Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 32: Ivory (Part 01)

Laying his body on the bed, Odo closed his eyes with his right arm and breathed a little panting. Blood from the child's nose and ears had stopped flowing out a few minutes ago, red cotton swabs with blood still strewn around where he lay. Not far from Odo, Fiola sat on the edge of the bed anxiously. He closed the small wooden box of medicine and cotton, then lowered it from his lap onto the bed.

“It ..., if not wrong first aid box that often brought Moloia people who ever came it, ‘kan?” asked Odo in a faint voice.

“Iya .... This is one of the items they sold while anchored in this city he said. Though if they really come with the intention of selling, maybe problems like radical parties or the like do not appear ...”

Odo stopped closing his eyes with his arms. Still lying on the bed and turning his head lightly towards the woman's black hair, he said, “Hmm, so Miss Fiola also cares about that kind of thing apparently .... I guess, Miss Fiola only cares about my mom.”

“Not really,” Fiola replied as he lowered his head, looking cute and there was a bit of sadness in it. Staring at the boy and smiling knotfully, he said, “I don't really care. But ..., after going with you to some place during the day yesterday, somehow I started to be interested in other things in this long life.”

Slightly putting on a pouting face, the Huli Jing further climbed into the middle of the bed and checked Odo's body temperature. Putting the back of the hand on the boy's forehead, the woman said, “Hmm, the fever has gone down. Do I need to be compressed? I'll go down to pick up the basin and fabric ..., all of you return the box to them.”

“No need,” replied the boy. He got up and sat down with a still lethargic look. The sheets and clothes he wore were soaked in sweat, the thin fabric of the tunic worn making the boy's perfectly formed muscular curves visible.

“Really?” asked the woman with her eyebrows slightly raised.

“Ya ..., maybe. The adjustment I have got ...” Odo slightly stretches the neck, looking to the right and left to flex the stiff muscles. Staring at Fiola in surprise, he asked, “Tadi, Miss Fiola told them something? When taking the medicine box it ..”

“Yes .... Well, I had a panic earlier seeing Mr. Odo suddenly collapse, so ...”

“Do not worry, I can already get an adjustment, kok.”

Fiola looked confused hearing that. His expression turned flat quickly, staring blankly and waiting for the boy to explain. Gaining such a gaze, Odo gave a glimpse of goosebumps and felt something dark within Fiola. Slightly smiling resignedly, the child turned his gaze and sighed.

“May I ask you a few things, My lord?” Fiola brought his face closer, then held the child's right shoulder tightly.

“Hmm, please. If it's like this, it's better I don't hide something from Fiola.”

Getting closer to Odo, Fiola stared up close and asked, “Tadi ... what is it? Why do you often have nosebleeds? In fact, you have experienced severe bleeding .... Why?”

“Ah ..., from it.” Odo looked back at the woman. Slightly putting on a grim face, he looked away and said, “I can't stand the cold. Currently snow is falling and the weather is cold, ‘ right? My blood pressure went up and bleeding like that.”

Staring deeply at the child, Fiola only wore a flat expression. His eyes looked dark, though his lips were smiling but that expression was not friendly at all. Stop holding onto the boy's shoulder and slightly move away, he sighed and said, “You ... lied, huh? Why are you lying like that?” he said with a pressing tone.

“Eh?” Odo was a little surprised to hear that. Since his calculation magic was dormant, he could not make any calculations or make any predictions at all.

“In addition to lightning and fire magic, I am a master in mind magic. Our attributes are almost similar, it is not difficult to know whether you are lying or not.”

Odo was wide-eyed, he really only knew about it and had not included it in the calculations at all. Throwing her eyes away, cold sweat began to come out, not because she was in a fever but because she was depressed. Fiola went back to the edge of the bed, turning his eyes grimly he said, “What ... Until you don't trust Shieal ?”

“Ah?” Odo was stupefied, what he thought was worse than he thought. Slightly smiling iris, he said, “Don't-don't ..., Ms. Fiola ..”

“As you may have guessed, I read your mind.”

“Ah .... Since when?” Odo trembled, his cold sweat increasingly pouring down.

“Hmm, since when, huh? I don't really remember, probably since you were a child ...”

