X-Loves: From Another World
Chapter 13: Words and Phrases

A few weeks have passed. Especially for Anna and Dwi, they are starting to adapt in a very different environment here.

On that day, as usual, Anna went to the cafeteria with Licia at recess. There was nothing special about this day, but Anna still remembered what happened a few weeks ago in the hallway of the library. But until now, Anna had not met the mysterious student again.

“What's up, Anna? How to daydream?” ask Licia.

“Eh, no. I didn't think of anything.” Anna replied.

“Really? Do not lie, maybe your relationship with Dwi does not run smoothly huh?” Licia teases.

“Eh. Who said I was in contact with him? He's just my friend doang,” refuted Anna with flushed cheeks.

“Long yes, hehe..”.

Licia kept teasing him while Anna kept thinking about yesterday's events while walking, until she had unknowingly bumped into another junior student.

BRUKK…

“Aduh..”.

Anna hit him until the books he was carrying fell down. Seeing this, Anna tried to help him.

“Uh, sorry. Ambo didn't know you were there,” said the girl while tidying up her book.

Hearing her unusual way of speaking, Anna was astonished. Moreover, she wears a uniform that is slightly different from the other students. She is a schoolgirl with glasses and wears a white bandana on her long black hair. But unlike other students who wear short skirts, she wears a long skirt up to her ankles, although the model is the same.

“Eh, it turns out you are? It's okay anyway. You're not busy anymore, are you? Let's go to the cafeteria together, I want to talk to you,” said Licia who seemed to know who the girl was.

“Eh Licia, who is she?” asked Anna confused.

“Namo ambo Alita Chaniago, Na class student from Pagaruyung Land.” He introduced himself while justifying the position of his glasses.

“Oh, it is appropriate how to speak like that,” Anna said in her heart.

It seems that he came from a region in the west of this archipelago, which if in the real world the region is known as West Sumatra. But as if she had gotten close to him, Licia held onto the girl's shoulder confidently.

“He is my distant friend,”.

But seeing Alita's nervous reaction seems inconclusive. Anna looked at them with a strange look.

“Oh..”

The three of them finally went to the cafeteria. Meanwhile, Anna was still curious about Alita's appearance. Finally he asked her.

“Oh yes, Alita, if you may know why your uniform is a little different from the others?”

Alya just smiled hearing that, but Licia helped answer him.

“Most girls from the western region prefer to wear long skirts. That is already their hallmark, aside from their slightly different norm values,”

“Oh so anyway.”

As usual they ordered lunch with cold tea while sitting at the long dining table. In a normal atmosphere it looks as if Licia whispered something to Alita, but still heard clearly by Anna.

“Eh. Alita's. You know that Niko Aslanov from Ra class who is of Moskva descent?”

“Iyo, why him?” Alita brought her face closer to Licia

“he said he had made it up with Jeanna Ta class,” said Licia.

“Ha? Seriously?” Alita raised her voice in surprise.

Meanwhile Anna who heard their conversation looked uneasy. He also chose to avoid while intending to buy snacks.

“Hadeuh.

Not looking ahead, the girl hit people again.

“Aduh... twice bye,”.

At first he seemed ordinary, but after seeing the person he hit, his attitude immediately changed.

“Eh...You..”.

Anna's seen him before. He was a mysterious white-haired senior student who passed him in the hall near the library.

“You were that time, right?”

“Huh, it seems like we are indeed destined to meet,” said the student.

“Wait, what does that mean. ‘Sang Salamat’ you said yesterday, what did you say first.” asked Anna.

There was no other expression the student showed other than smiling and answering him casually.

“It seems true what the Guardian of the Sacred Library said, you are the chosen ones,”

“We? The Sacred Library Guard? What do you mean?” Anna is still confused.

“Huh... Later you also know yourself. What is clear is that you and your boyfriend are the chosen people as ‘Sang Saves’ for this Tierra Hyuma,” he replied with mystery. He did not explain it in detail and left immediately.

“Sang Rescue? The Sacred Library Guard? We were? What does that mean?” anna said in confusion in her heart.

…

The next day, the students of Ha class attended school as usual with advanced material from Mr. Rudy in the form of inserting magic into a material. Here one of the students managed to insert light magic into a wood until it glowed.

“Good Thomas. It's an achievement you all should follow the kids. But it seems for the practice we suffice first until here first. Expand the training at your residence, thank you and good afternoon,” closed Mr. Rudy.

The disciples packed their things to rest, including Anna. But Dwi approached him and whispered something.

“Can we go to the library now? There's something important I want to show you.”

“Hmm...” Anna just nodded.

As she said, Anna and Dwi returned to the academy library. But unlike before, Dwi immediately picked up an old book and immediately showed a page to Anna. He had a hard time reading it because the notes in the book mean Rejang, a character commonly used to write Rejang and Bahasa Melayu in Sumatra. But Dwi who could read it explained it to Anna.

“This book explains something I didn't expect. Maybe it could be the key for us in uncovering the mystery of this world,” said Dwi, but Anna still does not understand.

“Hah? Mean how? I can't read it.”

“This book explains about the knowledge of Tierra Hyuma as well. But there's one interesting thing here. In this section explains that ‘not all cases in Tierra Hyuma are written in visible books, some cases are only written in papers stored in the occult space,” explained Dwi.

“That means that the books in the library of Tierra Hyuma do not explain everything. Most of them ‘hidden’ in a place called as ‘space occaib’.” Dwi continued.

Hearing this, Anna was surprised. It turned out that even though Tierra Hyuma was a world with magic, there seemed to be something else that was beyond the reason of this world, or perhaps even could not be reached by using magic though. But among all those sentences, there was one phrase that made him think hard.

“Supernatural space?”

Anna was interested in the phrase. It seems to hold a very important meaning. But he was still confused as to what the phrase meant. But soon he realized something.

“What don't-don't..”