The Ugly Wife's

Murder case

After finishing their harvesting activities, the mother immediately gave instructions to all to bring the harvest into the pantry so that it can be cleaned, before being stored.

Asyifa and the two orphanage boys who had accompanied her, quickly made it an opportunity to escape from Eden's supervision.

But unfortunately the three of them lost agilely with the man. Eden, who they wanted to avoid, suddenly stood before the three.

"Asyifa, let me take you to a place where there is a signal" Eden invited, approaching Asyifa.

"Oh well, I don't think it can be today in Eden. You see, I want to help the mother of the house and other orphanage children clean the vegetables and fruits that were just harvested earlier, next time yah go"

"But you said afraid your two friends will panic because you saw you leave the apartment without giving any news, why wear postponed everything? If the issue of crops, just let the inhabitants of the house clean themselves, they are used to it"

"But I also want to help, after all it's too late if you want to go find a signal. I haven't had a bath either, my body's all itchy and sticky"

"What is this, you seem to want to avoid me. Is there something that accidentally scares you to me?" ask Eden suspiciously.

"Geez, how could I be afraid of you! What happened should be that, you who are afraid of me, I am the strongest being on earth"

Asyifa tried her hardest to look ordinary, she even had to look for jokes that would definitely sound very crisp in everyone's ears.

A minute, two minutes, until the third minute Eden still did not give his reaction to the joke that Ashifa had just thrown. Only the sound of the forced laughter of the two boys who were near Asyifa, was heard in that silence.

Being in a stifling state, making Asyifa as if she could not breathe as she pleased, when now they were in the open.

"Yes already if you don't want to leave today, I won't force it either. If you intend to leave later, just tell me" replied Eden in the end.

"Ah yes, definitely. Thanks to Eden's offer, we lost as soon as we got in first"

Without wasting even a second of time to remain in that place again, Asgifa immediately pulled the hands of the two boys to enter the parlour.

After laying down the harvest they had gathered, the three headed straight to the room of the mute girl who from the beginning had already had suspicions on Eden, to ask what the girl knew about Eden.

Geck..Geck...Geck..

"Elisa, are you inside?" call one of the boys, knocking on the door of the room of the mute girl who turns out to be named Elisha.

"Elisha? Are you sleeping? Please open the door for a moment, because there's something you want to ask you" said the others.

"Name Elisa? If you two are, what's his name? Sorry, because you didn't have time to ask your name earlier"

"My name is Rora, and she's Nana"

"Ah well Rora and Nana, how about Ashifa's sister who tried to knock and call Elisha? Who knows Elisha doesn't want to open the door, because you've been acting like he's been acting weird"

"All right, brother"

"Elisa, did you hear brother's voice? This is Asyifa's sister who just came from the city, can you open the door? For brother Asyifa wanted to speak briefly with Elisha" Asyifa said.

There was no response from Elisha's room, as if no one was there. Because no longer impatient, Ashifa also slowly began to advance one eye to peek through the gap in the keyhole.

The light in the room was dark, because the lights were not turned on and the day had begun towards night. While trying to see more clearly, suddenly a black shadow passed in front of the door making Ashifa surprised and spontaneously walked backwards.

"What's up, brother? Did you see Elisha in her room?" asked Nana curiously.

"Sister? Brother Asyifa!"

"Eh yes, Rora"

"Sister's okay, right? Why did Asyifa's face turn pale like that, what did you see just now in Elisha's room?"

"Now, you're not sure what you saw just now either. Because the lights aren't on, so you can't see clearly. Even the brother had hallucinated, if there was a black shadow passing through it" explained Asyifa quickly, not wanting to make the two boys worried.

"Are you sure? Who knew the black shadow that you saw was real, and it was Elisha?"

"True Nana said, shouldn't we try to call Elisha a few more times? I'd like to hear a story from him right away, about the brother of Eden"

"Alright, let's try calling again. But if Elisha still doesn't answer, then we'll wait until he's out at dinner"

"Good brother"

The three took turns to call Elisha's name repeatedly, while not forgetting to keep knocking on the girl's door. But the results remained the same, there was no answer or any sound from within.

Thinking that Elisha was still upset with Nana and Rora, Asyifa finally suggested that they just stop, and wait until Elisha came out of his room by himself.

Several hours passed and finally showed at 8 pm, time for dinner together. Asyifa and all the children of the orphanage, began to be busy preparing all kinds of dishes and tableware on the dining table neatly.

But until the time will come to eat, the figure of Elisha is still not visible there. This made Asyifa, Rora and Nana both astonished and anxious.

"Sorry mom, if I may know where the Elisha is? When I had not seen Elisha, when he had been called to his room there was no reply at all" asked Asyifa, who had just sat in his seat.

"Elisha? Not in his room, huh? It was right now that I brought her into the parlor, she said she wanted to sleep until the afternoon so mom let it go"

"Ah, so. Shouldn't we wake up, Mom? It's night now, he's gonna have dinner too"

"True, then let me wake up. Or, Asyifa also wants to go with mom?"

"Boleh ma'am. Rora and Nana, would you like to come too? Let's just say sorry to Elisha, about what happened this afternoon"

"Yes, want brother" answered the two compact.

Finally the four men stepped into Elisha's room. His condition did not change at all, Elisha still did not reply even though he had been called repeatedly by the mother of the orphanage and also Asyifa.

"Is Elisha usually like this when you're resting, ma'am?"

