Blood Of Platinum
Chapters 2. Antique thing bag. 1
Hoshigaoka, Class 3-A.
The clock shows at 12:00 noon and it is time for lunch.
“The explanation got here. If anyone wants to ask can meet the father in the teacher's room. And do not forget to do the homework given today”
After the teacher finished giving an explanation, along with his exit the break sign bell rang.
“Kino, we eat. Come to the school rooftop again” Ryou eagerly holds his brother's shoulder and invites him to lunch together.
“Iya” while nodding and smiling, Kino took out her bento box.
Another daily activity that the two sisters did was to always spend time eating lunch together. Not because they are distanced or lazy to be friends with others. In fact, they are famous as “Double Yuki” which has a pretty good image among schools. But because it has become part of their daily life and they are quite comfortable with it.
Walk through the corridor and start climbing the stairs to the school roof
“After arriving. The best place to relax is in a quiet place like this yes, right “ quickly Ryou sat in a long chair that was on the side not far from the door he opened. The chair is enough for four people and shady because of the shadow that makes it not exposed to direct sunlight. It is a great place for a relaxing lunch without any interruptions.
“How do you think about today?” while eating his food Kino asked Ryou
“How is what? Normal as usual. Is there anything different than usual?”
“No. I'm just asking because I know your nature”
“Means?”
“Ryou is easily bored and very happy to do new things, right? I thought you'd get tired of our daily life like this”
“Yesterday you also asked this. Two days ago too. Why do you ask me this kind of thing so often?. What exactly are you thinking, Kino?”
“Since a year ago, Ryou managed to enter the escalate class and finally we can be in the same class. I'm so happy that we're together. But, because of that our job is getting more and more. Usually, Ryou who used to always complain and I'm afraid you don't really like your life in this 3rd grade” while putting back his chopsticks, Kino looked at his sister's face.
Ryou's energetic and vibrant character is indeed very visible even in everyday life. However, another trait of it is easy to get bored and tend to look for other things that are more challenging to do.
It could be said that Kino's question to his sister was a natural thing considering that at the age of 15, Ryou had to adjust to difficult materials. And because this is Japan, 3rd graders will usually be more rigorous in their studies because they have to go through college after graduation. The existence of additional lessons and other burdens must be felt by students ahead of their graduation including both.
“Nee.... If you ask like that because you know my nature, I guess it's a lie if I say I'm not bored” while staring at Kino, Ryou gives an unexpected answer. Kino could only be speechless with a somewhat moody face.
“……”
“Who thought entering a special program at school ended the drama. Tasks are many, every day should listen to the teacher who says we have to seriously study and blah blah blah blah..” tones of protest come out of his spicy mouth.
“……”
“And one more..Additional classes on Saturdays that take up my game time. It was the most fatal” this time his protest tone sounded like from the bottom of his heart
“……”
Hearing the final protest, Kino's gloomy face slightly changed from moody to astonished face.
“You're more worried about your gaming hours than graduating with good grades?”
“Of course!! Enough you're the smart one to study at home”
“Haaaaah Sighing, Kinou looked a little relieved
“The most fun thing is to be able to one class with you Kino”
Hearing that remark, Kino looked at her sister with wide eyes. It was as if she had just heard such beautiful words, making her look glazed and moved.
“The best thing is that I can be in class with my brother which means we can graduate together. You and I can go to the same university. Well, it's a different story if you want to take a certain major or pursue a scholarship again to study abroad. But regardless, you and I can graduate in the spring of next year together. So nothing will be left between us” Ryou smiled
“You're right. I don't think I'm gonna ask you anything like this again. I'm glad you enjoyed it”
“Yapc. Like you said, you know my nature. So there's nothing to worry about”
Nodding his head slightly, they laughed together. The lunch hour was so short but so pleasant for them. After a while, the phone in the pocket of Kino pants rang. The phone screen shows the name of the contact who called.
“From dad..” press the button and answer
“Halo, dad. What's up?”
“Ah, Movie. Sorry I interrupted your lunchtime”
“It's okay. Ryou and I are done. Is there a problem?”
“Daddy has contacted your mother at home but it looks like mom is going out with our next door neighbor, Yamada-san to the kabuki stage. Dad wanted to ask for help. When you go home later, please find the old documents of the father in the home” library
“Documents?”
“Documents in green. I remember putting it on the front bookcase on the right. Please after arriving home help find and place it in the father's office. Can it?”
