"Who are you?" a hot tear flows down in Yliah's cheeks.
Khrysler was surprised but he still managed to form a sad smile.
"I was right. Something is wrong with you."
Yliah nervously holds the scissors in her hands.
"Admit it before I will stab you!"
Khrysler huffed. His eyes were filled with pain and sorrow.
"I was just trying to make you remember everything, Yliah Miyamizu."
Khrysler wasn't sure what he'll do. But the ending became like this. Would he keep lying?
"If I'll tell you the truth, will you come with me after this?" Khrysler asked a condition.
Yliah couldn't believe that Khrysler even made a condition with her at the time like this. Yliah nodded bluntly.
"Okay, that's a deal."
Khrysler's smile can be seen again. He holds Yliah's hands and stabbed it in his heart himself.
Yliah screams of what Khrysler have done.
She's scared. Her whole body shivered.
What if she killed him? She'll be prisoned for all her life! But then, she remembered the condition he made.
So, what he meant earlier was to go with him by death? She was mad at herself. Why does she nodded at that stupid condition of him?
"It's okay, sweetheart."
Yliah wrinkled his forehead. She doesn't want to witness her own hands stabbing a person's heart. She felt that if she witnessed it, she'll be feeling guilty and will intent to kill herself too.
But why is that? The scissors stabbed his heart but he still can speak continuously.
"Open your eyes, Yliah."
"No! I'm not going to open my fvcking eyes!"
Khrysler moved his right hand to touch her cheeks.
"You just cussed, sweetheart."
"I-i.. I can cuss whenever I want, jerk! Stop caressing my cheeks!"
"Did you forgot our Sacred Treaty?" Khrysler asked.
"S-sacred Treaty?"
"Yes, that's right. Sacred Treaty. One cuss, one kiss."
Just then, without knowing the reason, Yliah flushed her cheeks into red. And because of it, she opened her eyes and saw the scissors stabbed Khrysler's heart.
She was shocked. Terrified. Scared.
The man in her front didn't bleed after got stabbed.
"W-what are you?" she asked trembling.
"Kid?" an old vendor seller woman knocked her car's window.
"I heard you scream earlie alone, are you alright?"
Yliah was startled.
Alone? She's with someone inside!
She nodded at the vendor seller before she left. Yliah nervously grab the car's door knob. Her plan as of now is to escape from Khrysler. She didn't know if this man is still a mortal, maybe he's an immortal one! Why didn't he died from that stab? What kind of immortal is he?
"Our deal, Yliah. Don't forget it."
Yliah widened her eyes when she realized their deal earlier. She wanted to escape and ask for a help but she thought that she will be a coward if she will run away like this.
It wouldn't cause her life if she'll ask him right?
The two are silent. No one opened a topic. Yliah gulped her own saliva and looked away.
"H-hey..." she tried to talk.
"W-what kind of immortal are you? H-heh h-heh?" she anxiously faked a laugh.
But what kind of immortal who really don't die of a stake in the heart?
"V-vampire? W-wolf? Z-z-zombie?"
Khrysler laughed when he heard what she asks.
Anyways, Khrysler can't be a zombie. Zombies eat humans, so if he's one of them, he should already have eaten her.
It's also impossible that he's a vampire since vampires will die at the stake of heart. It also can't be a wolf since they'll also die from it.
Yliah paused for a while. She only knows one thing.
Not mortal.. not immortal... The life of the deceased person in beyond.
"Ghost."
Khrysler bluntly nodded. A spirit of dead was the one Yliah saw right now..
She holds her chest. It suddenly aches thinking that the man whom she loves was already a deceased one.
"I'm sorry, Yliah." Khrysler apologized.
Yliah cried. She pressed her chest. The fear she felt earlier vanished and changed into a sorrow and pain. Her heart was shattered into a broken pieces. It's like she's been stabbed by a million— no. Billion of pins. She couldn't accept the fact that the man she loves.. and the man whom she always saw smiling was..
Already a ghost.
"Don't cry. It makes me sad too." Yliah held her tears and raised her head up high. It hurts so much but she doesn't want Khrysler to cry at his own death too.
But what is the reason why he died?
"Since when did you become a deceased one? I-i.. mean.. from the beginning.."
Khrysler cutted her.
"Yeah. Since the beginning that I showed up, I am no longer alive, Yliah. I already died not long ago, and I know it's impossible to raise someone from the dead, unless if you're Jesus."
Yliah bit his lower lip. She felt like stopping her tears from falling down is the hardest emotion to prevent. No one knows how deep Khrysler's words hurt her heart. It seems like a bullet that directly shot her heart and she already know that she doesn't have a chance to run away now.
How could she run if she already fell for him? The smiles that always flows out in her front. The face of Khrysler that she dreamed of sometimes..
"I know this would happen once I'll tell you the truth.. that's why I keep everything from you." — Khrysler
"You keep everything, huh. Why do you keep it when you want me to remember everything?"
Khrysler slightly shock. He didn't thought Yliah could still remember that. Well, she shouldn't rush all to remember or else she'll be in danger.
"It's just that, you don't need to rush everything to remember. It can cause damages to your brain. And I know how you love aircrafts so much. I can't be the cause of your dream failures."
He's right. This is the thing that he's really afraid of when Yliah remember the past.
Yliah retrieve her look away.
"How did you die?"
"I can't tell you directly. Just what I've told you, you can't rush everything— No. You shouldn't rush everything, sweetheart."
"Fine. You know what kind of person I am, right? I will find a way and calculate how to remember anything."
