On March 24, 1993, in an empty area of the Bothyzard Region, around 4 am.

Garuvy has closed her eyes. She lied down while tilting her body to the left side on a red mat placed in the middle of an empty land area inside a semicircular blue barrier.

Suddenly, she opens her eyes. Through the transparent blue barrier edge, she sees the backs of two Bothyzards.

One of the Bothyzards on the left is releasing a blue light beam. The other one is releasing blue fireballs.

After watching them for a minute, Garuvy closes her eyes again. She turns her body and her face towards the sky.

In her dream, she sees a creature that looks like a big light blue ball, which has two eyes with blue sclera and light blue eyeballs.

She hears a voice from the creature. “The time has come. You will become the Death Angel.”

***

“Garuvy.”

“Garuvy!”

Around 7 am, the voice woke Garuvy up. The first person she saw was Andark, who had changed his previous Bothyzard Robe for an intact Bothyzard Robe. He crouched on the mat on the right side of Garuvy and stared at her.

Behind Andark, she could see a barrier hole and Goode, who was watching her and Andark from the outside of the barrier and standing on the left side of the barrier hole with Lighel, who stood on Goode’s left side and carried a pink food box in her hands.

Garuvy turns to Andark. “Mr. Andark…” She rises from the mat and sits with her legs still stretched out.

“Did you sleep well?” Andark asked.

“Yes.” Garuvy nodded.

With his left hand, Andark pats and strokes Garuvy’s head. “Good.” He smiles.

He releases his left hand from her head. “I hope you can sleep well until your quarantine is over, dear.”

After hearing that, Garuvy’s eyes are wide and her eyebrows are raised. She lifts her hands and turns to her hands.

Andark’s eyebrows are knitted. “No, don’t think about it! You should stay calm, dear!”

Garuvy lowers her hands and turns back to Andark.

“I brought somethin’ for you.” Andark smiles.

Andark turns to the long-sleeved blue T-shirt placed on his right side. He takes it with his hands and shows it in front of Garuvy. “Here. Change your current T-shirt with this. It’s yours, right?”

“Yes.” Garuvy nodded. “But please close your eyes, sir.” Her eyebrows are knitted, and she looks down.

“Oh, okay.” Andark smiled and nodded.

As soon as Andark gave the blue T-shirt to Garuvy, their eyes widened as blue auras appeared around Garuvy’s hands. She tears the blue T-shirt in her hands.

“Oh my god!” Andark’s eyebrows are highly raised. “Garuvy! Stay away from the mat!” He stays away from Garuvy.

While trying to stay away from the mat, four aura-covered, hand-sized mat pieces near her left hand floated, went to her northwest side, and fell to the ground.

Eight aura-covered, head-sized mat pieces near her right hand floated, went to her southeast side, and fell to the ground.

After she stepped on the ground without wearing her pink sandals, she stretched her hands forward.

Garuvy moves to her right side to dodge a hand-sized rock and nine head-sized rocks near her left hand that go towards her before falling to the ground. While she moved to her right side, one of the head-sized rocks hit her stomach.

Four hand-sized rocks and eight head-sized rocks near her right hand go to her northwest side.

Garuvy moves to her left side to dodge six hand-sized rocks near her left hand that go towards her.

Seven head-sized rocks near her right hand go to her northwest side.

Three hand-sized rocks near her left hand go straight and fall to the ground. She moves to her left side to dodge the five head-sized rocks near her right hand that go towards her.

While she moved to her left side, one of the head-sized rocks hit her right arm. The blue auras around Garuvy’s hands disappeared.

She holds her right arm with her left hand. She also holds her stomach with her right hand. She looks down with a crumpled face.

“What we feared has happened…” Goode’s mouth is downturned.

“It’s okay, Garuvy!” Andark’s eyebrows are knitted. “We’ll bring you a new T-shirt and a new mat!”

Suddenly, blue auras appeared around Garuvy’s hands.

“Watch out!” Andark shouted.

After Garuvy quickly stretched her hands forward, two hand-sized rocks and five head-sized rocks near her left hand went to her southwest side.

Six hand-sized rocks and four head-sized rocks near her right hand went to her left side.

Eight stomach-sized rocks and three head-sized rocks near her left hand go straight.

Four hand-sized rocks and two stomach-sized rocks near her right hand go to her northeast side.

Garuvy moves to her southwest side to dodge three hand-sized rocks near her left hand that go towards her.

Seven head-sized rocks and five stomach-sized rocks near her right hand go to her northwest side.

