The Thousand Mask Warrior

Dumplings

Jayaseta shuddered to look at Pratiwi's face and was confused instead of a bitch.

Unresolved, Salman's grandfather turned his body quickly from a kneeling state and threw his knife at Pratiwi who was still standing upright. Jayaseta saw that Salman's grandfather's back was badly torn apart by two daggers that Pratiwi was holding. It should be with such injuries that the grandfather was no longer able to fight.

However, as a magician known as the Flying Dancers Knife, Salman's grandfather can still unleash an attack and of course his knife throw will not miss. Especially with this close distance, it is certain that Pratiwi's body will be drenched in blood because it was pierced by the knife.

TING!

Salman's grandfather's flying knife fell on the floor. Pratiwi remained standing unharmed. He even waved the jarit cloth that covered his body with a single jolt.

Now standing in front of Jayaseta and Salman's grandfather is Pratiwi who is wearing combat clothes.

He was wearing a kemben, but not a regular kemben. The good kemben is attached to a metal plate as wide as the palm of the hand that is tightly arranged in the kemben. At the bottom, Pratiwi was wearing black shorts which on her waist were draped in two dagger sheaths whose daggers were still drawn glitteringly but were also covered by blood melts.

It turns out this is the cause of the secret flying knife grandfather Salman is not able to penetrate Pratiwi's body. He was wearing combat clothes that were protected by the iron plate.

Jayaseta holds Salman's grandfather's arms. He caught a glimpse of two cuts on the back of Salman's grandfather from Pratiwi's support.

“Jayaseta, you have to kill him. We infiltrated the company!” said Salman's grandfather while choking.

Jayaseta has not been able to compile her shock into consciousness. But he put Salman's grandfather on the floor slowly in a sloping state. He himself then stood up and looked at Pratiwi with a look of disbelief.

“Why, adinda Pratiwi?” the question is subtle, almost inaudible.

Pratiwi smiled sweetly. Very sweet even. So it was difficult for Jayaseta to trust the innocent girl in front of him who was supporting the grandfather and wearing this battle outfit.

“Jayaseta's back, adinda apologizes so deeply. It's your job to eliminate the Flying Dancers Knife.”

“Why, why Pratiwi?” jayaseta is still in a low voice.

“Isn't the brother that Adinda loves the leg so much? Since first meeting, adinda has thought that kakanglah will be a companion to life adinda.”

Jayaseta is confused. Pratiwi did not answer his question, instead explaining his feelings to Jayaseta.

“The second time you meet the brother, you are increasingly convinced that this high-scientific knight is your soul mate. We will both be a pair of warriors who will thrill the world of silat kakang,” said Pratiwi while laughing softly.

Suddenly Jayaseta now remembered Sarti, the female warrior he had defeated. Pratiwi's soft voice was similar to Sarti's voice which was also the opposite of his behavior.

“What are you talking about, Pratiwi?” jayaseta's confusion turned to rage.

“Adinda had to kill the man because the company felt he and other movements against the company's government were beginning to interfere. In fact, the kakang also includes company hunting because it interferes with the running of the government. Kakang killed many members of the Hell Earth Needle and the Blood Smelling Devil.”

“What!? So you're one of the company's agents?”

“Please, Kakang. That is the way of life Adinda,” said Pratiwi still with a smile and her gentle gaze which painfully must be admitted so sweet.

Before long one of the doors opened, the slaves burst in. Their eyes were round in shock at this state of affairs. Two slaves who were aware of what was happening could not resist and rushed towards Pratiwi.

“Backed! I'll kill you!” said one of the slaves.

The petite pratiwi only smiled when he saw two people scattering towards him.

“Do not!” jayaseta said to prevent them. But late.

Pratiwi jumped up as if his body was as light as cotton. He then landed his feet on the faces of his two attackers.

BUGS!

The two slaves were thrown away and unconscious.

The atmosphere in the room became tense. The litter women who also entered the room screamed. While the other slaves became alert as well as panicked.

“Kakang, come with adinda. Soon the company forces will surround this place. Adinda will hand over the old man. And we will go freely. Adinda will also leave the company if kakang wants.”

