SUKMA: The Deal With the Devil

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A handful of hate wrapped neatly inside the cloth. When one by one the rope that binds the package in the form of a white shroud is released Sukma, then the media channeling the hatred. Rubber-bound hair rolls along with grave red earth powder and covered with dried dog blood, making everyone on Pak Risman's rented porch astonished and horrified.

"Ih, what the fuck is that, Dek? Dump there!" said Bu Inah shuddered in disgust.

"Wait on! Don't throw!" haji Gufron shouted, then took the strange object from Sukma's hand. "Where are these things from?"

"The grandfather saw the shadow of someone's hand burying something near the gate" he said after seeing the retrocognition that occurred two years ago. "Keep Dedek dig aja ground near the gate. Dedek did not care about getting angry. Go on, Dedek dapet this scroll. Nervous at the gate of the rampage while barking that way, so Dedek ran here," explained Sukma.

"Continue chasing Dedek, don't you?" ask Fadil curious.

Sukma. "The nugget was afraid of Mr. Dedek."

Haji Gufron and Fadil looked at each other. Both are sure, it comes from someone who hates him, so people are reluctant to stay in his rented. Haji Gufron quickly rolled back the package containing the hate media.

"Sir Haji, where are the parcels going?" ask Sukma.

"You see first" replied Haji Gufron briefly.

"The nuggets want to be taken to the house of the Fathers? Don't dong, Mr. Haji. Dedek wants to play the same cuckoo. Dedek asked the owner in the shop across here, not authorized," said Sukma pleaded.

"What's got a stall across here?" tanya Fadil frowned.

"Yes, who again built a new contract and had a stall. His name is Mr ... Mr ... Who was that sir?" Sukma scratched his head. "Oh, yeah. Beni Sir!"

Stunned Haji Gufron heard that name. It has been expected for a long time, something is wrong with Mr. Beni. Since Euis' death in his contract, the man often passed through the gate while putting his hands behind his back like he was carrying someone. Indeed, in the past Haji Gufron only noticed it at a glance. However, now his attention that had escaped it turned out to corroborate the accusation to Mr. Beni, that his rival had done something heinous.

Not wanting to linger, Haji Gufron and Fadil say goodbye to Pak Risman's family. Mr. Risman also escorted them to the gate, accompanied by Sukma. When Haji Gufron and Fadil sauntered away, the gate-wielding creature followed the two from behind. Sukma who is still curious wants to play with the dog-headed creature, trying to catch up with them.

"Where are you going?" asked Mr. Risman holding the right hand of his youngest daughter.

"Dedek wants to bring the hunchback here" said Sukma growled.

"No hunch there, Dek. It was only Mr. Haji and his son who left," said Mr. Risman.

"But the hunchback also nags, sir!"

Seeing Mr. Risman unable to persuade the youngest, Bu Inah approached the two. He crouched down in front of Sukma while looking at the two eyes of his youngest daughter.

"Dedek, let's go, yuk. I want to buy ice cream for Dedek," Bu Inah persuaded in a soft tone.

"Dedek doesn't want ice cream, ma'am. Dedek wants a pet who can talk. Kayak Wanara is just as big. But Dedek prefers the same cuckoo, because his body is big like this contract."

"Dedek is not afraid of the same cuckoo, is that it? Later the cudgel bitten Dedek loh," said Mr. Risman.

"No."

"But feeding is difficult, expensive again," said Bu Inah.

"She has been given the same money that has a shop, Mom. Dedek can buy his own food for the cuckoo."

Hearing the speech of the youngest, Bu Inah and Mr. Risman face each other for a moment. While frowning, Bu Inah stared fixedly at Sukma's eyes.

"Where can Dedek get money from a stall? Dedek begging with him?" ask Ms. Inah.

"She didn't ask, Mom. Dedek just said the same one who has a stall, if Dedek wants to play with the cuckoo. Uh, he was giving money instead," explained Sukma, then showed a piece of money ten thousand from his pocket.

Bu Inah is still amazed by all the events that Sukma experienced today. Without saying much more, Ms. Inah carried her youngest daughter to the contract. Then, followed by Mr. Rismab who just finished closing the gate.

