
Abil, Estu, Hagia and Dian are now the fourth students
it was gathered in the same room. Gather within
a condition of a bound body, closed eyes, and a mouth
coagulated. Those who were arrested yesterday by the villagers, now
collected in the house of the old man with a heartbreaking situation.
Hagia and Dian, the two women were clearly thrashing at the moment
these. If only the mouths of both were not clothed with cloth, surely
the sound of screaming for help they have echoed to the entire house.
Abil was too. Even because he was a man, under the circumstances
already bound by his feet and hands, Abil is still able to push against Pak
Bimo was also Mr. Tomo there with a blind movement. But
because of this form of resistance, he had just been crushed. With
hitting hard on the face and stomach, Abil just fell to the ground
flooring.
As for Estu herself, man
it just quietly leaned its body backwards. As if it didn't care
with his life threatened, Estu simply stayed there
listen to his three friends thrashing.
After hitting Abil's face and stomach just now, Mr. Tomo also said something
to those students by saying, “For a week, you can
life is good here. You can eat until you never feel it
starving at all. But you know, this village actually
it is a poor village. Never mind being able to eat 3x a day, even we often
fasting because there is no food. All the food we had, we
give it to you guys. So now, you must respond with.
sacrifice your lives.” Said Mr. Tomo with satisfaction.
Not long after the words of Mr. Tomo just now, the sepuh approached
the room where the students are. With a cold face, the
sepuh also opened the blinders of the students, then said, “Night
later, one of you will be destroyed. Discuss. Select
one of you must die first.” Said the sepuh
put an end to. Then he told Mr. Tomo and Mr. Bimo to open
mouth of the students.
And as expected, just after the gaggle of their mouths was opened, a sound
shrill screams, screams for help, or words of abuse
the meaning immediately echoed into the household. Even with the frequency of sound
as hard as that, it feels like the people who are outside will also participate
heard anyway.
But the screams of all of them, won't last long. Because only a few hours later, though,
the cries of the students began to slowly fade. Faded, along
with their tired bodies helpless.
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The time is now at 10pm. Today also coincides
with the full moon. And the time promised by the old man
the students have arrived too.
The elder came back to the room where the students were locked up.
Currently, the students have also run out of their voices because
he screamed for almost a third of the day. Then with that face
cold, the old man said to them, “How is cah ayu, good?
You have determined who should be grounded first?” recited
the sepuh while glaring at the students one by one.
No answer came out, Mr. Tomo also said to the elder, “Sorry
kanjeng, it feels free to have them choose. Better, we take it
one of only direct.”
Not agreeing with Mr. Tomo's advice, the elder told him to be quiet. Then the old man said
to Mr. Tomo with the words, “One of them will die.
We cannot choose one side. We need to find out who's between
those who are sincerely dead today.” Say the simple. And
jurur, he's just playing around right now. And Mr. Tomo knows,
if the sepuh is only teasing the four students.
Because Mr. Tomo knows, if the old man likes to play with
the people he was going to kill.
While looking at the faces of Abil, Estu, Hagia and Dian, the sepuh began to invite them
talk one by one. “Well good, you're ready to die tonight?”
he asked Abil. Then the old man went on again,
“If you're ready to die today, good light?” he said to Estu.
“Well, you are ready to die tonight?” he said it to Hagia.
The three students did not comment
at all when the old man questioned them. Abil, Estu and Hagia, just
looking back at him with a cruel look. Like gazes
they signaled they were ready to kill all villagers including the elder
if only they had a chance to fight.
Then after he finished questioning Abil, Estu and Hagia, now the old man began
galloping towards Dian with a small smile. After facing
with Dian, the elder said, “If you are alone mayu, you
ready to die tonight?” but different from the Gesture
shown by Abil, Estu and Hagia who seemed to fight, Dian who
being questioned, he began to cry bitterly. And the sepuh who
seeing Dian cry also started to smile widely. As if he liked
dian's expression of sadness that will soon die in his hands.
While staring at Dian inside, the sepuh began to caress Dian's hair slowly.
Then rubbed Dian's face gently after. Dian cannot
fighting can only cry and cry. Look at Dian
treated so, Abil and Hagia immediately berated the man
sepuh with loud.
On the sidelines of the curse of Abil also Hagia to him, now the elder has decided.
make Dian.. as the first person he will grow.
Without playing around again with his prey, the elder told Mr. Tomo to
take dian to the back of the house. The sound of crying and pleading
the forgiveness that came out of Dian's lips began to echo loudly there.
And with their own eyes, Abil, Estu and Hagia saw
the figure of Dian who began to gallop out of the room with a sliced condition.
Yep. This is when Abil, Estu and Hagia saw Dian's face for the last time.
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Arriving behind the house, Mr. Tomo took off his grip from Dian, making
Dian also fell to the ground. Then Mulan, the son-in-law of the elder
already there rushed to wake Dian's position to make it
become seated.
Still with legs and hands tied, Dian began to be watered by the flower water that had been prepared
by his son-in-law there. By crying, thrashing and asking
forgiveness, the flower water that has been winnowed began to wet the body
Dian was helpless perfectly.
Then the elder who had just come from inside, started to approach Dian, and,
then he said, “Cah ayu, you must be sincere. Your death, blood
in your body, will save this village from perdition. Don't
crying cah ayu. You should be proud. At the end of your life, you
could save many lives here.” Say the sepuh
wiping away Dian's tears that wet her cheeks.