Odo was really surprised to hear that. The boy seemed to have missed something very important from the woman in front of him. Swallowing his saliva heavily, he could only fall silent without being able to say anything or find an excuse not to continue the conversation.

“Honest course,” says Fiola firmly. “I was surprised when I first read Mr. Odo's mind when you were less than a year old .... Babies used to think it felt like it was really creepy. The more you get here, the faster your mind and when you are five years old you make my head hurt because you read your mind,”, he continued, slightly rising into the middle of the bed and staring hard at Odo.

“Ugh ..., seriously? Since long ago my secret has been exposed?” Odo could not argue about it at all, he could only put on a resigned face when the woman said so.

“Do not worry, I did not tell such things to Madam or others.” Fiola slightly smiled happily as if enjoying the child's overwhelmed expression. Holding his own chin, he slightly changed the angle of his gaze towards the child and returned a smile.

“Hmm, may I know the reason? Why would Fiola want to keep my secret until now? It could have been Fiola said to Mother, right?” ask Odo. The boy took a deep breath, activated a few percent of his calculation magic and tried not to panic. Something changed in the boy's eyes, Fiola caught a glimpse of a glint of greenish light in his blue cornea.

“I ... do not want to make him more anxious and depressed because of you,” replied Huli Jing. Stop holding his chin, he gets closer to Odo. Pushing and laying the child to bed, Fiola climbed on the limp-laying child and held him back from waking up. Although Fiola was in the form of a child's body, but the clothes he wore and the position slightly made Odo's heartbeat faster.

“Honestly, since long ago I did not like Mr. Odo,” said the woman who sat on the stomach of the child. Staring low, as if he was superior and the child he overcame was just an insect.

“I know, Madam Fiola often looked at me like that when I was talking to mom,” Odo replied.

“You ... always do things that make the Lady anxious. Escape from home, hunting, doodling the room with magic-disfigured, even to the point of endangering your life ..” said Huli Jing. Slowly his expression became dejected, bowing his head and putting both of his palms over the chest of the child. Staring at him with a very different look to his previous eyes, he asked, “But, I know why you did all that .... You just want to protect that house, ‘kan? So ... please tell me what exactly are you hiding?”

Little grinning, in a defiant tone the boy said, “Isn't Fiola's sister able to read my mind? Just read ...”

“I can only read the surface alone ..” Fiola said annoyed. “Again, fill your head very full and make me dizzy ...”

“Pusing?”

“In short, I don't understand what you're thinking. What is World Reconstruction? What is A.I? Why do you think of Witch so often? Why do you have to meet Rey in the summer? Why are you related to those Moloia people? What do you want to make is a distributor's office, right? Why is there something to do with the attack that might happen in the spring of next year?”

Odo was wide open to the rain of questions, almost all of his secrets had been revealed by the Huli Jing. The boy had completely underestimated the mind magic belonging to the nine-tailed fox race, in his knowledge the magic was just magic to disturb the minds and senses of the opponent alone. Reading the mind in full like that does not come into the reckoning of the child.

“Um .. ah, uh. Disperse already ...” Odo turned his face. A little frustrated about that and feeling like an all-out disarm. Stretching his hands to the side, he was completely resigned to it and had no words to dodge.

“Take it easy, I never told anyone about this.”

“Really?” Odo glanced, not fully believing the words.

“Hmm.” Nodding lightly, Fiola held the child's head and forced him to look at each other. Odo was just speechless, confused by the strange behavior of women who usually looked unconcerned with the surroundings.

“If Sister Fiola could know about those things, why was Miss Fiola stunned when I said I knew my mother's secret? Wasn't it then that Fiola Ma'am could read my mind?”

Fiola flinched, raised his hand from the child's face and put his hand back up on his chest. “Jadi ... You really know about it, yes ...”

“Ya, I know ...”

“What you can also read mind?” ask Fiola.

“Gak! I don't have that kind of ability .... Reading that thought was extremely fraudulent, what the hell was that ability?!” said Odo annoyed. He pushed Fiola away and tried to remove him from the body, but his hand was pushed aside and held onto the bed by the woman.

“You do not install a mind protector, so I easily read what you are thinking,” explained Fiola.

