40 Days, One Love
Way Back

After a long day, Yucil falls asleep in Joe's room. Yucil usually sleeps with Yua but for today he sleeps with Joe.

Morning has arrived. Yua wants to make breakfast for Yucil and Joe. Although his cooking skills are still low, but he has learned to cook fried rice from Arga. Not Yua's name if it doesn't make a furore. He did cook but also made the kitchen like a ship broke. Joe who had just woken up heard a noise from the kitchen.

"Duuggg"

The sound of people falling. Joe slipped and fell on the floor. He stepped on a shell that still had egg whites. Yua then rushed to help Joe who was in front of his eyes. However, he fell down because he stepped on the same shell when he was about to extend his hand.

"Haha"

Joe laughed out loud. An annoyed Yua pushed Joe's shoulder hard.

"Mmm. before I forget, I want to apologize for yesterday. Yucil's nature is more and more similar to mine, I exert a negative influence on him" Yua said as she lowered her head.

Joe stood up and took Yua's hand and pulled her up.

"No need! at first I was annoyed to see his stubborn nature, but he was still a natural child. I'm the one who's guilty of not holding back my emotions on a child!" answer Joe.

Suddenly, they smelled a bad smell. Because for too long, Yua did not realize that her cooking had become a little burnt. Yua then immediately turned off the stove and Joe cleaned the kitchen.

"Isn't Yucil you! the magnitude later will be like you who are stubborn and like to be lazy" teased Joe.

Yua did not accept himself as a joke Joe. He then returned Joe by bribing him with a burnt portion of fried rice.

"Uhuk uhuk.. pahiiietttt" complained Joe who choked.

Yua who saw Joe like that even laughed. "Haha"

"At least I'm happy to know the nature of my son in the future is not a trait that will plunge him in the wrong direction" said Joe who made Yua moved.

Yua then woke Yucil and they had breakfast with his slightly burnt fried rice.

Yua asks Joe for permission to take Yucil to the cafe. He decided to try a new menu there. Joe then opened his wallet and gave them pocket money Rp. 50,000. After Joe left, they left.

...***...

Yua and Yucil finally arrive at the cafe. As usual, they were greeted by the waiter. Unlike usual, today the cafe looks crowded. A servant approached them and whispered into Yua's ear to go up to the second floor. Alex was waiting for them.

"Welcome" said Alex.

Alex then let them sit down.

"Sorry two days ago I promised to come tomorrow but there's a little problem. Oh yes This is me who is a child, just call Yucil" explained Yua while introducing Yucil.

They sat at a long table in the middle of the room.

"Great Wahhh is also here.. Do you live here?" yua asked while watching every corner of the room.

"Yes... I live here. This is my work room and my room" explained Alex.

Alex then sharpens his attention to Yucil and himself. He was amazed to see those who looked so much like each other. Of course because they are the same person. Even though he had experienced the same thing as Yua but it had happened 100 years ago, he had forgotten that feeling.

Alex then asked the waiter to bring a new menu that he made. The menu is Parfait. The platting is very appetizing. The exterior is chruncy, in which there is cream, fruits, syrup, chocolate and wafer placed in a long glass. It is suitable for sweet food lovers. Alex also prepared ice tea for them.

Since the goal here was not to relax, Yua asked Yucil to enjoy his food and drinks and invited Alex to shift a little to the edge of the table, there was something he wanted to talk about. It was so that Yucil would not hear their talk.

"I have a lot of questions, so I'm confused about which one to ask" explained Yua.

Naturally, Yua had many questions. Alex was just like Yua. Time jumpers travel through time without any preparation. Generally, they do not know what to do, they do not know how to return, they are also sometimes frustrated and end up as time prisoners.

"Oh yes, some time ago there was a little incident at home. Before Yucil cried he had a moment of silence, but suddenly I felt a chest pain like I was alone who experienced that incident, was it possible that he was connected to me?" ask Yua.

True dugannya, what is felt by Yua is Sharing Life syndrome. It was a syndrome where the time jumper shared the same life as himself in that time which meant, Yua and Yucil's lives were one.

Time jumpers should also be careful about things that affect their psyche. Fatally, they could have gone if one of them had gone. Hence, every time jumper is advised not to contact his other self.

Since Yua has already met her other self, leaving the year 2000 as soon as possible is Yua's best way to avoid unwanted things.

"But how can I get back to 2021?" ask Yua.

You can't believe Alex doesn't know how to go back. Wasn't he the one who told me that he was going back to this cafe because he needed something.

"But.. Don't you know what I need?" asked Yua confusedly.

Alex then explained what he meant. Yua will need something. Something that is journals that discuss about triggers.

"A trigger.." said Yua confusedly.

Without saying much more, Alex invites Yua to look at his collection of journals. In a corner of his room was full of journals from the future. The journal was brought from the future by the cafe's first owner, the time traveler.

Yua then took Alex's journal and read it one by one. Based on the journal there are triggers that can make a person jump over time and triggers that will also help the time jumper back to its origin.

However, another article mentions that the trigger is not necessarily the same as the one that causes a person to jump over time. There will be other triggers that can return the time jumper to its original time.

"Arrrrggggg" complained Yua.

Reading all those journals made Yua even more confused. He never read a journal this complex. That gives him a headache. Yua uncovers the journals and sits back near Yucil.

"You knew.. This cafe is even still there in 2021, and there are rumors that say if the owner of this cafe is rarely seen and never old. What do they mean is you?" yua asked curiously at Alex who was in front of him..

"mmm..Maybe" Alex replied briefly.

If this cafe is still there in 2021 it could still be Alex who manages it.

"Yes, how else. I am a time prisoner. My existence is vague, only a few people are aware of my physique. Forever I will be here with this face until the end of the world" Alex replied with a smile.

Yua then suddenly remembered the thing he wanted to ask the most.

"Why do you know I'm a time jumper?" ask Yua curiously.

"It's easy." Alex replied.

There are a few things that can make him know that Yua is a time jumper. Since he lived almost 110 years, he knew almost all the people who were there. The average person will pass in front of his shop which is in the center of the crowd.

Another reason is because Arga is a customer. With his existence is difficult to realize, Alex knows anyone Arga relatives and family including Joe and Yucil. He was also aware when he first saw Yua who was very similar to Yucil, plus Yua who was very interested in the bookshelf downstairs.

"Oh. so the shelf is bait" said Yua. "Eh... but can you make me their relative from the area who happens to like fiction?" continued.

"Bau.." said Alex who made Yua feel he was being teased.

Yua then sniffed her body because it was said to smell by Alex. But it seems like Yua misunderstood. The smell Alex is talking about is the smell of time.

"A time prisoner can also smell the spinning of time" explains Alex.

"Is there any time to turn?" ask Yua. The serious atmosphere was instantly dissolved by Yua's non-serious question.

Alex tells Yua to remember the first time she arrived. When he jumps in time does he smell a smell?. Yua then remembered and imagined the incident again, but she did not remember the smell at all.

"It's been..Forget it" said Yua somewhat annoyed.

Now the curiosity why Alex can recognize him was answered. But... Yua was still curious about one more thing. He asked Alex for permission to ask again.

"Mmm... earlier I'm sorry, but can I hear your story from a time jumper to a time prisoner?" ask Yua.

Alex smiled at Yua who wanted to hear her story.

"All right, I'll tell you my story.. So please listen!" said Alex.

"really?? but that's privacy? aren't you angry?" ask Yua.

"No... Just take the silver!" answer Alex.

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