
“Maybe you won't believe what I say later, Honey. But, sooner or later you do have to know.” Refald begins his explanation.
Refald leaned against the tree we were sheltering in while still hugging me. I also looked at Refald with a serious face because it was too curious about all the things that were in Refald.
“As my fiancee,” he continued. “You should know all about me. Who I am and anything related to me. I myself also do not know how to explain it to you, which is clear, I .. can actually see invisible astral beings. They all called me Prince.”
I instantly remained silent and let go of Refald's embrace to look at him more sharply. “A-what? Pa ... Prince? You you? A prince?” many surprised.
To be honest I can't believe, in modern times like this, is there still the word prince? This is so ridiculous. Refald was a prince? Prince of Hong Kong? Where is there a Prince who likes to go up the mountain like Refald?
“You don't believe it?” Refald looked at me who was trying to hold back a laugh.
I desperately hid my laughter so as not to spurt out, but I could no longer help it. Finally, I laughed out loud and Refald just kept staring at me until I finished my laughter.
I felt bad for Refald and regained my composure even though I actually still wanted to laugh.
“Have laughed?” refald asked after I stopped laughing. He looks a little upset.
“Sorry, not I mean, I just .. can't believe, if you're a prince, where are you?” maybe my question sounds like an understatement.
Rerfald just smiled knotty. “I guessed it, you won't believe it easily? Yeah, we'll just stop getting here. There's no point in me explaining it to you again!” looks like Refald's starting to crumble.
“Sorry, okay-okay I will try to believe everything you say even if it doesn't make sense. I promise! Sorry!” I brandished my two fingers together in the letter v to convince Refald to re-explain to me all the things about him.
“You won't laugh anymore?” refald asked suspiciously.
“Despite wish, I will try to hold it,” My clarification.
“It's the same!” Refald was floundering again.
“Alright, Boss! I promise I won't laugh. You can punish me if I do!”
“OK! We'll get married if you laugh. There is no protest! These astral beings are going to marry us here. You can't refuse. It's a punishment if you laugh at me again!”
“Hah?” I do not agree with the sentence given by Refald. “What kind of punishment is that? Where is the punishment? Nah! I disagree!”
“You can't refuse! If you refuse then that means you plan to break your promise!”
I'm speechless. The punishment that Refald gave was deliberately made so that I would not laugh at him and that I would trust him completely.
This clever one too! You're a dedemit gangster!
“Alright I agree, I just need not to laugh, right?” I don't know why I feel challenged.
Refald nodded happily. “You heard all?” Refald was talking to something I couldn't see.
“Who are you talking to?” manya curious.
“Who else?” Refald looked at me with a serious look then he said, “You all listen, if my fiance is laughing again, just marry us. You're the one at the end ...” Refald pointed to the left side of my left side. I followed Refald's index finger and found only trees standing tall. “You, so the forerunner, and you next door ...” Refald shifted his index finger to the left. “Find a spectacular dowry for my future wife, everything must be complete, and the rest .. immediately prepare everything needed just in case my future wife breaks her promise!” refald's eyes kept on attacking me who couldn't even make a sound.
I was shocked and agape, goosebumps at the words of Refald just now. I looked in all directions and found no one around me but the two of us.
“Refald, you don't scare me like this!” I started to get nervous and nervous.
“You still don't believe?” refald's tone of voice did sound very serious. He's not kidding at all.
“Refald! Please stop! Okay ... I believe .. I believe! Please let me go.” I trembled in fear at the sight of an invisible creature raising my hand without permission.
“Let go, I think my fiance already believes in me,” Refald commands in his astral beings.
My hand fell off and I was still in shock.
“Honey ..” Refald clasped my hand tightly. “Remember your promise as I explain the ins and outs of me. All of them here are ready to marry us if you break your own promise. If you insist that you don't, then one of them will get into you and we'll get married. After that, we ... legit!” Refald sounded happy when he said ‘sah’.
“I promise I won't laugh anymore. Stop intimidating me like that!”
“It looks like you really don't want to marry me!”
“I want! But I don't want a marriage like this. What the fuck? Married in the middle of the forest witnessed by astral beings and who became the ancestors are also ghosts. Who would want to marry a ghost like that? And if it does happen, then the marriage is not, legal!”
“Oh yes? You want to try?”
“No, thank you!”
“Alright, I understand, let's see after this. Let's see if you keep your promise or not. In my world, nothing is impossible. If I wanted to, this very second, your status could instantly turn into my wife,”tandas Refald. He showed that his words were no joke.
I snorted in annoyance. I can't believe that Refald, who I thought was a sweet and romantic man, could turn out to be terrible if he started ordering his army of dedemits.
“Why does your army of dedemits call you prince?” I try to divert the conversation by asking questions.
“See, I didn't understand why they called me that at first either. I myself felt that my father was not a king, so I could not possibly be a prince. But I started to realize something. Those who call me prince, are not those from the real world, but invisible beings whose worlds are very different from ours.”
“Why don't you just ask them why? Obviously you're not a prince, but they consider you their prince? Aren't you scared? Or feel weird?”
“Fear? Weirdo? Why do I have to feel weird? There's nothing I need to fear. Moreover feel weird.”
What do you mean?” I'm more and more curious about what this Refald says.
“I mean is, maybe in their world I am one of the descendants of the King they believe in. To be honest, I also did not know the exact details of the story, because until this moment, they never explained it to me about who their king was and so called me prince. They just said that they would always be with me and help me if I needed help.”
I began to digest little by little Refald's explanation.
“Means, pocong, kuyang and kunti earlier that I saw, are they also your men?” I began to limp in thinking that those terrifying creatures were the guards of Refald.
“Not, I don't know them but ... who keeps recognizing them.”
“So because of that? That snail disappeared as soon as he saw you?”
“Can be.”
“And who helped you bring food when we camped yesterday, and your guards? Also when facing the case of Yua?”
Refald nodded. I immediately drowned in disbelief, this was completely unexpected.
Crazy one! Is this the secret of Refald that he's been hiding all along? Is this why Refald seems so mysterious? This is totally absurd. I wanted to laugh but I couldn't break my promise so soon.
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