You are my eyes

Sheepfighter

A few months passed. Ellio faithfully accompanied Elaine through her days. Thanks to the powder brought by Ellio, Elaine was able to receive her serum in time. His health is also improving.

Today Ellio is trying to get some more sunflower powder. He went to his flower fields, singing while spreading dew.

As Ellio was flying through space, he saw a swarm of black dots on the ground. Sure, it's not a collection of sunflowers. Ellio immediately landed himself back on the ground.

“Apolo!” Ellio. He bowed in respect to Apolo. It turned out that the horde of black dots that Ellio saw was Apolo and his entourage, they observed Ellio who was working on harvesting sunflower powder.

Ellio glanced towards the entourage that Apolo had brought. Rose was smiling at him.

Rose! What the hell is he doing here? Why did he follow Apolo's party?

“Ellio, I just watched you work. How, you got a lot today?” Ask Apolo. His calm voice made Ellio relieved, at least Apolo's mood was quite good today.

“Today is quite a lot, Your Highness.” Ellio showed the size of the bag of crops.

“Explain to me how much you will spread back to Earth!” Apolo's Order. Soon Ellio informed her of the tally, of the total she had harvested, how much would be given to Elaine and how much would she re-develop into new flowers.

“That's not the sum of everything, Your Majesty,” said Ellio again, “Tomorrow I will harvest the ones in the west, so I can make sure our powder supply is sufficient.” Reciprocity.

Apolo nodded his head.

“Good, you're full of calculations. You must be tired of doing everything alone, right? You're lucky, Rose came to me and offered to help you. So I decided Rose would help you harvest these powders.” Apolo said again, making Ellio surprised.

“No need, Your Majesty. I can do it myself! I've divided the harvest time into several times, so I can still work on it every few days. I'm not tired, Your Majesty!” Ellio refuted Apolo's orders. He felt uncomfortable when Rose walked up to him.

“Already Ellio, Rose has been kind enough to help you! You should be grateful, you have a friend who will help you.

“But isn't there still a lot of rose business to be done by Rose, Your Majesty? He must be busy like me. Let Your Majesty, the sunflower business let me handle it. Trust me, I can control it. Moreover, I always report the progress to His Majesty, right? So..” Ellio is still trying to evade Apolo's orders.

“Ellio, it's my decision! Besides, there's a friend of yours who wants to help you ease your work, why would you mind? Is there something you didn't report to me?” Investigating Apolo, leaving Ellio undisturbed.

Ellio was speechless, he knew in this situation there was no point in going against Apolo's orders. But Ellio felt there was a hidden intent from Rose who volunteered to help him.

“Alright, Your Highness.”Ellio answered weakly, but his heart grumbled in annoyance.

“Alright then, I go first.” Apolo left the sunflower garden, leaving Ellio and Rose alone.

Ellio glared at Rose, Rose smiled faintly at Ellio's annoyance.

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“Ellio, Ellio.” Elaine stroked her sunflower strands while calling out Ellio's name. That afternoon was so hot, but because he felt so eager to meet Ellio, Elaine forced herself to say hello to her sunflowers. Elaine felt tired, for some reason her body felt so limp.

Can't stand it anymore, finally Elaine fell sitting near the melva bush. He wanted to stand up and enter his room, but his legs felt so heavy. Slowly, Elaine closed her eyes.

Without realizing it, some tendrils came out from the sidelines of the melva plant bush, wrapped around Elaine's legs and pulled her. Elaine's body fluttered, sitting under the foot of the sunflower stem.

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Ellio felt uneasy today, he was eager to visit Elaine. It had been a few days since they had not met because Ellio was busy watering and harvesting sunflowers. Ellio felt a bad premonition towards Elaine.

But Ellio finds it difficult to visit Elaine, because there is a Rose who is following her.

“Do you have no other job? There is no harvest here, my flowers have also been watered. Go!” Ellio gambled away Rose.

“Huh, don't know thanks! I helped you, now you're kicking me out!” Grunts Rose.

“What helps?” Omel Ellio again. “I'm busy flushing and you're just sitting around singing!”