“Hmm, there is such a thing apparently.”

“Of course there are. In addition to magic, there is also Battle Art that makes the mind empty and become unreadable.”

“If empty yes impossible to read his mind, yes.” Breathing out fretfully, the boy looked away and asked, “So, why did Miss Fiola suddenly discuss this and expose everything to me? Well, exactly I feel completely dismantled all his secrets, hell.”

“I want to know why Julia can change like that?”

“Hah?” Odo stared in confusion, trying to release his two hands that Fiola was holding. But it is useless, physically the woman is very superior to him.

“You know, from a long time ago the child was actually very quiet and pessimistic,” said the woman in a flat tone. Getting closer to the face, he said, “He always fussed himself for not wanting to trouble others and his own moody without wanting to be known to others. His eyes even sometimes look dead .... But since your babysitting, she looks alive .... Although he often complains, but his complaints come from the bottom of his heart and he is truly more alive than ever .... What did you do to her? Reflecting Fiola?”

“Is there such a spell?” ask back Odo with an annoyed expression. His eyebrows twitched, still trying to escape from the restraints of the woman.

“Hmm, I don't think there is. What's more, a magic that could affect one of the Demon Servant Race was ..” Taking her face away, Fiola smiled lightly and felt relieved for something. He had read Odo's mind and what the boy said was the truth and it wasn't a lie.

“If you already know, don't ask!”

“Lantas why?” ask the woman while smiling. “We are both long-lived creatures, unable to change quickly like that .... Not only Julia, the Great Spirit in the library was also recently changed, ‘kan?”

“It ...” Odo stopped trying to escape. Turning his eyes away, he unintentionally thought of the reason.

“Hmm ...” Squinting after reading the child's mind, Fiola said, “You promised him that you would take him out of the library? And ... make a contract too?”

“Ah ..., don't read my mind!” snapped Odo. The boy thrashed back until the bed squeaked. However, it is still useless because Odo is physically weaker than the woman. At first he wanted to use magic. But when Fiola grinned, the boy understood that the choice was not the right thing.

“Ah .... You intend to fight Leviathan too? Why?” ask Fiola.

“Akh ..., it sucks my mind read on like this.” Odo looked away, completely annoyed and feeling stripped naked every time the woman exposed her secret.

“Why do you want to fight that Ancient Serpent?”

“Geh ..” Staring annoyed, the boy clearly thought of the reason.

“Hmm, so it looks. To be able to make your body able to accommodate the Great Spirit. Coupled with the Black Dragon that is within you, it can be realized .... What kind of sense?”

“Still continue?! Seriously?!” The child's face puckered, his lips put into his mouth and his facial muscles tightened.

“Knowing what it looks like? When you think like that, I can't read your mind. What's it like?” fiola asked blankly, himself purely curious and completely indifferent to the child's annoyance.

“Already! Why is this Fiola?! Reading the mind of such a person is impolite!!”

“It was just common sense of the Mortal .... We ..., I myself am a Holy Animal. Form before becoming a divine figure ..”

“Wow, what kind of logic is that? Why the hell is Fiola's mom .... Why are you suddenly acting so aggressively? From earlier! During my time with me, Fiola never discussed anything like this, ‘kan? Why so suddenly ...”

The woman distanced her face, slightly loosening her grip that held both of Odo's hands. Seeing that suddenly lonely expression, Odo could not understand what was inside Huli Jing's head at all. As the boy stopped thinking about it with logical things, his eyebrows twitched slightly and he understood a little what made Fiola suddenly act like that.

“I ... just want to know. Why can the people around you can change like that,” said Fiola with a soft volume.

Staring straight at the boy, he again said, “That's either Julia, Vil, or the Shieal who went on an expedition with you, even Dart and Madam, either, they all seem to get more excited since you make clear contact with them. Whereas you always confine yourself in the library and hunt in the forest without thinking of everyone in the Mansion, why since you care everything changed?”

“How do I know! Just ask them ...” Odo looked away in annoyance, he purely thought the answer to the question was a bitch.

“You ... do not lie .... If you do not know yourself, how can I feel it?”

“Hah?” Odo was surprised, immediately understood what had happened to Fiola but did not wonder why the woman could arrive like that.

