Crown Prince Sanggana
PHT 41: Cursed Man's Cry
*The Conqueror of the Eastern Forest (PHT)*
Barada was so excited about picking the sun root leaf that was commissioned by Ragu Santang.
“But I don't know what the sunroot leaf looks like, Master,” said Barada when he got an order from his teacher who appeared in a perfect form as a human being.
“Akar Santang will show you, Barada,” says Doubt Santang.
“Good, Teacher!” sahut Barada was eager to carry out his maiden duties as a disciple of Ragu Santang, who according to the Empress of the Hearts held the title of Sun-grasping God.
In carrying out his task of searching for sun root leaves, Barada was accompanied by a Santang Root which the people of the Lesser Sanggana Kingdom named the Forest Squid.
Forest squid was the first to show a plant called sun root leaves. The leaves of the sun root are short, round flat-leaved plants. It has root tips that rise upward like buds coming out of the ground around the trunk.
Barada plucked the leaves until dishonorable bald and put them in a basket of leaves that he woven himself, the same as a basket-cart where Prince Arda Handara, but this one is larger. Indeed, as a woman, Barada also likes large sizes.
The plant was only about as tall as a calf. After shaving one tree, Barada shave the leaves of another sun root.
After the leaf basket was full enough, then Barada went home to a wooden hut owned by Ragu Santang. There he went back to meet the grandfather who then gave him a new task.
At the same time, unbeknownst to Barada, Empress Nara had been at that place within a different scene.
Empress Nara is now standing quietly floating in the air, precisely in front of the land octopus creature-bodied grandfather Ragu Santang.
“Finally I can see you again, Nara,” say Doubt Santang while smiling happily.
“Is this a curse given by Master, Cake?” empress Nara asked in a flat tone but with a color of sadness.
“True. This curse is worse than death. That's how I felt for about twenty years, until I finally tried to enjoy this curse. I used to think this curse was worse than death, but now I can still be grateful not to be killed by your teacher. Now I have the opportunity to pass on my devotion to a disciple,” said Ragu Santang.
“Where's the young girl from?” ask Empress Nara.
“She came with Prince Arda. The two of them entered this forest together,” replied Ragu Santang. “You are getting more beautiful by being a companion of the king.”
“Does Grandpa still enjoy the beauty of a woman, which is why Grandpa was made like this?” ask Empress Nara.
“Hahaha!” santang's Doubt Laughter was slow. “I no longer have any dirty thoughts about what makes me an undead like this. Therefore, I dare to take a female disciple. However, I will hide my true form from him until later I suspect he has absorbed more than half of my magic and is ready to see me this terrible.”
“Is there no way to remove this curse, Cake?” ask Empress Nara.
“Only death, Nara,” replied Doubtful Santang with a stern look.
“I'm sorry, Grandpa Doubt Santang. During my ten years of living in the Palace, I did not know that you were in this forest all this time,”, Empress Nara said.
“I heard you are the most filthy person in the Kingdom,” Ragu Santang said with a sincere smile.
“Grandfather must have heard the babble of the short boy,” said Empress Nara.
“Hahaha!” the laughter of Doubtful Santang as a justification of the conjecture of the short-haired beautiful woman.
“Now I am not the most filthy person in Little Sanggana. Now there's you, Cake,” said Empress Nara.
“Had Master been alive, perhaps I would have begged him to withdraw his curse upon you, Cake,” Empress Nara said.
“Oh, Holy Cypress Queen is dead?” shock Doubt Santang. “Because what did he die for, Nara?”
“Depth regret for his chastity has Grandfather snatched away,” Empress Nara replied.
So gasped a pair of Doubtful Santang eyes.
“But, but I never took away her chastity, Nara!” refute the Doubt of Santang.
“The red line of Master's chastity is a man's eye view. Although Grandfather only looked without touching, Master already considered his chastity to have been stained so dirty. The deep and prolonged grief of failing to become a holy woman to death, led Master to end her own life,” the story of Empress Nara.
“Why didn't you say that to me, Queen Cemaraaa! Hiks hiks ..!” shouts Dagu Santang roared long and then cried bitterly like a woman.
“I don't mean to make Grandpa Doubt feel prolonged guilt. However, Grandfather should know what exactly happened,” kilah Empress Nara.
“Hiks hiks …! I really am an idiot blinded by demons. I'm sorry, Queen Cemaraaa. I'm sorryuu! Hiks hiks ..!” lamented Doubt Santang.
The hundreds of years old man was completely covered in tears. He lowered his head, as if to hide his shame from Empress Nara's sight, even though he knew that the yellow-robed woman was blind.
“Nearly a hundred years, why am I destined to know about this. I really don't know, Nara. I really don't know about it. If I had known, I wouldn't have done that damned deed. Hiks hiks ..!” lament Doubtful Santang and keep crying.
Guilt so strongly hit his feelings and thoughts. The memory of the moments he did a high level peeping action against such a beautiful figure, again comes with a clear picture. Such deep regret and compassion for the Holy Spruce Queen became a thick stir.
Das das das …!
Suddenly a number of tentacles of Doubt Santang moved swinging upwards and alternately the ends sending his own face and body.
“Grandpa Doubt not!” empress Nara shouted in surprise.
Suddenly all the black probing probes of Doubt were restrained and motionless. There was a force that held him firmly.
Empress Nara had restrained the movements of the proboscis. He also felt the power of Ragu Santang trying to break away from the power of Empress Nara. However, even though Doubt Santang possessed a formidable power, the edge he was unwilling to force to judge himself.
“All has happened and inevitably we have to accept the predestined reality, Cake. I'm sure Guru has calmed down in nature there,” said Empress Nara.
“Where is your teacher buried?” ask Doubtful Santang in a hoarse voice.
“In the ice chest in the Cave Without Light,” replied Empress Nara. “Remove that regret, Cake. Remember, you have a student now. Don't let you feel the loss of a girl for a second time.”
So, in addition to the shadow of the Queen of Holy Spruces, the shadow of the face of Goddess Kenanga, the only princess of her wayang, was also present in the mind of Ragu Santang.
“Sometimes I will come back to visit you here, Cake,” Empress Nara said.
“Iya,” said Doubt Santang while trying to wipe his tears.
The proboscis held captive by Empress Nara's power, fell in unison after Empress Nara suddenly disappeared.
While on the other side of the place, precisely behind the Grandfather's Magic Curtain, Barada was talking to the fake figure of Ragu Santang in front of the wooden hut. (BH)