Presage Flower: Sapphire'S Sorrow

Adam Belucci

The afternoon, at 10 am, was the earliest time for the Sky to wake up from its 5-hour slumber. He saw his sister still dreaming until she spit out her saliva periodically and wet her pillow, leaving dry saliva around her lips.

The sky got up from the bed, he tidied up the slightly messy blanket and spread it out again with the Ocean below.

His head was very heavy, his eyes were twitching. The dream was very strange and very stressful. Dreams when he can't move and his sister is in a serious condition.

The sky came out with staggering steps towards the bathroom, then washed his face. Even a little, he was feeling better now.

'What was that?' Thought the Sky inwardly while looking at the wall clock.

The sky grabbed his phone, he called the Princess who might still be in class and ate lunch from her home.

"Hello?"

"Prinses, I'm not in today. Can you make me an excuse?"

"Oh, you and your brother I'm allowing. Ms. Aurum said, you can face him tomorrow."

"In front of?" The sky walked towards the sofa and turned on the tv.

"Just a pleasantries question. Formality of doang."

"Okay." Sky said as he hung up the phone.

The sky is watching an entertainment show in the morning, although he is currently not entertained at all by the celebrity watching shows that are raping other celebrities. Eventually she switched the tv channel to another show.

"Hm?" Sky was rather interested in the news show he watched, they discussed about Dusk last night.

"about the man, here we see the amateur footage."

'Oh, there's someone who recorded yesterday's incident.' Thought the Sky saw itself on the tv screen.

According to him, this recording was quite good, although he had never trained to use a parachute like other units of the army, but he managed to do it with the instincts he had, after all, there was no strong angina, at that time, so he can do it smoothly.

"Whoah! The kereeen! It's crazy for people!"

The sky grieves, it could be that he is crazy even though the connotation is different.

"-stay discussing this case, it has been confirmed from the police that ******* who was the perpetrator in the Jembrana square incident has no relationship with the virgin. They are purely******* that are"

"Sister?" The ocean came out of the room, she rubbed her still sleepy eyes.

"Hey, you awake?" The sky stood up, he walked towards the kitchen while the Ocean sat on the sofa.

The sky took the pot and filled it with water, then boiled it on the stove, after which he opened the refrigerator and took out a box of milk the size of a liter and put it in the pot along with the box.

Bored with news broadcasts, Samudra switched the tv channel to the morning cartoon channel. He watched Jojo's most recent Weird Adventure series.

The sky turned off the stove, he picked up the milk box that was already hot and dried it with a dry cloth. After that he came to the Ocean with one glass in his hand.

"It."

"Thank you, brother." Answer the Ocean while receiving the glass poured milk to the full.

Sky sipped warm milk straight from inside his box, he watched this cartoon together with his sister.

The sound of an incoming call was heard from Sky's phone, he stood up and approached the phone and received a phone call.

"Corning, can you go to the base?"

"Huh? I told you it was day I-"

"There's a commander here, and he ordered you to come."

"Okay, I'm leaving."

The sky hung up, he put his phone in his pocket and walked towards the Ocean looking at his brother with a face filled with worry.

"You going again?"

"Yes." Yeah."

The ocean stood up, she placed her empty glass on the small table next to the sofa, after which she hugged her brother with a heavy breath.

"Sister gets out more and more, and too often sister almost dies."

The sky stroked his sister's head, "This time it's safe, just an interview with the boss."

"Really?"

The sky nodded, he knelt on one knee, like he was calming a little boy he looked up and rubbed his sister's cheek.

"Don't worry."

"If so, take me to the city library. At least I have to study a little, take the test." Samudra.

"Take your tools, we're leaving in 4 minutes."

"Yes." Yeah." The ocean went into the room, he stuffed some books into a bag, and carried a laptop bag.

When he was done with his tools, Samudra put on his clothes properly. The long white skirt of red floral motifs, and the long-sleeved white shirt with a bow tie in red.

