Chapter 19
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What is this? I can't feel any power inside my body. It's like someone erased it.
is it even possible?
“Oh, I see. You have air as your magica potencia. Do you know how special is that? You're like a rare piece of gem. How nice is that?” She talks like nothing happened. She really just examined me.
She smiling for almost a minute now. It's not a good one. I felt chills all over my body.
“Oh, how silly of me. How can I not introduce myself. I'm the head teacher here, in Estrella Academy. And yes, you're right. I can erase someone's magica potencia for a certain time. But I can only do it if they attacked me first. Don't worry, it won't vanished forever. Here, you can have it back.” That explained everything.
I can feel it again now. Her ability is so scary. But earlier, when she erased my ability, I felt like I've been freed.
She broke my curse for a minute and it does made me felt good, a little.
I just look at my toes because I don't know how to react. Am I really that special? I don't know. Looking back at my back, it just made me laugh.
Me? Rare? Impossible.
“I need one Reap here to guide this student in her room. Assist her.” She talked with the telephone then hanged it after she sent her command.
A guard immediately came. His face is familiar, oh yeah. He's the scary guard who helped me earlier.
“Kindly assist her, what's your name?”
“Stella” I answered.
“Stella, to her dorm. And I want you to be her Reap from now on. Guide her in everything.”
“Yes, Head Teacher. You, please come with me.” he vowed his head before he left.
as a sign of respect, I also did what he did.
We're walking for like 5 minutes now, he still keeps on walking.
“Um, excuse me? Sir? We've been walking for a while now, can I ask where are we going?” He stopped walking. I thought he's going to answer me but he just ignored me.
It's embarrassing.
We stopped in front of a small room. It looks shaggy on the outside, but I can't judge the inside.
“Reap Han 073.” He faced the door and put his palm on it, it's like the door is scanning his identity.
Then the door automatically opened.
See? it looks trash on the outside.
“What are you waiting for?” He looks at me with an impatient eyes.
It felt like I was scolded by my father.
“Reap 074, speaking. Yes, I understand. I'll be there in a minute.” He's on his phone. But it instead of a mobile phone, he has a wireless device in his ear.
He turned around and faced me.
“If you walk straight, it will took you 3 minutes if you walk fast, you'll see the gate of our school. At the front gate, you'll see a fascia, you can ask her anything regarding your room and stuffs for a new enrollee,”
The gate from the outside is not yet the school?
“I can't go with you, I'm busy. You're all mature and not dumb, right? You can do it yourself. And please, don't do something stupid, Stella. I need to go now.” I watched her walked away until I can't see his image anymore.
That feels like an insult to me.
I looked around. He's right, I won't get lost here because there's already a pavement to guide me.
It's beautiful in here. The trees are fully bloomed with different colors. It has the same aura with Hozie. It's feels magical.
I continued walking. I can already see the school from here. It's so huge, so big for a school.
I got excited as I get nearer to the school but something caught my eye that made me stopped.
It's a garden full of rose. But not like ordinary one.
It is bright red, with a hint of glitters that made it glows. It has a fragrant that will make you want to sniff it closely.
I've never seen something like this. Of course, there's no way a magical thing like this will exist in Earth.
I want to touch it.
“If I were you, I won't put my hands on that deceiving flower. But, suit yourself.” A curly headed girl interrupted me from brushing my hands towards the rose.
I didn't notice her earlier. She's also sitting on the tree, How did she climbed up there?
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“You're obviously new here. But don't you really know what kind of flower is these? It's the most famous flower here.”
“Aren't they roses?”
“Roses? no. It's Kreas. A poisonous flower that deceived it's target by it's appearance and fragrant. The image you see right now isn't really true. It change depends on it's target's desire,” She explained.
I can't believe it.
“What do you see?” She asked looking at those flowers.
“Bright red roses, they're glowing beautifully.”
“That has a meaning, you know? They said if you saw roses in it, I believe it means you longed for something impossible to get. It can be love, a person, or freedom.”
I don't know what to say. I'm out of words. I just looked at the flowers in front of us.
How can a beautiful things, such as this flowers, can be so dangerous?
“I can see chrysanthemums in it. But instead of glowing simultaneously, it's fading. It almost lost it's color. It feels like it need care, and love. It's looking for some attention. Too bad I'm aware of this flower.” Her eyes were still locked at the flowers.