In her extreme fear, Dian also said, “Mbah, Sir, sir,
Ma'am..please release me the same my friends. We promise to help
then ask for help. We will bring a lot of food from outside to the village
this.” Said Dian in a soft voice.
Then quickly the elder said, “Your friend was named Abil
ever complained to me. Your friend is confused because of all the food
what he brought from outside just rotted. You know why
is ayu? Because food from the outside will quickly rot if brought to the
this village. Not only that, outsiders will never be able to enter
this village. They will all be lost in the fog. Even if
yes, they must all be led by us to get here, and then they must
make a rose shake first, so that they do not die quickly
because the body is drying. And we, too, could not get out of the village with
arbitrary. Because our skin might melt. Suppose what you
suggest just work, surely we will not subvert you
now, cah ayu.” Be firm with the full truth.
This village is the cursed land of the bastard. If anyone succeeds
enter it, then there will be no more who can go out.
After explaining at length Dian's mistake just now, the sepuh
he pulled out a small keris from his shirt. Creeper
who was the sepuh handheld he played to Dian's face with
rhythmically. Touching cheeks. Touching his chin. Touching forehead.
Until then. keris was perched on the tip of the pulse of Dian's neck. Saw
dian's expression was so upset, the sepuh again said, “Cah
ayu, tell me. You want me to say which part of the body is more
back then? Your hands? Your leg? Or your neck?”
Dian who saw the keris was perched on his neck, which was accompanied by
the cruel words of the sepuh just now, as if making Dian feel crazy.
His body instantly heated up, as if his blood was boiling turbulently.
His pounding heart rate was as if making Dian's breath become
gasps. Then with one powerful move, Dian shouted.
strenuously. One loud cry that would be heard far away. One
the cry that would reach the ears of Abil, Estu and Hagia was.
Hearing Dian's scream that was so shrill, making a big smile
also crack. Then with one strong incision movement, the sepuh
cut off Dian's tongue quickly. The incision that eventually severed the tongue
Dian in the blink of an eye. Fresh blood began to flow slowly from his mouth
dian's being suffocated. Another loud scream began
echoing in the air. A voice that indicates that Dian is currently
screaming in pain at the painful torment.
Yep. Dian was executed at this time. After his tongue was cut off, he
sepuh also began to continue his incision to other parts of Dian's body.
Until finally, Dian's screams began to fade in the air slowly. Yang
signifies. that Dian, has died.
By continuing to slash the body of Dian, Mr. Tomo, Mr. Bimo and his wife
began to fill the blood coming out of Dian's body deftly. Making
the container that each of them held began to redden filled with blood.
After a lot of blood collected, the elder at once the citizen, began to water
village land with Dian's fresh blood. Someone went to the west side. Exists
who ran to the east side. Someone's headed south. And there is also
who flocked to the north side.
Then after finishing watering the village soil with blood, now Dian's body
taken to a large banyan tree located in the forest
behind village.
Some of the men there are visible
he was digging in the ground, including an old man whom Dian was afraid of
him first. It feels enough, Dian's body was thrown into the navel.
Then he started to pile it back up with the ground.
After 21 years of life, this is the final story of Dian's life.
After successfully burying Dian's body and sowing his blood all over
the village, with its sumringah face, began to throw smiles at each other.
It was as if this was the wait they were waiting for.
It was as if their thirst had washed away perfectly tonight.
All the villagers had been waiting for this moment to arrive. A day
where... ritual ‘Nandur Manungsa’ or meaning ‘Crop Man’,
they can do it again after 8 months of waiting. By uprooting
Dian, finally the villagers can breathe a sigh of relief now.
Because soon, their village will be fertile again.
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A month has passed. And right, at this time, the condition of the village began to improve.
Residents began to be able to harvest their crops this month. Although
it is not maximal, but at least the residents will not starve
until the next ‘Nandur Manungsa’ ritual comes. That is, about 3
another month.
Even today it is not just land
their villages are fertile again. But the adult women in the village
she also began to contain. In total, there are about 17 women
she is pregnant now. Including, the wife of Mr. Bimo who is also a daughter-in-law
the sepuh.
It's sad, but this news is
good news for the villagers. The land that is fertile again, and the
women who return pregnant, is a gift of its own for the citizens. Tak
except for Mr. Tomo. He is currently in the home to
he also said that his wife was pregnant. In front of the elder, Mr. Tomo
also said, “Kanjeng. By dropping a student named Dian
yesterday, now our village is back to prosperity. It's really outside
ordinary.” Say it so sumringah.
But different from Mr. Tomo, the look on the face of the sepuh is now precisely visible
cold, as if he disagreed with what Mr. Tomo said
just now. With deep eyes, the elder said, “Tomo, ,
you don't get too happy. Clinging people from outside will only
suppress the curse for a little while. 2 or 3 more months, fertility in the village
it will surely perish. We don't lie to the people
the remaining students. It'd be better, if that damn woman was in the
in ‘Punden’ it is pregnant immediately. Because of the line
the direct descendant of that bastard, the effect was much stronger to suppress
a curse that shackles us, rather than the blood and flesh of the
that student. Now, however, quickly for the woman
damn it pregnant. Because we need his descendants as soon as possible.” Assertively
the old man seemed to be judging.
Mr. Tomo did not return the advice of the sepuh just now. He just nodded his head like a frightened man.
Then... who is ‘Daman’ woman who is being referred to the sepuh earlier?
Yep. His name is Mutih. He is the direct descendant of the
the previous sect leader who led the village. The sect leader who has.
curse this village and its inhabitants.
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