Samudra is very familiar with the behavior of his brother, when he gave time to prepare, at that time he went down and turned on the motor.

In the time he gave to get ready, he heated the motor while waiting.

Hence, Samudra immediately entered the elevator that was not used by the Sky so as not to take too long, his brother always used the elevator on the left, while the Ocean used the elevator in the middle.

Sky saw his sister coming out of the entrance of the apartment when he was just about to ride the motorbike, his sister looked relaxed because it was on time.

"Come on."

"Yes." Yeah."

The ocean was behind her brother, she held onto his laptop bag and waited until she reached her destination.

Sky phones ring with notification sounds like at the airport, "Dear owner, this phone is being called by a identified person of yours, this ringtone will be silent if yo-"

Sky took out his cell phone from his pants pocket and gave it to the Ocean, calling someone while driving and caught on camera will make a license that belongs to Sky will be detained.

"Yes?" Samudra made a call on her sister's phone.

"Archer, have you left?"

"My dear take me to the city library for a bit. He'll probably be a little late."

"Can you go straight to the base? Commander waited too long."

The ocean pulled on her brother's shirt, whose shirt was pulled open the helmet glass and ready to listen.

"Sister, go directly to the headquarters he said, later I can go on an online motorcycle taxi."

The sky nodded and kept driving straight. If he wanted to go to the city library, then he would have to turn right, it was fortunate that he had not changed direction and could remain straight to the headquarters.

"By the way, who's this calling?"

"This is Panda, there should be my contact name there."

"My dear named him Hiddletuck, I'm sure you don't have a name like that."

"Hiddletuck?! Fucking archer."

Hiddletuck is the name of a panda bear that has an inverted fur color, rather strangely imagining a panda with white eyes.

Even so, this species is one of the rare and endangered, its age is more than 36 years and only 2 left in the entire planet.

"Tell them to call an online motorcycle taxi from headquarters to the city library."

"Yes." Yeah." Samudra replied, "My dear told me to call the ojek online from the headquarters to the city library."

"Okay, all right, come quickly."

"Good."

Samudra put the phone back in her brother's pocket, while her brother remained focused on the congested, yet smooth, streets.

The regulations in the city of Pertangkang, according to the local government, driving speed of at least 45 miles per hour, so that many people speed on this road and launch the current driving.

However, this has an impact on the number of motorists who are victims of accidents on the road, so they use public transportation that runs no more than 45 miles per hour, this lowers the level of congestion, and congestion, except rush hour or work hour, as it is today.

Once they were at the headquarters, Sky parked his motorbike in front and gave a salute that was immediately reciprocated by the Princess.

"Samudra, I'll pick you up when you're done."

"Yes, I'll go first." Samudra answered while grabbing her brother's cheek and giving him a kiss.

"Drug." He said as he waved to the car that had been called by Panda.

The sky returned his brother's hand, then went inside.

"Good day." A Princess to the Sky.

The sky nodded, "You haven't changed?"

The princess shook her head, "Not that formal, I'll be back at school again. It's just a sudden."

"Come inside." Panda said.

The sky came in and was faced with a big man who was smoking.

"Can you turn off your cigarette? There's a suffocation here."

"Accher!" Panda snapped at the sky.

"Mahahaha." The man laughed as he shook his head, he put out his cigarette in the ashtray and walked up to the sky, "As Prinses said, you have no lie."

"Greetings." The sky gave his hand to shake hands, the man shook the hand of Heaven then immediately sat down on the sofa.

"You gonna tell me your name or what?" Ask the big guy.

"Come on, you must have heard my report from Panda." Sky replied as he sat down and flicked his hand, "Black coffee glass."

"You think I'm a helper"

"If I wear milk." The sentence from the man made the Panda who was ashen to the Sky immediately go and do his duty, "So, Sapphire Sky?"

"Hm?"

"My name is Januri, Deral Januri. I'm the military commander."

"Oh, I know about you."

"really?"

