THE SUNAN BODYGUARD

episode 4d: Meeting Grandson Disciple Syech Kuro

Rejo immediately moved towards the three tigers. The necks of the three tigers. As if asking for permission to leave them the goods for a moment.

Three tigers licked Rejo's hand, as if giving permission.

Rejo went up and started down the cliff.

“Yes Allah, this ferocious science that I really want to get rid of from this body, lha kok now even I have to do it,” muttered Rejo as if complaining.

On the crater rim, Rejo had actually felt the heat of the reeds, only, he set his heart.

“If Kiai Lembu Areng can enter into the crater, that is, other humans, including me can also.”

Rejo then demonstrated the heritage of the Swadaraya Resiu.

Slowly, Rejo's body felt smoldering.

The longer the embers of Rejo's body are getting stronger.

Tredengar the roar of three tigers, which turned out to see from the top of Galunggung mountain.

Rejo immediately stopped his movements, and looked up.

Rejo's hand waved at the three tigers, who became his travel companion.

The three leopards still roared, as if they were terrified to see Rejo's smoldering body.

“How is this?”

“Come, get inside the crater, quick!” scream Kiai Lembu Areng from inside the crater.

“Before Kiai, the three tigers that accompanied me were terrified, seeing my body started to let out flames.”

“You choose tiger, or choose me?” yelled Kiai Lembu Areng again.

Rejo immediately climbed up the cliff again, and found the tiger.

Once at the top, three tigers immediately gushed Rejo, swiping his head on Rejo's thigh.

“Please, the three of you don't have to roar. I want to find knowledge from Kiai Lembu Areng. He is a great man, and very highly educated. If I did not enter his house, of course he would not transmit his knowledge to me,” said Rejo as he stroked the necks of the tigers.

Of course, the tiger did not understand what Rejo was talking about. They only rely on instincts as wild animals that have group members only.

When Rejo, who was considered a member of the group, had his body smoldering, and of course his scent had changed, these three tigers reacted.

Rejo looked towards the crater again, then looked towards the three tigers.

Gamang rejo.

As a human being, he could have immediately practiced the hereditary techniques of Resi Swadaraya, and when his body was already full of flames, he went into the crater.

However, as a tiger companion, he could not bear to see three tigers that accompanied this journey.

“Come, soon you enter the crater!” yelled Kiai Lembu Areng again.

Rejo did not answer.

And, finally Rejo chose the middle way.

He still visited the cave house in the crater, however, he did not practice the heritage of the Sage Devils.

“However, how to?”

Rejo sat down cross-legged, and immediately caught his breath.

Rejo tried to practice those vicious moves only in wishful thinking, imagining it.

It does have an impact. His body feels hot, but does not emit embers. And most importantly, the three tigers gave no reaction. They sat quietly, licking their front legs.

“Was it hot like this, I was able to get inside the crater? Will my clothes burn? And does my skin not blister if it enters the very hot crater?”

Rejo doesn't want to die silly. He wanted to really master how to be safe.

“If I can not match the heat of the crater, of course, I must be able to dispel the heat of the crater, but is it possible?”

“Let's get into my house!” screaming from the inside of the crater.

Rejo doesn't care.

Rejo continued to ponder.

“Of course, fire can be juxtaposed with cold water, to return to normal. So, when the heat of the crater is felt, then this body must be cooler and must be like ice, when it is already in the crater. So, the temperature around me certainly returned to normal, and my clothes did not burn. Then, how can it bring out the very cold from inside this body?"

Rejo looked again.

“Ah, what's wrong trying,” muttered Rejo while standing.

Rejo thought that, when he demonstrated death moves from Tidar mountain, what appeared was hot air, even a snort of breath could let out fire, then, when the movement of the moves was reversed, it was the same, that is from the end to the beginning, of course, will bring out the cold.

Rejo also began to demonstrate the style, but in reverse.

It looks so funny and unique. No punch, no kick. There is only a pulled punch, a broken kick.

Rejo performs with vigor and concentration, because he makes movements but has to remember those moves from the opposite.

Not noticeably, Rejo's body temperature is decreasing and continues to decline.

“Good. I will go down the crater, if this body is almost frozen.”

And indeed, the three tigers did not roar anymore. They just look in a sitting position while licking the fur.

Rejo kept moving strangely.

And his body temperature is steadily decreasing.

Only, Rejo kept his heart rate steady, and remained warm.

When Rejo's body really nearly froze, he immediately moved down the cliff.

Near the crater, Rejo immediately moved strangely again, in order to lower his body temperature.

When Rejo's body was nearing freezing, Rejo forced his feet to begin descending the cliffs in the crater hole of Mount Galunggung.

“Cos!”

