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"What's? What did you say, Man?" Nanda stopped walking and looked at his twin brother with a look of wonder. "Lo himself who refuses outright if we fight muscle with the creature. So, now what?"

"Hhh, yes... I really don't want to deal with such creatures. But..."

"Don't you like Arlan, do you?"

"Diddeliver! What, anyway!" refute Manda with red cheeks. "Gue's just pissed off, Nan! After all, Arlan's parents are stupid! It's been discovered this-that, still do not want to be honest with Arlan. In fact, Arlan could be the way out of the curse!"

"Why can you say that Arlan is the way out?" ask Nanda.

"Yaaa because he's got pure immunity, right?"

Nanda smiled meaningfully. From there, then Manda realized why from the beginning, Nanda suggested to fight for power. Nanda is not impatient, but he knows that Arlan will win against the creature.

"But..." Manda is still in doubt. "Arlan could not see the creature. After all, Arlan had never dealt with such things. How did Arlan fight them?"

Nanda continued walking down the hallway of the mall, followed by Manda. "Because you've been intending to help Arlan, I'll also intervene. I'll call Oom Kristan to help us."

"Oom Kristan? Lo sure?"

"He is the strongest among us."

Manda rubbed the back of her hand. "But, I wouldn't like it if we had a relationship with Oom Kristan. I don't think I'm sorry about Oom Kristan yet" Manda said.

"Lo want Mom to step in?"

"No!" The manda answered quickly. "Mom won't be strong."

"We need help from Oom Kristan" Nanda said. "Lo believes in my instincts. I'm never wrong."

"Yes, Nan. I'm following what you-" Manda stopped. The feathers bristled for a moment. He turned around, looking for the person who had just passed him.

"Why, Manda?" Nanda stopped too. Since Manda did not answer, Nanda followed Manda's eyes and found Arlan walking with a man. Nanda looked back at Manda. He put on a look of fear. Nanda grabbed Manda's arm to resuscitate her. "Manda, is something wrong?"

Manda flinched, regained consciousness. "That guy..."

"The one next to Arlan?" Nanda.

Manda nodded. "The man..his aura..."

"What's dangerous?" shoot Nanda.

"Yes. It's dangerous."

Nanda hurried over to Arlan who was walking straight with the man next to him. Nanda was a little incredulous that Arlan had not seen Manda when they passed by earlier. "Alan!" call Nanda.

Arlan did not respond.

Nanda's forehead is wrinkled. "Alan!!" call Nanda again, this time in a louder voice.

Arlan kept walking away from Nanda.

Nanda inhaled a deep breath, then exhaled it slowly. "Arlan..." Nanda made a soft voice, but used her stomach voice.

Arlan stopped suddenly. He looked to his right and left, as if shocked and unaware of what he was doing. In that instant, Nanda knew that the person next to Arlan was a threat.

"Alan!" Manda called.

Arlan looked behind him. "Manda!" his face brightened when he found Manda. "Lho's? Is there Nanda too? Hi, Nan!"

"Where are you going?" Manda tried to be as natural as possible, not wanting the person next to Arlan to feel suspicious.

"Oh. yeah... Mmm," Arlan looked confused. "So as I remember, I wanted to go to the movies. But... Why come here, huh?"

"Well, I happen to want to watch too. Just how about, how?" bring Nanda. Of course, Arlan could not refuse Nanda's invitation, even though Nanda's purpose to the mall is to buy dinner with Manda, because their parents are busy at this time.

"Waaah! That can!" Arlan answered quickly while glancing at Manda. 'Rezeki's down!' his mind in the heart. "Related, Dim! With them alone," Arlan invited the man next to him.

Even for just a second, Manda could see the irritated look from Dimas's face. He must have been annoyed that Manda and Nanda had appeared all of a sudden and ruined whatever the plan was just a moment ago.

"No need," in contrast to Arlan, Dimas refused Nanda's invitation. "Gue still has other business. You guys watch together. I'm going first, huh?" Dimas hurriedly fled, without bothering to wait for answers from Arlan, or trying to get along with his schoolmates.

Manda smiling. "No need to be a problem" replied Manda. "He's not the first person to fear me for hearing this-that gossip."

"People like them will have no end" grumbled Nanda.

"If we think of them too, there will be no end, right? Think of the wind as past," said Manda. "We're watching?"

"Eat first, yuk?" pinta Nanda rubbed her stomach.

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"Lo was not aware of the time being herded with Dimas," Nanda opened the conversation while waiting for their order to come.

"Not conscious?" repeated Arlan. Arlan lowered his head, trying to remember what happened earlier. "When did I suddenly appear before you?"

Manda and Nanda nodded at the same time. "Gue even called you a few times, but you were indifferent."

"Gue... why?"

"It's not you who's why, Lan," replied Manda. "But, as you might expect, Dimas was weird. He's hiding something."

"Over now, if I ask him to meet you, he always refuses. I guess, because he's afraid of you, too," said Arlan. Looks like he's starting to understand why Dimas would not like it so much if he met Manda.

"The aura of Dimas..." Manda rubbed the back of her hand, feeling riled up. "Gue can feel the same way."

"meaning?" ask Arlan.

"What was the first time we met?" Manda asked back, which was immediately answered with a nod from Arlan. "When I looked into your eyes, there was a strange black aura though it was not clear. The aura left over from your dreams every night. The aura of an invisible creature full of vengeance scares me."

Arlan gulped. "What... Dimas' aura is like that too?" tanyanya slow.

Manda nodded once. "Gue sure."

"But, as far as I know, Dimas has nothing to do with this. I know Dimas's grandparents. Dimas's parents also died when Dimas was a child. I've met them once" Arlan said.

Manda looked at Nanda. "We can tell that Nanda has entered Dimas' past" Manda's voice changes slowly.

Nanda smiled obliquely at the confession of her twin brother. "May I wear it, huh?" he made sure, because Manda has been very opposed if Nanda uses the ability to see the past he has.

"But there must be me next to you!" answer Manda firmly. "Gue doesn't want anything to happen!"

"Lo knows for himself, Dimas avoids lo, Man," Nanda reminded. "Lo can't just appear in front of him. There, he ran away."

"Gue can hide near you."

"Lo forget who we're dealing with?" ask Nanda. "When we want to pass, he is able to make Arlan not 'see' us, but clearly Arlan has a crush on you."

"Huh!?" Manda cuckoo.

"Eh? Nan!" Arlan reminded. Arlan's heart almost fell because Nanda suddenly brought up the problem. "Focus, Nan!" Arlan pleaded. He would not be able to control his facial expression if Nanda were to slip up once again.

"So, do I really have to keep my distance?" manda asked, hurriedly changing the topic.

Nanda nodded. "Lo can teach Arlan about basic life support. This kid must be around Dimas. He could be the first helper later."

"Basic life support?" Arlan did not understand what Manda was afraid of. "Basic life support is like heart-lung resuscitation, right? For people who have a cardiac arrest? Why did I learn that?"

"Gue can die while going into someone else's past" Nanda replied lightly.

"What's? Die off? How dead?"

"Yes. My heart stopped. Not breathing."

Arlan swallowed with great difficulty. His throat feels dry. Hearing the word 'dead' made Arlan dizzy. "Mending you don't have to look at the past, then" Arlan suggested.

"If not, this problem will have no end" replied Nanda. "Manda himself agrees, seeing Dimas' past will speed us up to find answers."

"Gue was just guessing," said Manda. Manda stared far out the window of the restaurant where they sat to wait for their order to come. "Gue this sense of destiny. I and Nanda who have special powers, must be destined to help someone. And that's lo, Lan."

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