40 Days, One Love
Time Prisoner
Yua couldn't sleep thinking about the man in the cafe. His mind is not calm. Like someone's been watching him all this time. He hasn't even told Joe. Yua then remembered any strange events that occurred until now.
First, he came from 2021 after reading an old letter to himself from his father who died a week ago. "Did Joe now not make a letter to Yucil? tomorrow I'll ask Joe" murmured Yua.
Second, on the second day of 2000 Joe and Arga told him that he had nightmares to sweat. Yua doesn't even remember having nightmares.
Are Yua and Arga really childhood friends?. As he remembered in the future he met Arga when he was 20 years old, while here Yucil and Arga had met.
Fourth, Both the man and the cafe are very strange. The cafe has been around since 1890. Then is during colonization the cafe is fine? and how are the rumors going if the cafe owner never gets old? why are there books, comics and novels about time travel?.
Until now, Yua has not discussed how the future of this city, this country, to this world. He doubted if anyone would believe him. After hearing Joe's advice on his birthday yesterday he became worried if he accidentally conveyed things related to the future.
Actually, Yua also does not really remember both his life and his surroundings from 2000 to 2010 because he was still small and had not noticed around. Why did he arrive in 2000?.
Yua even only knows her environment from school to college.If she knows the situation in the future she is not an excellent reminder who can remember the details of future events.
After much he thought tonight, he unwittingly fell asleep and just woke up at 1 pm the next day.
...***...
"Watch it. It's noon!!" yua said in surprise and jumped out of bed. Seeing that Yucil was not next to him, Yua immediately got up and ran to the dining room. Thankfully, there was Arga there with Yucil drawing.
"Miss Yu sleeps like a dead man!" ledek Arga's.
Yua then touched Arga's forehead for saying impolite. Yucil also laughed at Arga's forehead which was now reddened. "Today I'm going out.... You take care of the house" Yua told Yucil and Arga.
Yua actually did not want to leave the house but he had to find out who the man in the cafe was. He even planned this visit in his sleep.
...***...
The cafe began to appear at the end of the road. Yua then opened the door and was immediately greeted by the same servant when she and Arga went there a few days ago.
Just like before, this cafe is quiet. He is the only guest today. Yua then again saw a line of photos displayed on the wall. He wanted to see if there were any clues he could find by looking at the photos. Unfortunately, there was no clue he got.
Yua then moved onto the mysterious bookshelf. A scientific book on time travel caught his attention. There is a quote that is the main focus.
..."There is a limited period of time for time jumpers"....
Yua then looked at the other quotes.
..."Time prisoners can never cross the boundaries of space and time forever"...
"The language is very complicated anyway.. jumper? prisoner?" yua muttered as he turned the pages of the book one by one.
While being engrossed in reading suddenly Yua felt a hand touch his shoulder to make him surprised and immediately close the book he read. Soon Yua again put the book to where it came from.
The book had returned to its place and now Yua slowly turned her body by closing her eyes tightly. When he had turned around perfectly, it was unmistakable that there was someone else in front of him.
"Open your eyes!!" said the man.
The man's words made Yua slowly open her eyes. The first thing he knew of the man was that he was dressed in black and appeared to be very tall. Then he looked from the man's feet to his head. Blonde, white skinned and has a mole next to his left eye. His features were the same as the man he had seen some time ago.
"You're the..who are you?" yua said with a trembling voice.
"No need to be afraid like that!" exclaim the man so that Yua would not be afraid of him.
...***...
The man then invited Yua back to his seat and added a bonus to Yua's order. "I'm Alex, the owner of this cafe" said the man
Yua was shocked to hear that the young man was the owner of this cafe. "Sorry before, how old are you? you really are the owner of this cafe?" ask Yua.
"mmm. about 25, what 26 may be hahaha" Alex said with a laugh that hesitated with his own age. "No need to be formal to talk casually." he continued.
