King's Son (Season 1&2)
episode 47 Caraka

“What are you doing in this place alone, ha?” ask me when I'm behind her. Refald turned towards me and looked at me.

“You alone? Why are you here?”

“Jawab first my question, then I will answer your question. Don't tell me you want to fish again.”

Refald just smiled and looked at me and grabbed my hand. “I'm not fishing, I'm just observing.”

“Observing what? Who are you observing?” I looked around and found nothing but myself and Refald. “Nobody here? Are you planning on peeping at people taking a shower?”

Refald stuck his index finger in my speech.”Am I that bad in your eyes? Why would I peek at people bathing here? I'm not interested in seeing people shower. You have to remember that. Unless, if you yourself take a shower, then I'm interested.” Refald grinned mischievously. But I won't be affected by it.

“Oh yes? Too bad I'll never bathe here as long as you're here. So, please dream!”

Refald mangosteen. “Not for now, but later, after all I won't allow you to shower here. Too many people. Maybe I'm not the only one who can see you. I won't let that happen.”

“Already! What are you talking about? Can we go back to our original topic?” I don't want to talk about the stupid things that Rebald's thinking.

“What topic?”

I was upset with Refald pretending to have no idea what I wanted to know. “What are you observing? There's nothing here.”

Refald smiled as he stared at the swift flow of the river flowing in front of us. It was getting dark, so I couldn't see anything here other than the forest and surroundings.

What's so funny? Why is he smiling like that?

“Before fishing, you must observe the movement of the fish first, if you already know the movement, you can throw it bait so that the fish will be provoked. That's what I'm doing now.”

I was a little confused by Refald's words so subconsciously, I stepped forward near the river and observed the fish inside, but not a single fish was visible. In fact, at that time I had seen a lot of fish that jumped to and fro and appeared on the surface.

“Do the fish have a schedule when it will appear and not? I didn't find a fish here.”My eyes kept watching the river.

Refald just smiled at my movements. “Of course they all ran away as soon as they knew you were coming, you were so scary,”.

“I don't want to joke, Refald.”

“Alright,” Refald still holds my hand with a smile. “What meeting is done?” he tried to divert the conversation.

I'm nodding. He did, he always knew how to make me not to be upset with him anymore.

“Then, eat this.” Refald gave me a medium-sized white box.

“What is this?” I took the box and watched it. The smell of stinging and very tempting cooking makes my stomach so rumbling.

“I know you haven't eaten anything. You can get sick if you don't eat.”

“Since how did you prepare all this?”

“Since then, when you and your friends were still meeting in the tent.”

“You're this? Suddenly I felt so moved ...“ I saw Refald who also saw me. “During this time I was not used to being noticed, this became very strange.”

“I know. The strange taste will disappear by itself, because from now on I will guard and protect you.”

“I've heard that over and over again. If you repeat it again, I can get tired of hearing it.”

“Alright, I won't repeat it again. Now eat.”

“Then, you alone?”

“I've eaten.”

“But I haven't seen you eat anything since yesterday, neither have you slept, are you okay?”

“Don't worry about me. You have no idea how strong I am. Lookie! I'm fine, right?”

“I don't understand, but it's up to you. I'll eat this with my friends if you don't want to eat.” I was about to leave but Refald held me back by not letting go of his grasp.

“You don't have to go. All of your friends right now must have eaten all of them. So do your juniors.” Refald.

“Do you order food for them again?”

Refald nodded.

“Thanks Refald, I ...” Refald immediately landed his sweet kiss on my soft lips.

“Sama-sama,”ujar Refald after finishing his kiss and continue to look at me with love.

My face was blushing red as Refald looked at me like that. As long as I knew him, this was the first time I was so ashamed to be in front of him, but Refald smiled with satisfaction at me and drowned me in his arms.

“You are this ... do you know? Your face really is like a watermelon.”

I don't know what to say. I'm so happy today. Usually I would be immediately upset or angry if Refald behaved so suddenly romantically, but now I'm not upset anymore. This is not the first time that Refald kissed me.

Unintentionally, my hand landed on his arm in a bandage that made me remember his wound. “How about your wound?” I let go of Refald's embrace and observed his arm still in the bandage.

“It's okay. How many times do I have to say, I am very strong.”

“Sick, but it doesn't matter .. just by looking at you, the pain goes away.”

Again he is romantic.

“Is it really okay?” I was so worried about him, however, his hands became like this because of me.

