Reincarnation or Possession?

Theria's question squirmed like a parasitic worm in the stomach. Melianor will never know when the worm will develop and become dangerous.

"I considered every sign I saw from her," said Melianor who also did not hesitate to show the weakness of her analysis to Theria. "Although you are right I can't guarantee it either, I stick to my opinion, she's part of us."

Theria knew Melainor's beliefs had a solid foundation. Whatever Melianor sees right now, it may not be shared with me because it's still gray, but she knows that Elia is an important element, Theria thought.

"I know that if you believe she's an important element, I believe the same thing. The problem is, what should we do if we have to get rid of her?"

Melianor did not immediately respond. This hasn't happened in the last 500 years.

"The appearance of a figure like Elia is very rare and I have to be careful about it. I must not doubt my beliefs," Melianor expressed them silently. She looked at Theria and hoped that Theria would not have to ask any more questions about it.

The figure who always accompanied Melianor seemed to immediately understand the meaning of Melianor's gaze. Theria picked up a red apple, took a bite of it, and put the rest on the table.

"We're dealing with a cunning snake, don't you think?" asked Theria, pointing his bite at Melianor. The two used to talk to symbols. The thing Theria did was not a new method between them.

Melianor stared at Theria's bite mark apple. He looked at her meaningfully. Without hesitation, he picked up and took a bite of most of the other parts and then put it down again. Theria answered Melianor's statement by eating the rest. Melianor almost wanted to stop him, but Theria shook Melianor's hand. They quarreled wordlessly between the apples that had been kroak. Theria chewed it all. The sound of teeth crushing fresh apples full of heavenly energy was like announcing the trumpet and drums of the war ended miserably for Melianor.

The apple was swallowed by Theria. He then placed his palm on Melianor's right shoulder. They're looking at each other. Not a single word was spoken verbally. Only the action among those who condense the clay as if it can never be broken like the time.

"You can go quietly and come back well," Theria messaged. They were still looking at each other and those words felt like a warm veil to Melianor. Theria shrouded Melianor's whole body with his energy.

"With this, I will know what happened there. Even if I can't see with my own eyes, at least I can feel your existence and it will calm me down when I must stay here."

"I would have returned safely," Melianor placed her left palm on the back of Theria's right hand that was currently on her shoulder.

After that, Theria drove Melianor to the entrance of the Ruang Rupa. Melianor had already changed clothes. When eating earlier she was wearing a dark purple overalls dress, now she wears a light white canal.

At the door of the Ruang Rupa, Melianor and Theria stared at the door that had a key latch in the form of two snakes wrapped around each other. The two snakes felt the signal sent by Melianor magically. They moved opposite each other so that the door of the Ruang Rupa was opened which had been locked.

"Come back well," Theria said once again. He wanted to say it until it made Melianor not leave, but that selfish feeling could destroy a lot of things, so he shut it up. Only that one sentence was spoken.

Melianor passed through the door gallantly. Her charisma radiated dazzlingly when she smiled at Theria as a farewell. The door leaves moved shut along with Melainor's movements which were increasingly swallowed by the darkness of the Ruang Rupa. They locked themselves up and made Theria realize it was too late to stop her.

Theria then headed to the dining room, where Elia was last. He decided to start carrying out his duties.

"Melianor believes Elia will be back soon and has evolved, my job is to make sure she is truly a part of us while Melianor finds a way to stop the creature," said the inner Theria.

Theria opened the door of the dining room. He got into it seriously. He immediately stared at the leftovers. He observed that some fruits had rotted and revealed unnatural colors.

"Which creature is with Elia now?" Theria wondered.

After observing the rotting fruits for a while, he then hurried away to the Melianor Work Hall. There he left books by Kinnaras.

"This place feels spacious without Melianor," thought Theria.

"Where are the books?"

Theria looks for it at Melianor's desk but it's gone. He remembered the last time Melianor held and put them there, but now there is none.

Theria felt played by an ignorant child. They must have gone back to the others. Forced, Theria called again the bookshelf he had previously called to be in the dining room with Elia.

Bookshelves containing Kinnaras' work came down from the ceiling. The shelf's floating style looks like the feathers of a peacock falling from the sky. The shelf also landed perfectly soft.

Theria held up one of the volumes of the book.

"Max used to be interested in this book and immediately opened the door to The Ruang Hampa," said Theria in his mind and his hands weighing lightly the book titled Serat Kandhaning Ringgit Purwo.

"He made it out in a week. The problem is that Max is a figure who has realized his identity. At that time he only needed strength to be recognized by his clan, then he was designated as part of the Gelombang guard and his task was to guard the shadow area. Now Elia, she doesn't know who she is yet, even her Magi level is very low. To which Ruang Hampa did she go?" murmured Theria.

Theria read every title on the back of the book. He tried to find out which book Elia had read before or at least the one Elia had opened. It would have been easier if the book had stayed on the table when Elia entered the Ruang Hampa, but these books even had Magi powers that would have made themselves reunite with the other nine minutes after being touched by no one, at most half an hour, depending on how many pages that person had read.

"When I came, they were already together. That means Elia didn't spend a page. She probably only read one sentence. Wait, can she read these letters?" Theria was stunned, then I just needed to find which one she could read.

"It remains difficult, because all this was born long before Elia was born. Could it be ...."

Theria thought of all possibilities and all possibilities only pursuing the two things of reincarnation or possession.

"Yes, reincarnated or possessed, both have the possibility of being able to make her read all these letters. If she is possessed in the Melianor Mansion, Melianor and I can definitely feel it, and it doesn't happen, no alien creatures enter this place, it means…" Theria reached a conclusion, then he muttered in a serious tone, "Who is she?"

Meanwhile, Elia who was in the Ruang Hampa saw the soldiers moving eagerly to protect their respective families at home. With trust and trust in each other to work together to defeat the enemy, they gallop forward fighting for peace. However, the great scene happened for only a few moments. It all happened so fast. Flames spurted out of nowhere, scorching them like wood into charcoal. Elia saw and felt everything for real. She was the only one who was intact in the last incident. Her eyes stared at something empty in front of her.

"I didn't see anything. Where did the fire come from? And who directed him here? What are they facing?"

Elia was struck with tears that fell on its own. She rubbed it, then looked at the surroundings.

"Their bodies are scattered."

Elia tried to approach someone who was stretching their life. She stretched out her hand, hoping that with it she could make the person calmer or there was a miracle that would bring them back to life, come home from the battlefield, their country was peaceful, then everyone would welcome the babies born safely.

But unfortunately, those hopes and miracles never manifested themselves. The soldiers are gone. The hand grasped by Elia grasped it tightly, with the remnants of the energy he had he said, "Women with blood."

Elia could hear his words clearly, but she did not understand what it meant. She looked at the person fixedly, hoping that he would say another sentence, but what happened next is that person stretched his life until then dropped helplessly. His energy was like being sucked away by the earth.

Elia was crying. She felt the vibration of life leaving the body from that person's hand. At the same time, the life energy coming out of the body was like pulling something stuck in her chest. The vibration made Elia sobbing, it seemed like she was the one who lost everyone.

"No. Don't die. What should I do?"

Elia patted the burnt face with her other hand. There is no sign of life. The people around her have also become corpses.

"Don't say anything I find hard to understand. Say anything I can more easily understand. Please, come back!" cried Elia, answered only by the wind.

Meanwhile, the body she was holding was taken by the wind slowly.