The Angkara Murka

The Book of Warriors Verse One

Satria Piningit stopped in the small town.

There is a coffee shop as well as a restaurant and a fairly large inn near the market and shops. There are still three villages that must be passed before reaching Obong village, and it takes a short time considering the trip away from the regional capital by rental car.

He needs to rest for a moment and when he needs to stay overnight. After all, he has already taken a week off, so there is no need to be too hasty.

He sat down at a table and ordered food and drinks to fill his empty stomach.

In fact, he certainly will not look a second time at a group of men and women on the opposite table if not seen with a pair of wide round eyes glowing with a light between excitedly burning and the sadness he knew so well.

"Wong Ayu?!" satria Piningit said a little too loudly. Not a few people in the food stall who turned their heads to find the source of the sound.

Wong Ayu was just a little late calling Satria Piningit's name, too with a little more force.

The two stood up, scattering from their table chairs. The two figures stood in the middle, but stopped. Don't know what to do. There is a sense of longing kangen that rises as if they want to come out of their chest but cannot be expressed by action. The eyes of the two looked at each other, sparkling, giving each other a splash of pent-up flavor for too long.

It was unexpected by Wong Ayu that Satria Piningit had become an adult male. According to Satria Piningit, Wong Ayu never faded her beauty. This time, it was due to his maturity.

Soemantri Soekrasana turned her body to see this incident, then returned to her original sitting position, smoked her cigars and then said to Anggalarang and Sarti, "There are finally people who really know each other."

Anggalarang smiled and sipped his coffee. Sarti raised both eyebrows, then leaned her body on the plastic chair, closed her eyes as she said, "Why? You jealous?"

They choke on coffee, cough small and laugh.

Soemantri Soekrasana clearly wanted to react to reject Sarti's accusation. But free to think, Sarti still closed his eyes and folded his hands in front of his small chest. Besides, maybe Sarti has a point.

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"So, you saw Priyam, but didn't say anything to her? He didn't talk to you either?" satria Piningit asked Wong Ayu.

Satria Piningit is now sitting at a table with three of Wong Ayu's friends who are quite unique - or strange - in Satria Piningit's view. The young man named Sumantri Su .., he forgot his full name, never separated from his sling bag. Another man, Angga, was dressed in an unusually attention-grabbing outfit: office clothes that had his pants torn to his knees and his shirt torn in various places. He's barefoot. One young woman, according to Satria Piningit this girl is younger than Wong Ayu, is beautiful but her charm is closed in behavior and her speech style is rather disrespectful. Sometimes it seems tempting, sometimes it gets old, sometimes even outspoken and insolent.

But Wong Ayu recounted everything related to these three colleagues as briefly as possible, and Satria Piningit accepted everything without protest. Indeed for a moment he took a breath and calmed down, but after that question after question scattered from his mouth.

Sarti, Anggalarang and Soemantri Soekrasana heard the words of Priyam and Obong village many times. The three are now confused to hear the conversation of these two people where sentence after sentence bounces like a ping pong ball from Satria Piningit to Wong Ayu.

Satria Piningit was about to open her mouth when Sarti who seemed to have also started to huff cut her off, "What the hell are you talking about exactly? Can we follow? Then personally, you better rent a room," said Barti Kenes.

Satria Piningit blushed her face. Wong Ayu understood Sarti's style, so he didn't react much. Anggalarang chuckled, while Soemantri Soekrasana looked annoyed and disturbed, especially on the phrase 'renting a room only.'

"Ah, pardon. My mistake. I should have told you all from the beginning just as Wong Ayu was telling your story these few days," Satria Piningit breathed in as she sobbed.

"I went all the way from Kalimantan to visit Obong village. When I was a child I lived there ... ," said Satria Piningit then stopped for a moment. He glanced at Wong Ayu. " ... with Wong Ayu."

Almost everyone at the table nodded, starting to intertwine the whole story of the existing timeline.

"This past month I've never seen Priyam. Somehow I became a little worried and wondering, so I decided to go to the island of Java, return to Obong village to find out the situation," continued Satria Piningit.

"After hearing this story, you still want to go to Obong village? You should have gone back to Borneo, Satria Piningit. It's no use, and at least you know Priyam's true state" said Wong Ayu.

"Come on, Wong Ayu. Are you sure that Obong village is the devil's lair? I understand that the village adores all things supernatural, many bad things that happen to the village are caused by its citizens. But ...,"

Satria Piningit still continued to speak. But sayup-sayup Wong Ayu, Sarti and Anggalarang heard Soemantri Soekrasana muttering something, ". gawe earth pepitu and sky sap pitu, .. kang tumurun ana ing middle e jagat ..."

"What do you want, Soemantri?" ask Wong Ayu. But late, Soemantri Soekrasana hit Satria Piningit's shoulder slowly. Satria Piningit instantly fell silent like a daze.

"Soemantry!" snapped Wong Ayu but withholding the volume of his voice so that the clash became restrained.

"I want to know the full story, ma'am. It seems that this person is important not only for mbak, but the information he can provide will be useful for all of us. He was talking about Obong village, right?"

"You can just ask without hugging it, right?" reply Wong Ayu.

"I want him to tell me the truth to be honest. Anyway let's not run out of time for a question and answer session. And with this gendam, he can tell stories in the order of time, runut."

Wong Ayu took a furious breath. Sarti and Anggalarang were silent a thousand languages, but even Wong Ayu realized that both agreed with this.

"But I don't want to misunderstand. I understand how important this person is ... Satria Piningit I mean, for mbak. But I also want to know the full story. We haven't all had time to sleep for the past few days, suddenly there is one additional piece of information with the arrival of Satria Piningit. Isn't that why I took Satria Piningit to our table and told her everything we've been through? Because he's also somehow related to us ‘kan?"