
"Mas was the only son of a couple of parents who married by force. Mama is the daughter of an official who becomes a prisoner of the mafia group in the care of his grandfather Mas. And for political reasons, Mama was eventually required to marry Papa, one of the sons of Opa's two sons.
"Maybe because the marriage was forced, so there was no love between the two parents. In fact, until Mas and Mas twin were born we also did not get love from Mama" Aditya story.
"Mas has a twin too?" Rahayu cuts Aditya's speech.
"Yes. Unfortunately, the fate of the twin is quite tragic. Because he was kidnapped by his enemy group Opa when he was just a year old. A photo of the headless baby's body was sent to Opa later. Be finally Mas became his only successor in this family,"
"From childhood, Mas was always educated by Opa and also Papa. Both of them always taught violence to Mas. Mas has even been taught to hold a gun since the age of Mas just stepped seven years. Mas's first target was a pigeon, Mas's own pet."
"Opa teaches that Mas has no compassion. So he forced Mas to shoot a dove given one of the servants in the old Mas house. At that time I was crying so much. I don't want to shoot that pigeon at the beginning."
"But then Opa hurt the bird slowly.."
Until here, Aditya had stopped talking. Presumably he was recalling memories of his childhood that were quite traumatic for him.
Found the attitude of the husband so like that, inevitably Rahayu also spontaneously asked.
"Torturing what he means, Mom?" Ask Rahayu.
Aditya blinked both eyes a few times. Then he answered Rahayu's question.
"Firstly Opa told one of his men to break the bird's leg.."
Rahayu immediately felt pained, when she heard the words of her husband.
"Until his legs look crooked and drooping. The bird screamed and tried to peck at the hands of his men Opa. And I was trying to help the bird. But your efforts are worth free. In the end the bird had to go through some of his other torments before Mas finally agreed to shoot him with a gun. I remember what Opa said back then."
"Sometimes, death is the best course a person can go through. Compared to receiving endless torture, "Aditya imitated Opa's speech at that time.
"Wrong! Death is not an instant good way to deal with life!" Rahayu suddenly rebutted.
Aditya was stunned when he heard the rebuttal from the wife. He then let Rahayu express her opinion regarding life and death.
"We are given the opportunity to live in this world so that we can survive. So that we can successfully become a proud warrior. Proud here his intent is not proud to be praised by many people yes, Mas,"
"Play pride in having successfully passed the various challenges given by life. Without losing because of using instant ways that are actually humiliating. Loyalty and integrity to the truth are two important things that can characterize whether someone can be called proud or unwilling!" Rahayu said at length.
Aditya stared at his wife. He grabbed a few strands of Rahayu's messy hair. Then draped her behind Rahayu's ears. With a shady view, Aditya also commented on the sentence of his wife.
"You once said the same thing to me.."
"uh? When, Mas?"
"Past.the early days we were acquainted. Your word loyalty and integrity to the truth are two important things that characterize a person can be said to be a good person or not. And you used to say that you had slipped to make a fatal mistake. To make you pregnant out of wedlock. You are very sorry for your mistake" Aditya said again.
"Adek said that, Mas?" Tanya Rahayu was stunned.
"Continue?" Rahayu asked again, as she did not immediately hear Aditya continuing her story.
"After the incident of shooting birds that Mas likes, Mas began to be often trained to shoot other animals that often interact with Mas. Like chickens, civets, your pet rabbit, and also some other animals. Mas was finally quite proficient enough to shoot about eight months later,"
"Around the age of nine, Mas witnessed Mama's death before the eyes of Mas's own head. We were eating out at the time. In a crowd place. Then suddenly a snipper shot Mama in the right eye."
Deg. Deg. Rahayu immediately screamed in horror when imagining the incident.
"The gunshot wound directly injured Mama's brain until the bullet even penetrated into the back of Mama's head. Since then, Mas has increasingly intensively studied martial arts and other weapons. Because I'm so afraid of death,"
"Papa and Opa Mas let Mas learn all that?" Rahayu asked in disbelief.
"Yes. Indeed, they had long wanted to educate Mas to be the successor to their mafia group. But Mas sometimes still absent from the training session. And choose to play around or follow Mama in silence,"
"Mama, although she never showed that she loved Mas as her child, she never taught him to hurt or kill. Mama lets Mas follow her gardening, or play the piano. And that makes Opa so unhappy with her,"
"Mas even suspected that Mama was not killed by the enemies of his group Opa. As Papa said at the time. Except Opa himself who had told his men to execute Mama. And that fact was only known a few years ago after Opa died."
Rahayu's heart was filled to hear the life story of her husband. He then grabbed Aditya's fingers and clasped them tightly. Trying to flow comfort and show the participation of her husband at this time.
Aditya gives Rahayu a thin smile. There is a bitterness that Rahayu caught in the eyes of her husband. But Aditya looked back to the front. So that what is revealed behind the bead of the eye must be hidden again.
"The point, since the departure of Mama, Mas no longer knows anything other than to kill noah and master whatever is entrusted by Opa to Mas. Even at the age of thirteen, Mas participated in carrying out a mission designated by Opa. Where Mas must kill a rebel gang leader in his group Opa,"
"Mas did not participate in the operation to solve the rebel gang. But when the gang leader was caught, Mas was ordered by Opa to throw some fatal shots at the gang leader's body. And that was the first murder."
Aditya lowered his head. Feeling a little ashamed of the dark spots in his early youth life.
In recent years, Aditya has become haunted by his guilt for the people he killed and tortured. But he was always good at removing that guilt. Focus on his life now.
After marrying Rahayu, despite opposition from the Papa, Aditya finally began to divert all his family-owned business from illegal to legal business. Aditya begins to want to build a safe life with his wife.
His pity he burned by the fire of jealousy towards his two baby wives first. So he decided to separate Rahayu from her two babies. So that he can be the only focus of attention from the wife.
That's an absurd reason, indeed.
But for Aditya who knows a little love in his life, the absurd reason is quite plausible as well.
And finally, Aditya also did the fatal thing that made his relationship with Rahayu so bad.
Before telling her fatal mistake, Aditya again continues his life story to Rahayu.
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