"Not really, usually he will only sleep for 1 hour during the day. He is also the fastest to come, if there is something that wants to be done together. Is there anything bad going on with her inside?" ask the worried home mom.

"There was. Mother always keeps two keys in each room, as a backup in case something happens"

"Then, how about we open Elisha's room using that key from the outside? So that we can go straight in and check on Elisha"

"Truely you said. Then wait a minute well, I'll get you the spare key soon"

The mother rushed away, and came back with a small key in her hand. Without wasting any more time, Ashifa immediately opened Elisha's room using the key.

When Asyifa pushed the door open wide, it was very quiet and dark. Faintly, Ashifa smelled a very sharp smell of fresh blood piercing her nose.

With a feeling of alert, Asyifa looked for where the light switch was located. After successfully turning on the lamp, Ashifa body instantly shook violently at the sighting that was in front of her eyes.

The body of the girl who always looks cheerful and always displays her beautiful smile on Asyifa, now hanging above the ceiling of her room with a very sad state.

There was a long slash mark on the surface of his neck that was currently bound by a thick rope. There were also some stab marks on the side of his shirt, until blood seeped down from there and fell on the floor.

The white dress she wore, had now turned a horrible blood red. What made Asyifa feel so hurt was that, even to the end of her life, Elisha still gave her the best smile on her face before she went to the afterlife.

"Arggghhh, Elisa. God, what happened to you, boy! Who would have the heart to do all this to my poor girl" cried the hysterical mother of the parlour, hugging tightly onto Elisha's body.

The other children, who heard the cry of their mother, became curious and came to Elisha's room to see what was happening.

Instantly the atmosphere became very rowdy and controlled. The sounds of crying, as well as the sounds of terrified screams, began to fill the entire house.

Only a few male children quickly took action, to immediately leave to seek help from villagers who lived not far from the orphanage.

*****

"Don't touch!" asyifa shouted quickly, when she saw the people wanted to take Elisha's body down from above.

"Why not be sent down? Do you want us to let Elisha hang in the pain right up there?" protest of one citizen.

"Don't you know what to do first when there's a murder? We should call the police, and let them handle the case. And if you carelessly touch Elisha's body, the important evidence that was there might be erased!"

"Oh my goodness, this is a remote village on the outskirts of town, do you think there will be police who will come at night like this to examine just one body?"

"One body? Do you realize what you just said? This one corpse is someone who died of a cruel murder committed by someone else, if we don't handle it and catch the culprit, he said, there could be more than one body found again after this! Do you want something like that to happen?" ask Ashifa furiously.

Hearing the words of Asyifa, the father became silent for a moment. Moreover, many voices from other citizens who began to slowly agree with the opinion of Asyifa.

"Alright, we'll call the police to come handle Elisha's body. But, how long will they be in this place?"

"If you do, you don't have to worry and leave it to me. I'll make them arrive as soon as possible"

After saying that, Ashifa told a man who was also a villager to drive her to a place where there was a signal to call. But before leaving, he also told some residents to keep watch in Elisha's room.

When he reached the place where there was the signal, Asyifa quickly pulled out her cellphone from the pocket of her pants. Sure enough, a signal immediately appeared on his screen.

Not wanting to waste any more time, Asyifa immediately pressed the call button on the number of men who can always rely and ask for help in every circumstance.

"ASYIFA! WHERE'RE YOU? WHY DID YOU JUST LEAVE WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING TO US, DO YOU KNOW HOW ANXIOUS I AM?" yelled a voice at the end of there that sounded furious.

Instead of being afraid, or even angry back, Asyifa even cried with a flash there. Even the man who drove her, until panicked because he did not know the reason Asyifa suddenly cried.

"A_Asyifa, ma_forgive me. I_I don't intend to scold you, I'm just too happy to be contacted by you. Please don't cry anymore, Asyifa" the voice panicked.

"Zi_Zidan, Zidan!"

"Yes, Asyifa I'm here. Please stop crying, I really didn't do it on purpose when I yelled at you"

"Zidan, ba_how is this? A_I'm so scared right now, _where I went, _it's been a terrible thing!"

"What do you mean, Asyifa? Which place is it? Where are you now? And what happened there?" zidan asked, so I panicked.

"I came to an orphanage in a remote area on the outskirts of the city, and there was just one murder of one of the orphanage children!" answer Asyifa in one breath.

"WHAT?!"

"Now what should I do, Zidan? I'm so scared"

"Alright, you calm yourself down and try to listen to my instructions. The first thing you have to do is to maintain the condition of the incident to stay as you first found, then call the police to come immediately"

"I did the first thing you said, but I haven't done the second. Residents said the police were very suspicious to be called to this place because of the long distance and the remote place"

"Then, you send your current location to my phone, so I'll call the police to come here soon"

"Good Zidan"

Asgifa quickly typed the name of the village where it is located at the moment and sent it via text message to Zidan's phone.

"I've received your message, and Raka is also contacting the police right now to come as soon as possible to your location. Please keep your phone active for that long"

"Can't, the signal's hard here. To be able to call you, I have to be escorted by the villagers to a place where there is a signal"

"Yes god! Then, I beg you to always be careful of those around you, because it's possible that the killer was someone you never expected"

"I promise to be careful"

"good. Now go back to the parlor and wait for me there, for I'll be leaving right now"

"Good Zidan"

Seriate...