TIKAM SAMURAI'S

Episode 114

Samurai Mats - 114

“Lapan fruit?” the young man asked back in wonder.

“Yes, eight pieces. Time don't know..”.

“I only feel there are six pieces.”

“Yes, I see only six times the slash. But with six times that

eighthly struck. Perhaps there is one who once slashed two pieces.” Salma said.

slowly. His eyes were staring at the place of the Bungsu since then. And there, there

the bamboo pistil hemispheres. It filled the backyard of the house.

“already feel relieved now?” ask Salma. The Bungsu stared deeply

that girl's. Strange, there is a feeling that makes his heart so upset and not

serene. A feeling that made his heart flutter.

“Thanks Salma. You have worked hard. Taking care of myself, helping

restore trust in myself. Helped train…. Thanks, I

won't forget your bud.” he said slowly. Salma smiled, her face met

reds.

“Hari is afternoon. Not hungry?” tanyanya pda the Bungsu. The Bungsu will be

nods, when his bracelets ring. She smiled shyly, Salma too

smilingly. That afternoon he ate well. Eat repeatedly.

The relationship between the two is getting closer. Salma didn't say much, but

the glittering look in his eyes spoke more. And one day, he

asked something he had wanted to ask the Bungsu for a long time. Something

which makes him as the first girl to fall in love so badly.

That is about another woman, whose name is always called the Bungsu in

delirium when sick first.

“abang many times call his name..May-May!…She is certainly a girl who

beautiful...” said Salma that day, as her hand continued her embroidery.

The Bungsu did not answer immediately. Salma waited with a thump. As

woman, she doesn't want any other woman in the man she loves. But

on the contrary, he did not want to seize the man who had become someone else's.

“Ya... she is a beautiful and very virtuous.” finally the Bungsu replied

slow down. Salma felt her heart being stabbed. The tailor was shaken, mother

finger punctured. The pain is not playing, but the heart hurts even more.

“She's in this city..?’ he asked with a nearly trembling voice.

“There...” replied the Bungsu slowly.

But he's strengthening his heart.’

“why don't you take him for a walk here..” he added. And he was astonished,

why does his mouth speak that way. His heart screamed wounds.

“He couldn't have come here. But I'd like to be there this afternoon, if

you want me to take you there. You want no..?”

And Salma nodded. Even though after that he wanted to cut off his head

just nod. Though he wanted to shake her head violently at a bit ten

or twenty times.

And soere it is, they did go there. To “place” named women

That May-May.  Greetings so astonished when the Bungsu took him to a

the cemetery in Tarok. The cemetery is located in a bamboo forest.

And. in a navel, the Bungsu stopped. Salma stood by his side.

“Why are we here...?” He asked slowly while covering his head with

veil.

“You want to know Mei-mei don't you? Here's she. In this tomb. Him

died after being raped alternately by a dozen Japanese soldiers.”.

Salma felt her body shiver. He held onto the hands of the Bungsu. And the

Bungsu tells how he met Mei-mei. How suffering

the girl during her life. And honestly also tell them that they

he had intended to marry, but death first reached his hand.

Salma cried sobbing. The Bungsu also showed three other navels.

Each pusara Datuk Penghulu, the fluid coachman who turned out to be the intel of the Republic

that's. Then the wife of the Datuk and the navel of the Upik, his daughter

died that night in the hands of Japanese savagery.

Long they remained silent. Then Salma cleansed the four navels with her

Budgies. The girl was looking for a flower. Breaking off that branch

flowering thick, plugging it in the Mei-mei.

“Thanks Salma. You are so kind..” said the Bungsu.

Salma wiped her tears. The Bungsu hugged him in an afternoon breeze

breezy. No words came out, but Salma felt the embrace how much

make happy. Steady and serene. He wants to be there, in that embrace

make his heart flower it for the rest of his life.