
Nothing escaped his sight, not even the dust on the end of his shoes he could see well let alone the behavior that was out of habit. Obviously Joyi is aware of something Chad is hiding from her, given who Chad's identity is then there's no point in telling anyone else because it will easily be known to her.
Joyi had already decided she would go alone, starting from the morning Chad would go to the office after finishing breakfast. Nothing seems to characterize it from there, but by dusk Chad will be spending time with Ima or overtime that time he leaves.
Surprisingly Chad went out of town on a bus, something he never did in a lifetime and certainly it was very suspicious.
Chad stopped at a fairly quiet stop, from where he walked through the woods. Long enough until finally from behind the trees a large building is seen, the house is quite seedy.
From a distance Joyi saw Chad enter the house, very suspicious especially after he waited for a while Jhon also entered the house.
Joyi is so curious about what Chad is hiding that Jhon is involved in this, but that suspicion turns into a sense of wonder mixed with shock.
Chad comes out of the house with someone very familiar, his face does not change so that Joyi can recognize him easily.
* * *
"You don't have to come every day" Reinner said, patting his son on the shoulder.
"It's okay dad, my job is always done quickly" Chad said.
Reinner smiled, then let Chad say goodbye and left. He was still standing there until Chad completely lost his sight, putting on a happy smile he turned back to finish his job.
"Rei." call someone to stop him.
Reinner turned his body slowly, and as his eyes looked at an old woman who still looked fit he quickly recognized her.
"Aunt Joy.
"You. you're alive." said Joyi, unable to hold back her tears.
In the next second they embrace each other, just a few minutes to pour out all the longing of the child and the caregiver of the sense of birth mother.
Satisfied with each other, Reinner invited Joyi in, it just so happened that the house was empty because everyone was out except Alabama who would never come out of the basement if there was no need.
They began to mince words by asking each other the news, then the next session Reinner told of his long journey that several times almost lost his life.
"God Rei.
"Yes, this is all thanks to Anna" he said, recalling how he first survived death.
There was a momentary silence present between them, making the dusty house worthy of a sinister title.
"It's so weird, why didn't Chad tell me" muttered Joyi.
"The chad? oh you mean Agam"
"Yes, he never hid anything from me so I followed him here out of curiosity"
"So you guys are pretty close apparently"
"Of course, we live in a house with my other granddaughter Alisya"
"What's? isn't Chad living alone?" ask Reinner.
"Of course not, did he not tell you about me?" ask Joyi.
Reinner shook his head with a frown, of course this made Joyi even more surprised because apparently Chad did not tell them to each other.
"She only told me that she was adopted by the Menhad couple who later died, they were the ones who named Chad and left the family business for her" Reinner said.
"Yes, that's true. Menhad is the last name of my husband and the parents who adopted Chad are my stepchildren, after Catherine...... " joyi's words suddenly came to a halt as she now realized the reason why Chad hid this from her.
"What happened to Catherine?" ask Reinner.
"Rei... Have you met your family?" joyi asked quietly after her long daydream.
"Yes, I'm staying with them now" he replied.
"Oh Rei, how unfortunate your fate is" wailed Joyi with teary eyes.
Reinner was only able to be silent, waiting until Joyi wanted to talk about what made him sad all of a sudden.
It took a long time to tell the story, but Reinner had it so that even Joyi could add to the story in hopes that it hadn't materialized yet.
The sky had been dark since then, but cloudy had only stopped in Reinner's heart. Making her tears flow like an unembarked river, rushing like rain with thunderous lightning.
"Chad hid this because he knew you wouldn't be able to accept it, even a baby who had never seen his mother's face was tormented for twenty years by it. From the outside you will see only a handsome young man who is well established with a cold nature, but when you knock on the door then from the window alone you will find cracks at every end of his heart" said Joyi.
"How could you possibly handle that?" reinner.
"There's only one answer to all the questions, it's the woman who made you sacrifice" Joyi replied.
Rei was stunned, the instant he remembered the flashback in his life.
"It's not just you, but your niece Kyra wanted to end her life because of the pressure she put on her"
"What do you mean?" ask Rei.
Joyi made her face, staring at the candle flame that was about to die. In the rest of the light he once again recounts the reality that happened in the past, where he was only a personal servant of Jack.
It was a divination story that he had told Jack, his job to separate Jack and Jessa and he gave the reason to Reinner.
"I don't expect you to believe, from the beginning my role was just an ambitious butler. But the truth you can never deny, it all started with Anna and then Ken and you in the first generation and now your two children and Kyra in this generation"
"One more thing you haven't mentioned" Reinner said with my bowed eyes.
Joyi looked in surprise, but when Reinner raised his face he saw trust.
"Hans was also in the circle of sacrifice, he almost became like me if I didn't come at the right time" he said.
Again, silence appeared but now it brought a darkness of sorrow. Closing the space in Joyi's heart, Reinner struggled in his own mind.
"I have to end it quickly" said Joyi suddenly.
"Indeed only I can only end it, from the beginning it was like that" he repeated.
Rising from his seat Joyi walked past Reinner, the smile was still there that made Reinner's longing even more crazy.
