The Fragrant Soul

Chapter 14: Great Lord Tanabasa

Sukma Harum meditated in his room long enough. From morning until noon. He calms his mind and relaxes all his muscles. His feelings were already plain when chatting with Antasena. Now there was no more burden on him. His mind was empty, his strength was gathered. He was really ready to fight.

He deliberately did not eat breakfast so that he could gather pure energy. It seems that Masayu Renjani also knew the meaning of Harum Sukma so that he had not disturbed the man in his room. But as soon as Sukma Harum came out of the room, Masayu Renjani was waiting for him while sitting casually on a rug.

“You're out too. I thought I'd lock myself all day in the room,” Goda Renjani.

“I just don't want to come out because I know there you are waiting here,” said Raka teased back.

“Then why are you out now?”

“I'm afraid that if I don't come out, it's you who will lunge inside,” Raka laughed.

“If you knew how many women wanted to rush into your room, of course you would choose to live in a war fortress.”

 “If a girl feels she is too beautiful to try to hit my room, of course I will kick her ass out the window,” Raka's smile calmly.

“Why are you so evil?” Renjani squinted her eyes as if angry at Raka.

“Sometimes the more evil a man, the more attractive he is in the eyes of women,” answered Raka solemnly.

“I want to argue with you, but I think your cerocos has a point.”

Along the way, now they were in the front yard park. There are a lot of half-girls around

naked people who enjoy the shade of trees that hold the scorching sun.

Renjani pulls Raka's hand and invites her to sit on a small stool, a bit away from the girls who

it's running under the trees.

“There is a big secret I want to tell you,” whispered Renjani.

Raka just nodded and looked at the pretty girl's face.

“Kutahu in this world, you are the one who can keep the most secrets. Even the secrets of your enemies,” Renjani said.

Raka still did not answer. He likes to listen to the secrets of others.

“I am a telik member of the royal cipher. I was sent here because of an assignment.” said Renjani half whispered.

Raka just listened. Renjani continued, “My unit used to make plans for you to arrest me. So that we have a reason to get me into this valley. So that people do not suspect.”

Next, “There is a secret society. They are high class killers. They

able to do anything as long as the price is suitable. The price they are asking is very high. Whatever the task, they can always do it perfectly. Kill, steal, kidnap, wreak havoc in society. It is said that they are preparing a very large movement.”

“Have been a few years I'm here to look for traces of the group, because according to the secret that had

we get, the group is organized from here. And the Great Lord Tanabasa is its chairman.”

“Who is he really?” ask Raka.

“He was a noble from Andalas. Due to frequent troublemaking, his family exiled him. Foundational

having great intelligence and talent, he then became a black swordsman who was very feared in Andalas. But he was an accomplished chess player. He prefers to move in the shadows, moving his chess pieces to satisfy his passions.”

“A pretty heavy opponent,” Raka said.

“From all the opponents you have faced, I think this is the toughest opponent,” said Renjani.

“Eh? Do you know any opponents I have faced?”

“We in the unity of the royal password, have chosen a complete description of you. Even the amount of shit

flies on your body we already know.”

“Oh? So the girl I had sex with yesterday was the guy you sent to count the numbers

my mole?” Raka pretends to gawk.

“A swordsman who bears the problem quite heavy, should be able to relax his muscles. In order for him to work and move swiftly,” Renjani's smile was a little mischievous.

Actually Raka wants to tempt Renjani by asking why the unity of the code contains flirtatious women like this. But he immediately held back his words. He soon realized that for the sake of the country, there are people who are willing to sell their pride.

At that moment he felt so insignificant in front of these girls.

Her tears wanted to spill, but she instead laughed wryly, “Maybe one day I have to join the telik unity of this cipher.”

Renjani laughs. Laughs satisfied.

Like a fool, Raka laughed.

“Eh? Why are you laughing?” ask Renjani.

“I just realized my stupidity. It turns out that the kingdom has long made me as their password by telling me to complete various kinds of affairs.”

“Well, you finally realized too. Hahahaha.”

If one day you're walking with someone, then you step on a big buffalo dung, then

your feelings will be very similar to the current feelings of Harum Sukma. And the person who walks with you is certainly very similar to Renjani's laughter.

“Today I felt myself quite lucky in life, it turns out that after a thought, a lot as well

damn it,” Laughter Raka.

“The most capable, the smartest, the most dashing, usually do have the most business,”

Renjani.

Raka just shook her head. Smiling he said, “It looks like I'm ready now. Everything I want to know I already know.”

