A UNITY THAT CANNOT BE UNITED

PYRRHIC VICTORIOUS

Rusli put up a fighting attitude, while the person before him had already twisted the chain.

WUK WUK WUK

the spin of the chain is getting faster and faster...

SRINGGG...

The chain was attached by the hoodie jacket to Rusli. The young man was surprised but did not panic. He immediately dodged to the side and the hoodie jacket jerked his chain until the flexible object whipped towards Rusli again.

Rusli throws his body further to avoid the chains that seem to be chasing him. The young man cursed and cursed so irritatedly.

"Receive this, A****g!!" arkat Rusli stepped forward and swung his kick forward.

The hoodie jacket did not dodge. He actually back to jerk the rope chain to slash back towards Rusli.

CRINGGG.... BRUKK... OUCH...

The chain hit Rusli's foot. The young man tiptoed around holding one of his injured legs in a chain that the hoodie jacket had smashed.

"Suck!" aspir Rusli back forward swinging his kick.

Hoodie jacket got away. The figure is back twirling the chain. Rusli stood up in a limp pose. The next leg was really painful in the iron chain.

"Who are you?! Why intercept me?!" sergeant Rusli was irritated.

The hoodie jacket remained silent as it continued twirling its chains into the air.

"Eh, are you a bungolo? Who are you?!" rusli snapped again increasingly irritated.

The hoodie jacket remained silent, but this time he swung the chain forward.

WUK WUK WUK...

the chain swung, whipping around in search of Rusli who tried to dodge with difficulty. The young man can only be kelikel because if he dared to break down, it is only a futile action. The hoodie jacket seemed to be able to read his movements.

Rusli jumped away again and stood limping. "Who are you?" rusli snapped with a shrill. His breathing was almost gone because he moved a lot.

The hoodie came back forward and threw the end of the chain with the pendulum forward. Rusli tried to avoid but lost quickly.

BUKKK... UUGH...

The chain bump hit his face and Rusli slammed into the ground. His head was hit by the ground and instantly his consciousness instantly disappeared. Rusli fainted instantly

...******...

Faisal Husein sat down and closed his eyes. Only he was alone in the mosque and the time has shown at 2 am.

His mouth recites a string of dhikr words. Footsteps approached and his hearing dria immediately reacted to catch the waves emitted by the owner of the approaching step.

"Assalamualaikum, Ustadz." said Faisal. The rider remained in his posture of contemplation, closing his eyes.

The owner of that step was none other than Ustadz Gau smiling. "Wa aleikum salam wa rahmatullah." he replied.

The man then sat cross-legged beside the young man who was also in a cross-legged sitting position. Long silence ambushed the atmosphere within the mosque. After a long silence, Ustadz Gau spoke up.

"When did you learn the art?" asked Ustadz Gau flatly and quietly.

Faisal slowly opened his eyes but did not look anywhere. His gaze hit the pulpit of the stump in front of him.

"For a long time, from the age of seven." Faisal answered honestly.

"Hm. pantesan.." said Ustadz Gau. The man then turned his seat facing Faisal. "What if I test your abilities." proposed Ustadz Gau.

Faisal smiled. "I don't think I need to follow that request" he said without looking anywhere.

"You have no right to bid!" exclaim Ustadz Gau who suddenly threw his hand with a position thrusting the tip of the fingers that have been drained of energy in. The man was after Faisal's left temple.

Instantly the young man raised his hand to fend off the prick of the tip of the fingers. Faisal suddenly lay down and lifted his feet, plunging his feet into the ribs of Ustadz Gau.

Sontak Ustadz Gau was still in a sitting position cross-legged swinging his hand again to slap out the rain of Faisal's footprints that threatened his ribs.

PLAQUE!!! BUCK!!! BUGH...

The slap of Ustadz Gau that diverted the footprints of Faisal made the young man roll until Faisal again swung his kick to hook the hand of Ustadz Gau who slapped again made Ustadz Gau pull again his hand and throw back both of his feet were aiming for Faisal's chest.

Faisal rolled back and bounced lightly back, and landed softly with both feet on the floor of the mosque.

Ustadz Gau got up and stood up straight. "I know a little bit of martial arts from various countries. Your movement just now was not of the Karate-do, Taekwondo, or kung fu type." said Ustadz Gau. "Your movement is more like the kuntao."

