Grizzled
#S2 Episode 19
The morning when I should be busy with the preparation of discussions and all kinds of things in the conference room instead I use to take a walk for a moment. Today's agenda is an initial discussion on everything about the Grey World. Since my memory has not yet recovered, it was the Eagle who became the only source of information later. I had intended to meet him first, but it seemed like the bedroom room of Eagle and Kak Garuda was closed, there was no one inside.
A chattering cry sounded at the same time after my startled cry. Brother Garuda was right behind me when I turned around.
“Wow! Shira don't be surprised, dong!” said Kak Garuda trying to swallow shame because I found talkative like rumpi girls.
“Ih, Brother himself who suddenly appeared when there was no one!” my reply. The Eagle sibling only showed a plain grin other than my eyes like a sleep-deprived person so.
“Shira no need with Eagle huh?” tanyanya, “tadi had seen him go around with one of the retainers.”
“She was quick to adjust ya!” my comment was approved by Kak Garuda. It was very reversed with what happened to me when I first arrived in Alba. It felt like an PMS chick, constantly nagging and raging Luska, asking her to drive me home.
“You want company to meet him? I can't let His Majesty walk alone even inside his own castle because after all this is a foreign place, huh ‘kan?”
“Wah, even before becoming His Majesty, I already have lost talent that is recognized by the whole world, so if not troublesome Kak Garuda, I did ask for help!”
“Ah, you may ask me for help at any time! Don't talk so formal! I'm not an important person here!” replied Garuda did not enter the room.
“With an important person or not, is it wrong to speak politely to an older one?” my many.
“Yes, sorry ... I'm not used to being treated politely by my own sister! But I was moved too, huhuu! God finally sent a good sister-in-law candidate and understood manners ...”
A moment later, Garuda realized the leak of his mouth.
“Eh, yeah, hehe ... Sorry, kidding, but if you take it seriously it's okay ... Hehe, ouch, so shy!” cengir Kak Garuda was wrong. I should be the one embarrassed, hey!
“Ah, anu .. By the way, I did not see Kak Garuda last night, where did Brother go?” ask me to quickly slam the steering wheel of the conversation. Some of the soldiers standing guard at the door bowed low as Kak Garuda and I passed by. We traced the side courtyard of the building complex separate from the parent castle.
“Oh, I played to Tagsa's house, gathered with old friends while celebrating the peace that the entire population began to agree, nostalgic all night until I forgot the time,” said Kak Garuda. I just smiled a little.
“Kakak himself is also easily adaptable to the people here. I really can't stop thinking how Big Brother can keep a good relationship with them after various things that happen to be impartial to your group.”
“Well, for us, friends are assets, no matter how bad it used to be, our principle is to take care of each other,” said Kak Garuda, “again our group's priority was not fighting the Grey World, so they didn't blame me for it turned out that I wasn't the heir to the Silver Knight power they expected.”
“Ah, we are no longer discussing the old policies ‘kan? People are waiting for new policies and strategies from your experience story and Eagle later.”
“Or maybe from the Eagle alone,” I replied, “it looks like I will listen more and remember.”
“Oh, yes, your memory ... hopefully soon recover! If it can be lost, then it should also be back!”
“Thank you, Brother. I really hope so,” I replied. Apart from the memories, one other thing had me a little worried since last night. I'm trying to believe that Brother Garuda can neutralize all my thoughts.
“Oh yes, by the way .. There is something I want to ask, Brother,” I said slowed down a step, hoping not to meet Luska or Eagle first before my conversation with Kak Garuda was completed, “what according to Brother allows me to return to Nigra after everything is done?”
“Shira herself hope how?”
“I hope it is possible ...”
“But if you ask, it means that you doubt your expectations ‘kan?” reply Kak Garuda one hundred percent right. Of course, there must be a chance that I can't go back home. Is it true that my responsibility is only limited to fighting against the Grey World? Had it all ended according to plan, would the people here let me go?
“Um, the fact is this .. People in Alba have long yearned for a real legitimate heir to become a leader, not just to defeat the Grey World the source of their nightmares, but also to be a unifier of all groups and the steering wheel of government. I hope you and the Eagle did manage to realize everyone's expectations, but can you imagine after the surface is cleared again and you leave Alba's throne in the void? Political turmoil here and there will reappear!” kak Garuda. Well, I know, my chances of not being able to come back are indeed very great.
“But if the Eagle realizes that, he won't help me. For a while he was the complete holder of all the information weakness of the Grey World. What am I supposed to do, brother? I want both! Save the civilization of this country then return to Nigra after,” I said earnestly, “impossible there is no way I can get both!”
