The Musafir

The Truth About Rara

Mantingan tried to smile warmly even though his crying was getting raging without any excitement. After the Angel of the North River leaves, where will he present a smile?

“Now you come home safe. Marry your lover. Build a family that however simple remains happy.”

Once again the Mantingan tightened his embrace. After the Angel of the North River has gone, where is the place that should be called home?

Mantingan made a bunch of wind, back the North River Angel drifted. The young man cleaned the bloodstains from his robe using his profound strength before releasing them. The gray robes given by Kenanga are then paired on the North River Angel.

The mantle fluttered his left hand of goods once. It was enough to make the wind scroll carry the Northern River Angel drifting away from him.

The mantan looked far north. Through the dim yellow dots. The North River Angel will arrive safely on the deck of the ship, before continuing its journey to Champa.

***

“Are you sure, Brother Man?”

MANTAN nodded his head with the rest of his energy. “I'll be fine, Flying Fish Brother, thank you.”

The Flying Fish took a deep breath, looking at the poor young man in front of him with pity.

The Flying Fish came after the North River Angel landed on the deck of his ship in a semi-conscious state. His goal was to pick up Mantingan, as he suspected that the young man was not strong enough to return to the ship. However, his assumption was in fact wrong. The Mantingan refused to return to the fleet.

“Appreciate your decision.” The Flying Fish nodded its head, then stretched out a bundle of Mantingan. “I brought this because I felt something could be useful to save you.”

The mantle accepts with one hand. “Thank you, Flying Fish. All your services will not be forgotten.”

“Thou alone is meritorious to all of us. Javadvipa owes you so much, and I'm sure it won't be easy to forget.” Flying Fish patting the shoulder of the Mantingan. “Come back anytime if you can.”

Again the mantan nodded slowly. “Please send my greetings and apologies to Chairman Rama.”

Right after, the Flying Fish flashed away.

The mantel took a deep breath. He probably can't relax yet. Someone is coming. He turned to face south to see who was coming.

“Rara ...”

Mantingan looked on in disbelief at the figure of the graceful woman who was moving down the sky. The woman landed right in front of him.

“Mantingan ... your circumstances ..”

“Do not mind,” attack Mantingan. “Rara, I thought you had ...”

“No.” The woman shook her head. “I'm not Rara.”

Mantingan's smile loosened when he heard those words. Although he had expected this before, hearing it directly was still disappointing. “If you are not Rara, then who are you so deeply connected to her?”

The woman took a long breath. “I am called an Unnamed Woman, for indeed I am not named.”

“Why can you be so much like Rara?” The mantan asked with a sharp question. Full disappointment.

The nameless one let out a long sigh before explaining at length.

“Daku is one of the few special members of Land Lodging. You are the one who killed Rara, you are the one who has sinned terribly against you ..”

He has a special ability that makes him able to change the appearance of himself. The people closest to her Idak knew how the Unnamed Woman could do such a thing, but Mantingan as the one who was not at all close to her knew it.

“Every time I want to change my form, I have to undergo a ritual called Ten Blood Kings. As the name suggests, the ritual asks for the tumbala in the form of ten nobles of royal descent.”

“Then, why do you have to turn into Rara? Why should it be Rara you killed?”

The Unnamed Woman smiled sadly. “From here it started ...”

When Mantingan for the first time visited the Land Inn, his talent as the strongest swordsman in black was known by one of the group leaders who was unwinded in that place.

The man asked that Mantingan continue to be followed, but not killed, while he went to formulate a plan with the highest leadership.

“At that time, the Night Inn joined the rebellion plan after being promised a territory to govern in case the rebellion met success. And you, as the heir of the blood of a talented swordsman of the black stream, look like a very tender meal, considering that you still have not taken the path of salvation at that time.

“After the formulation of the plan, then start with the implementation of the plan. I was asked to change form to Rara, your companion, for the success of the plan.

“I and other expert warriors killed Birawa, Arkawidya, and Rara to provoke your anger. I was also present in the attack, because I had to look at Rara's face and body shape. And that was the moment when I had to accept the look of fear from the innocent, who somehow stuck it in my mind so that it was not forgotten until now.

“Their plans succeeded. Anger makes you decide to take the path of friendship. You continue your journey, but this time with the aim of finding someone to study with.

“The inn is very happy because they can carry out the next plan, which is to send a teacher to educate you to become an invincible black swordsman in order to help the rebellion. But something happened ...”

Just last night before the plan was carried out with very thorough preparation, Mantingan suddenly entered into a shop by the road that had never been there before.

The plan fell apart when it was discovered that the Mantingan store that stopped by was owned by Kiai Kedai, a free flow swordsman who was very much feared in his time.

“After you came out of the shop, actually some warriors were sent to kidnap and take you to the eastern end of the sparsely populated Javadvipa. But Kiai Kedai killed the warriors. The same experiment was repeated by us, but it always encountered a failure.”

Stunned mantle. He didn't realize that at all. Kiai Guru Kedai certainly thought that Mantingan would be a bloodthirsty killer that no one could ever turn his back on if training on the wrong person. In fact, his teacher had done so much without him knowing.

In other words, the old man saved the path of the Mantingan martial will.

“Although it always encounters failure, the Land Inn will never let you off so easily. They know that you will be the greatest enemy of future rebellion if you are in the care of Kiai Kedai. So they carried out the second plan with complete secrecy, namely by sending myself to shadow you.”

“Cannot be!” Mantingan sharply refuted. “If you are truly human, why can you hear the voice in my mind? And how can we even have a conversation without making a sound at all?!”

Once again the Unnamed Woman smiled. “For I also studied the Book of the Lotus, just like you. I can read the signs in someone's mind, just like you. The difference is, I had studied the last part of the Lotus Book, so I found a science called Whispering Sukma, which allows me to speak without moving my mouth. And to be able to hear your reply, I used the ability to read omens.”

That long explanation was understandable to Mantingan. But regarding reading the omens, she could not do as the Unnamed Woman did. In short, he was unable to read someone's mind in detail.

“Remember that in the sky, there is still sky,” said Unnamed Woman, who certainly has known the way Mantingan thought in judging her.

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note:

For those who ask how the fate of Mantingan hands, then I give an answer: I have compiled almost everything. Including this Unnamed Woman thing.