A UNITY THAT CANNOT BE UNITED

DAEMON WIGLIETO

Ustadz Gau had just finished sweeping the grass growing lush in the courtyard of the foster home when he heard his hatchet lying on the table ringing.

The parobaya man got up and climbed the porch and grabbed the phone, stared at the screen for a moment and answered the call.

📲 "Assalamualaikum.." replied Ustadz Gau.

📲 "Wa alaikum greetings... Teacher.." replied to the voice of the young man across.

📲 "What's Isaac?" asked Ustadz Gau in a flat tone.

That connection is Isaac. He contacted his nanny from Marisa's Puskesmas.

📲 "Today, I haven't been to school, Ustadz." Isaac said. "I'm still accompanying Selina who is currently at the Puskesmas."

Ustadz Gau nodded. He had just received the news from Faisal.

📲 "Later I will tell your teachers.. but it seems... You have not been in school for a long time, Isaac." said Ustadz Gau.

📲 "I'm sorry for that Ustadz." said Isaac. "But, Selina is also important to me. I hope Ustadz can understand that."

Ustadz Gau just sighed.

📲 "I know your position and I understand it. It's just that I don't know if they will understand you or not." said Ustadz Gau.

📲 "Thank you.. tomorrow I will face Ustadz." said Isaac. "Assalamualaikum.." he said then cut off the cellular conversation.

Ustadz Gau just sighed again and then replied softly. "Wa aleikum salam."

...*****...

"You've sacrificed too much." said Selina. "Think about your education too."

"That's what I've been thinking for a long time" replied Isaac looking at Selina then got up and stepped towards the window. "I'm planning to quit school."

Selina surprised.

Isaac looked at the girl and smiled. "After I marry you, I will work" Isaac said. "Education is important. But it is no longer a top priority. That was my top priority at the time."

Selina fell silent. Isaac walked back to the bed and sat down on the couch. The young man stretched out his hand and stroked Selina's hair with his burly fingers.

"From now on, I will protect you from anyone!" repelled.

Selina looked down for a moment. Isaac touched the girl's chin and straightened his face again.

"You want to, right? With me live the days from now on?" ask Isaac gently.

Selina finally smiled and grabbed Isaac's hand and kissed him gently. The girl then looked at the young man and said, "I'm willing..."

...*****...

Bataviereen, March 06, 1826.

Imagawa Toshisada decided not to return to Japan. He was the only samurai who chose to travel again after most of his friends decided to leave Banda Naeira after the war and headed to Luzon, joined by some Japanese who had settled there since Takayama Ukon brought his followers to the island and changed his name to Don Justo.

Toshisada decided to take a boat to Bataviereen and settled there, then served one of the wealthy eastern merchants as his bodyguards. The man was named Abdullah Hamdi Assegaf, a merchant and missionary and a descendant of the Alawiyin family of Hadramaut.

The two met at the port of Sunda Kelapa as ships from Gujarat docked and dropped off luggage. Abdullah had just dropped his ordered goods from Gujarat when he heard panicked cries of people in the port.

"Remember! Amuk people!"

it turned out that a large high-statured Dutch soldier was on a rampage. Apparently he was drunk. Abdullah saw for himself how the local opas were unable to stem the rampage of the great height.

Until finally the Great High was approaching Abdullah. The local servants of the Hadramaut man had been running away from him, letting the things he had to guard lay in that place.

"You're a Siak! Move over!" the Dutch soldiers.

"The kafir company is not tired of rioting!" abdullah's grouse immediately set the horses. He pulled the kelew from his waist.

"Oooo.. wil je leven?" the drunken soldier grinned savagely.*)

*)You want a life deposit?

Abdullah did not answer, but looked at the drunken soldier. Feeling slighted, the drunken soldier came forward swinging his sword.

TRANGG... TRANGGGS... TRANGG...

There was a fight between the drunk VOC soldier and Abdullah. As a merchant, the man was indeed equipped with martial arts to protect himself and his group from the target of thieves.

