Sazha finally returned home to her apartment after getting lost several times. She lay on the bed while looking at the ceiling of her room.
"You're so lucky, uncle..." this voice was heard from Hans' room but this was not Sazha's voice, her voice sounded like a boy's voice.
"My head is pounding again." Sazha said flatly as she looked back at the ceiling of her room.
~ 8 hours earlier
Sazha was still looking at the sky while once again contemplating her fate which was still filled with bad luck.
However, all her chaotic thoughts changed in an instant after she saw many hands being extended to her, like a rope being dropped from a steep cliff to save someone trapped at the bottom.
Sazha shed tears, she happily welcomed the hand, she got up, once again she rose from her bad luck. Sazha stood up straight looking at the sky which was very sparkling, now she had made up her mind that she would not offend someone's gender again.
Sazha once again deceived himself so that he could get a decent place in the eyes of others, what a truly poor old man.
~ 8 hours later
Hans' body began to get tired.
Hans now opened the refrigerator, taking some canned drinks that looked cool.
"I've never had a refrigerator this full, I'm really lucky today heheheh..." Sazha said this while laughing, he laughed as much as he could while spending his night partying, he no longer cared about Hans or his financial condition, he had completely forgotten about it.
That night, a group of men in black suits were seen waiting for something, they were carrying suitcases and something in their bags, no one knew for sure what they were waiting for.
Until the next morning, Sazha woke up—he slowly headed to the bathroom.
When he had taken off his clothes, he vaguely saw something red on his chest but he still didn't care because his eyes were still very difficult to lift.
The man was currently taking a shower, but suddenly he had a suspicious incident, his bar of soap fell to the floor and now he had to bend down. Sazha looked around the bathroom, then he took the soap, unfortunately nothing happened yet.
He continued to rub the thin soap on his body, until he reached a moment where he had to rub Hans' shiny chest.
Sazha, who was still half asleep at that time, rubbed the soap on the chest where he had seen something red earlier.
"Hmmm... maybe it's blood because I slept so hard." said Sazha confidently.
When he rubbed the soap on the red part of his chest, suddenly the thin soap split. This old man still didn't care, he kept trying to rub it on that part until the soap broke, until the skin on his finger touched a red crystal-shaped object on his chest.
When he realized, the red crystal on his chest had disappeared, he took a shampoo to replace the soap that had broken. However, when he took the shampoo, the shampoo also fell.
"Tch, come on shampoo." said Sazha while closing his eyes.
He tried to take the shampoo again down next to his left foot. However, when he tried to look down, Sazha slowly opened his eyes. Once again, he saw something he shouldn't have seen (Sazha looked at the mirror).
"Heh, this must be because I stayed up late last night, okay tomorrow I promise I won't stay up late again." said Sazha while holding back the trembling in his hands and feet.
Sazha finally got out of the bathroom while trying to forget what he had just seen.
He opened his closet and chose the clothes he would wear to work. He had tried to put his arms into the clothes many times, but they still didn't fit.
Sazha threw the clothes away and now he was lying on the floor surrounded by trash from chips and soda cans.
Sazha pondered while staring at the ceiling of the room.
"I have to return all the snacks I took from this kid, but for some reason I'm so lazy."
Since it was a holiday, Sazha planned to go back to being a motorcycle taxi driver using his old account, but he had to go to his original body's boarding house to pick up his motorcycle. How could he think of this.
He suddenly heard a strange sound, the sound was like the sound of fish fins moving. His panic returned, but he tried to stay calm even though he knew his whole body was shaking.
When Sazha tried to raise his hand in front of his eyes, he now realized that he—
His hand had become strange, he had skin between his fingers, his skin had become pale gray, and Sazha could see his strange mouth from the corner of his eyes.
The man got up again, he went to the window and opened the curtains in front of him tightly.
"The city view is beautiful today, huh."
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Sazha's face was sweaty, he sat down while thinking about what was happening right now. He had tried to scratch his skin a little with a knife so that he could wake up from the dream that he thought was a lucid dream.
However, it all didn't work.
