KEEP BUANA (Rise of Darkness)

Not That, That's Dagger..

The large house, entirely of wood, was located in one of the outskirts of the village, some distance from the waterfront.

It was a simple house surrounded by a wide variety of medicinal herbs. The owner was a physician named Mamoto.

Gentayu has been almost two hours in the residence of the physician Mamoto . Gentayu did bring the skinny man's body to the house of the physician Mamoto. Luckily, the healer who looked the same age as the skinny man had not yet left for the capital because he was invited by a famous noble family there.

“Master, thank you for bringing this friend of mine here. He'll be safe with me, and I'll make sure I try to recover his wound condition as soon as possible. If you want to leave this village to continue the journey, I welcome. Just trust the Hideki treatment to me.”

Physician Mamoto did not intend to expel Gentayu. However, the healer Mamoto learns for sure that Gentayu is on his way and happens to be involved in the destruction of the pirate group. The rest, the physician Mamoto believes Gentayu has other affairs to take care of..

“Eh, uncle. Have you ever heard of the lightning forest?” Gentayu asked the physician Mamoto shortly before he went on the advice of the physician.

“For what did you come to that dangerous place, young man? I've never been there, but my brother has almost lost his life around the place.” Mamoto answered while pointing to the hideki lying not far from them.

This large high-bodied healer is still busy concocting various plants as medicinal ingredients for Hideki's wounds.

“Someone sent me there, uncle.” Answer Gentayu short. “So, did uncle know where this lightning forest is?” Further.

Gentayu waited for an answer from the healer while leaning his body on the wall of the house. His eyes followed every movement of the healer concocting various potions.

Actually, Gentayu was able to do the same. Being a healer for some kind of illness is part of his pent-up ability. Yet he let the big tall man in front of him do his job.

“Please wait until his condition improves. I don't think he'd mind being your guide. In the meantime you can stay in my hut while you wait. How?”

“Waiting for him to improve?” Gentayu scratched his head. He just wanted to know where the forest was, and he himself would come to him.

Waiting until Hideki improves, with Mamoto's healer's abilities will obviously take at least two weeks. And Gentayu didn't have that long to stay there.

Moreover, he somehow felt that this Mamoto healer was trying to restrain him from hastily leaving the village. But this conjecture was ignored even though he believed it.

“I'm sorry, uncle. Looks like I don't have that much time. “subtract Gentayu subtly.

“Maybe, I can only spend the night for tonight. Tomorrow morning, I plan to continue the journey.” Gentayu.

Mamoto seemed to have a long breath.

Seeing this happen, Gentayu wanted to ask why the healer wanted him to stay longer. But, the desire to no longer involve himself further in any matter anymore made him undo his questions.

“Master, may I ask for your help with the information I will provide?” Mamoto suddenly made an offer.

“We see how important your information is and how much help you need from me, uncle. If I could fulfill it, I would probably do.” Gentayu replied. This time he was curious. Something offered by exchange, is usually something of value, right?

“Master,. Hideki and I are not actually villagers here. We stayed here not too long” Mamoto stood up from his place, then walked towards the window of his house that was open.

“You could say, I lived in this village before him. But only selisish about three months. We came to this village five years ago. Equally as a breakout.” Mamoto slightly lowered his voice at the end of the sentence, sounding a little hesitant to say it.

“Descension?” Gentayu raised an eyebrow hearing her.

“Really! I was a court physician in the Hidama empire at first. Hideki is the personal guardian of the emperor.

While Hideki, he and his comrades successfully escorted the Emperor to escape the assassination.” Mamoto turned around, then sat across from Gentayu's seat.

Gentayu who heard the words of the physician was a little surprised. Apparently, the background of the person he helped was unusual.

In a sense, Gentayu also experienced things that were not much different from Mamoto and Hideki before when in Lamahtang. Both fight against the rebels and try to save the rightful ruler.

“Then?” Gentayu was curious about the core of the story that Mamoto was about to tell.

“The pirates, come to this village not because they are interested in natural resources or the wealth of this village. As you can see, this village is a poor village. There's nothing here.”

Gentayu mangosteen-beard justifies Mamoto's speech. Initially, Gentayu even felt that the pirates were wrongly targeted because they had looted a village that had nothing.

“Then, why did they invade this village?” ask Gentayu.

“They came because of the existence of living artifacts.” replied Mamoto.

“Artifacts? Alive?” Gentayu to advance his body because of fear of mishearing.

“Iya, right. Living artifact. Two months before the rebels took power, the king reported that the village's granite miners had found the body of the commander of Hidama hundreds of years ago. Precisely located at the bottom of the ravine, not far from the forest of this village”

When Mamoto took a pause to see Gentayu's response, Gentayu's mind suddenly turned to Ryutaro who was now the spirit of his twin swords.

“Then what's special about this artifact?” tanya Gentayu tried to cover up her enthusiasm because one of her goals to Nidama seemed to meet a bright spot. Of course if the living artifact Mamoto is referring to is the true real body of Ryutaro.

“You will definitely not believe..” Mamoto who had stood up from his seat, said excitedly, even his body was leaned towards Gentayu so slightly bowed.

“That artifact, making every person who tried to touch it lose his life, and turn like himself, neither dead nor alive. Only difference, they could be touched and brought back while the artifact remained untouched.

Aaah, but, still greedy people approached her, because a dragon-headed sword was slung on her! A sword with great power! Unfortunately, the sword has now disappeared. Someone somehow managed to take it.” heard a sorry sigh from Mamoto regarding the sword.

‘not wrong again! It must be the Fire Dragon sword, and that body is my body! Gentayu, have him show you his location!’ Ryutaro inside the twin swords could be heard shouting excitedly.

“Is the sword like this?” Gentayu suddenly took out a dagger with a dragon symbol engraving on the tip of his blade.

“Not, no.definitely not. It's a dagger, whereas.!” Without a doubt Mamoto immediately denied that the dagger in Gentayu's hand was the sword of the Fire Dragon. However, his words were immediately cut by Gentayu.

“How about this?” Gentayu brushed the blade of the dagger, and..

‘Czzt.!’

Instantly, the dagger turned into a sword with flames on its blade.

Mamoto retreated a few steps back, until his hand accidentally spilled tea that he had not been served for Gentayu.

“iii. that... Fire Dragon Sword!!” Mamoto stuttered as he watched the Fire Dragon sword suddenly appear before his eyes. The healer did not expect to see the sword coming out of its scabbard with such frightening strength, even just by looking at it.