Assalamualaikum Captain
Tapping Travelling
The execution of the occult prayer at the Nayla family residence has been completed. Many relatives and neighbors came to participate in the event.
One by one they began to say goodbye to their homes.
Now only Robbi, Wirma, Keyla and the two parents Keyla-Asraf and Kanaya- who just arrived in Indonesia this morning.
Finished performing Zuhur prayer, now the five people are sitting together in the living room.
Keyla sat next to her father.
Robbi sat on the small sofa next to Asraf. Wirma sat next to Kanaya. The two middle-aged women embraced each other with facial expressions that still left sadness.
"You must be strong Ma. That Irma I know never slumped in grief for too long."
Kanaya spoke softly while patting her best friend's back. Irma was a special call from him to Wirma.
"You must be sincere because this is God's destiny."
"Yes Ka. God willing I'll try,"
Wirma said that familiarly called Kanaya as Ka.
Kanaya may not understand what it's like to lose a child that's even a second time for Wirma. But as a mother too, she understood there would be no mother who wanted to lose her child.
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Keyla came down the stairs from the top floor after hearing Wirma's call inviting her to dinner.
Finish salat magrib congregate, now they will have dinner together.
Asraf and Kanaya decided to settle for two more days in Gorontalo. So did Keyla who decided to add two more days before finally he will return to Fukuoka.
"That's really good," Keyla said excitedly after feeding a spoonful of rice and grilled sea fish watered with a thick yellow coconut milk sauce into her mouth.
The name of the side dish is Iloni fish. Gorontalo food is very liked by Nayla since childhood.
Wirma smiled. Robbi and her parents.
"This is Nayla's favorite food" he said softly as he stared at the large plate containing the side dish.
Keyla did not know that, because while in Malaysia and Japan, Nayla never ate the typical food of her father's area or just tell him.
Keyla just tau, Nayla's favorite food is kebab and fried rice made.
All were silent no longer expression while staring at Wirma.
Although still in a state of grief, he deliberately took the time to cook his favorite food his daughter. He did so solely to atone for his guilt for not having time to cook for Nayla, when he returned to Indonesia on a winter break last year.
At that time, Nayla was only on vacation for about a week, then returned to Fukuoka. His busy operation room makes him sometimes do not have time for Nayla, when the girl is returning home on vacation.
"Easy-after. Come on eat some more Key's food."
Robbi tries to dispel the aura of sadness that begins to be created again. Not because he doesn't feel sad. He only tried to let his daughter go so that Nayla could be happy there.
"sorry. I'm laughing again," said Wirma who can already master himself from his sadness.
They just smile and resume their eating activities. Keyla occasionally opens a conversation between the five of them that makes both his parents and Wirma and Robbi laugh.
Be happy there, Nay. I'm here to try to carve another happy smile on the faces of your parents. I-i promise.
Keyla nodded as she looked at her best friend's parents. He already considers Wirma and Robbi like his parents too. The girl did not want them to linger in grief because of Nayla's departure. With himself, too, he promised to make Wirma and Robbi accept Nayla's departure completely.
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Meanwhile, in the eastern part of South Korea, in the Goseong area, which was the site of the crash of the China Eastern Airbus A350 aircraft, the, two men dressed in typical South Korean army uniforms and their attributes are tracing the river lips that flow under the foot of Mount Seorak.
Two soldiers consisting of the Captain and also a Sergeant Major or subordinate of the Captain who is also his best friend. They were both part of a special force formed from the 25th Infantry Division serving in the Demilitarized zone of the Goseong region.
Captain Kim Joo Young and Sergeant Major Park Min Hyuk are two men of similar age but only distinguished by rank. They are 34 years old. Although friendly, but while on duty they remain professional as superiors and subordinates.
They walked down the river at the foot of Mount Seorak is not on duty, but is looking for a cell phone belonging to Joo Young who fell somewhere. He only remembered, the last time he used his phone was during the evacuation of victims on the last day, one day ago.
"Buy just now, is it hard Joo?" said Min who is now starting to feel tired.
He turned off his flashlight.
It had been almost two hours they searched Joo Young's phone but still did not meet.
"Can't Min. My phone is precious."
Joo Young was still busy highlighting the river lip area with the small flashlight he was carrying.
Min Hyuk approached her while looking at her with a probing look, "I'm getting curious about the contents of your phone."
He folded his hands in front of his chest. While Joo Young is still busy with his activities.
"There must be a lot of pictures of your ex-boyfriend, right?"
No response from Joo Young. Making Min Hyuk cluck bitterly because he was ignored.
He smiled, "Ah, I know. Must be a lot of xxx movies, right?" he tried to tease Joo Young.
Joo Young who was getting saturated with the nature of his jail, glanced at Min Hyuk sharply with a flat gaze.
Min Hyuk shuddered in horror with his gaze.
"Come Joo. I'm just kidding, okay?"
he said with a laugh and immediately pretended to look for his friend's mobile phone. He walked ahead of Joo Young who was still staring at him sharply.
"whoa, what is this?" Min Hyuk asked himself the small square object he found.
His flashlight unintentionally highlighted a small red object partially embedded in the watery ground.
He turned the thing over and cleaned it out of the mud.
"Like wallet. But this isn't a wallet." He was still watching what he found.
"Joo, what do you think this is?" asked Min Hyuk who was immediately approached by Joo Young.
He took the thing from Min Hyuk's hand.
He observed the thing that had been covered in mud and immediately cleaned it using river water. He could see a little bit, the Arabic letters of the torn cover that the material was made of that cloth.
