It's two in the afternoon. There is not much time left...

So just like what Elis suggested, I walked into the petty place.

Where some people are singing and talking, cigarette smoke fills every little window’s frame that forcing the sun to keep out of peeking in… I really don’t want to believe it... But is it true that everyone in this place is a student from the number one university in Indonesia?

How pathetic…

One fool, two fools, three fools... A bunch of fools. And a fool whose face was the same as what I had seen on that girl's cell phone screen back there.

I innocently sat right next to him.

“You're not the kid who called me last night, are you? If so, our agreement will be tonight, you idiot. You think that I can bring the package to my own campus?” After he saw my face, he took a silent and didn't even realize that his cigarette had fallen right to the floor.

Well I guess I don't need to answer that question anymore…

Averting his eyes, he coughed as he changed the subject. “Do I know you?”

“Who am I?”

“Ugh… Okay, kiddo. I got it already... You don't have to come along and pretend you don't know yourself either. So what do you want?” His eyes were too focused on my hand which was wrapped in a bandage.

Does he really believe in this thing that I'm wearing?

“Reality.” I said.

“Huh?”

He's not even listening…

Instead he asked me to repeat the words, while typing something on his cellphone. I’m not that kind of guy… I don't want to continue the conversation until he's willing to take me seriously, but…

After he pressed a button on the screen, there were so many phone notification sounds ringing simultaneously from around where we were currently sitting. Then all the voices of people's conversations here suddenly stopped, and turned into whispers to one another.

“It's about Saskia, isn't it? I see your name is actually Daniel… That Daniel. She told me a lot about you, you know that?”

I didn't answer.

“Oh, I see… I get it. So you are also a very quiet person, huh? What is it? A family tradition?”

“Are you a carrier?”

While I know you’re not…

But He laughed as if he felt a little more relieved.

“Why? Are you scared?” He hasn't even stopped laughing yet.

Okay, so you wanna play, Riksan? Then I'll play with you…

“So you really were the one who killed my sister!” I whispered like a loser.

This Riksan suddenly fell silent with a face full of hatred… The fake one for sure. “Say those words… Just one more time boy...”

Mommy, pick me up. I'm scared!

“That's how all spoiled kids are, right? Are you jealous because I'm your sister's boyfriend? You have to realize that everything has a limit, you idiot. You think you're the only one here who feels lost?! Do I look like that shitty dog carrier to you?”

I didn't think that he would actually admit to being an ordinary human, but… “Yes, you liar…”

Okay, fuck…

I shouldn't have said that.

He hit me right on the left cheek... I fell off the stool. Surrounded by people looking down on me, I stood back up but kept my distance away from him.

“Get out of here, you loser.”

“Then tell me… Tell me who’s the killer!”

“What do you want to do after that? Look at you right now, you idiot!”

“I've lost everything, Riksan! It doesn't make any difference if I die here today or kill myself tonight! Just Fucking tell me everything!”

“Fuck off.”

“I have risked everything just to get to this place…”

“Fuck… Off…”

“Then, do you really love her? At least tell me about it.”

People actually laugh at my question while Riksan curses them to be quiet.

“Come on, Rick. Tell this guy about it. You're the poor girl's boyfriend, aren't you?”

“Don't be too cruel to be a person.”

Many people even provoked him to tell The story, while one of them pushed me instead, forcing this weak normal human kiddo again to sit right beside the wolf. Someone behind Riksan whispered to him about something... Then he nodded grudgingly.

“Okay, fine. Whatever. I will tell you the story. From there you can decide whether I love her or not.” Pulling a new cigarette from his pocket, he then came to warn just right before starting the story. “Before that, you seemed to have understood that I was a dealer... But I'm not a carrier, okay? I never killed anyone.”

Then he began to tell the tale…

“Long before this carrier bullshit came out, a job as a dealer was pretty tough even in such a disgusting city like this Bonadia one. I was forced to have two faces for that... I often become the center of attention as a smart and talkative person, just to make me a little more free in the outside world without anyone suspecting me. I also often go to the library and bookstores to study and also to buy some thick books as a storage box for goods. That's where I found your sister... We always meet by chance, and as the time goes by, we also often study together. It's hard to explain when those feelings started, as we did end up liking each other and dated a couple of times. That's all for the heartwarming story.”

