ACIEL'S DIARY : INDIGO
SHEET 5.7: INVITATION & PAPER MAN

After we returned, I immediately cleaned myself to get ready for bed but when I went out in the bathroom of the barn, there was a white dove beside Master lying on the study table.

When he saw me, the pigeon nodded its head once and immediately flew through the ventilation hole of the building, disappearing into the darkness of the sky. The master only looked at him and stood up, then stretched his body.

I approached him while looking at the ventilation hole. As I recall I had set up a net there to block the entry of mosquitoes, how could it open again?

But I'm holding that question up for now because there's a lot more important.

"Master, what was that pigeon?"

"He was the servant of Wasa, the white dove of Frouya's company. The pigeon came to represent him to deliver the news."

"From Wasa? What news did he give?"

For a glance, some shadow where the forest they were in was burning or the Spirit running in various directions frantically passed through my mind, I immediately put away all of that by shaking my head.

The master also looks calm or even ... She a little happy? At least I'm sure it's good news. The master opened his mouth, answering my question.

"That's a party invitation. Celebrate for the new springs they found. They want us to celebrate too. Hows it? Are you going with me?"

I sat on the chair, laid my hands on the table and made it a cushion from my head, then played Master's tail.

"Oh ... The springs, huh? If it's about Frouya's society then I'll come along but for now I guess not. My body is still very tired, say my apologies to Wasa and Rune. I'll visit there another time."

I stood up again, then walked to the end of the room and hung a towel. On the other hand, Master got off his desk and walked up to the warehouse door.

"Well, I was expecting you to answer like that. Then I'll pass it on to the two of them later. Is there anything else you'd like to leave?"

The master opened the door with his tail while facing me, I shook my head while answering him.

"No, that's all. Nothing else for now."

"I see, then I'll go."

"Yes, be careful"

Closing the door again, the Master disappeared behind the door. I could faintly hear the footsteps that were moving away and preparing the folding mattress and then laying my body on it.

"If I wasn't tired, I might have attended. It makes me feel bad when I meet Wasa or Rune later, they even bother to send the sender a message to convey it."

I confirmed the position of my body and lifted the blanket, spread it over my body and with a pillow beside me, the most comfortable bed was finished.

"Maybe I should buy some snacks when I meet them later."

Due to fatigue, it didn't take long until drowsiness overpowered me. With my eyes growing heavier and my consciousness disappearing, I fell asleep.

Tok—! Tok—!

But when my consciousness reached its end, my ears caught a voice. I immediately ignored him because it might be a sound produced from the wind but that voice soon sounded again.

Tok—! Tok—!

The voice was heard several times, making my consciousness return with the worsening mood in me.

"What is a Master? He could have opened it so why did he have to knock it first? The master! I didn't lock it so you could come in! Stop knocking and hurry in!"

Tok—!! Tok—!!

There was no reply from my screams. But the sound of knocking on the door became louder, as if trying to damage the door itself. I got up and looked at the door.

Is that really a master? No, the cat must have been screaming all along and asked me to open it if he had locked it outside.

The one behind the door is not the master.

Tok—!! Tok—!!

Then who? He made no sound at all and just knocked.

Tok—!! Tok—!!

The thieves? No, the thief will not knock on the door of the house he will steal. Then who's there?

Tok—!! Tok—!!

"Damn it, he's so noisy!"

I have to make sure. But opening through the same door is an act that only fools do, I'll take another door. Then a stick and a flashlight just in case.

Tok—!! Tok—!!

Ignoring the sound of increasingly loud knocking, I immediately ran towards the end of the room and picked up a baseball bat on the dusty cardboard. This is the pig's wand that he gave me.

After cleaning up a bit of the attached spider web, I headed towards the back door and opened it with a sound as slow as possible. Closing it back up and settles past the side of the building.

Tok—!! Tok—!!

His voice sounded, he was still there.

I sped up my pace as best I could and reached the end of the wall, glued my back and jutted my head out to look at the courtyard in front of the barn door.

And what's there is—

"I couldn't see it so clearly because it was dark but it was something quite tall. Then he looked quite skinny, knocking with his hand on the barn door. A minute—Gwahh!!"

I tried to get as close as I could to see more clearly but my feet tripped over something, breaking my balance and rolling forward with the sound of cans and boxes falling.

In the end, it left my figure fully exposed. And at the same time, I could also see something that was on the doorstep quite clearly using a flashlight.

Three meters tall, with a very thin body and white color. Wherever you look at it, it's a sheet of paper in the shape of a human body without a face.

Calling it someone is not right, because it may be Spirit.

The paper immediately shot towards me without any trite ado and seeing that, I immediately ran without thinking of anything and moved away from it.

Since the sound of cans and boxes falling down earlier was quite loud, surely Aunt An would come to check it out.

I have to get out of here and keep him away from this paper Spirit.

It would be terrible if that person saw me acting strange when faced with this paper Spirit. And for a quiet place with few people in a curfew like this just the right one.

"Solving it out in the woods would be better but there's no choice but to be there."

I ran and ran, trying to reach the park as fast as I could. And behind me, that paper spirit was still chasing me tenaciously. He flew while he was taking out a scraping of paper.

But this also amazes me, what have I done to be pursued by the Spirit of paper like that? I don't think I did anything special with the Spirits today.

Maybe I can ask the paper later, but he doesn't look so talkative. Or maybe not be able to do it?

I'll make sure of it in the park later.