Abhimanyu : Pelakor Rentals
66. The existence of Sakura

Banyu released his hand which held back Kisa's attack, but the woman without being asked also threw away the knife in her hand. He staggered backwards, then curled up like a child hiding a face on his knee while crying.

The scenery was a bit too sad for an agent who was sent into a 'bomb' for the Abhimanyu-class mafia, but for Banyu it was a normal attitude. The man gestured his men away, leaving them so that at least he would not have to be ashamed of crying in front of everyone.

Kisa kept crying to the point that her voice sounded hoarse. Although Banyu was silent and chose to watch, the crying slowly disturbed him. He cried with Juwita's face, it made Banyu look like the real Juwita.

Banyu's hand was finally stretched out, hitting the top of the woman's head.

His actions succeeded in making Kisa look up surprised.

"Well I said I promised," said Banyu slowly. "Gue promises nyelametin nyokap lo if you agree to cooperation. I didn't lie about that."

Kisa bit her lips hard. His eyes were closed very tightly but his tears were melting like drops of water that could not stop.

"Kisa's." Banyu pulled his hand. "Sakura where is it?"

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Although Abhimanyu predicted many places where Sakura was, he did not think that one of his guesses was correct. Or at least of all options, most likely Sakura is across the island, the secret headquarters of the International Anti-Mahardic organization.

Although it has the same name as the Mahen organization used to take shelter, the scale of the organization this time is much different. It was like death before his eyes and Abhimanyu chose how he should die.

"Sometimes it's too big" said the man in their hideout. "If we bring troops here, civilians will also be affected. If we both go there, it's as if we're chopped to death."

Hara quiet.

"We don't have much choice, boss."

"I mean any choice but I'm shooting you here?"

Abhimanyu did not answer but the answer was obvious.

They should not be rash against international organizations, but they also could not simply retreat just because of trepidation. This dispute will be quelled for a moment if Abhimanyu dies.

From the beginning Abhimanyu was their main target in the strategy of weakening the Alliance. If Abhimanyu died, then it would at least take a while for them to pick a new target and plan a new strategy.

And Sakura's existence in their hands would be useless. The only weakness Sakura held was Abhimanyu's weakness, not the Alliance's weakness. If Abhimanyu is lost then the usefulness of Sakura will also be lost.

"Boss."

"What do you know, Abhimanyu?"

"No." Abhimanyu. "Gue doesn't understand. Absolutely."

"...."

"Sakura's got a lot of ammo, boss. Too many. Kisa, the one whose face is made as similar as Juwita's. Continues Dian, who turned out to have a child from me. I don't know what else will be out with Sakura. In fact, maybe Sakura knows more about my weaknesses than I do."

"...."

"Do it, Boss. I'm doing my best, so do you."

If Abhimanyu returns home, in other words succeeds in this mission, maybe in the future will emerge one by one things that he has done in the past. But if Abhimanyu does not come home then it will stop popping up. Rara, Juwita, and everyone after that who felt the bitterness of Abhimanyu's actions would also stop feeling it.

Maybe secretly Abhimanyu thought it was the best.

That the figure of himself is just vanished from the world so that there is no more sadness let alone disappointment in the faces of Rara and Juwita.

"Boss, I—"

"Abimanyu," muttered Hara, "it's too late."

Exactly after that the bullet hit the wooden walls of their hideout. Hara and Abhimanyu instinctively survive, grabbing the weapons and defenses they can before the walls collapse, followed by a full battle-clad enemy siege.

In his heart Abhimanyu only hoped that Rara there would not cry about them anymore.

*

"Sakura doesn't exist."

At the time the sentence was thrown, Banyu's ears that had heard the beat of his hour per second immediately buzzed and was no longer able to hear anything. His eyes could only be fixated on Kisa's figure, while his breathing was held back internally.

The woman wiped the tears that soaked her own face. Smiled grimly as he turned to Banyu.

"Sakura hasn't been around for a long time."

Banyu is now a statue.

"She committed suicide on the day Abhimanyu married Rara."

Huh huh? How could that be a fact? It was obviously Sakura who moved all these things because she was the only—

"She's just left a story for Abhimanyu's fall." Kisa covered her face once more, suddenly terrified. "He said he knew that in the future, even if he lived, the military of the country would chase him because he was labeled a traitor. So instead of living to wait for when she was tortured, she committed suicide, left everything."

"...."

"So free Abhimanyu chases Sakura. It's free for her to go to Sakura right now. All he's gonna get is karma."

Kisa even still has a story to convince Banyu that that is the reality. The things that attacked Abhimanyu all this time were just something that could be called Sakura's 'will' with her revenge.

But before Kisa could say it, Banyu suddenly laughed. The man laughed with a deathly pale face and cold sweat drenched his temples.

Maybe Kisa didn't understand it to that extent but Banyu still remembered. The person who urged Abhimanyu to marry at that time, so that Abhimanyu's feelings for Juwita proved to be gone, was Banyu himself.

Banyu forced her.

Although choosing Sakura was entirely Abhimanyu's decision, Sakura would not be Abhimanyu's wife if Banyu did not urge her brother to marry. And if Sakura dies because of the torment of the soul over her marriage then .. does that mean Banyu is the cause?

"Shiit." Now Banyu is hiding his face like a loser. "Shiit, Sakura. Shit!"

"I told you, boy." Juwita's voice suddenly sounded, making Banyu's face even more pale.

They looked up, saw the woman coming down with a somber expression the sign she heard. At least hear about Sakura's death.

"I told you before, it wasn't a good decision. You don't want to beat me up" Juwita said with emphasis.

Banyu could only clench his mouth. Being the cause of a person's death turned out to be more frightening than what he could imagine.

"But it's already." Juwita crouched down, cradling Banyu as if to take all that fear away. "If we're wrong, we have to take responsibility."

Sakura must have taken all the karma from her actions with that death. Anyone knew death was something that could not even be regretted, let alone repaired. Once it comes, it will forever be.

But Juwita always told her children, especially Banyu and Abhimanyu, that Sakura did not mean a criminal who should continue to be tortured because he deserved to.

Because if something like this happens, even innocent people will feel guilty.

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