4 Tender Soul 4

They three almost reached the cafe. The cafe could be seen from the street where there were. And also from there, they could see the person they've looked for, was standing on the balcony of the second floor of that cafe. She was gazing over the sky near the fence of that cafe balcony. They three saw her there. Then so she did, Rebecca noticed them came by, and then she immediately walked back to inside the cafe. She headed down to the stairs and kept walking to the door of the cafe. When she came out, Nhazul had already there.

"Hei, we are looking for you..", that what he said, but she ignored it and passed him off then kept walked away.

She headed to the main road. Seeing this, Ghoza just stayed quiet because he had used to see her like that.

"She got away!", said Liem to Ghoza while they saw Rebecca went away.

"Ah! She never changes, always being like that!", responded Ghoza to Liem.

" Is it okay?", Liem was asking him.

"Just let her be... She will be back to herself in no time..", replied Ghoza.

" Are you sure?", Liem asked to make sure.

" Maybe..", responded Ghoza.

After that, they saw Nhazul ran to chase her.

"You go on first... I will get her back..", that what he said as he kept running toward Rebecca's direction.

"Alright! We'll save some seats for ya two then!", shouted Ghoza to Nhazul.

" Like a cat and dog, do ya think?! Ahaha... Let's come in!!", then Ghoza was asking Liem to wait them in the cafe with him.

"Are they gonna be alright?", said Liem.

And then, Ghoza and Liem got inside the cafe, ordered some snacks and drinks, then went upstairs to have seats at the balcony area, the area they usually occupied. Meanwhile in other place, Nhazul ran faster to get Rebecca. He reached her as he tried to hold her arm.

"Hei... Wait...", Nhazul was holding her arm to stop her.

"Where are you going?..", added Nhazul to ask.

" Not your business! Now hands off me!", she made Nhazul let off his hands from her arm, as she has stopped now.

"Oh, sorry... Where will you go? We are looking for you, you know?", said Nhazul.

" And what's that for?!", she showed that she was mad in her voice of her talk.

"... Are you angry?", Nhazul was asking.

" Hmph... How's it look like?!", she replied by showing her angry vibes.

"... You do... So, why are you angry? Are you still thinking about that accident with Liem?", Nhazul was trying to know why she was angry.

"Accident?! Hmph... No! Don't mention it again!", responded her.

" So, what is making you angry this much?", He continued to ask.

" Why you leave me alone in the park earlier?", now she was also starting to ask.

" Alone? But Liem is with you there..", answered Nhazul in his confusion.

" Hmph... But you still leave me there! Alone!!", responded Rebecca.

" Well, I am sorry then... I want to talk something with Ghoza there, but, to see you was sleeping, I do not want to wake you up, so I asked Ghoza to talk in other places. That is so why I also asked Liem to stay there to keep watching you until we come back..", explained Nhazul.

"... Emm, just talking won't wake me up from my sleep, you stu-... Ehm, the thing is, I don't really sleep at all, I just closed my eyes, that's all!..", she responded to Nhazul explanations.

"Really??", asked Nhazul to make sure.

"Yeah!!", confirmed Rebecca.

"Then, everything is alright, is not it? Could we go back to the cafe now?", Nhazul asked her to go back with him to the cafe.

"Emm... O-okay then, but wait! Why you bring her along? Didn't her problem had solved?", Rebecca had calmed down even there was still the little irritated vabes left, but she was walking to the direction of the cafe now.

"Hmm? Does she tell you what she is up to?", asked Nhazul.

" Not really... But she has been saved, isn't it all done?", Rebecca backed to the asking.

" Emm... Yes, she had been saved though, but she is actually about to pursue of something... I think it is about soulid too..", said Nhazul.

" So?", Rebecca was asking.

"What do you think? Should we have to help her to defeat that soulid?", Nhazul was giving her his opinion.

" Why?", Rebecca asked his reason.

"Is it not what we, the soulid research team, to do?", replied Nhazul.

" Hmm... I see, you're right... Whatever then..", responded her.

After some minutes, Nhazul and Rebecca arrived at the cafe. They ordered some drinks and then went upstairs. There they were regrouping with Ghoza and Liem.

"Sorry for the wait..", said Nhazul as he was taking a seat, Rebecca sat next to him without a single words to Ghoza and Liem, she was just quiet.

"It's okay! We enjoyed the time of knowing each other here! Right?!", replied Ghoza to Nhazul as he also asked for the confirmation from Liem.

"Ah, yeah, yes..", responded Liem, she felt rather awkward in that situation.

