In a small mountain range full of trees with a leaves shade in blue, a small town was situated at the outermost area in this mountain.
This town is named Heiwa.
Heiwa town layout and buildings are unique.
The building's in the town have a different structure than the other, signifying the fact that the people here are quite rich.
But there is one thing that make the Heiwa town unique from the other town.
It's Harmony of it's surrounding.
The layout of the town didn't ruin the sight of the mountains at all.
In fact, it makes even more beautiful.
As if the town are made by nature itself.
Looking from afar, one would feel a peace of mind.
Outside the town, there's a youth standing far away, admiring its sight.
This youth is Ikari.
Ikari had a thick eyebrow, long nose, and sharp pitch black eye. Combine with his refined face and long straight hair that stop at his shoulders, he looked like a young devil.
Ikari is just 17 this year, with a height of 5'8 and a fit body, one might doubt his real age.
Wearing a gray robe with a belt around his waist, Ikari smiled a bit and walked toward the town.
Walking along the road, he observed his surrounding.
Alongside the road is a rice field.
The field is quite large, and the rice plants are abundant and healthy, ready for harvest in a month.
Ikari nod in approval and continued along the road.
When he arrived at the town, he'd narrow his eyes, feeling uneasy.
The town is silent, with barely noise are heard with his good hearing.
This is not his first time feeling uneasiness when he entered the town.
This happened every time when his back from the mountain.
This feeling of unsease start a year ago.
But, at that time with the sight of oblivious and carefree people in the town, he shrugged this feeling off.
Currently, the time is past noon and it's normal for the town to be silent as most people are asleep at this time.
However, this time his gut told him to get away from this town.
Ikari is curious why this happened.
In his time of thinking, he remembered the death of his parents.
Remembering this tragic experience in his life, Ikari's heart grew heavy.
With a look of loss, he continued walking inside the town.
Inside he follow a road that lead to a big manor.
Around the manor are different houses.
Ikari walked around the manor to its back where the servant house stand.
All servant of this manor stay in this house.
Going inside the house, he immediately go to his room and fall to his bed.
Lying down on his bed, Ikari look at the ceiling for a while, and closed his eyes slowly when he feel relaxed.
"Hey, how's your trip to the farm?"
When Ikari was about to sleep, a voice suddenly interrupted him.
Turning his head to the side, Ikari looked at his roommate.
In this house, every room have two person living inside.
Their worked are in the manor and the farm outside the town.
Ikari and his roommate split the work and shifted it every two days vice versa.
Yoku noticed the coldness in Ikari's eyes and laughed.
"Haha... sorry I didn't do it in purpose. You look loss when you came inside. What happened?"
Ikari look away and close his eyes, saying: "Nothing."
Yoku started at Ikari for a while and felt bad for what he had done.
He wanted to say something but embarrassed to say it, in the end he closed his eyes and ease the atmosphere.
After a while, they both fell asleep.
...
Ikari woke up with a start, suddenly setting up on his bed.
Just now his gut has a feeling of unease again.
The feeling of unease appeared then disappear again.
This took him by surprise.
Calming his mind and breathing, he look around.
He noticed that the room is already dark.
Ikari see that Yoku is still sleeping soundly.
Observing Yoku for a while, Ikari couldn't help but think of their past.
Ikari and Yoku are best friend for six years now.
Yoku age are below Ikari by two years, bald head, small nose, and slim body with a height of 5,4.
Ikari met Yoku at the small village.
At that time Ikari feel bad for him when he learned that his mother had gone missing.
When he find that Yoku's situation is similar but not etreme as him, he help him find his mother.
Ikari stay at that small village for couple of months to help find his mother.
But as time goes on, Yoku's hope for finding his mother wane.
Eventually, he give up and follow Ikari to Heiwa town they heard along the way.
Fading out the reminiscing look on his face, Ikari woke Yoku up.
"Slap!" "Slap!"
Ikari slapped his face twice with a force enough to bring him out of his dream.
"Aahhwwww!"
