"Ugh!"
The boy's groan made Angga turn his head to look at the boy who now seemed to be having a hard time getting up from their hiding place.
"You, … a schoolboy?" Angga asked the boy, Angga asked that because at that time the boy was wearing a high school uniform with a short white shirt, a vest, and pants that matched the vest the boy was wearing.
The boy had blue eyes, yellow skin, like Asian skin, long thick curly hair, shoulder-length black hair with shorter bangs than the rest. Angga guessed that he was a mixture, and it could be seen from his blue eyes. 'The child may be from Korea, Japan, Thailand, and also others. But if Angga's guess is wrong, maybe in the future Angga will never guess a person's race from his face again, he could be a mixed person who was born in Europe.
He looked at him carefully, the boy who was patting the clothes he was wearing so as not to get too dirty from the dry soil they had slept on. In fact, the clothes the boy was wearing were already very dirty. Angga wanted to say that his efforts to clean the dust that littered his uniform would be in vain, but Angga gave up his intention and chose to stare at him.
The boy's eyes now returned Angga's gaze and then smiled, he extended his hand to Angga, "Arata Eiji!" said the boy introducing himself to Angga as Arata Eiji. Doubt is one word that can describe Angga's current feelings towards the boy who stretched out his right hand to get acquainted with Angga. That's all because Angga can't read the expression now displayed by the boy who just introduced his name as Arata Eiji.
You have to be very careful, that's the sentence that popped into Angga's mind, because Angga felt that he didn't know how the game was in this maze, so he asked Eiji the purpose of the introduction the boy made to him.
"What's this? Are you going to kill me after I tell you my name?"
The question that came from Angga at that time, made Eiji who heard it also frown for a moment before finally laughing afterward because of that question, "Hahaha ... so, you think I will kill you just like those who killed the people here?? " Eiji asked Angga, he shook his head again and then he sighed, "Oh my! Hey… I just saved you from that woman!" he continued to defend himself, again and again, Eiji sighed as if he couldn't understand what he had just said from Angga's words.
"Just to be sure, maybe you'll do it like someone I've met because I don't think there's anything for me to believe in this place." It was clear that Angga was defending himself, hearing the defense, made Eiji nod his head in agreement with Angga's defense.
"Yes! You can't just trust anyone else here… but trust me! I'm not like them, I'm different." Eiji explained to Angga, Eiji grabbed the bag that was lying under there to put it back on while turning his eyes to the right and to the left with concern, that was all he did to check the situation around them at this time.
Eiji's gaze turned back to look at Angga who was now looking at him quite suspiciously, seeing himself like that of course made Eiji sigh again and say again, "Calm down! If you don't want to tell me your name won't be a serious problem for me, the most important thing right now, is we have to find a safe place to hide and rest!"
Eiji walked towards the front and made Angga immediately stop his steps after realizing that he was walking in the direction the woman was walking.
"Wait! That path… isn't that the path that the madwoman just walked on?" asked Angga to Eiji, who now turned his gaze and then nodded as if he also knew about it, but what Angga didn't understand to Eiji was, why did the child actually follow the path taken by the woman.
"I know after all this is the path I should be on… because there's no way if I turn back to the path I've been following, will you follow or not??" an explanation and a question that came out of Eiji's mouth, made Angga feel confused about it.
"Aren't there five corners we can go besides a…-
Angga's words stopped when he looked back and found that the road in front of him had now turned into a road that stretched straight ahead, which made Angga both dizzy and confused.
"Come on! We have to walk," asked Eiji, making Angga feel quite doubtful about him, but he also didn't know anything about the labyrinth and the strangeness that was in it, he also couldn't do anything if he had to live alone.
After all, it can be seen from Eiji's uniform that is very dirty, making Angga sure that this child has been in the labyrinth for quite a long time and Angga is sure that Eiji knows a lot about this labyrinth compared to himself at this time. That's the reason that ultimately made Angga decide to follow Eiji's steps while looking for a way for himself to get out of this labyrinth.
"Hey! I am coming along." Angga's call and words made Eiji, who was walking, stop his steps so that Angga could catch up with him, who is now back on his feet after Angga's distance is not too far from Eiji. Angga followed Eiji's steps, who then walked ahead of him.
"So, what do you want me to call you?" a question that emerged that was posed by Eiji, made Angga immediately turn to look at him who was now stepping back to be able to look at Angga who was now walking behind him.
"What?" asked Angga, he did not understand what Eiji was asking, or rather Angga had not clearly heard the question from the high schoolboy.
"I… how am I supposed to call you?? Should I just call you 'you'??" asked Eiji again, now explaining it in more detail to Angga.
"Ah! My name is Erlangga… you can call me Angga." Angga answered to Eiji who now shrugged his shoulders up and turned his body back to step forward as usual.
"What brings you here?" a very similar question posed by the man holding the head he had ever met, made Angga feel that something was strange.
"Why?? why are you asking about it?" A question was asked by Angga to Eiji again, making Eiji now turn to look at him and stop walking, to face Angga.
"Because it's something we can use here in addition to power, swords, and other weapons," Eiji explained, his eyes that had turned to look at Angga, now turned to the right and left and then looked back at Angga's eyes. Seen from the gaze that Eiji gave himself, Angga knew that Eiji was speaking very seriously as if his words should always be remembered by Angga at this time.
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