City of Symbol

Elia leaned against the wall. In her hands now there is only bamboo with very precise functions and shapes tumblr sport that is popular among millennial children. The bamboo tumblr containing warm water was the only one owned by Elia.

Elia looked at tumblr with a look of disbelief, astonishment, and at the same time there was annoyance that she could not express. Even so, the annoyance gave birth to something new in her, something that made her unwilling to give up on understanding the situation and then solving her new mysterious puzzle.

"So, this is a new game?"

Elia remembered how the arrow was directed at her. The woman was wearing a black mask and covered her entire face. She couldn't forget the woman's charisma and seriousness when pointing the arrows at her body.

There was not the slightest doubt of the masked woman. That woman's posture is appropriate as a frontline warrior. That woman was used to playing war strategy and tactics. When she raised her bow and arrows, her aura radiated.

"Behind the mask, I could feel the woman's gaze sharply full of confidence and could release the arrows without blinking."

"Does she see me as a game beast?"

Elia muttered exasperatedly. She groped her body. Everything is normal, there are no scars. This also reminded her of what happened when she was with her mother. After that terrible ritual.

"The difference between that and this is that here I am not afraid."

The mysterious fact made Elia think hard.

"Who are they? The four women are tough, too strong for the size of the female. They are above average. Three of them wear white masks and one wears black masks, there must be a reason among them all."

Could it be the symbol of each power owner?

Who or what are they really?

How could this room be connected to that place?

What kind of relationship do they and I have?

"They want to kill me and it can certainly be done easily, my strength is not comparable to them. If I could be better than them, I might be able to kill that monster. Am I in the world of symbols?"

Elia returns to the moment when she was in the car with Max. They just got out of the city of B'tavia. Elia asks where he wants to go and Max answers to Javanese, Sunshine lives and does business in Javanese.

The brief conversation made Elia realize something.

"Javanese is famous as a city of symbols. If this Mansion is connected to the Sunshine Shop operating in Javanesse, could this place be the main heart of the city? I mean, well that is, in the unseen world, the main heart of the city is not necessarily a capital, then the spirit is also not necessarily in the town square, or a certain landmark. Then... Everything I've experienced here, everything I've seen and happened to me contains a message. If I want to get out of here, I have to understand them one by one."

"Maybe not everything I can find the answer now, but at least I need to remember everything that might contain weapons to defeat the monster."

Elia was quite happy with her findings.

Elia put the bamboo tumbler to the floor. Then she began to analyze from the beginning.

"First meeting with Dalang. All I know, Dalang in the puppet can play the director, screenwriter, and at the same time the person who moves the puppet. If I'm the puppet then I should be the protagonist. All right, think of it," Elia took a breath. She began to get more and more serious and confident.

"Then the sinden singing and the music, what the * is this the name? ah I don't know the meaning of their existence yet, but obviously they can still be heard until now, maybe they are the accompaniment of every puppet or the main player in the story, every event, every event gets its own accompaniment from them. They accompany the course of the story from beginning to end. If this is just the beginning, it means... Think of it like a novel, the continuation of the story will still continue and on a page that I have not read there will be surprises. Now that decision is on me, either go on or I stop. If I stop..."

Elia's eyeballs rolled around, from corner to corner. She observed what was in the room.

"Although I am quite confident now, what if I will be locked here forever. Could it be that later I would hear some conditions if I wanted to go out alive? but why am I alive and returning to that world?" Elia was hooked up.

"No one was waiting for me."

Elia laughed at herself, then she realized she was hit from behind. She felt a burning heat sting from her tailbone.

"I went out to kill the monster. That's what I want, isn't that so... Dalang?"

Elia turned her head slowly to the corner on her left side. Deep in that corner, Dalang sat leisurely with his book. Elia began to think that in plain sight the room did not have anything, but if the void was connected with the world of symbols, it must have meaning.

"At the moment it is impossible to translate it, my science is shallow. If it comes out later, I have to find the meaning, maybe it can be useful to kill the monster," Elia exclaimed to Dalang who was still calm with his book.

Elia got up to her feet and with a wide step she approached Dalang. No matter that person will see it as an undressed body or a human being.