Rejo immediately pulled his leg again.

It was as if his feet were melting in the heat.

“Allahu Akbar.”

“If I only made it half frozen, maybe my legs really melted. So, I had to completely freeze my legs. And I should be able to reach the mouth of the cave in the crater hole, which is a distance of a foot from the mouth of this hole. However, how can I not melt in the cave. Surely, inside the cave it was very hot.”

Rejo finally made a strange move again. And indeed Rejo made his legs completely frozen. Even Rejo increasingly lowered the temperature in his legs, so that it could be moved only his neck, while the joints in the eyes of the feet, were really stiff.

Only then did Rejo begin to descend the cliffs in the crater hole.

“Cos!”

Slowly but surely, Rejo came down the cliff.

Because it was indeed close to the edge of the cliff, Rejo easily reached the mouth of the cave.

Rather go inside, he had already greeted Kiai Lembu Areng.

“Happy Ngger. You managed to get in here,” said Kiai Lembu Areng.

More and more into the cave, which Rejo felt otherwise.

Not as hot as smoldering as in the mouth of the cave, but cold as incredible.

“Allahu Akbar. Kanjeng Kiai, it's so cold here?”

“Iya is right. What lessons did you learn from my home?”

Rejo.

Kiai Lembu Areng continued speaking, giving an answer.

“Son, this lesson from my house, do not look at a person from his external physical form alone. But, dive into his thoughts, dive into his heart, dive into his morality. If you only see the physical appearance, many are fooled.”

Rejo.

“Ngger. As you have heard, I am a cruel, sadistic man. In fact, it could be my sadism more than his teacher, the famous Resi Swadaraya throughout Java. I know, the voice outside the mountain calls, if I go out of the mountain, is to kill, even mutilate the bodies of people. That's what scared them of me. Not only that, to say my name, they did not dare. I know it,” said Kiai Lembu Areng.

Rejo.

Rejo was still amazed, although the entrance of the cave that became the home of Kiai Lembu Areng, had to go through a hot crater hole, after all it turned out in the cave, the temperature was cold, even cool. In fact, even for fresh air.

“Ngger. Now you can see for yourself, what I am doing here.”

Rejo stays down. There was no feeling of keder in Rejo.

“Look, this house. What's up?”

Rejo ventured to look around.

There's nothing. There was only a flat stone the size of a prayer mat.

“Yah. There, where I mengunjatan to Allah swt.”

“Pardon Kanjeng Kiai, then, from which this fresh air appears, while outside it is very crowded with a pungent smell. Not to mention steam from the crater of the mountain.”

“Son, did you see that window-sized hole? The hole leads to a cave on a cliff on this mountain. A gust of very strong wind that hit into the cave in the pot, entered here. So you see for yourself. I'm not as powerful a person as people talk about. Of course, if I inhale too much toxic air at the top of Galunggung mountain, of course I am also dizzy, maybe I will also die. And I can climb a hot crater hole, certainly not because I exert the magic, but because this foot is too accustomed to tread hot objects, so it does not feel.”

Rejo.

“Of course you think, how could this shirt not be burned because of high heat? Of course I dipped in water. That look at this corner of the cave, there's a little lake. It's just, this skin can't stand, so it makes my skin blacken.”

“So, am I really sad? Everything I do is very human. I initially often came out of this cave, to perform Friday prayers. However, when I came, the congregation that was still a little was immediately scattered with fear. So, I was wrong.”

”I don't know, who spread the issue I am cruel, sadistic and murderous. In fact, some of the guardians in the land of Java, had eaten up the issue, and wanted to punish me. But, when he invited me to enter my house, they did not want to. Then, many messengers from him, who were tempted to kill me. But, having listened to the stories about my cruelty, made them fear themselves. Then, when I asked, no one was honest, except you. To that end, I am so amazed by your courage.”

“Have, now, what you want to know or do. If you want to kill this old body, please.”

Rejo dared to look at the face of Kiai Lembu Areng.

“After knowing the daily life of Panjenengan, for what reason should I kill Panjenengan?”

“Ya don't know, it's up to you.”

“Kanjeng Kiai, can I ask?”

“Please.”

“Who is this Kanjeng Kiai Lembu Areng?”

“Yes, I am Yes Kiai Lembu Areng. That's the name that people gave me.”

“Angger. Actually, my age is very old. Maybe because of the air in this cave, which makes me young. So, this body is actually no longer strong enough to resist lust. Only, God predestined me to be alive today. For that, if anyone really killed me, I would thank him instead. Maybe it's God's destiny, I should die killed.”

“Please excuse me, Kanjeng Kiai. There is no way I killed Panjenengan, because there is no business of rights. After all I saw for myself, Kanjeng Kiai is not what people say. I just want to know, Kanjeng Kiai who exactly?” tanya Rejo braced herself.