"What, what should I do? What if other people see my appearance like this? Damn it! Even though I just got to live happily, why does bad luck always follow me wherever I am." said Sazha from his rotten heart.
He tried to go back to the bathroom, when he faced the mirror, now he saw a strange creature with a mouth that was facing forward followed by teeth at the end of its mouth, two eyes that were separate and elongated to the side, and his body that was now softer than the shiny skin of the woman with an Adam's apple yesterday.
Sazha's eyes were watery, while scared, he secretly watched his body which he now considered 'disgusting'. Sazha looked down at the table in front of the mirror while lamenting his fate again.
"I... I'm... still human, right? Hahaha..." Sazha laughed like someone who almost lost his mind
Sazha once again thought about something he always thought about when he was little and until now he still didn't know the answer, or rather he didn't need to know.
Sazha could only be pensive, he looked for a long time at the pile of trash lying on the floor.
~ Silence ~
"Am I cursed because this room is dirty?" Sazha who was starting to lose his mind tried to clean the room, still hoping that this was all just paranoia.
When Sazha tried to step, suddenly he slipped because his skin was very slippery.
Under Hans' mattress, Sazha saw a piece of paper with writing, and yes... he ignored it.
Sazha slowly got up again, he decided to clean Hans' apartment room which was still filled with trash.
~ A few minutes later
After finishing sweeping, he was currently trying to reach a piece of paper under the mattress.
"Got it!"
Sazha opened the crumpled paper, slowly he looked at its contents.
"What kind of letter is this, young man Hans? Oh my, aren't you tired of receiving letters all the time..." Sazha said in his heart to the figure of 'Hans' who he considered 'existent'.
"Let's read it,"
~ Letter Content ~
From: Mother to my beloved Hans...
Hello son, Hans, congratulations on being accepted into a state university, I am very proud of you.
Earlier, I just bought a laptop as your graduation present.
Achieve your dreams diligently, Hans, so that you are not like your parents.
I want you more than I do... I know you can! Keep up the spirit, son.
Lastly, I apologize for yesterday, I know you, and I can't be mad about that.
Thank you also for giving mom a graduation gift... even though you don't think so... but your efforts are the best gift a child can give to their parents...
Don't forget to take your medicine, son, I hope we all stay healthy.
~ mother
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~ A few minutes later
While Sazha was lying on the floor, suddenly a loud knock was heard from the door of her apartment room. Sazha panicked and tried not to open the door. She hid in the bathroom while peeking through the crack in the door.
BANG BANG !!
"OPEN THE DOOR !!!"
"Damn, it would be bad if someone saw me like this..." Sazha said to himself while panicking.
Sazha remained hiding until a few minutes later the sound disappeared.
"Huffth, congratulations..." thought the man.
However, a few seconds later the door bounced.
CRASH!
"WHAT!?" Sazha screamed in his heart when he saw the door suddenly floating in front of him.
Behind the dust, several men in black suits were seen entering Hans' room.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Hans..." said a man with a friendly smile.
"Wait a minute, what just happened? This isn't funny, maybe they-" said Sazha in his heart.
"Yes, that's right, now is the time for you to pay all your debts..." said the man with glasses while smiling.
Sazha's face was very panicked.
"What!? How come!? How could a creature as holy as this young man Hans think of getting into debt!?" thought Sazha innocently.
"Even though I am an old unemployed failure, I have never once owed anyone, it is better to choose a life that is already difficult than to make it even more difficult." ~ Sazha.
The three men in black suits explored every corner of Hans' apartment room, until the time came for them to check the apartment bathroom.
The panicked Sazha could only surrender to his strange fate.
When the door was opened, Sazha hid in the bathtub, he had a plan to pretend to be a fish.
One of the men in black suits was surprised.
"What's wrong, Mr. Yono? Did you find something?"
"Yes, but I only found white-skinned fish here."
The other 2 men in suits were shocked when they found Hans writhing like a fish even though his body had returned to its original state.
Sazha slowly looked at the 3 men in black suits.
"I'm a fish."