The Journey of Eternity
Trace 33 - Place Home.
Arlo and Eri, newly woken up under a tree, go for food in the forest. He said he knew someone who could cook for them in the woods. The trip was quite troublesome because Arlo seemed to have forgotten the actual road and had to cut down many trees and branches that blocked them until they were in front of a small cottage surrounded by flowers that were colorcolour around it.
“What is this place?”
“Of course Miss. Come quickly in, the cooking is very good.”
Arlo walks into the terrace and knocks on the door slowly with a hesitant Eri behind him. In 3 beats a male voice recited from inside the house and opened the door.
“Mr Arlo!” a seedy old man was standing straight at the entrance with his face looking extremely shocked.
Arlo smiled and clapped his hands in front of his chest and said his regards to the old man.
“I'm back Palog.”
“Y-yah.. Welcome back Mr. Arlo, why are you here and who is this sweet Miss Mr?”
“Before that, since I did not find any fruit or anything here, can I go in and ask for breakfast here?”
“Hah! B-well Sir, please come in. My lord will make something for you.”
Eri pokes Arlo in the stomach as he enters the house with Palog in front of him. But Arlo just smiled and instead extended his hand to enter together. In the end they both went in and sat inside the house. The house is not too big and also small, there are two rooms that only limit the wall in half and a curtain that can be moved.
It looks like the next room is a kitchen that is commonly used for cooking and maybe also sleeping. While the room where Arlo is located is the main room. The two of them sat neatly waiting for his request to be ready, although Eri had previously seemed unhappy with what Arlo was doing considering that he looked like a poor man.
“Nona, he is richer than the King and Queen who live in the magnificent castle”
“Hah?”
“Look carefully, he is currently cooking in the back with groceries without having to buy and just need to pick them in the backyard. In addition, this place is also as comfortable as our room, right?”
Eri nodded in understanding with what he had just heard. Moments later, Palog came out with an iron tray containing 3 plates of uniformed food and placed it on the table. Then he went back into the kitchen without allowing to eat, so they both did not dare to lift the spoon.
Then Palog came back again with two other prings containing food in his left hand and 3 stacks of dishes in his right hand and smiled at them both.
“Sorry long wait Sir, Miss. Let's eat.”
“Yah happy meal.”
The three of them ate together in one small table in the middle of the room quietly until the food was completely exhausted. Then Palog left the rest with Eri who helped him in the kitchen. That Selasia, Arlo explained everything about her return here and who she's bringing with her at the moment. Palog smiled at the young master and nodded like a proud old man, a feeling that Arlo longed for.
“Nice to hear all this Mr... will you stay in that old house now?”
“Old House?”
“The house is. just maybe, than having to stay with those two freaks anyway.”
Arlo got up from his seat and reached out to the girl next to him. Then they both left the old man with deep thanks. Arlo secretly directs a different path than before they come and get into the forest.
“A-Arlo.what we wrong way”.
“Of course Miss, I'm very familiar with the contents of the entire forest in this region”
The forest inside here is getting busier than ever, Arlo has to go extra mile to open the road. From that, at the end of the road looks a very spacious courtyard with a luxurious house in the middle. Although it seems luxurious, from a distance the house looks scary with the gloomy air around it.
“Hei! Where are we now?! Arlo!” Eri looked down angrily and looked more creepy compared to the old house.
“He-he.. ki-we are at home. My old lady..”
“Old house? Look at the house like a famous haunted house. Aren't you wrong? Added this in the middle of the forest!”
With a forced smile, Arlo pulled the girl's hand running towards the house. Arriving in front of the house, Eri who was previously visibly angry suddenly turned scared and hid behind Arlo's back. There was clearly a terrible sound of laughter in the house and it was everywhere.
With a faint smile on her lips, Arlo stepped inside the porch of the house and approached an old pot beside the door. Slowly he lifted it, Eri who was still standing in front of the house pounding saw what the crazy man was doing. Slowly Arlo took something under the pot and approached the entrance.
“Arlo, what are you doing?”
“Hah? I'm unlocking the house.”
“Cih, already! I'm just gonna get out of here. The house looks so scary you know, what if the ghost appears in front of the face! hi. I can't imagine it.."
Eri rambles in front of the house without caring for Arlo and consciously Arlo is no longer in front of the door which suddenly collided with a very loud voice. Eri's face paled even more looking scared and motionless from where he stood. From inside the house came a very loud scream like someone being forced and trying to be killed, the sound was everywhere and kept so for a while.
