LAST CLIMB (EPS.1)
18. Strong

"Where is this?"

Arie had just regained his senses, his eyes immediately staring around the room made only of woven bamboo, a room that was so foreign to him, unlike the person beside him who was so familiar.

"Calm down, we're safe now."

Beni's voice makes Arie's worries disappear, as he believes in Beni and the others, they will become the best friends he has ever known.

"Why are we here, Ben?"

Arie does not remember when Ki Idir and some of his students helped them and treated the wounds all over his body, but not only Arie who actually did not remember what had happened, he said, beni is experiencing the same thing. Beni explains to Arie why they can be in this place, but of course everything that is explained by Beni comes from the story that she heard from her lover Anita, who is very close, and got an explanation like that Arie also understood the current situation. Arie could let out a little long sigh, it seemed like the problem they were facing was about to end.

"Tonight Ki Idir and his students want to solve our problem, Rie, but he needs information from you who have the same experience."

Arie with a condition that was still not fully recovered could only return a long sigh, trying to remember her bitter experience of being one of them, she said, but the guilt of the others slowly reinforces him in a belief that he must help save them all, and at least one of them will feel the evidence of his affection that has not been revealed.

"Gua must help you Ben, everything must be over and enough Randy to be the last victim, then there should be no more victims after us."

With a sad and distant look, Arie tried to harbor her regrets that made her a little stressed.

"Gua's sorry about Loe Rie."

In the silence between the two of them, Beni suddenly holds Arie's shoulder and apologizes for everything he had done, all his bad behavior so far turned out to be disastrous.

"I'm sorry for what?"

Arie does not not not understand the meaning of the words of Beni, but he just wants to make sure that the purpose of his apology is in accordance with what is in his mind.

"The cave used to nganggep loe one eye, often ngeremehin loe, but now the cave is aware, loe one of the best friends of the cave."

Beni uttered that sincerely from what she had in her mind and heart, she really had changed after Arie showed her dark side, she said, what makes him realize that Arie is falling into error one of the causes is Beni's attitude to him. As a friend Beni should be able to accept all the advantages and disadvantages of his own friend because in nature no one will be perfect.

"Lupain Ben, the important thing is now that we're in Aini first, our priority now is that we have to get out of here alive."

There is a sense of relief when someone recognizes Arie as a friend, but now there is no time to respond to Arie's happiness excessively, with such conditions it feels to smile was still so heavy.

"It's safe Rie, you don't have to worry, he's fine."

For now Aini is already in the protection of Ki Idir's students but there is a Beni does not understand that Aini who is now not the Aini who used to be. Arie knows a little about what Danu did to her.

Arie's short question is able to cause curiosity and big question marks in Beni's mind, between worry and fear of something bad that could come back to them.

"You mean?"

Beni looked at Arie seriously, as if she did not want to miss a single word of what Arie would explain next.

"Here they control, I doubt he can be cured easily."

"You mean Aini's already part of them?"

Asked Beni who was surprised to hear Arie's explanation just now.

"Not when we brought Aini back then, she was ready to be offered."

Arie's words succeeded in making the atmosphere that had previously improved now deteriorate again, it seems like solving this problem is not as easy as Beni thought.

"Loe Aini means..."

Not finished Beni finished his sentence, Arie had cut it first because he knew what Beni would say next.

"Yes, he can already be called hypnotized by Danu, and has arguably become a puppet for them, better now loe cepet their ingetin before it's too late."

After Arie explained everything, they could only be silent for a moment, especially Beni, he did not believe that the problems he faced were still following them even though they were now far from the devil's place of worship.

"Continue now how do we have to Rie?"

After a long time of silence with no voice, Beni finally dared to ask, for the safety of all of them.

"This has to be in brackets, or if we have to bind him and his genealogy, let him not go back to them."

Arie's sharp gaze reflects the seriousness of his speech, the solution this time is hard to do, however Beni is not able to do that to his own friend, he said, but for the safety of Aini and the others they both agreed to do so, but of course with the approval and assistance of Ki Idir and his students.

"Aaaaaaahhhhhhh."

But before carrying out what they had both planned, suddenly a hysterical scream from another room sounded quite clearly in Beni and Arie's ears, because indeed the room was only covered with bamboo matting, they looked at it and it seemed that what was in their estimation was the same, namely Aini was in danger. The voice of the scream was already very familiar, that is from a woman who filled the niche of Beni's heart, Anita, heard that Beni immediately rushed to the place where the voice came from, he said, without caring for Arie who tried to get up and wanted to come to see it, after arriving, Beni's eyes widened his mouth gaping to see the incident in front of his eyes, it was, someone had been surrounded by Ki Idir and some of his students, he was sprawled with blood and seemed to have died from torn wounds on some parts of his body.