“You do not know how the science of silat Mr. Agung Tanabasa,” said Renjani.

“I don't need to know. If you know even complicate.”

“Hmmmmm..”

“I'm going,”

“I wait for the good news.”

***

Raka is out of “istana” residence Renjani. He is now on the edge of a small river. Water gurgling

the fresh one accompanied the cold afternoon in the valley. If not the name of his terrible nickname, this Devil Valley can be used for a place to travel. The forest is beautiful, the plants are diverse, the water is clear and clean, even beautiful flowers are scattered everywhere.

From a distance, someone came. He walked over cheerfully while singing happily. Her face

look happy. But that face suddenly changed after he saw that there was a Fragrant Sukma sitting on a large stone.

“Eh, see you again?!”

Raka knows. This middle-aged man was the first person he met in this valley. A thin man with a thin face and protruding eyes. Raka remembered this man running away in a storm after hearing the name Masayu Renjani called.

“Ah, a big windfall for the servant (me), can meet ki ki ki ki kanak again,” smile Raka cheerfully.

The person immediately turned his body and wanted to run away from there, but Raka was faster and knew-know-how was already in

in front of that guy. “Hold first, ki sanak. Abdi just wanted to ask me something.”

“Whatever you ask, I don't know the answer,” said the man with a face prying. He closed his eyes as if in that way he could remove the Fragrant Sukma from before him.

“Although if the reward is this?” asked Raka while brandishing some golden tahil.

The guy looked at me for a while and then he whined, “I don't like gold. Especially if the amount is a little.”

“If the amount is many?”

“How much?”

“So?” once he took out a hand, within his palm there were now clumps of gold piled up.

“Byeh, what do you want to ask?” laughs wide. He stretched out his hand slowly to get the gold

in the hands of Harum Sukma. Then know that hand has been pushed hard towards the throat.

Raka did not lose quickly. His body tilted to the side so that his shoulders could make the attack change direction. Now the man is in an unfortunate position. But he did not lose his mind, with a side-caltoe like a wheel, he was able to get out of that dangerous position. With a twinge of a foot he had already floated high above a perch on a fragile branch of a tree. Can imagine how much

high science lightened his body.

Raka wasn't after him. He just smiled and asked, “You are the Great Lord Tanabasa?”

“Not wrong,” replied the scab.

“Why do you have to attack with a butt?” ask Sukma Harum curious.

“What if I get hit?”

“Means you're not a Fragrant Sukma,” her laughter chuckles. He then floated down from the twig. With ease he

walk towards Sukma Harum and even sit near its foundation. “You're looking for me huh?”

Sukma Harum also sat down, “Ya,” he replied.

“Masayu Renjani told you?”

Raka nodded.

“What does it say?” ask Tanabasa.

Sukma Harum felt there was no point in lying. “He said that you set up a society

the secret here. This group is a group of highly skilled assassins. You guys are also preparing for a big move.”

Great Lord Tanabasa gawking. Then he laughed.

Sukma Harum did not want to think this man was crazy. But he himself wondered why this man was laughing like he was seeing someone else having bad luck.

“You certainly know what a woman's nickname is. Even if it's not wrong, you gave me that nickname yourself

to him,” Tanabasa.

“The world's number 1 liar,” soon Raka began to realize something was wrong.

“You see for yourself, it is he who has an army of beautiful high-scientific girls. You see for yourself, though,

he was the one who made the fortifications that were hard to penetrate. It is precisely he who founded the murderous association by relying on beautiful women who are able to do anything. And it was I who the kingdom sent to investigate!”

Raka dumbfounded. But he still seems calm. A faint smile on his lips. “So you're the one who took the password

sent by the government to destroy the society?”

Tanabasa.

“Means you can mention your membership secret number,” Raka's words surprised Tanabasa a little.

Said the flat guy, “You know for yourself, a password teletik can not mention his membership number carelessly.”

“You know for yourself, Prabu Siliwangi himself ordered me to handle this matter. If I

asking for your membership number, you must give it,” said Raka.

“Good, my membership number is 417855,” Tanabasa pronounce sansakerta numbers.

Sukma Harum laughed satisfied.

“Do you know that such a number never existed? There is never a membership number in telik password,” he explained while laughing ewa.

Seeing that the trick has been revealed, Tanabasa also laughed, “So you have been playing chess all this time

with.”

Harum Sukma breathed. “I don't want to fight. You just give up.” He said confidently, as if he would win.

