"Samsudin-san, you know, long ago, when I went to the supermarket, I always got a lot of stuff even though I didn't bring too much money."
"Wow, how could that be?"
"In the past, there was no such thing as CCTV in minimarkets. So, I can do anything as long as I don't get caught."
"Hahaha. You're so cute, Obaa-chan. Hahaha."
"Hahaha."
I have been in this hospital for a week and have not been allowed to leave this hospital. So, what I'm doing right now is visiting my neighbor's room which is filled with an elderly grandmother with cancer.
I've known her 3 days ago since a constant coughing sound was heard in my room from this room at night, and I visited her and comforted her because we were fellow patients here.
The doctor said that this obaa-chan only had a few days left. That's what the doctor said. But seeing her cheerful like this, she tried to hide her illness as best as possible so that others wouldn't know about it. What a strong woman.
Therefore, I always visit her and hear them every time she talks in this room.
"You know again, Samsudin-san."
"Hmph?"
"I used to go fishing and a lot of people were annoyed with me."
"Eh, why is it like that? Why are people annoyed with you?"
"Yeah, hahaha. I even made a fuss. So they are annoyed with me. Hahaha."
"Hahaha. You're so cute again, Obaa-chan."
I've asked about the obaa-chan's family to the nurse who takes care of her, but her answer makes me feel annoyed. The nurse said that obaa-chan was left by her children because she was just making things difficult for them.
What her family did was the thing I hated the most. They easily throw away their own family just because it makes it difficult for them. They had never felt how painful it was to be left by their own family. The pain was even greater than the failure of the rice harvest due to the long dry season.
But luckily, someone with a kind heart is willing to help this obaa-chan and pay for all the hospital fees. That person is like an angel without wings.
"Samsudin-san, life is short huh." Suddenly she leaned back and looked up. "There are always regrets in this life. Kindness sometimes likes to be forgotten if you make just one mistake. But even so…" She turned to me, "never do anything bad to others, Samsudin-san."
"Ah..." I slightly shifted the chair I was sitting on because she suddenly said that to me.
"In this world, there are so many good people. If you don't find it, be one of them, Samsudin-san."
What she said is true that in this world there are many good people, there are not even a countless number of them. But when that goodness is gone, then be good and don't let that goodness be destroyed.
"Okay, Obaa-chan. I will be a good person."
It's like I'm talking to my own family if it's like this although I don't have one anymore. This is still in my mind, I really want to step forward but my mind keeps preventing me from doing that.
Well, everything will go according to time. So, hopefully, I can forget this sad feeling and move on.
"Oh. Turns out you were there, Akio."
The sound of the sliding door suddenly rang with the accompaniment of a female voice behind me.
When I looked back, I saw Shiva walking towards me in her uniform.
"Why?"
"I told you…" Shiva suddenly grabbed my collar and attracted me to her, "you don't go anywhere! You're sick. Stay in your room."
"Ouch..."
With this, I failed to hide from hers again. She found me here.
As I was dragged by Shiva, I waved my hand at the obaa-chan.
"Obaa-chan, I'm going back to my room first. Take care of yourself. Get well soon."
After bringing me back to my room, Shiva threw me on my bed and made me have to smile at her.
"Hehehe..."
"You are currently recovering. Why can't you just shut up once, anyway?"
"I'm bored here after all."
I'm the type of person who can't stay still even when I'm sick. So, if you were told to stay in this room, it would be really boring.
"You're only here for a few days, so don't mess around while you're in treatment. Your wound is so bad, if you move around too much your wound will open later."
Shiva was too worried about my condition, even though my wound wasn't too bad, my palm was only torn due to lifting the fire-covered wood. She's overreacting about this.
"Anosa, I'm fine. So, you don't have to worry about me, Shiva-chan."
"No, I will still worry about you no matter what. I'm the only one left for you in this world. So, with what happened to you, I would definitely be worried about you."
Even though we are not blood-related, Shiva is the only one I have until now. She was the one who was left to be my family who always worried about me in all conditions.
Well, she does look cute when she's worried about me. So, I don't like it a bit, even though she is the reason why I always have to take care of the livestock, and even though she can do it.
I got up from my bed and walked over to her. After arriving in front of hers and after she saw me, I patted her shoulder.
"Shiva-chan, time to work. Let's squeeze the cow's milk."
"Eh?"
Because of my words, Shiva was silent for a while thinking about my words.
Having an opening to escape from her, I walked right past her, slid the door, and fled down the corridors of this hospital.
"Lucky..." I kept running, but sometimes I also stopped running when I saw the doctor or the hospital security guard because in this hospital it is not allowed to run along the corridors for fear of disturbing other patients.
Arriving in a room, I pushed open the door and saw two old geezers playing chess.
"Checkmate. Hahaha, I won again, Fajri-san."
"No, you're such a cheat, Budi-san. You shouldn't have moved the queen when my king was silent."
"Hello." I go inside.
"Oh, Samsudin-san. You came here again, huh. Where is Shiva-chan? Did you run away from her again?"
"Yeah, hahaha, that's how it is." I approached them, took a stool, and sat near them, "who won?"
"I was the one who won..."
Hearing the sudden voice of a woman behind me, I was immediately surprised.
"Ugh..." I looked back and saw Shiva was already there. "Why are you so fast?"
Without answering my words, Shiva grabbed my collar and dragged me.
"See you later, Samsudin-san."
"If she isn't there, come and play with us."
Hearing the words of the two old geezers, I immediately gave them a sign of respect.
"OK, I'll do it. I would have come here if this woman wasn't around."
They immediately saluted me.
