Mastering Magi

Reverently Theria said, "It is not my place to answer. Later you can ask him again when you meet."

When he uttered it, Theria had already begun to have a broader picture of Eli's power.

"I'll see him again?"

Elia's face turned pale. The moment before Dalang shows up, replaying in Elia's head. It made her not want to feel it anymore.

"You'll probably meet in a different place if you manage to finish your training with me, your meeting with him will be easier," Theria said as if giving Elia a solution. The problem is that the solution contains a condition that now puts pressure on Elia's shoulders.

"What did Dalang tell you?" Theria continued without giving Elia a chance to process the answer she had previously given. It is said that there will be the possibility of meeting the Dalang for Elia is already a scourge, now she must recall what happened in the Ruang Hampa.

"What did he tell me?" Elia recalled in doubt.

"First of all he asked me what I wanted to do in my life, my answer at that time....."

Elia then recounted the process. Starting from stubbornly not wanting to admit her desire to kill Bibi because she thought it was her own business and would be laughed at. Then it is in a dimension of humans in an experimental tube.

"When I was in that tube I thought I was dreaming, because I had Bibi's body, you know, her body has a lot of tattoos. I recognized the one on the arm, I was surprised why I was Bibi and was quite panicked at the time, but then it all changed mysteriously, the room turned like rubber being cooked and then pulled and then created an entrance for the Dalang. By the time he appeared, all the tubes disappeared, the whole room changed, there was neither sky nor land, I was like being in space, when he approached, he said I was frequently traveling."

The fluently speaking Elia in slow tempo returned to moments of conversation that to her still felt unreal.

"You want to explain to me one by one don't you? Who are the women and men who sing, who is Dalang? and also what is frequency travel? I'm confused by all this, do I have to stop my desire to kill? why?!"

Elia could not read what Theria was thinking from his face. Theria are really cold like mountains and mysterious like the sea.

"I should have asked further but his attitude made me not know what else to ask. This also made me, who had been impatient to commit murder, turn into slowly considering what the significance of the murder was until creatures like Theria, Melianor, and Max got involved? What is really hidden from Bibi's death? I don't know why now I am also reluctant to call her mother. My tongue was even more comfortable calling him by his name alone, as if he were a stranger who disturbed my life very much," Elia murmured in her head alone.

"Keep going, what else is going on over there?"

Elia was somewhat disappointed that Theria did not answer her question. Even so, she continued.

"I changed places. It seems to be in the wilderness and I saw a blood-sucking four-legged creature. I saw it in another world when I was in elementary school. I remember Max helping me. The problem is that I have already started up with the creature and it often gives me nightmares. I tried to suppress all of that by continuing to do activities as suggested by Max. I think I made it. However, why is it that in that dimension of the Ruang Hampa, he appears and looks so real? I had to take the trouble to control my fears in order to defeat him."

Theria was still observing and kept all the remarks from Elia expressionlessly. His face is getting flatter and flatter. It was as if Theria who used to have a friendly voice when talking vanished was replaced by the very, very flat Theria, speaking as necessary, and not caring if others were uncomfortable.

Theria looked like an ascetic who had a disciple coming. Now, he was testing the disciple.

Elia felt challenged.

"Basically she has indeed lived longer than me. The experience is definitely incalculable. Until a few seconds ago I didn't admit it, all because of his appearance that he was still like someone in his 20s. Now, when he is so serious and asks questions coldly with such an attitude, I am really far away from him. It's so far away, it can't be compared with anything. I have to learn from him because after successfully killing the monster I hope I can find a reason to live the next life," Elia said to herself.

"Keep going," Theria's voice slid like snow falling from the roof of the house right in Elia's bed. The cold effect reached her bloodstream.

"Now, he was completely unattainable," Elia's inner being. After taking a breath, she continued the story. She dives back into her memory, into the moment when she fought with various other monsters after the blood-sucking monsters went up to fight her own mother who was smothering her body on the shore.

Elia told everything in detail. While telling the story, she hoped not to miss anything that would be considered important to defeat Bibi's monster in another world later.

"Though she's just a shadow from my memory isn't she? But I really felt like my heart had stopped when her dagger stabbed right here."

Elia pointed to part of her chest. Where behind the flesh and bones was a heart pumping its blood. She took a deep breath as she remembered the look in Bibi's eyes when she made her a target.

"She is really a monster! That piercing look of her, I can't forget it!"

Elia suddenly stiffened. She pressed her chest and began to feel tight again.

"If it's just her shadow alone I'm so scared, how can I beat her? so I was determined to defeat her and this matter would be completely settled if in the real world I could kill her."

"I'm sure so too," for the first time, Theria expressed his support with a face that seemed to be created with subtle elements from another world.

The short sentence with that face made Elia breathe again.

"You'll help me?"

For some reason Elia still needed another confirmation. Feeling that she had doubted Theria in a disrespectful way, Elia looked down.

"Sorry, I thought I wouldn't be able to do it myself," Elia whispered.

"You think Bibi's death is just your personal matter. But, the truth is, not! So, from now on listen to me."

Theria's voice forced Elia to raise her face. The mysterious impression in the words in the first sentence of Theria had already attracted the attention of Elia.

When Elia had prepared herself to listen, Theria began to reveal the things he knew and what Melianor and Max were now doing to combat the problems behind Bibi's death. Theria also recounts the events that Max experienced exactly as Max told her and Melianor in Melianor's Work Hall. He also did not set aside information from JoyDaG, including Melianor's allegations. All the captions ended with the words, "Therefore, if you are really determined to kill her by yourself, you must mastering the magi."