Presage Flower: Sapphire'S Sorrow
Rohan and Januri
Senimorangkir Januri (art by Samudra)
The sound of the clock ticking was the only sound that could be heard in the Princess' room. This room is not large, the size is only enough occupied by a mattress, a study table, and a bathroom that can only be used to urinate.
On the study table, besides there were a lot of books piled up and some of them were still open because they seemed unfinished to read, there was a map of the city of Bendang that was plastered with red thread.
Of course, that common thread was all the information that the Princess needed if she wanted to race with the criminals as usual.
Exactly at 06:15. The princess opened her eyes slowly. His body seemed to have a natural alarm clock that could make him wake up in time.
The princess woke up from her sleep, then yawned.
"Yetahhhh."
After that, he took a deep breath. According to him, filling the air in the lungs as much as possible in the morning is very powerful to repel drowsiness.
The princess got off her bed and tidied up her bed, then she walked to the study table and turned on the radio. This is the morning activity of the Princess, listening to the radio early in the morning while brushing teeth in the toilet that is not closed.
"rang is also still in an unstable price due to the lack of stock in the market."
'The fathers of the radio announcer again, there is no subtle sound or what cake.' Thought the Princess who spat out her toothpaste and gargled.
"The next news came from the town of Pertangkang, where recently the police arrested one of the drug dealers who had been at large since last year."
'Oh, new case?' Thought the Princess who turned on the tap water to wash her body.
"It is known that the police beat the perpetrator initialed N.P. to experience deep trauma."
'Oh, karen people anyway.' Thought the Princess while coming out of the toilet with a dried body.
The princess picked up the school dress that was hung next to her bed. Actually he has 3 sets of school uniforms, but the other 2 are in the laundry.
After wearing her clothes and skirt that were along her ankles, the Princess took her shoes that were next to the study table.
The princess is now ready to go to school, but before that, she turns off her still-lit radio but only talks about Norman's background as the drug dealer.
Just as the Princess grabbed the button to turn off the radio, she heard something interesting.
"virgin again launched the action. On the same day as the arrest of N.P. the drug dealer, the Suginami family mourned the death of their son Julia Suginami. Like the other virgin victims, Julia lost all her vital organs and right now, I'm with one of the police officers who's willing to be interviewed."
Skkkrrchhk
The princess sat on the bed and undoed her intention to turn off the radio which was still static.
"It's unfortunate that this time the virgin's victim was Miss Suginami. He was found dead at 1 a.m. We've already gotten some leads we can't name, but we've managed to sniff out the scent of the virgin's footprints."
Ctek
'Sniffing the smell of footprints, yeah. This time it's not kidding.' Thought Princess.
After turning off his radio, he rushed out and went towards the 24-hour parking lot next to the boarding house where he was staying.
When she came out of her room, the mother of the owner of the boarding house observed her from the chair in front of her house.
The princess who still has the instinct of a Javanese woman approached the boarding house and said goodbye to her.
"Excuse me, ma. I'll go to school first." He said while kissing the hands of the mother.
"No breakfast first? I got a nice egg from mom's son." Answer mom while standing up.
She owns this boarding house, a middle-aged woman whose husband died a few years ago and left this building as a legacy.
She already considers the Princess like her own child other than because her two children no longer live in this city because of work.
As a woman of East Asian descent, she also liked the attitude of the Princess whom she rarely met in her hometown and also, according to her very sweet.
"No, thanks. I'm gonna be late for class."
"Wait a minute." Mother kos said forcefully.
The princess was on her bike had to go down again, she was waiting for the boarding house to come out of her house.
"Here, at least eat during the break."
"Oh! A stock! Thanks, ma'am."
The princess approached the mother, then she received her lunch with pleasure without hurting the giver's feelings.
"Thank you, mom. I'll eat it."
"Sama-sama, it's a blur. You're gonna be late, right?"
"Oh yes."
The princess reached out to the mother's hand and kissed the back of her hand, she who kissed her hand was delighted.
"I'll go first."
"Be careful."