But after carriers appeared, dangerous customers also started visiting Riksan a lot. So as we all know… Carriers are people who like to show off, are arrogant, overconfident, and often don't hesitate to kill others... As if they are used to it.

“Yeah, sometimes my job turns out to be much easier after The arrival day, because the police did not want to intervene with something that related to any magical sword and some super human stuff. However, not infrequently though, my goods are also forcibly looted by the same carriers if I don't want them to kill me.”

So... Some time passed, that he doesn't even remember when, but Saskia finally got to know that dark side of Riksan’s.

She didn't want to break up, yet often warned him to quit the job immediately, while something like that… A dealer who suddenly stopped distributing will only sound like a lie to a crazy junkie carrier, which he had lied to from the start with the same words, so they don't steal this drug dealer stuff every single day.

All of Riksan's attempts at lying failed and they searched all over his place, everything they suspected was a place for Riksan to hide his things.

He said that there were so many such occurrences, then there was this one carrier… A former army soldier who has killed several people while on his own duty.

Riksan is in a lot of debt and every dealer really hates this one specific carrier. So there's only one way left... Riksan hid the last thing he had in a book that this guy renovated as a storage, then he gave it to Saskia.

He realized that My older sister actually knew what the sealed book actually contained.

“But still... I didn't say what’s in it to her though... While I did say that my life was at stake by that thing. ‘If this book falls in anyone's hand, then I will die’ I said. But it's just a lie because I'm already so desperate… So... In the end I know that I was just an idiot who had used all of my luck to make myself think like a madman who didn't know what would happen to my actions in the future… Especially to a girl like herself.”

Few hours before the incident, Riksan was threatened with immediate death if he didn't reveal the location of the last remaining storage. This guy pleaded that he even cried when the killer pointed that super hot glowing sword right at his neck. ‘I've killed a lot of people.’ That's what he said to Riksan.

“After that… Ugh… You know? Well... I think you also know that Saskia always believed in nonsense like destiny… Fate... She said that our meeting wasn't by chance… So pure… She was so kind that I hated myself for the same thing. I tried to stay away from her for her own sake, but she kept coming closer... People say her room was searched to the corner. Means I don't even doubt that the girl refuses to tell the killer the location of that thing, because of what I said earlier. I'm really really sorry, Daniel... She is such a very nice girl… Who fell in love with the wrong guy.”

“Then?” I'm asking with a little blame for myself.

“Then what?! it's all over! I'm not the killer, but I can't deny that she died because of my own stupidity... Forgive me... I know I'm guilty but I just don't want you, who being her little brother, to hate me more than I'm afraid of. I can not do much until the end of her life.”

“So that's how it turned out…” While I was replying, Riksan's back was patted by someone beside him. That everyone in this place fell silent following the atmosphere.

I know he's wrong... But I know he has lost so much either. “I’m sorry… I don't know if that turned out to be the case. I'm really really sorry…”

Then something suddenly hit me deep inside this heart of mine. Pulled myself, and fell into an oddity… That’s where I remember about something...

A tearful sadness, a serious face full of conviction. As if she had yet another chance to make amends, her hoarse voice filled with hope rang in my ears for the second time, not too long after the first one...

“Riksan... Riksan’s the killer.” She said.

Then I asked this grieving man one final question…

“Don't tell me... You're... Just making up that story, aren't you?”

“Pfft…”

Fuck…

Everyone laughs, falling off their chairs.

“I already told you, this boy is quite smart just like that girl.” Riksan smiled in admiration.

Please just shut up…

Fuck, now I’m crying…

“Dude… Relax. You don't have to cry.” Someone hugs me from behind.

These people can't be helped anymore. Whether it's because of drugs, or being drunk, or they’re rotten to the root... I did hear news about creatures like them, but I thought it was just an audience-attracting lie… How narrow minded I was, to think that humans like these people never existed in the real world.

“Well, conquering the heart of that girl… Saskia... I admit it is quite difficult though.”

No, you shut up now, Riksan...

“She was too cold.”

Please…

“But after I acted as if we were met by fate.”

Don’t say those words. I’m warning you…

“She became very easily deceived.”