“I'll help you by accompanying you!” Rose said again with a sweet smile. Ellio snorted at Rose's smile.

“Where are you? I'm coming!” Ask Rose. “Who knows I can help you again. Ahh, we're finally leaving this park. Come on, we're circling town, Ellio!” Rose said again, excited.

Ellio scrunched his forehead. “So you don't like being on my bench? Go then! Don't live here! Just bother me!” Gerrutu Ellio again.

Rose was still smiling, then twitching into Ellio's arm.

“Come on, we're leaving. Don't grumble along. Wherever you go, I'll come. Apolo has ordered me to always help you right? So let me come with you, who knows I can help you.”

Ellio brushed off Rose's hand that was stuck to his arm. “No need, thank you. I gotta go. If you want to help, come again tomorrow.” Ellio left Rose. Rose pursed her lips, then flew after Ellio.

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Ellio arrives at Elaine's house. The unpleasant feeling still lingered in his heart.

He entered the side garden which was right in front of the door of the terrace room Elaine. It was morning, but the door to Elaine's room was closed. Not as usual.

Ellio peeked out of the glass door of Elaine's porch, he saw Elaine lying on her bed half-sitting. Ellio was astonished, did Elaine just wake up?

Slowly, Ellio knocked on the glass of the door.

Elaine turned her head, she smiled when she saw Ellio. “Ellio!” Hisses. Her heart was really happy to see Ellio.

Slowly Elaine got out of her bed. He kept his balance, then went to the porch door and opened it.

“Elaine, what's wrong with you? You sick?” Ask Ellio. He saw Elaine's pale face.

Elaine shook her head while smiling. “I was exhausted yesterday, so Papa called the doctor and the doctor asked me for a complete rest until today. Where have you been, you haven't been here in a long time, Ellio.”

Ellio took Elaine by the hand, they sat on the chair on the porch of Elaine's room.

“I've done a lot of work these days. In these few days, you already have to treat the serum again right? I'm collecting the powder.” Ellio explained the reason for his absence to Elaine.

“Thank you El, you have helped me a lot. If there is no you, there is no way I can timely receive the serum.” Elaine smiled back at Ellio.

“Elaine, breakfast..” Suddenly Mama Angel appears from inside Elaine's room, her eyes widen when she sees Ellio sitting on the porch chair.

Elaine and Ellio are very surprised by the sudden appearance of Mama Angel. Elaine did not even hear the sound of mama entering her room.

“Eh, is there Ellio? Sorry yes, Aunt didn't know Ellio was coming.” His word.

Ellio felt bad, because he had indeed come from the side garden, not from the front door.

Elaine is confused, if Ellio can enter the garden next to her, does not mean Ellio has passed the front door? But why did mommy say that she didn't know that Ellio was coming?

“Yes, ga what Aunt. Ellio also apologized, know-how has entered the catch of Elaine.” Said Ellio, responding to the greeting of Mama Angel.

“Elaine hurts, Aunt?” Ask Ellio directly. He tried to divert the attention of Mama Angel so as not to discuss about his arrival again.

“Yes, yesterday Elaine fainted near sunflower.” Answer Mama Angel.

Ellio was surprised. Fainted? He looked at Elaine, Elaine immediately looked down at the questionable gaze of Ellio.

The stings are also strange, Elaine's legs are wrapped around the purple flower's tendrils.” Mama Angel pointed at the melva shrub that was at the foot of the sunflower. Ellio's eyes grew bigger.

Melva flowers wrap around Elaine? Wh why?

Ellio thought hard while looking at her sunflowers and melva flowers. His mind raged, He no longer listened to the story of Mama Angel. Did the melva flower recognize Elaine as its peri in the past? But they hooked him up, did they hate Elaine?

Of course they did not like the girl, a voice ringing in Ellio's head, in the past the girl had made a big mistake until she was put to death! Of course Melva hates him.

Ellio jerks. Rose! Again Rose read his mind and gave his troubling assumption to Ellio. Ellio looked around with his eyes, it turned out that the black rose he had thrown away a few days ago, was now standing majestically on the edge of Elaine's terrace.