"Ah has Chad introduced Ima to you yet?" his question was immediately answered by a slow nod.
"She is a bright cheerful girl, thanks to which Chad escapes her grief and is more open. I hope you will bless their relationship well, and one more thing" said Joyi, turning her back to look at Reinner.
"My granddaughter is Alisya, she's in a relationship with Agler. Right now I don't let them be together because there's something Agler has to do first, after my task is done I hope you will take Alisya with you as I brought Chad because their fate is not much different"
"Aunt Joy.... What are you planning?" ask Reinner suspiciously.
The warm smile returned in exchange for the answer, making Reinner more worried because he knew Joyi better than anyone.
* * *
Morning where Agler should have been in the office but his feet were resting on the rocks on the hill, from the breeze of the wind that blows away the hairy mantle of Joyi's perfume scents spread to the sensitive shoots of Agler's life.
His hands clenched together behind his back, as if hiding from the edge of a steep cliff.
"You can say it now" Agler said, knowing that Joyi had sensed her existence.
"That day I asked for something that made you angry, thinking that you were my only hope because Chad had lost his way" said Joyi without turning back.
His farsighted eyes stared at the scene under the cliff that was both beautiful and terrible, like the time when he told a silly story.
Agler is one who believes in prophecy even though it is not to be believed, he understands Joyi's position when he hears the bad prophecy especially after he knows Hans's sacrifice is overdue.
Even before that happened, Joyi was able to convince him with his bad luck that lost both parents at birth, there was one resentment towards Jessa that encouraged him then to side with Joyi.
But what Joyi asked for was beyond reason and ability, at that time Joyi asked Agler to carry out his task of killing Jessa's life.
"There were many sacrifices I saw behind the solid wall, bad luck that chained my two cousins to their wrists with blood. Right now I'm standing as Hermes just to make sure innocent people stay safe, but I still can't do what you ask for"
"Surely the devil never shows a sinister face, he will copy the likeness of an adorable baby, a frightened beautiful girl or a loving old woman. To kill him is precisely we who will be masked by a demon with two horns on the head, as a good person is natural if you are not able to do it" said Joyi.
"Then...What are you going to do?" ask Agler.
"Done my task" replied Joyi with a warm smile that made Agler surprised because the smile was so sincere like a mother.
* * *
On that sunny day the flowers in the garden bloomed so beautifully, Jessa had prepared a cup of tea for her to enjoy while breathing fresh air.
But a waiter suddenly approached him and told him someone was calling asking about him, and he curiously went inside to receive the call.
"Hello" said.
"Have not seen each other in a long time, how are you?" ask someone across there.
"Who is this?"
"It's easy for you to forget me and live in peace, too bad that word won't last forever. You only have an hour to get to the hill before the same poison will take the lives of your loved ones"
"Don't joke! tell me who you are?" jessa started to panic.
"Hello!"
Tuuuuuuttt....
Responding to it in breaking up without any other warning, Jessa's heart is now really anxious so she can not think clearly. Whether this was just a joke or someone was indeed playing a death game with her, whatever it was Jessa decided to check it out.
He immediately rushed out, with the driver to the hill. What he does not realize is that the action makes Ryu curious, Ryu secretly follows where Jessa went.
A sense of wonder began to hold his heart when he saw the car riding Jessa stopped at the edge of the forest, he quickly got out of the car because Jessa seemed to run into the forest.
Unfortunately in the middle of the forest he lost track of Jessa, as the old woman he marveled at Jessa's agility. Starting to remember the lessons of the trail search at Ryu Academy was looking for some clues until his step was carried to the hill, unfortunately there was nothing he saw except a vast expanse of grass.
Aaaaaaa......
Suddenly a scream of someone echoed, his ears that heard clearly sent an alert signal on his body. Staring around now what he heard was someone's moaning, Ryu quickly ran towards the source of the sound.
Srak Srak Srak
His shoe-clad feet repeatedly stepped on the dry twigs and leaves that made a sound as he ran, in the middle of a sudden trip he saw a shadow of someone who was also running.
"Dad!" ryu shouted because he knew the figure very well.
"Ryu! what are you doing here?" ask Jack in surprise.
"That's... "
"Ti..dak.
Ignoring his unfinished reply they immediately ran back towards the source of the sound, and when they reached a terrifying sight welcomed their arrival.
Chad was crying and relentlessly moaning, in his arms Joyi lay helpless with terrible circumstances. Filled with blood and a wide open wound in the abdomen, Chad tries to stop the bleeding but to no avail which makes Joyi weaker.
"What's going on?" ask Ryu.
Slowly Joyi's hand was raised with the rest of her energy, her blood-soaked index finger trembled as she pointed at a woman on the other side.
"Jessa." he said slowly before losing consciousness.
"Grandmother! grandma! wake up. grandma. "call Chad to take back Joyi's consciousness.
While Ryu and Jack were staring at the pecking Jessa, her blood-soaked hand was still holding a shiny dagger as her bloodstains were exposed to the sunlight.
In just one second Ryu knew what had happened, it was a tragedy that could never be forgotten.