Suddenly the entrance opened forcefully from the inside and a shadow stepped out of the house with something floating on its left side. He got closer to the door, then a sandal flew through the door and hit the alien shadow.
“Au.. Miss, don't you see? Rubber spoon still hurts his appearance” apparently the shadow is Arlo who came out of the house by stroking his forehead red because of the throw from the outside.
“Where were you? I was so scared tau!”
“That's not enough to excuse Miss?”
Eri ran over to the man and hugged him tightly.
“Aanya!”
“You heard, nothing good. Let's go in Miss, the ghost is already in here. It feels this scythe is really more exciting”
“You sure?” the question arises because the aura there still feels sinister.
Arlo reached out his hand and pulled Eri into the house. Inside it seemed more comfortable than I thought, the house is really comfortable with the right room temperature and the cool breeze that goes into the hole around the house although it still seems scary with some old paintings on display.
“Arlo.. whose painting is it?”
“Entahlah, since long ago there and I also can not take it off”
“Hah?”
Arlo raised his shoulder in a gesture of not knowing and stepped sitting on the sofa of the main room. The house was quite large from the outside estimates, though, the main room is not too broad flanked by the kitchen on the left side and the guest room on the right side then behind the main room there is a staircase for the upper floor and behind the stairs is the bathroom.
Arlo sits down on the sofa and unknowingly falls asleep while not knowing where Eri has gone since then who suddenly came with some food on the plate woke Arlo.
“Arlo! Arlo! Wake up!”
“Hah! Miss, disturb people sleep only.” Arlo wakes up from his sleep and looks up at someone standing in front of him.
“You don't, I just steamed it” a plate filled with food with steam on it.
“Hustoms, is this already afternoon?”
“Well, earlier while you were sleeping I thought I would sleep too, but couldn't sleep because it was cramped. So I tried to find something outside and cook it even though it's just steamed”
“Hmm.. It's so delicious"
Eri took a seat next to Arlo and placed the plate on the table and leaned on the sofa, again the sofa also felt very comfortable without feeling gloomy around it. The solar light was about to dim and sink, the room seemed to be going dark. Arlo got up from his seat and took out something burning from his hand and floated around the room lighting all the torches and again sat down along with something that lit it back in his arms.
“What is it?”
“This core fire. Demon soul, this is only one in the whole life and only I have, haha.” Arlo laughs then pooped with food that entered force into his mouth.
“Bogged.. Arlo, why are we here? Why did you bring me here?”
“Because I hope there is a special calamity that I want to hear since we entered into this comfortable house.”
“Hah?”
Arlo moved from his seat in silence leaving Eri into the bathroom to clean up. For a while, the girl sitting on the sofa was sleeping soundly with all the food on the plate running out. Arlo approaches and wakes him up, ordering him to clean himself up because it is completely dark.
“Nona, the water may be a little hard to get. Just wait until full when not enough”
“Yahh..” was clearly red on Eri's cheek, she stepped inside the bathroom and quietly behind the door.
“You brought a girl, Mr Arlo?” a voice from nowhere rings in Arlo's ear.
“Hah? Wh why? You are envious. long time no see, Leo”
“Yah.. Welcome back to the home Mr..”
Moments later Eri came out of the bathroom with her face down and her cheeks still flushed red.
“Arlo.. what would you like to sit outside looking at the moon?” Eri turned her face away with her cheeks reddened.
“You are sure, outside must be very cold”
Eri did not care to go straight to Arlo and pull his hand out of the house, sitting on the porch together. For a moment Eri looks awkward with Arlo, this looks increasingly strange and dangerous.
“Nona? What happens, whether there are bees stinging you or the like, this is very suspicious”
“Not, anu.. Because this is your home can I also stay here? This house, as the sentence says, is comfortable and full of peace”
“So..?”
“This house is the place to go home, this house is the end of travel” that sentence scratches Arlo's smile and wakes up from his seat.
“Finally, the one we've been waiting for. Jah.. let's go to that castle and complete my duty to be free as a noble”
“Now? We can sleep here for one night. I never slept with you.” Eri looked embarrassed and turned his face away.
“Alright, as long as this is harmless. hmm” Arlo smiles and extends his hand at Eri.
“Anu, besides.” Eri raised his hand flat and something came out, colored to emasan and dazzling. Arlo's eyes widened and he did not dwell on seeing something in front of him.