While Pak Risman and Bu Inah were astonished by Sukma today, Haji Gufron was confused at the thought of the small parcel Sukma had found. Sometimes he looked at his son, then bowed again. It doesn't feel right to talk about nonsense on the street.

Arriving at home, Haji Gufron reopened the package containing media hatred Pak Beni. He stared at the object fixedly, while occasionally paying attention to the powder of the grave ground that was still red. He did not think, his rival would do that bad to his contract. In addition, Haji Gufron also felt astonished at all the psychics he had hired to clean up his contract.

"Sir, why did the shells so see the contents of the package?" tanya Fadil sat next to Haji Gufron.

"Mr just surprised, Dil. Already several times you ask for help pinter people to clean the contract, no one found this stuff near the gate. Strangely even the youngest son of Mr. Risman who discovered this object," said Haji Gufron, without removing his eyes from the object in front of him.

"Sir, do you think that Dedek Sukma is not an ordinary child?" tanya Fadil is getting serious.

Haji Gufron turned his head, his countenance stiffened. "Since the contract, you have thought so. Pas Mr. Risman said his daughter had helped Euis when he woke up, I already felt, there was something different about the boy."

"Is Dedek Sukma an indigo child, yes, sir?"

Haji Gufron nodded. "Can be. But ... What indigo children usually just look at it, huh? Sukma Deck, right, can help Euis too."

"That's right, sir."

"Then, if Mr. Risman has a son like Sukma, why is he like a reject that, huh? Kayak who does not want to know everything that Sukma saw or experienced, that is."

"Maybe Mr. Risman doesn't believe in anything supernatural, sir."

"If you don't believe in the same occult thing, why does he pray? Is not God also invisible, invisible?"

"I mean, Mr. Risman doesn't believe in ghosts or other such things, sir."

"Oh." Haji Gufron nodded. "Strange as well, yes, Mr. Risman. Don't believe the same thing, but how do you have a child like Sukma?"

"Maybe that's the way God gives instructions to Mr. Risman, if His created beings are not humans and things that appear, but jinn as well. Ah, wallahu's 'nature, sir."

Meanwhile at Mr. Risman's residence, Ms. Inah continued to argue with her husband. Mr. Risman was still upset at the wife who participated in persuading him to ask for help Suwandi. He would not until his worship was not received by God for forty days and forty nights.

"Well, how else, sir? From early morning until dawn comes, Sukma is not awake," said Bu Inah in a lethargic tone.

"Yes at least we can do another way" Risman denied.

"What other way, sir? I've been giving the smell of eucalyptus oil to Dedek's nose. That's not all. You know yourself, right, Mang Ujang also squeezed the big toe of Dedek's leg hard. But Dedek was very difficult to hear," replied Bu Inah.

"Dedek's hand doesn't hurt anymore" replied Sukma holding his wrist.

"The prayer of God arranged. Then we ask for Mr. Suwandi's help to wake up Sukma doang, not ask for predictions," said Bu Inah.

"Stay still, Mom. It was recorded by the angel 'have visited the sorcerer and the sage', remains a sin, ma'am," cerocos Mr. Risman.

"Whatever you are, Dad. If the idolaters, why do you ngaku I have subverted Bu Farah? That's a sin, too, sir. The sin of lying."

"Ah, stop. You want to go first."

"Where?"

"Buy furniture."

...****************...

Heavy rain flushed West Bandung Regency tonight. Haji Gufron called a psychic into his house to confirm the strange parcel discovered by Sukma earlier this morning. The psychic looked at the parcel shown by Haji Gufron intently. He also nodded his head reverently, looking at Haji Gufron's eyes sharply.

"Where? That's a weird package, huh?" haji Gufron asked impatiently.

"Really, Sir. This is a delivery from someone who really does not like you" explained the paranormal man. "Where did you find this?"

"It was not actually me who found it, but the son of one of my rented residents," Haji Gufron explained.

"So, who found this thing was a child?" asked the paranormal man, frowning.

"Yes," Haji Gufron replied with a definite nod. "What's the matter, sir, if I may know?"

The psychic was stunned for quite a while. He knew very well, not just any smart person who could get the strange object from where it was buried. Let alone the paranormal, ordinary people who dare to dig and get the object will fall ill for a long time.