“Listen, Mr .... Maybe it feels silly if I feel this, but please listen to me carefully ...”

“Ya ..” Odo tried not to think about anything so that Fiola did not read his mind. Stare straight, keep your mouth shut and just focus on listening.

“It feels like I was left out ..” Fiola said. His eyes glazed over, as if to shed tears and again said, “As they began to change like that, I felt more and more left behind.”

The words were worse than what Odo had expected. The child just fell silent and listened to the woman speak again.

“You know, tail nine is the final stage of Huli Jing, I will never again experience change. Be it personality or way of thinking, I will always be the same .... I think .. transformation magic is the desire of me who wants to change, but can never and only the shape of the body that changes.”

Odo completely understood it after hearing that. Not with his mind, but in his heart. Although he is not a person who is sensitive to such things, but he can know after hearing it directly. Understand, understand and know what to do about it.

“If you want to know if it can change or not, just keep it near me and see if anything changes. Well, I don't know either, anyway. Anyway, how come Fiola knows my secret?”

Fiola had a puzzled look at Odo's already unpressured expression. Rubbing his eyes and removing the tears that did not come out, he put on a face that did not like the child put on a face like that and seemed to consider the dilemma unimportant.

“Hmm, almost anything is possible. I don't understand your secrets, anyway .... Honestly, I don't really care about that.”

“Hurbs ...”

Fiola stopped holding Odo's hand, looked away with a frown and had no intention of descending from the child's body at all. Glancing lightly, he said, “You can call me cruel as you like .... For myself, the moment of staying in the Mansion was only a moment. No more than the leaves that fall from the tree, really briefly when compared to the age of the tree that can be up to hundreds of years ..”

“Then why suddenly talk like this? If you don't care, Ms. Fiola could have kept my secret forever and don't have to make me feel stripped like this...”.

Fioal looks grim again. Staring at the boy and saying, “I'm curious, I told you that, right? I also feel like changing from the inside, want more life ..”

“Mbak Fiola is more alive. To the point of pouting like that ...”

“Eh ..?” Touching her own face, the Huli Jing only realized that she was upset about something. He really didn't realize it until Odo told him.

“Arenowned? Better Mbak Fiola often mirrored, ask yourself Mbak Fiola himself want to be what? Want to become what kind of person? Changing it can not be done just because you want, there must be an overview and purpose ...”

“Image and destination, yes ...” Fiola stared puzzledly, he had not thought about it for a long time since following Mavis a dozen years ago. “What Julia and the others are like too?” ask Huli Jing.

“Focus is very much the same Ma'am Julia ..” Odo slightly frowned. He tried to push down Fiola, then said, “Well, I think there is. Basically people change because there is something to achieve.”

Fiola held both of the boy's skirmishes tightly, then said, “Did you change too because there was something you wanted to achieve?”

“I from the first same ...”

“No, you changed,” said the woman firmly. “You used to be so focused on magic that you became a nerd and love to run away from home just for the sake of getting magic crystals or trying your new magic .... But since you came back that day in seedy clothes and full of bloodstains, you changed.”

The boy momentarily relaxed both hands that were about to push down Fiola. It is true since then that he changed, not from the outside but something from the inside. Not from a thought, but from a point of view.

“Well, if it is called there is a purpose obtained, it does exist. I at that time wanted to save Mother, for that I had to become strong and defeat the Black Dragon, then ask for other materials from the Great Tree Dryad ..”.

“Then now?”

“Eng ...” Odo again thought of his reason for struggling at this moment. Directly, it was conveyed to Fiola and made the woman say, “To prevent war?”

“Please don't keep reading my mind like that! Wait, did Miss Fiola also continue to read my thoughts while in the hall ..?” The boy's face shriveled back.

“Sadly I can't. While in the hall, your mind is very cloudy and full of complicated things like hundreds of tangled threads. I'm only starting to be able to read your mind again upon entering that merchant's room, therefore I can follow your flow and answer like that without protest.”

“So the magic was not discovered, yes,” mind Odo.

“What magic?”

“Ah .... Forget that! Forget it!” That kid really made a terrible mistake. Closing his face with his arms, he felt powerless without fully active calculation magic.

