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NEK IJAH'S STORY

After killing the tall figure, Darto brought Nek Ijah into his house again. With the help of Si Mbah and Ki Karta he lifted the limp drooping body. When they enter the house, the strange happens again.

The stench, just like what you have ever smelled before, is now even more stinging inside the house. Not only Darto, the two old men in front of him also smelled the same smell. They even immediately pale because they held the excess nausea in their stomachs. Even so, the three of them still brought the body of Nek Ijah to enter his room. They held each other's breath with hasty steps to quickly get to Nek Ijah's room.

When he got to the door, Darto rushed to open the door, he opened wide so that three people could enter at once. But what the three men witnessed after opening the door really surprised them. The floor of the room was filled with flowers, and there were two cots located inside. One cot is ordinary, and the other cot is covered with a thin white mosquito net surrounding the cot. The stench was increasingly smelled in the room, until Ki Karta vomited all her stomach contents at that moment.

"There is a corpse, Dar," said Si Mbah who had just discovered the origin of the smell that continues to smell.

Hearing the words of Si Mbah, Darto rushed to leave Nek Ijah's body on an ordinary couch, and towards the place that Si Mbah pointed to using his index finger, approaching towards the cot covered with mosquito nets.

Darto opened the barrier, he put away the mosquito net with his hands, then his eyes can see clearly if there are women who use colored sleepwear, are sleeping on the couch.

His hair was shaved and looked neat, his clothes were also very nice. It's just that the skin on his body has turned blue, also swollen in some parts of his body. His face had even peeled off, his mouth torn to reveal a jawbone that should have been covered in cheek skin.

Darto suppressed the nausea again, he left the couch and then vomited his stomach contents as well. The three men were completely flustered, they looked at each other without opening a sound at all. After seeing the woman's corpse in turn.

After that, the three of them returned to carry Nek Ijah's body to the living room. They did not feel at home taking care of the body of the woman who was fainting in her room. He opened his eyes after about half an hour.

Nek Ijah continued to grimace. He endured the pain of a small part of the peeling skin, while continuing to try to hold the wound using his trembling hand. Seeing that, Darto felt pity, he recalled that he had more severe injuries, but could be dry immediately after Darto channeled energy into his wound center.

Darto immediately approached Nek Ijah, he tried to do what he had done when taking care of his wounds. Slowly but regularly, Darto continued to drain the energy he released from his palm. And in a matter of minutes, the wound on the originally wet face of Nek Ijah, instantly dried up and turned black like a wound that was almost healed. Just wait for dry skin to peel off, so that the wound on the face can heal perfectly.

"Now, tell us something, Grandma. Who is that tall creature? And who's the woman in Nek Ijah's room?" said Darto after seeing Nek Ijah began to gradually normal, at this time he was holding his face with an expression of astonishment plastered.

"What are you guys?" suhut Nek Ijah's.

"We're just passers-by, Grandma. Grandma should just tell me everything, from the answers of our grandmothers will probably determine whether we will help or hinder Grandma's intentions," continued Darto again, accompanied by nods of the heads of Ki Karta and Mbah Turahmin.

"Actually.." Nek Ijah's words came to a halt, he swept his gaze in all directions, making sure his words would not be heard by the tall creature earlier.

Hearing that, Nek Ijah's eyes immediately rounded, he could not believe that the young man before his eyes could get rid of the very creature he feared. In a sense of wonder he opened his voice and said "You're not lying, are you?"

Hearing that, Darto just nodded, then he asked Nek Ijah to tell all the events he had experienced so far without any lies. And finally Nek Ijah began to tell a story that he had experienced.

"The woman in the room is my son. He died unnaturally, and the tall figure you fought earlier was his helper," said Nek Ijah then bowed, he looked sad at the time, but even so he resumed his story, "I made a deal with a beautiful woman. She told me that she had lived for hundreds of years, but her face was really still that of a young girl. I didn't believe her words at all, but to reassure me, she stabbed her own stomach in front of my eyes, and strangely the wound on her stomach instantly healed right then and there."

"Wait, Grandma. What's the name Gending?" timpal Darto after hearing the description of the woman who had an agreement with Nek Ijah.

"You know Nyai Gending?" Nek Ijah asked again with a astonished face.

"He was buried last night, Grandma" continued Ki Karta.

"How did he die?" connect Nek Ijah.

"My grandson has killed the snake that lives in his body" said Si Mbah Turahmin.

Heard the words of the three men in front of him. Nek Ijah is really tight-lipped. He had been serving Gending for a long time, but only this time did he hear that someone was able to stop his master's behavior.

"Actually, what did you ask of him?" ask Darto.

"I asked my son to be cured of his illness. She became a paralysed woman after months of time. And when I met Gending, he promised that my daughter would be able to walk back as she was.

"Monthly time?!" sahut Ki Karta's.

"He was slandered to be the mistress of the village's mistress. After that all the women stayed away from him, and all the men made fun of him. And when he felt he was on the edge, he got into a fight with one of the women who used to be his close friends. Her husband did not accept, he took time to our house, to judge on the basis of their own anger. My daughter was beaten by four men, not only was she stomped, spat on, even spiked before my eyes. My son doesn't want to live again after that, you can see in his hand there's an incision in his arm, he killed himself after a week of enduring the physical and inner wounds he suffered," said Nek Ijah while sobbing, he cried while continuing to tell stories. Until Darto and the two old men immediately felt pity.

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