The Reincarnation of the Knight of Light
031 - Photo Album

"They still have a little business, so they'll catch up with us later,"

"Haa ... is really troublesome, then come on! We better not waste any more time, the sooner the better," asked Rena.

"All right."

Rian got up from his seat and followed Rena's steps from behind to the nearest bus terminal that has a destination to the Thousand Mountains.

After walking for a few minutes, they finally reached the terminal. The terminal state seemed quieter than usual, probably because it was almost night. So, they do not need to queue too long to buy a ticket.

"Rena," called Rian when he was in front of the bus entrance.

"What's wrong?" reply Rena while turning around and looking at Rian.

"Do you have a plan?"

"Sure, we'll go in first and I'll tell you the plan later."

They both got on the bus and chose the back seat so that their conversation was not heard by the driver and several other passengers.

Moments after they sat down, the bus door closed and immediately drove away from the terminal. When Rian was busy staring out the window, Rena who was originally sitting on the bench on the left side of the bus moved to the side of Rian.

Rian did not care about what Rena was doing and his gaze remained pointed out.

"Why are you sitting apart with me? Don't you want to hear the plan?" ask Rena.

"Sorry, I forgot. So, what's the plan?" rian asked back without looking towards Rena.

Rena smiled, then laughed a little while looking at Rian's face that led out, Rian who did not understand the meaning of the laughter also glanced at him for a moment and again looked out the window of the bus.

"It turns out you can act like Arya, too," 

"really?"

"Yes. So, the plan is easy, we're just gonna make and keep a distance between the agmar position and the second-grader's camp until the help you say arrives, do you understand?"

"Understand me, but have you ever fought a level three agmar before?"

"Of course not yet, the Demon Hunters are trained to be able to defeat or at least compensate for the agmar forces that are one level above their level, whereas I am, " with a gloomy face.

"No need to be sad, actually you are much stronger than the reality" said Rian.

Rena was surprised, her gaze was immediately directed towards Rian. He felt that his words were too exaggerated to comfort him.

"No no, you don't have to say something like that just to cheer me up,"

"No, what I'm saying is true, if you're level one that means you can beat agmar level two. While me? With my strength alone I still find it difficult to defeat agmar level two. Therefore, I also tried harder than Arya to be able to surpass her," explained Rian while clenching both hands tightly.

"Then we have something in common." 

Rena leaned her body against the bus seat and closed her eyes enjoying their journey with a relieved smile on her face knowing she wasn't the only one who sucked in killing agmar.

*****

On the other hand, Romi who was feeling afraid still tried to dare to dare himself peek at Arya's room from behind the keyhole. His vision of the hole was indeed very limited, so he could not confirm whether Arya was inside or not.

After a while, he finally stopped peeking and tried to brave himself once more, but this time to grab the doorknob of the room and open it. 

His cold sweat started pouring out as he tried to do so, he could not stop imagining what would happen to him if Arya was in the room.

The door was unlocked and Romi slowly pushed it with alarm. However, unfinished he pushed the door, suddenly someone came from behind and startled him.

"What are you doing?"

At once Romi was shocked and accidentally dropped a photo album that he had been holding onto the floor. Romi did not immediately take the album or turn to the source of the sound.

But, after a while he finally turned around and looked at Arya who was standing behind him with a sharp gaze and a cold demeanor. Because of his gaze and attitude, Romi also became not dare to move and just lowered his head.

"What do you want to do in my room?" ask Arya again.

Romi was silent, not a single word came out of his mouth. Therefore, Arya's view also moved to an album that Romi had dropped.

Arya took the album and watched it while flipping it over a few times.

"This ... how can this album be on you?!" arya asked furiously.

"Aa .. it was .. k-sister Wulan who took it," 

"For what?"

"Ti-don't know, he took it and lent it to Rena,"

"Do you see the contents?"

"Of course not, I promised not to look at the contents. I just want to give it back, that's it and nothing more" he replied.

Arya was silent for a moment and exhaled her breath. Because there was no sound of Arya speaking anymore, Romi also raised his head little by little while venturing to glance at him.

"Hurry up, get out of here!" Aryan orders. 

Romi undoes his intentions and immediately leaves Arya alone. When Romi was no longer seen, Arya went into her room and locked the door.

Arya threw the album she was holding onto her bed and immediately lay down beside her with a gaze that stared blankly at the ceiling of the room. His eyes were closed and he began to try to enjoy the silence in his room.

A moment later, he got back up and grabbed the album he had thrown. Arya took a deep breath in preparation, then started to open up piece by piece the album.

The photos in the album are over 13 years old and every time Arya sees the photos in them, happy memories are recalled in her head.

Starting from the memories he liked the most to the memories he hated the most, all of them just appeared like he was witnessing all those events again.

On the last page, Arya's attention stops at the last photo on the album. A photo containing the most beautiful memories as well as the worst memories, a family photo containing five people in it.

The more he looked, the more his attention in the photo was turned to a woman who was holding a three-year-old girl behind him as a child.

At that moment, something was finally realized by Arya.

Buk up!

Suddenly Arya closed the album hard and put it on her desk.

He quickly exited the room and ran quickly towards the front door. Romi who was cooking for dinner also watched Arya rush from the kitchen without being able to comment anything.

Arya continued to move towards the front door and before she managed to grab the doorknob, first the door was opened from the outside by Mr. Alen who appeared from behind the door with a plastic bag in his hand containing groceries.

"Surge!" arya commands with coldness and a sharp gaze.

"Where are you going?"