The Musafir

The Arrival of the Fire Spear College

The mantle patted the back of his new friend and shook his head sadly. His eyes seemed to say that he regretted it. Satya closed her eyes for a moment and nodded once. “Since then I vowed not to kill humans anymore.”

“No need to kill, Satya. We can set more traps that are not deadly, but that can only paralyze the enemy. Do you have it?”

Satya nodded her head once more. “I have it, this trap I usually use for animals only. Who would have thought it would be used for humans.” Then he laughed, as if he had forgotten that he had snapped loudly earlier. “As long as they do not enter, then if we are safe.”

“And if they manage to enter, then what they enter is your party.” Manten laughed back, but Satya's countenance looked more earnest as the speech was finished being released.

“Mantingan, what did you just say?”

Sontak Mantingan stopped his laughter, afraid that his words had offended Satya. Quickly Mantingan replied honestly, “Daku said, if only they entered then they actually entered the party that we will title. I'm sorry, but I didn't mean it.”

“But you even gave an amazing suggestion, Mantingan! Listen ...”

The mantingan approached Satya a little. He listens to Satya's proposal which is explained in small whispers. The mantan nodded after understanding. The feast will be changed to a banquet, for the guests who are offered peace in a veiled stratagem blanket.

“Let's prepare the banquet.” Satya clapped her hand once. “Can you cook, Mantingan?”

The mantan nodded while laughing. He has some gastronomy, and perhaps this is the only skill Mantingan has. In the past, he once shook a village thanks to its delicious cuisine to make the village head never stop eating Mantingan cuisine. But Mantingan was accused of using ingredients from dark science to make such delicious cuisine, until finally Mantingan was denounced all-out and his movements were monitored since then.

“I can do it, Satya. Maybe not so delicious, but enough to make our guests think calmly in accepting the offer of peace. Please set up traps, do it quickly before an army of them attack.”

“I'm counting on you, Friend.” Satya patted Mantingan's shoulder before it passed.

Mantenan do not want to waste any longer. The groceries from Satya containing the ingredients were quickly processed by him. There is a kitchen in one of the downstairs rooms which is quite spacious. The mantan cooks there deftly and quickly, as if he had gotten used to doing this.

Meanwhile the air was getting colder and the sky was completely dark. The torches in the corner of the room still illuminated Satya's house. Some fireflies flew through the kitchen window to create beauty for Mantingan. The young man smiled faintly.

Many dishes have been cooked and ready to eat. There was a long table in the kitchen, Mantingan decided to move it to the living room and arrange the food on it.

Not long after, Satya returned after finishing setting many traps in the eastern forest. Satya asks if all the food is ready, she also makes sure that Mantingan has no evil intentions by putting poison into it, which is only reciprocated with laughter.

Then he said to Mantingan, “New enemies occupy the river area without one daring to enter.”

“Let's go there and greet them.” The mantel stared steadily towards the exit.

“Mari.” Satya replied with a steady nod.

So that was when two young men carrying torches walked through the wilderness. They did not carry any weapons, even Mantingan deliberately left his stick even though the stick could not be a weapon of harm.

After passing through the neat rows of trees, Mantingan saw tall bushes filled with fireflies. A path leads into the thicket. Satya advanced first, then followed by Mantingan who was in a safe distance with Satya.

Despite relying solely on torchlight and occasional light from fireflies, Satya does not lose his memory of taking the right path. The intersections were easily passed, until the two arrived at the river bank which was now brightly lit by torch lights.

Many boats moored on the river bank, even began to meet the middle of the river. All the boats were equipped with torches with bright lights. They made the usually deserted river look like a floating market.

Mantingan and Satya seemed undaunted standing upright on the banks of the river despite being seen as cruel from dozens of armed warriors.

“Welcome to my house!” Satya said with an air-shaking voice, but in her tone was contained hospitality. “If you would like, come into my house one or two people as representatives to talk about all these misunderstandings carefully. We have prepared a small banquet to welcome our guests from Fire Spear College.”

An old man with a leash around his waist jumped from the boat to the mainland. The jump was light, barely creating a trace on the ground that the old man was treading on. He faced his body to Satya and Mantingan then said kindly, “Thank you for the welcome, but I hope there is no more drama. We are here to exterminate you both.”

“I hope you're not in a hurry, Ki." Satya's tone was even sharper, Mantingan could feel that the sound released by Satya contained deep energy, as evidenced by his eardrum buzzing slowly. “This issue needs to be discussed with a cool head and with upholding the value of peace.”

“For us, there is nothing to talk about.” One of the young men sharply. “Black people talk about peace? Aren't you the ones who messed up the peace we've created?”

Satya looked at the young man with a wide smile, before a short while later the young man from the Golden Spear College bowed and vomited blood into the river. Even he almost fell into the river if only not held by his partner.

Mantingan is certainly surprised by Satya's ability to make opponents vomit blood without touching it, but he does not know what strength makes Satya can do that.

The invisible attack that Satya showed was enough to make the parents on the river bank think once again to directly attack the two on the river bank. He could see that Satya had strong abilities, but from Mantingan he saw nothing special about him.