"Yes, you failed when you captured Kydict Kristal at Herring Harbor. I laughed because you lost 16 men back then."

Commander Januri was somewhat annoyed by the sentence that Sky had thrown, although it was in accordance with what was reported by the Princess, but this was outrageous.

"This is the coffee, sir." Said Panda giving a coffee to Commander Januri, "Nih."

"Thank you." Commander Januri said.

"I don't need you here, go."

"Heh, you're that-"

The Princess held Panda to speak further, while Commander Januri nodded her head in approving sign of Heaven. After that, they left the room.

"So, Heaven, or Archer, I wanted to know about how much you know about the military world, so I invited you here."

"Together."

"What do you mean by 'sama-sama'?

The sky drank his coffee a mouthful, after which put it back on the table.

"I also want to know how much you understand about the military, Deral Januri."

"You know, Sky, you better be more polite to your boss."

"I'd be polite if this chat was straight to the point."

Commander Januri was silent for a moment, he was thinking about how Sky could know, understanding if he was doing some pleasantries to melt the atmosphere.

"I wonder how you know about the virgin's strategy to kidnap girls all over town."

"Oh, I thought you wanted to know who did it."

"Huh?" Commander Januri was surprised, he did not expect that Sky already knew the culprit, "You know?"

"No."

Commander Januri is getting upset, he's like talking to a professional comedian.

"So?"

"It's all just a hunch."

"Nonsense?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"How can you assume it with a hunch?"

The sky sighed heavily, it seemed like he was a bit overwhelmed by the question his commander was too much curious about.

"You know that if they kidnap girls the same way, they always kidnap girls and take their organs. Wh-wh-what for? The first question comes up, and the normal answer is for money. But there's another purpose behind it all, look at this."

"This is a necklace, an upside-down cross. Then look at this."

The picture of the necklace shifted to the right, there was a picture of a paper with many symbols written in red.

"This is a seal or seal to summon demons into the world. I've read summoning books and many other books on the same subject, and they're both tied to the demon lord."

"You sure?"

"I've never been wrong with my decision, I'm sure you also know how I saved your son who was a hostage in Jembrana, how I ambushed and foiled a kidnapping overnight, and then all the virgin plans in every town overnight, and this decision of my mind, you can't argue even if you're a commander."

"No way, Sky. Humans must have a gap, there is no way you can be right forever without a crack even a small."

"Your mother 52, your son was just a senimorangkir, your wife died giving birth to him, before leaving here you hit someone and fell on your knees, and you were an accomplished liar."

Commander Januri was surprised at the silence of his voice, he took his cup of coffee whose heat had dropped and drank a mouthful.

"How do you know?"

"You think, hm?"

Commander Januri was completely overwhelmed by the sky which he thought was unwilling to coordinate and not to be cooperative with the military like him.

According to him, if he joined as a High School child and not as an official member, then he has no obligation to obey anyone.

Even the princess who was a captain led him in the team.

"Alright, even so, I expect a lot from you on the battlefield. I don't know how to thank you for that"

"Education, health, and shelter."

"Huh?"

"Yes, I want you to ensure education for my sister Samudra Sapphire up to S3, I want her to be on a big campus like Hale or Yordane, I've won health insurance bets from Panda, but I want you to take full care of my sister's health, and then I want a decent place to live other than in my parents' apartment that I'm gonna make a restaurant for later."

"Oh, you think that's thanks? Maybe it's too light."

"I'm not done yet."

"Oh well."

"I want my house to be in every region, this means one in Basuki Kingdom, Kyuto, Lorda, Venus, Coral, Portaquen, Margo Kingdom, Harphia, and Krelta. Then I want a license for possession of any type of firearm and an independent military identification."

"I can take care of a part of your house in each area, but what do you mean by a firearm permit and independent identification?"

The sky gulped down his black coffee and stood up.

"That's a very cheap price compared to the life of your son who almost died yesterday. Take it or there won't be a hostage rescue for a second time."

