The Woman Ruler of the Altan Clan

Chapter 77 The Bearer of News

Morning sunlight penetrates the open window to the outside, decorating the bed and floor with a pattern of light that is wavy. Shanum stood in the middle of the room biting his lips, he felt a restlessness that could not be revealed the exact cause.

Today is his graduation day. Since the sky was still dark, at three in the morning, he had already woken up. He should still be able to close his eyes, because the stylist who will dress him will only come right at six.

A shadow slipped into his mind, and for a moment, he was powerless to brush it off, powerless to resist.

The man's face again appeared in memories. A shady smile on her lips, a gentle look on her golden brown netra, which always gave birth to a warm swish on Shanum's chest. And his hoarse voice was a little heavy, it would make every cell in his body scream hysterically.

Every day that passed, since he could not contact the man, his shadow came haunting more and more. Makes him restless, restless, resist longing and anxious.

"You ready, son?"

Shanum's consciousness jolted back upon hearing Raisa's words. He turned his head and saw his mother staring at his appearance with eyebrows sticking out next door. The woman shook her head. Without looking towards Shanum, Raisa crossed the room towards the connecting door and a while later, Shanum heard the sound of running water.

In an unusual way, Raisa seems to know what her daughter currently needs, which is to take a shower immediately, if she does not want to be late to attend her own graduation.

"Let's take a shower, the stylist has arrived!" Raisa urges the girl to go to the bathroom immediately.

"Huh, has it come? But it's still five o'clock past thirty minutes, ma'am," Shanum said in shock.

"Yes, they're professional stylists, son. Of course they really appreciate the time," Raisa replied as she gestured with her hand to have Shanum rush towards the bathroom.

Shanum looked grimly to find the firm attitude of his mother, then half ran towards the bathroom. If he continues to buy time, he is worried that his mother will be increasingly sewed to him. And he'll be sure to get a long talk that makes the ears hot.

Now the girl is finished being dressed by a stylist hired by her mother. Shanum looks beautiful, wearing a modern beige kebaya with subordinates skirt fabric lilit batik motif. Her usual hair is beautifully decomposed, now shaped in such a way as to be a beautiful modern bun.

"You're so pretty, son. I'm up to pangling." Raisa smiled looking at her daughter. "Mom is beautiful too. I'm the perfect blend of Mom and Dad" Shanum said with a wry smile decorating her lips.

Dimas, his father - who had just walked into the guest room, which was transformed into a dressing room - walked over, and said, "Yes, you are so charming, Princess. It's a shame that this man can't escape your charm." Shanum's father looked at him with an astonished look. Can't believe his daughter's getting any better, very similar to his wife.

"Who is fascinated by me? Yes's dad?" tanya Shanum pretended to be plain. Dimas raised his eyebrows, then lightly pinched his daughter's nose. "Aww, sick Dad!" Shanum rubbed his nose that had been pinched earlier. "Later this red nose, it will not be perfect anymore and Shanum's makeup," he added again with a funny conical mouth.

Dimas chuckled amusedly at the reaction of his daughter. "Finally Dad was anxious" Dimas replied briefly. "Already... already! Let's go, it's late." Mom tried to remind them.

The three of them immediately went out of the room. They headed towards the terrace, and there was already waiting for Mang Jali, standing beside the car. He will drive them to the multipurpose campus building, where the graduation event this morning was held.

The graduation ceremony was smooth, and full of joy. Faces full of smiles radiated throughout the area inside the multipurpose building.

After the entire graduation ceremony was completed, the three close friends gathered outside the building. They headed to the park not far from the building. The parents were still inside the building, enjoying a buffet meal.

"Finally we passed. yeii!" screams Diva while embracing her two best friends one by one. "Congratulations to all of us, horee.." continued Farah. The three of them laughed together happily as they clasped their hands together on their shoulders.

"Where are we going to celebrate?" ask Shanum. "Bali.." cried Diva. "Astrakhan.." said Farah simultaneously with Diva when shouting the word Bali.

Diva and Shanum turned to Farah. They stared at the girl with astonished expressions. "Why are you going to Astrakhan?" shanum asked with a curious face.

Farah grinned. "I want to see Jullian." The girl blushed shyly.

"Geez, Farah!" diva said while rolling her eyeballs. He could not stop thinking, it should be that kebelet want to go to Astrakhan Shanum and himself. This is even the centile girl who was excited to go there.

"Eyeh, Shanum..."

Suddenly a familiar voice sounded in the ears of the three girls. They turned their heads and found Jullian standing near them. The man looked half in doubt.

The three girls gawked. Shanum felt his throat jammed so shocked. While the Diva smothers her mouth with the palm of her hand.

"You..." Farah looked even more shocked. He pointed at the man with an expression of disbelief. The girl then turned to rubbing her eyes.

"Hey, you saw it too, right? I'm not dreaming?! Gee whiz... Oh my..." Farah was busy scolding herself.

The Diva who was recovering from her shock immediately pulled Farah's hand, then pinched it.

"Aww.." cried Farah.

"It hurts, it means you're not dreaming. Please calm yourself. Don't be ashamed!" his Diva with a serious expression.

Farah immediately fell silent when she heard Diva's assertive speech. The girl was still in a daze, her breathing sounded irregular and her face was still dumbstruck staring at Jullian.

Shanum. "Wow, what an unexpected surprise Jullian. We were just talking about you, and all of a sudden you appear like a ghost in front of us."

Jullian raised his eyebrows. The man seemed to be unable to catch Shanum's intent. "You guys talking about me?" reworked.

"Yes, more precisely..." Shanum stopped talking, as Farah suddenly smothered her mouth. "I'm sorry, it looks like Shanum is slashing a little. He misses Khan. Well, he missed, we were talking about the man, too" Farah said. The girl looks wrong.

