The Grim Reapers
Chapter 23
“Three, two, one”
Clack
The room lights were turned off. Andi looked dazed in the room. He knew this was just a dream, but because many dreams had previously come true, Andi was a little worried. Yes, a little bit Andi already understand if his strange dreams often become a prophecy and then turn into reality afterwards. Her last strange dream came two weeks ago, when she saw a pale-faced girl standing languidly on a low-light street. And the dream prophecy turned out for Alea.
Andi can still smell the typical medicine hospital room. Maybe he was half conscious.
Ttakk
The lights of the room were back on, but this time with a different setting. He was in his cafe when he was in an empty room. Andi is standing at the cashier table right now. The cafe is not much different. In terms of interior, the arrangement of chairs, the location of the cashier, and so on are still the same, only the wall paint is black while in the real world, the wall paint of the cafe is pastel.
There was a strange person sitting on one of the chairs in the corner of the cafe. That person was wearing a black robe and just silently lowered his head. Andi obviously had memorized the figure of the cloaked person because he was always there in every strange dream—except the dream about Alea two weeks ago because the dream was so short that Andi did not really clearly capture the contents that dream.
Andi then walked over to the strange person, pretending to be a good cafe employee even though this was just a dream.
“Sorry, what message do you want?” asked Andi kindly when he reached the table of the robed man.
No answer, he's still down. In his hand, there was a small notebook that after Andi looked deeper turned out to be a book that read “666”. There really is only “666” on all sheets of the book.
“Excuse me? You want to order ap—“
Andi's question was interrupted once the freak looked up at his head. Andi was stunned for a moment, his surprise so felt. The freak turns out to be himself, but in a more.
Andi reflexively walked backwards after seeing the face of the cloaked person earlier, while the one that made him surprised was instead smiling obliquely.
“Kejutan” Say the guy was flat.
Okay, this is the worst weird dream he's ever had. Looking at his own clone who was smiling obliquely was quite frightening. It was like looking at the dark side within him that had long been buried.
Andi remained focused on this clone of his. He could not turn away from the person at all, his focus completely centered on the object in front of him. The person with a face similar to—or maybe that person is indeed Andi— moves to reveal the hood of his cloak. Wounds around his face and head slowly began to show. A five-centimeter-long tear across his forehead, his ear slightly torn and of course coupled with a bloodstain around his wound.
Andi swallowed his saliva nervously. The reserves he could now shift slightly to stare at the circumstances around him. This is his apartment that has been decorated into red, with a fishy smell as a fragrance for his room. The clone was still standing in front of Andi. A smile spread from both of her lips.
“You’re the next”
Andi again walked backwards as the cloaked figure began to step closer to him with a fruit knife in his hand. I don't know when and where he got the knife, but certainly now Andi can only rotate the brain to avoid the tiny knife.
“Tabj”
The words became the last sentence that Andi heard before he fell from a height.
******
“kak, Brother Andi, wake”
Desta shook Andi's sluggish shoulder on the sofa. Desta already knew a little about the older habits. Kebo aka difficult to wake up if you have fallen asleep to dreamland.
“Big brother hasn't woken up?” asked Nina slowly, afraid to wake Andi when it was indeed the thing that Desta was doing.
“Not yet, maybe if watered using water can wake up time yes?” guman Desta's.
Desta finally walked up to fetch a bottle of drinking water on the nightstand. He poured a little water on his hand and then prepared to splash the water into Andi's face if Nina did not suddenly float in front of Andi. The ghost that had been there for fifteen minutes was a storm to shake his head back and forth as a sign that he did not like the way that Desta used to wake his handsome brother.
“Soide first Nina”
The one who was ruled once again shook his head. “Don't watered, kasian sister handsome later wet”
“Will not get wet Nina, Just a little bit of this”
“Can't!”
“Ninaaaa”
“Gok canhhhh!!”
“Mingg—“
“Lo by whom?”
“Finally wake up too. Kebo really kak”
Andi chuckled small with a newly gathered awareness of half of it. An apology slowly came out of his mouth. Desta snorted, then poured a plastic bag of two loaves of bread and a box of milk chocolate.
“Feed first kak”
The plastic sondoran was happily received by Andi.
“Still ya”
Desta nodded then sat down next to Andi and began to struggle with his cell phone.
“Lo have eaten?”
“Udah”
Silent. Desta was still busy with his device and Andi was still chewing bread in his mouth.
“Eh, who were you talking to?” andi asked after a few minutes only filled with silence.
“Ohh, same Nina”
Andi nodded then continued to eat the rest of the bread in his hand. Andi already knew who Nina really was, both from Desta's point of view and Alea and Dean's point of view.
“Btw, kak” Desta turned to face Andi.
“What?”
“That's cleanin first”
God fucking.
Andi just smiled wryly with a look of flat eyes. His hand moved around his mouth.
“But boong”
Believe me that now Andi really wants to stick this girl next to him. Desta turned out to have a side“receh” as well.
“Makasih” said Andi flat. Desta next to him giggled softly, quite satisfied because he could prank the older one.
“Canda doang already brother, his face is normal dong”
“Hmm” replies Andi dongkol while continuing to chew bread in his mouth.
The state of silence was re-created. Desta was again busy with his phone, andi who was curious then tried to peek.
“Witness words: The perpetrator wore a black robe
Murder cases that have occurred lately are increasingly troubling the community. Some people refer to the perpetrator as “The Grim Reaper” because of his appearance using a black robe and hood resembling a death picker figure from England that appeared since the 15th century. Police still continue—"
Cklekk
The inpatient room door was opened, featuring three policemen in full uniform carrying handcuffs.
Desta immediately hung up his cell phone, staring confusedly at the police officer.
“Good afternoon, with brother Adesta Herawati?”
Desta frowned in wonder. What made these cops look for him?
“Ya, I myself”
“You we hold on to a murder charge planning”
Desta pegged on the spot. Especially this?