A few meters after they entered the depths of the forest, Elder Brahma stopped his steps and turned around. The remaining nine people looked at the elder with questioning eyes.“Use your supernatural running speed,” said Elder Brahma, greeted with nods from the rest of the group.Everyone except Linda suddenly let out a growl. In a split second their bodies yawned and turned into black wolves as big as bears. Linda took two steps back unconsciously. Secretly she was intimidated. Being alone in the midst of a wolf-shifter horde is arguably not good for the calm of a vampire like Linda, but once she tries to suppress her feelings. It's not the time to be overreacting. Time is wasted enough without having to add to this trivial problem.The wolf Elder Brahma growled again, this time sending command through mind to all the wolves at once to Linda. In a flash, the nine wolves and a vampire-woman were already running at inhuman speeds.The sky was completely dark as they cut through the sile
“It took more than ten hours to get to Pacitan by car! Can't the witches create some kind of portal to get there?” Linda yelled at almost everyone in the room. Everyone was silent, didn't know how to respond.The group that came from the Bangka Belitung Islands was already inside the headquarters with a feeling of anxiety that they could no longer be detained. Elder Brahma tried to calm Linda down, but the vampire-woman brushed his hand away. Aryadi's expression also looked extremely frantic. Ever since he entered this room that looked like a large meeting room, Aryadi could only pacing around restlessly.The door to the room suddenly opened and a burly man in a red coat entered. Linda recognizes him as Rokan Allegro, a vampire who leads the Indonesian Immortal Center or INDICENT as well as this headquarters. The man had a stern face with blue eyes and dark skin. Just like Elder Damar, he is also a Caucasoid of the Halmahera Tribe, which is mysterious in the eyes of humans.“Master.” L
Those seven figures dressed all in dark red suddenly just appeared somewhere in the Demon Forest. For a moment they stabilized themselves. The Body Transfer is not a convenient instant transport option even for the witches themselves. It felt a little wobbly when they had hit the ground at their destination. For a witch who isn't used to it, the worst thing a witch can feel is vomiting and extreme dizziness. However, the more familiar they were with the Body Transfer, the less effect they felt.A certain flash of lightning and thunder cut through the sky in the middle of the forest. The witches rushed rushing towards the source of the lightning noise. One of them briefly glanced at the shadow of his own body.“The Wrinkled Ghost follows us,” he warned the others as he continued running.They all glanced at the shadows of each other's bodies, which looked odd and too solid to be called shadows. However, that didn't stop their steps at all. The Wrinkle
The day Hugo appeared at Aryadi's house ….Saga snorted as his eyes watched the passing vehicles from his bedroom window. His mouth pouted while his hands clasped together. Resentment seemed to fill the expression on his cute face. His adoptive parents caught Saga on the phone with Bara. Using only the threatening gaze of a mother who is angry with her child, Saga's mother signals for him to activate the loud speaker mode on his phone. As soon as Bara said that her parents would come to Bangka to explain everything to the girl, Saga's parents glared at once.“Let me know later,” Saga replied quickly as Bara was about to hang up. Saga immediately got up from his bed while pocketing his cellphone and looked at his parents with one eyebrow raised. “Why do you have to order me—”“You shouldn't have to interfere in other people's business, Saga,” interrupted his father in a low voice.