“Sorry, can't. I can't forget it .... So, what magic?” ask Fiola. He held the boy's hand, then made him stop covering his face. Staring sharply up close, he again asked, “So, what magic?”

Odo felt that there was something sinister from that gaze. Fiola's obsession with her felt stronger than Mavis's, and it made the boy's hair stand up for a few things.

“Uh, stop .... It's better I unload everything ...”

“That's magic calculation .., or rather a kind of simulation.”

“Simulation? What is it?”

“Sort of exercises done directly .... In essence, the experiment if the main event came must have been ready. If likened, a kind of simulation fight the soldiers to be stronger and when fighting arrears they do not panic,” explained Odo.

“Eng? What does that have to do with your sometimes stormy and chaotic mind like that?”

“That simulation happened inside my head,” replied Odo. Fiola still put on a face like he didn't understand that. Sighing lightly, the boy explained, “Ah, if taken for example, for me the cooking match has been the 578th time. Therefore I can cook like that and make a groove for the talk ... 577 happens in my head, then one end as execution ..”.

“Hmm ...” The woman nodded in understanding. Staring in wonder, he said, “So that means calculation magic .... You plan all that in your head quickly, then execute it perfectly. Then, means you're very smart, dong? You are like an astrologer or necromancer ..”

Squinting, Odo turned his gaze grimly and said, “Tak too .... If I could really look up, something like this wouldn't have happened. Anyway, Miss Fiola saw for herself the magic effect, ‘kan?”

Fiola trembled slightly, recalling the moment Odo lost consciousness on the doorstep an hour ago. Staring with glazed eyes, he said, “So every time you use that magic, you will nosebleed or at worst will bleed like before. If it is like that, but it was during a conversation with the merchant and chef that you are not too like a storm, your mind ..”.

“Ah, that's because I booked it ...”

“Jeda?”

“Hmm. The effect of using that power while in the hall was too strong, to the point that my body could bleed massively if it received everything at one time. Therefore, I paused it and made a temporary protocol .... If it suddenly bleeds and faints, I can't have such a discussion with them, hell.”

“Protocol?” That word Fiola did not understand, slightly making him suspicious.

“Detention ..., a kind of safety effect of that, loh. Think of it like a dam that continues to be filled with water, it is just a matter of time before it breaks down.”

“As it seems, I understand ...” Fiola nodded. He fully understood the reason Odo often had nosebleeds and why the child's mind was so often like a storm that he could not read it. But upon seeing the sharp gaze of the child, Fiola slightly flinched and trembled as the strange taste in his mind churned back.

“What's up, Mr Odo?”

“So, after this Mbak Fioal want what?”

“You what how?”

“Malah ask back ...”

“Oh, are you worried if I threaten you with this secret?”

“Ya ..”.

Smiling lightly, Fiola shook his head a few times. His face looked extremely relieved, carefree and not as anxious as before. He seemed to laugh at Odo's anxiety and made him a little upset.

“I'm not that lowly creature .... If indeed I want to threaten you with that, I have done it from the first.”

“Terus ... Why is it suddenly like this? Unloading it, like disarming me like this ..”

“I ... just feel weird in this chest. Just now, looking at you like that at the door, it felt like something was saying it shouldn't be. This ... just like when I was about to tell the secret of the Madam to the sword boy ...”

Odo was a little surprised to hear that. The boy felt that if Dart knew Mavis' secret, he would not have been born into this world. Although reincarnated and reborn, he will never be happy to be feared by the Luke Family and the warmth the family provides.

“That's why, huh? Does Mr Odo know?” ask Fiola.

Smiling faintly, the child was relieved to find a person who was not much different. Fiola was very egosi because he kept thinking about himself and never really cared about his surroundings, even his obsession with Mavis was only for personal reasons. It was not much different from Odo, he was always thinking of himself. Although saying for the sake of family or looking after them, but basically the child just does not want to be alone. It's just an excuse for itself.

“If Sister Fiola doesn't know, let alone me. That's the body of Mbak Fiola,” said the child while smiling lightly.

“Long .... You at a glance earlier in the mind felt ‘ah, so ..’ and stopped. Please don't hide such a thing from me.”

