
This morning, Madina was awake. He was reviewing the lessons he learned yesterday. A few things he did not understand, he noted down to ask his teacher. After a long time, Madina decided to finish her studies. Moreover, the dawn time is just counting the minutes. He grabbed his phone that was still charging.
“Princess?”
Madina was a little surprised when she saw the notification of her phone. Among the many notifications that come in, it turns out tucked one notification, that there is one message from his best friend. He opened the message.
“Bisang?”
That was the question that came from his lips. He did not understand, even confused the contents of the Princess' message.
“Banana, banana, banana”
Madina was trying to guess what the word banana meant in the message. Because he now realized, that it was an encoded message.
“My knife is bitter. Mean banana Princess, sweet”
He tried to connect word by word.
“Your banana, my banana. If a banana is something, then it refers to something similar between me and my daughter. But what is the same? A class? A book? Remidi?”
Madina still has not found the equation, which she thinks is appropriate to represent with the word banana.
“We are in office, but we have many differences. Type of book, different. Type of pen ink, different. Stabilo type, different. Bag, different. What, dong?”
He was even dizzy himself, after mentioning all the differences between them.
“Regarding your bitter banana. That is, he again clarified something. Something that is an accusation. Means before, I accused him. What am I accusing?”
Looks like he found one more clue. But it's still too blurry to be connected.
“It turns out not the ugly seedlings. Kan from the same index” he read the next fragment.
“It feels rich I bought from him, bananas of the same kind. We tanem together. Got the Princess sweet fruit, mine fruit bitter. I keep accusing the Princess of giving me an ugly banana. But I was just talking about doang, or just giving an example of a bitter banana. But do not give evidence, who made my accusation, if the banana tree he loved, different equally have dia”
This message seems to make Madina have to think hard to be able to understand her point.
“It looks like there is a high level of potassium concentration under your banana tree” he read again the next fragment.
“It? Then he's not sure. But he called it potassium. It felt rich he was writhing something strange physically but not sure yet. Potassium cannot be seen with the naked eye. Need advanced tools”
He pondered for a moment. His lips were muttering like a shaman.
“I and you have something in common. I accuse you of guilt, or of a fault. It's not the fault of something, if it looks ugly. But there's something else, beyond something I've got, but around something I have. Its nature makes something I have so ugly”
It seems Madina has started to get the hidden message form from the message the Princess sent.
“We have to test lab, for mastiin mineral content” he read the last fragment.
“Lab tests. Testing. Testing the truth of a formula. Investigating the truth of information. Investigating?”
Madina sighed. He felt that he still had not gotten the form of message that the Princess wanted to convey.
“Something in common between us, accusations, something you see but you're not sure yet, the investigation. What do you mean? Is something the same between us?”
It seems to be dead-end. He still needs more time.
“As I recall, the only ones that are the same, and cannot be changed between us, are our brothers. I have a shot, you have a kangmas. Incidentally, they were dating. If they get married, it means your kangmas will be my sister-in-law. My brother, will be your sister-in-law”
So far, Madina still scrunched her forehead. That is, he is still confused.
“Call it, gini dong? You give something to me, which means you give brother-in-law to me. I accuse you of giving ugly banana seedlings, meaning I accuse you of giving ugly sister-in-law”
Madina turned her lips. He felt something strange, from the sentence he had constructed.
“Kalo know ugly, why is it accepted? That means at first, he's good. I recently considered ugly”
He laughed when he heard his own words.
“Astaghfirulloh”
Looks like he found something.
“Sister-in-law, looks ugly. But according to the Princess, not the ugly sister-in-law. He saw something else, which was ugly in nature, that was around brother-in-law. It's that ugly thing that makes my sister-in-law look ugly. For the same thing, brother-in-law. Means something else it, is someone else”
Madina started making notes about what she had already gotten.
“Princess accuses someone. Someone who makes a sister-in-law look ugly. Wh who? And what ugliness?”
Madina wrote again. His writing was also made in such a way, so that it could not be read by others. He uses the Javanese script.
“Kalo ugliness addressed to sister-in-law, as far as I know, allegations that sister-in-law impregnated another woman. And the same story. The source is from a doctor, who ngaku ngeliat mbak Adel again rebutasi mas Budi same woman is”
Madina wrote another sentence that she managed to wake up.
