Dangers of Wisteria 

"Flowers are dangerous to you," Sunshine said.

"Are the flowers poisonous?"

"Yes, even for humans."

"Then why did you plant it here?

"To protect me. To keep me away from the devil."

"The devil?"

"Do you think the devil doesn't exist?"

"I'm never sure about that."

"It exists and only one."

"Huh?! It's different than I've ever heard."

"The term for the devil refers to only one creature."

"But why do I often hear various devil names?"

"Later on I will tell you. For now, come with me, you should stay away from this flower," Sunshine said coldly.

She then turned around. As she walked a few steps forward, she looked back. When she could see Elijah was already following her with a curious face she was quite relieved. They're back sitting on the porch. Sunshine sits in the seat that was occupied by Max. Elia returned to her place.

"Explain again about the flower, why is it dangerous for me? Why doesn't the devil like it?"

"I don't know either."

Elijah hesitated with Sunshine's confession.

"You said it could protect you from the devil. How does it work?"

"I don't know for sure, because I never saw the devil come into contact with the flower so I can't confirm why the devil didn't like it. It could be because the flowers directly burn their bodies if they interact with each other or it could be because the devil doesn't like the smell."

Elijah's lips formed the letter O. The new knowledge crammed into Elijah was difficult to comprehend.

"You mean all that assumption?"

Sunshine felt the need to add important information.

"But I've seen humans, half-demons, and demons who have suffocated because of it."

After saying it, somehow Sunshine felt happy when she saw Elia's face turn pale.

"Lucky I didn't touch it."

Elijah got goosebumps. Elijah learned one more new lesson, curiosity could lead her to death.

"Where's Max?"

Sunshine quickly replied, "Arranging things in storage."

"I'm left behind," Elijah grumbled.

Sunshine smiled mysteriously.

"So, Elijah. What do you want to know? Max asked me to explain everything to you even though I wasn't sure I could help."

Sunshine spoke like that while removing her tarot card from Max's cylindrical container. Sunshine could quickly tell by the way Elijah thought. Elijah wanted to know many things, but the only urgent thing in her heart was about her mother.

"Do you know my mother?"

Sunshine nodded.

"Who is she really? Why does Max say she's a hunter? What's with that status? Could that cause her to be unable to leave the Underworld to death?"

Sunshine took the time to enjoy Elia's expression.

"Yes I know Bibi, she's been here, she's sitting in the chair you're sitting in."

Elijah pulled her head. Sunshine knew her words would be hard to believe. Her words would sound like they were just comforting Elijah. But when she saw the expression of feeling sad and happy at once when Elijah touched the chair she was sitting on, she felt Elijah was happy to know where her mother had been. Perhaps Elijah was more than just appreciating that simple information.

"I never spent much time with my mother. You could say almost never because she's quicker to leave than to come back. The longest time I spent with my mother was when she took me abroad. Now.... I'll never have that moment again," Elijah sheepishly revealed her heart.

"Maybe I should always greet her warmly whenever she comes instead of being grumpy, ignorant, and even cursing at her."

Sunshine deliberately didn't comfort her. She only noticed Elijah while shuffling her cards.

"Humm, this card is still good. Just like I remember the last time I played it with your mother."

Sunshine found Elijah enthusiastic again.

"You played tarot with my mom? My mother asked to foretold?"

"For us, this is a data collection system, not a forecast with floating results or blur."

Sunshine laughed when she saw Elijah couldn't understand her words.

"You are truly human."

Elija was surprised by the random comment. It has nothing to do with tarot at all.

"What do you mean? So Max lied to me about that half-demon?"

"He's not lying to you. The blood flowing in your body does contain demon blood, but the way your brain works, and your eyes, is still fully human. You're safe until this moment because she managed to make you invisible."

Sunshine gave Elijah time. Sunshine also puts tarot cards on the table.

"Who?"

"Bibi together with my ancestors," Sunshine said in a fed-up tone.

"Your ancestor? That means your grand grandfather?"

"Yes," Sunshine nodded as she poured tea into her own cup. She drank it calmly. Meanwhile, Elijah was dumbfounded to the point of being speechless for a moment.

"Are you immortal?"

Sunshine laughed out loud.