While being dragged by her, I thought about why she was able to get to where I was so quickly. I've been curious about this for a long time. How could I not, every time I stopped by a room, Shiva always found my whereabouts quickly and took me to my room. This is quite strange for humans in general. Is it possible that Shiva has superpowers like superheroes in movies?
Shiva threw me on my bed.
"You stay here!"
"Ouch..."
After lying down forcibly, I looked at her with a look that seemed to mock her.
"Hey, why are you like that? Don't make fun of me, okay? I'm doing this for your good too. So, never complain about this!"
"What's good. You always nod at me, even though I just want to see the other patients."
"Yeah, that... Anyway, don't mess around while I'm recuperating." Shiva sat on a bench, then she took the fruit and cut it into pieces. "Health is more important, never ignore it."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah."
After a while, she handed me the apple that had been cut.
"Eat this!"
I took it and ate it.
"How is it delicious?"
"The taste of apples is still the same, nothing is different."
"I see…" She handed me another apple, "eat this again!"
Maybe because she felt wrong too for continuing to force me to be here, she treated me like a private nun. But seeing her like that, made me feel the atmosphere was a little awkward and there was no conversation between us.
So, what was I thinking earlier, while being dragged by Shiva towards here, I started asking her.
"Hey."
"Why?"
"Your uniform that you're wearing, what's that uniform?"
She always comes here in the same clothes. Did she really not have any other clothes? Same now, I'm still confused by that.
"Oh this…" Shiva glanced at her uniform for a moment then looked at me, "this is the Wlynina Military School uniform."
"Wlynina Military School? I've never heard of it."
"This is no ordinary uniform, this is armor. Although it could be said that this uniform is armor, it is not heavy at all, it is light enough to move around."
"He-e, how come?"
"You see, this uniform was designed using the Hyogon Crystal, which makes it immune to anything, bullets, fire, water, cold temperatures, hot temperatures, even immune to attacks from Astral Beings."
Damn, I don't understand what she's saying.
Shiva Sees my confused face.
"You don't understand, do you?"
I shook my head quickly.
"Okay, I'll tell you from the beginning when the Hyogon Crystal was found..."
Hyogon crystals were discovered by members of the Wlynina Association for the first time 20 years after the eruption of Mount Rfuka. The appearance of the Hyogon Crystal helped humanity to design some combat equipment against the Astral because the crystal had special chemicals released from the erupting Mount Rfuka.
Some of the equipment made from crystals are various weapons, clothes as well as a uniform, shoes, gloves, watches, and many more to fight the Astrals in this world.
So, Shiva's uniform is an example of equipment made from Hyogon Crystal.
That's what Shiva told me and made me have to yawn several times because I was tired of hearing it.
"You understand?"
"Yes, I understand. Then, how did you find me so quickly?"
"Ah, that..." Shiva raised her hand and showed me something. "Look at this watch, it's also made of Hyogon Crystal."
"Then?" I kept looking at the watch.
Shiva moved her other hand and put her hand on the watch. After that, she pressed the small button on the edge of the watch and suddenly she disappeared.
"Eh? Where's she?"
"I am here." Shiva reappeared there.
"How did you do it?"
"Besides making tools, the Hyogon Crystal also provides Spiritual Energy for humans. So, by combining the Spiritual Energy that comes from the Hyogon Crystal, we gain power as well without needing to have any Spiritual Energy."
"You can disappear means?"
"Well, as long as I have this watch, I can disappear at any time but only for a few seconds, after that, I'm out of sight."
Quickly, I withdrew her hand and tried to pull the watch away from her.
"Borrow."
"What are you doing?"
"I want to disappear too. I borrowed this watch."
"Do not!"
"Lend me!"
"Do not! You must want to do things after disappearing later, right?"
"Ugh..."
"So do not!"
In the end, I was not allowed to borrow the watch.
Apart from the watch, Shiva also showed me something else. She demonstrated the power of her running speed by wearing those boots made of Hyogon Crystal in this corridor, in front of my room. And as a result, she got angry with the passing security guard because she ran along the corridor.
After we returned to the room, I asked, "So, Hyogon Crystal also has Spiritual Energy as well?"
"Yes, exactly."
"Then..." I lowered my head and didn't finish my sentence.
What I'm trying to say is that it was Shiva who caused the Astral to appear in my place because she was wearing the attribute derived from that Spiritual Energy.
Shiva noticed me bowing down.
"Although the attribute made of Hyogon Crystal has Spiritual Energy as well, it produces very little energy than humans who have Spiritual Energy in their bodies. So, I'm not the cause of those creatures' appearance, Akio."
Hearing her words like that, made me a little relieved to know that she wasn't the cause of Astral's appearance in my village.
"Thank God, it wasn't you."
"But I am still confused, why these beings can appear there when the people there do not have Spiritual Energy. Hmmm..."
"I don't know how either-"
"Akio, you said we were having a party? Why did you even run away?"
Suddenly someone appeared behind the window pane. And it turns out that the person is the village chief whose eyes are red.
"Akio, lower your head!" Shiva quickly grabbed my hand and took me out of this room after the windowpane was smashed by the village chief.
The atmosphere became panicked after hearing the window glass being smashed. Lots of people running along this corridor, including us, and forgot the rule not to run along this corridor.
A security guard saw us running.
"Hey you guys, don't run-"
"Escape! We have to get out of here."
"What is wrong?"
"Astral... Astral has appeared."
Someone even though already said that to the security guard, but the security guard remained silent there.
And when the security guard turned around, the security guard was too late to run from there.
I saw the security guard being bitten by the village chief there, I could only watch it without doing anything.
"Shiva, why don't you fight him?" I said.
"I can not."
"Why? You were able to fight him back then, right?"
"My… my rifle was left in the dormitory. So, I can't fight it without using a weapon."
"..."
I fell silent and continued to run with her.
Stupid!