Refald just looked at me expressionlessly and again he landed his kiss on my lips. My heart was beating faster and I could barely breathe.

“I'll be fine, Honey.” Refald stopped kissing again, but he still had his face on mine. I just looked down without being able to look at him. “Tomorrow I'll leave early. After that I'll pick you up here. You better rest before your face gets red. I think I'd love to eat you if your face keeps on like that.”

I pushed Refald's body away from me. “You are crazy!” myrag.

I immediately ran away from Refald and went to see the others. If I continue to be with Refald I can't control myself anymore. Refald's charm really got me intoxicated as if dancing on a cloud.

Haaahhhhhhh .. I don't know anymore how I can deal with her charm that makes me not bother when with her. Does this feel like love? Why so weird?

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After the meal ordered by Refald. Everyone returned to their tents and took the time to rest as much as possible. They are also allowed to sleep early because at midnight everyone must wake up to participate in caraka activities.

“What is caraka? Why did I just hear it? In my community I have never heard of such a term,” asked Refald as we gathered together in front of a bonfire.

“You sure you never heard of it?” I whispered to Refald.

“Ehm .. I just found out from you.”

“You're a big climber but don't know what caraka is?”

“Caraka is ... “ replied Alex. “An activity that can be said as a show of courage or a show of courage. This activity aims to measure how much the courage of PA members when he was in the forest, especially when he was in the dark, especially when alone. Those who participate in caraka activities are trained to unite with nature to find a way out if they get lost in the dark forest without any lighting and can only rely on moonlight if there is one. That's what we're going to do tonight. The juniors will be awakened one by one to follow the path we have prepared before. They'll trace the route from here and will come back here. Distance time between one person and another is 10 minutes.”

Refald nodded his head in understanding. “Good way. Is this only for juniors to follow?”

“Yes, the seniors who are here have already followed him.”

“How about you, Honey?” Refald turned to look at me. "Have you also attended this show?”

“Of course he's coming!” answer Yoshi. “He was too scared to say the wrong password.”

“Code?” Refald scrunched his forehead.

“Authen going down the route, there are some posts that are guarded by some seniors to monitor and supervise the juniors so that they do not wait for each other on the road due to fear and avoid them from things that are not desirable. When they met the senior guarding the post, they had to say the password. If the senior was silent, then the junior could continue their journey. However, if the senior answered his password, then the junior would have to pause to get a briefing from that senior.”

“Then, what password did my wife say that she mispronounced the password?”

I gave Yoshi the code not to tell Refald. I've lost face here. Yoshi can unlock my secret in front of Refald even though everyone here already knows about my incident when I was a junior.

Yoshi just looked at me to understand my code.

“What are you two doing? Why are you staring at each other like that? What are you hiding from me?”

“Nothing I'm hiding from you. Your wife asked me to keep it a secret from you.”

I glared at Yoshi but Refald instead blocked my view from Yoshi so that only he was visible to me. Refald shifted his seat right in front of me.

“Tell me! What are you hiding from me? Why would anyone else you let know your secret when I don't?”refald's eyes this time looked extremely frightening.

I don't know why I felt Refald intimidating me so I got nervous. Although it wasn't the first time that Refald had behaved like this, I still didn't feel good about myself.

“It's not a secret,” I said in self-defense. “I just mispronounced the password, what's the secret?”

Refald returned to his seat and asked Yoshi again and ignored me a little.

“What password does he say?”refald asked my seniors.

Everyone looked at each other and smiled remembering the password I used to have mispronounced. In fact, Yoshi had not told Refald what his password was.

“We used to use the password ‘Mbah, your daughter liwat’ but she even mispronounced ‘Mbah for you liwat’!”

Everyone immediately laughed back and forth at Yoshi's reply, except for Refald who was still silent. Either he understood or did not mean the word Yoshi was talking about.

“I can't figure out why you could be wrong said that word?” asked Joni who was accompanied by the laughter of her lover who was sitting next to her.

“He was too scared that time, fortunately he did not faint,” Yoshi replied.

“If any demon hears him say such a password, it might be his demon who will faint.” Alex's voice made everyone who heard him laugh again.

Well ... please all of you bully me as much.

Seeing Refald who was still silent without saying anything with a look of incomprehension, made all of us who were here immediately follow quiet. They probably thought Refald was angry.

“Why are you quiet, Bro, you already know what password your wife said wrong.”

There is no truth, Refald's expression looks flat.

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