The Honorary Owner
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After a long conversation last night, Ruby and Hiko did not greet each other this morning. When Ruby goes for breakfast in the kitchen, Hiko chooses to avoid Ruby and goes back to her room. Although quite awkward, but Ruby prefers like this with Hiko.

After breakfast, Ruby rushed to the office using an online motorcycle taxi. Hiko just stared at Ruby's departure from her bedroom window. He was silent, being sorry for hurting the woman's feelings.

He comes out of his room and goes to Ruby's room, returning his memories of all the events of last night. All the sentences that came out of Ruby's lips seemed to be replayed there.

"I think I've gone too far in this relationship mas, I'm afraid to involve my feelings too deep here and can't control it. I could have been hurt to see you with another woman, but I have no right to forbid your wishes. I realize who I am, where I am."

That sentence was still clearly remembered in his head. Making her conclude something, does Ruby have feelings for me? His inner.

He took a picture frame where Ruby and Nara were there. He chuckles a little, laughing at his thoughts about Ruby's feelings for him. He could have concluded such a ridiculous thing. Given what kind of man Ruby loved so much, compared to Iqbal's shadow alone he was inappropriate.

"Why are you here early in the morning?"

Genta's voice surprised Hiko. He put the picture back into place.

"Who to choose?" Genta asked when he saw the picture frame that Hiko had just placed.

Hiko went out of Ruby's room and headed to the balcony, he sat on a rattan chair staring into the morning sky decorated with several cloud overcasts there. Genta sat in the other rattan chair.

"Lo really spend time in Jogja same Ruby?" Genta started his serious question.

Hiko nodded. "She asked for a divorce from me." Hiko said without taking her eyes off.

"Well! This fast? What's he, Ko?"

"He was horrified when I convinced Nara, maybe he was horrified when I told Nar if I was just a prank on the way with him."

Genta snorted in annoyance, "Lo just asked him to walk and you said it was just a fad, he asked for a divorce? Wooooh, a very different class if the same son sir kyai."

"Gue kissed her."

"AH!!"

"Gue has heard him several times, and only yesterday in Jogja was he not angry."

"Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy!" Genta stands pacing back and forth with dabbling waist, "Lo emang the best if it's a girl's business, so that Ruby's kek girl can lo tahklukin!"

"Diem bacot! I'm dizzy again, nih!"

"Why?"

Hiko was silent, he wanted to ask Genta's opinion but he himself did not know where to tell, what he felt he did not understand.

"Lo answer what time did he ask you to tell him?" ask Genta.

"Gue can't divorce her." Answer Hiko.

"Why?"

"Is it because I don't want to?"

"Why not?"

Hiko is upset by Genta's question, "Lo wants to be an investigator?" Ask Hiko.

"Gue just wants to know why!"

"I answered because I don't want to."

"That's no excuse, Ko!"

"As far as you go! Males I'm talking to you!" Hiko stood up and returned to her room.

Genta continued to smile at Hiko's behavior. "Prestigious is digedein! Watch out if you realize it too late!" Gumam Genta's.

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Inwork Studios.

All the Animator teams are behind their desks. It has been busy with the work of their animated film project. All the faces look serious, almost nothing can work while chatting, only the music that tries to melt the atmosphere of the office.

It looks like Abriz with his battered face is still working seriously. Even though his arrival was to make a scene for everyone.

Suddenly Lena-secretary Heru comes to Ruby's desk.

"Mak Ruby, can you come to his room, Mr. Heru?"

Ruby looked confused, but she nodded. Save all the files he's been working on, then go follow Lena.

Tok tok, tock,

Lena knocks on the door of Heru's room, signaling that she will enter.

"Mak Ruby's here, sir." Said Lena.

"Oh, Yes! Get in, Len." Heru Say.

Lena nodded, "Please, Ma'am." He allows Ruby to enter.

"Excuse me." Say Ruby when you get in.

"Come, By. Sit down first." Heru Say.

Ruby saw there were two middle-aged men with a typical Japanese face shape there. He sat on a separate sofa with the guests.

"Include, By. This is Mr. Nakamoto and Mr. Izizaki."

Ruby clasped her palms together in front of her mouth, greeting the two men.

"They're representatives from one of Japan's largest animation studios, By." Heru Say.