He waved at the Princess who was pedaling a bicycle while waving at him. After that, he entered the house and sat down in the dining room next to the stove for her to cook.
"Well, it's breakfast time."
He saw four empty plates on a round dining table, complete with spoons and forks on top of the plate and an empty glass on the right of the plate.
Then she cried.
"Daughter, may you live well without the need to be disturbed by the killer."
After the meal, he cleaned up all the cutlery he prepared including the four empty plates he prepared at the dinner table every morning.
***
The princess had already arrived and she met the Sky, Ocean, and Dusk at the school gate.
"Hi, sir Sapphire."
The sky snorted, he continued walking towards the parking lot.
"Daughter's sister, you should have greeted me first, or Brother Dusk." Said Samudra, who took out water from his bicycle basket and gave it to the sky.
The sky received the water bottle and immediately sucked it, because indeed the design of the bottle included a straw.
"Then good morning, Miss Sapphire, Miss Dusk."
"Such a formal brother, my God." Samudra commented.
"Hm hm, rarely does anyone use the term miss on his friend." Timpal Dusk with a nod.
"And I'm a man."
The Princess was a little surprised by the words of Dusk just now, she saw the Ocean nodding in agreement with the words of Dusk, which means the word Dusk if he is a man, is a fact.
"That's because he tried to look smart and have a higher caste than his peers." Said the Sky ignoring the call at Dusk while inserting a bottle of mineral water into his sister's basket.
"Oh, are you saying I'm stupid and my castle is low? That so?"
The sky stopped, he looked at the Princess. With a sharp look he looked at it until the Princess was ashamed of herself.
"What the fuck are you"
"Yes." Yeah."
The sky walked back, the Ocean giggled next to her brother, Dusk did not understand what was going on, and Princess, she growled.
"Bahhh! Why are you always like that, anyway?" The princess walked behind them.
They reached the end of the corridor. Sky and Princess entered the classroom, Samudra climbed the stairs to her class, while Dusk continued to walk to class 2F.
"Oh yes, sir Sapphire. I wanted to ask you about something, but I guess I'll."
The sky walked and sat on her stool, the Princess followed her and sat on her stool next to Klaudia and the Sky.
"Can you tell me about that 'something?"
"Oh, about that."
The princess moved her stool closer to the sky. The design of the bench at this school is a campus bench, with chairs that become one with a table and this chair can be folded neatly, so the Princess can freely shift her chair.
"Look, I wanted to ask you about the virgin, then-"
"Let's just say I understand everything you want to say, so you can get to the heart of the matter."
The princess smiled, she grabbed her bag and took out some papers.
"This is some virgin murder case, I summed it up and wrote it down here."
The sky received the sheet of paper and read it with a scan technique.
"I actually think it's impossible to do this alone, so I bert-"
"Virgin's not a one man's game." The sky cut off the Princess's sentence.
"Let's assume they work in groups of 4 or 6 people."
The sky took out its pen and did something behind the paper that the Princess had given her.
"In the last 3 cases. Murder took place in Tanpel town, then two others took place in Baskets." The word Sky while drawing two small circles symbolizing the city of Tanpel and Bertangang.
"Then?"
"Then they committed this murder very quickly. From Tanpel city to Pertangjang city, it takes 10 hours by KRL ride, and 8 hours by car ride in smooth traffic." Answer the Sky while writing down the estimated travel time.
The princess observed what the sky did with her sheet of paper.
"In this summary of yours, the Tanpel murder occurred around 11pm and was found by police at 4am."
The sky underlines the murder clock on the Princess's paper.
"However, the killing at Pertangjang occurred at 2 am, and the police found it at 6 am."
"Last of all, the murder took place at the 12pm strip and the police found it again at 5am."
"Then your conclusion?" Ask Princess.
"This is not a conclusion, but a hypothesis." The sky glanced at the Princess with a disdainful look.
"Oh, okay. Temporary conclusion, then." Said the Princess while nodding, like agreeing to Heaven's insults on her.
'Oh wow, he scolded me for mispronouncing, Panda just didn't dare.' Thought Princess.
"They're not teri-class killers. They're like mafia. Work in groups with careful planning."
