
The evening greeted again, the breeze blew slowly carrying a gripping atmosphere. The sound of crickets breaks the silence of the village, the howls of various kinds of animals are mutually unpretentious in the forest there.
It seems that some villagers just returned from the village hall, although the time still shows at 21:30 but as usual the atmosphere looks terrible. They have to walk on the streets with dim lighting, it is also because of the light-burning bias of the torch placed in front of the home page residents.
Even so it was not able to illuminate their steps, because there are still some residents who do not put torches in front of their homes as street lighting.
"Kok the atmosphere is gripping like this yo." said Kemal
"Alah, it's normal anyway." said the Kurdish mang
Until arriving at the crossroads, Mbah Sastro's group separated from the Kurdish mang because their house was different paths. The Kurdish mang house is at the end of the village, if they want to go to the garden then they find a Kurdish mang house.
"Aren't you afraid, sir?" asked Kemal while smiling seductively
"Wes lambemu iki loh Mal Mal, if later I am disturbed I just send the demitnya to the house of sampeyan" said mang Kurdi
"Truly loh yo not afraid pakde." said Kemal again
This time the Kurdish man took a swing and took off one of his sandals to lay to Kemal, Kemal who saw it immediately dodged until the Kurdish attack darted.
"Wes already Mal, pity the Kurdish man after all this night is not good if playing games" said Prince Segoro mediated
Instantly the two men of different age stopped, Kemal only grimaced with shame reprimanded by his best friend.
"Iyo iyo, let's go home." said Kemal
"Sampeyan is really brave anyway?" this time Mbah Sastro who asked made the Kurdish mang clucked annoyed while Kemal just giggled amusedly
"Ck mbah is the same as the iki ingusan boy, wes toh mbah I dare myself" said mang Kurdi
"Well, then we say yo" said Mbah Sastro
"Jih mbah."
Mbah Sastro, Mbah Bayan, Prince Segoro, and Kemal soon passed from the presence of the Kurdish mang. Just a few steps away, Kemal looked back.
"Heart of pakde loh, fear of hihi." shouted Kemal because the Kurdish mang had also stepped with wide strides
For a moment the Kurdish mang stopped and turned to Kemal, then the Kurdish man resumed his steps after giving a death look to Kemal. While Kemal himself, still laughing out of his lap.
Plucci
Prince Segoro patted Kemal firmly on the back, making his friend look at Prince Segoro with a cry.
"Kowe iki loh Mal, remember that the Kurdish mang is much older than the sampeyan. You have to be polite, so that the Kurdish mang take you as his son-in-law" said Prince Segoro laughed loudly at the end of the sentence
Sontak both sepuh but different age shook his head slowly, while Kemal who became the monthly month of Prince Segoro snickered cynically.
"Kok me, Sekar likes her just as much as you do. Easy, later the Queen of the forest prohibitions the same Mahendra only." said Kemal
Kemal's words were able to make the laughter of Prince Segoro who had been widened bahak stop instantly, now the turn of Kemal who smiled triumphantly.
The laughter of Prince Segoro himself stopped not because of the words of Kemal completely, indeed Prince Segoro was upset to hear his best friend was matching Mahendra with his woman. However it was not his dominating laughter stopped, more precisely because Prince Segoro's memories returned to the past.
Prince Segoro remembered the mistake of Sekar first, until the most fatal was when Sekar with his father pushed his late mother into a river with a very heavy current. Moreover, the river was indeed deep.
Now they stopped again for a moment because the house of Mbah Bayan has arrived.
"Monggo stopped by first" said Mbah Bayan
"Satur nuwun, but we should just continue because it is night" said Mbah Sastro
"Yowes, heart yo" said Mbah Bayan who was nodded by them
Mbah Bayan went straight into his house, while the three humans continued their journey. But just a few steps walk, suddenly there was a sound of gurgling more precisely the sound of a bell or a kind of horse bracelet.
"I'm opo sound?" tanya Kemal was
Without answering and as if to know, Prince Segoro immediately pulled Kemal to the back of his body. Kemal only complied, in his heart he felt tired when he had to meet a creepy figure again.
The cring cring cring
The sound of gurgling was getting closer, so that not long saw a very beautiful horse carriage that was also made of gold. Anyone who saw the chariot would be amazed, because it was so beautiful.
This time was different from their previous encounter earlier before Juki and Udin were wretched, they used to not see any coachman commanding his horse. This time it looks like the coachman wears all-black clothes made of iron, along with a head covering of iron as well.
Until the horse carriage stopped for a moment beside them, they could clearly see the figure of a beautiful woman wearing a red kemben with matching skirts. But the scarf is gold, similar to jewelry and crowns attached to his body.
In the middle of the crown there are three gems, but the most striking is one of the gems in the middle with a reddish gold light that is very bright.
Do not forget some red rose flowers as red as blood decorate the periphery of her hair, as well as jasmine ronce hanging very pretty.
Just like that and then the horse-drawn carriage came back, no interesting trite. Now Prince Segoro again pulled Kemal in front of him, Mbah Sastro seemed to think.
"What's this about? It is not usual for him to walk in the village like this" said Mbah Sastro who was not answered by anyone
Kemal himself did not know what and again the question mbah Sastro was not addressed to Kemal, while Prince Segoro was also confused because he could not penetrate what.
"Have not thought about it, it might be a coincidence. It is unlikely that anything will happen in this village in the near future, while there are still three more people that he must finish off" said Prince Segoro
Mbah Sastro nodded slowly, they resumed their journey. But again and again, just walking a few steps was heard a gurgling sound.
The three humans were confused, because the voice appeared from in front of them right from the place where Nyi Danuwati appeared. While Nyi Danuwati herself had gone away to the end of the village, which was definitely behind the three of them.
"Who is that?" ask Prince Segoro
While Mbah Sastro was silent, suddenly the heartbeat of Mbah Sastro churned violently. He had never felt this way before, ah no. Mbah Sastro had felt that way but it had been a very long time, the last time he met Nyi Danu.
Well, just now Mbah Sastro thought it had seen a horse carriage that was no less beautiful than Nyi Danuwati's. Unlike Nyi Danuwati who paused for a moment, Nyi Danu's horse carriage continued to speed.
Looks beautiful woman despite being old like Mbah Sastro but still young, a glimpse of Nyi Danu and Mbah Sastro meet. It seemed that the view implied a lot of meaning, until Nyi Danu turned his head back to the front.
"What is this really about?" asked Prince Segoro in confusion
"Is something bad going to happen?"
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