Ash-boss
Those Who Contradict

“What does it mean to keep an eye on the three of us? ” says Aksara. “ Shouldn't he be the one to be vigilant. ”

“ You muttered something? ” muttered an old man who walked hunchback beside him. A grandmother who looked so thin was dry with short gray hair. His skin color looks so dark. But the smile on the face was an understatement of happiness. The grin looks carefree and free.

“ Not a meaningful thing. ” replied Aksara dongkan.

Even though he was carrying out his duties, Aksara still thought about the words spoken by Laras this morning during school class hours.

“ A woman is like that..” said the grandmother. “ Knowing something or not, his feelings will show first. ” the grandmother stopped her steps at the end of the road. He looked at a gate so dark. The place was so quiet without inhabitants. There was only a puff of smog covering the entire length of the place. There were many screams of fear and cries from behind the gate. There are also small calls that echo slowly.

“ We are looking forward to you..”

“ Come immediately..”.

“ Meet with us..”.

Am I going the wrong way?!  Bhatin Aksara looked around him. He remembered walking with his grandmother on the same road where he used to deliver souls to his last journey. “ This is no ordinary place.” murmured.

“ Is this the end of my journey? ” the grandmother still showed a smile filled with happiness by asking Aksara.

“ This is where you started your journey. ” answer other sounds that appear from behind the gate. Standing right in the middle by opening the side of his maroon scarf, another Eren figure greeted the grandmother with a warm smile. “ They have been waiting for you for a long time. ”

“ !! What are you saying?! ” Aksara held back the grandmother's steps. “ This is not the road that should be passed by him. ”

Smiling knotily, Eren ignored all the worries of Aksara.

“ Please.” Saying politely, Eren allowed the grandmother to enter the area after she removed her hand from the Aksara grip.

“ What you do! This is not the end of your journey, madam. ” Aksara insisted on holding back, but did not discourage the grandmother from entering the place.

“ This is part of the debt I have to pay. ” replied the grandmother smiling. His narrowed eyes showed how sincere he had entered the place. How much the grandmother understood the things she chose as soon as she entered the gray place.

Guided by Eren to climb the dark and gloomy place, the grandmother spoke softly while receiving a few outstretched hands beside her.

“ Sorry just picked you up for so long..” said the grandmother as soon as she received a small helping hand that was so flattering. “ Are you alone here? ”

The tiny-handed figure transformed into a very cute little girl. His eyes are big round. Pinched nose. With her curls tucked back, she gave a smile to her grandmother. Hand in hand, the grandmother and the little girl disappeared under the rising fog. While Eren remained standing in his last place to witness the departure of the two souls.

“ Where did they go? ”

“ Not going anywhere. ” replied another figure Eren with his voice.

“ What do you mean by not going anywhere? ”

“ Who are you to decide where a soul should do redemption? ”

“ What is your power to determine the final journey of each soul you deliver?  Your only job is to pick them up and deliver them.The ones who decide where they end up are themselves. Regardless of how clean or dirty the notes you have in your book are. ” another Eren figure passes Aksara who is silent to the statement he throws. “ You are only a pick-up as well as an introduction. Your task is nothing more than that.”.

“ As an introduction, how noble is your duty, until you can target someone to take with you? For you to destroy?! ” Aksara reacted furiously with the indifference that other figures Eren showed him.

“ It is my duty to eliminate everything that is beyond the control of the world after death. ”

“ He's not dead. He is not a lost soul or any other creature. He's just an ordinary human being. ”.

“ Who continue to live without the book of destiny. Its existence is not included in the world of death but its existence should not exist in the human world. His existence is against the rules of the universe. ”

Hearing all that, Aksara was increasingly made speechless. Realizing the fact that the person they are discussing does not have a book of destiny. At least, in the library of the universe, there was no existence of the fate book on his behalf at all. Not even the fate books for demons and other supernatural beings were found. His existence became very ambiguous for the Aksara in his world.

“ His existence in the world has caused some of the valleys of death to be chaotic. Destroying the freedom of some souls and cultivating so much chaos the wheel of destiny. His figure should not have appeared. ”

“ He lives in the human world, his existence must have a reason. His existence must have a purpose. ”

“ Only until the task is completed..” replied another figure Eren. “ Unintentionally his life means because of all the souls that dwell in his body. Before his figure turned immortal and irreplaceable. ”

Aksara clenched his hands tightly. There was so much uncertainty about the figure they were talking about and Eren was only able to cover all of his expressions behind the hood of the maroon-red robe that had already re-enclosed the entire part of his face.

“ I have no other way. ” last sentence of another figure Eren sounds so strange. There were some of those figures who hoped to find the best way to resolve the ambiguous existence of him that was forbidden. “ I want him to remain..” that sentence came out in such a small voice. Megriringi the disappearance of another figure Eren from the path of the red brick that always visited Aksara and Laras when delivering some souls who dwell in the body of the girl to go to her last trip.

“ Is there really no other way? ”

Aksara turned his body and immediately he was standing right in front of Laras who was sitting in front of the porch of his house right in the middle of the night. The views of Laras and Aksara met right when Laras opened his eyes after giving thanks for all the life journey he had gone through.

“ What are you doing here?!! ” hiss Laras shocked.

“ Why am I here??? ” more shocked again Aksara. She's confused. For the first time he returned to a place that was not his destination after the red brick path where he used to take souls to their last journey.

“ Loe can't bring my grandmother or grandfather!  ” Laras stands tall in front of the terrace of his room. He acted as if he was against the coming of the Aksara in the courtyard of that simple house. “ Only those I have!! ” Stretched his hand, Laras blocked the figure of Aksara who was still confused by his presence in the house of Laras.

“ Who wants to pick up your family! ” said.

“ Then why are you here at midnight like this?? ”

“ I... ” Aksara turned his back and found himself right in the middle of the red brick path. “ ..don't know. ”

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