“Sure. I'll call dad again when I get home to make sure he gets back.
“Thank you very much. Ah, continue your lunch. Later dad call again”
“Dad too yes. Don't forget lunch. See you” Kino presses the end phone button. Ryou asked too.
“From dad?”
“Iya. Dad asked for help to find documents in our home library”
“Hmm... job document?”
“It looks like so. Help me find it later ya”
******
The fog and the pitch of the night still adorned the deserted city. The sound of a loud object was heard at every corner on that street.
It's like a ghost town without inhabitants. No one is visible. The fog began to thin around the city streets. Starting to look the streets made of hard rocks destroyed by the impact of hard objects. The walls of buildings on the right and left of the road were wide enough to be cracked and partially destroyed. Blood spots were visible at every corner of the site.
-CRAAAAAAT
A splash of blood came out from the corpse of the troll that had been killed. Looking down, it was the third troll figure he had managed to kill. After the fog started to gradually thin out, it finally started to look like what the figure fighting with the herd of trolls was.
The figure of a tall handsome young man with pitch-black hair and blue eyes that were as beautiful as jewels was clearly bathed in blood on almost all of his clothes. It was the blood of a troll mixed with the blood coming out from his wounds.
- GROOOAAAAAAARRR
Seeing his friend dead, the other trolls began to attack brutally. No matter whether the attack hit the young man or not, they continued to swing their weapons to every corner, smashing the surrounding walls and buildings as well as hollowing out the path made of stone.
-CRAAAAAAASH
Successfully dodging the successive attacks from the huge wooden stick was starting to feel difficult. The stones that were crushed by the blow of the wooden stick hit the young man's leg so he fell
BROUUUK
Not yet had time to get up, from the top of his head a huge axe was ready to smash his head in a single blow.
-CRAAAAAAASH
The axe managed to fall to the ground but did not hit it because he managed to avoid it by rolling to the side. Although he could avoid it, he did not escape from the wound. The left hand bound by his robe began to bleed again as a result of the taper stone hitting it.
“Ukh..”
He also quickly stood up. Starting to think of launching the next attack, the target of the young man's target to kill the trolls did not change. He kept trying to get their heads. When the opportunity arose, he jumped at them and stuck his long sword into the arm of the troll. The troll was in pain and started dropping his weapon.
-GBRUUUUUK
The heavy weapon fell to the ground and an opportunity came for the young man to pull the sword that stuck in the troll's hand and thrust it into his front head.
The troll began to fall to the ground. Simultaneously before the troll was uprooted, the young man swiftly jumped to the side of the body of another troll who had come running to kill him. The previous attack move was carried back by him to subvert the incoming trolls. Not giving the slightest gap to stop attacking, this time he changed the strategy of moving from the body of the troll to another while launching an attack.
This continued until the final attack hit the only remaining troll.
“Haah..haaah...haaah...” gasping breaths and trembling legs begin to be unable to hold his injured body.
Not only were the wounds all over his body, his energy and mentality were drained enough to barely remain. Even so, he still had enough energy to maintain his consciousness in order to not fall unconscious.
“I hope...nothing else appears...”.
Looking at the region around him, only an expressionless gaze was shown. The bodies of the trolls were scattered almost along the road.
The area where it was previously looks like a 15th-century model house and building in the western region that gives the impression of quite horror when surrounded by thick fog at night. The fog that enveloped the place earlier was very thick with a medium level of horror. However, after the fog had thinned and changed the decorations of the troll corpses and the paint from their blood had already raised the level of horror of the location to the maximum.
The trembling hand tried to grab the pocket watch in the pocket of his robe
“1 hours 15 minutes? I fight desperately hoping that the remaining time is only a few minutes until sunrise, why is it still 1 hour and 15 minutes away?!” a disappointed tone and his despairing gaze began to look back. As if falling back into the abyss and ready to welcome death, there was nothing left but pain and the dark gaze that the young man showed.
“If it's like this, I won't be able to get out of the night safely.”.
It was as if night was his greatest enemy right now. A deserted city like a ghost town was an arena of death for him. And the monstrous unreasonable creature was the opponent he had to face.
“If the night is not over then there will be a possibility of creatures other than trolls will appear here. With a body injured like this, to walk alone was almost impossible. What is–”
His lips stopped talking and his eyes stared ahead. At this position, he who had initially difficulty standing with his legs shaking, suddenly started to force himself to stand up and started to ignore the entire wound as well as the blood flowing out of his body.
