KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)

Anjani

Gentayu and the others continued to chat until the sun completely set.

That night, the head of the troupe actually entertained Gentayu and the others with special treats of food and drinks that they could serve. Their cuisine is clearly much different when compared to the food found among royal officials or commonly encountered in banquets between college leaders. But still, the food that looks simple because of the limited variety of cooking methods seem special. Even for Gentayu who used to eat banquets ala royal officials though.

“Master and miss, please rest if you are already sleepy. We have prepared a room for rest, ladies and gentlemen. It may not be as grand as the room of the Fire Clan, but we hope that the master and the lady will be pleased.” Joh Kaiman said with a little hesitation. His house certainly could not be aligned with the Fire Clan palace which he thought was too majestic.

Joh Kaiman has visited the Fire Clan once. And indeed its splendor was hard not to admire.

The Fire Clan, as they were known, was the name of the swordsman clan who were the descendants or disciples of the fire god. They inhabited a volcano with eternal fire at some of its summits.

After hundreds of years, the clan headquarters developed into an advanced and magnificent city.

That night, Gentayu, Hao Lim and Anjani spend the night in the Dajau troupe led by Joh Kaiman. Joh Kaiman himself, that night told the three and his wife to go to the house of one of the residents whose son died last day. They should hold a mini mala ceremony at the funeral home.

Gentayu chose to medatangi Anjani. The more information is received in this world, the more confused and clueless it becomes. But he hesitated a little to knock on the door of the girl's room that had been closed.

“Log in!” Anjani's voice from inside the room shocked Gentayu.

‘This girl knows I'm outside her room?’ Gentayu examined for a moment the walls and doors of the room made entirely of thinned layers of wood. There was no gap to peek at, not even the light from inside the room was highlighted out as a marker of a hollow wall.

With doubt, the door opened slowly. His heart was beating even faster after the door of the room opened.

A goddess with impeccable beauty was found in Anjani's room. Thin lips that were scarlet, jade-white skin that was seductively wrapped in white silk. Adding to her beauty, the split taper chin decorated the oval and cute face of the goddess. And that can not be ignored Gentayu, of course Long black hair is scattered which adds elegance to the goddess in the dim lighting of the room.

Gentayu was glued to his place for a few seconds. His mouth involuntarily opened and his saliva had dripped watching the scene before him. His eyes did not blink, as if he did not believe that the figure before him was Anjani.

“Ngilernya postponed first. better quickly say what is looking for me these nights.??”

Gentayu was still dumbstruck at the sight before him, before the loud noise of the beauty owner resuscitated him. Now, Gentayu was convinced that this woman before him was indeed Anjani, not a goddess as he often heard in fairy tales. It's just that Anjani's beauty looked dozens of times more dazzling that night.

Nervous, instead of immediately saying his goal was to go to Anjani, Gentayu instead stepped out of the room.

“Hei..! Why look for me at night?!” this time Anjani's voice was higher. Stopping Step Gentayu who was already at the door again.

“Ti.. not so.. tomorrow only..” Gentayu hurriedly came out, with an increasingly racing heart beating. This was the first time he could not control his feelings. Nervousness, excitement, whether or not mixed into one while leaving Anjani's room and returning to his room.

“Huh! Strange men!” Anjani snorted angrily looking at the back of Gentayu who had disappeared behind the door of her room. Previously, he was just about to meditate when he realized Gentayu was standing in front of his room. And now, after Anjani cancels his meditation, Gentayu just leaves without being clear what his purpose is to come to his room these nights.

In his room, Gentayu could not close his eyes. His body was extremely Tired, yet his eyes were completely unwilling to be closed. Each eye closed, the shadow of Anjani he had just seen came back.

‘Aaaah..! Just interrupt!’

Gentayu who could not cast away the shadow of Anjani beauty chose to leave his room and stepped out of Joh Kaiman's house. It turned out, outside the full moon was shining brightly.

Under the lute tree that grew in the court of Joh Kaiman's house, Gentayu laid down his grass-roots back that felt like a rug.

His eyes looked at the full moon rising overhead. The fragrant smell of flowers from the fruit of the lute adds to his comfortable mood.

‘Ah..this sense of peace.’ Inner Gentayu sighed deeply. It was a feeling of peace and calm that he had hardly felt again in the past few years.

‘If you think about it, life is sometimes funny! How did I end up like this? I suddenly had to go back to the bottom line, the lowest point, when I felt I was at the top.. Life is really funny..Then, what does it mean that everything I have fought for so far?’

Gentayu began to reflect on his life journey during this time. Too much has been passed and he feels he has forgotten the principles in his life. What is he living for and why should he do what he's been doing?

Closing his eyes, the young man began to think of many things that had been missed from his life. Childhood spent training harder than others in the Single Sword Paddle, becoming part of the lamahtang warriors and spending adolescence as courtiers, and now it ends up in this world in the middle of nowhere.

While contemplating the journey of his life that there is no sweetness, Anjani's shadow again flashed in his eyes. Her charming smile returned making her heart beat faster. Gentayu immediately opened his eyes because he wanted to cast away the shadow of the girl.

However, instead of disappearing, the shadow became clearer. That smile. In fact, now the girl's body is smelled by her nose.

“Beautiful night, right?” A very close voice in his ear was hushed making Gentayu inching.

“You..?” Gentayu almost jumped from his seat when the voice greeted him.

“Why? Am I bothering you?”

“Ti.. no. Yes. of course... no..”.

“Why with you? Is there something wrong with me? I noticed that you've been looking at me in a strange way.. Don't tell me you.. “ Anjani says her index champ is swaying in front of the nose.

“I what?” Gentayu who was nervous chimed in the sentence Anjani hanging.

“You are drunk on the spoils of the Devil's Reef that Yumiko and Sakuza gave you.!” Anjani said with certainty. His eyes even glared like the attitude of a mother scolding her child.

“you are. just interrupt! Where am I drunk, heh?” Gentayu clearly denied Anjani's accusations.

‘Tupper drunk? That's right.!’ maybe that's how Gentayu cursed.

“then, why is your attitude so strange tonight?”

Gentayu. Instead of answering Anjani, he just returned late to look at Anjani's face that looks more beautiful in the moonlight. Their eyes clashed for a while, then Anjani was seen tilting her head. Walk closer and..

‘PLAK!’

A slap of the back of the hand was again accepted Gentayu. This time it landed perfectly in his gaping mouth without realizing it.

“Who hit me?! Rough once a woman.” Gentayu Protest.

“Who hit you? I hit the flies that started to gather near your open mouth.” Anjani answered and did not care about Gentayu protest. Obviously he's ‘narang, because there's not a single fly there.

“Hei! You're noisy! It's already night! Time for the people to sleep! Fight tomorrow only!” This time, Hao Lim's voice that appeared between the two with an annoyed face.

On a silent night like this in the entourage, the voices of the two of them could even be heard up to several tens of meters away.

Gentayu and Anjani both turned their heads and watched the surroundings. Hao Lim is right. Some residents were seen coming out of the door as if protesting with the midnight noise they created.