Sapphire City's
Chapter 29: The Little Child and the Hive Full of Hair
After finding the flashlight, Yuda accidentally entered the art room not far from where he found the flashlight, inside there are many human statues are sculpting from thin wooden boards. One of the statues, standing alone near the blackboard. That must be the lecturer. Judah took one of the chisel knives from one of the statues. Although not as sharp as a kitchen knife, better than no weapon at all.
“other than chisel knife, no more huh?” said Yuda.
If you pay attention to the carved wooden board has various shapes of carving, although when considered carefully everything leads to 1 theme, there were some students who had finished sculpting the wooden planks starting to switch to the coloring stage. The color they choose is not arbitrary, if the color describes the theme and characteristics they take.
There was nothing that could be taken as a weapon, so Yuda decided to get out of the art room and return to the floor. Unlike before, the hair in the hallway did not react or move slowly like the last Judah saw. Although the whole hallway and certain classes were entered by matis's hairs, not a single strand moved even though Judah had passed through them several times. That means these hairs will only move when the matis is on this floor.
After a long search for Judah managed to find the stairs leading up and down simultaneously, coincidentally the two steps are in one place. Additional elevator building right next to the stairs. This made it easier for Yuda to know now that he was on what floor. There are instructions above the elevator door, information about each floor in the campus building.each information is grouped per floor and has a brownish white background, and, except for one group of information in yellow with its top sign inscribed ‘floor 7’. That means Yuda is on the floor where the gem is empty. Whether it's luck or not. But clearly this becomes a chance for Judah to check where the first location is empty, so that if he manages to find his friends and wants to transfer sapphire gems to empty gems, if he can find them, no need to bother looking here and there.
His intention was so, until the elevator door opened just like that in front of Yuda. At first he thought there was someone in the elevator, but there was no one there, just an empty floor and a doll.
“doll?!”
Look closely the doll is very similar to the doll that recently Reza brought while she was possessed, Reza, in addition there is a scary impression in the doll that makes Yuda feel he wants to run away from this doll, but on the other hand there was a curiosity appearing just like that in him as if his body was tempted to touch the doll.
“what kind of feeling is this, like that doll asking me to touch it” Yuda mutter.
His common sense says to stay in another place with the body trying to move forward. Want to try as much as possible, in the end the first leg he managed to set foot into the elevator. The face carving on the doll changed, into a wide but frightening smile. So wide his smile was accompanied by teeth displayed like fangs of wild animals.
“woaaa” Yuda's screams managed to make him sober and fall back. Elevator doors are tightly closed, pulley sounds and cable friction move down. Judah should be thankful he can still survive the unpleasant temptation.
But looking back, from the beginning of Judah seeing the doll, it was clearly like tempting Yuda to touch it. Plus the physical and size is exactly the same as the one Reza carries. That means while he's separated from Judah, Mirna and Luca. Reza accidentally finds the doll in the lobby and is tempted to touch it. Until in the end he was possessed.
“in that case, the way to free Reza by throwing away the doll she held” said Yuda managed to find a common ground.
Yes, it will not be that easy, if Yuda touches the doll while trying to release it from Reza's arms, just as he becomes part of Reza's dress. The only way to take it off without touching it, is even if there is no challenge.
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The previous intention wanted to find an empty gem, but the condition of his friends was much more important, for now Yuda chose to go down to the 6th floor, but the condition of his friends was much more important, at least he wishes his friends were as indecent as Reza. If they are possessed, he must find a way to let the doll escape from his friends.
On the 6th floor, there were several banners welcoming Yuda. Banner Seminar on Architecture and Design, Fun Sport, Open Student Reclutment Association and there are still others that you can not see because of the dark.
There was no dark hallway that greeted Yuda, just a spacious floor like a hall close to the glass windows of the building makes this floor not so dark and can look out of the campus building from the glass. There is nothing in this spacious floor, except on the edges there are replicas of various buildings and buildings made by students. Maybe this floor is used by students to showcase their work. Various hair sizes hang sweet as usual in the ceiling, but this time not only in the ceiling, there are several strands of hair stuck to the window, wall, even the nearest classroom door. This made Yuda anxious, even until now he was still hesitant to touch a strand of hair, it was feared that if touched the matis came here.
“there is no way else is here” said Yuda.
That was what he thought at first, until he heard the sound of a glass door covered in thick hair.
