Grizzled

Episode 55's

“... My life and death are only in His hands!”

“Death to you!!”

The demon roared furiously for the sake of hearing my words, almost hitting the chest with its long claws, eyeing my heart. Before that happened, the floor I was lying on completely vanished. My squeezed body felt the sensation of free fall. For a moment it disappeared from sight. Closing his eyes at whatever was next, a faintly heard someone shouting my name. My eyes reflexively opened, looking around for the source of the sound.

“Shira!”

“Lang?!”

I was shocked when the voice of the Eagle sounded not far away. He was also in a free-falling position a few meters away from me, extending his hand. Tried to reach for the Eagle's hand, then I held it firmly as soon as I got it. For a moment feel safe even though we do not know how bad it will be from a height that we do not even know this. Next I saw clearly a glint of dazzling light from the Eagle's back. The old sword embedded there reappeared, looking more beautiful than before. As it was made of clear crystals emitting a soft light. My hand managed to reach the end along with a large clawed hand that also reached the handle. For a moment we didn't feel gravity, floating when we touched this sword. The sneering I saw made me immediately pull my hand, not willing to let the devil take it. What I did was actually take off the sword sheath while the original sword was still in the devil's hand. More awesome light is emitted.

Not long ago had admired him, a hard kick almost hit my face if I did not immediately hold it with a sword sheath. Not hitting me, the next kick hit the Eagle. Our connected hands caused me to be knocked down by the kick. I didn't feel much pain because the Eagle protected me in his arms.

“Lang! A lang?! You okay?” ask me to get rid of the ruins that had befallen us. The answer is no, although Eagle claimed it was okay he must have been slightly injured. I know the buildings around me. The gray world, the other side of my school, and the bright full moon that seemed to be looking at us.

No mistake, the third full season!

It felt like we had just been in a pleasant festival atmosphere, suddenly already in the opposite place.

“Sial, I lost that sword before starting any fight!” the False Eagle spat out blood at the corner of his lips.

“Sorry, I should have been able to defend it,” I replied handing over the sword sheath I had saved.

“Not your fault, Shir.”

“The sword is indeed important, but the top fight is over,” said Sakti who suddenly appeared. Uh, no, his gloomy face .. could he be ... Sectional? In the form of a human being at night?

“True, don't worry. The sword will always return to its sheath. As long as his sword sheath is on you guys, I'm sure everything is fine,” replied one other person who was similar with a carefree expression. Well, right .. he's Sakti, who was his sister. Sakti started his healing technique on the Eagle who might have been injured during the crash.

“Sakti! Sections! You two ... stand in the same space and time?” I don't really understand how it can be like this, but I'm really not used to seeing those who are like betel nut split in two lined up with each other.

“Yes, at the moment the gap of light is already open and we can finally be together. Unfortunately, our meeting after hundreds of years is not too dramatic because my little sister who lacks emotion!” answer Sakti. Eh?! Did I hear wrong?!

“Be quiet!” reply Sekti don't care.

“Open light gap?” ask the Eagle ahead of me.

“Yes, after the peak battle you won, the gap of light that has been closed from virtue has opened, bringing the forgiveness that Shira begs for the black souls here,” Sakti replied the more I did not understand. Peak battles? Which was? Me and the Eagle have even just arrived.

“The top battle we have never seen, which only the two of you have won, turns out to be a fight against the devil in ourselves, against all weakness and darkness in each of our hearts,” replied Sekti. Oh, that one?!

“We can never interpret a top fight about a turning point event if we don't see what happens to you. It was not an easy match. Not many people can overcome our own passions, weaknesses, and darkness. Of course I'm amazed you two can both win it!” answer Sakti. Me and the Eagle looked at each other. Heh? Just be right! Eagles too? Whoa, whoa!

“Previous souls may have been killed because the vices of each one ruled themselves first during the search for a slit of light. But you have your own way of finding the truth to believe the same thing.”

“True, my failure and Sekti came out of here hundreds of years ago probably because Sekti believed different things. They themselves do not want forgiveness. My defense is useless. I was also worried that Shira changed her mind considering the choice that Shira faced was also not easy,” answered Sakti. I was a little embarrassed because they were watching me.

“Eh? But it's really over, huh? Means right I said no one should be sacrificed ‘kan? TUH, LOOK! I SAID WHAT TOO?! FORTUNATELY, I WON THAT TIME!” I said loudly in front of the Eagle, remembering how stubborn he used to be. I am so thankful that the Eagle must agree with me.

“Iya, yes ... thank you! I was only really able to believe that and love myself when finally someone asked me to stay alive, ” she replied to her first sincere smile. I just sneered at him annoyed. Suppose he trusted me a long time ago!