Shanum tried to pull the hand of Farah who was smothering his mouth with eyes bulging furiously. Farah instantly let go of her clot when she saw Shanum started to get emotional. "I'm sorry. Please, don't tell him that. I'm embarrassed!" farah whispered as she approached Shanum.

Shanum sighed. His emotions slowly receded. The girl looked at Jullian. The man looked astonished and confused. Shanum did not blame the man for his reaction. The show was quite strange and amazing.

Then Farah went to the garden chair beside her, and he threw down his butt to sit there. Not how long the Diva followed, leaving Shanum who was still standing firmly in his place.

"Disregard what I said, Jullian. How are you doing? You lookingforme?" shanum asked with a face full of questioning and curiosity.

Jullian sighed, he rubbed his forehead and looked at the girls in front of him.

"Yes. But before I tell you the news I brought for you. Let me congratulate you three." Jullian smiled faintly.

Farah gawked back to hear congratulations from the man's lips. His face was stunned, his mouth slightly opened as he looked at Jullian's smile.

"Oh my goodness Farah. Just looking at that flat smile of hers, your mouth was already drooling. What if you saw him laughing, you might flounder on the spot at times" Diva chuckled softly as she rolled her eyes.

Diva's voice is slow, but Shanum and Jullian certainly can still hear the phrase Diva's satire. Shanum had seen Jullian's eyes sparkle slightly and his mouth formed a thin grin. The man reacted to Diva's words just now.

Shanum's eyebrows raised next door. He watched closely the man before him. It turns out that this man can show a variety of expressions in addition to the flat look and feet that are very ordinary.

"What's Jullian?" urged Shanum, while Jullian's nervous face made Shanum even more tense.

Shanum felt from Jullian's indecisive face, anything he tried to say was not an easy thing to say. There was something that made the man heavy-hearted to instantly reveal. And usually only the bad news behind someone can behave like that.

"Please tell me what brought you here? urged Shanum for the umpteenth time with an anxious tone of voice. "Has something happened to Khan?"

Shanum turned his head as Diva grabbed her hand, her best friend pulled her into the garden chair that was in that place, and Diva sat down next to her. Shanum followed without protest at all, then squeezed the handbag in his lap just so there was something he could hold.

"You'd better sit down, too" Diva said, giving a code with her fingers to one of the park's empty seats.

While Farah did not react, she sat still and watched Jullian's movements without trying to get more attention from the man.

Jullian followed the Diva's cue, he headed for the chair that was in front of the three girls. The man tried to smile, even though the smile looked very strange and forced.

"Actually the Great Mother sent me here. We did not know that this day coincided with a day that was important to you. Sorry if I came at the wrong time. I came to your house. Said the guard there, you and your family are here. So I'm finally here to. um..."

"Tell me, Jullian!" cut Shanum looked increasingly impatient.

"The Great is fine, Shanum," he said, and the short sentence was enough to fill his entire body with a slight wave of relief. "But he probably won't continue to do so" Jullian continued.

Just as quickly, the relief began to recede from his body, taking away other parts of Shanum's self with him. What did Jullian say, what was he trying to tell me?

Shanum's chest began to feel pressed from all directions, causing an unusual sense of tightness to overwhelm him.

"A-a mean?" Shanum can barely speak. His voice sounded choked.

Jullian took a deep breath to calm down. "About two months ago," the man said cautiously, "The Great One was severely injured. Someone trapped him in a building that was burned by magic fire. And this magic fire could not be resisted, because it came from an extremely powerful black magic. The great one burned up inside that building without being able to get out."

Shanum's heart stopped beating. Breathing ceased. His handbag fell to the ground. He didn't pick it up right away, his body felt paralyzed, unable to move anything.

Again another fire!

Shanum did not think, was this the work of the Bataar Clan again?

"Luckily the Queen of the Batbayar Clan was near that place. He brought out the Great One from there. He had serious burns all over his body."

"No.." Shanum shook his head continuously, not wanting to believe what Jullian told him.

"Since then he has not been conscious. But according to our medical experts it is actually good for him, so that the recovery process can take place well. Then all the treatment worked out well, but three days ago, his condition started to worsen again. Somehow all of a sudden the recovery that had started to go straight stopped, as if his body was rejecting every drug and therapy given by our medicine experts."

Shanum looked at the flowerbed next to Jullian's chair and said, "Three days ago I also felt a very bad feeling of pain within our bond, so all that was because..." That realization made Shanum even more numb.

"True, Jullian said slowly, "Three days ago he could no longer be treated, the infection from his burns began to spread again. And we all became very anxious."

Shanum looked at Jullian now, his eyes ringing with his eyes. "He was dying, and no one had managed to treat him. Even with the help of healing magic," Shanum said slowly.

"true."

Shanum's body felt cold. His chest felt as if it had been pierced by thousands of needles as his tears flowed. Hands shaking. His body was trembling.

Jullian added slowly, "It is your soul's blessing that holds him back from leaving his body immediately."

Both Shanum's hands were raised covering his face then he sobbed, his body shaking uncontrollably. Shanum felt the hands of his two best friends wrapped around his shoulders.

"You should see him, Shanum. We sincerely hope for you to save him, as his soul mate. But even if you don't manage to treat him, you can still meet him one last time" Jullian said in a sad tone of voice.

Shanum said nothing. He just stood up, mutely feeling dead in his heart, the most painful feeling he had ever felt. No. I can't accept it if he leaves her out of this world.

Jullian looked at her once more to make sure Shanum heard her clearly then said carefully, "I'll give you some time to prepare. We'd better not buy time."