Yoku contort his closed eyes while rubbing his left cheek with his hand.
"Yoku wake up, the dinner are probably ready. Let's go and fill ourselves up before it's hot. After that we can rest again and continue what you dreaming about."
Yoku opened his eyes in pain.
"Why did you slap me?" Yoku ask in grief.
"A slap for interrupting me." Ikari said, smiling.
"Then what's the other one for?" Yoku said, remembering what he had done.
Ikari turn around and walked toward the door.
Opening the door, he said: "It's a warning to not do it again."
Ikari leave the room with a laugh.
Yoku stare at his back with disbelief.
After a while, he got up his bed and follow him. Accepting the fact that it was his fault in the first place.
The servant house is a two story house.
It has ten rooms for servants to sleep in.
Seven rooms at the top, three at the bottom.
The kitchen and dining room are in the first floor.
Ikari and Yoku's room are in the second floor.
So, they had to go downstairs to reach the dining room.
Arriving at the dining room, Ikari see that their timing is on the spot, the foods are warm and ready to eat.
Ikari and Yoku took a seat.
After taking a sit, Ikari look around and noticed that three servants are not here yet.
"Where ere the other three?" Ikari ask.
Face with this question, the other fifteen servants look at each other.
After a while one of them gain the courage and said: "They still have something to work on in the owner's house."
After absorbing what the servant said, Ikari nodded in approval.
"Prepare a three set of meal and leave it for them to eat." Ikari said.
Hearing this, three servants stood up and prepare a set of meals.
After preparing the meals, they put it aside for the three servants that are not here and quickly go back to their seats.
In this servant house, someone must be in charge.
The one in charge is, ofcourse it's Ikari.
Even though Ikari and Yoku only work her for four years, the servants feel inferior when face by Ikari.
Even the seniors in this work feel intimidated in the face of Ikari.
After all, they sometimes witness the spar between Ikari and Yoku once in every few days.
Forget about his combat prowess, even his height are enough to deter them.
Because of this, in the mind of the servants, they view Ikari as the boss in these house while Yoku as his right hand man.
After seeing that everyone is ready, Ikari promptly declared. "Let's eat!"
Everyone gladly grab their food after what Ikari said.
Everyone enjoys their meals with interesting talk and occasional jokes.
Ikari look at everyone's happy face after gulping his food.
He couldn't help but smiled at thier own happiness.
Smelling the aroma of the warm foods intice his mouth to eat more.
In the face of tasty food, everyone forget about negative things.
With the sound of spoon and fork clashing to a plate, combine with laughter and joyful hymm, it's sound heavenly.
This heavenly moment last for half an hour.
After everyone see that all of them are done eating, they all calmed down and get back to their work.
Cleaning the table up and washing the dishes, everything was done swiftly and neatly.
When everything was done, everyone got back to their seat to talked about important topics.
When everyone is ready, Ikari ask seriously. "So, what's the news today. Is there any change?"
A servant take a deep breath and said: "There is. Another kid is missing last night. This incident is the fourth this week."
The servants all listened in a serious manner.
"It's getting worse. Last year it's only once in a month. Now in a week, two or above had gone missing." Another servant said with bated breath.
The servants continue their discussion with a low voice in the night.
Listening to them, Ikari frown.
This incident only start a year ago and it's getting worse as time goes on.
When the first kid is missing, the people of Heiwa town treat it as an accident.
But, the more kids disappear, the more they realize that their is something behind this incident, thus all worked together to solved this matter.
However, no matter what they do, they can't uncover the truth of this incident.
Moreover, the disappearance of the victims only happened at night. Thus increasing the difficulty of finding any suspicious person.
With this problem lingering in the town, many individuals and families leaves the town for fear if their the one next.
Ikari also thinks that this is the reason for his gut to kick in for him to leave the town.
Before, he thinks that the one behind this incident only target was kids. Thus he continued living in this town.
However, this time a thought came in.
What if all the kids in this town is gone?
Would that person aim for me and everyone else after the kids?