"Em, I am sorry to drag you here, there is something I want to talk to you, it is about the thing earlier, you mentioned you have something to do, is it about soulid too?", asked Nhazul.

" Ah, you see... Emm... That's right, I'm actually on pursuing on a soulid right now! I need to get him no matter what..", Liem said it in serious face.

" Do your wounds, perhaps, those come from his attacks?", asked Nhazul to get to know the caused of her wounds.

"Emm... Yes..", answered her.

"Wow, I have no idea those wounds would be caused from the soulid ya pursued. Is he that strong?", Ghoza seemed to interesting too.

" Well, he is, he almost crushed all masters at the temple, and yet I still am an apprentice, our strength are far for the comparations..", explained Liem.

" Even all your masters on that Temple can't match him?! Sounds so strong!!", responded Ghoza.

" He probably would be big threats if he's not being stopped right now... That's why my master send me out to pursue him..", said Liem to give the detail information.

"Even you are just an apprentice? Why not the others come too?", added Nhazul.

" Because I'm the only one who can mobilize at that time..", responded Liem.

" So you mean when you say all your masters at the temple, those all are included almost all people there except you?", said Nhazul.

" Hmm..", she was nodding.

"Big threat, huh? That's sounded so extreme to deal with! How about the information of that soulid?!", Ghoza continued to ask.

" I can't really tell since I don't know the details of that soulid, he still look like human without monster part like the monster you defeated last time..", Liem referred the monster that Nhazul defeated before, Refisher.

"What?! He even hasn't transformed into monster yet?!", Ghoza responded with excitement.

" You mean he has not done a breaking soul yet then... He must be so strong..", said Nhazul.

" Breaking soul, you mean the process of that soul started to take over the human body thing... Well yeah, I think soo..", said Liem.

" I don't really get it, but.., hei! Let's try it! Let's ask the soulid in ya instead! They'll give us better answer, right!!", suggested Ghoza.

" Huh?", Nhazul seemed to surprising to hear Ghoza suggestion.

" Will that be okay?", asked Liem.

"Ah? I do not know, I never do that before... I mean let them talk to the people like this..", replied Nhazul.

" What are ya talking about?! Ya have done it before! In here! With Liem! Right?!", responded Ghoza.

" Eh?!", Nhazul was surprising.

"Eh! You don't mean that time, do you?", asked Liem as she referred the time when Nhazul had almost kissed her.

"Isn't it just similiar?!", added Ghoza.

" But, but that's not..", Liem tried to say something but she had stopped when she turned her view to Rebecca.

Rebecca was just staying at her quietness. She kept slurping on straw of her ice blend without given her attention at all to the rest.

"Do you think you can handle them?", Nhazul was asking Ghoza seriously.

" Huh?! Ya really wanna do it?!", suddenly Ghoza got surprised with Nhazul decision.

"Are you sure about it?", Liem was also asking for the certainly of his decision.

"Yes, I am sure of it. If it will help the case, and to stop that soulid... I have made my mind, have not I?", said Nhazul as he looked at Ghoza way, he remind Ghoza about what he said back there in the park.

"Oh! Right! I'll do my best to take care of your body then!", responded Ghoza.

" Alright... Oh, em, Becca, I think you should stay on some distance of me..", said Nhazul to Rebecca.

"... Ah!? Um... I guess so..", she looked surprising to hear that.

" I do not want to have to hurt you... Thank you..", added Nhazul to his words.

"... I got it..", she responded and kept out the distance from him.

"Alright then, here I go..", said Nhazul as he closed his eyes.

Just a second after he said that words blue aura was blasting out from him. His hair grew longer. And then he covered it with his hoody jacket. Then he opened his right eye, it's blue shining eye.

"What would you want to ask?!", said Nhazul, no but this time he got possessed by Utahara.

They three were rather surprised by that. Some other customers also got their attentions on him for some seconds. But then they started to ignoring and back to their own businesses.

"Whaa..!! That's too fast! I haven't really prepared my questions yet!!", said Ghoza.

" You know we want to ask you something?", asked Rebecca.

" Of course, we could see and hear what this boy see and hear, and anything he did, we simply share our sense..", explained Utahara.

" Huh?!", Rebecca was surprised to hear that.

" Oh! It's you! You are the first girl who had been kissed by this boy, aren't you? He says it clearly right? He's not lying! And also about you who mistook the-..", Utahara was talking about something within Nhazul and Rebecca but Rebecca suddenly covered Nhazul's mouth with her hands.

"That's not for the share, right?!!!", said Rebecca to cut the words.

But then Utahara took out her hands off from Nhazul's mouth, gently.

