Heart Darkness
Chapter 11 About Aruhi ...

"Abner, he's here!"

Elgio exclaimed unable to hide the outburst of emotion. A blink of an eye turns from a serious man turning into a happy 11-year-old boy when he finds a long-lost beloved toy. Looks like it.

"Who?!"

Abner astonishment. Hurry up to Elgio to the center of Leon Durante and Benn Amarante. Almost stumbled so surprised to hear the hysteria of Elgio.

"Goat mustache .. " answered Elgio seriously observe the bouquet of flowers in the two adjoining centers.

The occupants of both tombs are truly the title of the world - the afterlife. Not as a boss and an assistant, but a friend in the real sense. As he was about to take his last breath, Leon asked Abner to look after Elgio and the boy was laid beside Ebenn.

Abner grumbled at Elgio's reply, "You keep talking about 'goat mustache and Sadako's incarnation' demanding that I understand. Even though I understand who you mean it still sounds weird. Doesn't he have a name? Why wear a disguise?"

"I mean of course ... Aruhi. Who else is it? Look it!"

Elgio pointed at the two enthusiastic bouquets of flowers. Elgio's face is unpredictable, but it's a good thing. His brown eyes glowed. Abner had never seen Elgio stir like that.

"Emm, are you sure?"

"Well, who else would have put flowers in my father and Benn's tomb if it wasn't Aruhi?"

"Surely so?"

"Who else? I'm the only Durante left, with no family. So, there's no way my relatives put Lily in these two graves."

"Maybe Maribel. Every month on the date of Leon's death, Maribel sows flowers and puts flowers here."

"No, I'm sure it's ... Aruhi. This isn't the date of Dad's or Benn's death."

"alright. Look, could he have left a message?"

Abner is fine because Elgio suddenly became very cute. He spoke impassively to break all of Abner's arguments. Elgio began to examine the bouquet of flowers one by one. A bouquet goes back and forth hoping to find something. He even examined the flower wrapping paper from a short distance away as if there was a secret code that could lead him to Aruhi. But there's nothing.

"This flower just got put! Still fresh and fragrant." This time he was sniffing flowers. Abner shook his head as Elgio told him to sniff.

"You! If you say it's fragrant and fresh it means he hasn't been here long. Let's follow the path to the city. Maybe I can find a trace."

"You're right. This booklet has a name tag ... Adriana Florist!"

Elgio swiped the name tag hoping the paper would give him information. He was mumbling something indistinct and only his own ears were listening.

"Let's check out that place later."

"alright. Come on!"

Elgio put back the bouquet carefully and neatly. He set foot from there when Abner rebuked him.

"just like that? You didn't say hello to your father first?"

Elgio stopped, remembering that he was too excited for Aruhi to forget his purpose of visiting the tomb. Both of his hands were clenched in front of his chest. He bowed respectfully and returned upright then waved at the tomb of Leon Durante.

"Dad, I'm coming. Your business is doing well thanks to my intelligence and Durante Land is doing well. I'll get married once I meet someone decent. So, I don't have to worry. Benn, take care of my father. Oh, I'm sure you're both happy up there. Can you two, let me meet Aruhi? Don't you love him so much? Why not bring him to me? I've been looking for him for years. You must know where he is? Tell me Dad! I need to know how it is."

Abner is shocked to hear Elgio's unusual "say hello. He clucked while shaking.

"Do you look like an 11-year-old who's craving his dad? Where's your serious face? I thought you were a real adult."

"Whatever you are, but in front of your parents, you are still a child. Never growing up."

"What you just did, it's an unusual homage to a father's grave." Abner's chin pointed at the tomb.

"Eh ....?!" Abner flabbergasted.

"I'm going Daddy. I'll be back with Aruhi."

Elgio turned around and took a long step into the car leaving Abner still aghast. He shook his head again. The joint at the base of his head can be bent real as a result of too much 'drowning' by Elgio's behavior today. Abner sowed flowers and sent prayers, asking forgiveness for Elgio's disrespect. If Abner doesn't get the lyrics wrong, Elgio steps in while dancing. It seems like the man was happy to find Aruhi.

"Come Abner! Your poem is just fine. What if Aruhi is on the road and when your poem is finished, Aruhi disappears?" elgio shouted impatiently forcing Abner to say goodbye and ran small. They boarded the car and left the burial complex back in town. Elgio dyed all the way.

"That easy? While I was upside down for years looking for him?"

"You're not really looking for Aruhi. Are you paying less? Or you may not be looking for it at all, just receiving reports from reports. That's why Aruhi hasn't been found all this time."

Was Aruhi adopted by a rich man? Is he living happily? Or is he suffering somewhere? That question haunted Elgio for a dozen years. Can't it be true that Abner's guess that Aruhi is with Salsa at this time? They'll know it next week. But that doesn't mean Elgio stopped looking at the moment.

"Have you ever been to Aruhi's new house? She has a nanny named Danish and if I don't remember correctly, Danish joined Aruhi's transfer after the fire."

Danish's face was vaguely remembered but his snoring voice seemed to have just been heard by Elgio, as if it had just been yesterday.

"Danish has died, shortly after the fire. He suffered from sleep apnea and stopped breathing while snoring. Sort of heart failure."

"Seriously?!" Elgio felt guilty for nearly having corrupted Danish.

"Do I look like I'm making up a story?"

Abner stomped on the brakes as a flock of sheep passed in front of them without permission. Elgio's body staggered forward.

"Oopss, sorry Elgio. Road users without courtesy ... passing by."

Instead of complaining Elgio flicked his finger, "Bingo .. This is a good sign of Abner. The goat's got a beard exactly like Aruhi's bangs."

Abner glanced at his strange master, was Elgio suddenly insane?

"That's .. who just passed by Elgio's sheep, not a goat."

Elgio chuckled to throw his body into the car seat, "Right? They look similar. They both have beards."

"Forget over! Your jet lag is starting to bother me. We'd better go home and you'll eat something spicy to make your plane hangover end."

"No, we go to Hadriana Florist first. What if they have CCTV? I'm curious about Aruhi's face."

"You're a freak. Not necessarily Aruhi. Whatever. By the way Elgio, about Aruhi .. which thing do you want most from finding Aruhi? Your wealth or your heart?"

Abner steals a rearview view on Elgio that looks chaotic. The empty streets were springing up, the man's hopes were beginning to thin. Abner never thought, Elgio hangs his faith on two bouquets of Lily?

"Of course .. If this is about my heart, are you happy now? Thought you missed, I'm not a homosexual."

"I'm grateful, but what if it turns out to be bisexual? That's more confusing to me."

Elgio pulled his lips without a smile, his gaze as sharp as razor blades, "You want your head to be separated from your body, Abner?"

Abner laughed amusedly, "I'm the only one you have. You won't behead me as easily as your babble."

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