“Your silat science may be a few levels above me. But I know all about you. I know all things

about this place. I have all memorized the tree clearly. The type of soil, the rocks around here, even where the sunlight fell was memorized. You've lost a few steps,” said Great Lord Tanabasa.

In war and combat, he knows about the strength of the opponent, the state of nature, and tactics

it is the war that will win the battle.

“I know everything about you, you know nothing about me,” Tanabasa's smile is full of confidence.

“Oh yes? What do you know about me?” Raka even meloloh relaxed and lay himself on the soft grass.

“Gandakusuma Airport. The son of Raden Arya Gandakusuma and the most famous female swordsman, Goddess Kinanti. He inherited a very high silat from his mother, as well as his flagship weapon, Kujang Arka Kencana. At the age of 8 years studying to a professor who until now has not been clear who the person. At the age of 20 years have mastered a variety of high sciences that are very unique. At the age of 20 years it is required to undergo the last test, which is to travel in the martial world without being allowed to use the original silat and identity. At the age of 23 years heartbroken by a noble woman named Dian Nalacitra.”.

Tanabasa stopped his words as if to let them get into the soul of Sukma

Fragrant. He knows he has experienced it. Bitter romance, will be a black stain that is able to affect a person's mind, messing with his mind.

How long has Raka not listened to that name spoken? Even listening to others mention that name alone, it had already hurt her feelings so much. Especially remembering?

Although his heart seemed to be plucked from its roots, Sukma Harum's face showed no change.

“The Nalacitra family rejects you, because they do not know your background. Don't know who the truth is

thou. Because you're forbidden from telling your background in the 3-year exam

that's. Then the beautiful daughter of the Nalacitra family was married to Tubagus Laksana, who was your own distant brother. Then soon Nalacitra's family found out who you really are. This adds to raden's hatred

ayu Dian Nalacitra to you. He felt you had deceived him, abandoned him, and grabbed him.”

These words were spoken so slowly. It was like an incantation that kept slicing through his heart. Sukma's Face

Fragrant was still unchanged, he heard every word that came out of Tanabasa's lips with complete calmness.

“In your last 3 years of exams, so much of your service to the martial and royal world. Even without science

silat and frills of your nobility, your name is looming high. People call you Sukma Harum. A name you hate because it sounds like a girl's name. But that said, you end up preferring to use that name instead of using your own real name. Is it because of that

the only name known to raden ayu Dian Nalacitra? I don't know.”

If likened to fighting silat, Raka has lost dozens and hundreds of moves. If likened to jotosan, he should have been seriously injured and vomited blood. But his face remained calm, his smile was not lost.

Suddenly he said, “You made a big mistake in your chess piece step this time.”

Tanabasa stunned, “What is it?”

“You thought that by bringing up all the memories of my past, you would be able to dispel my spirit. Adding to the burden of my mind so that if I fight my entire movement will be completely chaotic.”

Tanabasa just shut up.

“But you forgot, there are 3 things that can double one's strength.”

Anger, fear, and sadness.

Those are the 3 human feelings that can multiply his strength. In anger, one's strength can appear suddenly. In the fear of loss or life threatened, comes the pent-up power of a person, as well as in grief.

“And your biggest mistake is that you bring up all three feelings at once,” Raka's words are so

slowly, as if he was just whispering.

Tanabasa. He knew he had missteps. Retracting is impossible.

Stand each. They are dealing very close.

Their bodies flashed very quickly. No eye can catch their silat movements. Audible

only the roar and swiftness of punches and kicks were blaring like a hurricane.

Wussssssshhhhh!

Wuuuushhhhh!

Bummmmmmmmmmmmm!

10 Steps have passed. Tanabasa knew he would not survive. Even when he knows everything

about the opponent and the place of the fight. Maybe if he hadn't talked about Dian Nalacitra, he could have stayed, but he now realized he had made a terrible mistake. If Sukma Harum wanted to kill him since then, it would have been very easy. He now knew the man did not want to kill him unless

subduing.

Knows his chest feels hot. Since then, he has felt something strange in his body. The feeling of heat is even more burning if it exerts its inner energy. The more deployed the hotter it hit his chest.

He soon realized that he had been poisoned. He also knew he knew who did it. But it

be late. The burning heat had burned all the organs in his body.

“You poisoned?” Raka soon realized the strangeness. He moved to help Tanabasa. But men

that skinny scab has fallen down. Body scorching.

The last words that came out of his mouth were, “Diaa...,”.

Him or Dian?

Sukma Harum shudder.