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Covering his two ears, Grayson screams in panic. People that eating quickly turn into them. Elijah doesn't know what to do, he's torn between asking why the woman is there or stop Grayson from being agitated. In the end, he holds Grayson and asked, "What is the matter?" Still gripping his ears, he climbs and clenches Elijah's arms with wet and red eyes.

"I don't know! I don't want her here!" Grayson's mind is in chaos and doesn't know too, why he wants the woman to leave. The waiters come up to them. Elijah exchange words with the waiters and gesture the woman to leave first. The woman left gritting her teeth and gripping his hand.

The manager that is standing and watching the scene offers them water. The crew accommodates them. Elijah hands the water to Grayson who is still trembling in fear and drowning in thoughts. The lively and bright face of Grayson a while ago is now living in space.

"Are you steady now? Can you explain what happened?" Elijah's eyes are gentle afraid to frighten Grayson. No enthusiasm in his voice and pale face, he said, "After I saw her, many vaguely memories flickering to my sense. But I saw her, in the depth of despair within the abyss of darkness; vividly view of dreadful and motionless life was the memories of the unarmed and horrified man with no one but only that woman with him."

People who heard them, hold their laugh. Even the manager and waiters who assist them.

Elijah browses the place with his cold eyes and examines the observer in each of the tables. The uproar a while ago has lessened. Some of them go back to their businesses. He turns his attention to Grayson, "Let's go home and continue to my condo."

The other man has no energy and because his height and weight are just enough, Elijah scooped his legs and lift him. Grayson was startled by the sudden act, he is embarrassed and hid his face in Elijah's chest.

Elijah got irritated with the waiters, so he ignores them when they offer help. He gritted his teeth and his jawline was shown.

Elijah put Grayson in the car and turn to the driver's seat. His mood has changed. Everyone is silent. No one dares to talk. Grayson is just playing his hand preventing himself to speak because afraid that Elijah is mad at him, for the way he acted a while ago. Even after they arrived and get to the elevator, no one has dared to mention what happened.

When the elevator stop on the right floor, Grayson is the first one to step outside and walk. He picks up his card for the door in his bag, ready to swipe, when someone blocked the card and grabs his arm. In a snap, he is now in someone's room. Elijah put him behind the door. The man is facing Grayson with no expression, and because he is tall, the light has been blocked by him. Grayson just kept his head down.

"After I saw her, my head became blank, and just want to scream. Memories keep coming to my mind. It's like I'm losing my sanity," this time, Grayson lifts his head and talks with begging eyes. He wants Elijah to believe him for no reason.

"I believe you," after Grayson heard that, he releases a sigh of relief. Elijah continues, "There are still plenty of phenomena that science can't explain yet."

"The woman you saw, her name is Abriella Johnson. We both have an unknown background, no idea what is the connection between us. We woke up four years ago, in a forest, next to gold and jewelry. Wearing nothing," Elijah litany.

Grayson is stunned by the revelation and can not process it. A long silence before Elijah speaks again, "I don't know how old I am, all the things I have now came from the gold and jewelry we sell. I fake my identity. Invested in different companies so I can continue to live here. I invested in this company too. Everything is a mystery until now. I had no idea where to seek information about my background or what life I had before I went here. After years, I get used to and adapted to living here. All I know is I'm not from this world. I don't know the connection between us, or why you're reacting to Abriella and me."

Elijah turns around and walks to the sofa. Only then did Grayson snap back to reality.

"Then where is Abriella?" Something pinch to his heart, thinking they are leaving to the same roof.

"We split up the money. She is doing her research about our cases. She lives at a different hotel. We only pick hotels and chose not to build a house because we have a feeling that we won't be staying long here," after Elijah's answer. Grayson's mind assured.

"I have a suggestion!" Grayson Ramey raised his hand as if he was in a classroom ready for the question in recitation.

"What?" Elijah chuckle.

A little embarrassed Grayson step forward and sat beside Elijah, "Why don't you join me? Let's find out this weird thing that happens to us?!"

"That's a good idea but like what I have said earlier, we don't know where part of this world we will gather information. I don't even know how or where to start," Elijah explained.

Grayson shows depress look, "Then how can we solve this mystery that happening to us?"

"Sometimes we need to wait and see what destiny plan for us. It's a matter of time," Elijah said while crossing his legs. He combined his two hands and put it in his knee.

Grayson observing his moves and replied, "Destiny is not written for us, it must write by us. We are the writer. Time cannot always wait. We will be bones in few years if we depend on it." He shrugged his shoulder and stand up. Ready to leave.

Grayson scans the whole house and saw that there is many furniture, complete with a refrigerator and other necessities but there are no tools for cooking. Only a pan, stove, and spatula. He even lacked kitchen utensils! He said to his mind.

