Chapter 50: Night

"Hana? That sounds so beautiful!"

Ara says as she looks at me with shining eyes, her smile is so important that you just want to protect it with your all. I only have a few friends and she was the only one I treat as bestfriend even though we only knew each other for a few weeks.

There is some things I discovered about Ara. The first is that she likes to eat alone when she knows no one in the place but likes to eat with the person she knows even in an unfamiliar place.

The second is that she was a very lively person when it comes to talking about her brother and mother, my brother is almost the same as Julian and just the same as him, I really can't understand what my brother is thinking because he is quite weirder this past few days.

And lastly, she was a very good user of threads and needles. She teaches me how to stitch a rip clothes and stuffed toys, she even know how to create a crochet. She even tried to use a thread and attached it to a wooden knife that I created and then used it as a weapon when we sparring here.

"Really, thanks! My brother also has a nickname that my Japanese aunt use to call him....."

I said as I touched my chin thinking back on what it was that my aunt used to call him. My aunt used to call him that nickname that match that I even started using it a few years ago and then stopped using it a few months back because he seems to getting used to it. he might even forgot his own name.

"Oh yeah? What is it?"

"It was....."

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"Yoru."

I said as I looked at the night sky, the moon is so beautiful and bright and the stars are also shining like a bright diamond. The bright lights coming from the stores and the people walking while talking to their phones, some of them were taking a photo and then some kids are running around.

Just thinking about it, will these people can able to keep their smile after the catastrophic event happen or while happening? Will they be able to keep their lives and live a normal life with their family and have a dinner with them happily?

I really can't imagine what will be their expressions and reactions to this upcoming catastrophe, I don't want to worry about them because I also have a family that might also die when that event happen.

"Yoru? That is a Japanese word that means 'Night' or 'Evening'. why did they call you that?"

Julian asked as he kept on walking with both his hands on his pocket, looking straight on the way we are walking and also looked like he was thinking deep about somethings.

"How did you know that?" I asked and also looked at him.

"I can speak Japanese language fluently because of how many missions I got on Japan." He explained.

Well, considering that he is the number 1 of their group, it is not surprising if he gets so many difficult missions. Maybe they have a ranking on every missions they get.

"Well, not surprising." I said

"Why did they call you Yoru? There must be something related to evening or night to you if they kept calling you like that for years."

He said and then chuckled a little bit in which, made me as well. Now that I think about it, the reason is very funny on why they started to call me that. Though It is kind of embarrassing, telling it to the only friend I have is kind of good too considering that he probably not have so many friends either.

Really having a bestfriend or even just a friend is good because you can open up to them whenever you want. When you have a problem with your family, you can go to them and just ask them for advice. Though I am really not sure if this guy is gonna give me advice but I have a friend so what's really the thing right?

"Well because....."

I explained to him that it all started when I was 10 years old, me and my family went to Japan to visit my grandparents on my mother's side. We stay there for a month and not just we, because some of my cousins are also there.

I often get bullied at school but I just always turned a blind eye to it and really didn't give a single care about it because they didn't hit me or anything. They just kept on calling me names and saying something stuffs like: nerd or loser.

One day, after having a dinner, I decided to go out for a walk even though it is already dark outside because we are in a rural part of hokkaido. Well to be fair, Hokkaido is a rural area of Japan. My grandmother said:

"Jin, Darling, you should just stay inside. You might encounter a dangerous animals or get lost in the forest."

"It's okay grandma. I'll be back after a few minutes."

My grandma eventually agreed to me after I didn't even budge to them helping each others to stopped me. I think walked for a couple of minutes and decided to go back but I was lost. I didn't cry or anything but I was sad, I started to think of every happy memory I have and accepted my faith that I was going to die in this forest.

But just then, a massive wave of air has ran through the forest, making all the leaves on the ground flew on the air and making all the trees make a beautiful and relaxing sound. After that, I heared a leaves getting crushed as someone walked onto them. I thought it was my parents that was able to find me so I decided to go to the direction where it is coming from but I was wrong.

I saw a beautiful women, wearing a white long dress. She was humming to the sound of the wind as if she was singing with the wave of the air. I was fascinated by the sound of her voice as she started to singing, her voice was incomparable to any other singer I've ever known.

