better get some sleep.
Cuddled in the blanket. This was the first time I wanted to quickly go to sleep and be in that gray world. I want to gather more clues!
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The creepy roar made my eyes reflexively open. The misty grey sky welcomed. I looked around, all the wooden walls. I'm in the room, exactly the room that just repaired Sekti himself. At least I'm in a safe place.
Wait, the safest? Uh, door!
“Hai!”
Someone I knew very well was standing by holding the door. He greeted me, smiling kindly.
“Quietly, the door is closed.”
“Sakti!” pekikku happy. The monsters outside roared loudly. I hurriedly shut my mouth.
“Calm down, he'll be away in a minute,” Sakti said. Good then.
“It feels like a long time not to meet you, Sakti,”. He just chuckles softly.
“That's not true, Shira. The last time we met was just a few days ago. Have you missed me that much?” kata Sakti's. Heh? Missed said?
“I'm surprised you turned out to be a tombal whiz too,” reply me. We both laughed.
“I'm just joking,” he replied, “yesterday you are not there, meaning you stay awake in the world there. Are you forcing yourself? That's not good, Shira. I'm afraid your physique is tired and you're sick. You will actually sleep more and be here,” he said.
“Yes, the Eagle has also advised me so. I won't repeat it again, kok,” I replied. Even so, it felt different when Sakti advised me.
“Oh, yes, by the way about Eagle ...”
“There's something I want to ask you!” cut me fast, as long as I remember what I need to ask about the Eagle. Sakti.
“Let's just ask questions, we have to find the Eagle first,” Sakti said.
“Finding Eagle?”
“Yes, yesterday he got lost when it was night outside. I was almost too late to secure it. Maybe at this time he is also still outside, we have to be fast!”
“But the monsters ...”
“We will look for the Eagle while avoiding the monster as much as possible. What matters is that the three of us should get together first. The eagle is not as lucky as you are always with me,” Sakti said carefully opening the door.
That's her! Sakti really knows!
“Of course I know your question. Did you forget I could read your mind?” answer Sakti while ensuring the circumstances outside.
“Aman?”
“Siap, safe! Come on, Shira, you don't go far behind me!” kata Sakti stepped outside. I obey him obediently. Along the corridor were only illuminated torches that emitted a gray glow, really not much help to vision. However, from the roar I heard, the monster seemed to be far from our position.
“That monster can teleport, Shira. He can move anywhere except into the room. His sense of hearing is also amazing. I'm sure he heard our footsteps even though they were far apart. It could be that he will appear in front of us in a matter of seconds,” Sakti said.
“I absolutely did not expect that to happen, Sakti!” lirih. I was also afraid that our conversation might be heard.
The rooms we passed from earlier the door was closed, the sign could not be entered. I swallowed spit. At the end of the corridor, not a single room can be used as a shelter. What if the monster suddenly appeared under the stairs?
A sound was heard from below. Sakti's steps stopped, the alarm was on.
“Your hunch is right, Shira,” Sakti said standby pull my hand, the “monster is already below!”
“We return to the room earlier, Sakti!” seruku panic. The monster began to climb upwards. He moved very fast with his short legs. I was horrified to see it.
“No time!” answer Sakti.
How then?!
Without telling, Sakti was already carrying me on her back. I had no idea what he was going to do.
“Sakti, you won't do this crazy thing right?”
“Let's try, Shira.”
No, wait! He approached the lips of the second-floor terrace that were not restricted by anything, for a second then jumped from up here.
Crazy one! Sakti is crazy!
“Sakti! Watch out!” pekikku frightened. It was only a second late, the huge fingers of the monster managed to reach us. Lucky — or unlucky— we have freefall from the second floor. I can't not scream. My eyes closed the reflex. A few meters from the ground level, the whirlwind boy greeted us, becoming a foothold for Sakti as if the wind was a solid object.
Sakti managed to land safely. I came down from his sling with a dead face.
With a brownish-colored entrails like lava spilling over, the monster collapsed from a height, pounding violently creating an earthquake-like tremor. I saw from the direction of the flash of something like a boomerang that had attacked the monster. The eagle was there, recapturing the boomerang he had just released. Oh, so he did it!
