Curious Spirit Courier
Negotiating

The handsome king walked arrogantly closer to the followers who were still in the power of Reino's spell. He smiled bitterly, not showing a radiant face like welcoming his two special guests.

"King, they have been presumptuous to enter our territory! They even forced me to drive you here! Free me king and their law." The woman's gentleness begged the handsome King who was now standing right in front of her.

"You're asking to be released?" ask him on the softener.

The face of a creature like kuntilanak suddenly changed, he was afraid and looked down. Reino and Ferdian looked at each other, a little surprised because the King did not show any pity.

"You failed to guard the area until they could enter it! This isn't the first time you've failed, you've even let my daughter die without the slightest help!"

The figure was frightened, he trembled and did not dare to look at his King. "I tried to take care of her but .. the princess ran away." she replied softly.

"Running away you say? My daughter or you?" The handsome raka rebuked loudly.

Reino and Ferdian did not understand what was happening. The king is clearly angry.

"I hate to see failure, and you know the penalty for failure?" The king brought his face closer to his brother.

"Dead!" whispered with a cruel grin, the soft man was frightened. He's getting down.

There was no handsome face shown by the King, only a cold face. His ashes trembled as the king's eyes turned reddish, then with a single touch, the king burned the figure still bound by the spell with Reino.

The Javanese Sigil binder Reino cracks and disappears just like that along with the melting of a creepy figure similar to kuntilanak. The long, shrill scream that accompanied the burning of the servant did not make the handsome king smile. He stared at the man who was slowly turning into dust.

Reino flinched a step back as his sigil was broken. The thin thread on his finger disappeared.

"He's dead?" muttered.

"Destroyed exactly mas Reino! Sorry your arrival has been greeted with something less pleasant. So ... Where are we?"

The handsome king again turned friendly, a little scary for the two messengers messenger Thomas. Concerns also arose in the hearts of both of them although they could not be clearly expressed. The handsome king in his great robe invited Reino and Ferdian to speak more seriously in the meeting hall. A special place where no ear can hear the talk of the three.

The king occupied a special seat for him. After a moment of silence, Ferdian held out a paper scroll from Thomas to the king.

"We have come by order of Thomas, if it is permitted that we will pick up the four spirits held in this kingdom." 

The king did not answer, he read carefully the contents of the scroll. A heavy sigh rang out after the King put down the paper scroll. Ferdian and Reino wait.

"It's hard and I can't give it to you." The king who was commonly called Sing Mbaurekso spoke again, "The four men have killed my daughter, not one but two! They have disturbed my empress."

"We know and can understand your grief, but the twist of fate must go. The spirits must return immediately." Reino.

"They killed my twin daughters!" 

The sound of the handsome Mbaurekso sing was thunderous, echoing throughout the spacious and quite tall room. Both Ferdian and Reino could only keep quiet and look at each other, they tried to understand the position of the King. Losing two kids at once is not easy.

It is only natural that even sing Mbaurekso was angry and pulled the four spirits to atone for their sins. Sing Mbaurekso has power and power over his magical kingdom. The four young men had broken the rules by entering the forbidden forest and also killing the sacred golden tribunal.

"I understand the sense of losing the king, but we can't change the fate of death can we? No one can fight death even you as King." Ferdian stared intently at the king without blinking.

Sing Mbaurekso, whose real name is Candra, was silent. Ferdian is right but his ego as a father is not willing to let go of his daughter's four murderous spirits.

"Let us bring all four home, we make sure they will be rewarded. Let them be punished according to the will of the owner of nature." Reino persuaded, but the Mbaurekso remained unmoved.

The sadness was still clearly visible on the king's face. Despite still having other offspring, still losing his unique twin daughter became a blow to Sing Mbaurekso. The golden twins have their own special features. Its sparkling horns can treat any ailment, plus its golden feathers are so charming that its two beautiful princesses are the pride of the king.

The night of the fateful incident, the two daughters of the king should be with him. There is a lunar bathing ritual that was originally performed. Every full moon in the seventh month her daughters would gain additional power from the moonlight. But unfortunately his daughter had to die because of human greed. Somehow the story goes until the two daughters left the moon bathing ritual.

"May we see the four spirits." Ferdian asked the impossible question. The four spirits were reportedly kept in a special room that only the King's confidants could see.

Candra paused for a moment to next say, "Follow me!"

The king walked ahead, Ferdian and Reino tailed. The kingdom was vast, cold, dark, and filled with a negative aura. Reino and Ferdian could feel the sadness that filled almost every corner of the room. The empress, still grieving and distrusting with the death of her two daughters at once.

The two handsome couriers kept on their guard and circulated a glance. As messengers assigned to pick up lost spirits it is not impossible that they will be attacked suddenly, in order to thwart the mission.

Entering the dark, damp, torch-lit basement of the King delivered two couriers into his special prison. He stopped at a cell at the end of the room.

"They're here!"

Ferdian and Reino noticed the stone-walled cells were dark, moist, and cold. The four spirits were bound in iron on both hands and feet and neck. A pale face, a body full of wounds, and ragged camping clothes were not bad.

"A-air ...," one of the moaning spirits.

"Well, I'm asking for water …,"

The king grinned without intending to give them a drink. 

"How long were they tortured?"

"Every day, every hour, every whip of theirs is judged according to the strands of feathers on the body of the golden church." replied the king with a sharp gaze, he hated all four.

"Good king stop, they only have seven days before their spirit is destroyed. Forgive them and hand over the punishment to the owner of the universe." Reino again persuaded.

"You know Reino, every scream of their pain is like an arrow piercing my body. I was sick but it was even more painful to remember my daughter's life lost to their greed." King Candra's eyes flashed reddish in anger and sadness at the same time.

"Pardon and condone will make your pain less." Reino spoke again.

"We know, I can also feel the sadness of losing a child. Although our cases are different but we both lost children. My son thinks I'm dead, technically it's true, and I lost him. No longer can I touch or talk to him." The tone of Ferdian's voice trembled in remembrance of Great.

King Candra turned her head and looked at Ferdian, "You lost your son?"

"Yup, the difference is I can still see it in the human world and you can't."

"That's just as painful!"

The king sighed heavily, staring at the two couriers in turn. "Alright I'll release all four but on condition."

Ferdian and Reino looked at each other, they were half in disbelief at what King Candra had said. What was in the King's mind until he changed his mind?

"What's the condition?" sahut Reino is curious.

"You must win against my loyal servant. If you can hurt or kill him I'll take all four off. But if you don't .. you must be my loyal servant!"