“Do they need?”

Rejo.

Tomb of Sheikh Quro in Pulobata Village, Lemahabang District, Karawang Regency

“If so, it's okay. I am one of the grandchildren of Syech Quro. I was not taught anything because it was too small. My job is only to clean the ship, and never get any knowledge from him.”

Rejo, who does not understand history, just shut up, listen and listen.

“Eyang Quro came to this land of Java, by inviting his students. I am the son of one of his students. My abi is Shaykh Abdul Rahman, a student of Eyang Quro who is very concerned with the science of Fiqh. So, my father could not science at all. He also forbade me to study martial arts, and the science of wisdom. If I steal from the talk of the Santri Syech Quro, he is very angry and even hit me. One time, in front of Kanjeng Syech Quro, Abi had said, you can learn wisdom, if you can enter the crater hole of the mountain.”

“I looked towards Syech Quro, he just smiled and nodded his head. It feels, at that time, I want to quickly mature and be able to go to the mountain to get into the crater hole of the mountain.”

“However, Abi was always furious, when I volunteered to go to the mountain. Until one time Abi said, I can go to the volcano, as long as it can destroy some books of fiqh. And Abi himself who will test me.”

“So, from that moment on I buried my desire to study the science of the martial arts, the science of the Sufis. And I began to study, memorize, and properly understand the book of fiqh. It took me about five years to finish some of those books. And indeed, I tested myself by Abi in front of Syech Quro. Abi asked a very difficult question, and it was an attempt to make things difficult for me. But I managed to answer. And Kanjeng Syech Quro instead prevented Abi from asking questions that I could not answer from the source of the fiqh book that I had hatched.”

“At that time, Syech Quro said, never mind, let your son go to the mountain, leave it to God. I also say goodbye to all residents of Syech Quro pesantren in Tanjung Pura, Karawang. I choose Mount Merapi, because indeed the crater bubbled.”

“On mount Merapi, I was confused. How can humans get into the crater of a burning mountain? I also chose to go to Mount Merapi. Not to pursue knowledge, but to wait for the magician who wants to teach me to get into the crater of the mountain.”

“Gurumu, Resi Swadaraya, once stopped by my hermitage. He was willing to teach me science so that I could get into the crater of the mountain, but on condition, I had to follow his religion. Of course, I refused. Better I can't go down the mountain crater than out of Islam.”

“Then he challenged me to a fight. Of course I refused, because indeed I never studied kanuragan science. He could not believe it, because he felt that I was filled with an invisible force. I laughed too. Because it's impossible.”

“Indeed, the fight between me and Resi Swadaraya really happened. Resi Swadaraya's body turned into a blazing fire. Of course, I was terrified. I could only run away, but the Swadaraya sage kept chasing, and hit several times. I can avoid or avoid it. Uniquely, my hands or feet did not hurt or blister, despite coming into contact with the fire in the body of Resi Swadaraya. Eventually our fight stopped on its own. Only one word came out of the mouth of Resi Swadaraya, that I was great. I thought, What is great? I can't pencak silat.”

“I myself wonder, I really can parry and kink. In fact, all know, the Svadaraya sage who your teacher was, including one of the most dutiful people in the land of Java. Science's cruel. Everyone knew, if it had been dealing with the Swadaraya Rishis, then only death would be accepted. In fact, I was able to dodge all of your teacher's attacks. Truly, one experience that I cannot possibly forget until now.”

Rejo looked on in amazement.

“Son, do not look at me like a great man. Really, there's no great guy here. Not only me, you are not great. The great is only Allah swt.”

“Then, how is the story, Panjenengan can get to this Galunggung Mountain?”

“Nak, although I can fend off the fire from the body of the Swadaraya Rishis, does not make me have the confidence to enter the crater hole with a bubbling coals inside. I am still really frightened. Therefore, I continue my hermitage in this Galunggung Mountain.”

“Only, the news did get out quickly. My success to stay alive despite fighting against the Swadaraya Rishis, has been heard throughout the martial world. So, as long as I stay at Mount Merapi, all I get is challenge after challenge. Generally, from the warriors who are still keder against the Swadaraya Resi. They try to fight me.”

Rejo. Kanjeng Kiai Lembu Areng sighed.

“Ten great men have challenged me. In fact, I can not pencak silat science at all. I have no magic. However, all the events I experienced strengthened my faith. Imagine how I might have to face the mighty, armed and murderous men. In the matter of strength, of course I should have died at their hands, but in fact, until I met you this, I was still alive.”

Rejo was impatient, wanting to hear how Kiai Lembu Areng faced the magician.