The Fate of Adipura Kingdom

21. Night Seal

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Aryo woke up from her sleep after hearing a knock on the door of her room and heard the sound of someone calling her at this moment.

"Who is knocking on the door this early?", Aryo got up from his bed and started to step towards the door of his room. He opened the door and found a Patih waiting for him in battle-ready clothes.

“Sorry to have interrupted the rest time of the young master, there is a matter that I have to convey", the Patih saluted Aryo and immediately delivered his message.

"Please Patih", Aryo invites Patih in front of him to convey the message.

"Young master, please come to the headquarters courtyard immediately. There are important things that young masters should know”, said Patih it back.

“Alright, let's get there” immediately, Aryo replied briefly and started to step forward.

The two now began to walk towards the courtyard of the headquarters and when Aryo found the old man was already there first. Aryo greeted the old man and replied with a smile by the old man. The two were standing and facing the gate of their headquarters.

“Why is it so crowded in the morning uncle? It's like not normally” , asked Aryo to open the conversation.

“Young master, there was actually an unexpected thing that happened last night. Our troops who were on guard last night found a strange thing that they just saw”, old man answered a question from Aryo.

“Hal weird? What is uncle?”, asked Aryo back.

The old man now explained what had happened. According to the statement of the soldiers in charge of guarding the headquarters, that night they managed to catch two unknown people who were secretly watching their headquarters from the darkness of the night. At first the soldiers did not know that their base was being watched by strangers, but all of it did not last long after one of the Patihs smelled an unfamiliar smell and felt very pungent.

Patih was none other than Patih who was with Aryo just now, Patih was also the one who finally found that there were foreigners who were stalking their headquarters. He and the soldiers who were on guard that night set a trap to catch the stranger.

The trap was successful and one of the foreigners was caught but unfortunately another was able to escape, even to capture this one stranger some soldiers had to be injured even if not too badly.

“And one more thing young master, the person who has been arrested this time I saw him”, said the old man ended his explanation.

“I mean uncle?", Aryo turned to the old man out of curiosity for the last statement from his interlocutor.

“Let my young master take it to where the person we hold”, invite the old man who stepped forward without seeing the face of Aryo who is curious.

Aryo momentarily looked at the faces of the guards of the room, seeing the arrival of the old man accompanied by Aryo the guards saluted them. Now the two of them entered the room that was not too illuminated by the light it could even be said that the room was a little dark, while Patih who was with Aryo was guarding outside the room with the other guard soldiers.

Aryo raised his eyebrows because he was wondering why the old man took him to a room that had nothing in it. There was only a torch that lit up with a small fire as illumination in the room.

“Young master must be astonished by the atmosphere in this room right now. Wait a minute I will light another torch to light this room”, the old man opens his voice and then starts walking towards one of the torches in the room.

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Aryo's eyes began to pay attention to the entire room that had been illuminated by the torchlight. When his eyes reached the corner of the room to the right how surprised he was because in the darkness like a pair of eyeballs were looking at him sharply.

Aryo who was surprised and without realizing it he took two steps back and immediately pulled Bagaskara keris from the sheath. He could feel a murderous lust from the sharp gaze he was looking at right now, he was already prepared in case something unexpected happened at this moment.

“Young master doesn't have to worry, he won't mess around. Our soldiers have tied him up with chains”, the old man opened his voice after seeing the reaction from Aryo.

The old man had expected Aryo's reaction to be like that, because he had also experienced something similar before. While he was resting in his room in the early morning hours, some soldiers came and informed him that they had captured a spy. The old man immediately rushed over to check on the captured person and soon after his reaction was not much different from the current Aryo.

Now with the help of some soldiers, the spy was removed from his position which was initially in the corner of the room and then shifted under the torch which became indoor lighting. Aryo still had not lowered her keris until she saw the chains that bound the person and made him calm down a little.

The calm lasted only a moment and is now replaced by confusion with what he sees now.

“Uncle? Who is this guy? Just this time I saw him, where did this guy come from? And why was she tied up with such a chain!?”, question after question Aryo hurled endlessly at the old man.

“Young master, honest servant was also surprised when he first saw her. I don't know where this guy came from either. He was a stranger who had been captured by the soldiers who were on guard last night. Even to capture him some soldiers we must be injured while trying to capture him, only with this chain can we overcome his movements, old man began to explain the situation that had occurred.

Aryo looked back at the person his soldiers were capturing at the moment, he was observing him from the bottom up. The person was tall in stature and had a burly body with lustful gazes killing towards the two.

But what became the identity of the person was his skin that was like dark night. Leaving only eyes and teeth that still look white, Aryo really just saw it this time.

Throughout his life he did not know the whereabouts of this person in front of him, his heart continued to be turbulent with the question of where the person came from. Not only did his black skin from the person's body smell no less surprising, a smell that he rarely smelled but he knew that the smell came from the smell of a figure of a jungle animal.