“You sneaky girl Pratiwi. You wadon kenthir, crazy woman!”

“Adinda is a crazy woman, crazy about her legs. Don't you understand that? If not, you have killed your brother whenever you want. When the kakang fight with three members of the Hell Earth Needle, the younger sister can kill the kakang while pretending to be a hostage by her younger friends.”

“What did you say?” Jayaseta is growing incredulous.

“Adinda even willing to sacrifice her sisters friends because so see the magic and the face of the brother, sister at that time also fell in love.”

“What do you think Pratiwi? What crime are you harboring? After cunningly mowing down Salman's grandfather with your dagger, do you think you can go with me?”

“Ha ha ha ..” Pratiwi laughs crisply. Her face is getting pretty. My soul is so cruel.

“Don't you know that sister even gave up her own sister's mother? She forgave the brother for killing his mother. Adinda even broke her own sister's oath to kill the person who killed her mother when her uncle Parta said that the Thousand Mask Swordsman did it.”

“I have never killed an innocent woman, Pratiwi. Who do you mean by your mother?”

“Ah, sisang. He is a true knight. He knew he would never kill an innocent man. Adinda loves kakang more and more,” Pratiwi smiled.

Jayaseta felt her throat choked. Sarti's face and soft voice passed through his mind. The name 'Parta' as a 'uncle' for Pratiwi seems to have explained everything. Sarti was the mother of Pratiwi.

“Pratiwi!” Jayaseta was furious and could not contain her anger. He charged straight at Pratiwi with his Boxing Besinya.

Pratiwi kelit with supple. One leg grabbed Jayeseta's thigh and used it to bend his body backwards. Pratiwi then stood with his sturdy horses. The two daggers were still clasped tightly in his hands.

“The back is amazing! If later we have been together, will the brother teach the sister of the great moves of the brother?” pratiwi's eyes sparkled.

Jayaseta felt her heart ache. On the other hand, his strength had actually not been so recovered. He detonated his inner energy in the center of his chest and used a lot of energy in order to arrange Nagataksaka to fight Kyai Plered's poison and receive Garuda Sentanu.

Although now the poison Kyai Plered has not shown itself, but it is clear that the figure of Garuda Sentanu has not been resolved by Salman's grandfather. This meant that Kyai Plered's poison had not been completely expelled from his body.

A runaway slave walked up to Jayaseta and gave Jayaseta's Lucky Island kris and a frog belonging to Salman's grandfather.

Jayaseta takes both weapons and pulls Kyai's keris from the Philosopher's Island. He now holds both weapons in his hands.

Jayaseta looked at Pratiwi and shook her head.

“I can't believe this is Pratiwi. With a heavy heart I have to fight you. I don't want to do anything bad to you, but you're part of the crime.”

“Kakang Jayaseta .. kakang use the Lucky Island Kyai kris you gave? Thanks brother. Kakang looks very gallant using it,” said Pratiwi without caring at all about the fact that Jayaseta will actually attack him.

“Heyaaaa …. “ Jayaseta jumps forward and launches his attack with a kris or his katar.

Pratiwi laughed merrily and twirled his daggers to ward off Jayaseta's attack as his body was also convoluted.

Pratiwi is unexpectedly in this young age and considering that she is a teenage girl turned out to have extraordinary silat abilities. It tickles with agile. Its body is as light as cotton or a pigeon's feather.

The extraordinary flexibility of his body made Jayaseta's attack escape. Once two Pratiwi also deliberately thrust his dagger towards Jayaseta's shoulder or chest. But Jayaseta also understands that Pratiwi is just playing around. This infuriated Jayaseta.

Jayaseta tightens up his attacks and incorporates some elements of the Mad Dancing Skipper's Lunatic Sukma. As great as Pratiwi certainly is not an opponent Jayaseta who has experience and is indeed a swordsman choose a match.

Before long Pratiwi was desperate. But the basic swordsman, Pratiwi could have avoided Jayaseta's attack. In a desperate situation Pratiwi jumped and circled above Jayaseta's head.