“Well, since the light gap has opened at this time, try to activate the seal so that we can be free. Do you know his position?” ask Sekti.

The eagle shook his head while I nodded.

“I know! The only luminous object on the edge of the boundary of this world is that full moon!” point me to the sky, “tadi we arrived here after free fall from the air ‘kan? All this time we thought the boundaries of the gray world were the same as the school barriers, when obviously we never went in and out of this world through it. It's always the first sky I see when I open my eyes because that's where our souls are thrown to get here.”

“Yeah, every cycle of sixty years when the third full moon I always look at the moon, wondering where the position of the light gap, it turns out it is precisely the moon itself ....”kata Sakti sounds like I agree.

“What the fuck?! All the information I gathered was more wrong than right,” Sekti continued.

“Obviously we lost a lot to Shira! Shitty!” timpal Eagle.

“It's not so, Sect! In fact your information is not entirely wrong,” I argue.

“Yes, one truth mixed with various deceit, like this is the cursed world!”

I'm just smiling, “But you once said that I wouldn't be exposed to the deceit of this world, that's what you said when we first met, Sekti.”

“Ah, yes ... whatever, the white soul is indeed dazzling!”

“Then the form of a slit of light in the flashback event how was it?” ask Eagle.

“Looks like it wasn't a slit of light, Lang! I don't feel like being released. The demands are the same as those demons ask, sacrificing you. I think it's another devil's trap,” Sakti replied.

“True, the hexagon formation is also the same as the trap lock at the six points we found, Lang!” my answer.

“Ah, trap inside trap, damn!” as if the Eagle is upset.

“And it seems like that flashback deliberately wants to mislead you.”

The eagle sighed for a moment after Sakti finished his healing technique, “So, how do I activate that gap seal?” ask Eagle.

“Try asking your sword,” replied Sekti.

“You don't see the sword is not in my hand?” reply Eagle.

“Mean called, dong! The sword only complies with its owner!” Answer Sakti.

“Don't tell me you don't know how to call him either?” my question then handed the scabbard to him, “nih, he is still the same weapon, which only you obey as before. You can definitely call him here! Try!”

The eagle just flipped through this sword sheath, but still seriously observed it. Occasionally clucking annoyed, he still did not understand. The three of us are still hoping. After that, the Eagle made a move like pulling the sword out of its sheath as if it was there. Slowly, the dots of light gathered in his grasp, increasingly solid forming a sword as the Eagle continued to slowly pull it away. I held my breath to watch the scene.

No one expected the lightning to suddenly thunder when the sky was so clean without clouds, along with the unplugging of the whole sword. The awesome light from the sword eyes shimmered beautifully. The eagle tried to swing it in several directions.

“You forgot to blink, Shir? I know I'm cool,” he said too confident.

“No!” I argue raggedly, “your hands are clearly shaking. Your swing is unstable.”

“True, there is a flow of energy towards my body. My hands are not used to receiving it yet,” replied the Eagle.

Next I understood that the lightning earlier had absolutely nothing to do with the power of this sword. The lightning came about because of something else, a disaster that we were facing next. The second and third lightning whips split the distance between me and the Eagle, as well as Sakti and Sekti, leaving behind a long trail of fire one and a half meters high that I could not get through. The black smoke billows floated low not far from us. A pair of orange dots that I particularly recognize glittered in between. Finally he appeared after this sword we recaptured!

“Well, now it's our turn to fight,” Sakti replied stretching for a moment.

“Yes, you two finish your last business. Leave this one to us,” replied Sekti. The pair of twin brothers sped up quickly, resisting the attack that led to us.

“For a while, how do I break through this fire to get to your place?” my many. This fire fence seemed to cross the length of the backyard. Ah, bodo amateurs! If I have to take a detour that far, I still have to do it while Sakti and Sekti can still resist the demon's attack. For a moment I remembered Sakti's words that the demonic attack in that form had no effect on me nor the Eagle. I managed to break through the fire fence unharmed, putting it out instead.

“So, how?” my many.

“How did you do that earlier?” the eagle answered asking.

“Keflame-later! Take care of the seal first! What should I help you with?”

“Alright, can you see the dim pattern on this page?” tanyakanya. I nodded, finding a bluish light in the shape of a circle ten steps in diameter with one smaller circle inside. I caught the sword sheath that Eagle threw at me. Not much to say, the Eagle made a scratch on the ground with his sword following the pattern earlier. The faint circular light pattern radiated brightly after being scratched by the Eagle sword. I see, doing the same thing using a sword sheath, creating scratches on the pattern of circles of smaller diameter. The sound of commotion was still heard from the twin's two-on-one fight with the demon.