"But all that-"

The sky walked out without hearing a word from the commander, The Princess and the Panda who saw it came out of the room curious about what happened.

"Hey, old. Give it to me."

"What do you mean - oh, it's at the front desk, and stop calling me 'old'!"

"Ok, virgin."

"More than virgins!"

The panda shouted very loudly, The sky made him upset and angry, even so, Sky walked out and picked up the health insurance documents on his own behalf at the front desk.

"Archer, wait a minute."

The sky looked back to find out the source of the voice, it turned out to be the Princess.

"What?"

"I hope we can work together even better."

"Geeh." The sky let out a long sigh, he took out a piece of paper and wrote down something, "Approve this and I will join the military police."

"What is i-pfft hahaha!" The princess laughed so loudly, what she held was the criteria for the girl Sky wanted to marry.

"Find people like that, as much as possible. I'll choose it myself." Said Sky while turning on his motor.

"Haha-hah, yes, but, why would you want a girl like this?" Asked the Princess who still left a bit of laughter in her sentence, while Sky was wearing a helmet and ready to leave.

"I need a toy."

The Sky Motor growled, he left the Princess who walked inside the headquarters.

"Please find someone like this." Princess Said.

"A female type, no way, is this what the heavens write?" Panda did not believe it.

"Yes." Yeah."

"Wahaha! That kid can be like this too, right?! Let me see." Panda reads the criteria girls want Sky one by one.

"Hm, cheap smile, easy to get along with, active in social, intelligent, never hurt people's feelings."

The Panda and the Princess looked at each other, "Wahahahaha!"

"Crazy crazy! He's been hurt by women?!"

"Well, don't you think?"

"Haha! Aye." Yeah."

While the two were still laughing at the paper Heaven had given him, he was riding a motorbike towards the city library.

He was sure his sister had learned a lot there even though it was still not an hour she was there. The ocean is a smart kid, and the sky is well versed with it, learning new things like foreign languages, and politics, would be like killing a bullet ant in the Amazon interior.

Arriving at the city library, he parked his motorbike in a parking lot that had been provided in the middle of the building. The city library building is 'U' with a parking lot and a small park in the middle.

The library was built in the old architectural style, adopting the Netherland building that colonized Indonesia for 68 years. In the history books that are no longer used, historians note that the period of Netherland colonization in Indonesia is 350 years, but it is not clear what year until how many.

However, Sulthon Zulkarnaen who published a history book a few days ago, revealed that the occupation of Netherlan began during the attack on Aceh in 1877, and this occupation ended in 1945.

All sources are credible and reliable so this has become common knowledge in the people of the Republic of Asia United States, where Indonesia has become part of the country.

And because it just came out yesterday, his friends are overwhelmed working on analasis in his class.

The sound of small bells ringing the door, indicating a visitor entering the library.

"Can I help you?" Ask a librarian woman who is not busy handling other visitors like other librarians.

"Nothing."

The librarian nodded, "In that case, please fill out the visitor list."

Sky opened his wallet and swiped his student card on the scanner. All of his information had already entered and he was already allowed to roam around inside this vast library.

"Thank you, if you need to, ask for help with another librarian, okay?"

"OK."

The sky walked in, he could still feel a sense of astonishment despite having entered here several times. There are so many books, whether they are historical, general, novel, comic, psychology, politics, all exist and are complete.

Even if there are complaints of lack of books, or the unavailability of books, the library will bring books in less than 48 hours.

The bookshelves are numerous, there are 5 floors the size of a football field, and all of these floors are in 5 different buildings that make up the letter 'U'.

As Sky was still enjoying his amazement at seeing a little girl trying to pick up a book using a sliding staircase, his focus was sidetracked with a man.

"Hey, having trouble finding a book?" Ask the man.

"No, I'm waiting for someone." Sky answered while watching where this man was walking from, "Maybe you can recommend a book for me?"

"Hm?" The man smiled, "You know who I am?"

"No, I just know you're the book curator. Look at your desk, it's a mess."

