Finding the Sacred Tree

The repeated occurrence

After Geri and John left. The citizens still torture me with crazy, they no longer care if I will die later.there I also do not care if I die later. I've resigned, whatever will happen next I don't care.

They continued to torture until it was dark. After it became night, they finally stopped torturing me. They stopped not because they were tired, but they had to go to their places of worship.

I heard that the people around here are adhering to what religion.gitu.Peach night is full, every night is, they would go to their places of worship and pray to their god and that was done until the sun rose again.

I don't know if this can be said to be lucky or not. But obviously I can finally rest tonight because today is a full night.

At first the square was crowded by passersby and people who wanted to see me tortured, but now this place is very quiet, there is no sound here except the sound of crickets and other night animals.

When I can finally breathe a sigh of relief. John and Geri came home from the bar. Geri was seen staggering when walking while carrying a bottle filled with alcohol, while John was still walking upright like a normal road. They both came to me casually. When they were both in front of me. John also said.

"Once upon a time yes..." John looked around.

I just kept quiet while lowering my head. I did it because I was so scared of him. I was afraid that he would torture me again.

John looked at me and then lifted my chin so I could see his face. There my face was broken, my eyes were not visible because of the huge bruises in both eyes, my nose was broken and bleeding from the hole, my teeth were missing, there were a lot of blue bruises around my face, and also my face was very dirty and smelly because of the rotten fruit and rotten vegetables.

John who saw my broken face, could only laugh a little. After laughing at me he threw my face away violently which then moved away and approached Geri who looked staggering.

At that moment my body seemed to be trembling. I don't know why I'm shaking, whether because I haven't eaten all day, I'm cold, my wounds are still very sick, or because I'm afraid of John, I don't know. Maybe that's all that's causing me to tremble right now.

"Calm down.don't tremble. Tonight I won't torture you, but I'd rather get you out of this place if you answer 1 question correctly."

"Woo. Look son, Mr. John is actually a bwaaik, but you're the one who didn't stick out. Rarely do criminals want to be released bwegini." Geri said that while staggering and her words were unclear.

"Be quiet! You better go home!"

"That's it.don't be so, sir." Geri hugged John's hand and stroked his head against his coat, like a spoiled cat to his master.

John kicked Geri until he rolled around like a ball and finally he hit the wall of one of the residents' houses. He was okay, but he was already stoned on the spot with saliva flowing from his mouth.

"Hadeh.basic that person. All right, back to the original topic. Answer my question correctly, then I'll let you go. Why did you kill them?"

I did not answer and just lowered my head

"Counting 3 seconds, you don't answer, then I'll leave you here and tomorrow you'll be tortured again by the citizens."

I'm still silent.

"3...." John walked over to Geri, who then picked up a bottle of alcohol and drank it.

"2..." He came back in front of me.

"Sa..." Before John said one, I replied in an indistinct voice.

"Sayva tidwak knows!"

"Huh...what did you say?"

"I don't know." I answered louder and clearer.

"O.." YEAH...." John was seen with a flat face, but seconds later he hit me with a bottle of alcohol right in my head. The bottle broke and the alcohol that was still inside flowed all over my body. When the alcohol touched my wound, it was very painful and hot. The taste is not just a moment, it lasts a very long time and the longer, the more painful. I bit my lips not to scream, but my tears kept flowing as it endured this tremendous pain.

"This time you answered my question correctly, but I'm not satisfied with your answer. So you stay here until tomorrow morning, but tomorrow I'll give you breakfast for answering correctly."

John then leaves, Geri who is still Teler is taken by him. Although Geri is fat, but John looks very easy to hold Geri. John and Geri are out of sight. The square was completely deserted. No one but me was hanging with wounds all over my body.

My body is so tired. I wanted to sleep, but because of the wounds on my body and also because of my bad sleeping position. I find it hard to fall asleep. I kept trying to close my eyes, but every time I was half asleep, all of a sudden a mosquito bit me. If the mosquito bites when there are no injuries, there are also severe injuries. The pain can multiply many times.

Then in the middle of the night, where the moon was right above me. There I was still trying to sleep, I closed my eyes, but it opened again when there was a strange sound, then I closed it again and opened it again to check if there were people. I closed it again and there was the sound of people stepping. This time I didn't want to open it because I wanted to really sleep. Suddenly someone called me. His voice was very soft, but also terrifying. It's not like the voice of a monster or the voice of a witch grandmother when she laughs, but rather the voice of a hit woman who wants to kill her target.

