"Ugh... My head..."
I wake up and see my sister beside my bed sleeping while holding my hand. The unknown ceiling. Is this an apartment? This room has a double bed so I think this is a famous hotel or something like that. I try to sit, but my sister wakes up. Suddenly, she hugged me.
"I am grateful you are okay, brother Sob*" Say my sister in his soft voice while crying a bit.
"Y-yeah, I am really grateful too. Can you explain to me what happened next after I fell down?" Say me with my gentle voice while patting her head.
"Yeah, I will explain it..." Say my sister while wiping her tears.
"But, first... Sob* Can you... Take a bath? You are stink." Say my sister again after wiping her tears.
The emotional moment suddenly fell out. I try to smell it, yeah I stink.
"O-okay... I will take a bath first." Say me while trying to get out of bed.
"Need help?" Ask her.
"Nope." Say me while opening the door that looks like a bathroom from the outside because of the blurred glass door.
After I open the door, I take out my clothes and put them on a clothes hanger inside the bathroom. Taking a bath is an easy thing. You take soap, use it around your body, and done.
Knock* Knock*!
"Hmmm?"
"Brother, this is your clothes from Renald and Eka." Say my sister after knocking bathroom door.
"Don't worry, just put it in front of the door." Say me while still bathing.
After done bathing, I look to the hanger. Sigh* I forgot to ask towel. How I wipe all water on my body now...
"Emily! Can you bring me a towel?" Ask me out loud.
"Here! In front of the door."
I open a bit the bathroom door a bit and take my clothes along with the towel. Before that, I tried to look at my body in front of the mirror in the bathroom. I usually went to the gym but, this body... This is perfect. Are stats point can really change your body? That's fantastic. I try to form some pose to praise myself.
"I am really handsome now." Say me to myself in front of the mirror.
I open the door and see my sister pouting at me.
"Don't say, you just use soap and not wash your hair and clean your teeth?" Say my sister while pouting.
"Don't worry about small details." Say me while walking out of the bathroom.
"But..." Say my sister.
"Don't worry, don't worry." Say me while start to do some yoga.
"Sigh* Fine, you win." Say her.
I try to lift my body and that is surprisingly easy. The system is really amazing because can do this. Is there any logic in it? I don't really know. This world is more and more like a game.
My sister looks at me. After doing yoga, I do cooling movements to limp my muscles.
"Now, what?" Say me to myself.
"Wanna go outside?" Say my sister while tilting her head.
"That's a good idea but, I feel to forgot something." Say me while looking at my sister.
"If you forgot it, that means that's not important." Say my sister while smirking.
I look at her with a plain face.
"I mean, you are always in front of your computer or doing a part-time job." Say my sister tries to remind me.
"Then, want to go outside?" Ask me to my sister.
"Just look at the clock now." Say my sister while pointing clock wall behind her, up from the double bed.
"One o'clock p.m. right?" Say me while thinking what's wrong with that.
"A.m. not p.m." Say my sister.
After she said that, that meant I slept for around twelve hours.
"Wait, they gave me clothes right?" Say me while reminded what she said.
"Yeah, but that's about ten hours ago. I almost forgot it you know?" Say my sister.
"Then, what's now." Say me while don't know what to do next.
"Sigh* Why don't we take a walk in this city?" Ask my sister why smiled at me.
"Okay" Say me while smiling too.
I open the door. Wonderful, there is a transparent white ceiling with a hexagon pattern with a ball shape on the top of this city.
"That's to the veranda." Say my sister. After that, she pointed the door to the outside.
"Haha...." awkwardly laugh by me.
I open the right door and see all the room. It seems our room is 45. We go inside the elevator at the end of the corridor in front of our room to the left. After that, I touch the first floor. We go down and the elevator door opens. We can see the glass door at the end of this corridor along the reservation room. There are still people who work at this time huh? As I walk in front of the workers, they greet us. Is it okay for to us stay in this hotel? It looks expensive.
Wow, is this really Yogyakarta? Many buildings are destroyed because of monsters. Still, some buildings can stand sturdy. The road is quiet.
"Doesn't there any teen who does wild race nowadays huh?" Ask me wandering around.
"There is no way they can do that. The government takes out all the gasoline for military purposes." Say my sister while looking at deserted streets.
"Are they using bicycles now?" Ask me to my sister.