“Mas Budi, accused or impregnating people. But the princess guessed that it was not the act of mas Budi. He saw someone else making Budi's mas look what he was accused of. Under the banana tree, it means it sticks to the roots. Is it possible that other people have a kinship relationship with Budi mas? He called potassium, even though potassium can not be seen. It means he squirms or ngedenger other people ngaku, or again the same story of other people again. Who is that other person, huh?”
Madina remembered everyone who was close to Budi. At least from his conversation with his brother, his conversation with the Princess, or from other sources.
“The most deket same mas Budi, right mbak Adel. But Adel's mother's time? Doesn't make sense. Don't-don't?”
She eliminated her brother from the search list. According to the story of the Princess, Budi is indeed supple, and easy to get along. Anyone is easily close to him. But that looks very close, besides her brother, but,
“Stevani?”
The search was carried out under one name. But Madina doesn't seem to dare rush to lift one name to put in the word ‘other’.
“Princess said, he's a good guy. Likes help mas Budi. continue, what purpose?”
He was still thinking about many things, before giving the accusations.
“Eh, right he began to intensely approach to the Princess family, after the Budi mas fell, and forgot the memory. Never before has that been a”
Madina realized something was missing from her attention.
“Testing. Investigatory. High concentration” Madina mutters.
Madina noted again her new findings.
“Concentration is very high, meaning more than usual. If substituted to the current case, means more than just an accident. more than just ordinary legalization? I can't believe the story about that. If Putri said high concentration, means, the sealing, it was planned”
Madina's eyes glared far through the glass of her window. It was as if staring at a distant star.
“What is possible, the sealing did happen, but it happened after maghrib? From the confirmation, somehow, mas Budi equally mbak Adel unconscious. That Abis, they were separated into two different places. And, in a way, they are contrived to forget the memory”
“Astaghfirulloh. Klop you know, the same thing that was coaxed by the doctor jogja it”
Madina wrote several chronologies supporting her narrative.
“Say the doctor jogja, mbak Adel's wound is very unlikely to make mbak adel to forget identity. They suspect something else. Honey I don't hear about it. What are they talking about, huh? medicine or what?” his weakness.
“Kalo I'm urutin. Mbak Adel is still the same mas Budi until Maghrib. On the way home, they were scuttered. Somehow, they were unconscious. They were separated into two different places. And Some how, they were made to forget memory”
Madina stopped for a moment.
“From mas Budi's side. Mas Budi is said to have fallen from a motorcycle at the end of a grindulu bridge. What do you want, to get there? If you want to go home, can you pass the old route? That way it's even a muter?”
Madina bit her pen. A confused expression that is clearly visible.
“Abis fell, met Vani. Heading to the hospital. He told Ratih ma'am, continue to get appreciation. Like nengokin, love attention, sir train seneng. He started to get a place in Ratih's heart. Moreover, Budi did not return, his memory. If the fall is just Budi mas, surely Mbak Adel who will nurse Budi mas. Vani, will not get a chance to decet-deket same mas Budi. With the pain mbak Adel at the same time, then there is no longer anyone who ngehalangin him, make the same decrees mas Budi. if looked at from this point of view, if viewed from this point of view, it is clear that he has profited from this tragedy”
“Then Adel made the same fight scenario mas Budi, because there are other girls, who ngaku-ngaku pregnant by mas Budi. He made up a story, if he nyetop ojol. Then go up, without using the app. Setting the time is still late afternoon. Adel's mother was told to stop by the grand mosque, then ask to be escorted to the sack watu, but not so. He asked to be taken home. His buljuk ngajak muter through sedeng line, but mbak Adel did not want to. Eventually they were scuttered, and fell into the trench below. Come dino nolongin”
Madina took a breath first, before continuing her analysis.
“Kalo ojol it ngor, keep the lucky, who?”
He seemed to be thinking about who would benefit from Adel's woe.
“Mas Dino”
He guessed one name for sure.
“Yes, he became like a super hero, that night. I can't stop saying thanks. On the contrary, I constantly blame the father ojol it”
He breathed again. Heavier than before.
“But who is Dino? Adel never told me about him”
Again he breathed. This time he held on for a while, only to be exhaled back.
“But what exactly is that? It's a coincidence, can it? The princess also once, suddenly passed by, just as I ran out of gas. There's no way he's my motorbike's saboteur. Even if I suspect him, where does he know about motorcycles? I suspect also, because he does not usually play to his village mbak Shinta. After having a mouthwash, he again picked up his mother, who again looked at Juminah. And it turns out, emang my broken speedometer”
“Mas Dino has never been in his bursanya mbak Adel. Never been tried, let alone rejected. What is the purpose of mbak Adel? It seems that nothing, though. I thought he was a guy who happened to pass by.