"Are you even cooking?" Grayson asked.

Elijah did a short peek before he answered, "The last time I cooked I burnt the food and half of my kitchen. I didn't worry to try again."

"Then how you passed your everyday food? Don't tell me you are just eating at restaurants?" the man asked with widened eyes. Elijah just replied. "Um."

"I'll cook tomorrow and give you some. If you want, you can come over tomorrow morning, our room is just next to each other," Grayson said and a little shy. "Anyway, I need to leave now," He added with a red face and run towards the door.

Grayson swipes his card and rushes to open the door. He closed and leaned to it, touched his loud chest with his right hand while his left hand slapping his head and whisper, "What are you saying idiot! Why did you say that?!" after seconds of slapping his head, he stopped. Put two hands on his face. "Ah! My face is hot, even the ears! What's going on with this body?!"

After he calms himself, Acalan suddenly comes up to his head and remembered the word about reincarnation. He raised his hand and click the chip to his hand. The Automatic light appears. He goes to the search bar and types the word reincarnation.

Slowly reading it, one result steals his eyes, "An easy way to detect a reincarnated soul is similar gestures such as body language, laugh, physical expressions, etc. Personality traits may carry over as well, like stubbornness, boldness, curiosity, or other distinct qualities of the late person." He became silent about the result after a couple of minutes he realized that; you need a dead person for evidence that you're the reincarnation of her/him.

Grayson closed the Automatic light, remove his shoes, and lay back on the bed. "What a day," he said, because of tiredness, he forgot to wash before falling asleep.

Grayson woke up by the sound of the doorbell. It's already morning, he stands up and opens the door without fixing himself, "So early in the morning. I didn't ask for cleaning today!" he said with half-closed eyes and messy hair.

The person to the door fakes his cough. "Ahem." That's when Grayson opens his two eyes. He quickly closes the door and yells, "Wait a minute!" After five minutes, he opens it again, "You can come in now. Sorry for the wait." He got conscious of his room, open the TV, and talk again, "I haven't cooked yet, you can sit on the sofa, I will just prepare. Sorry, my room is still kinda messy."

Grayson steps to the kitchen and opens the fridge. He takes all the ingredients that are needed for his recipe. He decided to cook wonton soup, steamed eggs, and stuffed sticky rice rolls.

After one and a half hours he comes and called Elijah who is watching the TV. Elijah follows him. You haven't seen ordinary food that is homemade. He pointed to the wonton soup and said, "Tasty filling wrapped with slippery skin and served in chicken stock, wonton soup is such a warming and comforting dish to have in the morning."

Elijah is just listening to him and saw the yellow food in the bowl and asks, "What is this?"

"Oh! That's a steamed egg. It's nutritious, smooth, slippery, and heavenly soft, Chinese steamed eggs require minimum ingredients yet delivers a delicate look and great flavor. You can try it!"

Grayson put the sticky rice in Elijah's bowl and said, "A delicious mixture of taste and flavor, stuffed sticky rice rolls are sticky rice filled with Chinese doughnut sticks, pork floss, preserved vegetable, and formed into an oblong shape."

Elijah just nodded and picks up the chopsticks. Only the sound of plates can hear, finally, Elijah broke the silence, "Have you heard that province of Pinyin?"

Elijah's words stopped Grayson from eating, "My trainer mentioned it to me when I told him the weird things that kept happening to me. Why?"

"I will take the suggestion you offered. To join with you and find information. I did my research and saw that Pinyin province has the largest bookshelves in the world that contain all the information of past and present," Elijah firmly said and hem.

"But that province is too far to the city of Xia," Grayson said while his eyebrows meet.

"That's why we will act like a tourist and pretend that we are on vacation. I already booked two tickets," Elijah revealed the tickets from his pocket, put them on the table, he pushes the other one-piece towards Grayson.

Grayson picks it up and lifts his head quickly, "It scheduled next week?! That's too fast. My trainer needs to know first. I'll inform you after he agrees."

"I will pick up you next week at noon. Pack up your things and be sure you are ready," the man said steadily.

Grayson just sigh and said "Okay..."

After Elijah left, Grayson called Acalan Miller. He explained what happened, Acalan agrees and even told him, "Don't worry about it. Take it as a serious vacation. We don't know, maybe you're just stressed, that's why you are feeling those things," call has ended.

The time of their departure has come.

The doorbell rang and Grayson stands up and takes his suitcase. He opened the door and the man wearing a modern gray Tang suit of Chinese clothes pair with black pants and black shoes appears.

Elijah extends his hand to picks up Grayson's suitcase and talked.

"Let's go..."