New Start! | Countryhumans ASEAN

12 • Kapitulo Dose • 12

fyi the language used for the chapter title is cebuano, a local language found in the philippines! ;)

there isn't that much dialogue in this chapter lmakaoadjahsc sory

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He was starving.

At least he was a couple of minutes away now, he has been in this public transport for about 15 minutes now and it felt like forever. It's still about eight in the evening, and for some reason it felt like he thinks that a rain will be ahead of him due to how cloudy it is tonight.

His seat was at the right window, so he has a clear vision of what pass by (with his glasses of course). A little dark, but the street lights can excuse that.

As the bus stopped and the person managing the vehicle yelled "Asia's shore", that was his queue for him to go down.

The real reason why he decided to stop by here aside from Indonesia's place was because he actually lives nearby this area. Of course his members know, but the real reason why he came here is because of a specific reason.

He went down the bus, and eventually was blocked by a metal fence. He looked down to the shore to clarify if it was low tide, and as he noticed it is and the bus finally leaves, he jumps over the fence, off the road and landed softly on his crimson shoes by the sand. There was stairs by his right where he was supposed to go down on, but he decided it's going to add much work, and so decided to risk it.

The sound of ocean waves were suddenly recognizable as he walked to his left from where he was facing, but the thought of him being hungry nodged in his mind once again. This was then he realized he did bring one of the cookies he baked in Indonesia's house with him inside his pocket, originally going to give it to a friend. He reached out for it and took off the plastic wrapped along it. He placed his trash back in his pocket as there isn't any bins around, and munched on the food he made this morning. Surely the person whom he was supposed to give this wouldn't mind, as he probably thinks he ate one today.

By this, he made his red-orange halo magically appear fading into sight and lit it up for him to see his path. He rarely show his halo nowadays because he didn't like to get recognized, similar reason to his wings wherein he both show them during formal occasions. He could've used his phone flashlight during this situation, but he's afraid that the battery might ran out as the last time he checked, it's almost dead.

He navigated the sands until he finally reaches a sudden point, a small mangrove forest, with about 5 trees. This basically symbolized that he was near his destination.

He took a bite off his cookie and walked through the small group of trees until he finally reaches where he was supposed to go.

ASEAN always had a small cabin by this area, which is only good for him to live in. Everyone in the organization including the observers knew about this small cabin of his, they even created a creepypasta because of the mangrove trees nearby. He never really regretted living here though, this was technically his "official" place to live aside from Indonesia's, but it isn't his "legal" one, doesn't mean that it's illegal though, it's just that he couldn't list this place down in legal documents since organization rules are kind of a snitch.

He pulls out a key in his pocket and unlocked the door, turning on the lights inside the house with the solar power which Singapore helped set up. As he opened the lights, it literally felt like a normal cabin inside. There's a small living room, a bathroom, a bedroom, some desk for him to work on things, and even a storage area. It seemed like there wasn't a kitchen though, but Sea actually liked to have one outside instead of indoors, and so it was.