The Musafir
Combined Training
"O, Mantai! I have been waiting for you for a long time.” Rama greeted Mantingan warmly after the young man entered his room.
“Chairman Rama, I came to visit you.” Warm smiling coat.
Rama pats Mantingan's back. “By changes really happened to you, Son of Man.”
Rama's pat on Mantingan's back is not as simple as it seems. By patting the back of the Mantingan, he can see to what extent the achievement of Mantingan in his cannurage.
“Son Man, it's inappropriate for me to welcome you in a workspace like this. Let's get off for tea.”
The stiff smiling mantle. “Chairman, don't tell me to make tea again.”
Rama laughs. “No, this time we drink in the store only, your tea is too sweet.”
“My teacher's shop?”
Rama laughed again. “You do like to joke, but we don't drink at Kiai Kedai's place. And actually, he just left Javadvipa. He left some messages for you.” Rama moves to pick up a message from Kiai Guru Kedai.
The mantle scrunched his forehead. “For does Kiai Guru go out island?”
Rama gave a number of ejection sheets on Mantingan before saying, “Anakmas Man, you know for yourself what your teacher's weirdness is.”
The mantle shook slowly. According to Mantingan, his teacher was not as strange as he seemed. Whatever oddity he did, always had a reason behind it. Kiai Guru Kedai is not a strange person who wastes time by doing something unimportant. Almost everything the teacher does is important.
“Chairman Rama, where would he go?”
“For that, I don't know it.”
The mantle nodded slowly. “If that is indeed his decision, there must be a reason behind this.”
Rama nodded. “True. That's what I want to talk about while drinking tea. Let's follow me, Son Man!”
***
White Wind School on that day was busy. The college holds joint exercises that are usually held once in a month. Let the oldest disciples prepare for the youngest.
In the midst of the busyness, Rama was still taking some warriors to welcome Mantingan properly. Even himself took the time to drink tea with Mantingan.
The shop where they drank tea was on the shore of a cool and quiet lake. Rama said, this shop is usually crowded by students who want to drink tea before training. But right now, they had to get ready early, even before the attendants opened the tavern.
The shop did not put a price on its dishes, because it was one of the means of entertainment for students.
Mantingan began to read messages from his teacher. The message mostly contains goodbye, his teacher also reminded Mantingan not to be easily provoked his anger, he also asked Mantingan always be on the path of Truth until death to pick up.
Mantingan nodded slowly after he finished reading all the throws, then he said to Rama, “Chairman, is there a good development of the current turmoil?”
Rama took a long breath. “Sundapura continues to be desperate, some cities have even been controlled by black people. This is the reason why Kiai Kedai out of the island, should he want to take care of something related to the war.”
The mantan was not too surprised by the situation. “What will White Wind College do, Chairman?”
“White Wind Migration is currently still being urged, Mantingan. If this college helps and shows up, then we will face other colleges that do not like this college.”
The mantel breathed. “Chairman, if there's anything I can do—let's even a little, just say.”
The mantle then nodded. “I will keep improving myself.”
Only a moment after Mantingan said so did a young man approach where they were sitting enjoying tea. Said the young man, “Chairman, Brother, sorry if my presence interfered. I want to remind you that this lake will be used for training, please the Chairman and Brothers are not disturbed.”
Rama nodded and smiled. “Not why, I do want to see the progress of the training of the students.”
The young man saluted. “Then, Chairman, they will arrive not long from now. I beg myself.”
Rama let the man go before turning back to Mantingan.
“Nah, Son Man. In the midst of a raging situation, Punawarman can still issue a number of rules. Among them is that women must cover their breasts, this rule now applies strictly and firmly. He reminded, that bad people will not be able to defeat their inner fortitude.”
Mantian nodded. It is also true that the rules are strictly enforced. The rule at least slightly protects women from black warriors.
That is also why Mantingan has rarely seen women with open chests in public. Even Dara was no longer wearing open clothes. However, Mantingan was unaware of that.
“And it seems like the martial world is going through some changes ...” The mantan said half muttered.
“Number of warriors increased quite high in this war season. Inevitably, the martial world began to show its form to the lay community. Emerge a variety of new colleges, which openly open the opportunity for ordinary people to become warriors.”
The mantan does not know whether these changes will have a good impact or vice versa. If many ordinary people are transformed into warriors, of course they can defend their cities from black flow attacks. However, if the nature of the new warriors is not a good trait, there is a possibility that they will create chaos in the future.
With the martial world that has begun to appear on the surface of this general, the course of public life will change quite clearly.
The reason is, the increasing number of warriors also affects how people judge the size of a person's weak and strong. Suppose, the swordsman labeled as a strong man and the scholar labeled as a weak man.
If this situation continues, more and more new warriors will emerge later.
The thought of the too late Mantingan broke apart as Rama called out his name. Manten looked around, disciples dressed in all-white clustered on the edge of the lake.
“They will try treading in the water,” said Rama.
Mantingan remembers Kiai Guru Kedai once taught him the Science of Water Retracing at a waterfall. This science allows one to tread on water. But that does not mean you can walk on water, just tread.
Some boats floated in the middle of the lake, containing exercise supervisors. The oldest disciples were seen giving directions to the youngest students, their solemn listening.
Mantingan heard one of the conversations between the youngest disciple and the oldest disciple.
“Sister, if I may ask, for what is this retracing science used?”
The questioner replied, “This science is used to fight on water. If an urgent situation we fight on the beach or river, we can still protect ourselves.”
“For what do we fight on water? Why not just above ground?”
Rama suddenly said, “Mantingan, have you mastered the Science of Retracing Water?”
“Ya, Chair.”
“Let's exemplify what a fight on the water looks like on them.”