She's looking deeply. Like she looks in her own soul.
“What happens if you touched it?” I asked curiously.
“You may not see it but it has plenty of thorns that will will pierced you. As soon as the poison enter your body, you'll be dead. As simple as that.”
Seducing you then killing you after it sounds so wrong. So cruel.
“Belle Dixer. My name, and you? And where did you came from? You look kind of messy right now.” She introduced herself while offering me her hand.
I kindly accepts it as I told her my name.
“You can call me Stella, and I always look like this outside. I live on the streets. I enrolled here to have a nice and comfortable shelter.”
I waited for her to get disgusted by me, because I think that's a normal response in this situation.
“That's a smart choice. I also have the same reason why I enrolled here. To get a new shelter, because I got kicked out from my previous one. I hope we get along just fine, since I'm also a new comer.” I saw her smiled. A small one but it's a genuine one.
I think it's okay to have at least one friend? It feels empty without one.
“I'm glad I met you here. I won't feel lonely in the future anymore,” I paused to smile.
“thank you. I didn't even realized I'm closed to death earlier. I owe you one.”
“Just be careful sometime since you're not really familiar here. But I do have some intelligence in this kind of things. So you better stick with me from now on.”
That made me chuckle a bit.
“Hey, don't laugh. I'm serious. You can't leave me now. You can used me if you want, just don't leave me hanging when you find out who I am. Okay?” She said seriously.
“You didn't judged me when I told you I was a bum living in the streets. How could I leave you just because of your identity? We have our own flaws, that's normal. Besides, you might be the one who'll leave me. If you find out that--”
“You two, what are you still doing there? I noticed you while ago and you still didn't enter the school? Come on here already!”
Someone's voice shouted but I don't know where it came from.
“Oh, it's probably fascia. Come on, before she gets angry. We don't want that to happen.”
We ran to the gate of the school.
Now that I'm here, I can see it closely and it became larger. It also smells expensive and of course, magical.
“You two, what are you doing there? Don't you know how dangerous those flowers are?
I can't see any one here but I can hear her voice.
A little girl suddenly shows up.
“You both new enrollees? Come here.”
Is she the one they called fascia? The one in charge here?
“She may look young but she's already a thousand years old. She just used a child's body because she said it's comfy.” Belle explained while she whispered.
“I see.”
“Stand here. Face the wall and don't be nervous, okay? It won't hurt you.” Fascia wants us to stand at the small rectangular stone. It has words written on it but it's not alphabet so I can't read it.
“Who wants to go first? You? Okay, go on.” Belle raised her hand as she want's to go first.
“Read the words you see at the wall. After that you'll find your room and section.” The little girl, Fascia instructed.
Belle followed what she said.
“Filled with love and intelligence. Together as one, higher than the sky.”
As soon as she spoke those words, roots and vines came out from the stone and cover her whole body.
It didn't take that long when the vines vanished. But I didn't see Belle anymore.
“Go on, you're next. Don't worry, it won't hurt. It will just teleport you to your room, that's what happens.” She smiled to make my fear go away.
Slowly, I stood on the rectangular stone.
There are words on the wall in front of me but the problem is, I can't understand it. It's not written on alphabet.
What should I do?
“Don't be nervous, Dear. Just read it.”
I don't have any choice. I might get caught if she finds out I can't read their.
“F-filled with love and I-intelligence. Together as one, higher than the sky.”
I copied what Belle said.
I thought it wouldn't work, but it did.
Slowly, the vines touched my feet and covered me whole.
It feels weird but she's right, it didn't hurt. But I can hear some voices whispering to me.
“It's not what's written on the wall.”
“Can't you read?”
“Why did you lie?”
“Why? Why? Why?”
It's getting scary. Did I got caught?
The voices are gone now.
When I opened my eyes, I was not in the gate anymore.
I'm currently in a room. and I saw Belle sitting on her bed while rearranging her clothes.
“You're here?” She immediately stopped when she heard me.
“Wow! I didn't expect us to be roommates. We're really destined to be together. I told you.”
Is it because I copied what she said? The words written on the floor.
I'm kind of glad I did it. Though it feels like cheating.
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