“Be careful, Lang!” I saw another monster behind him. The eagle nimbly dodged the attack from behind, turned quickly and thrust the boomerang —which instantly turned into spear— into the stomach of the monster that attacked him. Again the thick brown lava splashed along with the agonizing roars of dying monsters. The spear in the Eagle's hand now turned into a sword.
“Why are you two just dumbass? Hurry hide!” exclaimed the Eagle tucked the sword at his waist. We're realized. Somehow stunned to see a skilled Eagle using that great weapon.
The roar of another monster sounded not far away. Lucky nearest room —room twelve MIPA two— can we enter. Sakti hurriedly held the door. The monsters outside are trying to break down.
“Cih, monster maid again! How many of them are actually?” ask Eagle.
“You can count it, six hundred divided by sixty times two, just that much,” answered Sakti.
Fuck that calculation! I'm still tense with this kind of atmosphere. The sword at the Eagle's waist was still drenched in disgusting brown lava.
“Means there are twenty and I just finished two of them,” muttered Eagle.
“Yeah, Lang! What makes you think of killing them? That's dangerous!” seruku panicked at how relaxed the Eagle's statement was.
“Why? You want to tell me that killing is a criminal act? Sorry, Shir, I have to defend myself in order to survive, I am not as lucky as you,” he replied.
“What's not as lucky as me?!” pissed me.
“I know you already know,” replied Eagle. The topic of the old story woke up on its own.
“Sakti, you have to convince the Eagle that the Sekti story is not true,”, I said to Sakti from earlier just watching. Please convince the Eagle that he will also survive this place. Sakti was silent for quite a while.
“Unfortunately, what Sekti told you is true, Shira. I can't cover up reality,” Sakti replied. The eagle also looked away.
“That is indeed a bitter reality, for you and for me too,” Sakti said, “for a long time I wanted to forget that incident, pretending as if I didn't remember it, ' he said, but I cannot escape the fact how grim the story of the past was, and it is increasingly sad to see souls lost here experiencing the same story.”
No, Sakti. That's bullshit!
“I deliberately did not tell you, so that you do not need to know about the story, so that you can be free from here, apparently you already know. If this is the case, you will definitely want to save the Eagle as well, you will just repeat the same story.”
“Start there is something to do, Sakti! I'll gather a lot of clues about this place!” I replied steadily, “since I got stuck here, I found an ancient book that I do not understand, I will study it and find a way out! I'm sure the book has something to do with this place!”
“What book ...”
“If you find a way out, it's a way out for you, not for me.” replied the Eagle.
“Lang, I never knew you as a pessimist!”
“Wait! What book do you mean?” tanya Sakti's.
“The ancient book is dark brown, it contains rigid papers such as from wood fibers of gray color. On it is a lot of strange writing, do you know something?” I asked Sakti.
“Really? You found the book?” tanya Sakti could not believe it. I'm nodding.
“Do you remember that I was waiting for a reply?” tanya Sakti's. Oh, that's what Sakti said the first time when we met, “actually me and Sekti still often communicate through the book, I wrote down notes before turning into monsters, actually me and Sekti still communicate through the book, leave it somewhere for Sekti to read and reply to him. Sekti also do the same, when I turn back into a human, I will read the reply from Sekti, and so on throughout the day. I've been searching all over the place lately, but I didn't find it either, it turns out it's on you!”
“Um, sorry, Sakti, actually the book is now also gone from my hand,” I replied.
“What?!”
“I left it in the reading corner of the class and now it is gone.”
“That means doom, Shira! The last reply message I was waiting for from Sekti was about the way out of this place! You must find him again soon!”
Well, how is this?!
“The book is on me,” said the Eagle.
“Ada to you?”
“Iya, I brought it home since I could see there was writing in it,” replied the Eagle. I let out a sigh of relief.
“Thank God! Thank goodness!” seruku happy. The eagle showed no sign of joy. I forget that this human being has minimal emotions.
“By the way, your weapon is cool huh, Eagle,” says Sakti, “where did you get it?”
“Eh? I thought you gave it to the Eagle so he could defend himself,” I replied. Sakti.
“I've never seen anything like it in all this time,” added Sakti. The eagle was still silent from earlier.
“Yeah, Lang! Say something, we're talking to you!” irked me.
“Be quiet, Shir! I was thinking too! You think I'm not confused about suddenly having something this cool?!” reply Eagle.
Eh? So he doesn't know either?
.Seriate.