When we were halfway close to completing each one of the circles, another more complicated light pattern spread out, filling in the circle pattern we made. Right after our two circles were completed, the light formation we were lighting up was increasingly glowing. Me and the Eagle in the middle were amazed. Then out of nowhere, a group of people surrounded us at the edge of the outermost circle, rushing to touch the light formation within.

“Souls get lost before us, Shir,” said the Eagle answered something I had not asked. They also returned to their original forms!

“I can't believe they are monsters that trouble us every night,” I answered watching them one by one, then flabbergasted once they were broken into blue fireflies like when Sakti teleported. The view around us looks beautiful. I was always amazed when Sakti single-handedly did it, but this time around twenty people, it made me feel like I was surrounded by a curtain of light slowly rising into the sky. Soon, a spiral staircase emerged from the circle, rising to almost touch the full moon crystal that never floated high in the sky of this world.

“Quick, Shir! They're waiting to be released up there!” said the Eagle started climbing up. I follow behind him. The lightning bolt distracted me. The twins fight continues. This time the demon attack went directly towards me and the Eagle, but it was as if there was an antidote wall around the stairs, not allowing any magic to hit us.

“We know a lot of black magic that swallows light in this place. There is no light that is truly bright, not even the full moon that we see today. Too dim, when no one should be able to hide the light,” said the Eagle still continued to move up without looking exhausted while I was left a few steps below. The more it feels the farther up.

“That's why, at the top of this ladder later, when I manage to scratch the full moon crystal with this sword, you're the one who will cast a spell to unseal the gap, freeing that full light to shine brightly, ' he said, illuminate the corners of this place, defeating the darkness that had been in power. This is something we believe in, Shir! The event when the departed will return, the sinful are forgiven, the event when the turn of virtue prevails ..”.

“Turnpoint!” sahutku.

The cries of Sakti and Sekti were heard simultaneously with the sound of lightning. All I could see was their bodies that were already sprawled.

“HOW DARE YOU GUYS DISCUSS THAT SHIT!”

The eagle wouldn't let me worry about the two, asking me to keep going up because the devil started climbing from the bottom of the stairs. It was only by taking on a human form that the demon was able to get close to this ladder, but in the end there was no magic that he could use to harm us, only close combat with bare hands or weapons could he do to prevent us from unsealing the light gap, but his position far below was still not too dangerous. All we have to do is keep moving up.

“Stop! That prophecy never existed! This world will be as immortal as the virtues you believe in! You can't destroy one side of life that you don't like! I said stop!”

The cry of the devil was only the wind then for me and the Eagle who had stepped on the top of the stairs. There was not much he could do when the Eagle sword shuffled into the air, swinging down on the full moon crystal above us, channeling the dazzling glint of light that had engulfed us for a moment, then the sword seemed to lead me to cast a spell I had never known before. Here goes!

“For the sake of virtue name ... Evil and angkara have no right to rule the universe forever ... When the time comes .. aghk!”

My words came to a halt as my back felt torn apart. The Eagle's eyes were perfectly rounded, quite surprised when my blood splashed on it. A dagger shot through my left chest. The owner of the cruel eye down there's the culprit. Staggered, I lost my balance, fell tumbling along the stairs before the Eagle could stop me. His voice shouting my name sounded hoarse.

I just stopped rolling when a kick hit my stomach, making me vomit blood. The devil's grin was on the Eagle.

“Tick that sword from there!” cold command. The new eagle wanted to come down to catch up with me but the demon's orders were still the same, the more indisputable it became. I shook my head, hinting that the Eagle would not obey him. I myself still whispered as much as I could to finish the seal-opening spell I heard from the sword. All the objects in this gray world slowly decayed into light powder that flew into space.

“Ah, well, my magic partially vanished as the seal started working. What can I still use with the rest of my strength huh? Hm, physical torture is too boring, this girl is too weak and not exciting,” said the demon clutched my head in one hand.

“I'll pull it out! Get your hands off Shira!” replied The eagle took great pains to draw back his sword.

“Do not, Lang!” I said thrashing with the rest of my strength, more worried that the Eagle actually did it.

“Let me play a little magic,” said the demon sent me an unusual pulse of pain in my head. My body shakes because of it.

“Wah, I accidentally erased his memories of the last two months about this world. Have I erased all his memories during his life?”

“Don't you dare ..”

The next Eagle's words haven't run out yet. My eyes were wrapped in darkness and my ears were blocked in silence. I felt no more pain. There was a feeling of relief hugging me warmly. The various flashbacks that flashed in front of me I let through. My meeting with Sakti, chasing monsters, me and the Eagle discussing, searching for clues, will I keep all this together?