"I was in here before and they just run and walk. No one using a car, motorcycle, or something like that. They who can't be Giver use Delman to transport if they tired." Say my sister.
Delman is an old traditional transport horse that carries a carriage. There is a horseman who controls the horse called Kusir.
"Then, what's about that building." Say me while pointing to a big building with a giant text "Guild".
"That's guild, we, the Givers joined that guild. Don't worry, I registered you too brother..." Say my sister while looking at that giant building.
The moon and Sin brighten the night sky. This is time to sleep.
"We will be back after a short time?" Ask my sister to recognize where I walk to.
"There is nothing we can do in this midnight time after all. Let's just sleep." Say me.
"Okay, if you say so." Say my sister looks disappointed.
We go back to our room. There is nothing to do after all.
"Is there any handphone or some game?" Say me while lying down my body on the bed looking at the ceiling.
"Want me to sing a lullaby?" Ask my sister.
I see her with a plain face to what she said.
"I am joking... Don't stare at me like that, Why don't you... sleep?" Say my sister rolling his eyes.
I am trying to, it is really hard. I am looking to the ceiling... and sleep.
Morning has come. I wake up with my sister's leg on my face. I grab her leg and throw it from my face.
"Ouch!"
"Sorry, your leg is troubling mine." Say me with an annoying voice.
"You should handle your sister with care!!" Say my sister while her leg gets out from bed with her head nearly out of bed.
"How does the upside-down world look like?" Say me after standing up from bed.
"Terrifying." Say my sister responds to my joke.
"I will go bath first, why don't we reunite with Eka and the others?" Say me while going to the bathroom.
"You really want a bath at this time?" Say my sister while pointing to the clock wall up near the bed with his finger.
"It's five o'clock, Why don't you take your head from the floor and stand up?" Say me looking at my sister's head that upside down.
"Sigh* Just don't take a long time." Say my sister.
I open the door and close it. After a minute, a refreshing guy comes out of the bathroom.
"That's fast!" Say my sister.
"Where is my depressed sister I had before!? You are way more energetic." Say me a bit annoying while wiping out the water on my hair with the towel.
"This is my time, move out." Say my sister after pushing me in front of the bathroom door.
"You forgot your towel." Say me while holding the white towel.
She opens the door and takes the towel in my hand.
Knock* knock*
"Are you awake Rega?" Say Eka with a loud voice.
I grab the door handle and open it. I see Eka in his green shirt with a blue dress inside it and blue pants.
"Let me bring you around. There is a festival to celebrate the new guest." Say Eka while looking excited.
"Emily! I want to go outside." Shout me while bit looking behind me.
"Yeah! I will go with the girls too~" Shout my sister back.
Then, we pair up and go outside. It looks like Renald waiting for us on the first floor while standing at the wall.
"Why you took so long?" Say Renald glancing at us.
"Sorry, sorry." Say Eka.
"Then, let's go." Say Renald in his calm voice.
The clothes that Renald wears are exactly the same as mine. Black shirt with white dress inside and black long pants. The difference is, that Renald wears a silver watch in his right hand. It seems he was the person who chose these clothes.
As we are opening the door, many people are walking outside. Some people are setting up a pillar with a banner on the top of the pillar with "Welcome to Yogyakarta!" written on the banner. Some people are setting up the national flag. Some people prepare to sell their food or things that they would sell. Some trucks carry Ondel-ondel, a giant doll that is worn by humans in the parade. There are dragon costumes too. Some urban legends are about ghosts like Pocong (corpse rolled by white fabric) Kuntilanak (girl ghost in a white dress), Le-ak (ghost monster from Bali that is identical with its long teeth), and more.
"They really put on some traditional entertainment." Say me while looking at Renald.
"Is it to introduce tourist to their culture?" Say Renald looks amazed.
"Yeah, we totally get into that. We really have many kinds of culture." Say Eka.
'"Is there any racism?" Ask Renald to us with a serious face.
"There are, but we leave it as a joke. Sometimes it fell offend too." Say Eka while looking to people who prepare their own thing to enliven the festival.
"You Indonesians are a really strong country huh?" Say Renald no trying to continue the conversation.
"Normally, this festival is just for seventeen August but, I think they do it as a grateful sign that we survive and join them." Say me.
"Unlucky, the city is just in Yogyakarta. I don't want to imagine how many people die because of this Ragnarok." Say Eka.
We still standing in front of the hotel to see people walking around the street.

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