Ash-boss
A Thousand Stories: Meaningless Shadow

The barrel had just come down from inside his car when all the attention was on his figure. He who for the first time came with an unusual appearance, made all pairs of eyes inevitably look towards him with various opinions.

Baras raises his sunglasses. Justifying the position of his bag and then walking by attracting any attention that was not diverted in the slightest from him.

Noticing everything from a distance since his arrival, Laras' actions instantly sparked Eren's anger which stopped the girl's footsteps at the end of the classroom hallway.

"What are you doing?!" eren said coldly.

The look of the girl in front of him seemed unusual. Tends coquettish. As if not concerned with how Eren felt, he smiled and wrapped his hands around the young man's shoulders.

"How about we continue what was delayed last night!" his whispers.

That made Eren push and throw the girl down on the floor. He looked at the girl whose body was now restrained by someone. Noticing every strange gesture Laras showed, Eren instantly lost his desire to stay close to the girl.

Witnessed by all campus residents, Aksara held Laras' body reluctantly after seeing Eren's treatment. Helping her up, but immediately approached Eren and patted him on the shoulder.

"Thank you." Baras smiled sweetly at Aksara.

Aksara had a glance at the figure of Laras who looked quite different than usual but again threw his gaze at the girl.

"What's wrong?"

Aksara got a stern look from Eren. Hinted the young man to follow him away from that place. Ignoring the figure of Laras who seemed upset behind their backs.

"Why should we ignore it?" The characters walked quickly equal to Eren's steps.

"I think there's something strange about his attitude today."

"Laras???? She looks pretty sweet!" Aksara is honest.

The words Aksara instantly stopped Eren's steps as he remembered the appearance Laras had displayed in the passageway. Eren immediately turned around to put on a sour face somehow to who and walked through Aksara to return to the hallway where Laras' body was pushed earlier.

"What's up?!"

Confusion alphabet. Then return to pursue Eren's steps reluctantly. At the end of the hallway, Aksara watched as Eren took off his shirt to tuck into the part that showed Laras' hips clearly.

"This body is not for the spectacle of others!" eren growled at the figure of Laras who was silent stiffly with the actions of the young man.

Laras who had seemed annoyed immediately smiled satisfied with the reaction Eren showed to him.

After saying so, Eren again left the girl then disappeared in one step at the turn of the end of the hall.

The characters in the middle of the two can only be confused with Eren's behavior and the view of Laras who is different from usual on him. Aksara intended to chase after Eren for the third time, but his steps were stopped by Laras who was holding his hand.

"I.. want to talk to you!" said the girl with a gaze that Aksara rarely gets from the figure of Laras.

"Other times!" aksara brushed the hand off his arm.

Aksara immediately turned to ignore the figure of Laras who was upset by the treatment obtained by him. Aksara hurriedly followed in the direction Eren left and was made dumbstruck once he found the young man who followed him already standing by weighing something to say.

"You feel it too?"

"A little bit!"

"I've been hesitating to see her since this morning?"

The two young men exchanged looks. Recalling the incident last night after Laras left Eren with Aksara in front of the house he lived with Rein.

The two young men instantly disappeared from that place towards the path of the red brick path to find out the formless black shadow that controlled Rein's body and soul.

For some time they left, and upon their return to ascertain the state of Laras, the two young men found Laras' body asleep on the floor in a slightly curled position.

Eren and Aksara had wanted to wake Laras, but was undone. They prefer, precisely Eren prefers to lift Laras' body from the floor and put it on his bed.

Long time hose Eren is still taking good care of the girl. A black shadow flashed through the corridor of the room and Rein's cry sounded terrified.

Eren tried to catch up and break through the room, but he did not find anything from the direction of the screaming sound he heard. Except for the darkness that evaporated with hoarse laughter like the sound of a passing witch filled the room.

The messy-looking space left a bit of a mystery for Eren. Especially with the absence of the figure of Rein who he believed was screaming in fear from the room he now entered.

A moment before disappearing from sight, Eren was startled by the appearance of Aksara with a hint of confusion. The young man was like he was swept away with slightly chaotic steps. The young man threw away the surrounding gaze and froze as he watched Eren look at him in wonder.

"What's going on?!" ask the two of them to each other.

"Some one broke through the valley. While trying to catch him, I got sucked in here!" aksara answered after capturing the chaos around him.

"Rein's missing!" Eren answered the curiosity Aksara showed him.

Faced with the reality, Eren and Aksara exchanged glances. Rein disappeared, Laras this morning behaved strangely and came alone to campus. Not to mention the events that show that Rein is being controlled by darkness during the day.

"Is it too coincidental?"

"I think we need to keep an eye on him." suggested Eren.

"Let me! I'm afraid you're getting too carried away by emotions!"

Eren speechless. He looked at Aksara a moment ago understanding the meaning of that sentence.

"I can't trust you!"

"You don't have to trust me! But looking at your behavior earlier, I can't believe you can really keep an eye on her."

"Since when have I been this mess!" lamented Eren.

It was not usual for the young man to act so strangely today. He who used to be ignorant to Laras suddenly lost control of himself several times. Even this time he felt himself actually acting out of reason.

"Where do I know!"

The script passed after answering Eren's statement which he did not really need to answer. Disappearing from Eren's current view still confused with his own behavior, Aksara left a puff of smoke floating gray in front of Eren.

"Damn!" Eren immediately did the same. Disappeared from that place in the same way. Leave the rest of the smoke puff like cigarette smoke evaporating in the air.

The sight became the gaze of a person standing at the end of the stairs with an erratic feeling.

A black shadow figure that saw all the events from the beginning until the point of the two youths disappeared from his sight. His transparent figure was not aware of it at all. He now only felt that he had been ignored by the two young men he had hoped could help his figure in solving the problems he was facing.

His body figure was like it was locked in a different dimension. Makes it invisible to anyone. Especially being listened to by anyone around him. At the end of his despair, the figure of the black shadow suddenly disappeared in the same way as the two youths.

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