“Pa! At least we have to report this on INDICENT, right?”It's been a week since Saga found Mr. Aryadi's disheveled house. However, when Saga tells his adoptive parents about this, they refuse to do anything and strictly forbids Saga from boasting about it to anyone.Every day, every moment that Saga can do, he always takes the time to come see Mr. Aryadi's house again and again. While there was still no sign of the inhabitants of the house, again and again, Saga allowed himself to dart and flash around, trying to figure out where the family had gone. Since the disappearance of the small family, Saga can't reach Bara's cellphone at all. Mobile operators always answer that the number dialed is inactive or out of range.One day Saga had to visit several other cities close to the city of Koba, asking his friends about the characteristics of the Bara family. Or for that matter, the characteristics of Bara and Mr. Aryadi, because Saga doesn't really know what Bara's parents look like. Howev
For the next days Saga no longer bothered looking for Bara and her family anymore, as his mother had told him. He couldn't help it when his feelings were still worried even though he had tried to think evil for a certain moment in his daydreaming mind. After all, Saga already thinks of Bara as his friend. A person who was rightly worried that one of his friends would disappear, or even worse, was being chased by a hunter worse than a wild wolf.One day, fifteen days after Bara and her family disappeared, he came to the forest. The forest he didn't dare approach before. Saga doesn't know if he has gone mad or about to go mad or the world itself is mad. In fact, he himself wasn't sure who was mad over whom.The point is that Saga can't take it anymore. Stay silent while he knew his friend was in danger, it felt like the wrong thing. Vampires and shapeshifters have never had the compulsion to hate each other like in the movies, but they are more towards keeping their distan
Saga couldn't be more nervous than he felt now. The sound of the birds squeaking above made him look up in alarm, as if they were somehow spies for the wolf-shifters here. He cut open the withered bush, a few dry twigs or branches almost scratched his face. After a while he went through several sections that were more like years to Saga, he paused his steps for a moment. The path outside the forest was nowhere to be seen, though that was probably due to how fertile the tall bushes of this forest were.Tap! Tap, tap, tap! Tap!Saga turned his head suddenly, startled. His legs receded back and accidentally hit the roots of clay, he was knocked down with a quick breath. He quickly stood up, feeling anxious to bury himself in the nearest swamp. His eyes looked nervously at the five men in front of him who were glaring at him.“S-Sorry.” Saga stuttered. “I just want to find Bara.”The five men looked at each other for a split second. On
I don't know how someone can get possessed properly. Or for that matter, fully controlled. It felt terrible when I was told that I was locked up in my own brain. In my own body. I wonder if this is how I would feel if I had multiple personalities. However, this seemed even worse. I can't feel any of the senses that are in my real body anymore. I feel empty. I feel blind. I am like a madman lost in a sphere of darkness beneath a chasm.All I can do, or at least think I do, is just cry.The demon's voice no longer frightened me, but after a moment that felt like a million hours to me, the voice suddenly let out a roar. I winced, but still did nothing but hug my knees somewhere in the breadth of my thoughts. I just looked up when I realized that the roaring never stopped. I don't know exactly which sense of hearing I was feeling, but I had to close my ears tight because the sound was hurting my eardrums.The roar stopped suddenly. I blinked in surprise, wishing tha
She changes her fate with a slash of something supernatural, once a month, and Erza can't escape. The slashing magic was sent by a witch from across Sulawesi, even though she had been exiled to a tall tower away from the hustle and bustle of humans, right in the Valley of Panic. Even though the distance stretched for hundreds of miles, why was the union of witches so eager to always punish her?This must be a curse, because after all, entering the supernatural world with the lure of immortality was fooling. Erza, who was able to get out of there, must have been lucky. She is now immortal, but no one should expect everything to be young. In order to remain immortal, she absorbs the life energy of other living beings around her.That is because the leader of that damn organization's decree was announced for Erza to be exiled, a decision which of course was correct.Well, Erza is lonely, but that doesn't mean she's suffering. Instead, she was entertained by the sma
When Hugo left me alone in the cave, I lay back down on the stone bed with the thin mattress and musty blanket. My eyes stared blankly at the ceiling of the cave with chaotic and erratic thoughts.My thoughts and memories are as clear as crystal, from my childhood to the present. In less than a month, I had become a completely different person from what I was before—cold, cruel, heartless, and evil. Moreover, during that time I killed someone I seemed to have loved very much before—my mother.My eyes blinked. There was a wet curtain covering my eyes, blurring my vision for a moment. My throat tightened, as if I was holding back a cry that if released would make me feel like a wailing child. However, there was one other feeling that held back all my feelings: ignorance.I was sad, devastated, shocked by the fact that I used to be just an ordinary girl who wouldn’t be able to make my mother cry. Nevertheless, I also felt the chill I felt when tha
