The Girl Who Lost Happiness
03. escapism

chapter 3's

in the shack

morning at 08:00

"ah.....my stomach is rumbling, is there no food here?"

"huaam.... early in the morning gini find food? "

"i'll get some food first."

"yes, please."

a few minutes later, after Hitako left the hut for food, she reached a garden.

"it's a garden, there's not people?"

"sip, I've checked. nobody take ah...."

Hitako picked up some vegetables such as tomatoes, kale, and others then at the time she wanted to go home to the hut suddenly there were people who saw her pick up vegetables in the garden.

"hey, thief ! what are you doing with my vegetables?"

Hitako, who is desperate to be caught stealing, then runs to the back but is chased by the owner of the garden.

(gawat, I have to run first. I was forced because there is no food in the hut...run !).

"woi, don't run away from here!"

Hitako who keeps stopping nonstop now is at a dead end and she doesn't have much time before the owner finds her.

(ah..gawat! dead end.. I have to do this..someone help me).

there was a voice coming from the bushes which made it seem as if telling him to go there.

"no noise? from the bushes, but the bushes can help me hide."

the owner of the garden was already at a dead end after Hitako got into the bushes. Fortunately the owner of the garden did not see Hitako and left from there.

"where's the fucking thief? run away again he'll see if I meet you later."

Hitako came out of the bushes after the owner of the garden had left the dead end and she went towards the bushes and then she reached the hut with the vegetables she had brought from the garden.

"fiuhh."

in the shack

"i'm home !"

"oh, you're back. hurry up and cook."

"do you want to eat?"

"why do I eat? I'm a ghost where I can eat human food."

"usually ghosts are given offerings for them to eat."

"you think I'm a ghost called by a shaman to eat offerings? "

"ahahaha, yes-yes. geez sir. anyways you are a ghost anyway."

"i'm not a ghost who likes to eat offerings, I can't eat human food."

"then what do you eat?"

"sleep is enough for the stomach."

"haaah? can you?"

"can my hobbies sleep."

"it's up to you to cook first."

"good cooking!"

"i'm not cooking for you so don't take my rations."

Hitako goes to the kitchen and cooks the food from the vegetables she brought from the garden as well as Seiji who wants to sleep.

"i want to sleep ah....."

in the kitchen

Hitako was cutting the vegetables she was carrying and cooking them in a pot

(if there is an aunt Risa, I mean my maid.she must be more reliable than me when it comes to cooking.)

on the other hand, in the room there was Seiji who was asleep then he felt bad because something made him wake up from his sleep.

"hm...hmm.. I can't sleep.. I don't feel good, I'll check out for a while."

the faint noise of approaching their hut was heard at a glance by Seiji when he was outside.

"what is this...this voice."

the noise comes from people from Hitako's house who want to look for Hitako because they are told to look for Hitako by her father.

"hey, look for Hitako until she can. Because she's missing, her father went crazy and somehow my son suddenly got a plague."

"i'm the same."

"why can all our children get sick with the plague when before the plague was not in our place."

"i don't know either"

"HEY, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. FIND THE BOY UNTIL HE CAN CALM DOWN."

"right, we should find him."

"if we don't get to us, we'll be distracted because of his father."

the day after Hitako left the court, her father suddenly became crazy and not only that, all of Hitako's friends were hit by a plague so that it made them all die. it was due to the misfortune that Seiji brought to Hitako for coming to the cursed abyss. the ravine is called a cursed abyss because it is said that if people who come to commit suicide then he will get bad luck but there is only one person saved and half of the misfortune he received is lost the other half is Hitako.

and when the people wanted to find Hitako, Seiji went straight to the hut and came to Hitako to escape from the hut because soon the people would look for her.

in the shack

"Hitako ! do you exist?"

"yes, there. why?"

"quickly get out of here, the people from your place will be looking for you. If you get caught here, you will be arrested and taken to your father!"

"really? do they want to come here?"

"yes, hurry up. come with me!"

Seiji holds Hitako's hand and takes her away from the hut and some among the people looking for Hitako arrive at the hut and see the two of them then they chase Hitako but are thwarted by Seiji by throwing they're onto the cliff.

"hey, don't run you!"

"chase him!"

"you can't, don't come after us."

"why is this, we're thrown!"

"help me"

"rasain, it's a result if you touch my place without my permission."

the two of them continued to run while holding hands until they reached the forest far from the hut.

"haaah..haaahh."

"i'm the same, for now we rest here because this place is far from the hut, so we can't go back to the hut."

"we can't go back?"

"yes, but we need to find a good place to rest."

the two of them were looking for the right place to sleep and they started getting lost as they passed through the same place several times.

"loh? our feelings are past here daritadi?"

"right? are we trying from the opposite direction."

they both walked in opposite directions but the result was still.no matter they repeatedly passed the opposite path still they were taken to the original path.

"this is a labyrinth or what the hell is this forest?"

"i don't know but I've heard of forests with models like this. forests that usually take us to the road that we go through several times are said to be unable to return alive, he said, the forest is called the illusion forest."

"illusion forest? the woods that can't get us back."

"yeah, then we'll take another break than we walk again and the day has started to want the night.we'll find firewood around here and make fire."

"alright"

Hitako and Seiji go in search of firewood where they stand and start making fires until nightfall, they fall asleep with a small bonfire in front of them and Seiji stays guarding Hitako then there is a person walking behind Seiji.

"this is an illusionary forest? it must be the fourth order of misfortune that fad...."

"was.wah."

"you again huh? how many times have you been prank on me?"

"how many times? I don't remember long time no see third, brother Seiji."

"as always, you've always troubled me, my sister Sira."

"today will you play with me again, brother."

"if that's what you want, I'll play with you too."

"all right, let's play brother......"

seriated