"This is the Quran."
"What's? Al go - goran?"
Min Hyuk could not name the scripture because of his strong Korean accent.
"No, it's Al. Qur. an." said Joo Young by pressing every word he mentioned.
"Gee, Al. Qur. an." said Min Hyuk mimicked Joo Young's words.
"Why do you know?"
Joo Young handed over the Qur'an to him.
"Try to open," said Joo Young when the Qur'an was in Min Hyuk's hands.
Min Hyuk forcibly pulled the zipper from the small Qur'an because it was still clogged with mud.
"What is this writing? What is this letter?" min Hyuk asked as he opened the colored sheets of paper from the Qur'an.
Joo Young looked at the paper of the Quran. In his heart he said amazed because none of the paper was damaged or torn. Just a little wet on the top. The writing did not fade either.
"That's a holy verse just like the Bible in our religion. And that's an Arabic letter. The Quran is the holy book of Islam."
"Islamic?" Min Hyuk seemed to think.
Joo Young nodded.
"But how do you know?"
Joo Young clucked.
"My mother is Muslim, have you forgotten?"
He said lazily and immediately continued his stalled activities. He had to find his phone.
"Ah, sorry. I forgot about that."
Min Hyuk said as he opened the last sheet of the Qur'an.
He was so surprised when he found a photo of a medium-sized woman tucked in a purse pocket that became the cover of the book.
The Koran is designed like a wallet on both sides of the front cover and behind it there is a small pocket inside. Usually the bag is used to fill the page barrier of the Qur'an itself.
Min Hyuk felt familiar with the face in the photo. His hand moved to take the photo so he could see it clearly. Instantly, his body froze when he could see the face of the smiling woman in the photo.
"Hyun Joo," he said softly but still heard by Joo Young.
The man stopped his steps and activities. He turned his head and looked at Min Hyuk expressionlessly.
"Joo Young, look at this, I didn't see it wrong, did I?"
his hand showed the small square-shaped photograph.
Joo Young took the photo from Min Hyuk's hand.
His body froze at that moment. The woman in the photo is exactly the same as her sister's face. Only distinguished on moles. Her younger brother - Hyun Joo- - has a mole on the top corner of his right lip. While the woman is not.
The difference is also, the woman in the photo wears a hijab while her sister does not.
"You okay?" min Hyuk asked when he saw Joo Young frozen and stared straight at the photo.
The man was still silent.
"Joo Young." call Min to him. But he's still flinching.
"Joo Young."
For the fifth time he called the man's name.
"Jo-" he called but stopped because he heard a moaning.
"T-oh-long,"
The voice sounded so hoarse and stammering.
Min Hyuk immediately shuddered hearing that. He directly directed the spotlight of his flashlight to the entire area of the river.
Joo Young could regain control of herself when she heard that voice as well.
"hah-hah-long, anyway,"
The voice sounded again with a sigh so heavy.
Joo Young also helped direct the flashlight highlight in any direction.
They're looking for the source of the sound.
From then on, they were accompanied only by the sound of running water and also the sound of crickets. But all of a sudden they heard a voice that came out of nowhere.
Min Hyuk glanced at his watch which now showed at 10 over 30 minutes of Korean time.
"That's not a ghostly voice, is it?" he approached Joo Young.
They stepped together to approach the thickets that had grown high in this river. It was only six steps away from where Min Hyuk found the Qur'an earlier.
The more they approached the bush, they heard a heavy sigh from someone.
Joo Young's right hand, which was not holding a flashlight, moved to open the thicket that was now in front of him.
But he had trouble opening it. Min Hyuk immediately helped him when he realized how dense the weeds were.
"Oh God. What'sthat?"
Min Hyuk was so shocked to see a woman lying helpless but still unconscious, tied to a chair on the heavily mossy rocks, with traces of blood that had dried up all over her body.
While Joo Young who was also surprised to find the woman, now only fixated on seeing a part of his face that was injured and covered in traces of blood that had dried up.
"Joo, let's help him."
Min Hyuk patted Joo Young's shoulder hard. He managed to control his surprise.
They carefully removed the woman from the seatbelt that tied her to the chair.
When they managed to get him out of the bush, they moved him to the river.
Min Hyuk restrained his body from behind to keep him in a sitting position.
While Joo Young took water to clean up the remaining blood that had dried up in the woman's body.
He used his military helmet to hold the water he took from the river.
His hand moved through his pants pocket and pulled out the handkerchief he always carried.
He slowly began wiping the dried blood from the woman's face, hands and feet.
"Toh-long,"
The woman returned. Min Hyuk who did not understand what was said by the woman could only stare at Joo Young who was now speechless. Joo Young understood what he was saying.
"We're taking him to the hospital now" Joo Young said suddenly.
He gave the Qur'an and his military helmet to Min Hyuk.
And immediately carrying the woman ala bridal style.
Min Hyuk was just observing what his best friend was doing. He followed Joo Young every step of the way, to where they parked the military car they used.
Min Hyuk immediately ran to open the back seat door for Joo Young and the woman.
While he got into the steering wheel.
"Quick Min," said Joo Young who looked so anxious and frightened.
Min Hyuk nodded and started the car and left the foot of Seorak Mountain.
With a standard speed he split every village road in this Goseong area.
They headed to the Army Hospital in Chuncheon, the capital of Gangwon province. It would take hours to get the woman to Seoul.
Joo Young clutched tightly onto the woman's body. He looked once again at the face of the girl in his arms.
The face belongs to someone who has been missing for years.
"Hold on. You'll be safe." Joo Young said so softly.
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