Next I don't understand where I am. It was as if I was in the sky watching everything. Watching the Eagle now fighting with his sword against the devil –wah, he plucked it real, watching Sakti and Sekti still sprawled, watching myself who was now curled not far from the twins, he pulled it out, watching Sakti and Sekti still sprawled, watching myself who was now curled up not far from the twins, above the pool of blood that radiated from the hole in my chest. The atmosphere around was still awesome with everything shimmering into a powder of light lifted into the air.

Sword Eagle managed to stick to the devil's neck after a long time he lost control attacking, blindly, making the devil managed to be pushed as it is now. However, the demon did not feel threatened at all with the situation right now.

“You want to kill Mr Hanri?” ask the Eagle whose sword is still flinching, “your desire to kill is still always there. Terrible huh?” the word demon was successful in making the Eagle just sculpt. No, Lang! Don't listen to his words!

“The facts are like this, son! You can't finish me off despite ending this gray world entity, despite killing my current form. I will remain in everyone's heart, in your heart as well. Please finish me off and celebrate your victory, but I never lose, you know!” said the demon removed the Eagle sword from his neck. The sword was thrown but the Eagle himself had no intention of picking it up, staring intently at the demonic figure.

“But I will never get tired of fighting you, no matter how hard you are to beat! If I ever defeat you in myself, then I dare to defeat you a little in the form of someone else, in any form!” reply Eagle, “this is my request as the winner this time. Go all the way from me, from Shira, from the people we come into contact with!”

I'm sick of seeing that demon smile the same way that Mr. Hanri did.

“Alright, I will spend the rest of my life in seclusion, too embarrassed to be defeated by children. I'm just a lowly demon, anyway! Don't worry, the other more violent demons will definitely be curious and want to see you soon!” said the demonic figure grinned for the last time then picked up a bolt of lightning, it vanished, leaving a blaze soaring high.

The eagle's attention was on my lying body. Once again I know nothing of my true position now. Seeing everything clearly made me feel like I was in the sky, but not only that. Through the air in this place, I could feel the trembling hands of the Eagle pulling my hair from my face. The whitening strands look cool like Sakti's. I once said that I like hair color like that. Through the air in this place as well, I could feel the throat of the Eagle narrowing my name softly, asking me to get up even though the fear of the worst had taken hold of it. Through the ground in this place, I could feel a movement. Sakti groaned briefly, woke up and was flabbergasted to see the situation around.

“Seals ... successfully open,” he said with chest up and down, “ turning points ... the event actually happened!”

Then his gaze went to the Eagle who was looking down on my body. Trouble crawling close to us, he himself began to decay into light dust.

“Elang ... Shira?!”

Sakti herself was at a loss for words, staring at the dagger that pierced through my chest full of regret.

“In the end no one is sacrificed, but if Shira is killed while freeing the curse of this world .. what is her name?! What should I explain to her parents? Her sister? The guys? I understand why he didn't want to see me die, because this is how it feels ..”

I was silent even though I was speechless. I can feel the Eagle's chest starting to get crowded with a number of feelings of guilt.

“I won't let you, Lang,” replied Sakti. He carefully pulled out the dagger from where it stuck. Blood no longer flowed as the hole in my chest that stopped going up and down was gaping. With a remnant of strength, Sakti tried her healing technique on me, but it actually accelerated her to a dust of light.

“Please, Sakti! Hold on until Shira survives!” pinta Eagle.

“I want it too, Lang!” balas Sakti's. The hole in my chest almost closed when the Eagle couldn't prevent the Sakti from fading.

“I'm too sad to say thank you,” says Sakti.

“No, please, Sakti! Hold on longer! Say something I have to do to save Shira!”

Unfortunately I am also sad because I cannot say goodbye to the good figure who helped me a lot in the gray world. I wanted to capture the dust of its light, feel the remnants of its warmth, friendliness, and sincerity. A little wish I could keep her smile and take her home. Too bad there are no mementos that we exchange to remember each other. No photos or eye-flags. Traces of our togetherness also disappeared from this place. The rooms where we hid in discussion, the buildings that were destroyed and repaired, everything, vanished without a trace.

There was only me and the Eagle in the vast field. The Eagle's hand no longer trembled against my body. Lemas, the rest of his strength also seemed to be uprooted faced with this fact. Ducking deeply, there were clear dots that were quietly drifting down her cheeks. I told you, he doesn't fit a face like that at all. I wanted to hug her back, but right now I'm in the sky, watching her carry my body, out of nowhere.

.Seriate.

Bye, pay off my promise! Last episode before April ends. 😫Eh, should it be over instead of connecting? It's easy, if it's really the last one I'll just change later. Beres!

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