Moon In Hugs

Chapter 242

The crowd watched as three people lay helpless, but only two of them were covered in blood.

Ratna and Takeshi Yobu look lifeless. Aditya is anxious and asks Linda and Nancy to guide Uncle Salim into the house because he looks shocked.

“Baskara, please call an ambulance,” Aditya said later.

It turned out that Ratna was still breathing, although she would most likely not survive. That's not what Aditya can be sure of. He only tried his best to restrain the flow of blood so as not to radiate too much from the belly of Ratna who pierced the samurai.

The ambulance that had been on alert since the beginning was not far from the village, because rumors of the killer or hunter (or whatever nickname was pinned on the samurai) had gone, it was wrong.

Then, just as quickly as the ambulance arrived at Uncle Salim's courtyard.

The sound of the sirens was deafening.

“Awas, beware! Mom, dad, mom, mom, everybody! Please give me a way!” shouted the ambulance driver who was a bongsor.

People also gave way so that the ambulance containing several nurses could immediately evacuate Ratna, the figure of the city girl they had seen when Mr. Lurah was taken first, he said, and that tonight helped them destroy the samurai.

Surely the residents were very curious about the face of Takeshi Yobu who was still masked at the time. They immediately opened it. Look at the eyes of the slaughterer who was working for whom and for what.

“Oh, so this is the man who killed our family and friends?” said one resident annoyed.

Then he kicked the lifeless body of Takeshi Yobu.

“Backed!” sahut other citizens, no less furious and follow kick the stomach of the samurai who had not moved anymore.

“This kind of person deserves to be thrown into the abyss alone!” take another citizen.

Many people follow their behavior. I don't know how many types of swearing they throw at Takeshi Yobu and I don't know how many kicks that float into the body of the samurai. Teo and Charlie are in vain trying to calm the citizens down.

“He has made this village grieve, Mas! He deserves to be tortured, even after he died like this!” a citizen who looks burned with emotion.

“But, free too, sir. After all he is also dead,” Teo said with annoyance.

Nancy stepped out and helped calm the citizens.

He said, “Please, Sir, Mas. Let us first investigate who the man who sent this crazy criminal to come here and make trouble. If the body is broken, how do we know who he is?”

That speech seems to have an effect too. The citizens looked at each other and nodded. Then they retreated away from Takeshi Yobu's body until the police arrived.

At that time, Aditya was already in the ambulance with Ratna, Yusi, and Baskara. The rest did not come because they were looking after Uncle Salim and making sure that people did not return angry at Takeshi Yobu's corpse.

At the hospital, Aditya could not do much when the hospital asked to fill out documents belonging to Ratna to be operated on. He didn't know what to fill it with.

Yusi said, “Isn't that your best friend? Yes, just write it as it is.”

Aditya could have made up the reason why Ratna could have been hurt so, but it was definitely unnecessary. Now the media crew has rolled to Sumber Kencana Village to cover the news of the death of a samurai who has slaughtered many residents.

The news even appeared on TV the next morning, when Aditya sat down while holding back sleepiness in the waiting room with Yusi and Baskara. The front page of Uncle Salim's house is highlighted by a TV camera from inside the helicopter. Takeshi Yobu's body was carried into an ambulance after being put in a body bag.

“Ya,” says Aditya.

“And one immediately wondered what the samurai were for slaughtering the villagers,” Yusi said again.

Aditya looked pensive. A few hours ago, shortly after Ratna entered the operating room, Aditya got the latest information from Baskara who managed to track down the samurai's tracks. It turns out that he is a figure associated with Gunawan Mahdi.

“If the media knows Gunawan Mahdi, the international drug mafia, died in our hands, I don't know what else we can do,” Aditya told Baskara who also did not know what to say.

Obviously they would be caught, because the samurai specifically attacked Uncle Salim last night, and who else was close to the old man besides Aditya? This makes Aditya dizzy.

He immediately remembered Frita waiting anxiously in Bandung there. Remembering his dream for ‘retireun’ at a very young age for the sake of peace.

“If they know my uncle, automatically people will also know who my future wife is. Out there, to be honest, my enemies are so many,” Aditya told Yusi.

“Let's hope nothing bad happens,” said Yusi trying to make Aditya calm.

***

At dawn, the police, who were busy last night taking care of TKP and the body of the samurai, met Aditya in the waiting room of the local hospital.

Aditya says, “I have to meet someone.”

Some police officers then took Aditya to walk away, to the hospital hallway, and they spoke very slowly. Makes Yusi very curious and wondering what are they talking about?

Aditya whispered to an officer, “You must take me to the address listed here.”

“For what?”

Aditya looked to explain very seriously. And the policemen nodded, no longer wondering.

***

Yusi didn't know a few minutes ago Aditya got back the news. A news that not only surprised Aditya himself, but also maybe Frita and everyone who knew Aditya.

The news came from a fifty-year-old man, named Rahman Sugandi. Aditya used to know him when he had ventured to various cities when he had not joined the military.

Rahman Sugandi is an art collector who has many connections around the world, ranging from clean officials to corrupt officials, teri class law enforcers to the highest level, as well as any criminal who may have tried to deal with the black market where rare art items are traded.

The news was a short text message:

Aditya, it's time you paid your promise a few years ago.

Honestly Aditya almost forgot that. But the name of Rahman Sugandi, who was never mentioned in a regular chat other than being nicknamed “Teacher Without a Name” will never disappear from his memory.

Aditya knew, if this Nameless Master sent him a message, it meant that he had to leave. Go on a new mission.

Seriate...