Indigo: The Hand of the Demon
The Begining
#Arc 1: Nightmare | End
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"Yes dad, I've managed to find him in a safe place. Whahuh? Oh... I've also finished the spirit, yes I will immediately bring him home if his mental condition has improved."
Pip's!
"Do you know what really happened to me?" Ask Nabilah who suddenly appeared from behind me. The surprised me immediately put the phone in my pocket.
"Go ahead..."
"First let me say something you have to accept for the rest of your life." This somewhat nervous me just stared at his lips without daring to look at Nabilah's two eyes.
"What should I accept?" Ask with a soft-sounding tone.
"You have been declared dead from the human world. All your relatives, your Uncle, and your Aunt should only know if you're dead. They can't see you back alive, because it could also be a danger to their survival."
Nabilah bowed lethargic.
"So... I can't go back to my old life?"
"true."
"How are Uncle and Aunt?"
"They look pretty devastated."
Nabilah was sitting on a chair in the living room of Ron's mother's house. He propped up his forehead on top of both palms, an extremely dense air of sadness enveloping him. But somehow he even tried to accept the situation that befell him without taking revenge on anything. Far from my estimation, it turns out that she is a girl who has a mental steel.
"Then what am I? What are you too? Why are you even in my trouble?"
I sat next to Nabilah.
"Look, my name's–"
"Rey? I didn't think the quietest kid in class had this personality."
"Yes, I had to cover everything about myself from the outside world. That's why I prefer to be alone. Anyways... Right now you are called a Hollow, or another word is a human who should not die, but instead experience death. Your age is still long, but a special-level spirit kills you instead. Nabilah, you have become a struggle between the spirit world, as well as the human world because you do not live in both. That's why I'm... Ah right. Before, my family was a psychic who ruled this area. If you've heard of the Jordis family, it's my family. As psychics, we are responsible for maintaining the stability of the supernatural state that occurs in this region. And we're also responsible for you, because we just won your custody battle. I'm not forcing you to understand right away, but right now you can see a lot of people you've never seen before. For example, Mother Ron's husband, and my female partner."
Stay away from me for a moment.
"Ma-ma-you mean they are..."
"Yes, ghosts. They've all died. Not only this ability, but all the senses in your body also become much more sensitive than normal humans in general. Your hearing, your vision, your reflexes, everything has increased many times over. You can even see how the fly flies, even if it moves very fast. L'm... Actually after this will take you to live with me."
"Wait!"
"Eh?"
"There's nothing crazier than living with you!"
"Ah sorry, I haven't finished talking. I-I mean living with my dad, my mom too. Like I said before, you're my family's responsibility." My tone became timid, I corrected my sitting position.
"But it seems that for now I will allow you to calm down, and digest all my previous words. All of this must have surprised you a lot, I understand that feeling very well." I said continue.
Ditch your face in the opposite direction.
"I'll be in front of the store, call me if you need anything."
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"How, Rey?"
"He's still shaken, Ron's mother."
My eyes glanced at Mother Ron's husband.
"Hallo, Colonel, long time no see."
"Next time, Rey, Shinta."
I sat in the shop floor drinking a glass of warm tea.
"If Nabilah had not come that night, would it have been okay?" Ask Ron's mother.
"I think it's Nabilah's destiny, so even with hundreds of possibilities, he'll still be here to buy the curse book. It's like it's supposed to happen, we can't avoid it anymore, Miss Ron." My answer.
"I feel guilty for the boy, I don't know what fate will follow him."
"Whatever it is, I swear I'll always look after it."
"Alright, I will trust Nabilah completely to you, Rey."
...***...
Long story short, after waiting more than 2 days. Nabilah finally wanted to follow me home.
Upon reaching home, my whole family came to greet him warmly.
"Welcome, Nabilah." Greet my mother kindly.
"Good morning." Reply to the very awkward Nabilah.
"Let's take you to your room." My mother took Nabilah's hand, and led him to the room he was going to live in.
"Well, just this time I saw a girl that pretty." Uncle Chad's.
"Rey, lest there'll be love locations, hehehe..." Ledek Uncle Billy.
"Where is it possible."
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For days I noticed Nabilah was very quiet even though Shinta always invited him to talk, whether he would feel this way.
At one point, I accidentally walked through his room. He who was about to come out to breathe the morning air passed by me.