“Seram once yes ... Fiola's Mbak ..” Odo smiled lightly. Staring with empathy, he felt the dilemma of the Holy Animal and said, “Maybe. The feeling of not wanting to lose ..., that kind of thing also Miss Fiola felt for my mother, right?”

“True also .... I do not want Madam to be lost, for she is the light in this cruel world .... But ... Why can that sense grow on you? Please answer, My lord.”

Odo squinted slightly, feeling that the woman was more troublesome than he thought. Smiling lightly as if laughing at his question, he said, “It turns out Fiola's brother is plain as well, yes .... Though it is no longer a virgin.”

“My master, saying like that is disrespectful to a woman.” Fiola's face immediately pouted. Pinched the child's cheek until it was red, he turned his gaze away.

“Ah, sorry.”

“So, why can I feel like that to you?” fiola said as he glanced at the child with a frown. “While I shouldn't like you .... Just by being with you all day yesterday, why did it start to grow in my mind?”

“Tch! Back to that topic ...”

“You intend to switch the conversation, yes .... Huh, yeah that's it .... So, why?”

“Akh, the .... Maybe this sounds like me praising myself, but yeah I think it could grow.”

“That's what?”

“Mbak Fiola has always been watching me for a long time, ‘kan? Read my mind, see what I do and know what I've done, even know what I'm going to do. Madam Fiola also said she hated me, is that true?”

“Ya .., I've always hated Mr. Odo and always wished you weren't around. But now ... no, not even myself want Mr. Odo missing. Why is that?”

“That's love.”

“Hah?” Fiola's curious expression turned into disgust quickly. Not ordinary disgust, it was like seeing a caterpillar coming out of an apple arranged in a piece of fruit.

“I've been expecting to put on a face like that, which is why I don't want to say.” The boy could only get that look.

“Feelings of love? I love Mr Odo?”

“True, loh. Madam Fiola thought of others until like that all the time, watching him, paying attention to him and even now wanting to know more about him.  If not love, what else?”

“Dependence feeling ..., like myself on Madam?”

“What does Fiola need from me? Fiola himself said, didn't he? I'm just a small fire that can be extinguished at any time, so what makes Ms Fiola rely on that little fire?”

“Then it ...” Fiola was completely out of arguments. He could no longer dispute what the boy said. However, at the same time he does not want to admit it because he himself does not understand what love is.

“Well, I'm not that arrogant to say that it's true what Fiola's feeling. But ..., according to Fiola's own sister what is love?” asked Odo in a lazy tone.

“Love, yes .... Before I met the Madam, there were some people declaring love to me .... From the precious, to the pitiful lowly hunter.”

Fiola put his fingers in both hands between the fingers of the child's hands. Grasping tightly, he put on a grim face and seemed to not want to remember some things for a reason in mind.

“So, what did Mbak Fiola feel at the time?” ask Odo.

“Hungry, so I prey on them. You know the story about Huli Jing when approaching a man, don't you?”

“To-Please don't make me dry ...” Odo's instincts detect danger and his hair stands back up. The position that exists is very possible for Huli Jing to prey on him.

“Mana possible .... I don't see Mr. Odo like that .... This, more like not wanting to lose ..., maybe.”

“Hmm, better Madam Fiola feel that first and think carefully. The time that Mbak Fiola has a lot, just use it to think about it.”

“Tak can,” said Fiola directly. “That can't be,” he continued with a sad face.

“What ... reason? May I know?”

“Either why, something in me forbids it. That ... will definitely make me regret, it feels like that .... Is this a feeling that gets carried away after a cycle? Did I also ever feel that before the memories were erased to the next stage of the level of the Holy Beasts?”

“....”

Odo just fell silent without saying anything, feeling pity for the cycle that Huli Jing had to go through. Being a long-lived creature in a place with creatures whose lifespan is only a moment for him is indeed very heavy. The memory wipe that became the Huli Jing cycle was their form of defense to adapt. There were many of them who died before reaching the singularity of divinity. But for Odo, those who died before that were the lucky ones because there was no need to erase the precious memories they had. For the child, somehow memory is the most precious thing.

“Why are you staring at me like that?”

“Tak apa.”

“Long.”