"Hehe." The man laughed softly so as not to disturb the other visitors, "Adam, Adam Belucci."

"Safe Sky." The sky answered, and the two shook hands.

"Come here, I'll show you something."

The sky followed the man from behind, he walked towards the once messy table along with the laptop and tablet that had not died yet. The sky sat with the man facing each other.

"Have you heard of the book The Scroll of Ether?" Ask the man.

"Finally, the story is about a professor who uses ether compounds and uses them for weapons of war."

The man nodded, he took out a piece of paper and gave it to the Sky.

"Diethyl-ether is a flammable compound, in the story, this professor uses his chemical expertise to make a fire that is not easily extinguished."

The sky observes a sheet of paper containing an array of chemical compounds called diethyl-eter from the man.

"You mean?" Ask Sky while putting a piece of paper on the table.

"Greek fire." The man opened the book he was talking about and showed it to the Sky, "The fire that never goes out, the recipe has been lost since Byzantine times and the author of the book Scroll of Ether discovered the Greek recipe again and included it in the story."

"Even so, isn't it all just an imaginary reality from Nining Nur Yanti? Uh, wait." The sky picked up another sheet of chemical compound paper and read it carefully, "You got another sheet?"

Adam gives two other sheets containing the same thing, about the composition of the compounds of diethyl-eter, but slightly different.

"Not this, the Greek fire recipe?" Guess Sky.

"Wow, that's exactly what you said." Adam was amazed by this guess of the person before him, "This recipe has been lost since Byzantine times, but Nining Nur Yanti managed to crack it and reconstruct this recipe."

"There's been an experiment?"

"There's." Adam thrust a few sheets of paper at Sky, it seemed like a report of a certain activity.

"This? Daily report of Greek fire at the residence of Nining Nur Yanti?"

"Yes, it's been 832 days. Exactly 2 years more the fire has not been extinguished in a fire furnace coated with Tungsten."

Tungsten has a very high melting point, it takes tens of thousands of degrees Kelvin to melt Tungsten. The Greek fire was no more than 500˚Kelvin.

"remarkable. But isn't this illegal?"

"Of course it's illegal. That's why he's in a special prison scientist."

A scientist-only prison is one in which all the prisoners are scientists who have the potential to commit crimes.

There are those who create things that should not, such as portable nuclear bombs, human cloning, reforming the human form through the DNA of other creatures, but many of them are testing on humans, he said, and some of them are crazy.

"Why tell me this?"

"You know, Sapphire. There weren't many people who could be chatted with on a topic like this."

"Then do you think I'm a good fit?"

"Of course, especially when you write a journal about alleviating poverty. Hence the Republic became the strongest country in the world in terms of social welfare."

"Oh, I'm just helping out a bit, the journal was published in Dienyta Pohnja's name, not in my name."

"Although so, Sapphire. Your name is on the front page. Are you not more knowledgeable?"

The sky was silent, he simply did not expect anyone to read the publishing section on the front page of the journal.

Even his name was written so small, that people forgot anyone who helped publish and compile the journal.

However, to Sky, the time when he needed that money so much, all he would do even if he had to sell his brain contents. It happened before he debuted as a hacker on a crypto-currency site.

"Hey, did you say you're a curator? What are you doing here?"

"I'm waiting for my friend. They'll be here by 2. It's almost time."

"Then." The sky stands, "I'll go first."

"Yes, be careful."

The sky nodded, he walked towards building number 3. He is currently in building 2, and only a few minutes away to building 3 where all the exact sciences are located.

"Sister?"

"Oh, here it turns out."

Sky finds his sister reading a book about quantum anomalies by Frederic Horbel. This is a language that no 16-year-old should read.

"Wow."

"I'm just curious, hehe."

"Your curiosity might be a good tool, but don't overdo it."

"Yes." Yeah."

The sky looked at his watch, it was almost 2 o'clock. He had to go home immediately and do the missed task for a few days.

"Come on."

"Yes." Yeah."