Nabilah's shimmering hair turns dark brown when exposed to sunlight.
"Morning, Rey." Welcomed.
"Would you go for a walk with me?"
"What?"
"Bu-not a date, just go out for some fresh air. That's all right." I stammered.
Nabilah looked at me strangely as it passed past me.
"Who would have thought so." Mumbled.
"D-yes." I said slowly, really embarrassed not to play.
"But come on, accompany me for a jog. Even if it's a Hollow or something, I still have to keep my body fit."
"You're not disturbed if I'm with you?" My toot.
"I need people to take care of me, that's if you want. Bye! Follow me if you're interested." Nabilah answered, and he went to do a stretch in my yard, and began to run.
"Pursue him." Whisper my mother with a small laugh from the kitchen.
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I also pursued the pace of running Nabilah which turned out to be very far from my distance. I forgot that if he also now had a speed far exceeding that of a normal human, I continued to run with all my might to compensate.
Hoshs... Hoshs... Hoshs...
"Rey, I need to ask you a few more things." Say Nabilah while adjusting his breath while running.
"Just ask."
"What's my whole life, I'm going to continue being a Hollow? Am I immortal too?" Ask Nabilah.
"For a maximum of a year, you must not be a Hollow for too long or the spirit world will take you forcibly again. Let me explain, Hollows are empty containers where later all kinds of beings from other worlds can make your body as their place of residence. Then you'll turn into an Indigo. Neither you, nor I, will ever experience eternal life because we can all age. It's just that the process is slow and our life span is longer than ordinary humans, and we will continue to experience skin rejuvenation if we turn 30 years and above. We can still die, but for spiritual reasons." I clearly.
"That's the same age I'm only one year old. After all I don't want to be a container for spirits or any of their kind. But... What kind of you are you? Of course you're not an ordinary psychic."
"No, I am the first Indigo of the human race. Since I was a baby I was a Hollow like you, but a Devil was sealed inside my left palm, until I became the container of the Devil."
"Devil? What if at any time he comes out, and goes berserk?" Nabilah.
"He wouldn't have gone berserk if it hadn't been triggered by the emotions from inside my heart. If you can see, there's a red thread in my left hand. This is the seal."
"It turns out your life is no less heavy, yes."
"Haha... It's nothing."
"Currently, laugh." Nabilah also slightly smiled looking at my laughter. It was the first smile I saw after a while.
"Go ahead..."
"Hmm?"
"May I beg for something?"
"Please what?"
"For the next year let me take care of you, so... Never be away from me."
Nabilah's face turned back in the other direction, his cheeks began to glow reddish.
"okay."
...***...
December, 24-2014.
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"YAHOOOO!!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN DAD?!"
"Well, grandfather's decision was also unanimous. After all, come to think of it again, there is no benefit to us going to school, right?"
"WHY NOT JUST FROM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?!!!"
"At that age we still feel you deserve a normal education like any other kid, hahaha... So you don't feel different." Dad laughed while scratching his back neck.
"Again, we'll have our own academy later. The psychic families from various cities agreed to it, yes it is still a discourse made by the secret division, but who knows it will come true. Imagine if the psychic went to school with other fellow psychic, of course they will not be awkward to socialize because their lifestyle is not much different." Added the grandfather sitting next to me, he patted my shoulder softly. The frustrated me could only hold my head.
"Why so disappointed? It doesn't seem like you like school too much, Rey." Ask Nabilah plain.
"just... Why now? Ever since I was a child, I have been tormented by hallucinatory ridicule. Just try it since SD I'm more focused on increasing my power." My answer.
"In half a year we graduate." Connect Nabilah.
"THAT'S IT! THAT TOO..."
"What?"
"Degree! Did you know that diploma is the coolest thing? Rarely do psychics have diplomas because they have never been in formal school. I guess I'm different... Hicks..."
"What's wrong, the dead don't have diplomas either. Let the other children follow my perfect rank."
I fell silent on Nabilah for a moment ...
"Currently, rank 1 is arrogant."
"Rank 20 don't be so hard."
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Eps. 8: Fun facts! The psychics of old were not formally educated like normal people because their purpose in life was to maintain spiritual stability, but that does not mean that the psychics are uneducated, the majority of psychics have their own academies, only it is still uneven because it still has to wait for approval from the government. But not infrequently also in the present era of the psychics attend formal schools in general because of the influence of the times.