"What's the kid like? A boy or a girl?" ask the psychic again.

"Women."

"Ah, yes, yes."

"It can be explained, why can this thing be obtained easily by the child?"

"Look, Mr. Haji. I feel like there's something weird about that kid."

"Freak stuff? What strange thing?"

"He seems to have been dealing with subtle creatures long enough. Not at his age, but from birth. So, he could easily get this thing, "the psychic explained.

"Is it not because the little child of his soul is still holy, so it can be easy to get this thing easily?" ask Haji Gufron.

"No, no. He seemed to have indeed dealt with the magical creatures from the small."

In the middle of their conversation, Fadil came carrying a tray of two glasses of water. The young man then sat down next to his father, then looked at the psychic.

"Oh, yes, sir. I want it, is it true that the one who sent this thing was someone from across our contract, who was building the contract as well?"

The psychic nodded, then switched the conversation again. "Do you know anything about that kid? Since when did he come here?"

"So his father said that in the early hours of this day he had fainted. Not only that, he also met a murder victim who had lived in his rented room. Is that true, sir?"

"That's true, even he has healed his curious spirit, too" the psychic replied lightly.

"So, the spirit of Euis Tea will not bother you anymore?" asked Fadil with a radiant face.

The paranormal nodded. "Just .. ah, you better burn that thing right away. I'm worried that the genie is bothering you tonight. Do not forget, while reading the Verse of the Chair until it is completely reduced to ashes."

Haji Gufron nodded. Paranormal is farewell to Haji Gufron and Fadil because there is a sudden affair. The owner of the house allowed it, then drove the psychic to the gate of the house.

Fadil, who was holding a strange object in his hand, immediately reached into the match from his pants pocket. However, Haji Gufron held him down first. He said he would burn it after the psychics had completely left.

Meanwhile at Pak Risman's residence, Sukma was agitated. His premonition regarding the dog he had been playing with this morning, was getting worse. He kept pacing from the terrace and then into the house again.

Of course, his strange attitude was clearly visible in Bu Inah's eyes. The middle-aged woman caught Sukma suddenly, until the youngest was surprised to make it.

"Mother this is nothing, anyway?" ask Sukma gusar.

"So Dedek paced back and forth like an iron," said Bu Inah while giggling amusedly. "Tell me the same Mother, actually Dedek again think what the fuck? Same with school friends, huh? Don't worry, later Dedek can go to school again here, continue to have new friends."

Sukma shook his head in a doldrums. "In the meantime, the same cuckoo mind," he replied. "Mom, Pak Haji and Aa Fadil will not do anything, right? Dedek hasn't had time to play catch as cuckoo."

Ms. Inah who actually did not understand the meaning of her daughter's words, tried to compromise. "Mom don't know, Dek. Pak Haji and Aa Fadil are good people. Try Dedek thought, is it possible that good people hurt animals?"

"No, Ma. Unless it's a naughty bunch and it bites people, it's gotta be hit."

"Well, if you think you're doing evil with Pak Haji and Aa Fadil, what?"

"Yes was beaten. Later also run, keep coming back here again."

"Well, if Dedek believes his cuckoo will come back here, Dedek do not need to worry," said Bu Inah rubbed Sukma's head gently. "Now, Dedek sleeps, it's nine o'clock. Tomorrow Dedek the same Atikah Tea here the same Father first. I want to go to Bandung, want to take care of your school move first."

"Dedek can't come, ma'am?"

"Dedek doesn't have to come. Just play here the same Atikah Tea, yes. I won't be long."

A few meters from the contract, precisely at the residence of Haji Gufron, Fadil began to launch his action to burn objects sent by Mr. Beni. When it began to burn, the young man read ta'awuz, followed by basmallah and Ayat Kursi. Of course, the dog-headed creature that had been following them since earlier felt its body burning violently. He barked, but his voice was not heard at all by Haji Gufron and Fadil.

Apparently, the real incident made Sukma sad. The gate-wearing supernatural creature he hoped to become a pet has been burned to death by Fadil. Sukma shed tears before finally falling asleep in his dream.