CONFINEMENT

135 - LARA MANAH PART VI

"Say, who's behind all this?" hardik Cokro on the man tied to the pole of the house in front of him.

"In addition to holding Muhibbin, are you also involved in the abduction of Miss Disya?" said the man back.

With a slight grin, the sickly man spat in the face of the Bhayangkara leader who interrogated him.

"Kummuihh!"

"Bas on the dogs of the sycophants."

"Until you die, you won't get any information from me."

replied the man who was none other than one of the Red Garuda members with a laugh.

"Bad!"

"Fuck!" chocolates chanted to shower the man in front of him with a punch, from the lips and nose of the sickly man shed fresh blood, but the leader of Bhayangkara ignored him.

"You want to play around with my patience?" chocolates with a red face.

"Master Chocolates!"

"Hold, Master!"

"There are important things that I need to say." exclaimed Mr. Sirkun holding Cokro.

"Your members found my maid in one of the rooms" said the businessman, returning as he approached the Bhayangkara leader, who was about to beat up his captives.

The Bhayangkara leader stopped his blow.

With a face that still left a rage, the man said.

"Where is he now, sir?" cokro asked Sirkun, for a moment his gaze turned towards his captive

"I'm not done with you!" chocolates said coldly to the man tied to the pillar of the house. The man then moved away from the captive he had beaten,

The Red Garuda member just grinned while grimacing to see Cokro pass.

It appeared that Mr. Sirkun was pulling on Cokro's arm, with a slight whisper, the flamboyant businessman said,

"Let's come with me, sir." he said as he stepped followed by the Bhayangkara leader behind him.

Arriving at a room illuminated only by Ublik light, a figure lying on top of a bamboo hall with his head tied to a bandage wounded by a blunt blow.

Cokro approached the body lying in bed. His gaze stared intently at the old man who was still unconscious, Mr. Sirkun also sat next to Cokro.

"The name is Mr. Min, sir."

"She was one of the maids in my house."

"I'm surprised why he's in this place."

"It's only right that three days ago, when I told him to look for Disya, he never came back."

"His mood is that he is in this place." concluded Mr. Sirkun gave an explanation.

With a sharp gaze of Cokro still silent, the man felt that there was something strange happening that made the Sirkun master's assistant was in the place with a state of severe injury.

"Did it be three days ago that your servant never spoke?" cokro said to Mr. Sirkun.

"No, Sir."

"She I asked to find Disya to her friends' place."

"While I went straight to Bhayangkara headquarters to report the loss of my son to you" replied the businessman.

Brown looks frowned,

"Well, we'll just wait until he wakes up."

"I'm sure he has important information for us."

"For the time being, let him be cared for by my men." said Cokro softly, Sirkun looked nodding his head.

Both of them got up and were about to get out of the room, but one of the Bhayangkara hurriedly ran over to the two.

"Report, Chairman."

"Outside there is the Governor with his entourage asking the Leader."

"Master Governor you said?" cokro asked his men and the members were just nodding assuring the leader's question.

"Why did the Governor come to this place, instead of him facing the mulya king in the Emerald Kingdom?"

"When did he arrive?" chocolate in the Heart.

"All right!"

"Come ..."

"Don't let the Governor wait,"

"Let's sir, let's meet him." take Cokro to Mr. Sirkun, both of them stepped away from Mr. Min who is still unconscious.

***

Three days earlier, though,

"Bad! how did the girl escape?"

"How did it happen, Mr Min?" ask seto to his nanny.

"The girl hit me with a wooden block, Den Mas" said the old man stammering with pain.

"Bad! if all this fails, we'll be out!" grunts Seto.

"You have to execute a backup plan, Mr. Min."

"I don't want the plan that I've been putting together for so long to fail because of your carelessness" exclaimed seto whispering to Mr. Min, who was not there, the old man who was lying on the bamboo bed was just speechless moaning in pain and with his eyes he confirmed what his mom had said.

"You rest, later the other members will take care of you" said Seto saw Mr. Min who began to lose consciousness, the young man then stepped out of the room.

"You come with me to look for it, surely the girl will not go far from this place." exclaimed Seto to some of his men, the face of the priyayi Tidar Country looks tangled. Still imagined how Habsari pressured and blamed him in front of his men.

Arriving outside the room where Mr. Min was, Seto approached Martin Habsari's loyal bodyguard.

"Martin ..."

"Then tell Brother Habsari, I'll find the girl." seto said to Martin who had been in the middle room since coming out of one of the rooms where Habsari was currently interrogating Muhibbin.

The ferocious-looking man was silent and without a word came out of his mouth. The main leader of Garuda Merah was looking at the departure of Seto with his men with a cynical look.

Priyayi Negeri Tidar stepped out of the old house carrying some of his trusted men.

After a while through the bushes and across a river, Seto and his guards stopped their steps.