Ruby smiled and slightly bowed, "Ohayo gozaimasu. Hajimemashite, Ruby desu. Douzo yoroshiku." Ruby introduced herself in Japanese.

"We can speak Indonesian very fluently, Miss Ruby." said the fat man with a lot of gray hair, "I'm Nakamoto. And this, my sister Izizaki." He pointed at the skinny man beside him.

"I, Izizaki. It's good to see you." Ruby Saying

Ruby nodded.

"They're here because they're interested in your talents, By." He said, "They want you to work in their animation studio."

Ruby was surprised, "In Japan?"

"Yes!" The three people nodded compactly.

Nakamoto gave a business card with the words 'Sunrise Animation' to Ruby, He almost jumped up the joy of receiving the business card.

"We'll also win your S2 school if you want a career with us." Add Izizaki.

"It's actually hard I say this, you're one of the best animators I have. But, I can't be selfish either because it concerns your career." Said Heru.

Ruby did not stop developing a smile on her lips, she was too happy to say anything. Her dream.

"We also want to recruit the owner of Go Hanae's comic, Yuwen!"

"Yuwen??" Ruby half-screamed hearing the name called, Can I really work with her idol? O God, so much pleasure have you given me. Inner Ruby.

"But we had too much trouble contacting him, he opened up too little of his personal data." Nakamoto.

Ruby looked at Heru, "can't Abriz help Mr Nakamoto and Mr Izizaki, sir?" ask Ruby.

Heru nodded, "they've done it, but there hasn't been a single reply from Yuwen."

Ruby just nodded.

"What about our offer, Miss Ruby?" Ask Nakamoto.

Ruby looked at Heru. It feels bad to leave Inwork Studio. Heru has given her many opportunities.

"Don't look at me like that. You don't have to feel bad for me. I'm happy if you can succeed there, so I can boast to people who have had your creative employees. Haha." Said Heru. "You'd better talk about this with your husband and family."

The deg!

Ruby recalled that she was now a wife. Inevitably he had to ask Hiko for permission.

Nakamoto provided a folder containing a contract of employment agreement. "You can read this contract in advance, we offer you a three-year contract with us."

Long time too, huh? inner Ruby.

Ruby took the folder open sheet by sheet without reading it.

"We really hope you can work with us, Miss Ruby." Izizaki.

Ruby nodded, "I'll talk to my husband and family first."

Nakamoto and Izizaki nodded.

"Thank you and I'm sorry if we had to waste your time with this conversation." Nakamoto.

"No, Mister. I'm glad you gave me this golden opportunity." Answer Ruby.

Ruby stood up, "I'll get back to work." Ruby Pamit

"Yes, By." Heru replied, Nakamoto and Izizaki just nodded.

Ruby rushed out, she jumped up in excitement while hugging her folder folder. No matter Lena was watching her in astonishment. Ruby just smiled, without giving any explanation she ran into her room.

"Why, By?" A friend asked when she saw Ruby coming in with a beaming face.

He did not answer and just went straight to his desk. He hugged the folder he placed on the table, sinking his face between his chest and arms to provoke the curiosity of his friends.

"By, why are you?" Ask Irma.

Ruby just shook her head.

"Lo fired?" Ask Tasya.

Ruby shakes. He lifted his head. showed a folder pictured some anime shops and said Sunrise Animation equipped with hiragana letters to his friends.

"I got a contract offer with Sunrise Animation Japan!" Said Cheerfully.

"Yahoooo!!" His friends were enthusiastic.

"Kereeeen, By!"

"Lucky for you, By."

"I'm going to go there too ..."

The animator's room, very different from the atmosphere before Ruby went to Heru's room. He was happy that his friends were also happy to hear the happy news.

Ruby is working more passionately today. The weather was cloudy, his anxiety about his problems with Hiko and Nara seemed to be erased due to offers from Sunrise Animation.

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It was raining heavily this afternoon, all the online taxis and ojek online are busy if it rains like this. Ruby chose to go home on the busway. With Tasya on board, he went to the busway stop. Luckily Hiko's residential residence is not far from the busway stop.

Ruby arrived at her destination stop, it was still raining heavily there. He chose to wait a little longer, because he did not bring an umbrella.