"Wow... Your expressions and words are really funny, what is the question? I don't think I need to answer, right? For you should be educated enough to distinguish between what is eternal and what is not."

Elijah gulped.

"Ah, it is also true, there is nothing eternal except the Creator."

"Well! All creatures are aware of this. Every creature practices the secret of longevity, that's true."

"The movies say something else. I watched various movies, Hollywood, Bollywood, South Korea, Thailand, China, Taiwan, and also Indonesia, they didn't discuss that."

"Everything is interesting, right? My favorite is the supernatural and horror genre, I can laugh out loud at the ghosts that appear and their logic regarding ghosts," Sunshine said in a mocking tone.

Elijah leaned forward. Her head was still dizzy with sudden information about the world she didn't believe in.

"Do they really exist?"

Sunshine meant to prank Elijah. She leaned forward so that he became very close to Elijah and whispered in Elijah's ear, "Behind you, is a ghost."

"Haish!"

Sunshine laughed again.

Elijah then remembered something more important to ask Sunshine.

"Back to my mother. So, what do you mean my mother is hiding me?"

"I was the one who brought your mother and you as a baby, and a few times after that to my great-grandfather," Sunshine said. She paused for a moment, considering the things that needed to be said at this moment with the unnecessary ones.

"But it seems that his strength was broken by something. The sign you can see that Max has and vice versa, and Max can see yours. It clearly shows there is demon blood flowing in your body."

Sunshine spoke with a serious attitude. For a long time, she hadn't gotten a guest who had the odd potential like Elijah. So she was quite enthusiastic and anxious as well. There was a premonition in her mind every time she saw Elijah.

"Listen to me carefully," Sunshine said to get Elijah's full attention.

"I smelled strange blood on your body. It should be demon blood, but something's stuck, I hope you don't get a drop of demonic blood. I also saw marks on your neck. The demon sign."

Elijah touched the mark on her body. Elijah swallowed a huge spit when she heard the word droplet of demonic blood. There was a voice inside her head that said, "No way. I'm a human being."

"The demon spirit that your mother had been sleeping with had started to rise and there is only one possibility over that, you are interacting with a half-demon or demon."

Additional information from Sunshine made Elijah's shoulder tense.

"Is it possible that the sealing power of your grandfather was broken?"

Elijah was stunned. Sunshine thought about all sorts of things.

"You know there's a saying that above the sky there's still a sky. It also applies to my grandfather, that there is a figure who has higher power than my grandfather." Sunshine sounds meaningful. It must be admitted that every creature has power. "Are you sure you were given sleeping pills by your mother?"

Elijah was surprised.

"Where do you know?" A second later she realizes Max must be the one who told her. "I think so."

Sunshine then raised the tarot card, placed it in the palm of her right hand, then shuffled the card. Sunshine's gaze was not fixed on the card that was moving. Sunshine's gaze fixed on Elijah's forehead.

Elijah realized Sunshine was looking at her in a way that made her hair stand up. It made her not dare to look into Sunshine's eyes. Elijah noticed Sunshine's hand movements very quickly. The cards move positions as they move on their own. After a while of displacement, Sunshine put it down.

"Open it from the top. Tarot cards are not for fortunes. This is to answer your questions about the underworld. We'll start with the first card you take."

"Do I have to pay?"

Sunshine smiled. This time, she clearly showed a liking for Elijah's question.

"You're a smart girl."

"That's what I've always heard from movies."

"This part is true, but I don't take the payment of sharing knowledge with a beginner," Sunshine's current tone was graceful. It was as if she had lived thousands of years.

Elijah was relieved. Then she started sticking out her hand. When she wants to take one card at the top, suddenly she stops and remembers something witty but can also be horror.

"You said you took me and my mother to your grand-grandfather, right?"

Sunshine nodded. Her attitude was calm despite anticipating the continuation of the question.

"How old were you at the time?"

Sunshine laughed out loud until patting her thighs. Elijah didn't know if Sunshine was happy or was making fun of her. Her laughter sounded like it was contrived.

"You must think I'm an evil grandmother, right?"

Elijah did not dodge.

"In films that tell the story of witches, witches in those movies always appear as beautiful women but originally evil grandmothers."