“Please don't read my mind! Well, I had a chance to feel that it turns out that Miss Fiola pity too, even though it is not a virgin.”

“Not polite, a child's mouth should not say that. After all, even though I am not a virgin but I am always holy, loh .... Anyway, you can't say that!”

“Although a child, I have been very mentally mature, loh.”

“Kena— Ah, because of that simulation magic, yes .... If You have ever felt the experience in the mind, automatically the time you have passed is more than your age now. So apparently, so that's the reason you have very mature thoughts.”

“...” Odo was relieved to hear that.

“Thank God? Thank goodness why? Why are you relieved?” Fiola went back to reading the boy.

“A ..”

“Hmm, why?”

“I'm just relieved that Sister Fiola isn't afraid of me.”

“Fear?”

“Ya ..., right? It's the same I'm like an adult in a child's body.”

“Why should I be afraid of it? I am a Holy Animal .., a long-lived creature and now it is approaching the word immortal. Why should I be afraid of something like that?”

“Ah, true also.” Odo smiled wryly, tired of arguing with creatures whose common sense was different.

“From discussing that, can I return to the previous topic?” said Fiola. Returning to hold Odo's hands and holding him to the bed, he looked at the boy up close.

“Topic before?” Odo had already lost the intention of continuing the conversation, only staring flatly then turning his eyes tired.

“Do I really love Mr Odo? If so, how do you prove that? After all, love and lust are hard to tell apart. Is this pure love? Or is it just a momentary lust that is beginning to grow on me? Neh, answer, My lord ...”

“Hmm, Sister Fiola loves me very much.” Odo summed it up because it was troublesome. The boy's eyes turned very flat and felt tired with such talk. “Mbak Fiola is so in love with me and can't live without me,” he said in a flat tone without a single word coming from the heart.

“Yakin?”

“If you're lying, just read my mind. Now my head is as bright as the spring sky,” said Odo in a flat tone, not at all concerned with the consequences of his words later.

“Hmm, you .. said honestly. Don't-don't ... You're a narcissist, huh?”

Odo's eyebrows twitched violently, his forehead shriveled and he stared with an already unstoppable annoyance. “Tuh right?! Must be the edges like this! What do you want anyway?! Replied, loh!” snarl the boy.

“Your words are still very dubious.”

“What? What try?!”

“If this is true love, why now my chest is not throbbing? Though close like this.”

Odo removed his hand from Fiola's grasp as the woman let her guard down, then extended her hand forward. He touched the chest of the woman in the form of the children who were flat, even to pinch the middle. Instantly Huli Jing's face blushed red, then a slap landed onto Odo's face instantly.

Plaque!!

It was hard enough to make Odo's face turn and both his hands were raised from Fiola's chest. Staring annoyed at the woman, the boy said, “Tuh, look! If Mbak Fiola reacts like that, it means there is a taste of it!”

“All women will definitely react like that if her chest is touched suddenly!” Fiola stared low, feeling a little disappointed at the child's actions.

“I mean, Madam Fiola sees me as the opposite sex. Not seeing me as a child, so react like that!”

“Of course, your mind is already very mature .... Could have been you thinking perverted ..”

“Ah, forgive me! Why is it that talking to Fiola's mom it's so hard to connect!”

“Master who couldn't explain it well!!”

“My fault?! It's my fault?!”

“Iya! Please explain why I can have this taste?! Why can I love you?!”

“Ah ..” Odo was surprised to hear that.

“Why silent?”

“Tadi ... already admit it yourself, ‘kan?”

“Ah, why yes?”

“Do not even ask me...”

“Why can that be? What's keceplosan?”

Fiola again caught Odo's hands and held tightly to his arm. Holding her to the side, the Huli Jing brought her face closer and looked at Odo closely. His breathing was increasingly felt clearly by the child as the woman drew closer to the face, making the child feel afraid of being a victim.

“Do not approach! Aaaah! All righty! All righty! I'll talk! I'll try to explain! Please let me go! Please!”

In the end, their day ended because of that seemingly endless talk. It was a complete waste of time from noon to evening, and even to night. Because of this, they had to extend the room rental until tomorrow and spend all the money Fiola brought just to rent a room for two days at the place.