Faisal laughs. "Ustadz is mistaken." he said. "It's an art called Thifan Po Khan" the young man continued.

"Is that so?" gumam Ustadz Gau's. "Then, how can you master the art of using a Japanese sword?"

"Of course, only Japan has sword arts?" faisal said with a smile. "In the plains of China there is also a secret fraternity stream called Lin Quei. This fraternity was featured in the movie Mortal Kombat."

"Lin Quei???" murmured Ustadz Gau with a witty.

"First time, Lin Quei appeared in the early Han dynasty and reached the peak of glory in the Tang dynasty era. The group was later cast as a shadow movement after the Tang dynasty collapsed. They then moved their centre of movement from Louyang to the western part of China, bordering turkistan. Traces of the Lin Quei movement continue to emerge because they sometimes get state duties, accept political assassination missions in the Qing dynasty era until now" said Faisal Husein.

"Are you a member of Lin Quei?" the Ustadz Gau.

"That's right!" tangkis Faisal Husein while laughing. "Ustadz, do you think entering such a clandestine organization can be free to roam around like this? They're keeping secrets and a single speck of secrets exposed to the public, lives at stake."

Ustadz Gau smiled. "You're right too."

"For example, Bruce Wayne was recruited by the Justice League under the leadership of Ra's al-Ghul. When he refuses to carry out his final test, which is to kill a criminal, he immediately becomes the target of the organization's hunt. The Justice League sent Slade Joseph Wilson to kill Bruce Wayne." Faisal said.

"Lho's? Isn't Slade the Deathstroke, is it?" guess Ustads Gau.

"Ustadz gandrung also with the DCEU movies, huh?" faisal Goda.

"No, Ustadz had only seen the article about it. But as far as I'm concerned, he's not a member of the Justice League." said Ustadz Gau.

"There are many versions of that, Ustadz" Faisal said. "And judging from his sword-playing prowess, it's not impossible, if he never joined the Justice League" he said. "And I can assume the name Justice League is a pseudonym of Lin Quei's own organization."

Ustadz Gau chuckled, "His cup, you know the history of martial arts" Ustadz Gau said.

"good. I like smart men." said Ustadz Gau. "Then, be prepared. We'll explore how far you've mastered the art."

The man suddenly put up a fighting attitude and lunged at Faisal. Suddenly the young man dodged to the side and swung his hand with a cutting technique aimed at the neck of Ustadz Gau.

Ustadz Gau swiftly crossed his arms vertically so that the arm that was swung by Faisal only hit his arm. Faisal was not discouraged. Again he swung the other hand with a cutting technique eyeing Ustadz Gau's face.

Ustadz Gau pushed his arm holding onto Faisal's hand and quickly grabbed Faisal's wrist and twisted him.

Faisal grimaced in pain and Ustadz Gau took advantage of the opportunity to advance to grip Faisal's clothes. The forty-eight-year-old man raised Faisal's body and threw Faisal's body behind him.

Faisal floated in the air and saltoed several times then landed well on the floor of the mosque and re-installed a fighting attitude.

Ustadz Gau came back forward and threw out his fists many times and changed hands. Faisal also repelled the attack many times as well. Ustadz Gau finally stepped forward to shoot out a kick targeting Faisal's heart. The young man raised his legs and bent similarly to the muaythai practitioners when fending off an opponent's kick.

The kick Ustadz Gau swung was only about the bent leg. Faisal lowered his leg and instead swung the other leg kicking part of Ustadz Gau's shoulder. Sontak Ustadz Gau crossed his arms again to fend off the opponent's kick.

BUKKP ... UUGH...

Ustadz Gau groaned and his body fell a few steps aside while blocking the opponent's kick. Faisal stopped fighting and ran to find his teacher.

"Ustadz is okay, right?" faisal asked holding both of his teachers shoulders.

Ustadz Gau shook his head and chuckled. "No." she nodded, "I'm fine. I just didn't think you had something you were hiding."

Faisal just blushed. Ustadz Gau later mendehem. "I don't understand. Why don't you reply those two bullies?" the Ustadz Gau.

"I don't want to use fists and kicks to make them stale" Faisal said. "In addition, Ichi has made them pay for everything they do."

