The Love of the Duda

TCSD 17: Agreement With the Authors of the Karta

The radiance of the sun began to greet the inhabitants of the earth. His golden radiance broke through, entering the cave where the two men were being lulled in a dream. Making the two humans both squirm when a bit of warmth began to hit their bodies.

Mara got up from her lying position. He took a sitting position while trying to stretch the muscles of his body that feels stiff. Before long, this man lying on his side also started to blink his eyes and instantly grabbed his consciousness.

"Early morning?" Say God while rubbing eyes and occasionally yawn.

"Yes, sir, it's morning."

Krucu....Kruccuk.. Krucu...

Either the worms from the stomach who set the war drums that made God and Mara link eyes and immediately made both of them laugh.

The god smiled knot. "Are you hungry?"

Shamelessly Mara nodded her head. Since it had been since yesterday afternoon, his stomach was not filled with rice. Lastly, it was filled only by the roasted yam that he ate last night together with the Gods. "Yes sir, I'm hungry."

"Alright, looks like we should get out of this place soon. I'm also very hungry and I have to rush to get help to fix my car's engine." The god stared fixedly at the face of this girl beside him. "But what about you? Aren't you afraid that around here you're still hanging around the Karta master's men?"

Mara shakes. "It's okay, sir. I think Karta's men are no longer chasing me. Even if I get caught, maybe it's the fate of my life."

Gods gasp. There was a bit of unwillingness when he heard this girl was so resigned to the situation. "What are you talking about? If you get caught, isn't it a waste of what you've done up to this point? Starting from climbing a tree and last until overnight in this cave?"

"That's right, sir. But how else, if it's time I get caught."

The god began to rise from his sitting position. "Don't despair. I'll protect you."

Mara lifted her head. He stared at the face of the man standing in front of him. "I mean Sir?"

The god smiled knot. He himself also did not understand what the words that came out of his lips meant. To the Gods, those words seemed to escape just like that. Never understood what was behind his words.

"That's it. I didn't mean anything. But while you're on tour guide duty for me, I'll make sure you're safe."

Finally that sentence became the explanation of what was previously expressed by God to this foreign girl before him. A sentence that may sound very reasonable, but actually not only because Mara will be a tour guide for him, he wants to protect the girl. More than just a tour guide. However, God was still hesitant with what he felt.

Mara smiled at his smile. "Aaahhh yes, I just remembered if I had to be a tour guide for Mr. But what about my clothes? I don't think my clothes are so comfortable."

Cufflinks and leggings, a pair of clothes that seemed very inappropriate worn by Mara to carry out her duties as a tour guide. Not only for Mara herself, for even God the clothes of the girl before her is very risky to trigger an immoral action. It was not the sacrilegious actions of the people who happened to cross paths with the girl, but of herself.

Isn't that what I said? That this girl's body is dangerous. Look, my banana horn is about to start hardening. It can be finished off this girl's body in front of me if you wear these clothes.

"Then let's go to the mall. There I'll buy you clothes. Just think of it as my starting salary."

Mara was a little flabbergasted. "Mall's? Are you serious about going to the mall?"

The forehead of the God is cringing. "Yes I'm serious. Wouldn't if we wanted to buy clothes have to go to the mall?"

Mara was a little bit of a laugh. He started wearing the kebaya that he had left when he was going to sleep last night. "There's no mall here, sir. If you want to go to the mall, you have to go to the city first. And the journey from this place to the city will be further than the journey from this place to the tourist attractions that will probably be the destination of Mr."

The god was flabbergasted listening to the words of this girl before him. Did not expect if this place is so far from the shopping center that can provide all kinds of human life needs. Even he had thought of wanting to build a mall in this place, in order to make it easier for people around to get all the needs of his life.

"Then, where can you get new clothes?"

"Emmmmm-tips... We can go to the market for a minute, sir. There are not a few who sell clothes."

God seems to think a little, although he is not used to shopping in the market, but for now the decision to buy this girl clothes in the market is one of the right steps. "All right, we're going to the market. But before that, we have to get help first to fix my car's engine."

