Are You?

Zack comes home after dropping Lylac back to her house. Lylac's mother also gave him some aromatherapy candles. At first she didn't know that Zack is a Ghoul, she want to give him corn soup, potato salad and roast lamb.

"This is for you. This scent is great for calming you down. Oh, I got it from a friend of mine who owns a perfume shop. If you want to get it again, I'll give you the address."

"Thanks, I like it," Zack said.

He is a very polite man. No wonder Lylac likes it. Zack is very friendly and friendly to anyone, including people he just met. Lylac admits that Zack is too perfect as a man.

Ah, or maybe the guy she's been meeting with all this time is a bad guy. When she meets Zack, she feels like all the men she's ever loved have gone bad.

Oh, a man like this must also have a wonderful lover. To be honest, Lylac is really curious what Zack's girlfriend was like. She wants to meet the woman. However, on the one hand she also felt he had to heal her heart first. She's heartbroken right now. You must understand how it feels.

She will ask Zack to meet his lover when he is healed. When she get better, she promise to congrats to her who make the person she loves falling in love with her.

Everything will change. So do with her heart. She just hope to find someone great, another one. She believes it, try.


After she found out that Zack is as a Ghoul, she immediately took an aromatherapy candle. Lylac's mother did know that Ghouls loved aromatherapy. It serves to reduce the scent of humans around them.

"I can't wait to to tell Cherie this. She must be thrilled to hear that she'll be seeing Lylac's grandmother soon."

Zack open the door of his house and immediately called his girlfriend's name.

"Ma Cherie... I am home!!!"

Zack just does not know that someone else is in his house right now with his girlfriend.

"Ma Cherie..."

No! It is not Zack calling his girlfriend's name, it is Rosie...

"Why do you call her Ma Cherie... Is there something you guys are hiding from me?"

Oh no!

It is not like this is what Zack and Cherie want, they could not tell Rosie about their relationship. At least for now, they could not tell what is really going on between the two of them.

"Hey! Why are you silent? Answer my question!"

"I like to call her that because it's similar to one of the stories I've read. Ma Cherie, she looks so much like a fictional character in a book."

That is the alibi said by Zack.

At least, that was what he could think at the moment. Hey, it is not all wrong anyway. Indeed, there is one fictional character named Cherie.

"Hey, what are you doing here, Rosie?"

Cherie who notices that and Rosie busy talking about work immediately returned home. She had told Rosie earlier that she had come to Zack's house for a sedative injection. She felt very hungry.

Luckily, Rosie is not suspicious of the reason she gave. In fact, Rosie gives some medicine to Cherie.

However, actually Rosie is just pretending to believe the two of them. She had known Cherie for a long time. Rosie of course knew that her best friend had something to hide.

Now is not the right time to know that. She will investigate the relationship between the two. Rosie will surely find the answer in her own way.

"Tomorrow I am going on leave, Zack. I asked for help to keep an eye on one of the prisoners, she seems to be paranoid. I have some medicine to take, I will give you the notes."

"Yes, of course. What prisoner number?"

302. Thirty-two year old male. He has a daughter who is seven years old. Tomorrow the daughter will come to see her son."

"Really? I hope his son does not hate the government. I am afraid he'll misinterpret all of this. She might think the government's laws are too cruel. He is still very young, he is only seven years old."

This is one of the things the government pays attention to as well. Families of detainees who are not involved in criminal cases still receive the consequences if one of their family members commits a crime.

For example, in some cases, a woman was pregnant but she was a corruptor. The government decided for the woman to give birth to her child first. After that he still had to accept his punishment.

This does sound very sad.

Therefore, it is better to be a good person. Of course being a good person for a good person too.

There are many people who will be hurt if humans commit crimes.

"Where are you going, Rosie? A Vacation?"

"I want to do meditation. I also want to go to the forest to meet the elders and elders. I haven't seen them in a long time.

Yes, Rosie is known to often go to the forest to meet the elders and leaders who still live there. Not all Ghouls want to do that because it is very tiring. Rosie does have a very good relationship with those who still live in the forest.

"Have a nice holiday."

"Thank you, Zack!"

Zack tells Cherie about Rosie's vacation. They could see each other more often while Rosie is not in the town of Marvierra. Rosie is on leave for three days, so during those three days they grew closer and saw each other more often.

They also intended to meet Lylac's grandmother today. Their plan was to go to the village where Lylac's grandmother lived. The Lylac grandmother didn't know that both of them are Ghouls. Actually, Lylac's grandmother only knew about Zack.

Zack does not tell anyone that his girlfriend is a Ghoul, right? So all this time Lylac thought that Zack's lover was a human.

Lylac only tells that Zack is a Ghoul who works in a government factory.

"My grandmother really liked books, there are a lot of old books. So don't be surprised if you see a lot of books that may be older than you. It's all a collection passed down from ancestors."


"Here's the address."


They arrived after two hours later. It is very cold here and the land is very wide. There are many sheep that eat grass.

"It's like a vacation, isn't it?"

"Yeah, it's enough to relieve our stress. That's the house."

Zack pointed to a white house. There is a chimney emitting smoke. Zack and Cherie could guess if this scent was the scent of rosemary cake.

"Hey you guys Zack and Cherie?"

It turned out to be a forty-year-old woman who lived with Lylac's grandmother. The woman is the caregiver of Lylac's grandmother. At that time he explained that he had known Zack and Cherie's arrival.

"He's in the reading room, please come in."

Lylac's grandmother, she looks very healthy and well-groomed in her old age. When he smelled another scent in his room, he immediately greeted his guest.

"You must be a handsome man." he complimented Zack.

"Thank you, grandma. Grandma has a very beautiful granddaughter."

Cherie looks displeased with Zack's compliment to Lylac. Even though she know the compliment is true, she is still jealous.

"Oh, it seems your lover is jealous because you complimented my beautiful granddaughter. Hey, young lady. Do not worry, your the only one for him. It is yours."

"Yes, she is mine, grandma."

Zack and Cherie are invited to see the contents of Lylac's grandmother's library which has a classic vintage feel. This room has a glass roof that lets sunlight in and makes the plants that are deliberately planted in this place grow.

There are lots of windows and a very comfortable reading spot here.

"You must have read Red Winter. Lylac told me she lent the novel to a friend. I am sure that is what brought you here as well."

"Yes, Grandma. That's right. We came here to ask you about the novel Red Winter. Do you know how to find the author?" asked Cherie.

"It's all fiction, Cherie."

What?!

"No way, grandma!"

Cherie is starting to lose control because she is angry at Lylac's grandmother's explanation. He saw that incident, what is described in the novel Red Winter was exactly the same as what she saw when she went to Panora.

"Cherie... Calm down."

"Wait!!!!"

Lylac's grandmother begin to realize something. There is something he had suspected from earlier. Especially when you see Zack and Cherie's increasingly strange attitude.

"Cherie, Zack. Are you two Ghouls?"