"And now, they are both in the city of Tanpel as well as the city of Bertang."
The princess looked at the watch in her hand, it was already 06:58 and soon the teachers would enter.
"Well, I was very helpful. Thank you, Mr. Sapphire."
The princess took all the papers on the Sky table and cleaned them up.
"You know what, Princess?"
The princess turned her head, she saw Sky open her note and put it on the table.
"If you ask for help, I'll go over all the reports you've written."
The princess was surprised, so surprised that her legs jerked and kicked the chair in front of her.
"Hey, what's your problem? We'll be back soon, you mind?"
His friend scolded the Princess who kicked the chair until her body shook slightly.
"Aha, yes-yes. I'm sorry."
"Hgm." He turned around and refocused on learning.
"But it's a pity, Princess."
The sky wrote something in his note, while the Princess wondered what it meant.
The sky closed his notes as he said, "You're just asking, not asking for help."
Princess was shocked, she did not expect that her words were really not underestimated by Sky so she just needed to answer just that without telling any more information.
"Eh, then, I'm asking for a-"
Kriiiiing
The bell went off, Heaven smiled cunningly at him.
The princess stood up, then walked up to the Sky, then just as she was about to say something, the history teacher walked in.
"Hey, you. Be sitting. The lesson will begin."
***
No no no no no no no
People are busy typing, some are walking in a hurry, some are almost accidentally spilling coffee on a pile of paper.
"Hey, be careful."
"Sorry, sir."
The man who was carrying the coffee away, the man who had just scolded was even distracted with his friend next door.
"Hey, this is please. You just got the wrong input data."
"okay."
"Printer's busted? Spit a new change."
"Yes!."
Someone came out of the room, he lifted some paper up high.
"Who made this crime report?!"
"I sir!"
"Come here!"
"Soon, sir!"
Cclek
Someone with a thick leather jacket and cigars walked into this super busy room. He observed the situation in this room in the hope that they could relax a little after being abandoned by him, it turned out to be even more busy.
"Oh! The captain! Welcome to." He said hello from his desk.
"Hello, which commander are you?" Ask.
"He's in the room again, come in, sir."
"Thank you, yeah."
"This is less data! If the data is lacking, the detective division won't be able to meet the virgin!"
'Well, he's angry again.' Thought the man called captain.
"Oh, captain Rohan, that's right. I need your help."
Suddenly his mood changed to good, he then put the sheet of paper on his desk.
"Go back to your desk, get as much data as you can."
"Good, sir. Excuse me."
He got out, then closed the door. Arriving outside, things were still boisterous. The data research division is indeed every day like this, and even today includes a day that is not too busy because people only think about the case of the virgin.
"Then, captain Rohan?"
"Oh, commander Januri. I'm just gonna say hello and ask."
"Yes, whatever it is, sit down first. If it's not wrong, don't use sugar, right?"
"Yes, don't use sugar."
Captain Rohan sat on the chair while commander Januri picked up coffee at the table near the door.
"How is the case progressing?" Ask captain Rohan.
"Progress? There is a setback!" Replied commander Januri with a loud voice, typical of the Basuki Raya area of Sulawesi.
Captain Rohan drank his coffee a little.
"We're in a dead end, everything's not connected. You know that from Tanpel to Pertajang it takes at least 9 hours if you take a car?"
"He even moved from Tanpel to Baskets in less than 4 hours!"
"Crazy!"
Captain Rohan did not say anything, he waited for the next sentence from commander Januri.
"Although this virgin is not a single person, still. They're very fast, undetectable."
The commander sat down, he lowered his head deeply, while the captain removed his jacket and placed it next to him.
"You know what, Rohan? We need a new approach."
"What kind of approach?" Captain Rohan asked while sipping his coffee.
"We need geniuses."
"We have something like that, don't you see Prinses?"
The commander stood up and walked to his desk and opened the drawer, after which he sat back in the chair with a few sheets of report paper.
"Read this."
Captain Rohan picked up the batch of report papers, he read them all with a scan technique.