I was so fascinated by it that I just stand there the whole time, didn't even notice that she was now looking at me. She didn't say anything and just looked at me but after a few seconds, her white long hair that was reaching the back of her thighs and is as smooth as a silk and glowing as the moonlight interact with her hair suddenly turned black and her yellowish eyes that glows as bright as the sun suddenly turned like an eye of a snake and turned into dark bright red.

She also grows fangs and long nails, she rushes towards me while floating in the air. That's when I felt something that made me feel something I've never felt before, it made my skin crawl and made me sweat like It is gonna change into blood any moment because of how many sweats are coming out of my face.

It was Fear. I felt fear as she rushed towards me with her long nails but I didn't felt fear because I was going to die but because she was going to attacked me. I was scared of getting hit but I am not scared of dying. I keep my self together and then just stand there and closed my eyes but after a few seconds, I didn't felt anything.

I slowly open my eyes and saw a very beautiful women, it was the same women I saw just a few seconds earlier. Her original looks have gone back together, it is as if she wasn't the one I just saw. She smiles at me with her eyes slowly closing as she smiles. Her smile made my heart beat faster and faster, I don't know what this feeling is but it is far more different from the feeling I felt earlier.

It is making my heart felt like I don't want to leave this place and just stay with this women. I didn't do anything and just stand there to look at her, that is the time I realised that this women's beauty cannot be compare to any women I've ever saw all my life up until now.

"Hey Young man, what's your name?"

She spoke to me after a few moments of me just looking at her, it made me comeback to reality but then started to go back to as if another dimension. Her voice sounds so beautiful it is as if she was singing but she was just speaking normal, she said those words with the local language of this area.

I just looked at her again, and finally after a few moments, I came back to reality after I felt a cold win hit my body. I saw her face very close to mine and she looks kind of confused.

"Jin. Jin Aneced."

She got shock after hearing me spoke to her and then smile afterwards, she seems kind of relieved that I am not some kind of turds. Her smile almost made me ascend to another realm but I keep my self together and then just kept on looking at her.

She slowly go down to the ground and step down, her feet has touched the ground so smoothly that I thought she was a goddess that come down from heaven to do something here on earth.

"What a handsome name you have, wanna hear me sing again?"

She says and then giggled as she hold both of my hands and then pulled me and started to sing again. For some reason, I feel very happy and I run as she hides from tree trees. She was flying as she giggles and laughs from the fun she was having.

Didn't know what time it is and how many hours I have been running and playing with her but I don't want to know and I don't want to stop. I just wanted to stay with her and have fun playing with her, she was so beautiful and I can't really describe what am I feeling at that moment.

After a few more minutes, she suddenly stopped so I also stopped, catching my breath. I lean my hand on the big tree that was right beside me and then lower my body. I was catching my breath but I don't feel tired at all. I felt happy that I was finally able to smile and have fun after so many years of just being quiet in the corner and getting left behind by others.

"Hey, did you have fun?"

I heard her angelic voice, she was facing her front while I was looking at her back. She then turned around and for the last time that day, she smiles at me while her hand is behind her back. She slowly walked towards me and kissed my forehead.

I felt my face getting hot and it is as if I was turning into a different type of color. I then slowly back off and then looked at her and she was still smiling. She slowly then dissapeared with the words:

"Until the next time we meet....."

Her body started to dissapeared as the air started to get stronger and stronger and as it gets stronger, she also started to dissapear more and more faster.

"....Friend."

After that, she completely disappeared. I turned my head around and try to find her but she was nowhere to be found. I felt a sudden emptiness on my chest, it is as if something has disappeared from me that I will never be able to find again. I slowly breath in and then exhaled. That's when I realized that she guide me to my grandparents's house, I open the door and then enter, I find my parents getting ready to find me.

They all rushed towards me and then hugged me tightly, I can saw Hana crying as she also hugged me.

"Hana?" Julian says as he looks at me, confused on who am I talking about.

"It's my sister's real name, I just call her Sally because it sounds like the color pink for some reason. She likes blossom flower so much." I explained to him.

"Ohh....."

"Well anyway...." I said as I continue the story I was telling him.

