Moon In Hugs

Chapter 244

There are many reasons that make Aditya respect Rahman Sugandi, not only as someone who trains him many things, but a substitute father figure that he has never known since childhood.

Once in the past. This is a story nobody knows. Only Rahman Sugandi and Aditya know. At that time Rahman Sugandi was trapped in Surabaya, could not go anywhere because he had to hide for a while from the pursuit of a mobster who asked him to sell seven rare diamonds in the world to them.

Rahman Sugandi is a collector, but he is not a collector. Often he even helped the national police to interpol in snatching rare art objects.

One afternoon Rahman Sugandi who drove a car alone in a quiet area in east Surabaya muttered, “It was very hot here.”

A motor suddenly stopped. There are two people. One man carried an iron hammer and hit Rahman Sugandi's windowpan until he was shocked. Unable to defend himself, Rahman Sugandi has been robbed, lost his wallet, expensive watch, and a bag containing important documents.

Rahman Sugandi can only shout, “Restore that!”

He really could not chase the motorist, let alone the tire of his car was also leaked by one of the robbers.

Rahman Sugandi thinks he was attacked by mob lords he shunned, but it was just a regular robber. Well, Aditya who is not far from there in action. Quickly, Aditya threw the motorbike piggyback with a cold tea bottle made from a bell.

The motorbike fell in circles on the asphalt, leaving one of the robbers severely injured after hitting a power pole, while the other prepared to hit Aditya.

“But snot! Here, want me to set you up?!” scoff at the robber.

Aditya was a little scared too, so he escaped from the pursuit of the robber. It was only at that time that Aditya could not fight like now. He was still an innocent young man trying to survive away from his village.

Rahman Sugandi saw an opportunity for his goods to be saved. It is not difficult to chase the bike. He only needed to pull out a gun and make the robber collapse.

Dor's!

The gunshot, to Aditya, was the voice of his introduction to Rahman Sugandi, the Nameless Master. Aditya turned his head in confusion seeing the robbers who were chasing him seem dead. Rahman Sugandi approached him.

“Nak, thank you for making them stop. There are important documents of mine in that bag,” Rahman Sugandi told Aditya.

The white-haired man immediately took his bag from the robber's hand and looked at Aditya. “What do you want, son?”

“Please, don't kill me!” Aditya.

“Quiet, I'm a good person. Here you can see my ID. I'm just a collector and this gun was given the police to look after myself,” said Rahman Sugandi.

“Kok can be so?”

“Yeah, the story is long.”

Finally, that afternoon brought them a long conversation after reporting the robbery to the police. Rahman Sugandi could see the kindness in this young man. So, Aditya was invited to eat, given a place to stay in a nice house in the center of Surabaya.

“Until when did you run away from your uncle?” ask Rahman Sugandi.

“Entah, I don't know yet.”

“Remember, Son,” said Rahman Sugandi again, “You may escape to the ends of the world, but do not forget your origin. Come back one day for your uncle.”

Aditya was a bit upset to get advice from someone he just met, but he obviously couldn't argue with that. He regretted running away from Uncle Salim. Then, there is nothing he said other than, “Good, I will try.”

“OK,” says Rahman Sugandi. After a moment of silence, the man said again, “I know you're a good person. Then I'll help you. This is not because of a reply because it has thrown the robbers with a bottle, you know.”

“For what, Sir?”

Rahman Sugandi's words clearly contain mystery, but Aditya did not wonder or curious when he got a lot of knowledge from the man; the science of how to get along in the style of city people, but Aditya did not wonder or be curious when he got a lot of knowledge from the man; the science of how to get along in the style of city people, how to eat well at the dinner table, how to seduce women, how to pretend to be a fool or a bad person, and so forth.

Aditya did not know what was on Rahman Sugandi's mind at that time. The collector thought, “Maybe one day this boy can be a good spy to help with all my business. I'm too old and I think I need a student to inherit my talent.”

It's just that the precarious situation forced Rahman Sugandi to withdraw abroad. Aditya got ‘school’ free from the strange teacher for several months and he never forgot how many benefits he got later thanks to their meeting.

That's why before separating, Aditya promised, “I will help Mr. Gandi, whatever you need. If someday something happens, I promise to be ready to help!”

“Already, Dit. We never know what will happen in the future,” said Rahman Sugandi at the time.

One thing that the man asked Aditya before leaving was not to let people know of their meeting. He asks Aditya to call himself a Nameless Teacher.

***

Now, years later, Rahman Sugandi remembered Aditya. He secretly knew the profile of the young man now. Far beyond his expectations. That was why the Nameless Master was convinced that Aditya was very capable of helping him.

So, a phone was addressed to a hidden location in the city of Bandung.

“Halo?” said a voice there.

“Halo, Dit? How are you?” ask the Teacher Without a Name.

“Good, Mr. Gandi. How about Father?” sahut Aditya's.

“I stay like this. Have you read my message? Now I want you to meet someone whose address I'm sending you,” said Rahman Sugandi.

Aditya agrees and they disconnect the phone after briefly making small talk to let go of a strange longing between a teacher who never expected to come to Aditya's life, with the figure of Aditya himself.

Aditya has so far not known what he should do, but he knows all about valuable things. Items that are often used by international collectors and thieves.

Imagining that, his mind grew tired, but he had promised the Nameless Master, right? And promises must be kept.

All Aditya needs now is to ask the police to give a ride to the house of an agent sent by Guru Unnamed to Bandung. The agent will also later help ‘remove’ Aditya's tracks from the news about a village being brutally attacked by a samurai.

“Later the news was only about a village being attacked, not me and Uncle Salim being terrorized. It means that everyone who is with me is safe. I did this to protect Frita and Uncle Salim,” Aditya told himself.

Baskara secretly finds out about this, due to his advanced equipment that accidentally captures Aditya's talk. But he kept quiet, and chose not to offend it, although Yusi ended up wondering where Aditya was after being taken away by the police.

Aditya got off at a closed bakery on the edge of Bandung. I don't know what reason he told the cops who drove him, but he mentioned Commander Malik so they would take him.

“This is confidential. Please do not let my future wife and Uncle Salim know,” said Aditya.

He then climbed the roof of the loft of the bakery building and found the secret agent referred by the Nameless Teacher.

“Amy? You here?”

That was all that was heard from Aditya's lips.

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