Pride of Indonesia's

POI 25 - Travel

Aditya is currently in the bathroom to clean his body, shower with cold water is also enough to make himself calm with all the load he lifted since long ago until now, he began to look up and doused himself with cold water so that he could return to his spirit and happy because now he was safe in the city of Yogyakarta as well he had many reliable friends.

Andrian and the Princess were currently ordering all her servants to prepare a very large room to serve as a bed, the three bedroom rooms that were being prepared by the servants. At this time Satria and Wilhelm went to look for groceries because the Princess would prepare a lunch and dinner that was quite delicious.

Henzie and Daisy surround the palace tour along with other tourists, as the Dutch who have never visited any of the tours in the city of Indonesia... whatever small thing they were impressed, they spent quite a long time also to look at the contents of the Yogyakarta Palace which is so big.

Aditya finished the bath, he started coming out of the bathroom and saw a dress that had been provided by the waiter. Aditya picks up his shirt and he is immediately surprised that the shirt has a good motive, he is so fond of that he immediately gets dressed and goes out to look for Andrian.

Aditya surrounds the Yogyakarta Palace until he gets lost and sees no one, he starts to worry that the enemy could attack but when he thinks of him again... there is no way they attack in tourist areas like this, they will scare all tourists. Aditya passes through the corridor in Kedhaton against the background of Gedhong Jene and Gedhong Purworetno.

He could see Andrian talking to a waiter, he came up to him and started patting him on the back so Andrian looked at himself, "You look like a new person, Aditya. Truly a person who comes from this new order era." Andrian chuckles.

"I respect your praise, Sultan."

"Here you go, call me by name, there is no need to call me Sultan." Andrian began to invite Aditya to surround the Yogyakarta Palace so that he could calm down, he said, resting like looking at various things contained in the Palace can be used as an exercise to increase the number of sources of Mana because of peace in the mind and also the soul.

As they surrounded the palace, Aditya could see Henzie and Daisy were in Bangsal Sri Manganti where gamelan dance and karawitan art performances in the Yogyakarta Palace. Daisy smiles when she sees Aditya coming back, she starts to invite Henzie to watch her with Aditya.

"Aditya.. batik motif really suits you." Daisy chuckles while looking at Aditya's clothes, "You look more and more dashing." Daisy gave her thumbs up and Aditya started to chuckle slowly and she and Henzie and Daisy began to see some traditional dances that came from Yogyakarta. Andrian started leaving because some of the servants had just called him.

They began to enjoy this tour of the Palace, a guide began to invite all tourists to enter a room that will show a variety of dances originating from Yogyakarta. Aditya looked for a comfortable seat to see all the dancing, The princess suddenly saw them and walked up to them to take a seat at the VIP venue so they could talk while looking at all the dances.

The VIP place was quite comfortable because they were sitting at the very top, "By the way about this Yogyakarta Palace, it is really great! I like Indonesia more." Daisy said, The Princess immediately chuckled because she was happy to hear it from people who came from abroad.

The show began and showed the first dance called Beksan Lawung Ageng Dance... because Daisy and Henzei do not know the traditional dance so the Princess has to explain it to them while Aditya just shut up and enjoy the show because his head still feels dizzy when finished fighting Andrian.

"Tarian adat Yogyakarta is also often referred to as beksan lawung dance which became the traditional dance of Yogyakarta Palace. This dance will usually be performed by 16 dancers who are all men consisting of 4 men, 2 botoh people, 4 performers, 4 lurah and also 2 salaotho people." The dance begins, Henzie and Daisy see the dance while listening to an explanation from the Princess.

The Princess also even tells Daisy and Henzie that the Mana user will get a useful effect if performing traditional dances, for example such as increased strength and also the source of Mana, each dance has its own lucky effect based on their history so the Princess has to explain it to the two of them because this dance is only effective to girls.

"Can men not get that beneficial effect when dancing?" Ask Aditya.

"There are some dances but to get the beneficial effect is difficult, I assure you, you must be really focused and calm in your heart and soul. If you do it with your own pleasure then the effect will not appear even mixing other feelings such as shame and others will thwart that effect as well." Only Henzie listened carefully to the explanation.

This traditional dance sounds quite helpful in the fight, Daisy does not listen too much because she is currently amazed to see the dance. Henzie even had to take out a note and write what the Princess was talking about.

"It looks like you're interested in learning this dance huh?" The Princess asked, Henzie was surprised and he immediately nodded slowly, "I am a girl who looks after a noble then it should be able to grow stronger for the sake of protecting Miss... can protect my family later..." Henzie started to blush while staring at Aditya who was looking ahead.

"Just go to the core... Beksan was inspired by the condition of the activities of the soldiers as courtiers of the king who routinely perform maturation exercises, maturation training is an exercise in agility in riding by carrying a lawing or watang which is a long stick measuring about 3 meters which the ends are blunt and poked each other to knock the opponent." The princess began to explain, when she heard the history Henzie began to believe that the dance was appropriate for someone who fought using a stick or spear.

"I hope you're not offended... jogjakarta dance is a form of effort by the Sultan to divert the attention of the Dutch colonists to the activities of the soldiers in the Yogyakarta Palace because at that time the Sultan had to submit to Dutch rule." Henzie was surprised when the history turned out to have a Dutch name inside, Henzie did not feel any objection so he began to look at the Princess with a serious-looking expression.

"Are the beneficial effects I've had on my speed and reflexes using a spear or a stick?" Henzie asked, he began to look forward and saw the dance, "A-Did I also have to wear such open clothes?"

"Not really.. The real question is can you resist the shame of dancing like that?" Asked the Princess, Henzie began to think twice and then he lowered his head, "It seems impossible for Dutch people like me who do not really understand about Indonesian culture.

"Oh come on, I'll teach you. You have to know Indonesian culture to get his heart." The princess smiled and Henzie instantly crossed her arms and shifted her gaze, "Stop..."

"Ahahaha, sorry-sorry."

***

On a sunny day like this, Wilhelm and Satria had just finished shopping for some groceries for lunch and dinner. The atmosphere of the city of Yogyakarta is quite crowded until they can not stop looking around, "It's time to go home now, Wilhelm. I'm hungry." [Hayang Nyatu] Sundanese from [Want to eat].

A few minutes later, they got into Wilhelm's car and Wilhelm started his engine after he stepped on the gas to drive the car at an average speed because he saw some policemen. Satria took out a cigarette and lit it so that his heart started beating fast.

"...Wilhelm." 

"Yes, do you feel it too?" Wilhelm and Satria could sense the myriad of Mana users were on the streets but Satria could not see the suspicious ones, either, his rapid heartbeat warned him that there were a lot of Mana users fighting.

Wilhelm began to flow his eyes with Mana so that he could see a blue round, he could feel something bad happening and he could not turn or turn around because there were a lot of cars and motorcycles behind him.

"You saw it...?" Ask Wilhelm.

"That's why in times like these there are riots anyway." Satria began to prepare because behind the round shape there was something terrible waiting.

"[Where Battlefield], all Mana users have such abilities if they continue to practice. A place that would not be able to be seen for granted by a human who had no Mana..."

"...mana users who enter the battlefield, they will see the riots caused by someone." The car entered the circle so that Wilhelm and Satria could see a great riot where they saw some of the people of Man at war.

"It's hell... So many thugs and bad guys are fighting..." Satria said until he could see some corpses scattered everywhere.