Ash-boss
A Thousand Stories: He who is with the darkness

Laras had just stopped his steps abruptly as Eren stood before him all of a sudden. Eren's face looked unfriendly. His eyes stared intently, and with a single pull of his hand, Eren had already brought the figure of Laras into the dimensional world of the road towards the dark valley called the gray valley.

Barrel gasp. He was startled by Eren's unusual demeanor then looked back at the young man who was now covering that face with his maroon red hood.

"Aren't you thinking of me one bit!" that raucous voice sounded a little stifled.

There was a turmoil that made the other side of the young man rise, and Laras only fell silent and was not sure of the attitude shown by Eren who was now trying to approach him slowly.

The barrel retreated as Eren's steps drew closer to his body. The wrinkled old hand immediately coiled around the waist of Laras who stumbled onto something below her and made the girl fall to her back.

"Can you be a little careful!" now that voice sounds annoyed.

Laras. Changes in tone of voice and the opposite attitude make Laras more confused with the circumstances that occur.

"What do you really feel?" Laras asked innocently.

Eren stood still hearing that. Realizing his attitude was suddenly excessive about something that turned out to disturb his mind. It was the moment where Aksara lightly pulled the girl's body into his arms.

"Forget it!"

The owner of the raucous voice lowered his head for a moment, then turned away. Bringing the two figures back to the same place. The place where they disappeared.

Eren who had turned his body away, immediately walked away from Laras who was still confused by all the things the young man did.

He looked at the young man's back. Letting the young man walk away from himself with all his disturbing feelings about the attitude that the Aksara did in public.

"Eren wait!"

As soon as Laras started, he saw Rein stop Eren's steps with a sweet smiling face that made Laras feel that he recognized Rein's attitude. Rein's first smile when Laras regained consciousness from a coma 2 years ago.

Laras held back his steps. His heart rate is racing fast. There were many flavors mixed into one given Rein's smile and all the sincerity Rein had been doing to her all along. The smile showed Rein's interest in the figure before him. And that figure is...

"Eren! Can I ask for his time?" Rein smiled amiably and stood before the young man in his quite elegant style.

"You?"

Rein nodded and smiled even more sweetly. He occasionally played his curly hair in front of Eren.

"Yes! You still remember me?"

"Sure! Barrel Friends aren't you?!" eren replied casually.

Hearing that answer, Rein's heart was beating strongly. Giving unbearable pain to him. Rein still showed his friendly face.

"Yes, I'm Rein, his friend!"

Rein pulled the hand of Laras who followed hesitantly behind Eren. He noticed the change in expression Rein showed as soon as he pulled his hand past the young man.

Laras's gaze stared at the repressed emotions that he could not yet understand how to control. Laras froze silently beside Rein who suddenly said that he liked Eren since the first time he met the young man.

"really?" react Eren unconsciously.

Eren was focusing on Laras who was standing stiff next to the girl named Rein. He looked at every single Baras gelagat who was trying to think of something or was trying to understand something that happened.

"So, "Rein immediately seized all of Eren's attention.

The young man felt something different from the girl who was now smiling sweetly before him. A smile that broke Eren's concentration when he was about to find out something strange about the girl's figure. Eren had changed dimensions many times in a few seconds so try to catch the oddity shown by the girl in front of him. Until Eren shifted his focus to Laras.

Unlike what Eren experienced, Laras immediately felt unbearable pain in all parts of his body. Especially his back. It was like something was being torn from the back of his body.

The barrel was mired and crouched to endure the pain that appeared on his back. He groaned unnoticed by anyone for some time.

As soon as Laras was slowly able to manage his pain, Aksara was already there to wear the Laras sweater that he had used.

The barrel that was still trying to support his body, again felt the same pain suddenly, then slowly subsided but in the umpteenth second, he said, the pain immediately made the collapse of Laras' body with an unbearable eye gaze.

"What's up?!" Aksara and Eren instantly held Laras' body from falling.

Eren restrains the girl's body first and carries Laras in his arms. Aksara immediately pulled his hand and turned to Rein who was too relaxed with what was happening in front of him.

Eren can sense something wrong has happened here. Then he turned his gaze back to Rein. Rein who remained smiling with his flat face looked at the chaotic state of Laras.

"Who are you?!" eren and Aksara asked simultaneously on Rein who was twisting his curly hair with all the circumstances.

"You?!"

Laras tried to focus his gaze on the figure of the girl beside him. A pitch-black shadow with no true form appeared in front of Laras. A figure who disturbs the memory of Laras will an event in an uninhabited valley that is always passed by souls without a destination. The memory of Laras was instantly sucked into a memory of another valley.

It was a green valley surrounded by many trees. The path is in the form of a pile of floating soil that floats and forms a road to get to the end of the side of the valley opposite it.

On the opposite side of the valley a glimpse of Laras looking like the shadow of three other streets. One of the three doors was a black figure hiding and occasionally stealing glances towards Laras looking. Laras frowned.

"Who?"

Baras watched carefully. Trying to see clearly a black figure without that form.

But Baras' memory is sucked back and realizes Eren's grip is getting tighter on his shoulder. Laras looked towards Eren. He was back in his world at the moment.

Aksara and Eren, who were unable to reach Laras's view, could only be on alert with strange things that continued to harass them. Even as they kept trying to figure out the origin of the strange invading air, both Eren and Aksara could only remain silent.

"Take me off." Laras told Eren.

The barrel instantly pulled itself from Eren's embrace and stepped closer to Rein who was controlled by that formless black shadow.

The move was briefly withheld by Aksara, but Eren restrained the Aksara's actions. Eren begins to pay attention to every detail of Rein's actions and hopes Aksara can help him when Rein's figure does something beyond their expectations.

"Return Rein!"

"Who do you mean?" a shrill voice like the voice of the witch asked casually.

"It's not him you want!! But me!"

The barrel extended its hand before Rein who was controlled by that formless black shadow. The pain again struck Baras when the tip of his hand touched the formless black shadow part of it. Laras had wandered but again strengthened himself and remained standing firmly in front of Rein's body. And the two young men behind Laras just kept on alert.

"It's none of our business to get involved in this!" eren said when he realized that the figure in front of them was not a figure they could face.

"What do you mean?"

"They have an attachment!"

Eren raised his chin slightly. Directing Aksara's gaze at the slight puff of black smoke that connected Laras' body to the formless black shadow that controlled Rein's current body.

"Only he who is connected can see the reason behind the oddity that exists now!"

Eren shook his hand. Turning his figure into the figure of the maroon-robed guard. Putting all the residents of the campus to sleep and putting them into a meaningless dream.

While Aksara who has become his true figure, the introductory sanga, mulau obscure the figure of the four of them from the dream world created by Eren to keep running another destiny that should happen.

"It's enough!" reprimand Eren patted Laras on the shoulder as soon as Rein's figure who controlled the formless black shadow went from before them without saying anything.

Barrel pulled his hand. Resisting the heat that had spread to his palm. A golden red light shone on the palm of the hand without realizing it by the three figures who are now throwing views at each other on the dimensions created.

"What is this place?!" Eren and Aksara looked on in wonder. And Laras can only be silent with the view presented in front of him.

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