Don't you dare say it…

“Pfft… Destiny? With that bullshit, I even managed to enjoy her smooth body…”

I pulled this black chain bracelet until it broke from my left arm, then I hit the surface of the table to the maximum limit of my own strength, only to create a burst of air pressure from the psychic effect from itself.

Everyone was thrown far enough, even to the point of knocking down the wooden hut of this rice stall.

No...

They are trying to escape…

I don't want that to happen.

One…

I hit some guy in the chest until the sound of the ribs indicated a crack…

His back hit the floor pretty hard.

Two, three…

Then I threw someone's skinny body on top of another person who also previously intended to run away… As the friction of their skin on the rough asphalt surface gave me a sense of relief.

Four, five, six... Ten... Twenty…

I chased them one by one at full speed, from one person to another, I beat them in seconds, I had to hear each of their every broken bone only to feel satisfied.

Now all of them fall down with just my physical strength.

Some are daring to cry, as you can even see the bodies of the rest of the others which are oddly shaped because I meant to do that…

As long as they don't die but suffer, I will continue this important process…

“Where are you now? Riksan?”

The one remaining person…

Which I still haven't touched yet, is standing there, watching all the suffering of his own friends. He didn't run away because he knew no I let that happen…

Or because his legs were impaled by the sharp shards of the wooden table that had exploded earlier? I don’t care to know tho…

So I walked casually to him. Grabbed the languid shoulder, patted it firmly several times.

“Who and where is the killer... Tell me briefly.”

“Dude… Wait… Okay… Okay… We don't go by name, but he is a tall man, slightly fat and pale white skin. Last time I saw, he kept his hair short because he was fanatical about the army. You will understand when you see his head. He's always been in the northern Bonadian area. Daniel, it’s… It's too far away, buddy... And I'm not sure if he's still there- Like… I don’t actually know where he is right now. Daniel, lil bro... Hear me out... I’m sorry, okay?”

“Oh, sorry for what? I'm here on duty as a member of The Sins Taker. Just for the murder case on behalf of the victim Saskia Umaga. Do not worry... We won't bother you who are just a commoner. But please cooperate with us through the information you know.”

“Okay… Sure. Sure! His house’s in the red house at the big intersection, Sudirman street. The only red house there... Will not be missed.”

“Thank you.”

Turning around, stepping over several bodies of people who were screaming in pain, I remembered about something important…

Hm… Riksan said the place was quite far... Wait…

Northern bonadia area? Isn't that very far from here?

Where I should be very experienced with this thing, especially after being deceived by his trick once just now… Isn't it stupid for me to believe it so soon?

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So I moved my eyes to the left and right, looking around.

I found an iron bar left over from construction. I bent it easily until it formed a U-shape.

Next I pull the injured leg of this rotten worldly connoisseur, Riksan.

Stuck the iron bar very deep into the ground, with his feet in the middle, I stopped as I briefly saw his face… What a really disappointing face.

Then I plunged it even deeper until I heard a noise coming from his calf bone, just like a fetter… And also a bone crusher.

“Save your screams of pain for later.”

Then I whispered…

“I don’t care if I get there, and it turns out that he's not there... Or instead that the red building has actually never been there in the whole history as how you made it up, I'll be back here as fast as lightning. You know how fast I move with this power, so don't ask me how fast it will take me to get back to you. After I see your face for the second time, don't you doubt myself, I will break all your bones, I will pull out all of your hair, I will twist all twenty fingers on your body until they break off slowly by slowly... And every time you scream, I'll hit you in the mouth until you swallow all the teeth by yourself. Do you hear me?”

Riksan just gasped as he started to cry…

“So your misery ten minutes from now is completely dependent on luck if you're honest, and on your own stupidity if you lie…”

“Sorry... I- I lied, Daniel… I actually met him in the middle of the afternoon before coming to this place. I always greet him at the same place, where he spends his time from morning to night… The place is actually very close. He's at the internet cafe right in the alley next door, but I'm honest with the position of his house. Seriously. And sorry Daniel... I beg you, forgive me! I'll stay here until you find him, I swear!”

So my guess is right...

“Yes please… Oh… And can you look for the name Sion in this phone? Call him, tell him to meet me at the internet cafe you just told me earlier... Take care of that phone for me Riksan. I’ll be back for it.”

I said that while looking at one of his legs which were crushed from being shackled deep to the ground.

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