So...that was it. Rahul picked the book up because I just stared numbly at the shelf. He opened the book, “See? I told you, people died everyday and this was only a list of people who’re going to die in US.” Rahul held the thick book with his two hands.
“Can’t we just…find the exact time and place? Maybe you’ll remember some name.”
“I can’t.” Rahul shook his head, hand touching his nose bridge. “I would if I could, but I won’t be able to remember anything by seeing hundreds or thousand of names like this.” Rahul continued to grumble, "You know, like hundreds of potato."
Yup. Rahul and his potato again.
“Seems like you’re having problem,” said the librarian who walked towards us. He stopped and crossing his arms as if to ask what was wrong but he was too proud to do that.
“No, we’re okay,” I said. I should not let any more people knew anything about my problem, just Rahul and Kat were enough. The Grim Reaper who couldn’t do their job properly would pay for the human’s death. That was what they told us when we started our job.
The librarian shook his head and left quietly. I turned my head back to Rahul and Kat, saying, “I know how we’re gonna do this.”
“How?”
- - -
28 Days before the soul reaping.
I woke up with the sound of Kat cooking downstair so I got up, getting dressed before I walked down to see her in the kitchen.
“Morning.” I grabbed two plates and gave it to Kat. She put eggs and bacons in the plates then I brought them to the living room.
“So…you’re going to get a phone.” Kat talked while chewing. That was what I didn’t like about her. Man, I told her hundreds times already.
“Yup.” I popped the p sound. “Then I went back up there, going to that café, hoping that the barista whom I met was the one dying. I’ll ask him his name and call you or Rahul later to search his bio in the library and see if his ending is on October 31st or not.”
“Why phone? You hate mobiles and technologies. I don’t even know if you know how to use a smartphone. You’re old.”
I had lived for hundreds years but it wasn’t like I was so ancient I didn’t use technology, okay? I owned a laptop, I watched tv shows on smart tv. I was a really hip grim reaper.
“I am not. I can adapt, you know? I will do anything to get this human’s soul.”
Even if it meant I had to buy a stupid human phone.
- - -
27 Days before the soul reaping.
new phone who dis
I texted Kat to show her that even though I had lived for hundred years I still got humor and the ability to use new technology and understand those hip slangs, see? I even downloaded that ‘Facebook’ app she talked about. She just rolled her eyes.
"You should go to the Upperworld already. Why are you still staying here?"
"Resting," I said, laying on the couch while Kat preparing to go to work. "I also have other souls to reap, so I'm charging my battery before I have to deal with all of them, plus Rahul said he might find something useful that help my situation." I yawn then picked the game controller Kat put on the couch to play her games.
"Do you really trust that dude?"
"Not really, I'm pretty sure he was the one used some kind of trick to blurred the name in the first place."
"You're thinking to much."
I shrugged, "I hope."
"Well, then, I'm gonna go now." Kat waved her hand, "Don't replace my save, okay?"
- - -
24 Days before the soul reaping.
I opened the door and went inside the café, getting ready to talk with the man again but when the man behind the counter greeted me, asking for my order, I was shocked.
"Hello?"
It was not the same barista I saw last week.
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