"Yeah right, that's too much to embarrassing I guess..", said Utahara, that made Rebecca's face being in red, she was embarrassed.

"Eh?! What she did?! What is it?! Come on tell me!!", Ghoza suddenly asked in his curiousness.

Rebecca seemed like to get shout at him but Utahara had started to speak first.

"SHUT IT KID!", Utahara shouted rather loud to make the crowd voice become silence for a moment.

"I said it made her embarrassing, and look at her face! Isn't that too embarrassing enough even the point had not told yet?!", said Utahara to Ghoza after the situation back to normal again.

"Now! Back to the main point! What you wanna ask?!", Utahara still continued.

" Emm... Sorry, but could you tell me what are you for the real thing?", asked Liem to start the question times.

"Hmm... Alright! That's a quite question for a starter... Well, like you ever said, you could call us demon or monster or something else whatever! In the end, we are also a creature that been made for some reasons. We are the differents, but that could be understandable, like you all with animals and plants and others things, you're all different, right? That should be give you some knowledge you needed if you really get it..", explained Utahara.

" Hmm... I don't really get it for now but, then, what are you doing in this world? I've been told that you have your own world indeed..", Liem continued with next.

" Let's wrap it up! We don't really want it to be here... Something dragged us by force and then we ended up here, and when we are being here, we need resources to stay on existence, having human body will made us survive this, but that's not enough for us! Being in human body is like a jail... We can't fully move for our own, that's why, some of us try to take over the body to feel free... Later on, they feel how weak the creatures in this world, they thought they could rule over it and that's it! Some of them went berserker..", answered Utahara.

" How about yu-..", Liem tried to ask Utahara, but Utahara had known she would ask that.

" Don't ask me that question! And so for this statement as well! If you still want these questioners keep on, just ask another one, but if you insist to know the answer for that question, I'll leave!", responded Utahara to cut Liem words.

"... How much ya know about all soulids things?", this time, Ghoza was asking.

"Hmm.. I've so much, more than just what you think it much!", answered Utahara.

" Huh?! What that supposed to be meant?", Ghoza was confused.

" Why you get in Nhazul body? Even there's other soulid in him?", Rebecca continued to asking.

"Hmm... I'm not speaking for that.." said Utahara, but she looked like kinda ignoring Rebecca face.

"Huh!!?! What's up with that attitude?! Humph!!", Rebecca seemed mad.

" Why you fight with them? I mean are they like to fight each other? Because I find it very rare to see those things, you're the first time who made me think it happened..", Liem still continued.

"... Well, we don't want to but him... And it's actually a normal case to have fight each other... We did much fight in our world, but then we found it waste! Nothing we gain from it, that's why we just focus on our own businesses and don't care about the others now, just like much of you, right?",  said Utahara.

"Hmm..", looked like Ghoza realized something from Utahara words just now.

" I see..", responded Liem.

"Hei! From my research, I saw some of differents of ya when ya possessed the people! Like ya did in Nhazul body, ya didn't make his parts of body turned into monster things, but some others did, how can ya explained that?", Ghoza asked seriously this time.

" That's the breaking soul process, as the time we lived in this world, we learned that we could be back to our own original form, but that need some progress to be processed. Like I did it now to this boy body, we call it level one, we possessed him and get our several power to be used but that's it the limit for this level, in the end, we are still being in prisoned in this human body with its maximum potential. And then, when we get much resource of power, we level up to level two. At this level, we get our hand or one thing or so, from our original form. But still in this human body is to be the limit of our source of power. To level three, we get our body and some others parts from our original form, we gain more power than before and yet it still limited in the human body. But when it come to level four, we get our all parts of our originally and the power of originally as well. It almost hit our true form, but we still in the human body, and of course there's still limit of that freedom. Then last level, level five, our true form, size and power and energy and everything. We are back to ourselves. And at that time, that human, of course had gone, even of their soul. But to get to this level will take us so much time. That's why we, some of us look for the full energy sources to get this power..", explained Utahara.

" Whaa... Great informations that will be added to the book of soulid information... After I got the copy from it, of course... Ahaha..", said Ghoza to Liem, but Liem rather ignored him, she still want to asking.

" How could we know that the human soul is still inside or gone when the soulid possessed it", asked Liem in her serious face.

" That's kinda hard thing for you! But in the end, after you separated that soulid, you'll find your answer!", answered Utahara.

" I see... We should defeat him first then we know if he's still alive or not..", said Liem in kind of sad face.

" Hmm... As long as that human soul still fight inside that body, I think they're still up untill breaking soul level three! Even there are some people who still managed their soul in breaking level four. But they must be had special power to do it!! Sahaha..", Utahara laughed.