“Um, actually there is, anyway!” said Kak Garuda made my neck vertical again, “the problem is the emptiness of the throne after you leave. The solution is simple, you just need to find a replacement king or queen.”
Whoa?! Also true! But wrong!
“King or queen Alba is determined by the power of the rightful heir who is hereditary bound ... and that power has been attached to me to death,” I replied realizing the barrier stone of Kak Garuda's idea.
“Well, that's it! But .. hm, as long as you know, I'm not staying put and Shira can't go home. I understand my sister's feelings .. uh, I mean, your feelings too,” said Kak Garuda, “that's why I'm looking for ways.”
“As long as that way has not been met, worry cannot get out of my mind,” I replied with a long sigh, rubbing the face whose muscles could not stop tightening since all this began.
“Shira don't worry,” said Kak Garuda smiled warmly, “thinking what happens in the future is important, but how important if in the end it only makes Shira more worried? It would be even more worrying if Shira did not start something that can be done right now.”
Kak Garuda's words sounded like a cool breeze cooling my heart. Right, it's not about which good I should believe in, but about the good I can do now!
“Alright, I understand, Brother!” my answer was steady, somewhat relieved that at least some of my doubts were out of the way, but I still hoped that Garuda could really settle the rest. Ah, no, I wish I could clear up the rest of those worries myself.
Shortly afterwards a courtier told me I was asked to come to the conference room. Good, time to hear the past!
“The race has begun, brother. I have to be a prankster. Thanks for everything!” I said before I left.
“Yes, alike! I will continue to walk even if only by myself!” answer Brother Garuda.
“Sorry, but Mr. Garuda is also requested to attend.”
“Wah? Whoa! It's engrossed! I was invited too! Come on, come on, Your Highness Shira! Don't make them wait!”
***
The conference room order has changed a lot compared to last night. It may not take much hard work, just replacing a long box table with a large circular table with a capacity of ten people. I don't know why I prefer something like this. Everyone is on one side, in one vision and the same unanimous determination.
This time not all of the council members were present, but the few who sat on the edge of the table were the people I knew –Ladra, Luska, Eagle, Aquila, he said, and two other board members– I've never met before.
“Ah, sorry to have made friends wait,” I said then welcome to occupy a seat next to the Eagle.
“Friends, heh? You think this is a discussion before the presentation?!” murmured the bright eagle I had heard. I just grinned, had absolutely no idea to name this group of people, that's why I called just friends!
“Wah? I got that title again?” ask Kak Garuda who occupies the seat next to Aquila.
“In order to honor you because after all you are the siblings of the Great Knight,” Aquila replied, “although not inheriting the power to end the Grey World, you are still both descendants of the Silver Knight.”
“My name was changed to Agung, sucks!” grumbled The bright eagle which again only I could hear.
“What, anyway, Lang?! That's not what they mean!” my whisper is just as subtle.
“Oh yes, I previously introduced in advance to His Majesty two people who have never been seen in the conference room before,” said Ladra, “ini Professor Cakra from the Disaster Alert Hall.”
A man about thirty years old who was introduced greeted me with respect.
“Then next to her the young historian, Miss Yastra, the best graduate in her field, was once directly under the tutelage of Miss Aquila's grandmother.”
The sweet girl across there greets me as respectfully as Professor Cakra does.
“Happy to meet you both! You must be the chosen people of the Internal Council who are believed to be able to help a lot. Please work together!” I said to reply them.
“It is an honor to join directly to support the great mission with His Majesty and the Great Knights! We will try our best!” answer Yastra.
“The only dangerous disaster in Alba since the last hundreds of years is the Grey World, that's why the Disaster Alert Hall research is only focused there. Professor Cakra will give a lot of insight into the current battlefield situation and the considerations needed, while Miss Yastra has a lot of knowledge about the ancient texts, as well as pointers from previous philosophers that must have been needed in this mission,” explained Ladra, “so what His Majesty said is true, they will be very supportive of us.”
“However, what we most want to hear and make reference to today is the story of the experience of the Great Knight. For that, without stalling any more time, we invite the Great Knight Eagle to tell everything.”
“Well, right, if no one objected, I can be a moderator of this meeting,” said Kak Garuda who seems to be approved by all, “as a brother who lives in a room with Eagle, who is a, honestly I was surprised he had ventured into the Grey World and had no idea of it before. How was the beginning of it all, Ang?”
The eagle cleared for a moment before answering.
“Initially me and Shira didn't really understand either. We seem to be stuck in the same nightmare every night, on the other side of our gloomy school. Then someone in the dream convinced us that the terrible environment was not just a dream, the three of us were both trapped in a world filled with monsters, he said, must continue to avoid it while peeling away the mystery of the way out of the world that little demj,” said Eagle.