"Although it has to be in an expensive way?" the Ustadz Gau. The teacher's words made Faisal smile.

"Pyrrhic Victory." said Faisal called the term synonymous with the words Ustadz Gau fishing earlier. "If Ichi is willing to be a martyr, I don't mind at all."

Ustadz Gau laughed and shook his head. "You are indeed a strategist" he quipped.

Faisal stared at the wall clock attached to the wall of the mosque. "Ustadz, I think you have to perform the Qiyamullail prayer ritual." Faisal reminded.

"Ah, then let us pray." invite Ustadz Gau.

"Please first Ustadz, I'm wise first." said Faisal then bowed flat for a moment while jutting and then turned around to leave the room.

...******...

Rusli felt his neck pain not a puddle. The former lacing of the chain pendulum that hit the temple still feels soft to the nerve point. The man slowly got up and shook his head slowly, expelling the sense of dizziness.

The young man's eyes opened and he was stunned to find a room so foreign. Rusli observed the entire room. An artificial light coming from a small hole in the middle of the ceiling of the room illuminates the floor. The rest is dark and blurry.

Goddamn bum!!! Apparently I fainted. Where's this???

The sound of footsteps came back closer. Rusli stared at the darkness before him. From the darkness came the hoodie jacket. The chain he used as the weapon appeared coiled around his waist. Again the face was invisible because it was blocked by the hood that was worn on it.

"Hey you! I know you!" bentak Rusli pointed his index finger at the hoodie jacket. "Where is this, huh?! Where are you taking me?!"

The dark hoodie jacket all over his face was silent no reaction. Not long from behind the hoodie jacket, muncuo some people in hoodie jacket uniform with the hoodie jacket earlier. Rusli was shocked.

"You guys, who are you?!" rusli began to tremble.

The people in hoodie jackets just kept Rusli in shock and a sense of panic began to run through him.

"Get me out of here! Get me out of here!" exclaim Rusli who was about to thrash, but it is real that his body and his will cannot work together. He was exposed to self-paralysis naturally caused by emotional shocks that are not able to be relieved.

Suddenly the people in hoodie jackets were flipping. From the darkness came another beating of shoes. The longer the closer and finally appeared the figure of the body wearing a long cloth wrapped like a coat. this figure is also hooded.

The difference is, a three-piece eagle feather decoration is embedded in the side of the hood. The figure then approached and clearly to Rusli, he stared at a horrifying face. The figure was wearing a mask, but the mask he was wearing was a skull.

The skull sat crouching watching Rusli who could barely take his own breath because the person's psychic pressure affected the body's metabolic work.

"Russli.... Rusli Pomalango.." murmured the man in the skull mask with a hoarse voice. The skull reminds Rusli of the Batman movie. Does this person use a voice changer app?

"You're in a trap now." said the Skull. "You're not gonna get away with it anymore."

Rusli thrashed but the psychic power of the skull was stronger than it should have been. The man was cornered.

"Who are you?! Say it!" rusli exclaimed but his voice was suffocating.

"You don't need to know who I am, Rusli" said the Skull.

"You know who I am?!" pekik Rusli screeching.

"I know everything. It's all about you." said the skull. "Even your sin lists."

"You.." exclaimed Rusli.

The Skull is seen taking something from under his clothes and pulling out a long, serrated dagger.

"Tell me, Rusli Pomalango! Should I benefit your manhood rod?" fishing rod the skull.

"Don't! Don't do!" rusli panicked.

"Why?!" ask the skull with a thunderous voice.

"Don't! Please don't!" rusli exclaimed in pias and bowed in begging for mercy. "I'll do what you ask, but let me go!"

"Good! I will observe your every act. Once again you've done something wrong, I won't tolerate it anymore." the skull recalls Rusli.

"Well, fine, I fulfill your will." Rusli said in pias.

"One more, Rusli.." said the Skull.

"What?" ask Rusli.

"Don't approach Adiratna Ardhanareswari!" exclaim the skull.

"Is... does he have a relationship with you?" ask Rusli to make sure.

"That woman.my bride!" exclaimed the skull and then got up and turned to leave Rusli.

Rusli was so stunned. Suddenly a rifle was heard. A second later Rusli realized that his right chest was hit by an anesthetic bullet. Slowly but surely the young man's consciousness was taken back and he entered his subconscious again.[]