Ash-boss
The Thousand Stories: Mystery

Laras was stunned in front of his bedroom closet. He noticed his black hat. A black hat with an ash list on the edges of the hat and the same gold inscription on the front of the hat.

"Amor!" murmured Laras in front of the hat. "There are only two hats he said, hahahaha.. Silly." Barrel turned his body. But turned back to pay attention once again to the black hat.

"No way! Hats like this are a lot on the market, right?!"

The scribble on the hat was exactly the same. The same color of gold. Moreover, the hat was only two pieces, making Laras had to re-examine every detail of the hat he had.

"Where did I get this hat?!"

Laras. He looked at himself in the mirror and then took the hat off. Laras snorted as he could not remember where he got the black hat inscribed with the amor. He put down his hat then turned to head towards his study table.

"I gave it to him!" a raucous sound filled the side of the room.

But bounced off the side of the barrel. It was as if every strangeness and wonder had vanished from Laras' life. The barrel is now just an ordinary human being. The figure that was thrown from the valley after locking one forbidden valley from annihilation.

Barrel opened some books. But what caught the attention of Laras is an album of memories between himself and his grandparents. She went page after page of photos showing her and her grandparents. Also some other photos of each person in the photo together. There is a photo of the delivery of the parcel from the neighborhood manager, there is a photo of the activities of gotong royong grandparents with the surrounding residents, and there is also a photo when the three of them picnic for the last time. Barrel rubbed the photo album part of it. To close it, Laras was curious about the tip of the photo that was released on the back side of the album.

Barrel pulled the photo. There is a photo of him being rammed by a bicycle by a young man wearing a black hat who is now hanging on the handle of his wardrobe. The young man's face was covered by a hat, so his face was not clearly visible in the photo. Another photo shows him with his grandparents but also stands another figure beside Laras. It was his last picnic. In the photo of the foursome, the photo of the young man's face is also covered by the hat he uses so it is difficult to recognize.

"Who?!" Laras murmuring. Then turn half of his body to look behind him. Look again at the black hat hanging from the handle. Look at the hat of the young man. The same hat.

Laras got up from his seat wearing the hat in the same way that the young man wore his hat and looked at his own reflection in the mirror.

"What have I forgotten?!"

Looking back at the reflection on the mirror, Laras's eyes glared. While other shadows that appear on the mirror show eye gurat full of attention to the figure behind the mirror. A shadow that shows how the shadow of Laras is escorted by the black shadow of another figure Eren as the highest guard.

The shadow faded again as the wind blew slowly from the window of the girl's room. Baras immediately closed the window of his room tightly. But in the view that Laras threw out, Laras looked at the oldest house with ancient Dutch architecture at the end of this housing.

The old house became the center of this residential area. In addition to its place in the middle, the house was also built on the highest part of the land in this housing. As if showing that the house is indeed a trend center for residential areas around it. Ancient Dutch architecture was closely attached to each side of the building. With a large balcony overlooking the northeast. Or rather it leads right to the side of the building where the house Laras stands.

"Haha... How could it be like that!!" laras said to get rid of his mind about the building that he had always noticed. The building which since the beginning of Laras thought without occupants, but in the past Laras often get an order of a roll of newspaper and two boxes of milk in the morning.

"But who are the inhabitants of that old building?!"

The barreled looked back towards the building. Found a golden-haired human figure perched on the balcony. Laras rubbed his eyes to reassure his sight. But once again Laras saw, on the balcony stood a man with long hair reaching the shoulders. From the stature he displayed, that figure was a man in a pitch-gray suit with a plain white shirt behind his suit. The barrel was stunned, as the figure waved.

The lambaian was directed indeed to Laras. The barrel looked confused from a distance behind the window of his room.

"Do you like teasing Baras like that?!"

"He saw me coming down with wings. His expression was funny." replied the figure of the man who was none other than Aksara.

The picker who came to visit Eren, the guardian of the valley who had just recovered from his worst wound.

"How's your wound?"

"You don't look too busy, so you can take care of other creatures like me?!"

"It looks like I visited at the wrong time" he replied. "Your sensitivity has increased since you've dived into the darkness."

Aksara put one hand in her pants pocket while still staring fixedly at the direction where Laras was still trying to peek out from behind the window of her room. Laras did close the window curtains of his room, but from the same distance, Aksara and Eren could tell, the girl's eyes still gushed towards those who stood on the balcony of the old house where Eren lived.

"What actually happened back then?!"

Recalling what he saw in the dark-eyed black shadow figure, Eren clenched his hands tightly.

"That nameless valley, did you find it?"

"What?!"

"Sort of losing an object or something that isn't in place?!"

"What do you think it is?!"

"If seen from the stone inscriptions scribbled by him using other stone fragments, it must have been a valley seal."

"Or note the essence of the nameless valley."

"The last in the valley sequence is the gray valley, but the other two valleys behind the gray valley stone door are a mystery."

"Why is there a gray valley?"

"And why two valley doors?"

The two men pensively stared at each other in the same direction. The window of the room opened.

"The girl hasn't changed despite losing all of her abilities!" Aksara laughs little.

"Because of that, I'm interested in him."

The characters are silent for a moment.

"Your interest is his destiny to live as a human being."

Eren looked at Aksara. Aksara had just pulled out a black-coated old book that Eren recognized as the black-coated old book of Laras.

"How is that possible?!"

"This book is not only a book of death, but also a book of fate belonging to the girl."

"Didn't this book have been rendered useless after its task as a forbidden being was completed?!"

"Only the record written in this book can answer it." replied the Scriptures are full of mystery. "In addition, the other Laras is also recorded in this book as Laras."

The two men exchanged looks. Aksara simply threw an indifferent smile at Eren. Meanwhile, Eren immediately took the black-bound old book to open the page of the book that wrote about the two Lars on the same life.

"How is that possible?!"

"That's the mystery we need to solve!" answer Aksara. Not usually Aksara master the game of fate that binds Laras. While Eren seemed to be thrown from his duty to be the guardian of the figure of Laras.

"Have I become a parallel in the lives of these two Barrels?!"

"That's how?!"

Eren smiled with satisfaction. Closing the black-covered old book, then looking confidently at the girl who was now clearly peering at them using binoculars.

"Silly!" mumbling Eren.

"He was always silly!" timpal Aksara while looking at the actions of Laras that they clearly know.

Eren lowered his head for a moment and smiled knots while clenching his two hands that rested on the side of the balcony.

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