“Someone in the dream that you were referring to earlier ... who?” ask Kak Garuda.
“Sakti, which you call Silver Knights. Perhaps you already know, he is stuck there because he still continues to find a way out for his twin brother who is entangled in a curse, trapped in the Grey World forever. Have a lot of help and protect both of us while there.”
The name repeated in my head for a while. Sakti ... Sakti huh? The Silver Knight who put some of his childhood memories into my head to save me.
The micro camera and microphone above automatically recorded the atmosphere of the discussion and the entire chronological order that the Eagle told us while we continued to listen carefully. I really can't believe it's happened, but there's nothing in my head. From the story of the Eagle I tried to second-guess the mature figure of the Silver Knight who was kind and light in hand. I was carried away by the tense and anxious atmosphere of guessing behind the mastermind behind everything by the way Eagle told me – which I admit is quite impressive.
Until finally I was heartbroken after knowing Griseo, the asphalt-faced devil once hid behind the mask of the figure of Mr. Hanri who I greatly respect –which he said is now on hiatus from cyber activities because he was busy continuing college to realize his ambition– which turned out, he said, oh it turns out that now caught, imprisoned and single-handed in the middle of a remote island.
“No mungkiiinnn!” I can't believe it, “it's too heavy for me to accept, Lang! Why must the handsome, young, and many followers of Mr Hanri?! I'm sure the whole school, especially our generation will not accept this!”
The Eagle only replied to my words with an unspeakable sour look as if he was the most heartbroken about Griseo's disguised mask, terribly disappointed not even to be shrieked like I did. I just remembered that the Eagle had been rumored to be a member of the order supervisor and became the trust of Mr. Hanri. Ah, just deserve it! It doesn't seem like gossip and Eagle was once a school spy team.
“Alright, thank you, Great Knight Eagle, we will reopen some important points from your story earlier,” said the young male secretary of the Internal Council Body, who was, sliding the hologram screen from the table in front of him, “first, the Great Knight and His Majesty were dragged into the Grey World after accidentally activating something called a six-key trap in the six directions, right?”
“True.”
“Furthermore, you and Your Majesty continue to search for the answer to that mystery through the records of the Silver Knight as a source of information.”
“Yes, there should be two records, but one other we did not manage to grab.”
“Oh, fine ... Then, finally you and Your Majesty made it out after the third full moon periodic cycle opened the light gap?”
“Yes, but instead of staying still waiting for the full moon cycle to come and open the gap of light itself. As I explained earlier, a gap of light opened up as Shira and I won the ultimate fight defeating the darkness in each other's hearts, then with my sword and the line of spells that Shira spoke, ' he said, the slit seal was active and freed up anything inside the Grey World,” said the Eagle.
“Oh, well, fine ... The summary I have fixed. Approximately three points are required to design a strategy.”
“But we keep asking for a copy of the detail story yes!” Yastra.
“True, we need to pay attention to the slightest detail of the story of the Great Knight,”, continued Professor Cakra.
“Good, understood. If there is an update I will still list,” replied the secretary. After thanking you, we had a brief conversation about the technical planning of the next mission.
The Head of the Board will facilitate whatever it takes me and Eagle –I look forward to the operation of planting that cool communication device!– along with training and others. Aquila, on the other hand, proposed a backup plan scenario in case the mission did not go smoothly, especially with regard to the evacuation of residents. Ladra said that he would consider it. Kak Garuda also said he would provide all the help he could. Only one person who did not say much from earlier, only pensive as if something was troubling his mind.
“By the way, you have an idea or proposal, Luska?” I asked to throw out his daydream. Everyone's attention was immediately drawn to the knight.
“Sorry, Your Majesty .. I was a bit presumptuous to ask this,” he said hesitantly, “from the story of the Great Knight was mentioned about a sword that activates a gap of light, and, which is the symbol of the strength of the virtue of the descendant of the Silver Knight.”
“Iya, then why?”
“Since the Great Knight was found, I have never seen that sword when we needed it. Was that sword left behind in Nigra?”
“Wah, right! Where do you keep that sword, Ang? I never saw him at home. You must have hidden it neatly,” said Kak Garuda.
The eagle was silent for a moment. His always calm expression showed no signs of confusion.
“I did not hide it, Gar,” replied the Eagle, “because the sword was never seen again.”
Next Yastra was almost released screaming reflexes to hear the words Eagle. Somehow he who looked the most panicked knowing the sword was not in the hands of the Eagle since one and a half years ago.
“What's the matter, Miss Yastra?” my many.
The girl seemed to be trying to swallow the anxiety.
.Seriate.
