MARY

13. A Story of the Past

Maria seemed speechless looking at the figures in the gilded kingdom that were so glittering, it was,

"So you can't see it Suf?"

Ask Mary,

Joseph looked stupefied,

"Yes Non, I can't see,"

Answer Joseph,

"But not a cataract, is it Suf?"

Mary turned to Joseph, who immediately shook her head,

"Don't dong Non, I swear I have a cataract anyway Miss Maria,"

As Joseph protested, Mary seemed giggling in her place, this was certainly the first time she could laugh after becoming a ghost,

"But I've heard of it. Non, if behind the resting house of Mr. Hubrecht there is a snake stealth kingdom, supposedly from the first time the collapse of the ancient kingdom of Galuh Non, the era of Java and Sunda is new,"

Joseph then, then,

Maria who actually likes the history of the kingdoms on the earth Nusantara was enthusiastic to listen, he said,

"Oh how's the story?"

Ask Maria who then floated towards the bed in the room where they saw the kingdom in the lake behind the resting house,

"This is the story of Non's parents, about right or not I don't know,"

Said Joseph,

Mary is sleepy,

"It's okay if it's not true as well, the important thing is I want to hear,"

Said Maria,

Joseph followed Mary, but she sat down on a wooden chair by the table,

Although Mary is now just a ghost that cannot make Joseph fall in love, but still Mary is a female ghost, whose honor will still be maintained by Joseph,

"Non the story,"

Joseph said, sitting in the style of grandfathers who would tell his grandson,

"Hmm brash, basic male crocodile,"

Maria was quick to comment, of course she could not help but blaspheme,

"Their affair was then finally known to the people, and therefore finally there was bloodshed in the kingdom of Non, including finally the death of the handsome young man and also his brother,"

Yusuf said, looking for a moment he took a breath first to then continue again,

"One of the young men was Non who was said to be a snake demon, because when he fought and was seriously injured, he ran to the south coast and he turned into a snake,"

"Oh yeah? Is there anything like that?"

Mary looked amazed, although now she herself has become a ghost, but it felt knowing there were humans who became demons was still extraordinary in the eyes of Mary, she said,

"Yes Non, otherwise the name of the young man is Jaka Lengleng,"

Said Joseph later, but his voice this time was made very soft, to be more like a whisper,

"Jaka Lengleng?"

Mary is heard repeating the name that Joseph mentioned,

"Yes Non, Jaka Lengleng, who is said that when the full moon arrives, he often appears near the lake, his figure is a tall and sturdy young man, his hair is long decomposed, he said, he wears great clothes like a great king, he is the ruler of the serpent kingdom,"

Hearing her Maria then floated towards the window again, she looked to look towards the back of her family's resting house,

However, strangely, it no longer looked like the gold-plated kingdom that Mary had seen before,

This time behind the rest house looks only a lake and also natural forest, only,

The astonished Mary seemed to float out of the window of the room where she had peeked for quite a long time there,

"Non, where are you going, Non?"

Joseph called Mary from the window afraid of abandonment,

Mary, who knew Joseph was afraid, looked only to look and grin, and then...

"Wait a minute,"

Said Maria who was drifting closer to the lake,

Lengleng Jaka? The snake king ruling here? Inner Maria while looking at the lake whose water looks very calm.

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