Savages
A Tragedy
Misaki's statement made Hiroshi speechless. It's true, a fool needs someone else who will make him smart, because basically a smart person exists thanks to a fool. For Misaki, science is important as long as it is still beneficial for her life, and life is very important for her. He wants to be able to protect important people, even if he has to go down the wrong path.
“Until. So, where are we going to chat?” Hiroshi's question makes Misaki's daydreams crumble.
“You know the origin of GAS, ‘kan?” ask Misaki to the point.
“Hahaha, you are really a cold girl, yes. You don't want to ask me my age, have a girl or not, or anything else?” Hiroshi joked while pinching Misaki.
“Not important,” the answer is short.
“Waw, really cold. I'm heartbroken, you know.”
Misaki looks bored. Hiroshi's unfunny jokes, terrible scenery, stench of rotten leaves, weathered and cramped chairs add to his bossy mood.
“You look uninspired, I'm sorry. Okay, just get on with it. According to the book I read, GAS has existed since the beginning of human creation. GAS is one of the creatures that God created and passed down to the chosen human so that the human can see his own age and the age of others, with the purpose of warning,” he explained.
“Then why must kill others so that we can get an extra age?”
Hiroshi had just heard of this. He was astonished and did not know about the addition of age.
“How do you know that? Have you killed anyone?”
“Bu-not so. I got it from a dream,” he replied lying. Misaki is not ready if she should be labeled as a murderer.
“GAS users are called ‘Megan’, and each Megan has its own strengths, even the special strengths are different. I think, if you want to get an extra age, you have to kill people. So, can you be a killer?”
Misaki was immersed in fear. What if his lifespan was really going to run out and he had to kill people to increase his lifespan?
“How can I sacrifice innocent people to increase my age? I should how? I don't want to die yet, why did God choose me and give me this power? I really don't understand,” he said in a frightened tone.
Hiroshi felt unbearable to Misaki. Misaki, the cold girl who managed to make Hiroshi fall in love since Misaki just entered university. Hiroshi hugged Misaki and calmed his state
“Misaki, cry if it can make you relieved.”
Misaki cries out loudly and hugs Hiroshi firmly. Hiroshi received Misaki's treatment, as if he knew what she was feeling.
“What should I do now?” misaki asked in Hiroshi's arms, “don't leave me alone, I don't know how to deal with the life path God has laid out. Should I exploit my weakness?”
Hiroshi was silent for a moment.
“Please mind first, Aki.”
Aki's? Hearing that speech alone had already managed to make Misaki calm down. For him, someone who calls his name ‘Aki’ is someone who considers him special and important to their lives.
“A long time ago, God created three beings, namely demons, GAS, and humans. God created demons to destroy mankind, and GAS as a protector. But the demon army is able to defeat some of the human troops, so God gives additional power to mankind, namely GAS troops and gives supernatural power to humans who still have GAS, in the form of flying power, and so on, invisibility, stopping time, and many others. You also know, ‘kan your additional strength is invisibility?”
Misaki just kept quiet and listened to a description from Hiroshi, “I didn't think the story from Megan's origin was so astonishing. But at least with the strength Misaki had, she could protect the precious ones.
“Hiro, we go home yuk,” take Misaki.
“Come on, the snow is starting to fall again. I'll drop you off.”
They walked hand in hand, along the thick snow that covered the day.
“Hiro, why can't Megan see each other for the rest of her life and name?”
Hiro seemed to be thinking, but in the end he could not answer Misaki's question at all.
“Come we'll search together. Now we go home, before the snow buries you,”. “You know, my strength is ... time pause.”
Misaki wonder. How could he look proud of his strange strength. What is so special about stopping time if you can't do anything when time has stopped?
“What's good? Indeed you can what when time succeeds you stop?”
“I need your help. Cooperate with me. Let's find another Megan too, let's find out the origin of this strange world,” the door with sparkling eyes.
“Agrease! Stop your lame drama, I have no intention of helping you.”
“Beauty,” she said.
“What did you say?”
“Ng-anu, it's nothing. It doesn't matter either. Where is your home?” hiroshi asked. He felt the path was not so foreign.
“That's my home,” he replied as he pointed at a building.
A house with apple trees on its terrace, a fence with fresh paint, and birds flying around the trees. Hiroshi's dream house.
“This is your home? Really?” Hiroshi dumbfounded.
Her dream home is right next to the house she just bought herself, and it is the home of her future lover, Misaki, someone she admires.
“God, your drama is better than a romance novel,” he murmured inwardly.
“Almost first, Hiro.”
“Can?” Hiroshi did not waste the golden opportunity Misaki gave him.
Misaki looks graceful with a school uniform and a thick jacket attached to her body with unraveling hair. Plus his very sincere smile made Hiroshi want to protect his smile and not want to see him sad, let alone cry.
“Ma, Aki home.” The atmosphere of the house is quiet, the mother goes somewhere.
“Aki, can I talk to you for a minute?” Hiroshi intends to express his true feelings to Misaki.
Hiroshi gathered courage and determination. Whatever Misaki answers, she will take it with a chest of air. “Misaki, actually I've been me ..”
Duaarr! The sound of the explosion suddenly startled and thwarted Hiroshi's plans. The sound came from his mother's room. They probably ran towards Misaki's mother's room. But once there, there is nothing but the condition of the room is messy and the window is open.
Hiroshi checked out the window. He sees two male figures carrying his mother Misaki away in a car and darting away.
“Aki, I saw your mama was taken away by car earlier! We have to catch that car!” immediately
“What? Why don't you use your power to stop time? Didn't you say you had the power of a time pause? So stupid! I have to catch up with mama, come on!” take Misaki with a frightened tone.
Misaki pulls out the motor from the trunk of her house, and tells Hiroshi to get on.
“No, I'm the only one driving. You're in a state of panic, remember! I don't want you to make this all mess up!” Misaki obeys Hiroshi's orders and exchanges places.
Although their determination blazed like a burning fire, but they did not know which direction they wanted to go, “We are in which direction?” ask Hiroshi.
“Can I use my powers? I want to try it first,” Misaki said.
Misaki closed her eyes, focusing her strength. A few seconds, Misaki opened her eyes. Red blood.
“Me! I'll guide you, now turn right, Hiro.”
Street chases can no longer be avoided. Still, Hiro is not a good rider. Unlike the motorist who kidnapped her mother, she was faster and more agile.
“Aki, it looks like we lost track. I can't go after him.”
Misaki looks panicked and worried. Hiroshi stopped the bike and pulled over. He tried to calm Misaki down.
“We'll find again, how? Can you still use your power?” ask Hiro slowly.
“My eyes hurt, Hiro.” Misaki felt a tremendous pain in her eyes. He examined the eyes, afraid that something might hurt. But not the wounds he saw, it was the description of the age that was reduced by five days. Misaki's remaining lifespan is seven days.
“Ti-impossible, this is not possible! Aaaaaa!” Misaki yelled so loudly that Hiro panicked, even the pedestrians had stopped to see the strange incident.
Whether Misaki got strength from nowhere, she seemed to be good at analyzing problems. Misaki deduces that every time she kills a human, she is seven days older, and every time she uses her powers, she is five days less.
“Hiro, my age is reduced again. I don't have time anymore, mama I have to save!” immediately
