Vee, My Beloved From the Past
about Sri
Strangers who consider us brothers
we will protect ourselves in the most difficult circumstances
The brother who turned into a stranger
somehow so that the biological relationship will return intact
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"You were once considered a brother by a stranger, Vee?" ask Hideo with a serious look.
"It means like Mr dhe Andik who already thinks of me like his own son, so do you?" ask Vee.
"Yes, it's not much different than that" Hideo said.
"Sri was a good person, five years older than me. And from him I know what Islam is" Hideo said.
"So you're a Muslim, um?" ask Vee who feels more interested in the conversation this time.
"Yes, from Sri I know about Islam" Hideo said with a bright look.
"So, you're a genie, a demon, a ghost, or what exactly, um?" asked Vee, since yesterday she forgot to question Hideo.
"I also don't understand what I am" Hideo said as he watched himself.
"How can you turn into a puff of smoke like this, om?" ask Vee.
"Are you sure you want to hear it?" ask Hideo seriously.
"Yes, why not" Vee said with a full glance.
"I came to a village in Banyuwangi with my parents when I was ten years old. And Sri who is also a new citizen there is fifteen years old" Hideo said.
"At first, no child wanted to be friends with me. Because the villagers think me and my parents are invaders. As far as I know, I come from a merchant family"
"My parents were selling silk cloth that we brought directly from Japan".
"Every day my parents sell at the market, and we also live at home which is also where we sell".
"In the meantime, in the pause, yes the story. I'm going to the kitchen for a second. It will continue again" said Vee who hurriedly fled to the kitchen.
"What did you bring?" hideo asked as Vee came with various items in her hand.
"I'll grab a snack, om. Let's not get rid of you telling a story" said Vee with a horse's grin while showing a variety of food.
Vee brought a box of brownies, cassava chip setoples, potato chips, soda, packaged iced tea and coffee.
"A lot, Vee" said Hideo who noticed Vee arranging his food on the table
"You can ask if you want" said Vee, who prepared the meal for the two of them.
"I didn't eat it all" Hideo said.
"Oh, yes. I forgot om" Vee said as he patted his eel.
"It's okay, keep up the story. Let me eat myself" said Vee who began to sit quietly.
"Where did I tell you this?" ask Hideo.
"You're a Muslim" Vee said.
"Yes, I know about this religion from Sri. I was always curious about what Sri and her family did every morning, afternoon, evening and night" Hideo said.
"They made strange moves in my opinion. And when I asked, it turned out that they were praying" Hideo said.
"Continue?" ask Vee with his mouth full of food, while occasionally drinking using a straw.
"Do you live in a Muslim village?" ask Vee.
"I don't understand, but I've never seen anyone there pray like the Sri family" Hideo said.
"Sri's parents can treat, like a healer. But they often remove strange items from the bodies of residents who come to seek treatment. Mr. Sri said, the people were devastated. And I didn't understand what it was at first" Hideo said.
"But I feel more attracted to Sri who likes to teach kindness to me" said Hideo.
"What kind of a thing is that, om?" ask Vee again.
"Sri taught me not to hold a grudge. Even though we were ostracized by the villagers when I was a kid".
"Sri taught me a lot of things, from religion, astrology, martial arts, and even she taught me black magic" Hideo said.
"If Sri can black magic, how can you be sure that she is a good person, om?" ask Vee, because anywhere is it if people can already black magic it is a bad person.
Vee muttered when she heard Hideo's story.
"I spend a lot of time learning from him. I didn't realize I was getting older, and it turned out that I was growing into a handsome guy" Hideo said proudly.
"You're overdoing it when you're proud of yourself, o'm" said Vee, who was watching a visual of the smoke hovering nearby.
It is undeniable, if Hideo is handsome even though he is like a colored hologram. And he's also stronger than when he just came out of the bottle.
"Do you think I'm handsome?" tanya Hideo who was stared at by Vee since then.
"PD once you" upset also long talk to him.
"Originally you know Vee, the breakdown of a relationship is due to love and possessions. And my relationship with Sri was broken because of blind love" Hideo said.
"You're involved in a love triangle, om?" ask Vee.
"As long as you know Vee, my family is a distinguished family. My parents are very wealthy, and I'm the only child".
"When I was growing up, I became a handsome man and came from a distinguished family. So many families want me to be their daughter-in-law".
"And from the many applications that came to me, none of them I received because I was still at home to find a lot of knowledge and experience".
"And that day, was the most terrible day of my life" Hideo said in his sad tone, his smoke turning black as his mood was sad.
"Why is that, om?" ask Vee wonder.
"At that time I was twenty years old, my body was strong because I often practiced martial arts with Sri".
"The next night, a man came to my house and asked my parents to accept their proposal for their daughter".
"And again, I refused. I feel too young to get married".
"But the man did not accept my refusal. So, the next day they and their families instigated the villagers who were mostly jealous of the success of my family became traders there, and also they sent a mouth to finish off my parents" Hideo gets teary-eyed when he tells this chapter.
"I know a little about black magic like this, of course I try my hardest to fight it".
"Aided by his father Sri, I tried to help my father and mother. Until finally, they survived. And the black magic went home to its owner and made him die that very night".
"In the morning, many people gathered at my house. They said we had taken one of their citizens to death".
"And that's when they were looking for me to finish".
"Especially the women who felt hurt by my rejection, they banded together to finish off Sri and me" Hideo said.
"Why was Sri included in their incitement, om?" asked Vee, it does not make sense that Sri was suddenly used as an outlet for their heartache.
"They thought I had a relationship with Sri because they often saw both of us. Though we were not both, there was always his father Sri who became our teacher" said Hideo regretting the incident, when he could not save Sri and her family.
"That night, the seditious citizens felt angry and judged Sri's parents brutally, their heads were slaughtered like animals" Hideo was already teary-eyed this time.
"The situation is increasingly gripping because they not only finish off Sri's parents, but also burn her house and the bodies of her parents".
"At that time, Sri took me to the warehouse of the rice shelter. And Sri, unbeknownst to me has recited some kind of high-level mantra that I have never known before".
"Sri blew some kind of spell on my crown, and I was instantly unconscious" Hideo said.
"Keep om?" ask Vee still curious.
"I fell asleep for a long time, until you opened the bottle. It woke me up" Hideo said.
"Uwah, that's really cool. Then what happens next Sri, om?" ask Vee.
"I don't know, Vee. All I remember, I fell asleep after Sri recited the mantra. And when I opened my eyes, you were the first person I saw" Hideo said.
"I know what happened to Sri after that, om" said Vee who made Hideo look at him full of probing.
"Where do you know that?" ask Hideo.
"Sri herself showed it all to me that night before she gave me the wooden box" Vee said.
"Don't you tell me, Vee?" ask Hideo.
Sometimes Vee feels saturated with friends with this smoke because his speech uses very standard language, making it feel like he is talking to parents alone if he does not see Hideo's visual directly.
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