Madina wrote, anything that needs to be investigated in the future.
“Kalo Vani? If he is in love with Budi, it seems impossible, he made a rich gini conspiracy. Would it be easier if Mbak Adel aja dicelakain? Easier if only Adel made forget the memory”
Madina developed another theory.
“Kalo mas Budi maksa play here, and recognize himself as his girlfriend mbak Adel, will definitely be denied the same father. Worst thing is that you will be kicked out of the house. And then Adel will be protected. That Abis, mas Budi sad. There's a chance to get in, so friends vent, so loyal listeners. If Mbak Adel is not also behind his memory, then Budi mas become frustrated. Worst of all, he would break his heart, and leave. If you have reached that stage, it becomes easier, to replace the position mbak Adel?”
Madina was stunned, her wishful thinking drifted far away, linking up all the theories she had already built up.
“Kalo seen how he gotol deketin mas Budi, like he is in love with mas Budi. Moreover, Putri sempet muji attitude he who does not think thankfully. Even when Ratih said that Budi actually had a girlfriend. Princess said, she just said seneng, nengokin mas Budi. Even if later Budi mas returned his memory, and returned again with his girlfriend, he will not be miesel”
He moved his lower lip, sneering at Vani's statement he just mentioned.
“Kalopun is just sweet-sweet lips, is it natural? previously, he could only digaguminate from afar. Now, he has a chance to enter”
“Keep, he's in a working position. Abis from soge, meet prospective customers. Putri also said, prospective customers referred to Vani, emang exist. And that guy confirmed what Vani said. So even if he finds Budi mas on the side of the road, yes it just happens to be aja”
“Why not anyone else? Why don't people in Angkringan know there's an accident on their deck?”
“Kalo said the cement-men whose house is there, the mallem is still big testing. The streets are so empty. It is still natural, if only Vani who found out. In general, it's just him who passed”
“But, if according to the story of the father ojol, he carried Adel from the afternoon. That afternoon, what time? I am going home at five. The distance between Budi mas is the same as Adel's mbak is also far. If I bring the bike, it can be a new hour nyampe. As soon as people bring motorcycles on public roads, half an hour also new nyampe. Let's say that a fight on the half way home means thirty minutes plus fifteen minutes. It was almost an hour that also if he brought his motorbike speeding continuously. If you are going to leave the factory at five o'clock, it should be the time of Adel numpang ojol, already six o'clock in the afternoon. Sedagkan magrib, told already in the great mosque. Though the magrib was six o'clock past five. Five minutes of nyampe? As fast as what, ojol sir brought his motorbike? How come Adel still wants to make her services? Mbak Adel is the most anti, riding ojek continues to be brought speeding. It must have been a berserk, he”
“Certainly, if Dino just happened to pass, Vani also happened to pass, but his ojolnya ngak story, then he works for whom?”
“What not-don't, Adi? Cousin Mas Budi?”
“Yes, it could be. The princess often told me about that man. Adel's mother also told me. Bill of clothes***** the person is. Makes sense, this. He has a lot of friends. Said the Princess, almost every time ngajak mas Budi noisily, the temen-temen is different"
“Emang got nothing, anyway. But if the name does not like, let alone hate, do not like to use calculations. No matter the loss. The important thing is to be satisfied. Satisfied the hated man, suffered”
“But what is he? If the begal herd is her friends, and the ojol is her friend, why not bring your own car to transport Adel to the puskesmas? Why wait for another vehicle to pass by? Is it okay, Dino is also her man? This is what needs to be investigated”
*Tok tock*
“Dek, are you awake, not yet?”
There was a knock at the door, and Adel greeted.
“Udah, mbak” replied Madina. He walked towards the door, and opened it for his brother.
“Kok you are that dry? You sick?” ask Adel.
Asked that, Madina even looked to the left. Makes Adel astonished.
“Log in, mbak!” the door in a soft voice.
“What's the matter, deck?” adel asked, confused.
Madina recounts a message from the Princess. And he expressed his assumption, regarding the content of the message intended by the Princess.
Adel was stunned to hear Madina's explanation. Emotions explode imagining, there is a human being so strong to others. Tega hurts, even removes the memory of others just to satisfy his hatred for that person. Moreover, the person he hated was still his own cousin.
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