Yua realizes there is something strange, why Alex hesitates about his own age. Is it true that the rumor was true, Yua thought inwardly as she glanced at the bookshelf.
"As you may have guessed" Alex said suddenly, startling Yua again.
"What do you mean?" ask Yua. "Don't he read minds?" murmured Yua in the heart.
...***...
"Don't!!!!" Yua did not expect the taste of shortcake cafe is very tasty even more delicious than he had eaten in the future.
Alexpun smiled seeing Yua really enjoyed the cake. "You should go back to your year of origin a maximum of 40 days after you come to this year" Alex asked seriously.
"huk huk huk" Yua who was drinking hot coffee was choking. Alex then gave Yua a glass of water.
"So you really are a time traveler like me?" yua asked while looking at the cafe room which turned out to be no one else but the two of them.
"It's not that you and I aren't time travelers" Alex replied. According to Alex, she and Yua are not time travelers. Then Yua what?.
"You are a time jumper. The one who just happened to be thrown into this year. It is usually triggered by unstable emotions. While time travelers are people who consciously travel time with the aim of finding information or even aiming to change the past" explained Alex.
Ahhh.. What Alex said seemed reasonable. Yua so remembered the day she was thrown into the year 2000, it was the day she saw the album of memories of herself and her father. On that day he also found and read the letter of the father so emotionally that finally the emotion that made him arrive this year.
"If you weren't a past pellet then what would you be?" ask Yua.
"I'm the one who can't break through the walls of space and time" Alex replied.
"You... time prisoner?" asked Yua with a hint of disbelief.
...***...
Answering Yua's curiosity about who Alex really is, Alex unhesitatingly recounts that he was also a time jumper.
Initially Alex jumped over time because the fiancee died, then followed by the death of his parents. His emotions were unstoppable until he accidentally jumped over time. While jumping over time Alex meets a time traveler who is the first owner of this cafe. It is the cafe owner who tells all about time travel.
"mmmm... If you know what year you were from?" ask Yua curiously. At first he felt afraid of Alex but because he shared the same experience the fear was gone.
Alex had expected Yua to ask her year of origin. Alex then continued his story briefly.
In 1893, Alex was 25 years old. He thought that he wanted to escape the bitter incident until he accidentally arrived in 1890. The year that her fiance and both her parents are still alive.
However, Alex ignores the time traveler's advice to leave 1890 and return to his native year. The reason he did not want to leave in 1890 was that he did not want to separate for the second time with the person he loved. Until he finally realized too late that his body was experiencing the rejection of time.
"Time rejection?" asked Yua who was confused to hear the new term.
That's because people from the future have time running in the future as well. Not only the external physical but the organs in his body also work according to the time in the future.
...***...
When Alex first arrived in 1890 he was not aware if his body experienced rejection of time such as nightmares, sweating, and often dizziness. The longer the condition of his body decreases. As a result, the organs in his body slowly showed a malfunction until finally 40 days passed.
Exactly 40 days since Alex jumped over time, he experienced vegetative death (death of suri). At that time he was in this cafe with the time traveler. After a week of vegetative death, Alex finally realized and had to live a life that he had not imagined before.
However, Alex must surrender to his fate. He could not get out of the cafe even though he had fought as hard as he could. His suffering increased when he realized that he would not age or die.
That was also proven. A year passed physically unchanged it is common, but now it has been more than 100 years but Alex's face does not show any change.
Alex ends the absurd-sounding story and asks Yua how many days she's been in 2000. "How many days have you been in 2000?" ask Alex.
"Approximately since April 30, that means it is now 8 days" said Yua while counting the days using his finger.
"Then have you ever experienced the rejection of time or strange events during these 8 days? " Alex is worried that if Yua is unaware of the rejection of the time does not want Yua to suffer the same fate as him.
"On the second day, Joe and Arga said I had a bad dream" Yua replied.
Like no one can avoid the rejection of time including Yua. Alex again reminds Yua that he will experience the same syndrome as her and so it is not too late that Yua must leave this year and return to her original year.
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