"Yes sir, I will help you to seek help."

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"Mom, where are you going to put all these clothes in a bag?"

Puspa, the young girl was almost the same age as Mara was a little surprised to see the mother who struggled with the clothes she put in a large bag. From what he did, it was predictable if he would leave this place.

"You don't ask too many questions, Pus. Rather than asking a lot of questions, you better help me pack!"

Stop for a moment to stop its activity. "We will leave here Pus, before the Karta master takes back what he has given us."

"But where are we going, ma'am? We don't even have a plan for where we're going after we get out of here."

The girl was indeed a little surprised by what became the plan of the mother who was impressed suddenly. Because after all he had never traveled far, let alone to leave this place.

"We'll think about it once we can get out of this place, Pus. Now we go to the terminal. And there we can while thinking where we should go. I don't want to if we get what we got, taken back by the Karta boss."

"However, do you believe that the Karta master will not know our movement? It could be that at this time Karta's men are already on guard at our door."

Let's throw a little rough breath. "That could have happened. But I don't think it's too late to get out of here. It's all because the child doesn't know it's lucky. If only last night he did not escape, surely today I can enjoy the teak land given by the Karta master. But if it's like this, I can't enjoy it at all."

"Yes, Mara always brings bad luck to our lives, ma'am."

In the end Puspa nodded his head. He helped his mother pack. After all the clothes they managed to put in a big bag, they started preparing to leave this house.

"J-Juragan's Karta?"

Tanti and Puspa screamed at the same time, when they saw the master of Karta and some of his men were already standing at the door. From the look on the face of the man who was about to enter the twilight age, there was an aura of unstoppable anger.

Karta smiled faintly. "Are you surprised by my arrival in the morning like this?" Karta stared fixedly at the large bag carried by Tanti and also Puspa. "Are you going to run away from this place as well?"

Tanti gasped, as this man in front of her knew her plan. "S-I just want a pe...."

"You don't have to say anything, because I already know what your plan is." Karta smokes the cigarette pipe in her hand and then she puffs out the smoke. "Give me the teak garden certificate I gave you yesterday!"

Tanti was shocked to death. It turned out that his premonition last night that Karta would take back the teak garden certificate that was already in her hands actually happened. "T-no Juragan. I will not return this certificate. Didn't the Juragan himself say that the Juragan would never deny what the Juragan had promised?"

The card smiled obliquely. "I will never deny everything I promised you. However, you do not realize that my future wife is currently running away? That means you also have no right to get any rewards from me. Because of the woman you promised me to get out of here."

"But Juragan, it's not all my fault. It was all Pramono's fault that led Mara to escape from this place. So I'm not guilty at all."

Karta chuckles. "Yes that's right. It's not your fault."

"So that teak land will still be mine, right Juragan?"

"Hahaha it's not that easy that you get it Ti. But I will still give you that teak land if you can do one thing for me."

"What is a Scout?"

"Find Mara all over the country until you find her. Then bring the girl in front of me!"

"B-But where should I look for the Scouts? I don't even know where I'm going."

"Find Mara in the big cities. I'm sure Pram took Mara there."

Look forward to thinking for a moment. What was inside the middle-aged woman's head was only three hectares of teak land that was already within her grasp. He did not want if the teak land was just a momentary happiness that then evaporated.

"Okay, Juragan, I'll go look for Mara."

Karta smiled happily. "Good, I'll give you six months to bring Mara before me. If you can't find Mara within six months, you'll have to return the teak garden certificate I gave you." At a glance, Karta glanced towards Puspa who was standing beside Tanti. "But if you still want to get the teak without having to bring Mara before me, you can replace it with one thing."

Tanti again gasped. For some reason at this moment, he felt a bad feeling. "-I mean Nurse?"

Karta grins. "How can you replace this with your daughter. I think she is no less beautiful than Mara. Yes, although her beauty is still under Mara, but it is not okay if she will replace Mara to become my fourth wife."

Tanti and Puspa threw eyes at each other. Both pairs of their eyes were equally wide and perfectly rounded. "Whataaa?????"

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