Like a storm that did not let quiet time come, his words instantly turned into reality. A bitter reality that should lead him to another stare of red eyes.
This time with a small amount. If the herd of trolls that come to attack it amounts to ten tails with an average height of 3 to 4 meters, the, this time uninvited guests who came only as high as 56 to 62 cm but with a number twice that of a herd of trolls.
-GRRRRRRR
“Mu..must….Dark Wolf...” his hands were trembling and his lips were like at a loss for words
-GRRRRRRR
The dark wolf started to step up little by little. As if preparing to attack, they showed the horses to attack.
WOOOOOOOOOF
Starting to run up to the young man, the young man swiftly launched an attack towards the wolf who was trying to pounce on him.
-SPLAAASH
Blood started to come out from the wolf that was hit by the young man's sword attack right on his body. But killing a wolf makes no significant change. There were still 19 others who started aggressively attacking him after one of their friends died.
“It's like this time I'm really going to die in this ‘world’ before finding that thing..”.
From the front of the young man, three wolves started to jump and try to claw at his body. The movement of the young man began to weaken due to the injuries from the previous fight. They managed to avoid the first attack
the wolves were by no means successful for the next attack.
-SSRREEEEET
-SPLAAASH
This time the attack was pretty serious. His right shoulder was injured deep enough, making the sword he was grasping fall to the ground.
“Aaaaaaaakh...” The young man shouted loudly enduring the pain of the attack he received.
This time, the blood coming out from his right shoulder flowed quite a lot to wet his entire hand. His eyes were starting to look dark and the strength in his legs that were unable to hold his body started to lose balance. Very unfavorable situation for him.
“After a long struggle looking for ‘thing it’ to all ‘world’ ever existed.....is this the end?”
A while after that another attack suddenly came from behind. Not unaware of the attack, it was just that the level of damage caused by the attack was enough to make him lose consciousness.
This time the back was injured, though not so big. Before his attack was received by a landslide, he again rolled to the left side. His left side at that time had an empty dot, enough for one to two turns when rolling. But it doesn't change the situation.
“Why time does not side with me anymore..” thought in an annoyed tone.
The look in his eyes also seemed to show annoyance even though his eyes had begun to blur and dark.
The good thing here is that the young man still has the energy to mutter in his heart, expressing his frustration even at the circumstances between life or death he experienced. This was also proof that he must still have stored the energy to think of a plan in order to get out of this dangerous situation.
“You must survive. You have fought so far to find him. If you die, all will be in vain.I must be able to do something to survive their attacks. Only until the sun rises..” tries to encourage himself, begins to rise and think.
The thing to do to counterattack was how he took his sword that had fallen on the ground right at the side where he had been hit by the previous attack.
******
The time showed at 16:00 pm and the school sign bell ended. All the students came out and prepared to go home.
“See you tomorrow, friends. Ryou and I went home first because there was a sudden business”
“Be careful ya” while waving, her classmates say goodbye.
The two brothers came home on a short walk to a bus stop not far from the school. It only takes a few minutes for them to board the arriving bus shortly after they arrive at the stop.
“Did dad call you again?”
“Not yet. I tried to send a chat. But it seems not yet reciprocated”
Continuing to look at his phone, Kino waited for news from their father. There was a message coming in from their mother.
[Mom and dad are going home late today. Lock the house in a yellow pot in the home appliance warehouse. For dinner, there are still plenty of vegetables and meat in the fridge. You can cook it yourself or if lazy can eat outside. Please take care of the house until mom and dad get home. Be careful.]
The bus ride took a little longer but they made it home before sunset.
Kino retrieves the house key stored in the yellow pot intended by her mother in the message and opens the door.
“We go home”
Like a message from mom, the house is empty and there is no one. The Yuki family residence is in normal housing in Japan. Their home style is like a modern house with a minimalist but elegant concept and architecture. Although it looks simple from the outside, the inside looks very spacious, so neat and luxurious impression is still visible.
The two sisters headed straight for the second floor stairs where their room was located. Ryou's room is right on the right side while Kino's room is next to Ryou's. They went into each other's rooms just to put down the bags without changing their school clothes first. After that Kino came out of his room to go down to the first floor.
