The windows were covered with curtain, the lights were all turned off. With only flickering lights coming from the TV as a lighting. The whole living room seems to be shrouded with shadows, adding the eerie silence...
Anyone who will come, will feel intimidated while thinking whether or not something will suddenly come out some where in the darkness.
Just when silence was supposed to rule the whole place, a miserable shrieked sounded. "Kyaaaa!! Don't come here!! Stop! Help me! Help me!!! Ahhhhhhhh!" A woman's scream using all the air in her lungs, sounding so terrible and frightening.
As the woman scream and cried for help, a crunchy sound of someone eating ring like a bell.
Crunch. Crunch.
And somewhere inside the living room, amidst the screamsnand the sound of someone eating, a cry linger, echoing like a ghost who died miserably.
"...hu...hu...hu..."
But the cries were so soft, that the sound of "crunch" covered them.
"Kyaaaa!!! Please let me off!! Let me off!!! Help me!! Some body!!! I don't want to die!!! Please!!! I don't want to die!!"
Crunch. Crunch.
As if the owner of the crying sounds can't take it anymore, instead of continues crying it let out a vague hesitant words.
"...h-host, how long do this system have to stay in this jar? Can you let this system off? And about that horror movie. The female lead is so miserable, she will end up dying anyway, so why don't you just turned it off?"
Crunch. Crunch. Hearing the crisps sound, the gingerbread man trapped in a cookie jar shook and shiver faintly. 'What to do? Not only did the host placed the cookie jar in front of the TV for this system to watch the horror movie. The host is even eating cookies to scare this little system!'
System 1225 was really scared this time. 'What if the host wanted to eat this system after finishing those plates of cookies?'
However, no matter what the system said and beg, Luca just continue watching the female lead slowly being cornered and killed by a ghost.
He even have a time to wonder, if such a thing really exist.
Luca met a magical existence, who is a self proclaim system. He thought of how the world was really full of mysteries. Nevertheless, Luca is not curious.
Even the appearance of the system never made Luca curious or questioned it origin– such heavy secrets should be left unsolved.
Luca is just an normal man with ordinary life. He didn't want to poke things that should be poked.
So, as leisure as he could get, laying in his comfy couch is a bliss.
Let others be given the job of finding and searching out the world's secrets. Luca was not interested in them.
And if there's a ticket, Luca will gave it to others happily.
But even with Luca's insistent of steping put from such mysteries, this mysteries will come to him anyway.
Like this noisy gingerbread man inside a cookie jar.
"H-host. Are you forgetting something? It's already 4:30, you need to go shopping." The system reminded. It was hoping that with Luca needing to go out of the house, it too, will finally be able to escape imprisonment.
After the system reminded Luca, the additional task scroll appear with a "puff" in front of Luca. Luca just glanced at it, and went back to watching the female lead crying like a drama queen in front of the ghost.
When Luca came back from that morning jog, he cursed that he will not follow that schedule any more. Nonetheless, Luca just said that on the whim, because he was specially pissed. He have to go to the market, since he doesn't have any supplies anymore.
It was his schedule in the first place. He, running out of supplies is already expected. That's why, in order to comfort Luca's heart from that annoying delicious thing, Luca just choose to ignore it.
And watching this horror movie is just to vent his anger.
'Anyway, I have already decided to shop. Why not do the rest of the schedule.' He thought, maybe he might be able to get the item he wanted in that roulette.
And just like that. After the female lead died at the end of the movie, Luca covered himself up and went out without paying attention to the expectant bright eyes from the cookie jar.
The street is cold and in just 5 o'clock the sun was already nowhere to be seen.
Luca's apartment was located at the heart of the city where you if you look to the left, you'll see the mall. Look to the right, you'll see a restaurant. Turn to your back and you'll see many business establishment. Looking a head and you'll see the park and the public stalls. There's even a hospital and a police station near his place.
That's why Luca's apartment rent was expensive compared to other apartments.
Still, for Luca, it didn't matter. As long as it's convenient.
The supermarket is thirty minutes walk from Luca's apartment and it will only take 5-6 minutes if Luca will take a ride. But he didn't. This is also one of the reason why Luca choose this place instead of others.
Within his location, Luca will just stretched his hand and there is everything you need. His job is just 15 minutes away from him. The supermarket is just 30 minutes away. The hospital is just right there, behind the apartment.
Actually, to call it apartment is an insult. Luca's home is a high rise condominium, well known in the city for its location. It's just that, Luca didn't know the difference between an apartment and a condominium.
And if others were to argue with him about this topic, he will just brush it off, saying, "it's just the difference between height and width, and the quality of the materials used in the building. It's just the same, people live in them, so what's the point of this argument."
...
30 minutes later–
Luca arrived at the supermarket.
When, the automatic door opened, hot air came out bursting, making Luca shivered sensing the different temperature.
Luca greeted the security guard as he walked in. The security guard greeted him back as he was a familiar face and even wished him a happy holidays. Then Luca went straight towards the parking lot of pushing carts and casually pull out one.
While walking and pushing the cart, Luca took out the 'list to buy' in his pocket. Luca explore the supermarket while checking the list and looking around.
As Luca double check the things inside the cart, he heard something he thought was just the market's background song.
He ignored it at first, but when he heard the obvious "puff" sound and the sudden appearance of the familiar scroll. Luca was now having a second thought.