" Eh! Seeing ya laughing like that in Nhazul body kinda creeping me out!!", said Ghoza to Utahara.

" Hmmp?! You had problem with that?!", Utahara was kinda pissed by that.

" Ah! No! No! It's just fine... Ehehe..", responded Ghoza.

" Or it's also annoying you?!", Utahara turned himself to Rebecca's direction.

" Eh?? No-not really..", responded her, shr was kinda surprising by that.

" Oh, right!! That's got nothing to do with you anymore!!", said Utahara to Rebecca, she seemed down by that but she kept on her ignorance face.

"Huh?!" Ghoza and Liem were confused by that but suddenly Utahara was asking.

"By the way! Can I saw your book of soulid you mentioned before?", that was what he said.

" Eh?! Emm... It's hers actually..", said Ghoza to let Utahara known that the book was belonging to Liem.

"Can I?", Utahara repeated to Liem.

"Emm... I think it's okay..", responded Liem.

As she said so, Ghoza handed over that book to Utahara. Utahara immediately opened that book as he started to read that book sheet by sheet.

"Hmm... It tells about some soulid specimens with their abilities, appearances, traits and even their liking..", said Utahara.

" Ah, yes! My master gave me from person who did researched about the soulid from long time ago..", explained Liem.

" I see, that's why it has looked old and dulled..", said Utahara, keeping on read every sheet of that book.

" Yes, right! I can fix it but she said she prefer that way!", said Ghoza.

" Yeah, I like it originally..", added Liem.

" Hoo... You like this old thing..", said Utahara.

" Hei! Is it tell the accurate information about those soulids?", asked Ghoza.

" Look like so... Have you done to read them all?", Utahara stopped on reading then asking that question.

"No!", answer from Ghoza.

"Yes!", answer from Liem.

" How about her?", Utahara referred to Rebecca.

" She has seen it, I guess..", responded Liem.

" Oh! So there's no much people who see this?", Utahara asked again.

" Yes, since that book so fragile, I don't let the people borrowed it, so...", said Liem.

" But I'll make a copy of it, make it perfect information and then spread it all over world to let the people know about these informations..", said Ghoza in his excitement.

" I see.." responded Utahara as he reaped out a sheet of that book, made it ball on his hand then threw it up so far away.

In instant moved, Liem took that book from Nhazul's hands. With sad face, she mourned on that book. Ghoza shocked and did nothing to see that. And then he tried his best to cheer Liem up. Meanwhile Utahara seemed satisfied.

"Alright, it looks like it's done, bye!", said Utahara.

As it said, the eye was closing, blue aura blasted in and faded. The long hair backed in to original hair of Nhazul. Then Nhazul backed on his original self on his body as he opened his eyes. And of course he knew what had happened in front of his eyes.

"Ah! Liem, I am sorry for your book... I cannot make it in time to control my body back... I am so sorry..", said Nhazul.

" Ah! If I knew it would be like this, I won't lend it in the first place!!", said Ghoza.

After that, Liem put away that book to her bag quickly.

"I won't let anybody touched it ever again!", said Liem, as she tried to calm herself.

"Eh?! How about me? I haven't copied it yet!", asked Ghoza as he told the reason.

" Nobody!", responded Liem.

"Hee!! No way!!", Ghoza was upsetting.

"Hei! Nhazul! Make it out again! It has to take responsibility about it!!", said Ghoza to Nhazul.

" Ah! I have try but she ignored me..", replied Nhazul.

" You two stop it! We are not talking about that damn book here in first place right! It's the soulid she is pursuit!", suddenly Rebecca said that in the middle of they three.

"Ah, that is right", responded Nhazul.

"Ok!", Ghoza stopped yelled out.

"Eh?", Liem seemed surprised to hear what Rebecca said.

"We'll track him down and stop him before he gained the power to level up!", added Rebecca.

" Oh, that is right... Maybe Mera can help to track him..", Nhazul suggested to ask Mera for tracking that soulid.

"Eh?! Ya want to use your damn soulid again?!", responded Ghoza.

" Wait!!", responded Liem as she held her bag so tight to protect her book.

"Ah, he is bit of reckless though but I think it is the best choice to make it faster to find that soulid..", explained Nhazul.

" Alright! Just do it!", said Rebecca.

Nhazul stared at her for a moment. She showed her serious face. And then, Nhazul called out for Mera as he closed his eyes. After that, red aura blasted out from him. Made the hoody that covered his head knocked back. His hair was up in the spiky. Then he opened his left eye as the shining red eye occupied. Mera had possessed him.