Seven head-sized rocks near her left hand go upward. Four stomach-sized rocks near her right hand go to her southeast side.

Garuvy moves to her northeast side to dodge six head-sized rocks and five stomach-sized rocks near her left hand that go towards her. While she moved to her northeast side, one of the stomach-sized rocks hit her face.

Two head-sized rocks and a hand-sized rock near her right hand go to her right side.

Garuvy moves to her southeast side to dodge five head-sized rocks and eight stomach-sized rocks near her left hand that go towards her.

Three head-sized rocks and seven stomach-sized rocks near her right hand go upward.

Six stomach-sized rocks near her left hand go to her northeast side. Nine stomach-sized rocks near her right hand go to her southeast side, clash with the other six stomach-sized rocks, and fall.

The blue auras around Garuvy’s hands disappeared. After seeing Garuvy putting her palms on her face, Andark approached her.

He holds Garuvy’s shoulders with his hands. “Hey, it’s okay. Don’t put your palms on your face. It’s dangerous.”

“It hurts…” Garuvy said with a sad voice.

“I know, but release them now, okay?”

Garuvy releases her palms from her face and turns to Andark. “I don’t think I can stand this…”

Lighel and Goode approach Andark and Garuvy.

“Strengthen yourself.” Andark’s eyebrows are knitted. “This is still the first day.”

Garuvy’s eyebrows are furrowed. “That’s why!” She shouted.

“Oh, no, Garuvy!” Goode’s eyebrows are knitted. “Keep your good spirit!” He stretches his hands towards her.

“Don’t be so dark, Garuvy.” Lighel’s face is crumpled.

“What about you?” Garuvy shouted before she added. “Did you sleep last night?”

Andark and the Bothyzards remain silent for a few seconds.

“No, we didn’t,” Lighel replied.

“So, aren’t you tired?” Garuvy asked again.

“Yeah, we’re tired, dear.” Andark nodded before he continued. “But don’t worry. I can call my friend to come here, and I’ll ask him to bring his friends so that we can go home and sleep.”

“Oh, is that so?” Garuvy’s eyebrows are raised. “Well, then.”

Goode turns to Andark. “Who are you referring to, Andark?”

Andark turns to Goode. “Well, he’s our old friend. He became a teacher in Bothyzard Academy 1,” Andark replied.

“Oh, yes!” Goode smiled before he added. “I know!”

“Yeah, that guy.” Lighel smiles.

Andark turns to Garuvy. “Okay, Garuvy, now is your time for breakfast.”

“Ah, yes, I’m hungry.” Garuvy looks down and holds her stomach with her right hand.

“Hey, don’t touch your stomach!” Andark’s eyebrows are narrowed.

“Oh…” Garuvy releases her right hand from her stomach.

“Now you should direct your hands backward and keep them like that until you finish eatin’,” Andark ordered.

“Like this?” Garuvy stretches her hands backward.

“Yeah.” Andark nodded before he turned to Lighel. “C’mon, Lighel.”

Lighel approaches Garuvy and opens the food box she brought. She shows its content to Garuvy. The girl sees that there is rice, vegetable soup, tempeh, and a spoon in the box.

“Here’s your food to boost your light, Garuvy!” Lighel smiled before she continued. “Isn’t it delicious? I’ll feed you with a spoon, so open your mouth, okay?”

After Lighel held the spoon with her right hand, she filled it with some rice and vegetables. She directs the spoon to Garuvy’s opened mouth.

As soon as Garuvy devoured the spoon, blue auras appeared around Garuvy’s hands. Behind her, some rocks float and fall like before.

While Lighel is feeding Garuvy, Goode and Andark are deflecting the rocks that are coming to Garuvy with their palms.

After Garuvy finished the food, Lighel closed the food box. “Hooray! You did it, Garuvy!” Lighel smiled before she added. “Hold on a minute. I’ll get you a drink.”

After she moves away from Garuvy, Lighel approaches a white plastic bag containing a water can placed on the edge of the barrier with an empty white plastic bag on its left side.

She takes the white plastic bag with a water can and comes back to Garuvy. “C’mon, Garuvy! I’ll hold the water can, and you open your mouth.”

After Garuvy opens her mouth and looks up, Lighel puts the mouth of the water can to Garuvy’s mouth so she can drink the water.

After a minute, the blue auras around Garuvy’s hands disappeared. She finished drinking, so Lighel put the water can back in the white plastic bag.

“Good job!” Andark smiled and showed his right thumb before he continued. “Keep doin’ that when you eat later. Now I’ll contact my old friend with telepathy, and after that, we’ll bring a new T-shirt and a new mat for you.”

