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After hearing his grandson's answer, with a slight hesitation Si Mbah began to tell a story.

"Look, Dar?! maybe a little more to believe. But whatever I say it's all I know and experience myself" said Si Mbah Turahmin trying to convince Darto in front of him.

Hearing that remark, Darto only nodded with a straight look and a confident look that emanated from his eyes.

"Sepah don't know, Dar. The truth of the age of the old woman who told this dedemit," he said as he pointed at the face of the defenseless creature in front of him.

"But she was also the one who helped my mother give birth to me. And the same with you, Mother aka Grandma Buyutmu immediately died after giving birth to me, "Cross back, his face down, his gaze slammed toward the ground.

"Well, where did you know?" Tanya Darto still with a face of disbelief.

"That's knowing right from the guy, Dar. He told me himself after picking your mother's soul, "his gaze was raised again, with eyes filled with puddles on his face.

"I mean the Mbah?" Darto was getting jolted at hearing that.

"It's not just Buyut, Dar. My wife, your mother was also a victim of the science she was carrying, Dar,"

Seperri hit a hard object, the words Mbah Turahmin hit the heart of Darto at that time. Kakung also lowered his head this time, he was reminded of his only daughter who was also a victim of the woman's savagery.

"But how did he kill? And why doesn't Mbah prevent it?" Darto put on a face that has been ignited emotions.

"How's it going, Dar? Sumpah did not know his face when Sumpah was born. Plus when Sumpah's wife gave birth to your father, Sewah was in the field. And just until your father's house was in my dead wife's arms. Sumpah did not see who helped the birth of your Father," said Sewah, returning his hands clenched and his gaze bowed.

Looking at Mbah Turahmin's expression, Kakung stretched out his hand then stroked slowly on Mbah Turahmin's back.

After turning his head towards Kakung, Si Mbah Turahmin resumed his story.

"Dar, he's a man who's lived for hundreds of years. He has the science of youth, but instead he takes the age of his victims, and we are his targets" he said.

"I mean he killed Mom, Grandma, Jan was also Buyut right? but how is it?" Darto still could not believe it.

"You know Dar? the agreement can be said orally, you also know if asking for help from a child shaman is not free. She played the word that came out of her lips before helping to give birth to her victim, "Simbah looked up again.

"Playing the Word how is Min?!" Kakung opened his voice, Kakung's face also looked surprised by the sentence he just heard.

"Before she helped deliver, she asked first, Mat, she said that there is a fee to be paid. I realized that your son was the victim, because I heard their conversation. I'm sorry, Mat, I haven't told you, I'm afraid you're blaming myself for your daughter's death,"

Hearing that answer, Kakung immediately dripped water pouring from his eye bags. Likewise Mbah Turahmin, he can no longer stem his sadness.

"We don't know anything, Mat, because I thought he was asking for money, but it turns out that the reward he meant was not material. He always gave a choice to the victim when after helping labor," Sewba's speech stopped. Sometimes he rubbed tears that had wet part of the cheek.

"He asked like this. Vote for! who will be rewarded. I won't refuse even if it's you who's paid, but I really want the age of the son you just gave birth to. I heard that from the door, Dar. And when I opened the door, your mother was dead, and your chest was wounded" The eyes of the Mbah round their breath.

"From there I can conclude, Dar. The woman threatened to kill you in front of your mother, by putting her nails on your chest, and your frightened mother must have chosen to keep her child alive. This is Dar, you've never seen it, have you?" said the Mbah, then unbuttoned the clothes he was wearing. He tried to show the same wound on his chest as the one lodged in Darto's chest.

"We're both threatened with murder in front of our mother, Dar. He made the human soul in return for the help of childbirth,"

Hearing Mbah turahmin's words, Darto could only look down. He cried as he kept clenching both hands, his heart pierced like thousands of needles. Until every time he inhaled, the tightness always accompanied the air that entered his chest.

"My aircrafts! Where is that savage woman!" darto shouted at the figure of the grandmother in front of him, while unsheathing a keris that had suddenly appeared in the presence of a red light coming out of the ring in his hand.

"Agod! I'll tell you everything" The figure cried, bowed even to prostrate after seeing the keris that Darto had pinned on his neck.

"Quick say!" darto shouted back. Darto's face was very red, as bright as the eyes that were crying on his face.

"I-iya, ta but." answered the creature stammered, his eyes sweeping around Mbah Turahmin's room, making sure there were no other creatures inside.

"Once, just say it. Here no one can hear our words," Timpal Mbah Turahmin tried to convince.

"Hyai Gending lives in kedung kahar, Ki," replied the figure quivering, Lips and all over his body trembling, his eyes constantly sweeping across the room, he was completely frightened.

"Where's that?" Kakung opened his voice again.

"At the foot of the amethyst mountain, Ki. But, Ki, please don't tell me if I told you. I still want to live, Ki" he said again, still with a body trembling in fear.

"Later you come with me, if you will acknowledge the same god, I will guarantee your safety in my house" Kakung looked at the creature with a sharp gaze.

"Sa I'm ready, Ki. As long as it's not the woman's age, I want to do anything, Ki,"

Heard the answer from the creature. Kakung's hand grabbed Darto's hand which was still sticking keris on the creature's body, and asked Darto to keep the object away.

"Already, Dar. He was only told, he was only afraid if he refused, we better also save him from the threat of grandma Peot whose name does not match the face," said Kakung tried to calm Darto.

"Njih Kung, sorry Darto is still too easily ignited emotions," Darto lowered his head then put the black keris back into his red ring.

"Son, I don't mean to be condescending, as a thank you for not killing me, I just wanted to remind you. You are still too weak, beside Nyai Gending is very strong, his students are numerous. The red pocong and buto and the owner of the swamp always follow you on his orders. You're the family he likes the most, there's the blood of the descendants of great people flowing in your veins. To him the soul of your descendants is very valuable, and cannot be explained materially,"

After saying that long sentence. Without waiting for Darto's answer, the figure of the old Grandmother turned into a black agate, and rushed Kakung pocketed the stone into his pocket. The sadness had not died down on the faces of the three of them. But in their hearts they are truly grateful to be able to get a bright spot from the long problems they experienced. And from that day, Darto had decided a definite goal, to destroy the enemy who had claimed the lives of his family.

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