"Heehh... I don't like this kind of thing! It's troublesome! Just hurry up and finish this!", said Mera.

" It's him! The last one who jumped up over this balcony!", responded Ghoza.

" Don't make unnecessary thing! Just straight it to the point! How can you track this soulid she pursued?!", asked Rebecca on the straight point.

" I can sense their presence when they're nearby! But it rather hard to find the farther soulid. Oh! Let see..", explained Mera, then he was staring at Liem's body.

"What are you staring at?!", responded Liem as she got irritated by Mera stared.

"You got those wounds cause of fighting that soulid right?! If that so, some of his energy burst should be left by on that, even a little, that should be enough to link up with the source of that energy, in other words himself..", explained Mera.

" Well yes, most of it cause of him..", replied Liem.

" Alright! Let me to touch them!", said Mera.

" Huh?!", Liem got surprised.

"T-touch her w-whole body?!", Ghoza even responded with very surprising face in him.

"Not whole body, just the effect of his damages, the wounds!", Mera said the details.

" But, she wounded all over her body?!", responded Ghoza.

" Then those do!", replied Mera in shortly.

" See!!?!", Ghoza said it as he didn't accept that thing, he got envy actually.

" How's that? Take it or leave it?", Mera was asking.

" Emm... Is there another thing rather than this?", Liem tried to ask another method but Mera was just silent, waiting her decision.

Then suddenly Rebecca spoke in loud voice.

"Just hurry up and decide it! We want to help you to find that soulid, right!? To help you finish your mission!!", that what she said.

Those words made Liem to settle her mind up. Even she also rather shocked to hear that thing from Rebecca.

"That's good! That's good! That's my girl!", responded Mera on Rebecca's action.

That made Rebecca turned her face on him. And in his mind, Nhazul rather embarrassed for that words, he asked Mera to not to overreacted by the thing again.

"Alright! Alright! I knew that! Then, what your decision?!", he explained his words to Rebecca, then he asked Liem for her decision again.

"Ok then..", answered Liem to let the thing on processing.

After that, Mera, using Nhazul's body, touched Liem's wounds.

"Hmm... It's aura come from soul... Wait?! It's had gone from this world!", said Mera while he was on it.

" What?! He has gone back to his world?", responded Ghoza quickly.

" That's was not from him, it is was cause the earlier soulid in the park..", said Liem as she held her feeling that so much embarrassing in it for being touched by Nhazul.

"That's probably from Refisher, the soulid that Utahara had defeated before..", said Nhazul on his mind to Mera.

" Oh, it came from the soulid that damn squid defeat!", said Mera.

Then he kept on looking for the big energy that had left from the soulid that Liem pursuit on Liem body. Ghoza couldn't help himself to see Nhazul in envious eyes while Mera did that.

"Keep your pervert face out of it, you stupid pervert!!", Rebecca said it to Ghoza as she slapped him.

"Hei! Don't put your anger over me like that!", responded Ghoza who felt hurt from her slapping.

"Shut up! I'm not angry!!", Rebecca replied in high intonation voice.

As they stopped to fight on the thing, Mera had done from what he did. He sat back on his chair.

"You human are so sensible, aren't you?! Have you never be in serious on doing everything without involving your lust?! How can you work professionally if that thing go like that?! Huh, such a low life!!", said Mera.

Hearing that words from Mera made them all silence.

"T-t-then, h-how is it? C-can you find him?", Liem asked to Mera.

" Ah! I think I got one, it's so far from here though!", answered Mera.

" What do you want to do now?", Rebecca was asking to Liem.

" Eh! I-I want to chase him of course, but..", Liem looked down for some reasons.

" What is it?!", Rebecca was responding Liem's reactions.

"It's just... After I fought the soulid earlier, I realized something... That I am so weak, it's not because of these wounds! But I do really weak for real, I can't handle them at all!! That's why I think I wanna give up..", Liem hadn't finished her words but Rebecca tried to say something.

"Hei! We're here to help, you know! Don't just give up like that!!", that was what she said.

Ghoza was somehow kinda surprised to hear that from Rebecca. He never thought that she would say something like that before.

"More importantly, we have to after him now! We'll do something about how to defeat him after that! You can do that, right?! Em, Mera?!", said Rebecca to Liem and then to Mera .

"Leave the brawl to me! Gahaha..", Mera was laughing.

" Hmm... Thank you for your care, but..", Liem tried to speak up.

" It-it is not that I care or something! We did this because of for our research too, okay!", said Rebecca to explain the reason to Liem.

"But, I just can't deal the thing with him, that soulid, because it possessed person that important to me, he is my big brother!", said Liem.

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