The Van Til House: STRAF SABBAT
The Chapiter 50

BRUISES!

Dika suddenly kicked his desk to the upside down, Magisna slammed back to hit the teacher's desk.

The whole room turned rowdy.

The female disciples were aghast from their seats and rushed towards Magisna.

Dika jumped off his stool with an inhumane gesture, he landed right in front of Magisna and strangled her neck. "What exactly do you want to see?" he grumbled at Magisna. Both of his eyes were glittering, they were bright green.

Magisna squealed stifled. Watching those eyes with fear. No mistake, he said in his heart. Dika is possessed.

"Well!" Some girls screamed as they grabbed Dika's wrist. Trying to untie his grip from Magisna's neck.

Dika tightened his jaw and grabbed his glasses from Magisna's grasp, then put them on and let go of Magisna half-throwing.

Magisna was pushed to the side and slumped, then coughed while holding her neck.

Dika snorted and looked around, then rushed to his stool, picked up his bag that was thrown to the floor, then rushed to leave the class while thieving.

The whole class looked at him with surprise. The problem of glasses alone to the extent, they thought astonished.

The female disciples swarmed Magisna with anxious looks.

"Lu ain't pa-pa, are you, Ka?" One of them asked Magisna.

Magisna gulped and shook her head with great difficulty. His chest was going down rapidly, his breathing was wheezing. Two female students helped him to stand up. Both of his knees were wobbly and trembling.

"Why is that Dika?" Someone grumbling. "His behavior is really weird!"

Magisna did not reply, still shocked by the sudden attack. His strength increased a hundredfold, he thought in horror. What kind of creature actually possessed Dika?

Were Isa, Novi, Hendra and Alexza also possessed by the same entity?

Seeing their unnatural closeness, it seemed like they were one faction!

I have to talk to someone, Magisna thought. Otherwise I'd go crazy. But who's gonna believe it?

"Eka!" One of the female disciples shook Magisna's shoulder.

Magisna blinked and stuttered at the face in front of her as if she had just woken up.

"Lu have the same problem Dika?" The girl's question made Magisna clench her mouth with a grim expression.

"The question is, does Dika have a problem with his glasses?" Another daughter interrupted them. "Since he's been wearing those glasses, he's been acting strange lately!"

"Tul, tuh!" The other girls agreed. "After the cave, he didn't have any minus eye problems or anything like that."

Magisna heaved a heavy sigh and exhaled it slowly. The pressure still squeezes him. But he knows the problem is not with breathing. I was scared, he realized. I'm scared to death!

A teacher entered the classroom and glared at them.

The entire class simultaneously rushed to their respective benches.

Magisna stepped slowly towards his stool in the back row.

The teacher looked at Magisna with squinted eyes, then looked around with a suspicious look.

The whole class just bowed.

Magisna sat dumbstruck with a pale face. Both of his hands were trembling and sweating.

"Eka!" Master rebuked Magisna. "You still sick?"

Magisna.

"It seems that you have not recovered properly" said the Master.

"It's okay, sir!" magisna answered without daring to raise her face. "I can still take lessons."

The teacher shrugged his shoulders, took the chalk, and began the lesson.

At the return hour, Magisna runs into Hendra and Alexza on the school terrace. The couple were walking towards the parking lot, while Novi and Dika were walking in front of them following around - who else if not— - their headmaster.

They've been looking like family lately.

Some disciples glanced at them with sinister gazes.

Novi and Dika sneak into Pak Isa's car, while Hendra and Alexza are riding a motorcycle that looks familiar to Magisna.

Magisna smothered her mouth with one hand.

That motorcycle…

He remembered it was the motorcyclist who pushed him the other day.

So that's Hendra?

Or Alexza?

It must be one of them, Magisna concluded. Hendra was mired in the fields of Van Til that day, Magisna recalled. So it must be Alexza.

But why would he do it?

Why would he want to kill me?

Does this have anything to do with Hendra?

Because Hendra disappeared in the fields?

Or because of something else?

Alexza knows where Hendra went missing that day?

No, thought Magisna. Alexza didn't know Hendra was missing that day. This has nothing to do with Hendra's disappearance. It's obviously a personal matter.

Alexza never liked other women to approach Hendra.

Alexza did it out of jealousy!

