The Van Til House: STRAF SABBAT
Chapiter 54

"Education system is a strategy or method used in the teaching and learning process to achieve goals so that students can actively develop the potential in themselves" said Papa Tibi straightforwardas. "The depravity of the education system means the potential for depravity!"

Magisna. Once again the ghostly words of Suzy Yan flashed through her mind.

"The school is on the verge of collapse!"

"What exactly is going to happen?" Magisna demanded an explanation. I was tired of all the puzzles, he thought.

"Children at school will be... mutants!" papa Tibi replied half muttering.

The four teenagers in the room gasped.

Mutants are individuals who undergo mutation or change in DNA or RNA and cause changes in nature due to the mutation process. This phenomenon occurs due to irregularities found on chromosomes.

"But.." Magisna stuttered for a while before finally being able to ask, "How could that be?"

"Of course because of the interference of other entities in this matter" Papa Tibi said remained flat and serious. "Since there are no scientists in the area around here, then the most likely thing to happen here is a mystical phenomenon!"

"I mean.." Magisna still doesn't understand. "What makes these other entities do it? It's clearly like a plague! Are they angry? What makes them curse us?"

"I don't know much about the current education system, but seeing the reaction of the universe so frontal, I suspect there is a cultural storage in the school!"

Magisna blinked and stuttered back.

"Last time the universe hatched a restoration in the form of plagues and natural disasters." Papa Tibi paused for a moment before continuing, "The bell-gardu has been incarnated as the Court of Prohibition! Everyone is waiting for his decision. And every decision is obeyed by everyone. Without exception!"

Magisna swallowed the saliva that was immediately stuck in her throat.

Everything that the ghost of Suzy Yan has said has been interpreted by Papa Tibi.

This old man is truly wise, praise Magisna in his heart.

"What can we do to counteract all this?" Magisna asked again.

Papa Tibi smiled faintly. "I'm not a high-scientist, son!" As if he could read Magisna's mind, the old man began to explain his identity. "I'm just a bell substation keeper, not a caretaker or a spiritual expert. Just a time travel witness."

Magisna took a heavy breath and exhaled it slowly. His chest suddenly felt tight, like there was a heavy burden squeezing him.

Some puzzles begin to unfold, but more and more are emerging.

What can he do?

"Rest, Son!" Papa Tibi rebuked him. "It was late at night" he reminded, glancing at the wall clock above the door.

Magisna bowed lethargic. Not satisfied with their brief meeting.

Ais and Agustin patted Magisna on the left-right shoulder, hinting that today was enough.

With a heavy heart, Magisna finally said goodbye to the family of Ais, Dini and Papa Tibi.

Then Ais and Agustin drove her home.

Ais took her motorcycle with her, while Agustin drove her in a Jeep.

That night's journey was without obstacles. But Magisna remained restless until home. He was unable to close his eyes until early morning.

Solving some of the puzzles made him even more restless.

Papa Tibi was still hiding something, he concluded. He's definitely not just a bell substation keeper, not an ordinary tile. I can see it. He's really wise. So wise, that he was too careful.

But what agitated him the most was imagining all the school students being mutants.

What will a school with teachers and students that are mutants all like?

Will everyone wear hoodies and glasses?

Oh, that's right! erang Magisna in his heart.

Are Isa Sir, Novi, Dika, Hendra and Alexza mutants?

Is Kiddo too?

What about me? thought suddenly. I went through suspended animation and underwent a change. And.. They say I'm a snake! Am I going to be a snake demon?

Instantly the feathers of Magisna bristled. She jerked herself to her seat, then crept down from her bed and approached the dresser. He leaned over the dresser, looked in the mirror and observed his reflection. He examined his eyes in the mirror, nothing changed in the color of his eyes.

You're overreacting! He scolded himself.

The truth about the story in that labyrinth is probably the answer.

I have to see Miss Pinkan, she decides. Then force himself to sleep.

Not long ago he fell asleep, knowing his mother had woken him again.

Magisna wriggled lazily and gasped, then glanced at the wall clock above her bedroom door while yawning. New time shows at 06:15.

"Ma, it's still too early!" magisna protests among his quotes.

"You forgot today there's a court call?" Mother reminded.

"Huh?" Magisna. Still not fully awake. "What trial?" But then he got up and sat on his bed. He remembered that today he had to be a witness in Gabrielle's case, then hurriedly rushed to the bathroom and cleaned himself up. Soon he was done and out again, preparing books and school uniforms just in case he might not be able to go home first. I'm going straight to school, he thought.

After breakfast, he set out on his own for the court on his motorcycle.

Ais and Agustin were there too. So did Hendra and Miss Pinkan.

Jati and her friends also came to the trial.

At first Magisna did not recognize them except the oval-faced chick typical of Dutch Caucasians. They were all wearing school uniforms and the hair of the boys was nothing gondrong— - let alone up to the waist, only limited to the jaw with sideways bangs covering the eyebrows—typical emo style. But still too long for the size of school children. Longer than Hendra and Pak Isa haircuts.

With a friendly grin, Jati approached Magisna and greeted him.

Magisna smiled doubtfully - afraid of misrecognizing people. But after their distance stayed a step, Magisna finally recognized him from her name bet: JATI ACHMAD. Magisna greeted him back and they finally shook hands.

"Meet us again" Jati chanted between her sweet smile.

Well--yeah, inner Magisna bitter. I never thought we would meet again in such a situation. Is there no place more romantic?

Hendra glanced at them with a flat face. Magisna glanced back at him silently. Hendra looked pitifully separated from his horde, Magisna thought. But it looks like the guy won't even bother looking for a interlocutor.

Ais and Agustin tried to greet her, but Hendra ignored them.

Ais and Agustin looked surprised, then sent a sign asking towards Magisna who had joined the Teak friends.

Magisna shrugged her shoulders at a glance, then hurriedly turned her face away from Hendra's gaze. Pretending to be busy with Teak and his friends. Call it familiar!

From her name bet, Magisna knew them. Denise Van Til, Juna Lubis and Juanda's Son.

"Well, what's your hair, how come it is?" magisna asked Jati, just mince words.

"So what is it?" Teak looks confused.

"So short," growled Magisna. Not sensitive, he thought annoyed.

"Emang was the hair of the cave? Waistband?" kelakar Jati while chuckling. The three friends just grinned.

Magisna squinted her eyes, "Did you do, right?"

Jati knitted her brows. "The cave can be slit by the headmaster if the cave hair is waist-length!"

Right too, Magisna thought. They're all still in school. "So that was fake hair?"

"Fake hair?" Teak looks increasingly confused. "From the cave's hair esde it's like this," he joked.

His three friends were very sad.

"Well! Nearsighted cake!" teak Goda.

Magisna was silent. Strange, he said in his heart. Why is she acting like she never had long hair?

Did I see wrong?

"So you guys never go gondrong?" Magisna asked again, this time aimed at everything.

"You guys?" Teak and his friends were together.

"Your hair is yesterday gondrong!" Magisna.

"It's just Denise who's shabby" joked Juanda's son with a faint smile.

Denise is the name of a Dutch bule girl who continues to stick with Juna Lubis.

So my eyes were gone from before the accident?