But Abdullah also had to admit his opponent was a great swordsman. He seems to be a professional fighter.

TTRANGGGG.

The soldier grinned savagely. "Je hebt niets meer om te vechten..."*)

*)You have nothing to fight. Give your life willingly!

The soldier came forward swinging his sword. Abdullah had dodged but he slipped on the muddy ground to make it fall to the ground. The soldier laughed happily.

"Vecht niet. geef gewoon je leven."*) he cried again swinging the sword.

*) Don't fight. Give your life willingly.

The company's sword swung to strike Abdullah. The man could only cross his arms blocking his face as the sword blade of the soldier slightly more struck him.

TRANGGGS...

There was a sound of metal clashing and a second later Abdullah saw the soldier bouncing while someone with the bare hair stood behind him while holding his sword.

Abdullah stood behind his helper. "Thank you."

The man turned his head slightly and Abdullah found out that the man had narrow eyes.

"Aaaa. ik weet wie je bent." exclaimed the soldier. "Ben Jij de moordenaar uit Banda neira?" guess it.*)

*)I know who you are. You're a hit man from Banda Neira?

"Watashi wa oranda hito no tesakide wa arimasen.. jibun no ishi de jiyu ni arukeru." said Toshisada again waving his sword.*)

*)I'm not a stooge of the Dutch. I am free to step by my own will.

The soldier snarled and attacked again. But Toshisada was ready. He only dodged sideways as the drunk soldier swung his sword forward.

TRANGGALS

Toshisada slapped the soldier's sword and then swung his sword to the side slashing at the body of the bule man. The soldier was struck for a moment his body received a sword slash from his opponent and a moment later he fell to the ground and exhaled his exhaustion.

Toshisada then sheathed his sword and looked at Abdullah. The Hadramaut man was just about to thank him when a Dutch and local opas troupe showed up to him.

One of the opas, it seems the leader was staring at the corpse of the drunk soldier. He looked at Toshisada.

"Heb and hem vermoord?" ask the soldier flatly. *)

*)You killed him?

"This man saved me, sir." Abdullah suddenly came forward and defended Toshisada. "If there were no him, you would have found my body slapping on this land."

"Oh... Mr Abdullah?" exclaim the soldier. He seems to know the Hadramaut man.

"Yes Meneer, I ask for your compassion to free this man." pinta Abdullah.

The soldier snorted for a moment. "But Mr. Abdullah, this man has killed one of the officers. Governor De Carpentier would certainly not be willing to let the murderer escape the trial." said the soldier nodded his head towards Toshisada who just stood still even though he was alert.

"Then let me be his witness to that trial. Because I am a witness as well as a victim of this person." said Abdullah while pointing at the corpse of soldiers who lay on the ground.

"I will report to Mr. Governor De Carpentier first" the soldier said, trying to calm Abdullah down. "For the time being, I have to arrest this man for examination" he said, hinting at the others to bend Toshisada.

The samurai was captured and his two swords seized. The young man was taken away from the port.

...****...

Isaac opened his eyes, then looked at the deep Selina in his sleep. The memories flashed again as he meditated. Isaac sighs. I don't know when he'll be able to hold his secret.

The man then got up and took the phone out of his pocket. He then typed in a few sentences. After that, he sent it, I don't know for whom.

After sending the message, Isaac then got up and stepped closer to Selina who was soundly asleep. He's staring.

You look so much like her, Selina...

Isaac smiled, but for a moment his smile was gone because the vibration of the device was nailed to disturb the sentimental sense that hummed in his mind. Isaac brought the thing to his ear.

📲 "Hello... how?" ask Isaac.

📲 "I've written it on the blog. Soon we'll know the news." replied someone across the street.

📲 "Good... later your payment follows after everything clop." said Isaac.

📲 "You've disbanded Darkest... Now what group do you want to make again?" ask the guy.

Isaac smiled.

📲 "Name it... Daemon wilato." Isaac gave a new name to his new group. []