Terror Tak Kasatmata

14: Punishing and Using Power

“Asih ..?” said Gendis softly and still staring in disbelief Asih who now looks like a fish queen.

“I make sure, you will feel such great regret. Regrets that you will still feel even though you are in another life after this!” resolute Asih with his right hand decorated with golden arrows. This time, Asih did not let Gendis escape again. Because through his determination, even though Gendis seemed so frightened, the peak of the gob*log ghost almost disappeared, the arrow that he stuck right into the heart of Gendis.

That instant too Gendis fell silent. No more evil behavior from the curious ghost. Both of his eyes stared painfully at Asih while all the blood sources including the ones from his mouth, gradually dried up. Along with that, the water in the Red river was no longer red. The water there is again a bit murky.

“Now you can't find your killer. Though before this, you have the strength to do it,” said Asih gently while looking at the eyes of both Gendis.

Through his gaze along with the sound of adhan magrib reverberating, Asih moved Gendis' stiff body to the bottom of the river. Gendis is not completely dead. The curious ghost is still alive. Asih only makes Gendis unable to roam let alone swallow the victim again. Even at the bottom of the river, with the arrow still stuck, both the eyes of Gendis remained open. Which now, as if increasingly punished by his circumstances, Gendis's memory was actually decorated because it became a ghost. He was killed by his father before being banished to the Red River. The memory continued to repeat itself until Gendis, who could not do anything, became even more tormented.

From both corners of the eye Gendis flows fluid. The liquid that was originally clear and slowly turned red like blood. Gendis was really emotional because she could not accept being finished*i, but her condition now made her unable to do anything.

Up there, Asih removes his arrow. Asih who began to breathe a sigh of relief, became pensive with adzan magrib which is still ongoing. “Kangen salad. Kangen became a human, but the river was indeed my best place, the Asih inner” almost descended into the river, but now, in front of him and it was right in the middle of the deserted road, Aqwa was there. The young man looked at him with a look he could hardly understand.

Once confused how, Asih gradually entered the river.

“Sih!” call Aqua says exclaim.

Asih who is ready to swim, keep his back to Aqwa.

“Sih, I'm sorry!” sergeant Aqwa.

However, Asih did not care. Asih chose to stay in the river, although the presence of a figure under the bridge slowly made him unravel. There was a woman, rather she was a ghost. The figure continued to stare fearfully at him while smothering his mouth using both hands. However, the figure that was none other than Dewi—hantu who had asked Aqwa for help as well as being the reason Aqwa dealt with Gendis, was felt to be quite another Asih.

Some of the body of the Goddess drowned or at least submerged in the water like the lower body of Asih which is in the form of fish. He approached because he was too curious. Because he was suspicious, the Goddess was also like her who was half-fish. However, Dewi suddenly blurred and Asih felt that Dewi had a long tail like a snake.

“Slar?” thought Asih who had immediately remembered the creature that had been bothering him all day. “Is he also part of that terror?” thought again.

“Sih, I'm sorry!” sergeant Aqwa from down there. So tightly gripped the bridge handle only to be able to see Asih under the bridge, the part he held was precisely ringsek. Aqwa regretted the situation, but he called back and apologized to Asih.

For Asih, everything related to Aqwa will only make him injured. Moreover, their world was different. Therefore, Asih chose to keep going. Although Asih himself did not return to his kingdom.

“Why should he cover his mouth so tightly using both hands?” thought Asih who had nothing already felt lonely.

Inside the river, he had yet to have another figure to interact with. But when compared with life on land, for Asih living in the river is still better. Not only did he no longer have to feel terror, but because his relationship and Aqwa had been considered over. In other words, his relationship with the Aqwa family also ended.

At the edge of the bridge, Aqwa was silent limp staring at the part of the river that was still rippling and decorated with bubbles. That Aqwa believes it is because Asih. The problem is, he can't catch up because of his weakness alone all the places that can make him drown.

Aqwa knew, Asih would be fine even if Asih chose to stay in the river. But Aqwa is sure, Asih will be very lonely because they have to live everything by themselves.

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“Asih ...” The terror of the voice came back asih heard. Still a woman's voice, and this time, Asih intends to look for her.

“From the riverbed?” he thought that instead found his fish kingdom as a source of sound. “The source is really from there? From some female voice that terrorized me, came from there? Who?” thought Asih was getting curious.

Asih decided to sneak into the kingdom of fish that had made her queen. Hiding, his presence that was discovered and immediately respected, did not break his intention to ascertain the source of the voice that called out to him. Moreover it seems, out of all the silu*man fish there, only Asih can hear the sound of terror for him.

“No need to control. Do the others alone or at least rest,” said Asih who was immediately greeted by a nod of eight silu*man escort fish. There were four men, as well as four fish-women who left him.

After making sure the eight left, Asih decided to continue his investigation. He moved in with his body still half a fish. This was the first time he had entered his fish kingdom deeper. Some of those he passed by, had already immediately greeted him with a polite smile. All of them offered a compact escort, but again, Asih refused.

There was one room in the corner of the palace almost at the back. “It ... that voice from there,” thought Asih who so remembered, that the voice that was calling him like a voice ... Mosses.

“That's what room?” sergeant Asih deliberately whispered to a fish woman who was standing guard next to him. Because almost in every corner of the palace is always guarded by their nation.

“It was a worship room, or the human race often called it a place of worship. The commander always does ritu*al there for the good of our nation. Including that, so that the Queen is always fine. In order for the Queen to always be healthy wherever the Queen is, the Queen,” is very polite and does not dare to glance at Asih.

“If so, why is the sound heard from there actually bothering me so much?” thought Asih.