“YOU!?” Ari cried, finally shaking off his disbelief at the face behind the wooden angel mask worn by Purple Robe.
It turned out Ari knew Purple Robe’s true face very well—the face of the girl he had often teased at college. He was utterly stunned, never once suspecting the truth. He failed to notice that Dewi Golek’s head was already two centimeters in front of the left side of his chest.
“Yes, it’s me...” Purple Robe replied flatly, putting the mask back on. It seemed to fuse with her real face.
“Then what do you want? Why are you doing this to me?” Ari asked, his probing tone cloaked in unparalleled fear.
“Of course I want to kill you...” Purple Robe replied sadistically.
“YOU COULDN’T POSSIBLY DO THAT TO ME!” Ari shouted back in utter disbelief.
“Of course I’m not the one who’ll kill you. She is...” Purple Robe retorted, glancing toward Dewi Golek, who was ready to break through Ari’s left chest and devour his heart.
The moment Purple Robe finished speaking, Dewi Golek’s head suddenly burst through Ari’s left chest and immediately began eating his heart from inside his body. Her three pairs of hands touched Ari’s stomach, their sharp-clawed fingers piercing his skin and ripping through the T-shirt he was wearing.
Ari’s life abruptly left his body. All his bodily fluids were sucked into Dewi Golek’s body with astonishing speed, leaving Ari’s body completely desiccated. Nothing remained but bones wrapped in skin, still fully clothed.
“Done...” Dewi Golek said in a horrifying voice. Purple Robe did not respond at all.
After eating Ari’s dead heart, Dewi Golek floated in front of Purple Robe’s face, which was once again covered by the wooden angel mask.
As usual, after killing her victim, Dewi Golek’s body split apart. One half transformed into a golek resembling her victim, containing the victim’s life force.
“Now go join your siblings,” Dewi Golek ordered the new demon golek firmly.
Without making a sound or giving any reply, Ari’s Demon Golek immediately embedded itself in the demon-worship altar in the underground chamber, joining the other demon goleks. They could be considered its siblings.
“Are you getting tired of killing people this way?” Dewi Golek asked Purple Robe. This time, Purple Robe answered immediately.
“Of course I’m tired of doing the same thing over and over,” Purple Robe replied, then sighed.
“Then we need some variety in the way we kill our next victims...” Dewi Golek said, fixing Purple Robe with a sharp stare.
“Yes. That’s what I’ve wanted all along...” Purple Robe replied with a widening smile behind her wooden angel mask.
“All right. From now on, I’ll follow you and live in your new place. Whenever you become Purple Robe, I’ll always be by your side. And whenever you aren’t Purple Robe, I’ll enter your body,” Dewi Golek said, then stood on Purple Robe’s right shoulder. Purple Robe had turned around to leave the underground chamber.
“Do whatever you think is best. But I don’t like being watched all the time under the excuse of following me,” Purple Robe replied, continuing toward the exit. She paid no attention to the other demon goleks embedded in the demon-worship altar. They appeared completely silent, like lifeless objects, even though they were demon goleks.
“All right, if that’s what you want...” Dewi Golek replied in a resigned tone, as though she had no other choice.
However, after Purple Robe and Dewi Golek had left, the demon goleks shaped like Arjuna and Srikandi suddenly floated up and faced each other from a distance of forty centimeters.
“Hey, Srikandi, aren’t you tired of staying in this place all the time?” Arjuna’s Demon Golek asked in the voice of a young adult man.
“Of course I’m tired, Arjuna. But she forbids us from leaving. What can we do?” Srikandi’s Demon Golek replied in the voice of a young woman.
“Then we’ll do it secretly,” Arjuna’s Demon Golek suggested enthusiastically.
Before Srikandi’s Demon Golek could respond, Dewi Golek’s voice suddenly rang out through the underground chamber.
“You two can only talk behind my back. If you want to come along, just say so. Now follow me.”
Suddenly, a red hole one meter in diameter appeared above the heads of the two demon goleks and sucked them in instantly, carrying the two demons somewhere unknown.
The red hole then vanished without a trace after swallowing Arjuna’s and Srikandi’s Demon Goleks. The demon golek lair fell silent once more, filled with the stench of human corpses.