"I think the girl passed through this place" Seto told his guards as he turned his gaze around the place, his face visibly riled up.

Suddenly from a distance a Seto bodyguard assigned to watch the surroundings of the old house ran over, approaching,

"Mr Den ... "

"Den Mas, there is important news that Den Mas must know." said the scout .

"What's going on, what's going on?" seto asked with his face still grumbling.

"The existence of the old house where we are already known by the Bhayangkara party, Den Mas."

"Our colleagues who are in charge of infiltrating as spies in the union reported that tonight the Bhayangkara will make a massive ambush" said the reconnaissance.

"Bad!"

"If all this is uncovered and we deal with the Bhayangkara warriors, it could be terrible!" seto said gruntingly. The man seemed to be thinking hard at the news from his men.

"Damn ..."

"Sat ..." umpat Seto vented his anger.

"We need to get out of this place immediately."

"I don't want to deal with the Beach Country Bhayangkara."

"Damn ..." he said back.

"But what about our colleagues, Den Mas."

"Do we need to tell Miss Habsari and the Red Garuda group?" ask one of Seto's guards.

"No need!"

"We'll just leave them."

"We don't have to get involved in their plans."

"Let all face Hansari the arrogant woman."

"This is my chance to vent my heartache to the Garuda Gold family who have deceived me with that matchmaking."

"We do a backup plan, let this mess be borne by Habsari and her family" Seto said with a sneaky grin.

"Well, Den Mas." replied Seto's bodyguards.

"Let's go from this place." concluded the Tidar State priyayi as he stepped away followed by his guards.

***

"Cockroaches!"

"What the fuck is this ..."

"Why did this happen?" the Governor of the Beach Country when he saw Cokro and some people approached him.

The successor of Mr. Timoti was visibly upset at the leader of Bhayangkara before him, his eyebrows interlaced with wrinkles on his forehead.

"If this mess is heard by the central government, put where my face is!" hardik the Governor to his subordinate.

Respectfully bowed, Cokro said.

"This is all the work of the Red Garuda gang, the Governor" replied Cokro while slightly bowing his body.

Since replacing the late Mr. Timoti as the new governor of the Coast Country, the Bhayangkara leader was sultry with arrogant attitudes and policies that sometimes did not fit the procedures that apply by the new leader.

"How can you?"

"Not has the Union been dissolved by the central government since the death of the late king of Harsuto?" ask the Governor of the Coast.

"Come, Mister."

"Obviously these riots were caused by them."

"They have committed the crime of kidnapping Mr. Sirkun's son-in-law and allegedly also kidnapped his daughter, part of the Bhayangkara forces I have assigned to chase some of the fleeing groups" replied Cokro.

"What does Cokro really say, Mr Sirkun?"

"Is it true that your daughter and daughter-in-law are missing?" now the Governor asked Sirkun who was beside Cokro.

"Yes, Sir."

"Since four days ago my daughter disappeared and we've been trying to find her. While a few days ago I was searching, my daughter-in-law was held captive by the gang."

"At this time they are taking Muhibbin as a prisoner in escaping" Sirkun explained.

The Governor of the Beach Country was seen speechless with a cold gaze pointing at the people before him.

With a sharp glance, the new Governor of the Coast Country asked again,

"I heard rumors that you're having trouble with one of Kang Mas Bendowo's daughters?"

"And as far as I'm concerned, since the death of Kang Mas Timoti, all his efforts are now you in control?" ask the governor to write a statement.

"It's not entirely misinformed that you get." replied Mr. Sirkun politely.

"You mean?"

"What information did I get that wasn't entirely true?" the governor asked offended.

"That's not what I mean, sir."

"The business that we started has an agreement that can be accounted for."

"And about the management of the business is fully my authority as the owner of three-quarters of the capital in the business."

"And the rest became the right of the heirs of the late lord Timoti."

"But to my knowledge according to the letter of agreement, the business was handed down and fell into the hands of Miss Sariwati as appointed by the deceased, not to Miss Habsari."

"And I as a co-worker of the deceased have the right to determine who will lead the business, all contained in a transparent and fair agreement, Mr." concluded Mr. Sirkun to the Governor.

The gaze of the Governor grew sharper towards Sirkun sir who was still acting calm.

"So it's like that ..."

"Was it not the other way around, this mess was deliberately created to smooth out one's plans?" the Governor of the Coast State said coldly.

"I mean Sir?" now Mr. Sirkun's gaze is staring at the head of the Coast Country.

"I heard otherwise, in the agreement that has the right to manage everything is Sariwati and because of the condition of my former nephew's wife who is sick, then everything is delegated to her brother Habsari." said the Governor while glancing at Seto who was standing beside him. The young man only smiled slightly with his sly facial expression.

"It's not true, sir."

