CONFINEMENT

CH 85 - PRALAYA PART III

Jero Balian Kanta immediately checked the state of the Light lying on the stretcher.

"Bring this girl into the treatment room."

"Let's hurry!" exclaim Balian Kanta with his face stiffened again.

Some Bhayangkara helped the Pecalang bring Light body into the treatment room. Balian Kanta came in and Prawira Utama, mister Sirkun and Jero Pecalang followed behind.

Balian Kanta's face is getting tangled up, though,

his forehead frowned and his molar crackled withstanding the rage.

"Who did all this? how outrageous!" the cry of Balian Kanta could not hold back his anger.

"What exactly happened, Jero?" ask sirkun to come closer.

"How is this woman?" demand's back. The man inched closer to Balian Kanta.

Balian Kanta's face was getting tense, his eyes were bristling and his voice was trembling,

"This girl is dead, sir." he said softly to Mr. Sirkun. Everyone in the treatment room gasped at what Balian Kanta said, not a word coming out of those people.

"It's barbaric, they don't have the feelings and the manners of humanity."

"Who did all this, how could the entire family of Jero Nengah Wirata and Muhibbin be treated like this?" mr. Sirkun could not cover his wrath.

"Mr Prawira Utama, you must immediately find the perpetrators of this atrocity, I will not stay silent with this incident."

"This is beyond the limits of humanity!" added Mr. Sirkun back while staring at Prawira Utama Bhayangkara next to him.

The face of Prawira Bhayangkara was reddened to see the scene in front of him, the body of Light full of wounds and bluish bruised face and on the sidelines of his thighs blood dried up to make the man tremble furiously, he said,

"I will make sure that the perpetrator of this crime will receive the same punishment for his actions, sir" Prawira Utama told the people present at the venue.

The man is seen giving directions and ordering to one of his men.

Balian Kanta once again examined the state of the body in front of him, the old man said to his disciples,

"Cantrik, prepare and take care of the body of Ni Mas Cahaya, pay the respect he deserves." said Balian Kanta back.

"Where is Good Boy Muhibbin? until this moment the young man was not seen."

"You follow the young man immediately, Jero!" balian Kanta said to Jero Pecalang who was beside him earlier. The Batubulan village security leader nodded his head and he called one of the prostitutes to immediately follow Muhibbin in An Nur surau.

***

While in the surau An Nur, a young man was seen sitting in front of a mound of land that was still wet. Three girls and a young man were seen still accompanying her.

"You must be steadfast, Bin."

"It's not easy, I know what it's like to lose the people we love."

"I'm sure you can get through it." said Disya sobbed at her best friend who was still sitting in front of the navel of Suratmi.

"Let's go back to Manguntur, we see the situation of Sekar and Raya." she told Muhibbin.

"Yes Bin, it's better that we focus on the current situation of Sekar and Raya,"

"I didn't know you were so devastated and it hurt you so much, we didn't feel it."

"Let's get up sister aka this." said Puan Rizza comforted Muhibbin who was still silent with teary eyes.

The companions of Muhibbin continued to persuade and comfort the young man who was still sitting sad in front of his mother's belly button. Suddenly the gripping door of An Nur's mane creaked and opened, a man dressed in Madya Customs with a black-and-white pollinator cloth coiled between his waist and knees gushing towards them.

"Nak Bagus, I was sent by Jero Pecalang to invite andika to immediately return to Manguntur" said the man to Muhibbin who was still sitting together.

"Ni Mas Sekar has started to wake up." added the man.

Muhibbin turned his head and looked closely at the Pecalang members.

"What about my niece, uncle?" said the young man,

"And has there been any news of my brother's whereabouts?" reemerged.

The Pecalang member sighed and said to the young man before him,

"For that I was sent to pick up Nak Bagus, brother Nak Bagus has been found." said the Pecalang member back.

"Really uncle?"

"How's my brother doing, uncle?" muhibbin asked as he rose from his bed.

"For that matter it is better Nak Mas see for himself, uncle personally grieved over all that happened to Nak Bagus." replied the Pecalang member.

As if he knew what Muhibbin was feeling, Disya said,

"Betul Bin, we'd better get back to Manguntur."

"We first see the state of mbak yu Cahaya, Sekar and Raya." added the girl to her best friend.

Muhibbin nodded his head back and shortly after left the navel the mother followed the members of Pecalang and his friends.

The men left An Nur's surau splitting the dirt road with his train to Manguntur.

***

"Snake!"

"Snake!"

"I where?"

"Ohh, sick!"

A soft voice was heard in the treatment room of Banjar Manguntur.

"Mistress!"

"Ni Mas is conscious?" said Balian Kanta who was not far from the sound. The old man approached the body lying in front of him, Sirkun, Jero Pecalang and Prawira Utama followed him.

"Where's the pot, uncle?" asked the voice back, a heavy breath was heard in the girl's face. Tears flowed on the girl's pale face.

"You better get yourself back, Ning."

"You don't have to worry about Jero Mekel." said Balian Kanta lirih, the old man's eyes look glazed over the girl lying in front of him.

"No, uncle."

"I saw that Ajik had been ganged up by the Bhayangkara army and one of them had a dagger thrust into Ajik's chest."

"How is he doing, uncle?" said the girl who was none other than Sekar and tried to get up from where he was lying, seen bandages that wrapped his wounds back in red and blood seeped from the wound that had not dried.

Seeing that Balian Kanta held Sekar so as not to rise from his place of lying down.

"You don't move too much first, Ning!"

"Your wounds are still not healed" the old man told the girl in front of him.

"Didn't uncle hear me wrong, you said the Bhayangkara attacked Jero Mekel?" added Balian Kanta while helping to lay sekar back.

"Yes, uncle."

"Bhayangkara came to the house looking for Bli Ibbin and Ajik told him that Bli Ibbin was not at home because he was told to deliver something to Ajik's brother in another village."

"Bhayangkara did not believe and continued to search our house, until there was an attack and gnawing on Ajik by them" said Sekar sobbing.

The girl hates and recounts the incident that night, where the father fought with the Bhayangkara and at the same time before losing consciousness due to the spear stab of one of the Bhayangkara, he saw the Light being taken by the people and his house was burned.

Hearing the words of Sekar, the faces of the people in the room were red and the look of their eyes was on Prawira Utama Bhayangkara.

"Bad! Wolf in sheep's hair!"

"Tell me, is it true that Ni Mas Sekar said, sir?" now Jero Pecalang unsheathed keris and directed at Prawira Utama Bhayangkara. The man looked so furious with anger that he could no longer hold back.

Seeing Jero Pecalang's reaction, Prawira Utama said in a furious tone as well,

"You can't be reckless, Jero!"

"I don't understand what the girl is saying" Prawira Utama Bhayangkara said in self-defense.

Seeing the tension in the room, Mr. Sirkun interrupted.

"There's no way Sekar is lying, you better explain before the anger of the citizens gets out of control if you know this!" sirkun said to Prawira Utama Bhayangkara.

"And you bitch Jero, hold yourself down, put down your gun!"

"We're talking cold heads even though our hearts are hot!" added the Coastal businessman again calmed the situation.

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Note :

Madya Traditional Clothing: official clothing with udeng on the head, sling or scarf binding on the waist and subordinate cloth like sarong worn below.