"Well, I have answered your question. I have one clear purpose in life now, I'm the one who has to finish it off! I think I'm the only one who can because I'm the only one who's going to have that chance! then what will be done after successfully killing … I will find out later, if after that you want to take me to hell then I will come," Elia exclaimed and promised success, perhaps too confident. Elia doesn't care about that.

"Lend me strength," these last words drew a reaction from Dalang.

The puppeteer raised his face and they looked at each other just now. The puppeteer stood up straight. Elia had to raise her head as Dalang stood straight in front of her.

"Melianor and Theria will take care of you," Dalang raised his index finger, placed it on Elia's forehead and pushed Elia until she was stuck back.

Elia was already fully clothed again when she was pushed out of Melianor's dining room. She stood transfixed for a while until her consciousness recovered.

Elia fingered the entrance to the dining room and opened it. The contents of the room were exactly the same as when she first entered.

Elia surrounded the table full of leftovers, some fruits and bread had already rotted. The leftovers on the plate are still there and have been swarmed with maggots. Because the stomach felt wrapped around, Elia took one apple. She used a knife to get rid of the rotting flesh of the fruit and then ate other parts that looked fresh. She did the same with some of the others. She ate greedily.

"Stop!"

Theria shouted from the doorway.

"Stop it! Stop! I have something fresher."

Elia greeted with a wave of her hand. Her mouth was too full to say hello. Her eyes widened, in fact he wanted to obey Theria, but her hunger was much more important now.

Theria's scream of action telling her to stop eating the almost rotting fruit managed to make her put a few pieces of pears in her hand. He wiped the water on her lips.

"Follow me!"

Theria said it in a commanding tone shrouded in pity. He directed Elia to get out of there. Elia certainly did it with excitement.

After swallowing the leftovers in her mouth, Elia exclaimed, "You know, I almost died in there, I should also be able to defeat some monsters, there are also the spirits of the warriors, ah no, they are royal warriors! and also what kind of experiment it is?!"

Elia wanted to tell Theria about her experience as soon as she saw him but her wording was not clear.

Theria initially couldn't clearly understand the things Elia wanted to say because it was too random, but then he realized that Elia's experience was exactly what he thought.

Elia had been in the Ruang Hampa, but the most basic Ruang Hampa. Recognizing her self-potential. The room was entirely to make Elia rethink her life goals in the short and long term.

"Elia made it out even though it was longer than I expected. Even so, I could see there was a difference in her aura. Before it was pale, now it was better, it seemed that she had found her first enlightenment," Theria said silently while listening to Elia complaining about everything she had experienced.

Elia realized Theria not hearing her stories, so she punched him in the arm.

Theria was shocked. He couldn't believe Elia was doing it. For what?

"Why did you do it? Why lock me there?! I thought I had entered the enemy's lair, but Max trusted you, even though he was eager to believe that the purpose of locking me there was not bad but … I feel betrayed! Why not tell me first? at least I have to prepare!"

Theria paused for a moment, then walked over again after saying, "It seems that you have a lot of energy. Wanna back to Ruang Hampa? How?"

Elia was silent. Her stomach was upset and her voice could be heard echoing all the way to the whole room.

Theria kneaded his lips so as not to let go laughing loudly. He thought it was best to pretend not to hear the sound of a whistle in Elia's stomach. He still maintains manners in front of women.

"I'm hungry. Do you have any food?"

Elia spoke with a chuckle. The volume of the sound is already very small.

"Fruits," Theria replied flatly.

"Just fruits? I need rice, meat, eggs, and vegetables too!"

"If you want to eat that much, how about you work first to make money so we can buy rice, meat, eggs, and vegetables."

"What? I thought I was a guest here and could eat for free," Elia said innocently.

"Guests generally stay only one night, and you? What's the name?"

Elia did not answer. She chimed in, "You must be kidding me, right? All right, I'll ask Max to buy it later."

"I have to accept eating anything!" said Elia loudly in the head.

Theria watched her with raised eyebrows.

"How deeply does this kid depend on Max? Why do I envy Max?"