The Governor read a piece of paper that Sirkun had extended to him. For a moment the man looked solemnly scrutinizing the covenant letter that Sirkun had.

"The shape of the paper and the stamp is the same as that held by Seto."

"Seto, show Mr. Sirkun the covenant that your ex-wife has." the Governor asked his nephew Seto Nugroho.

The Tidar State Priyayi handed over a piece of letter in his possession, with a grinning man extending it to Sirkun's master.

The flamboyant man read the letter in the name of the late Mr. Timoti and the contents of the letter gave full power to Habsari as long as Sariwati was still sick. Under it there is also the official stamp of the company which is exactly the same as the letter of agreement owned by Mr. Sirkun.

"No way."

"It is impossible for Mr. Timoti to make a letter like this."

"Especially the contents stated that all the assets of the wood processing business are his and bequeathed to Miss Sariwati." exclaimed Mr. Sirkun in disbelief.

"This letter must be a fake because I wrote it with the late Mr. Timoti myself."

"The original letter explains that one-third of Mr. Timoti's rights were passed down to Ms. Sariwati and there is no point in stating that it was managed by Ms. Habsari during her brother's illness, let alone that the point about the venture belongs entirely to Mr. Timoti." he said, holding out the two pieces of the agreement to Cokro to help research it.

The Bhayangkara leader examined the two exact same letters but the contents were different, while Seto continued to grin at the confused Sirkun master.

In a soft voice, Cokro said,

"When you made this letter was there a witness accompanying you?" ask the man to Sirkun.

The businessman spontaneously said,

"Min's Dad ..."

"Yes, he was the one who accompanied me when I met Mr. Timoti."

"He prepared the paper when he made the covenant" replied Sirkun with a slight relief.

"So any witnesses know about the deal you made?" the governor asked again.

"Rubber, Sir."

"For all this time Mr. Min has helped me" said Mr. Sirkun with sparkling eyes.

"Where is this guy right now?" ask the governor back.

"It just so happens that he's in one of the rooms in this building, sir."

"At this time the man named Mr. Min is injured" replied Cokro explained to the head of the Beach Country.

Hearing Cokro's reply, the Governor of the Coast Country scrunched his forehead, the man felt that there was something strange about the existence of Mr. Min Sirkun's assistant in that place.

Suddenly a Bhayangkara came closer to Cokro and others, whispering the Bhayangkara conveying something to Cokro.

"Good, go!" said the Bhayangkara leader gave the order after getting information from his men, the Bhayangkara was passed.

Cokro then said to the Governor and the one in that place.

"It just so happens ..."

"According to my members, Mr. Min is currently conscious" Cokro told the people around him.

"Good!"

"We can ask for the person's explanation while ascertaining why he is in this place with a state of injury." cried the Governor briefly.

***

"If you find an obstacle you can't get through, take a step back to look at it from the other side."

"Don't impose your ambitions that will ultimately harm yourself."

"Humans need to be realistic and know when to make the right decision."

"Have it!" the old man said and then walked away.

"Done!"

"Eyang .. don't leave Sari alone, Eyang!"

"Done!" shouts Habsari awake.

Three members of Garuda Merah who were in place immediately ran towards Habsari.

"What's up, Ni Mas?"

"Ni Mas is okay?" asked one of the guards to his employer.

By adjusting his breath, Habsari was seen wiping the sweat off his forehead.

"I'm fine."

"Go back to your positions" said the woman softly.

"Well, Ni Mas." replied the Red Garuda member left Habsari who was still sitting dumbstruck.

Since his escape last night, Habsari felt his body was tired and the woman fell asleep while leaning against a log.

"I dreamt of it."

"Eyang, if Eyang still existed .." Habsari murmured in his heart, the woman was still thinking of her dream of meeting the grandfather who was none other than the late king of Harsuto.

The yellowish tinge began to glow slightly in the eastern horizon, signaling the day began to change.

"It's starting early in the morning apparently."

"Have they finished the bridge?" mummified Habsari back.

The woman got up from her seat, she stepped closer to the body figure lying before her.

The woman's gaze was fixed on the figure of Muhibbin's body that was still unconscious not far from where he was, there was hatred radiated on his father's face when he saw Muhibbin's face bruised with wounds.

"Guards, come here!" habsari shouted at the members of Garuda Merah who were on alert not far from his place.

Hearing his master call out, the three men rushed over to Habsari.

"You checked the man's condition, is he still breathing?" habsari orders one of his bodyguards.

The member of Garuda Merah stepped towards Muhibbin, held his wrist, then his fingers were directed to Muhibbin's nose.

"He's alive, Ni Mas."

"But his pulse seems to be weakening" the bodyguard told Habsari."

"Thankfully, I still need it to find the thing I'm looking for" Habsari said briefly.

"And you ..."