Actually he was required to follow the mission of the virgin, but because the superior gave orders to other places, then captain Rohan did not follow this mission from the beginning.
"Sri Sudarsih Kusumaning Putri, aka Prinses."
"Yes, he's what I mean."
The captain flipped the sheet of paper, he saw photos of many suspects interrogated by the Princess.
"He's got Russian Roulette?"
"More than that, try reading mission number 83."
The captain searches for mission number 83, under the operation name 'tea party'.
"Wow, he poured the boiling tea over the suspect." He said while looking at a photo of the Princess taking a selfie as she poured boiling tea over the wound on the suspect's body.
"That's because he's following the name of the operation that he created himself."
The commander sighed, he wanted to say something but could not.
"What do you want to say?"
The captain questioned commander Januri, indeed according to the skill of captain Rohan which is often discussed.
Before entering the police force, captain Rohan used to be a renowned psychologist who was able to handle hundreds of depressed patients and reduce the death rate due to suicide by 6%, and that was a very good thing until he got the award.
"Although he's very good at his job, but he's very stupid to dig up information."
Captain Rohan put the report sheet in his hand.
"I mean, Rohan. He needs someone who can work as his partner. Because all this time he only had subordinates who were ordered as he pleased without any partner work like the others."
"Then why does he even need a partner, commander? Isn't he the perfect cop? At least in his job."
"That's perfect the way he catches, not searches."
"Explain."
Commander Januri stood up and took something in the drawer, after which he returned again along with the data that seemed important.
"These are the guys on the Prinses team."
"Yes, captain."
Captain Rohan reads scan everything, making sure he doesn't forget anything.
"Panda is the most powerful intel, his subordinates Koi and Bird are agile kidnappers. They've got melee fighters like Elephants and Dragons, and a Garuda sniper."
"Aren't they perfect?" Captain Rohan asked as he threw the piece of paper at the table.
"They're directional blind."
"Was the panda not able to use a compass?"
"He was very fast at finding people by name, but he was very slow at finding people by clue."
Commander Januri was silent for a while, he saw captain Rohan waiting for him to speak.
"All the necessary names by him were obtained from destroying a person and making him speak."
"Isn't that how it works?" Ask Captain Rohan.
Brakes
"He's violating human rights laws!" Said commander Januri while hitting the table with his palm which was now flushed red.
"I and the rest of the police force have to try to cover up what he's been doing for almost 4 years."
"I'm going crazy, Rohan." Commander Januri was holding his forehead, he looked extremely desperate.
"Immediately order to recruit new members, if necessary a new team."
Commander Januri looked at captain Rohan with a suspicious look.
"A lot of people say that, we-"
"The IQ is 200."
"Yeah." The commander sighed, then continued his sentence, "Where is it?"
Captain Rohan stood up and walked to the door.
"Where do I know, ask the civil registry dong."
Blams
Commander Januri took a cigarette out of his pocket and burned it, he daydreamed with heavy breathing, like he was receiving an extra burden.
Kriiing Kriing's
His phone rang, he took his old-fashioned phone out of his pocket.
"Hello, pa."
"Yes, are you home?"
"Anu, pa. I want permission to play with my friends, so I'm going back to the apartment a little late."
"Whose friends?"
"His name is Sky, he's with his sister Samudra, they're apartment neighbors, really."
"Oh, be careful, Mora."
"Yes, pa."
Clique
***
"I'm allowed to play with you guys." Said Dusk while putting his phone in his pocket.
"Yeeayyy!" The prickly ocean
The Princess and the Sky walked side by side towards the mall in the middle of the Bertang city. What they will do there is the normal activities of teenage students in general. Play together, spend the parents money or spend the salary they get from part-time jobs.
"If from here, we only need 2 stations to reach Katseban station." Said Samudra while attaching his brother's wallet at the entrance.
"Catch her!"
The sky caught his wallet which the Ocean threw, then he stuck it on the entrance. After that he could pass through this door which was equipped with a metal detector.
"Like an airport." The princess commented.
"Of course." Reply Dusk while walking towards the Sky and Ocean.
