The Thousand Mask Warrior

Tear

Katilapan and Narendra took a deep breath. The two looked at each other and exchanged faint smiles. Both are already on the deck of the ship heading to Tanjung Pura island.

It felt like for a long time they did not smell the sea breeze, the wind of freedom and hope.

The bed wrapped his body in a shirt with no sleeves and no buttons. His heaviness scattered throughout his body made some crew suspect he was a Daya person who traveled.

"I have never seen Tanjung Pura's people travel outside the island with jung, let alone return after traveling," said one of the people overlapping in the jung.

The bed just smiled, "I'm not an Army man, kid. I'm from Bisaya. Are the people on the island dressed like me?" tanya Katilapan who later became curious, although as a person who has also spent a lot of time at sea, he has often heard such stories. Only, this time, he was on his way to the place that was often told.

"Ah, not fashion, kisanak, but more to ..," he pointed to Katilapan's body, ". the tattoo that is all over your body."

The bed looked at his body, then nodded.

Indeed, at that time, not much historical records that explain the journey of the Daya people out of the island. They are indeed more often in the island, go into the interior, sometimes moving places to find a new residential place. This move is related to the availability of land for fields and food sources, or security. So not infrequently, blood must be shed in this moving effort by headhunting wars with other Power tribes.

However, that does not mean that no Power people are recorded going outside the area at all.

The early Power people already had a kingdom. Noted one of the names of the kingdom of the early Daya people named Bangkule Sultankng who stood in an area called Bahana. This kingdom then collapsed and continued with the establishment of the kingdom of Sidiniang established in the mountains Sidiniang, in an area called Sangking in 1380 AD. The kingdom of Sidiniang was ruled by a king named Patih Gumantar.

That time was the same time as the heyday of Majapahit kingdom on Java island. Although the Majapahit kingdom proved to attack many kingdoms anywhere in the archipelago that did not want to submit to him, it can not be denied the influence of Majapahit so great on the community and its conquered areas. Not infrequently, the subjugating government even get friendship with the subordinate country.

So was Patih Gumantar, the king who established friendly and fraternal relations with Patih Gajah Mada from Majapahit.

Patih Gajah Mada who is very powerful mandraguna was even frank to Patih Gumantar who he strongly believes and respects this that the ideals of Majapahit to master the archipelago must be achieved and fulfilled. The Patih instead asked specifically for Patih Gumantar who was also very powerful to help him and the Majapahit kingdom to achieve that goal. He invited the Patih with Majapahit troops to go to Muang Thai, the land of Ayutthaya, the land of the Siamese people, in order to stem the attack of Tartar Kublai Khan's forces who intend to control the country.

So went Patih Gumantar. sailed to the opposite country to meet Majapahit troops who had first prepared there. Patih Gumantar also allegedly brought with him the Sidiniang royal troops from his chosen people who were reliable in his battle.

Therefore, due to the reliability of the Majapahit-Sidiniang joint forces along with the powers of Patih Gajah Mada and Patih Gumantar, Tartar forces were successfully dammed so as not to control Muang Thai and surrounding countries.

Decades earlier, the Tartar army itself had been driven out by the forces of Raden Wijaya, the first king of Majapahit work when Kublai Khan's troops attacked the land of Java to punish king Singasari.

As a gift for the help of the king of Sidiniang and a sign of their friendship, Patih Gajah Mada gave a magic kris belonging to the Majapahit kingdom and often he used it in combat. Keris was until now called Keris Susuhunan heritage.

So it is clear, that the people of Daya are also an adventurous nation that has been proven in the historical record. However, history also notes that these days the Daya people are more comfortable going inland and strengthening their lives there as a tribe of the island's natives.

The bed looked at Narendra. "How's Sasangka doing now? I don't understand the kid. Didn't think he could fall in love and choose not to be with us anymore."

Narendra looked out into the open ocean without a brim. No one knew exactly what she was thinking, though she replied, "We didn't expect Jayaseta to marry either. Even his wife's pregnant, which I don't think Jayaseta knows."

Narendra took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. "It is important that we must immediately find it in Tanjung Pura later what and how. The fabric of our destiny is bound, it cannot be broken anymore."

The bed nodded steadily. "While in my heart I believe Jayaseta can defeat the Poet Baka and all his foul plans, I feel we have a responsibility to stay with him."

***

Pratiwi. The needles were still stuck in his chest. She was completely naked like a baby, but covered in a jar as a blanket.

There was Lau Siufan in the room watching him.

Pratiwi squinted his eyes to see more clearly. "You're lucky I'm not at my best. Under ordinary circumstances, you cannot survive less than five steps," said Pratiwi coldly.

Lau Siufan approached, holding his forehead. "Your heat has been much reduced. I think you'll be healthy soon."

Pratiwi smiled bitterly. Lau Siufan grasped the meaning of that smile. "I also know you'll be able to beat me easily. I don't doubt that. There's not even the slightest hint of arrogance to challenge you back."

Pratiwi this time chuckled.

"Do you understand that my old cousin loves you? I didn't expect anything, I was actually the first person to go against that choice. It's not easy to love a woman .. great like you. But, as a relative who also loved her, I just felt the need to make you know that," Lau Siufan used the word 'great' to replace the words 'evil', 'grim' and 'feelingless.'

Lau Siufan took the leaves that were broken into in an earthen dish and then placed them on the wounds of Pratiwi, making the beautiful dark-skinned young lady grimace.

"You have a lot of talk as well as it turns out," Pratiwi replied. But there's a friendly tone there. There is a kind of strange wave that comes from the words of the Chinese peranakan women who enter the recesses of the Pratiwi soul.

For the first time, in her hard life, Pratiwi cried.

Lau Siufan flinched. He was really surprised to see the beautiful woman shed tears from one end of his eyes. His feelings were now mixed; curious, shocked and also horrified.

He felt he did not do anything that made the wound on Pratiwi's chest widen or get worse. After all, this kind of wound only makes a warrior like Pratiwi just grimace.

Then, what was his speech just now?

Pratiwi himself is actually also in the abyss of great concern. His mother had been dead for a long time and he was not sad. He even fell in love instead of playing with the killer. He owes that sorrow now.

He also failed in his duties. His men are dead. The master he had to protect was also killed, including his guards. He himself lay helpless, like a wounded toothless lion. For this, it is also a debt of crying.

Finally, he whines to his twin grandfather to bring the man he loves to him, like a little boy asking his parents for toys and sweets at the market. The man he loved went nowhere, and he was loved by a man he deserved to be a slave to.

No ... He did not cry because he knew there was a man who really loved him. She was crying because she felt bad.

"I'm gonna kill Jayaseta!" suddenly said.

Lau Siufan was stunned, not knowing what to say. When he finally opened his mouth, he could only say, "I'll call Koko Yu," then hurried to leave the treatment room.