Science lightened his body above average because with deft and nimble Pratiwi traces the table in the corner of the room when pressed Jayaseta attack. He then jumped into the wall and ran down the wall like walking on the ground even though his body was tilted.

Arriving on the floor, Pratiwi was surprised because Jayaseta managed to imitate the science of lightening his body so he forgot to stay afloat. As a result, Kyai Island Triumph managed to cut it twice across the chest and a catarrhal puncture in the stomach.

Pratiwi was pushed back and nearly fell. He coughed a little and then smiled broadly.

“Jayaseta's back is great. Do not forget to teach kakang science when later we are officially married,” said Pratiwi.

Apparently the iron plate in Pratiwi's clothes is powerful enough to withstand sharp weapons. Pratiwi was not injured at all, only coughing due to Jayaseta's impulse. If Jayaseta does want to injure Pratiwi, the only way is to attack the unprotected part of his body, namely the upper part of his body on his shoulders, neck and head or under his chest and stomach.

When Jayaseta was about to strike again, suddenly the other room door opened violently. Abun, the innkeeper rushed in. His body was covered in blood everywhere.

With a raucous voice and using Hokkien and mixed Malay he said, “Asing, get out of here with the others. Company forces attacked this inn. Save your lives.”

Abun. It seems that his life was not saved seeing the amount of blood that covered his long Chinese clothes.

“Kakang, let's go with adinda. Adinda will ask the company's forces not to capture the kakang. Adinda will say that we are future husband and wife.”

“You're really crazy, Pratiwi. There's been a lot of innocent victims and you're still forcing your crazy will. I wouldn't want to have someone like you as a wife, not even as a friend though.”

“Adinda understand kakang has not been able to accept all of this. Adinda will be patient to prove the love of Adinda to kakang. If not today, maybe tomorrow, yearning or ten years old no matter. Kakang will definitely belong to adinda.”

Not waiting long, Jayaseta attacked Pratiwi again. Jayaseta twisted his body like a top and used two sharp iron blades of his weapon to slash Pratiwi's feet. Pratiwi himself then nimbly jumped around in the air once. When her feet touched the floor she jumped again and spun her tiny body twice in the air. Jayaseta's attack escapes.

***

From the door where Abun came, men dressed in a company style were whipped with long-barreled rifles and long swords on their left waists. Now this room has been flooded with dozens of company soldiers consisting of indigenous people and a handful of Walandas themselves.

Pratiwi stood beside Abun's lifeless body while the company's forces were behind him.

“You can grab the old bangka lying there. Arrest the slaves and the women. But never touch the handsome young man standing in front of me,” said Pratiwi with his smooth voice in Javanese.

One of the soldiers of the Walanda nation company who seems to understand Javanese frown, “Who is he so we can not catch?”

“He is my lover,” answered Pratiwi while smiling knot.

Jayaseta hearing this felt no need to waste time. He has been lured with a strange and crazy Pratiwi attitude. Directly he lunged forward towards the company's troops.

DAR! DAR! DAR!

A streak of gunfire instantly filled the room along with the smoke of the rifles rising.

Pratiwi yells, “Don't! Brother Jayaseta!”

Pratiwi then brushed off some of the rifles that fired his pelors.

But unexpectedly, behind the thick white smoke that billowed appeared Jayaseta who exposed his keris to the attackers. topsy-turvy squad. Two soldiers were wounded by Jayaseta's sabetage.

The katar that Jayaseta apparently used to fend off *****company has now been stuck in the chest of one of the company's soldiers. The soldiers drew their long swords. The fight will happen again.

The soldiers burst into the room and surrounded Jayaseta. Pratiwi screamed and shouted so that the troops would not touch Jayaseta. But clearly his words were not ignored. Moreover, shortly dozens of other troops entered with a rifle that is still fully loaded ready to shoot Jayaseta.

The room that was not how big was now becoming increasingly narrow.

BRACKET!

Suddenly two wide, tightly shut windows were broken down from outside.

The arrow shot out of the window and hit a soldier holding a rifle. After that some arrows followed in messing up the company's army.