"Hum... It's one of the effects I don't like about the movie. People's perspectives are led to the same understanding. I wonder why no director would think of breaking that stereotype. Ah, do all directors hate witches?"

Sunshine was like asking Elia but she wasn't. She only raised objections to the human perspective.

"I don't know," Elia raised her shoulders. She took a plain look at those facts.

"I'm the same age as Max."

Sunshine spoke flatly deliberately to dampen Elia's enthusiasm at his age. Meanwhile, Elijah feels Sunshine and Max are in cahoots. They were the same, Elijah thought were lazy.

"Still curious?"

"Ah well, it doesn't matter how old you are, now what matters to me is about my mother and the underworld. Besides, I want to know who my father is. He must be a demon, right?" Elijah looks at Sunshine with all possibilities.

"Do you know who he is?"

Sunshine shook her head. Her mysterious attitude diminished at that moment. That led Elia to believe that Sunshine didn't know.

"Would I know everything if I opened them one by one?" Elijah was referring to the tarot card.

Sunshine nodded.

"I'll explain based on the picture that appears later."

"Alright, I'll open one by one card, you have to explain everything!"

Elijah observed the back image of the tarot card in front of her. The picture was just a pattern that looked irregular. Elijah looked at it in the hope of seeing something. Elijah's eyebrows were raised as the lines on the paper moved to form a pattern. Elijah thought it was the root. She once read a novel called Roots. Could there be a connection? Elijah thought as she lifted her face, looking at Sunshine.

Sunshine makes her determined to flip the top card. Elijah raised the top card and placed it next to a pile of cards in an open state. Elijah saw something that confused her.

"Empty."

Sunshine tapped her index finger three times on the blank card. While Elijah noticed the movement of Sunshine's index finger. Elijah's eyes opened. It appeared in her eyes that the circle-shaped tarot paper began to give rise to white flames. The fire moved from the middle to the edge of the paper but did not turn the paper into ashes.

"Two fairies!" said Elijah with a loud shock from her heart. Elijah looked at Sunshine whose way of sitting had now changed. Sunshine gives off an aura to the reader completely. The new aura made Elia forget about the carefree and friendly Sunshine. Elijah felt like she was facing a different person.

"What does that mean?" Elijah asked in a soft voice.

"Remember, this is data collection, not your future prediction."

Elijah nodded. Her heart was pounding uncomfortably. Elijah didn't dare to underestimate the situation.

"Take a good look at the two fairies," Sunshine issued the order.

When she noticed the two fairies on the card, Elijah felt she saw something familiar. Her feelings told her that she had met the two fairies. She observed each curve. Then she pulled her body and sat up straight.

"Aren't these two of them the decorations on the doorstep of your Boutique Sunshine and Sunshine Shop?"

"Indeed. It was a replica of them, having ninety-nine percent resemblance to the original."

"Why did the two fairies appear here?"

"Because the memory of the two is still so new to you that it's easy to reflect back on this tarot."

"Does that mean, it's connected to my memory? All the things that are in my memory will reappear here?"

"Yes, it can be no."

"You said it's about taking data. So why connect with my memory? Then, doesn't that mean I can also see traces of my past?"

Elijah tried to translate Sunshine's expression. One thing that is certain if you want to know is to do it to the end, so more or less what sunshine's silent face said at that time to Elijah.

Elijah looked at both the fairies and the pile of cards that had not yet opened. Sunshine picked up the tarot of the fairy that had been read. With a finger, Sunshine signaled Elijah to continue.

"If I continue, is there a risk?"

"You will know a world you have never known, your perspective on the world will change, and your eyes will be opened to a world you have never been able to see. That knowledge can be very sharp like a knife, it can also be soft as cotton, it can be a thirst-releaser, it can be a builder like a sun, it can be a healer like the ground, it can also be a destroyer like fire."

"That means I can have a lot of trouble knowing all this?"

"It depends on your choice. Everything that happens around us depends on our own choices. What will happen to you in the future depends on your choice today. The problem is that the future is very close."

"What do you mean the future is very close?"

Sunshine replied, "One minute ago is the past, the one minute to come in the future, the one minute we are living now in the present. So decide wisely how you use your time in the present."