The Van Til House: STRAF SABBAT
Chapiter 53

Magisna only stopped crying after Papa Tibi came and rubbed water on her face.

The girl was flabbergasted and looked around as her consciousness began to recover.

Where am I?

I'm who?

It was a typical hilarious dialogue of the manga to illustrate his MC confusion.

Magisna's not that hunk!

He just squinted his eyes and scanned all the faces around him. Then start to remember where he is. "The boy—" his his hiss choked.

Papa Tibi pressed gently against his shoulder. "He didn't mean to be evil" he said flatly, but contained a meaningful emphasis. "I can't help much. Your sight cannot be healed."

"Sight?" Magisna did not understand.

Papa Tibi let out a short sigh and looked around.

Magisna followed the old man's gaze and realized the situation.

Many people were watching them.

"It's best to go in first," Ais' father allowed them to move into the living room.

Back then, they were all on the terrace, and Magisna was prodding amidst the crowd.

Ais and Agustin help Magisna stand up and lead her to the living room, then sit her down on the sofa.

The Ais family said goodbye with just a quick bow while smiling.

Magisna bowed back while smiling with a clumsy attitude. "Sorry to trouble everything" he said.

"No need to hesitate," replied Ais's older sister whose age may only be one year adrift above Agustin.

One by one their neighbors scattered away from the terrace and yard of the house. One of them was still standing by the door, staring at Magisna with a concerned expression.

Dini Apriyanti's.

"Come, Din!" Agustin invited Dini to join.

Magisna smiled at the girl.

Dini stepped inside and joined Papa Tibi's side, opposite Ais and Agustin who flanked Magisna.

"The girl you saw was a manifestation of Nyi Ageng" Papa Tibi told Magisna. "Name's Suzy."

Magisna looked at him with an astonished expression. Amazed at everything that happened, amazed at the way Papa Tibi chose words. Everything was absolutely amazing, Magisna thought. It was so amazing that I felt crazy.

"Either since when did it begin, but your vision is a little special" continued Papa Tibi. Stay flat in regular tempo.

Magisna gulped and cleared his throat. "Look at me, I started to see the strange since I moved here" sighed the raucous Magisna.

Papa Tibi smiled faintly. "There is a difference between sighting and sighting" he explained gently. "Appearance will only occur when the related entity allows it. While vision can occur even though the entity concerned does not expect it. In other words, sightings occur under the control of an entity, while visions occur out of control. But this particular case of yours is a little different."

"Different?" Magisna frowned, trying hard to digest the explanation given by Papa Tibi. Then surrender. "I don't understand" he confessed.

"Simply put this way," Papa Tibi cleared his throat and linked his fingers with both elbows propped up on his knees. "Sight produces interaction, while sight does not. But you seem to experience both simultaneously."

Magisna began to understand. The first time he saw a short-haired girl in an SMU uniform, there was no interaction. It was a vision. Their second meeting just happened interaction, it was a sighting. The rest.

"It feels like more sightings than visions" murmured Magisna.

Papa Tibi smiled faintly once again. "At least my guess is correct that your vision is a little special."

Agustin turned to Magisna with a big smile.

Magisna just stares.

"So, when did it start?" ask Papa Tibi.

"It feels new yesterday," answered Magisna unsure. "I saw the boy in my class, I also wondered why there were SMU children in vocational school classes. But the kid doesn't care around."

"That's a vision" Papa Tibi interrupted.

Papa Tibi smiled. "Good," he said. "That means an apparition. What were you talking about during the trip?"

Magisna was suddenly stunned remembering something. He also talked about the third eye, he realized.

Papa Tibi simultaneously exchanged glances with Agustin, while Ais and Dini looked at Magisna with a waiting expression.

"She talked about the third eye myth after the torpor," said Magisna hesitantly.

"You ever been a queen?" Ais asked half a screech.

Magisna did not answer. Did I go into suspended animation after the accident?

"What comma can be said to be surly dead too?" Magisna asked back. His gaze was immediately directed at Papa Tibi.

Papa Tibi nodded. "Comma people only lose consciousness, not lose their lives" he said. "What is meant by torpor is the loss of life for a moment. A situation in which the soul is separated from its body."

It turns out to be true, Magisna said in her heart. I was once a Suri!

I was a ghost all night.

What kind of revenge is suitable for a Fucking Writer?

Put that aside first!

Isn't there something more important they want to ask Papa Tibi.

About possession!

"What about possession?" Agustin.

"Hardness is no different from apparition" replied Papa Tibi. "Hardness also occurs under the control of related entities."

"That's not what I mean" Agustin said. Then glanced at Magisna with a doubtful expression.

"It's about my friend" interrupted Magisna. "My friends, same principal…"

Papa Tibi was still waiting for Magisna's explanation to be stammered with an understanding face. So patient and understanding.

"How were they when their father found them?" ask Magisna at last.

"They were all found in a fainting state" Papa Tibi replied flatly.

Magisna turned his head and exchanged glances with Agustin.

"Right," said Agustin in surprise, as if he had just realized something. "Hendra was also found unconscious!"

"Look," Magisna started the story. Then cleared his throat and said everything about Dusk. Explains how Magisna saw him snatch the body of a comatose boy and noticed a change in the color of his eyes after being possessed. Then he began to connect it with changes in his friends and prove it to Dika.

Papa Tibi greeted him patiently and never once tried to interrupt.

"Since that incident, they've all worn glasses. And. I suspect they're all possessed by Kiddo's kayak."

Papa Tibi was still silent after Magisna finished speaking. But it was obvious that he was thinking hard.

The entire room froze watching the old man. Waiting for him to say something.

"There's something wrong with tradition" Papa Tibi finally said.

"Tradition?" The four teenagers in the living room were glaring at the same time.

"I'm talking about the system" explained Papa Tibi.

Magisna gulped. The ghostly words of the SMU child flashed in his mind.

"I'm talking about the system! The Van Til house is a symbol of colonial civilization. The culture of colonization that evolved into a parameter over customary law, then gave birth to a cult. And the bell substation is one of them! The bell substation has been incarnated as the Court of Prohibition! Everyone is waiting for his decision. And every decision is obeyed by everyone. Without exception. Meanwhile, history only records narrative pieces without evidence. It then becomes a stigma. The legend of Van Til's house is the story of the oppressors who were adopted by the inhabitants for generations but the law is still obeyed, for generations. Van Til's house is just one of a cultured history. Remnants of colonization that became history are peppered. Our SMU building is new, but the education system is dilapidated."

"The boy spoke of the depravity of the education system" murmured Magisna.

The entire room looked at him with clasped eyebrows.

"Sum!" magisna toilet.