Like a flower that loses its beauty; so is the present that is happening to the whole country.Darkness forces beauty to mourn, darkening the happy atmosphere without being prevented. Gloom, that's all that's left.An eclipse comes between freezing snows. However, it actually lasted longer in retaliation for the delay.They said the darkness was created by a child. Dark and terrible poems about it began to surface.The girl fell like drops of rain from above the horror. She stood like a haughty tower in the distance. She limped in a gray cloud, like dawn breathing death.Someone once said in a tone like being watched by the darkness itself; her body winced, like stepping on embers of silence in the darkness that was painful.They said the girl had a sad sigh. The past without burden has become a memory, she said, missing it feels like a thirst for blood. Now the cruelty of maturity is a problem.People ask themselves: how does all thi
I finally woke up.I gasped for air and jolted awake until my body half rose from where I lay. I gasped, plopped down on the pillow again and closed my eyes for a moment. My head was so dizzy, like it was spinning.I was starting to feel like I was going crazy.All the flashbacks I have had just now have completely drained my sanity. Why should I experience someone else's experience? Not only did I witness memories like before, but also I actually experienced them; their every thought and deed, every detail I should not have known.Why?All of this brought me to a thought that I quickly pushed aside. I do not need to think about it anymore if it will only make my brain hurt.I opened my eyes and watched the roof of the room I was sleeping in. The roof looks like it is not the roof of a house, but… I woke up suddenly and my vision suddenly darkened. I closed my eyes again for a while before finally opening them again.I have déjà vu. I got out of bed slowly and l
Another flashback of Aria that Barbara had ____________ “He's really annoying. Who does he think I am?” Aria muttered to herself in disgust. The girl now lives in a city in Bangka Belitung, where everything is so annoying to her. She just came back from hunting wild boar then changed clothes, and went straight to the kitchen. While hunting earlier she almost ran into a wolf-shifter who almost knew who she was. Moreover, he dared to call Aria with a girl who was not human but smelled strange. It was all because of the secret seal she had placed on her body, a mystical seal, so that no one would find out whom she was. Aria has also been equipped with anti-enemy magic by a witch that she trusts, so that Hugo and his subordinates won't know about her. She was actually quite anxious when she heard about the news of another wolvire in the city of Koba, and she almost died wondering how two wolvires could have been bor
I don't know what happened to me, but vision after vision filled my brain, the more I felt I was them. I want to stop it all, but helpless. The thoughts of this girl named Nadira came to my head again. It had been ten years since the incident, but Nadira could still taste the rancid smell of white blood with the tip of her mind. Often times the girl closed her eyes and took a deep breath, so that at least the glint could be reduced. Nadira thought time would cloud the memory, but she seemed to have her hopes up. At the very least, she had managed to fool herself into thinking that what she was doing was the right thing. Or she thought so. Nadira looked away. The teenager stared at the distant forest through the window beside her, wondered how her mother (she refused to think of Maya as a stepmother) could become INDICENT's right hand man without the public knowing. Which then ended with a creese from… she forcibly stopped the memory. Nadira took a deep breath
[FLASHBACK] Nadira once committed a crime. Nadira was only seven years old at the time. One night, Nadira woke up to hear a noise downstairs. Nadira thought they were her parents, but she was surprised because her mother suddenly sounded screaming like someone who was scared. Her parents had never fought before, so little Nadira found it strange. Nadira, who was curious, finally walked out of the room, which she had left it dark so as not to be caught. Nadira closed the door carefully, and then quietly peeked through the grille of the stairs. Little Nadira then gave a soft breath. At that time she saw there were five people in black robes in the living room. They were holding some kind of blade. They surrounded her mother who was sitting terrified on a sofa. Nadira wanted to help, but she was too scared. Her heart wondered where her father and two brothers were. The little girl bit her lip, holding back s
FLASHBACK Rio Sanjaya ordered his dark horse to stop for a moment with a watchful gaze. The surrounding trees were violet under the bluish moonlight. After listening to something for a while, Rio stomped his horse back on his way without haste. Many times his eyes darted to the edge of the path he was passing. The movement in the thickets brought Rio to a halt again, his horse grunting and neighing softly. Rio drew the double-edged ax he threw onto his back. The handle of the object was rather long and silvery in color. Each blade bears a sign of a roaring tiger. “Whoever you are, come out,” Rio said his voice was firm yet still. Even so, a drop of sweat seemed to be dripping down his forehead. The scrub rustled again. There was a sound of broken branches and a few seconds later the bushes opened, revealing a large man in a black robe and a blue mask. Other figures with almost the same appearance began to appear one by
ARIA JONATHAN [FLASHBACK] The girl yawned. Who wouldn't get bored if you sat for hours in the car without meaningful activities, like sleeping, for example? She had thrown her phone and favorite fiction book in her bag, after nearly an hour of staring at it with a fading enthusiasm. She did not know why her ability to kill herself a.k.a sleeps anywhere and anytime suddenly decays. It was at times like this that irritation almost frustrated her; barely. How far did she have actually go to get to that damn boarding school? One year, maybe. This is really annoying! Aria glanced at the man in his forties who sat behind the wheel sarcastically. She was sure that Mr. Baga's butt was almost blistered. Aria herself has changed her sitting pose at least a million times. She wondered how an ordinary human could possibly sit that long. Aria feels in vain with herself as a wolvire. “Sir, you are human, are