The Blue Swordsman

First Student

The crowing sound of the rooster sounding so loud woke Rajendra from his deep sleep. Just before dawn, Rajendra got up from the bed and sat on the edge of the bamboo bed. Her cheerful face seemed to be grateful for her good sleep tonight, although on a bed and bed of worn straw but clearly better than sleeping in the open.

When he got up and started walking out of the restroom he saw a tray with some food prepared by the host, although it looks like only the leftovers from the previous day's cooking, Rajendra appreciates it a lot. It may be that for others it is just a simple food maybe also for some others only cheap leftovers, which are cheap, but Rajendra understands the food that was deliberately left for him is likely the entire property of the host.

"What a good boy" Rajendra thought in his heart before starting to eat the food that had been prepared for him. For a moment he realized that if he heard the sound of hoe clang behind the house, he was sure that it was the voice of Ranu who might be doing work in his field.

So after Rajendra finished eating, he immediately walked outside the house trying to find out what Ranu was doing behind his house. And sure enough when he finally found the child was seen Ranu hoeing in his garden, it was clear the child was fully understood what was being done.

From the way he swung the hoe, compacted the soil with his small legs and the way he planted all done Ranu deftly. It occurred to Rajendra when he was the age of the child he had never done that at all, when Ranu's age had not yet occurred to him the thought of having to work the fields to obtain food, to be able to survive.

Realizing the presence of his guest Ranu momentarily stopped his busyness he smiled and said "Have you woken up? Have you eaten the food I prepared?"

"Yes, thank you for that" Rajendra replied to the boy's smile.

"Do you want to leave?" Ranu asked as he walked closer to Rajendra.

"It seems so, don't want me to trouble you more"

"Can you take me?"

"You mean??" Rajendra asked a little confused by what Ranu said.

"I know that the father is a swordsman, or at least as I see it, I want to be a disciple to let me go wherever you go" the boy explained, his voice sounded serious.

Rajendra did not immediately answer that he was silent as if he was weighing his decision, part of him said if he decided to yes Ranu's desire means he has placed himself on a big responsibility in Ranu's entire life going forward, that responsibility not only includes feeding and protecting her but also must be able to educate Ranu in order to become a true human being.

The responsibility he thinks now feels quite heavy because he himself thinks that he does not feel like a qualified person. But on the other hand if he rejects Ranu's wishes it shows that he is only a weak person because if he can not change the fate of a child how he will change the order of the country this, how could he be recognized by the crowd.

Finally after he had convinced the anxiety in his heart he uttered,

"All right, I'll take you you'll make you my student.."

"Don't we have to go" Ranu said turning his head to stop his steps.

"No, we're not leaving now"

"Hach.then what are we going to do"

"We will temporarily stay here, we can do many things for a while here, I will teach you many things"

Like not happy with Rajendra's answer who has now become his teacher, while the joy on his face seems lost, he said,

"And what will the teacher teach me here?" Tanya Ranu then.

"Much of what I'm going to teach I'm going to teach reading, teach you how to grow good crops and maybe I'm going to teach you a little bit about martial arts" Rajendra replied excitedly.

Instantly Ranu's face brightened again to hear that he would be taught martial arts, and it seemed like that was the goal. Ranu has not told me about why he lives a kara in this world and Rajendra has not asked that.

Ranu's father and mother have been the victims of robber crimes and atrocities.

Once in the summer of the previous year in the village came a horde of bandits who used to live in the mountains, the criminals were very cruel was immediately robbed of everything that could be obtained in his village. They do not hesitate to hurt or kill anyone who gets in the way. And when all that was going on his father and mother became one of the victims because they tried to fight to distract the robbers who were about to enter his house, Ranu who was hiding in a room under the roof can see clearly when his two parents were killed by the robbers.

Anger over what he saw seemed to foster a sense of resentment in his heart so that his desire to master martial arts was well deserved for a purpose of revenge.

When Rajendra finally asked that Ranu also told the incident very clearly, he also expressed his great desire to be able to learn martial arts from his teacher.

"I'll teach you martial arts but you don't need to find those robbers to take revenge, but if those robbers come back we'll be ready to welcome them" that's what Rajendra told Ranu to please his heart, and indeed Ranu was happy with the teacher's answer especially the word "we" spoken by his teacher, a simple word that indicates that he is no longer alone.

The following days were spent with the busy farmers in general but who slightly distinguish, between the time, Rajendra taught Ranu some basic martial arts. The techniques taught are certainly self-defense because they know their students are still small and their strength is not equivalent to adults so they choose to teach some passive styles, namely, a style that tends to defend and uses the strength of the opponent to counter-attack.

Rajendra's assessment of the child was right Ranu was indeed a smart child a fleeting assessment of the bright glare of his eyes at that time is now proven, Ranu is now proven, it did not take long Ranu seemed to have mastered some of the techniques taught to him. Feeling happy with the progress experienced by his student Rajendra seemed to smile with satisfaction when he saw Ranu still diligently practicing in the background of the twilight sky that looked reddened.