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The next day…

Magisna tried to arrive early. So he decided to bring a motorcycle.

Am I wrong at school?

The school building in front of him looked new and crowded.

It doesn't look like the dilapidated SMUN 1 Cileles of yesterday.

But a large plank was plastered near the gate that read SMUN 1 Cileles.

Magisna sighed heavily and clenched her eyes fixedly, hoping that when she opened her eyes, the surrounding scenery would change.

But nothing happened.

The surrounding landscape has not changed. The school is really new.

There's no way they're renovating the school building in one night, right?

What exactly is going on?

Whatever it is, I obviously have a serious problem! Magisna.

How not, these absurdly strange problems made him almost crazy.

First he is trapped in the basement and terrorized by strange creatures in the form of fog, then their principal and his friends change. Simultaneously he got lost in the middle of the plantation, caught in a rainstorm and met a ghost who gave them a ride for the night and could hardly go home. Then he had an accident that almost took his life. He even saw a ghost who seized someone's body in the hospital and now he has to deal with at least six possessed people.

I must be crazy!

"Magishna!" A man's voice drew him into reality.

Magisna squinted her eyes as a tall, white-faced man approached Magisna. "Augustin?" Magisna. "Gapain are you here?"

"I'm at school here" Agustin said, pointing to the SMU logo on his uniform.

Magisna gave a short sigh. Then back to looking. The school building remained unchanged. It looks new and fresh.

"You came by bad luck tau," kelakar Agustin.

Magisna turned her face towards Agustin and forced a smile. Suddenly he felt he had to talk. He really needs a friend to talk to. Agustin is the most appropriate person. Agustin would not denounce and consider him insane.

"You're going home, are you?" ask Magisna at last.

As if able to read Magisna's mind, Agustin responded attentively. "You talking?"

Magisna nodded and smiled faintly.

"Then we speak in the cafeteria alone" Agustin proposes, then guides Magisna to the school cafeteria. Magisna turned her body towards the direction she came and walked side by side through the parking lot.

"What do you want to talk about?" Agustin asked after they arrived at the canteen and took the corner table.

They cross paths with Dini Apriyanti while crossing the room.

I didn't miss school Magisna said in her heart. Yesterday I passed the girl in front of the school gate. I think it's my eyes that are in trouble.

Agustin ordered two glasses of orange juice and offered Magisna another option.

Magisna had lunch before leaving for school, but the fries seemed pretty decent. "Fried potatoes" he said.

Agustin pulled the bench and sat by his side after finishing ordering their food and drinks.

The entire canteen watched them with a seductive look.

Agustin did not care about them.

"Say, what's the matter?" Agustin asked directly to the point.

There are many things Magisna wants to say. But if it says everything can take two days, the grunts in his head are too much, to the point that he does not know where to start. "You still want twilight?" Magisna finally started from the craziest thing in her opinion.

"Yes, why?"

"He's dead" said Magisna without raising his face.

"Huh? When?" Agustin glared at him with a shocked look on his face.

"Ten years ago," answered Magisna slightly choked.

"What?" Agustin frowned.

"The man is not human, only we can see him. Gabe.. and the kids you're holding with you can't see him!" Magisna finally raised her face, looking at Agustin to see his reaction.

Agustin froze for a moment before finally being able to say, "Sambekala!"

Magisna gulped. "Lu's sure he's the missing twilight at Doolhof? Jati said he died from a gunshot."

"You talk to Jati?" Agustin frowned again.

"He went to the cave room before he was held and asked that we pull out that night."

"He was also trying to save us" said Agustin.

Then both are silent.

Someone came to their table delivering the order. After the man left, Agustin just continued his story.

"He was also caught" whispered Agustin half-murmuring.

"Who's got you? Gabe?" Magisna.

Agustin. "They're all wearing hoodies and glasses."

Magisna gulped and choked in the throat. "How many people?"

"Four people!"

Just like Miss Pinkan said, Magisna thought. Miss Pinkan wasn't lying. But Gabe is innocent.

"Two girls, two guys?" Magisna asked the thing that suddenly flashed through her mind, unthinkable.

"Yes!" answer Agustin.

Nah! Magisna squealed in her heart. Not them, right?

Nah!

Better not them!

I hope it's not them!