I opened my eyes and in front of me there was a beautiful woman in a pony.The woman was dressed all in black with a sling bag big enough. Look at how fat the bag is. It looks like the bag contains a lot of stuff, but I don't know what it contains. The woman's hair was also black which could make her invisible that her skin was not as white as milk.

I don't know what this woman is doing here, if she's going to torture me, but she's not. I don't know why I have the feeling that this woman has another purpose here.

"You're Rakka." Ask the woman.

I, who was still dumbfounded to see the beauty of the woman, suddenly came to my senses and answered the woman's question.

"Eh...iya.why do you know my name?"

"It doesn't matter, for now you eat this first." The woman reached into her bag and took out fresh Bread and fruits.

"Ah.Braise your mouth."

"Eh..? What'sthis?"

"It's Bread."

"Not... That's not what I meant, but why you're doing this."

"I can't explain now, after I release you from here, I'll tell you. Now open your mouth."

"Freeing? what's..." I wanted to ask more, but the woman had already forcefully inserted her Rot into my mouth.

"Now chew slowly." I also chewed it and the bread tasted so good that it made me cry happily. I thought this bread had been poisoned, but luckily it wasn't. Even though this has been given poison, it is also okay, even better so.

The woman took out her handkerchief and wiped my tears and the dirt on my face slowly. He's very good, I don't know what his purpose is to do this. I honestly don't trust this woman. After being treated so badly all this time, I feel that the good guy is just a fake and usually the good guy is hiding another goal that might be able to save you again.

I continued to feed the woman, until the initially fat bag became deflated. After being given a drink by her I asked her again.

"Umm....Can you tell me, why are you doing this? And what do you mean about setting me free."

The woman returned the water container to the bag and then said.

"I'm told to people."

"People? Who told you to?"

"Before that, open your mouth again."

I followed him and opened my mouth. Then he reached into his pocket and put something in my mouth. I don't know what it is, but this thing I'm eating is very hard and has no taste at all.

"Don't try to chew, just swallow directly."

I just obeyed him and swallowed the strange thing that was in my mouth.

"What was that?"

"Something's gonna set you free tomorrow."

"Huh? Whatchu mean?"

"You'll know tomorrow."

"You can't ...." The woman disappeared in an instant. I just blinked, but he disappeared somewhere. I've seen left, right, up, down, but the woman doesn't exist. Maybe he ran behind me, because that's where I can't see him.

"Where is that woman? He hasn't told me who told him...Ah...had it.why should I care about that. I don't care about my life anymore." Even though I said so. I was actually very curious as to who sent the woman and why she would release me. Whether that person is my parents—no, that's impossible. They won't come back here, even if there's a danger here. After all why they come back, they will not know what happened in this kingdom.they are still in the wild, how they know the state of this kingdom.

Because I didn't want to think about it any longer, I started to close my eyes to sleep. Because I ate a lot of it. I got very sleepy and it made me fall asleep very quickly. At that time I was still bitten by mosquitoes, but I was too sound, until the mosquito bite was not felt to me. I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. Whether something good or bad happens, I don't really care. What matters to me is that I want to die.

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Next day.

The sun has risen. His light has shone on my swollen eyes. The light was dazzling and made me wake up from my comfortable sleep.

[Comfortable?]

It's freaky. How can I feel comfortable sleeping while hanging. Then I realized that all the ropes that tied my hands and feet were gone. Right now I was asleep on the ground, but strangely the ground I was sleeping on was soft. Though in the square where I was tortured all the land has been given bricks to look beautiful, but this land is very soft, even too soft.

I also held onto the ground I was sleeping on and the ground looked muddy. There's water pooling around here. I was thinking, was it raining last night. Then I saw my hand and my hand that had touched the water earlier filled with red.

[What is this? Why is the water red?]

I immediately realized that it was not ordinary water but blood. I woke up and wanted to see what I was sleeping with. After waking up and turning around. I was immediately surprised. My eyes widened with my pupils shrinking. The look on my face was frightened with my mouth gaping slightly.

Right in front of me is Geri's body that looks very sad. His stomach was split open and his stomach was all out. His neck was torn off and his head nearly dislodged. His eyes were absent, his tongue was cut off. Geri looks really bad.

Then I looked at the pole that I had originally tied and there I saw John being tied up, but only his body was tied, his head was under his feet. John's condition is as terrible as Geri's. John's skin is no longer there, as in someone's skin. His fingers disappeared and he was half-naked.

There I dropped my knees, my legs were limp, I couldn't move at all. Then with a blank gaze facing the ground, and with a soft voice, but like depressed.

"Why.... This happened again?"