"Try to check on your comrades, whether they have finished repairing the bridge." Habsari orders the other bodyguards.

With a nod of his head the man rushed up the hill towards his comrades according to Habsari's orders.

***

"Min's Dad ..."

"Why are you in this place?"

"What makes you hurt like this?" asked Sirkun to sit next to his servant.

Seeing the presence of Mr. Sirkun, Mr. Min's face was shocked and confused, with the position still lying down, and, his gaze alternated staring at the people in the room and a moment stopped at the figure of someone who was beside the Governor, the old man ignored Sirkun's question.

"Jawab, Mr. Min!"

"Why are you here." Sirkun asked.

"Anu, sir .. anu." said the man stammering with anxious eyes hiding something.

"Jawab, Mr. Min." cried Mr. Sirkun with a voice starting to rise.

"Sir, maybe Mr. Min just woke up from his stupor, he may still not remember and confused to answer."

"Mister will be a little patient." interrupted Cokro to Mr. Sirkun.

The man was seen approaching the bamboo bed where Mr. Min was lying.

"Sir Min, please tell me what happened to you and why you are in this place" said Cokro Lirih.

The eyes of Mr. Min alternately look at the people around him.

"Anu, Mr ..."

"Annu ..."

"Mr Sirkun who ordered me to help Miss Habsari brought Nak Mas Muhibbin to this place" replied Mr. Min stammering as he stared alternately at Mr. Circun and Cokro.

"What do you mean, Mr Min?"

"When did I tell you to take Muhibbin and help Miss Habsari?" exclaimed Sir Sirkun surprised not to expect his maid to say so.

The Governor and Cokro looked at each other, both of them feeling that there was some awkwardness happening to the lying man, while Seto who stood beside the Governor continued to stare sharply at Mr. Min and Mr. Min also returned Seto's gaze as if the two were communicating.

"Say the obvious, Mr. Min!"

"Aren't you being ordered by your employer to find her daughter?" now the Governor is raising his voice.

"True Mr. Min, tell me the truth!"

"Don't you make a false confession" said Sirkun still confused by what the maid said.

With a soft and stammering voice, Mr. Min began to explain his whereabouts in that place,

"True sir, I brought Muhibbin and helped Miss Habsari secure him."

"Miss Disya also I brought it, all of it on the orders of Mr. Sirkun" replied Mr. Min to the Governor.

"Lied!"

"You're lying, Mr. Min!"

"I told you to look for my son."

"Don't you yourself be part of the people who kidnapped my son and daughter-in-law?" sirkun's screams began to ignite emotions.

Seeing this the governor interjected,

"Silence, Master!"

"Let Mr. Min finish the story."

"There comes a time when you will speak." hardened the Governor to Mr. Circun who began to lose control.

"I'm ordered to create an alibi if it's as if Miss Disya was missing kidnapped."

"And the captivity of Muhibbin is one of the strategies of Mr. Sirkun to master the wood processing business owned by Mr. Timoti and make a deal with Miss Habsari as the representative appointed by the late Mr. Timoti, who was the leader of the forest, as long as Miss Sariwati is sick.

Because Mr. Sirkun also knew that Miss Habsari wanted the young man dearly and had no idea what his purpose was."

"Surely, one-third of the wood processing business of the late Mr. Timoti entrusted to Miss Habsari will be fully owned by Mr. Sirkun in exchange for Muhibbin." concluded Mr. Min while occasionally his gaze was on Seto who continued to observe him.

"Lied!"

"That's slander!"

"However you did this to me, Mr. Min!" shouted sirkun.

"Mr Sirkun, stop it!" hardik the Governor.

"Cokro, secure this man!" call the head of the Coast Country back.

Cokro reluctantly ordered his men to lead Sirkun out of the room.

"Deliver ..."

"Let go!" mister Sirkun screeched while struggling to escape, but the Bhayangkara members still took him out.

"Now it's clear, Mr. Sirkun is the mastermind of all this."

"Do a thorough investigation."

"You'll process the man immediately, Cokro."

"And as for Habsari's involvement, I'll ask her father Kang Mas Bendowo's opinion."

"I do not want this incident to tarnish my good name and authority in the eyes of the mulya king of the Emerald kingdom." the man snorted annoyedly.

"Let's get Seto back to town."

"Let all this be handled by Bhayangkara" concluded the Governor of the Coast Country.

"Okay, Uncle." replied the young man starting to step out while staring back at Mr. Min who now looked guilty.

While Cokro followed from behind leaving the room where Mr. Min was treated.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Circun."

"All this I do for the sake of my mother, Den Mas Seto."

"I will make amends for this mistake with my own life." muttered Mr. Min inwardly as he swallowed a capsule taken from a small pouch tucked in his waist. Not long after, the old man spewed fresh blood from his mouth and his body convulsed before finally taking a life.

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