1.Holiday

Dearia has three best friends who she considers like her own siblings, Fedora, noya, and keila. the four of them had planned a vacation together in advance at fedora's villa near the beach in the town of mutei.

At this time they all agreed to gather at fedora's house, and something unexpected happened just as they were getting ready to leave.

"there has just been another case of serial murder targeting students in mutei town, so the police have imposed a curfew on young people to prevent them from going out and parents are urged to monitor their daughters properly from today to avoid any untoward incidents."

Dearia watched the news in the car thoughtfully as she waited for fedora to finis loading the luggage into the trunk. not long after that, dearia was still enjoying watching. several cars came and stopped in the yard not far from dearia's parked car. A hand tapped Dearia's shoulder from behind.

"eh de, have you watched the news that just aired yet ?."

dearia turned her head and nodded, she saw keila already sitting in the back seat while looking for her comfortable position, keila the put her hand out the window calling an old man who was standing near Dearia's car, the man who was called then came to keila. he is Edward the butler at keila's house.

"what's wrong, miss ? is something missing ?."

Edward said politely while smiling kindly at Keila.

"Everything is perfect, you can go back home."

Keila said.

"Very well miss."

The old man replied as he bowed respectfully, then before he could turn around Keila called out to him again.

"By the way, Edward, please convey my greetings to mom and dad and tell them to take care of their health while I'm gone. Also, tell dad to drink less, mom complained to me."

Edward nodded, before leaving Edward greeted fedora and his parents who were still talking outside.

Dearia looked at the direction Edward was walking.

- look at that kid, really the simplest human being when it comes to vacation, just wearing a t-shirt, shorts, flip-flops and a backpack unlike us who are complicated to carry a big suitcase.

Dearia said silently still looking at fedora from a distance, Fedora who felt stared at immediately turned her head towards dearia and waved her hand then not long after,Noya came over to Fedora and greeted fedora's parents who were standing there.

After the two of them talked for a while, Noya walked to dearia's car and got in first.

Noya greeted dearia and keila who were busy in their own world, then Fedora followed in and tapped dearia on the shoulder from outside.

"De, let me drive, we'll sort the turnover problem from the seating position."

Fedora suggested.

Dearia nodded and switched positions with Fedora.

The car engine started and they all waved goodbye.

"Mom! Dad! Fe and the others are leaving first!"

Fedora shouted from inside the car, his parents turned around and waved goodbye to Fedora. Fedora then started running the car slowly.

"Bye aunt, bye uncle!"

Dearia, Noya and Keila said goodbye to Fedora's parents.

Fedora's parents nodded and their car slowly left Fedora's yard.

The four of them were already on their way to Mutei City, where the case occurred. It's not that they don't care about the incident, it's just that they have already arranged their vacation schedule in advance. And there was no way they could cancel because Dearia would soon be leaving to continue her studies in Japan.Now they were passing the border between cities and there was a police post, fedora began to slowly reduce the speed of the car and pulled over to the side of the road.

A policeman approached them and knocked on the car window, Fedora lowered the car window and opened the car door after the policeman stepped back to give distance.

"Good afternoon."

The policeman gave a brief salute to the fedora who had gotten out of the car.

"Good afternoon sir, here are my papers and here are our IDs."

Fedora gave the policeman his exit permit, ID card, driver's license, and vehicle registration.

The policeman accepted and briefly examined them, then nodded and allowed them to continue their journey.

There were a total of five checkpoints that they passed through, and they all obediently followed the protocol.

Everything went smoothly without a hitch.

The villa they were going to later was the fifth base camp, their base camps were too many but their main base camp was in the big city they lived in.

They spent 8 hours traveling to the villa.

"Stop for a moment, I want to buy snacks and groceries for later at the villa."

Fedora patted the shoulder of Noya who was driving, they had switched positions, dearia and Fedora sat in the back and Keila next to Noya who was driving. In accordance with the agreement they made at the beginning.

Noya then slowly parked the car on the side of the road and they started to get out to shop for their needs at the market not far from where they stopped, after they felt that they had enough, they continued their journey again, in less than half an hour they had reached their destination.

Dearia and Keila had gone out first to check the condition of the villa and look for the villa guards. Then, Noya and fedora also got out of the car and carried some of their belongings.

"Where is Mr. Anton?"

Fedora asked after dearia who was standing near the villa fence, dearia checked her cellphone and called a number listed on her cellphone screen.

"I don't know, I called but it didn't pick up."

Said dearia while shrugging her shoulders indifferently.

"We're the ones who put the stuff in."

Keila passed by fedora and dearia who were standing around complaining after she finished opening the villa door using her spare key, she walked towards the car and lifted the luggage.