The Thousand Mask Warrior

The Man Da U

Datuk Mas Kuning stood his back to the people facing him. The wound had not healed properly, but as a seasoned swordsman, his canuraan science could still heal the wound faster than a common man.

Katilapan and Narendra sat cross-legged on the floor with dozens of visiting Javanese. Below, in front of the house of the Datuk, twenty more Javanese were detained by the Malay warrior Sukadana, whose number almost doubled. Inside the house of the Datuk itself there are also more than twenty Sukadana soldiers who guard the guests by first asking them to disarm.

"I think my mistake as a parent was to give my granddaughter a chance to mature before she was ready and willing. And that maturity is not Dara Cempaka who decides, but me. Somehow I who have counted the days of life in this world will tell both his parents, son and daughter-in-law, that their daughter who should be in my guidance, must go through danger," said the Datuk still turned his back on the face.

"Therefore let us pick up Datuk's grandson, with Jayaseta. Our goal is to come here to know the news of the person who is important to us," said Narendra.

A few days ago, he and Katilapan finally got the full news from the Javanese people in Sukadana, Indonesia, that Datuk Mas Kuning is being attacked by a magic swordsman named Karsa who nicknamed The Poet Baka.

The Javanese then tried to help the Datuk from the attack of the old swordsman assisted by some unknown Daya soldiers.

In short, everything can be concluded that Jayaseta can escape and go face to face Temenggung Bear through a long journey. Katilapan also managed to confirm that after accidentally meeting with the crew of King Nio's jung and meeting him in person.

"The skipper said that they went four, along with other jung crews named Ireng and Siam. Jayaseta has been through a lot, and we are sure nothing bad will happen to him. However, for the sake of Datuk's grandson's safety, I and Narendra will go pick him up accompanied by several people, especially those who had accompanied Datuk with the royal entourage to go to the corners of the forest many years ago," obviously at length Katilapan after understanding the full story of the Datuk.

The Grandfather turned around and looked at the faces of Katilapan, Narendra and all those present there. "I should have intervened directly to Temenggung Bears, not my grandson or anyone else."

"But Datuk is not in perfect condition. Datuk himself has given responsibility to Dara to bring Jayaseta to the Daya tribe. The grandfather is here to preserve the name and dignity of the family that when the grandfather leaves this house, will be destroyed and free. Isn't that what Datuk said, including to Dara Cempaka?" This time a Javanese spoke.

***

No one was really suspicious of the arrival of this pair of Chinese masters and their Japanese male aides to the port of Sukadana, except for the fact that the man's servant looked to be a child - petite in stature - and the Chinese master only brought one servant.

Yu looked across the crowded harbor. "Where should we start, Pratiwi?" he slowly opened it in the ears of his beloved woman. Actually, he and Pratiwi had agreed to give a new name, a male name, to Pratiwi as his pseudonym, Pratama.

Pratama is the name Yu uses when it comes to calling Pratiwi in a place crowded with strangers. While he himself is quite called 'Master.'

After all the two were fugitives from the Betawi Company, and indeed Sukadana itself still has good relations with Sukadana so that merchant ships and soldiers - or mercenaries - often go back and forth from Betawi to Sukadana and vice versa.

Then indeed Yu himself had trouble pretending and many times almost let go of calling the wrong name. Not with Pratiwi. He was a good role player, seeing he himself was a swordsman and a telik ciphers who had become a mainstay of the Betawi Company.

Although the state of his soul and feelings is now in disarray, including his physical strength and inner energy that still has not returned to perfection. It's just, this journey on top of the jung has really made him find his true identity back.

Now he really wants to find his grandfather and see how he is.

He also meant to marry Yu.

"We seem to have to find lodging first, Pratiwi," Yu said later.

Pratiwi raised their insignificant belongings quickly. Yu wanted to prevent it, feeling it was inappropriate for a woman to bring things, before he forgot that Pratiwi was a swordsman and he was now disguised as a male servant.

***

Temenggung Bears attack makes Jayaseta kelit with a little clumped to the side. Apparently the Temenggung only gave a kind of surprise attack with his shield.

Behind his mask, the man smiled. Now he again lowered his legs with low horses. His hips play, moving according to the rotation of the body. While the do in his right hand is rotated.

"You know that the name of this gun I'm holding is do, Jayaseta?" exclaim the Temenggung. The chieftain's body shifted and gave distance and space to attack, but continued to move not stop like a rooster or bird was on the prowl.

