It had been two days since it was discovered that Stephanie was a God's Child who's the Salvation Church was looking for. Since that day, Stephanie never attended the school again. The teacher said Stephanie would be moving to the capital city, where the grand cathedral of the Salvation Church was located. Regarding myself. I also didn't go to the school after know Stephanie was moving to the capital city.
I used my time to work full time at Uncle Ben's Restaurant. I tried to take my mind off Stephanie. However, it's not easy as I thought. In the evening, at exactly 09.44 p.m. a car was parking in the Uncle Ben's Restaurant parking-place. I recognized the car; however, I had ridden it occasionally. It was none other than Stephanie's family car.
A man got out of the car. I know him. He was Stephanie's older brother, Dawson Emilion. He entered the restaurant. After that, he was looking at me and said, "We need to talk about something important."
I turned around to my co-worker, Selby. "Please send this order to table 3, I will be out for a while."
Selby nodded, she replied, "Fine, but hurry, we have a lot of customers here."
"Okay."
I went out of the restaurant and strolling approached Dawson, who was waiting me. He was sitting on the seat in front of the restaurant. Then, I sat beside him.
"You are still working in this shabby restaurant. I still wonder, why my sister would be a friend with someone like you."
Our conversation started with Dawson insulting me for the umpteenth time. Unfortunately, I was immune to it.
"Did you come here just to say that?"
Dawson chuckled, "I am sure you know the reason why I am here, right?"
"Is this about your sister?"
Dawson nodded, "Is not just my sister, but our family will move to the capital city."
"You must be happy your sister will be an Exor." I didn't really know about Exor, but clearly Stephanie's family status will be higher than now.
"Of course, I am happy. But, what about you?" Dawson snickered.
I didn't reply.
Dawson looked at me seriously, "The Salvation Church has explained to us, the exor world was dangerous. This is really important, so I will tell you directly, forget about Stephanie and live your life as usual. This is for your own sake."
I lowered my face and muttered, "This is for my sake, or it's what you hope?"
"Both," Dawson answered without hesitation.
I already knew about it. I had been guessing since the Deacon discovered that Stephanie was a God's Child. That why I didn't happy when Stephanie became Exor candidate. Now, our gap was too big. I realized that I might never see Stephanie again. Stephanie was a person who make me keep going in the dark phase of my life. It was definitely hard for me to forget her.
"Tomorrow. Stephanie will meet you, while that time come, I hope you think wisely what you want to tell her. This is maybe your last chance to say that."
After saying that, Dawson walked away, leaving me alone.
****
It was midnight, I finally arrived at home. As usual, my home was very quiet and no one welcomed me. I decided to take a shower before going to bed. The temperature at midnight was so low, so I used a warm water to wash my body. For a moment, I looked at the wounds that appeared on my body.
After a while, I dried myself and wore my nightwear. For this night, I didn't want to sleep in my room, instead I want to sleep in my mother room. It had been a long time since I had slept in this room. I occasionally sleep in this room when I felt doubtful and hopeless. Today, I could feel it clearly, the despair that was growing up in my body.
When I opened the door, I saw her room was dusty and messy. I haven't had time to clean my mom room lately. The, I cleaned the dust on the floor and on the bed. After that, I cleaned up my mother's belongings that had been put in a cardboard box.
My hands stopped moving when I saw jet black cardboard box with the symbol of an inverted triangle that surrounding by the circle. I felt like I had seen this symbol before … that right, big breasted woman! I saw the same tattoo as this symbol on the back of her neck. Did this symbol have special meaning? I remember in the past; I had opened this box. But now, I was curious again about the meaning behind the symbol.
I opened the box, as I remember, the box contained a ring with purple gem on it, small-sized book with a strange language, and smiling goat-face mask. In the past, I just thought these three things were my mother strange collection. But I felt these three things might not be ordinary things. I took the ring and put it on my forefinger. Nothing happened.
Then I took the goat mask and put it on my face. Still nothing happened. After that, I opened the small-sized book and tried to read the first sentence on the first page of the small-sized book.
"*Oh, Chaos sovereign, I will follow the path that you show to me."
At that time, I felt a pain was growing in my chest. It felt as if the inside my chest was burning. Other than that, it was hard for me to breath. I looked up at the ceiling while holding my neck. I tried to take deep breath again and again, but the suffocation didn't go away. I closed my eyes and tried to give up and accepted the death. But in a blink of eye, the pain just disappeared.
I slowly opened my eyes; amazement took over my mind. I saw the vast space was expensing with its various content such as a star, asteroid, etc. I looked around me, I seemed to be floating in the space. I wonder, was I hallucinating or had I just miraculously teleported to space.
Then, I saw the black smoke was spreading rapidly as if it will be swallowing the universe. A second later, I was swallowed by the black smoke. Suddenly, the echoing voice trembled my body.
"*Spread the Chaos on earth, heaven and underworld and I will give you unparalleled power."
A moment later, my consciousness vanished in a second.