TRAPPED IN THE NOVEL WORLD

Strawberry Plantation

Hideon remembered Aluna's words that she had to hide Zero's identity for a while. Hideon remembers Aluna's message again so as not to tell her who Zero's real father really is.

Inside the room, Mona was still insinuating. He urged Hideon to be honest. "I'm your wife, so I need to know about this family matter. Please don't hide anything from now on."

Hideon's facial expression was forced as quietly as possible in front of Mona to avoid suspicion, "I don't know who my granddaughter's biological father was. While giving birth Luna loses her memory selectively."

Mona was grieving, not believing Hideon's words just now. "If she's amnesiac, then where is Luna now? Why doesn't he come home and ease this family thing together?"

Mona's insistence made Hideon even more uncomfortable. Hideon is a man who doesn't talk much, asked over and over again with the same answer making him grow angry.

As he was speechless at the thought of reason, suddenly his sense of smell sniffed a strange smell at the room. It smelled very pungent like a mystical scent.

"What is this?" hideon asked as he continued to sniff to find the source of the smell on his nose.

He had already smelled it, for it was he who had one of the servants put one incense in each room, including the room of himself and Helen.

"Don't cut the conversation. The smell was just the smell of incense, I used to exorcise the demons in this house" Mona said.

Hideon's eyebrows curled up to the door and opened it violently. Sure enough in front of the door of the room there was a frankincense pottery that had been lit by one servant.

"You're saying this is to exorcise demons? What demons are there in this house? Today you still believe this," hardened Hideon and then doused the frankincense with water.

"My husband, why did you turn it off? I've been struggling to get this step frankincense. I've bought it dearly to a paranormal master overseas. This very step comes from the sap of the incense tree that grows in a sacred place. If the smoke from this frankincense spreads to the corners of the room, evil spirits or demons in this house will automatically be afraid and will not dare to come to the house again. You must trust my husband!"

Hideon snorts annoyed at Mona's behavior. His wife could have thought that old-fashioned. "The devil in this house is you! Your brain is filled with demons and supernatural things. There are no demons and evil spirits here. Get rid of all the pottery in all the doors!" his orders were full of anger.

"So you said I was a demon? If I'm a demon, you can't marry me! See if we have always done this ritual, surely Luna will not be unlucky to have children before marriage. I did this so that Helen's fate would not be as bad as Luna's so cheap, giving up, her body to another man while still in school! Didn't think that Luna turned out to be a woman just like her mother used to be. Turns out right, the fruit fell not far from the tree-"

Plaque!

"Once again you say that. I will drive you out of this house" said Hideon, turning around and leaving, "waiter! Get rid of all these pottery as soon as possible or I'll fire you right now" he shouted.

At that moment, all the servants gathered and apologized while picking up the entire pottery filled with incense. They were so afraid of being fired that Hideon was angry. While Mona, still holding her cheek from the slap earlier. While crying he kept cursing in his heart. 'Look your son will be destroyed any minute. After Luna divorced, I'm sure no business partner would ever want to work with you again. Slowly you will go bankrupt and I will drive you out like a starving dog'

***

Right at the end of the strawberry plantation there is a settlement of residents, Aluna's car parked there. By word of mouth he finally found Sembo's house. Everyone in the region no one does not know Sembo and his wife who is a strawberry picker.

Aluna stood in front of a medium-sized house and knocked on it several times.

"Excuse me," Aluna said as the door opened.

"You who?" asked the person looking at Aluna and Alvin alternately, in his heart said, from the face and appearance of the classy definitely they are not from there and the neighboring settlement, "what is necessary?" again, he looks confused.

"Is this the house of the Sembo family?"

"Sembo? Not here, the house is behind our house," the woman was seen frowning.

"Thank you, Madam."

"Wait!" send the man before Aluna and Alvin leave, "what do you need to do is find Sembo. It looks like Sembo and his wife and son were not at home two days ago" Sembo said.

From the look on her face it seemed like they were good people, Aluna brought her body closer and whispered. "So you said Sembo had a son, is he five years old?"

The neighbor nodded. "Yes, her son is very funny, Mrs Sembo said that she had just adopted a boy from the opposite village ten months ago. But it seems they are not home because some days his son did not go to school" said the neighbor again.