Before long some people entered through the window. The faces that Jayaseta knew well; the bed holding his ginunting, Narendra with a short trident spear, as well as the three pairs of dagger warriors: Kesuma, Mahendra and Sasangka. Even Badra was among them.

“Le, we need to get out of here. Outside there are still many companies with full rifles,” said Badra

“Karsan is outside. He will continue to shoot and block the company's forces,” this time Katilapan who spoke.

Jayaseta doesn't want to be stunned for too long. There were too many surprises today. He nodded to the four people.

“But we have to bring along the injured grandfather and this woman and her entourage,” Jayaseta said as he pointed at the pale-looking slaves trembling in fear.

“Both Jayaseta, the three of us are fighting these soldiers. You must immediately exit through the back door of this building while helping others,” Mahendra said as he poured forward with his long sword. He was followed by two pair of daggers.

The bed, Badra and Narendra immediately helped the slaves and litter women to get out of the fighting room. Katilapan and Badra even had time to carry two slaves who had been made unconscious by Pratiwi.

Jayaseta also held up Salman's grandfather who seemed unconscious. The keris he dropped just like that which was then picked up by one of the slaves. The slave put the keris back in the sheath and he stacked it together with the mask and three Jayaseta discs in a roll of cloth.

The slave nodded to Jayaseta, “Let me bring them all, sir.”

Jayaseta nodded.

But suddenly Jayaseta stopped, giving the body of Salman's grandfather he was carrying to Narendra, “Shortly, he said.”

Jayaseta went back into the room and helped three pairs of dagger warriors attack the Walanda soldiers. His eyes were staring at Pratiwi. In bed, Narendra and Badra did not have time to prevent him because he was busy carrying away the slaves and women stretchers.

“Rack back make adinda?” pratiwi said loudly and cheerfully.

“Jayaseta, why come back? Soon go, we will follow,” said Kesuma.

Jayaseta did not listen to him and immediately rushed towards Pratiwi. Both of his hands formed claws. The three main fingers, middle finger, index finger and thumb resemble claws. This was part of the Dragon Claw style which then wildly chased after Pratiwi.

Pratiwi. Jayaseta knew that Pratiwi would not use his daggers to do so. Therefore Jayaseta continued to use his claws to hit Pratiwi. Not hit, but claw more precisely.

This was clearly seen when Jayaseta held two iron plates on the Pratiwi kemben and tore it from Pratiwi's body. Two iron plates are in Jayaseta's hands.

“Kakang .. adinda shy. Can we find a place or a little wait time so that the legs can take off my clothes?” reply Pratiwi. His cheeks are red.

Although still upset by Pratiwi's flirtatious remarks, Jayaseta nodded to the three dagger warriors who had begun not to be busy dispelling the company soldiers.

He rushed out of the inn through the back road followed by Kesuma, Mahendra, Sasangka accompanied by a cry of annoyance and flirtatious Pratiwi.

***

Behind the inn were trees and thick grass and a small downhill road leading to the river at the bottom. Jayaseta is back in the arms of Salman's unconscious grandfather.

Behind the bushes and trees Jayaseta saw Karsan who was getting ready there. He then gave some sort of parcel to Kesuma, Mahendra, Sasangka, Katilapan, and Narendra. The package was a powder of fire that they were ready to detonate to dispel the soldiers.

“Jayaseta, leave immediately, we will follow," said Karsan.

Jayaseta was about to reply when Badra's uncle answered him immediately, "Le, these people and grandfather are more important to his life. You have to help me get them to safety. Let us not be stopped by them again. They can definitely finish this and catch up with us."

Jayaseta takes a breath to agree. "But you promised to catch up with us soon, yes," he said looking at Karsan's pair of eyes.

The one being spoken to nodded steadily. Jayaseta leaves with Badra to secure the slaves, Salman's grandfather and the women's palanquins.

***

After about fifty steps Jayaseta walked towards the river there was a loud explosion. The fire soaring into space makes the atmosphere bright. Jayaseta and the troupe grazed the grass on the banks of the river and disappeared in the darkness that was not lit by the fire of the explosion followed by all the members of the guard soldiers of the ship complete after a while.