It was almost dark, the rain was not as hard as before. Ruby decided to walk into the housing. Many vehicles passed by there, but his attention was drawn to a white sedan he knew was passing before him.

Ah, Ruby's happiness is lost instantly when she remembers who the owner of the car is.

The rain fell back more heavily, making Ruby run and shelter in front of the store that was closing.

The day gets darker, Ruby is reluctant if she has to wait for it to subside, while Hiko's house is still far away and she does not want to walk alone at night. Finally, he decided to stop the rain.

Get home. Ruby immediately took a bath and performed magrib prayers. After that he took out his things from inside his wet bag. Fortunately, no one got wet there, especially the contract work from Sunrise Animation.

"Hatchih!"

Ruby felt her body was not good, her nose was itchy and her head was slightly dizzy.

"The rain is the flu." Inner Ruby. He aligns all the stuffing of his bag on the workbench and then brings his bag to the sun in the backyard.

Ruby looked for a cold cure in the medicine box, but she found nothing. Finally he chose to make warm tea to warm his body and then continued to rest in his room.

"Hatchih!"

Ruby's sneezing sound was heard up to Hiko's room, making Hiko growled to want to approach the woman. But he was lazy to argue with Ruby. Let it go, ntar also stopped by himself. He said to himself.

As the night grew, the rain did not stop. Hiko went out of the room for dinner. He sees all the food is still intact, Ruby hasn't touched it. Suddenly he felt worried considering Ruby's sneezing voice earlier.

He returned to the second floor, Ruby's room was dark from the vents above the door of his room. Hiko slowly opened the door to Ruby's room, apparently the owner of the room was already asleep under a thick blanket.

Hiko stepped in closer to Ruby, in the dark she saw a luminous luster on Ruby's forehead. It was a sweat bulb that was exposed to light from outside the room window, making Hiko turn on Ruby's room lights. And sure enough, a lot of cold sweat gathered on Ruby's forehead, she took the tissue on the nightstand and wiped it.

"Fever?" He muttered when he touched Ruby's forehead. "Ck! Damnit damnit! So stubborn to be a girl! It hurts people."

Hiko went to the kitchen, warming the water to compress Ruby. He also took fever medicine that Ruby gave him while in Jogja yesterday.

A warm towel stuck to Ruby's forehead woke the girl up. His eyes squinted at Hiko who was sitting next to him. He brushed Hiko's hand slowly.

"Diem. just follow! Lo sick! Don't be stubborn." Said Hiko.

Ruby closed her eyes.

Hiko leaves Ruby in the kitchen to get Ruby dinner and immediately returns to Ruby's room, before the woman goes back to sleep.

"Sit, gih. Dinner first, then take the medicine." Hiko slightly forced Ruby's body to sit down.

"I'm going to sleep, Mom." Ruby Said.

Hiko put a plate of rice on Ruby's lap, "You want to eat yourself what am I bribing?" Ask Hiko.

"I can do it myself." Ruby Said.

Hiko waited for Ruby to devour her food, only a few mouthfuls later Ruby put her plate on the nightstand. Hiko gave her some medicine and a glass to drink Ruby.

"Thank you, I can get out. I want to sleep." Ruby Said.

Hiko stood up, not out of the room but changed seats on Ruby's desk chair.

"Kalo lo was coming with me will not be sick rich gini." He noticed Ruby's things lined up on the table.

Hiko's eyes were immediately fixed on the folder map, from his front title he could see it was a work contract. Curiosity made Hiko open some of the folders. An English-language contract under the name Ruby and a Japanese company.

Realizing that, Ruby got out of bed and took the contract out of Hiko's hands and hid it behind her.

Hiko looked at Ruby suspiciously, "Lo going to Japan?" Ask Hiko.

"It's no business, Mom." Ruby replied, "Mas can get out of this room. I want to rest."

"How long?"

Ruby silence.

"Gue asked how long!?" Hiko asked half-screaming.

"It's my personal business, ma'am."

"Gue won't let you go!"

"I'll keep going with or without your permission, ma'am." Firm Ruby.

Again, they just stared at each other in silence, looking for meaning in each of those eyes. Raindrops and clockwork flickers are the only voice actors to kill the silence in the room.

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Ud looked bellom here who would be the soul mate Ruby?

Like, comment and vote from big brother I'm really waiting..

Thanks brother..