Tok tok tok tok
If all these worlds were in a normal state, it would be that the voice that Yuda heard was just like the wind passing by. Silence and voidness make sounds that should sound small, feel like loud and echo. Without thinking suspiciously, Yuda ran over the sound, he did not care even if he had to touch these cursed hairs, at least what he expected was in front of his eyes. One by one each strand of hair he patis, leaving a dark glass door.
“halo no people” Yuda said.
“Yuda is you?”
Luca's voice, from behind the dark room, the figure of the person who called out to him appeared, it was Luca, he survived.
“Luca you survived? It's okay, right?” Tanya Yuda was so happy to see her friend safe.
“so that, when I woke up, I was already in this dark place” replied Luca.
“since the beginning I woke up alone here, my whole weapon was stripped” replied Luca.
“sama I also” said Yuda, he showed a sculpting knife to Luca “backward”
Luca retreated slowly back, letting Yuda smash the glass of the door. As strong as his energy, he smashed the glass door even though it was difficult. But, in the end he succeeds and gets Luca out of there.
“Thank you Yud” said Luca.
“sama-sama”
“Honestly, what a matic thought it was to lock up and separate us all” said Luca
Yuda shakes his head “entah” Yuda tells Luca how he woke up, the ability of the matis, the doll that appeared in the elevator, everything he experienced until he got here.
“so so, there is the possibility of Reza being possessed because of doll” Luca said.
“iya that in my opinion” said Yuda.
Luca and Yuda both walked down the sixth floor until they found the stairs leading down. Luca had no intention of finding objects to use as weapons as Yuda did, he could use his own fists, but if he was lucky and found useful objects he would definitely use them.
Now just look for Mirna. Yuda just happens to find Luca, but for Mirna he has no clue at all how to find the girl anywhere. The matis must have hidden it on the top or bottom floor. Yuda and Luca may have decided to split up in search of Mirna only if they had to split up. The risk is indeed great if split and it makes even juda not sure say that he wants to split with Luca, but it is Luca who proposed to split.
“eh split?” yuda said in shock.
“iya it must be faster, anyway if together fear it will not have time” said Luca.
“but the problem is that if we split up, we can't communicate with each other” Yuda is still not sure splitting up is a good idea.
“no problem, we just meet at a certain point” said Luca, the decision is round. Yuda who saw the look on Luca's face from behind the flashlight knew that the young man had no words to retreat.
“but you have no flashlight_”
Luca took an object from behind a shirt, a small flashlight he was carrying. He had prepared a backup flashlight apparently. Luca's seriousness makes Yuda give up, they agree to split up and meet again on the 6th floor, because the floor has a wide hallway so it is suitable to be a meeting area. Luca chose to go upstairs and Judah downstairs.
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Yuda has been down 2 floors (4th and 3rd floors), nothing feels strange but hair adorning the floor ceiling as usual. There is no Mirna or Reza. It was really a large and high place, making even Judah tired, if he succeeded and returned home safely with his friends, he wanted to apply for 5 days off because of the torturous mission of life.
The 2nd floor, the floor he should have been tracing with his friends at the beginning of his entrance into the campus building. Now he's the only one who's going down this floor. There are many human statues, more precisely human statues filled the road to 1 room so that the hallway that Judah was about to pass through was closed.
the ceiling hair was swaying gently, a bad omen, matis was on this floor. The frantic Yuda just trying to find a place to hide he couldn't possibly face the current matis, it was too difficult. Among the bustle of the statue there is a small road to the left hallway. Road signboard says ‘toilet’. There was no choice but to run in. Too much panic with the heart racing no matter what toilet door he opened, most importantly at this time he had to hide. He hid in one of the sitting toilet rooms, riding on the toilet.
The sound of footsteps is not the sound of shoes from outside the toilet. It must be Reza, he's on this floor. That means Judah has to rack his brains to free Reza from his trance. Slowly the bathroom door opened, no one came in, the door closed again. The sound of footsteps slowly shrank.
“haaaaaaaaa, it's almost” Yuda said a long sigh.
Yuda peeked out from behind the bathroom entrance, making sure the matis had gone away. It feels safe. Yuda came out of the bathroom. Although he felt calm, it was only a sense of calm for a moment, after this an incredible tension would approach him alone.
“tu..wait” Yuda saw the toilet door and fell silent “aku entered the female toilet” one thing that occurred to Yuda “I don't see anything”
Whatever it is, it's good that he's alone.[]