"Yeahkkk!"

The sudden cry of Temenggung Bears broke the space when suddenly the sabetan do lead to the top of Jayaseta's body shot.

PRAK!

Jayaseta deflected it with a shield. The severity of the attack made Jayaseta retreat to a three-step retreat.

The Temenggung back to play and twirl his do.

"Hmmm ... Apparently distance is the key" Jayaseta murmured in his heart.

This Power warrior-booster's powerful attack exploits distance and attacks with surprise, looking for loopholes when the enemy is off guard. This fighting style reminded Jayaseta of the swordsmanship of the Samurai of Japan. The difference is, the ronin he had faced was really moving slowly or not moving at all in his horses, while the Kinyah Power used by the Temenggung is to walk, and the, turn around and keep changing the horses and the foot.

"However, the do I use is called Mandau," said the Temenggung again, without caring and ignoring the fact that he had just attacked Jayaseta with a very dangerous slash do.

"Some Daya tribes say that Mandau or Mando is an abbreviation of the two words Man and Do. Man is short for germ which means to eat, and Do from the word dohong which refers to one type of sharp weapon as well. The point is that this Mando weapon has greater efficiency than the Dohong weapon," continued Temenggung Bear. "However, the mandau I hold is different in history, Jayaseta."

***

The Nan-Man tribe is a tribe that is not a Han Chinese tribe, but rather is considered part of four wild tribes that live and settle outside of China in addition to three other tribes, namely, the Dongyi to the east, the Xirong to the west and the Beidi to the north. Even the term Nan-Man itself means 'wild tribe of the South'.

In ancient times, during the Three Nations or Three Kingdoms period which took place in 220 to 280 AD, where the Han Chinese state was divided into three countries that were hostile and continued to fight, and the, the Shu Han state ruled southwest China. The other two countries are Wu and Wei. After the death of the Shu Han founder Liu Bei, tribes in the region rebelled against the rule of Shu Han. An official of Shu Han's envoy Zhuge Liang then led an army and successfully crushed the rebellion.

Zhuge Liang, who was born in 181 AD and died in 234 AD, was a devout Confucian and was one of the best planning and war titles of China Samkok or the three countries. Not only that, he is also a Prime Minister, scientist, and inventor.

In the era of the massive rebellion in Shu Han, as the Prime Minister of the country of Shu Han, Zhuge Liang asked for permission to quell the rebellion by the Tribes of the South. It is the Southern tribe that is referred to as the Nan-Man people or people from the South.

The leader in the rebellious South was named Meng Huo. Zhuge Liang who because of his intelligence had defeated Meng Huo seven times, but also released him seven times, at the time of his seventh liberation Meng Huo finally surrendered and promised not to rebel again to the country of Shu Han.

But after the collapse of the Han Chinese dynasty and the surrender of Meng Huo, the Nan-Man nation mixed and mingled with other nations in China and beyond.

The Nan-Man people slowly spread northward in the 7th century AD, including to Burma and mixed with the inhabitants of Setwmpat and became the forerunner of the tribe of Bamar and Shan in addition to lowering the She and Yao in China itself.

But there are some Nan-Man people who also reached the island of Tanjung Pura and lived there.

Man Da U is the name of a Man who first made the form of a sword weapon that became the forerunner of the weapons do the people of Power, so his name is used as the name of the weapon.

Man Da U came to the island of Tanjung Pura along with prisoners of war from the wild tribes of Southern China, the area from which he also came. Man Da U came to Tanjung Pura island to look for natural results. On his way, he went around the rivers and formed groups from one place and another. Their bodies were marked with carvings of rajahs so that they would get to know each group of people they met.

Man Da U is famous for being cruel and expert in warfare, their new tribe group has been a lot against other nations who come to Tanjung Pura island, Tanjung Pura, including Malays from Srivijaya and other immigrant nations, such as the Formosans or the Bisaya islands.

Due to frequent wars between ethnic groups and nations who come to Tanjung Pura island, Man Da U became famous for his sharp weapon blades and likes to behead his enemies. This is similar to the Holding custom which had been first donated by the people of Formosa tribe to the people of Daya Tanjung Pura hundreds of years before.

The mandau blade used by the Temenggung is an heirloom mandau, the first weapon made and used by the Man Da U himself while on the island of Tanjung Pura, fight and kill the invading groups and tribes and become the forerunner of the entire Daya tribe.