The sky stood still as he crossed his hands, he stood next to the Ocean reading an article on the internet, Dusk did not know what to do so he went to the cold drink machine and bought a can of strawberry milk.
As for the Princess, she was invited to chat by an unidentified man.
"Can I meet you?"
He looked timid, his usual face flushed red as the blood pumping from his heart accelerated and his hand was already in a position waiting for the Princess' hand to shake her hand.
"Oh, hello. I don't speak Malayan, but I'll shake your hand."
The Princess speaks in Mandaran language very eloquently, the person is confused to answer what when his hands are shaking with the Princess.
Since all countries in Asia united and became a union state, the official language of the Republic of the United States of Asia is Malayan, but there are also tribal languages such as Javanese, Sundanese, and others.
"I have to go first, good afternoon."
The princess bowed, then walked towards the place where the Sky and Ocean had seen her.
"Who?" The sky asked the Princess in the language of Mandaran.
The princess was a little surprised, but she finally answered Sky.
"Oh, I don't know him."
The man looked at the Sky with an envious look.
'How can he walk with three girls at once while I never walk with anyone.' he thought.
The sky looked at that person with its sharp eyes, typical of a Sky with a high self-esteem and clearly visible in the light of his eyes.
The man was distraught, he was very afraid to see the person looking at him with a murderous gaze. For the sake of his mental health, he went towards the exit gate of the station.
The sky finished with his 'killing gaze', then he returned again to his starting position, hands folded on his thighs and waiting for the carriage to come by at 14.
"You speak the Mandaran language? I thought you only spoke Malayan."
"You want to call me stupid, stupid?"
"Darling, you want some water?" The ocean swiftly gave a water bottle with a straw in it.
"You called the fool twice, sir Sapphire. What are you smart?"
"Oh oh, let me try." The twilight enthusiast said, "Samudra, he's smart in what field?"
"Just ask about math or history." Answer Ocean.
"How much is 832 times 4?" Ask Dusk suddenly.
"3328." Answer after drinking mineral water.
"Divided 2!" Timpal Putri continued while opening the calculator on his phone.
"1664."
"Karen?" Ask Samudra who already knows that her brother can always answer easy arithmetic questions like this.
"Fourty point eight hundred." Answer the Sky while returning the bottle of drinking water to the Ocean.
"How much is it, brother?" Samudra asked the Princess who calculated the answer on her mobile phone calculator.
"Uh, forty point seven hundred and ninety-two."
"Wow, the sky is great!" Said the enthusiastic twilight.
People look at dusk and whisper about how beautiful Dusk is, but they forget that the Dusk uniform does not use skirts, but trousers.
"The Petanggung-Parangasam major train soon arrived at platform 2, begged to immediately get out of the security boundary line."
"Oh, that's our train." Samudra.
"Well, I just found out if you want to go to Katseban must take the Petanggung."
"That's natural, Brother Dusk. Brother's only been here a few days."
The princess was silent, she was still thinking about how quickly Heaven calculated all those numerical numbers down to the root of the previous answer.
In fact, the first rank in the police academy that he managed was only able to do about college children within two and a half hours.
Although the number of problems amounted to 120 questions, but each problem must be answered no later than 1.25 minutes, and Sky was able to do it in just a few seconds.
The train comes, public transportation facilities in the United States of Asia are indeed very preferred. They have the fastest cars in the world using magnets as a pedestal, and the subway uses electricity. In addition to trains, there are also buses and these vehicles are very comfortable because they have their own lane on the side of the road and compared to public transportation that is often jammed on the highway, of course, the train is still the best.
Jesss
The door was open, people regularly came out from both sides of the door and turned from the left of each door. People who want to enter, will pass the right side with a very neat queue. This increases the efficiency of human in and out of transportation, at least it was said by Sky when he was still Junior High.
"Sky."
The princess sat on a chair, while the Sky stood in front of her while holding a handrail that hung freely along the carriage of the carriage.
"Hm?"
The sky looked at the child in front of him with a gaze that gave the impression that he was actually disgusted with this child, yet at the same time he gave off the aura of a brother's sincere affection.
"Actually, who are you?"