“I'm going to the library first” Kino knocked on Ryou's room door once to tell him
“I'm coming. I promised I'd help you remember?” not long after that Ryou opened the door of his room and went out down the stairs with his brother
The library in the house is on the first floor. From the direction of the stairs, walk towards the back area and slightly turn towards the left. His room was next to their father's office. They opened the door and walked into the library. Inside the room were books neatly arranged near the wall. There is a large bookcase that forms three rows of shelves. Old and modern books are mixed giving the impression of a classic.
Kino pulled out the phone from her pocket and contacted her father. After a long time, he finally got in touch with his father. The speaker mode on the phone is activated.
“Halo, dad. We went home and are now in the library. What was the document like?”
“Daddy remember putting green documents on the front bookcase on the right. Can you please check if it is there?”
“Document green color ya”
“Let me see” Ryou take the initiative to search. Examined and looked carefully, he began to search for the object in question
“Documents...documents..ah meet...” retrieves the document in question, Ryou's movements pause.
What caught his attention was a brown old book that was right next to the document he had drawn. The size of the book is as big as a large and very thick encyclopedic dictionary.
At first glance there is nothing strange, like old books in general. There is usually never a book in the house that manages to catch Ryou's attention except for the weekly game magazines he always buys at the minimarket.
“What book is this?.
“Have found the document?” the voice from the speaker of Kino's phone began to ask
“Oh. Yes, I have met. It's green, right? Already in my hands” while lifting the documents up, Ryou showed it to Kino
“I'll put the documents into dad's office. Be careful on the way home ya” Kino hangs up
After receiving the documents given by Ryou, Kino exited the library. At first he invites Ryou too, but is rejected on the grounds of wanting to be there a little longer which eventually makes Kino surprised. However, as it seems that everything is fine, Kino leaves Ryou in the room.
After Kino closed the door of the room, Ryou pulled the old book out and how shocked he was when he picked up the book.
“Why not as heavy as it looks?”
The front of the cover looks slightly torn but still retains the front cover. The thing that made her face change was that she realized that there was a dried red stain on the cover
those.
“What is this blood stain?”
Although almost similar but still clearly visible that the side of the stain has a different color. Anyone would start thinking that it was a dried up bloodstain and hit the cover of the book.
“Not so heavy and strange stains like blood. Since when do people in this house have a hobby of storing strange objects?”
At first it showed a strange look and was a little scared. But it didn't last long until his mind started to turn.
“Don't say this is a death note like in the comics and it turns out I was the chosen one to contract with a shinigami. It might be kan”
As expected of Ryou's spirit and overconfident nature, things didn't become so tense. Thinking for some time did not make him stay still on the spot and just look at the book. The first page contains the preface with English, does not attract his attention.
The second and subsequent pages are also of no interest. Again only English writing with content that can be understood. The next sheet is also not interesting until he thinks why he is so interested in the book. Does it look old from the cover? Is it because the size of the book looks big but it turns out not as heavy as expected? But that question didn't last long.
“What...what the fuck is this book?!”
Shocked by what he saw, Ryou spoke in a rather high tone while showing his extremely shocked face. Almost the entire middle of the thick pages of the book was cut off intentionally, which made it look like a storage box. Very interesting camouflage. Another interesting thing that does not lose making Ryou eyes bulge is the existence of something stored in the book.
Finally he knew why the weight of the large book was not like the appearance of his outside. From the outside it looks like a thick ledger, but when opened it turns out like a box to store other items.
As if not wanting to be shocked alone, Ryou rushed outside the room to the 1st floor with the book to show to the older brother. Kino, who had changed her clothes, was in the kitchen to prepare dinner.
“It's down yeah. I'll cook our dinner. Why don't you change your clothes first, Ryou?”
“Kino!! Look at this thing I found..you will definitely be surprised”.
“That's a book from the library right? You rarely bring books from there. Anything interesting?”
His eyes looked at Kino with an unusual gaze. Seeing herself being stared at like that by Ryou made Kino could do nothing but show a confused face. They sit in the dining room.
“So, what book did you bring?”
“You will be very surprised to see this” while opening the ledger, Ryou showed that surprising discovery. And sure enough, Kino's shocked face could not be hidden. His gaze which was the same as Ryou when he first discovered the book was now shown by Kino.
“What is this? Why is there such a book in the library? Did you find him, Ryou?”
“I saw it while looking for dad's documents. Out of curiosity so I tried to see him a little more. What surprised me the most was the content of”
Ryou pulled out the contents of the hidden object behind the ‘’ storage box. A golden pocket watch.
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