After a few days have passed, I started to go around that part of the forest where I can always find her singing. Her voice is angelic as always and ger beautiful face is still incomparable to anyone. I often play with her and I also learned how to sing from her.

She loves to listen to me singing asuch as I loved listening to her. I also asked her some question to get to know her much more so that I will never ever forget her. Well, it's not like I was going to forget her angelic face.

"What's your name?"

"Zophiel."

"Wow..... Your name is as beautiful as you."

"Thanks."

She says as she giggles and then also asked me some questions related to myself. I go to this part of the forest every night that my family and grandparents started to wonder why I am going to this dense part of the whole forest. I didn't tell them anything and just decided to go there again.

A few months have passed, instead of us staying here for just a month, we decided to move it to three more months so I turned 11 years old. She celebrated it with me all night, after me and my parents celebrated my birthdays in the morning.

The feeling I was having when I was with her grew stronger and stronger that whenever I was with her, I don't wanna leave her side. After a few more days, she asked me a strange question.

"Jin, what do you think is my age?"

I was confused on why she asked me that but I am not curious about her age, I might offend her if I asked about her age because according to my mom, girls/women's are sensitive when it comes to their age.

"I am not curious about your age because I might offend you if I asked you about it."

She paused for a second, looking at me with a wide eyes and then laughed afterwards. I was so confused but didn't mind it and just also laugh with her.

"It's okay, just guess." She says with a huge smile on her face.

"Are you sure? I don't wanna offend you." I asked her, just making sure not to offend her because I am really gonna felt hurt if I offend her at the slightest.

"Of course!" She says surely.

I closed my eyes and then put both of my hands inside my pockets and then kept on thinking about it. After a few minutes, I gave her an answer I really think about very very hard to make sure to give a right answer and also not offend her.

"21..."

I said closing my eyes and looking away from her because I might really offend her if I guessed wrong. She looks so shock but then also laughed while spinning while on the air. She was laughing so hard that a tear is coming out of her beautiful eyes.

I got worried that I slowly reached to her and then hold her hand, trying to asked her what is the problem abd why is she crying. She stopped spinning and then just looked at me. She slowly smiled again and then touched my face with both her hands and assure me that she is okay which made me breath more comfortably.

"You're right. I am 21 years old." She says and then looked at the beautiful night sky.

"I am just 11 years old. That means you are 10 years older than me..." I answered her, also looking at the direction where she was staring.

The atmosphere tonight is nothing different compared to the other nights we have been together, she was also getting more and more beautiful every night we met each other.

"You are so smart!" She says as she pulled my cheek.

"Oww....." I pretend to be hurt but it doesn't even hurt me to the slightest.

She then stopped and then kissed my cheek which made my face get warm, it always happens whenever she kissed me. We kept on teasing each other and then playing and after an hour, we decided to lay down on the grass. It was cold, the air is cool and it feels very comfortable.

I dont know if the feeling of the whole forest is making me comfortable or was it because of Zophiel right besides me. I think it was the second one.

"Hey Jin, how about I marry you when you turn 21 years old?" She suddenly says which made me sit from laying down on the grass and then looked at her.

She was smiling as she looks at the star and meanwhile me, who's heart is beating so fast. I can't believe she just say that. That's only a dream come true for me, marrying her? Now that I realized it, everything she says is making me blush right now.

"S-sure... A-are you s-sure???" I said nervously as i touched her hand.

She looked at me and then smile.

"Of course. Is it a promise that you will never marry someone besides me?" She asked as she lend her pinky finger to me. Dedicating that she wants to creat an oath with me.

I also lend mine and then say the word:

"Promise." And then wrapped my pinky finger to hers. I can still remember her smile that very day, it is as if I can hear her very beautiful voice singing.

That's also the time.... We last saw each other....

After that, my family realized that I was always smiling whenever I am going out to the forest during night. I still didn't tell them anything and they started to call me 'Yoru' ever since that day because of how many times I go to the deep parts of the forest every night.

"Now that I think about it, me and my sister is going to Japan to visit my grandparents again..... Wanna come with me?" I asked Julian who was now also looking right Infront of the gate of my house.

"Sure, if you want we can go to that forest you are talking about." He says and then smile.

We enter my house and then just rest.

I wonder what is she doing right now?