Goode turns to Andark. “No, Andark, we should not bring her a new T-shirt. She could tear it again.”

Lighel turns to Andark. “Yeah, don’t be so dark, Darky.”

Andark turns to Garuvy. “Is that alright with you, Garuvy?”

“Yes.” Garuvy nodded before she added. “I would rather wear a torn T-shirt than tear my other T-shirts.” She still stretches her hands backward with no blue auras.

They remain silent for a few seconds.

“Fine.” Andark nodded before he added. “I hope you don’t catch a cold. Excuse me.”

After Andark moved away and put his right index finger and middle finger on his head, Goode and Lighel moved away from Garuvy as blue auras appeared around Garuvy’s hands.

After Garuvy stretched her hands forward, a stomach-sized rock and six hand-sized rocks near her left hand went to her right side.

Five hand-sized rocks and four head-sized rocks near her right hand go to her right side.

Garuvy moves to her southeast side to dodge three stomach-sized rocks and seven head-sized rocks near her left hand that go towards her.

Seven head-sized rocks and five hand-sized rocks near her right hand go to her northwest side.

Garuvy moves backward to dodge the ten stomach-sized rocks near her hands that go towards her.

***

Around 10 am, a Bothyger and a Botholf came towards Andark on the outside of the barrier before being stabbed to death by four arm-sized blue needle shadows from his left hand and four arm-sized blue needle shadows from his right hand.

Soon after that, Andark moved to his southeast side to dodge the blue light balls that were released by a Bothgunman from behind and two Bothgunmen from his left side. He keeps the dead Bothyger and the dead Botholf attached to his blue needle shadows.

One of the two Bothgunmen on Andark’s left side got killed by a hand-sized blue light beam released from Lighel’s left hand. The other one got killed by blue fireballs released from Goode’s right hand.

The Bothgunman behind Andark was approached by another Bothgunman as they both released blue light balls from their blue guns towards Andark.

While approaching the two monsters, Andark uses the dead Bothyger and the dead Botholf in his blue needle shadows to protect him from the blue light balls.

After approaching them, he directed the blue needle shadows towards them and stabbed their bodies by lengthening the blue needle shadows.

As a result, there are a dead Bothyger with a dead Bothgunman attached to the blue needle shadow from his left hand and a dead Botholf with a dead Bothgunman attached to the blue needle shadows from his right hand.

After that, there are no enemies around, but Andark still maintains the blue needle shadows in his hands with the Bothytures attached to them.

Inside the barrier, Garuvy sat on the edge of the torn mat with both knees bent to her chest and both feet wearing sandals and touching the ground.

With a crumpled face, Garuvy looks ahead while she stretches her hands forward and puts them on her knees.

After a minute, she looks around the area outside the barrier. She saw two dead Bothygers, three dead Botholves, seven dead Bothgunmen, and five dead Bothyghters before she looked back ahead.

She stares at her hands. “Please don’t come out again. I’m tired…”

Garuvy immediately stood up and stayed away from the mat after she saw blue auras in her hands.

Three stomach-sized rocks and six head-sized rocks near her left hand go straight.

Five hand-sized rocks and a stomach-sized rock near her right hand go to her northeast side.

Five stomach-sized rocks and eight head-sized rocks near her left hand go straight.

Two head-sized rocks and ten stomach-sized rocks near her right hand go to her northeast side.

Nine hand-sized rocks and four head-sized rocks near her left hand go straight.

Nine head-sized rocks and seven stomach-sized rocks near her right hand go to her northeast side.

Seven stomach-sized rocks and six head-sized rocks near her left hand go straight.

She moves to her southeast side to dodge two stomach-sized rocks and five head-sized rocks near her right hand that go towards her.

Outside the barrier, Lighel stands and keeps an eye on the surroundings with Goode, who stands close to her left side, and Andark, who stands far to her right side.

Lighel’s eyebrows are knitted. Suddenly, her body goes limp, and she sits on the ground. It makes Goode walk towards her. He trips over a rock and falls down. Andark was surprised to see his friends go down, so he approached them.

“What’s wrong? Aren’t we used to doin’ this?” Andark asked.

While still sitting down, Lighel turns to Andark. “Yeah, but we need a break, dark guy!”

While still lying down, Goode turns to Andark. “Yes, how can you look so relaxed while carrying corpses like that?”

“I’m just tryin’ to stay strong,” Andark replied.

Suddenly, the three of them turn towards the four Bothygers, five Botholves, and six Bothoxes that are coming towards the barrier.

To be continued.