[Duran POV]
Papa is one of the witnesses and survivors about how very terrible the Fate Eater is, now, he's gonna tell me the truth about why he refuses to answer the Fate Eater's weakness like the others.
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Papa told his story in the car "When I reach my sixteenth birthday, I start to have a nightmare" Papa said while im still driving and listening to his story.
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Papa continues to talking "The dream is going for 1 month full, even your grandparents are very confused about what happened to me that time"
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What the… so Papa too suffers a lot, then Papa said again "The nightmares make me afraid of going to sleep, so I keep trying to make me stay awake, even I buy those drugs to help me" this…is worst.
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"But alas I still fall asleep no matter how I try so hard to resist, and always those same nightmares, running running and running away from what you know as Fate Eater"
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"It keeps appearing inside my dream hunting, screeching, and chasing me, I keep hiding and running from It until I waked up, just to see another day knowing that Im gonna experience it again sooner or later"
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"Until that time I almost had enough and finish myself, if only your grandmother had not arrived at home that time, maybe im not gonna be here, nor you" Dad…. You have tried to suicide once before….I never know this, you are known as the toughest man on the order.
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"Your grandmother embrace me, telling me that everything's gonna be okay, so I believe her, and enduring it more until that last day"
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"I fall asleep, and there is one different, your grandmother… Is inside my dream, there is no Fate Eater, no chasing, no hiding, just me and your grandmother in our old house"
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"I thought the nightmare is finished, but… I know It's not, out of instinct, when we at the kitchen I saw your grandmother cooking, but then… I grab one of the kitchen knife" no…no way.
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"And I stabbed… I stab my mother, right into her heart…. Then she no…. it looks at me it turned her head to me 180 degrees, and it says to me.
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"Congratulations you finally killed me"
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After he said that, now Papa is glancing at the windows, looking at the sky outside the window, and he continued talking.
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"Even I know that it's not your grandmother, but that image still carved into my mind until now, The smile no… more like grinning using face of my mother….".
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"Now im still scared, how I can kill that monster, but it disguised as your grandmother perfectly, am I turned to be a monster too? that's what I thought after I killed that monster".
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So Papa survived because…. he kills that monster when that Fate Eater takes the form of my grandmother, and Papa can't forgive himself because of that… but, I think it's necessary because that Fate Eater actually can think like that.
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If only Papa did not kill it back then, maybe Papa is gonna be dead too… the monster can't chase or find Papa in the dream, so it tried to trick Papa by lowering his defenses, and kill…
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I try to calm my Papa that I said "Papa, that's not your fault at all, you know that is not grandma instead It's that monster who disguised as grandma"
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"Even now Grandma and Grandpa are still alive back in the village, resting, so you should not feel guilty at all," I said to Papa to try calming him while still driving the car.
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Papa back to looking at the front he said "You right Duran… I already get over this many years ago, but still when I remember it, there is always that feeling of guilty still coming".
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Ahh, It's hard for Papa I see…, now I know why Papa doesn't want to reveal the weakness of Fate Eater, because the Fate Eater itself, is very tricky and actually smart, maybe that is what makes so many victims are dead.
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And to the summary, it doesn't have any weakness, when they spot their victims, they gonna go with all method to catch their victim, by chasing them, hunting them or even tricking them.
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Then I try to talk to Papa about Richan circumstances "But Papa, you don't need to worry about Richan, actually he got some help from something" then I told Papa about the Youths who look like Richan that resides in Richan's body.
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Then Papa seems to understand what is really happening right now after I told him about Richan's conditions, and the Prophecy looks really legit, I mean every prophecy that the Prophet Daramuh revealed in the holy book is coming true one by one.
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And it looks like the end time is actually near.
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Papa said to me "Duran this is a big task for you, keep your brother safe, I think the Iblez worshipper's recent activity is related to Richan….you may use the Dark Phantoms".
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After Papa said that, he handed me over something… It's the Ghost Whistle, a small instrument to summon and command the Dark Phantoms Corps, It's really serious huh, he hands me over the strongest Corps in the Order to protect Richan.
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Well, It's because the destiny of the world is at stake if we mess up, the End of the world sure gonna happen, so I reply to Papa "Yes Papa, I will do this task even I will stake my life on it" Of course, this is for protecting my dear Adek, It's the job of every big brother in this world.
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While the Time flies, we already arrived at Treyque, the call of prayers is being echoed through the gramophones, now let's aside from the matter for now and go for the prayers.
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So I and Papa got off from the car and we go straight to the Ablution area and doing the ablution, after that we go inside the Treyque, sitting and hearing the Iztaf preaching, waiting for prayers time.
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Long story short, we already doing Friday prayers and before we head back to the hospital, we go to the grocery store first, buying some snacks and beverages, knowing that Richan might be bored in the hospital, and need something to chew on.
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[1 Hour later]
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We arrived at the hospital, I think we have already gone out a bit long, it can't be helped, the nearby Treyque is around four kilometers from here, I hope that something does not happen when we were gone.
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I open the Wardroom door, and I see that Richan is still awake playing with his cellphone, hmm? why he looks a bit sad? did something troubles him?.
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I approach Them and greet Mom first, of course, then I ask Richan why he looks sad, but he doesn't answer it, then mom butting in she said "Your little brother has some problem with a girl" then Richan seems embarrassed he reply mom "Oh my God, Momm, why did you tell him".
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Ahhh it looks like he was troubled by a girl called Yana, I think it's better to tease him now.
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"Ohh you mean you mess up with Yana"
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Richan blushed after I said that name, hahaha, I was right, then he said to me "Wh…whaat how did you know" of course I know, it's really obvious that there is something between both of them when I saw this Yana girl waiting for Richan unconscious on their infirmary.
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Then I still teased him until he had enough and start telling me too about what happened between these two youngsters.
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Long story short he already told me what happens from the beginning, and what I conclude is.
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Is my brother actually an idiot?
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How come Richan doesn't know that Yana is liking him, im really shaking my head right now.
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So I told Richan how to be a man, but first, he must apologize to this Yana girl.
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When Richan already heard my advice about girls, he seems pretty confident now, but then there is a notification that came into Richan's phone.
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*Ting tong*
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And Richan checks the notification quickly, I think he hopes It's from this Yana, but… why does he freeze up, and his face looks going pale, he looks like those cartoons on tv white and has no emotion like a dead fish.
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So I try to ask him "Is it from Yana your girl" Richan reply with a lifeless tone, "No.. It's from one of my friend, Deva" oh it's from one of his friends, but what's going on to make him like that and I try to ask him again "So is there any problem?"
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Richan replied again "Nothing… *sigh* It's just…. he told me that he dating Yana now"
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Huh….What????
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