Khrysler just nodded at her stubborn answer. He already expected it. He clearly knows that Yliah is a fighter and won't easily just give up. That's the girl he knows for almost 10 yeats.
"But first, you need to come with me."
Yliah followed Khrysler when he gets out of her car. They walked pass through the trees until they reached a big plaza.
Yliah was amazed. So there's a short path here to the Plaza of Saint Ines. But she didn't know!
"Woah. You must know Saint Ines very well. Even myself, I didn't know that there's a shortcut here through the Plaza."
"I was raised up here, I had two friends back before. They also know this shortcut."
Yliah raised her eyebrow. He had two friends before? Did his friends know about his death?
"Did your two friends know about your situation?"
"The one knows, the one not. The one who knows keep it from the one who didn't know."
"Wait, so do you also showed up yourself to them?"
"Yeah, a couple of times."
The silent came back again. The air of a summer breeze suddenly flows since they areat the top of the plaza.
"It must've been hard for you." Yliah said.
"No, not really."
Yliah tilted her head at him. Being a ghost doesn't concern him? Even herself, she would be really afraid to die.
"Aren't you afraid? You can't never see this world again. You can't go to beach anymore to spend times with your whole family, you can't even eat cheesecakes in Heaven!" Yliah suddenly raised her voice.
"And the worst.. you can't see your love ones again anymore.."
She sighed slowly. She just want to help him realize beautiful things this world has.
But..
She was shocked when someone cried out of nowhere.
Khrysler shook his head and stepped away from where he was standing. Yliah saw a small kid in her front.
'W-wait! They didn't see Khrysler because he's a ghost so I've just shouted that words in front of a kid?!' — Yliah's mind.
"L-listen, i-it was just a..."
The kid run before Yliah could even hold him She do face-palming. What the hell just happened?
"Gosh." she couldn't bear to look at Khrysler because of the embarrassing moment earlier. Khrysler just smiled and take a glance at the sky.
"Actually, I've already eaten too much cheesecakes back before with my girlfriend and I already spend enough times with my family in the beach."
Yliah couldn't stop admiring him. How can he be prepared at his own death? But wait..
Girlfriend?
She suddenly felt a hard smack in her chest. Maybe she just not felt blue about his death. Maybe having a girlfriend also made her sad.
What Mang Anton said the other day suddenly popped out in her mind.
'The owner passed away the other day. As far as I know, only his girlfriend survived. I also forgot the name of that young man. He's kind, he always gives me bread every time he enters the school. It's a pity that he died so young.'
"By any chance.. did you leave your car in the university's parking lot?" she asked in apprehension. She already thought of it but she still wants to make sure if her thoughts are right.
"Hmm." Khrysler nodded in response. He didn't know that time that Yliah saw her name carved in that car.
Yliah froze. She expected the answer but why is she still aching?
"Khrysler.." she wanted to touch Khrysler. She wanted to embrace him.. grasp him between her arms.. She wanted to hug for the last time the man who gives him the meaning of life.
The man who she just remembered. The man in her dreams. The man in her heart. The man who became her boyfriend.
"I can't touch you. Why? Earlier, we just dance in the par—"
"I've already used enough of my time."
"T-time? What time?" she asked.
"Dead ones cannot be remain wandering in the world of existence. I had to go with Him, sweetheart."
Yliah wiped her tears.
"Look, can't you postponed the day of your parting? I still can't remember a thing. I'm just starting to realize a little.. I'm just starting to hear weird things in my head.. so please.. don't go."
"You started to hear things? Things like what?" Khrysler asked excitedly.
"I'm not sure of it but.. a guy who named Khrysler Eyed Burns, was my boyfriend before."
"Yliah.. sweetheart." Khrysler smiled.
"Since from the very beginning, I started following Him. I can't disobey Almighty."
Yliah was left no choice but to utter a sigh. She knows she's asking an impossible thing.
She stared at the plaza with a serious face until she suddenly reminisce her Diary.
"Plaza of Saint Ines..." she was startled and landed her gaze at him.
Is it possible that Khrysler was the Dodong she mentioned in her diary before? Yliah just shook her head. It's impossible since Dodong is in Spain.
"Anyways, when are you going?" Yliah asked.
"Why'd you ask? Do you want me to go already?" Khrysler smirked. Yliah laughed at him. How can a ghost make a joke like that?
"I just have to make sure things right. So that my hopes won't up and I will be well-prepared."
"Wow. You're quite motivated now." they just both laughed.
"Of course, how would I not? I'm your girlfriend after all. Yliah Miyamizu, the one that had been carved in your car."
Khrysler remained calm. He wasn't surprised at all hence, he already expected this to happen.
But..
It's only half of the truth.
"Well, I'll be gone tomorrow afternoon, 4pm maybe?"
"T-tommorow!?"
"Yes. Tomorrow. And before that, I need you to do something."
Yliah wrinkled her forehead. "What is that? What can I do?"
Khrysler stared at her with a severe face.
"I need you to get my car back. Someone stole it in my house and planned to burn it up. That person will try to burn up everything the car has."
Yliah was shock. The car which she saw her name carved on it was stolen? Who could be this stupid thief?
"As soon as he'll burn everything in there, my soul won't get inside the paradise. I'll be wandering here in the land forever without anyone noticing me."
"So... where is that stealer? I'm going to kick his ass off!"
Khrysler formed a smile.
"I can only think one place where he can probably burn my car...
To the place where I die, at the riverside of Sta. Ines."