LAST CLIMB (EPS.1)
27. Go home.
From afar, faintly visible several points of light extending to the right and left alternately, like being oscillated following an unsettled current wave, the sound of shouting slowly sounded faintly in their ears, until finally the time came for them to part.
Ki Idir and his students immediately left the place, carrying the body of Mbah Kuncen to be buried properly, even though he had lost he would still deserve his last place properly, then they also brought some prisoners to guide them to return to the right path, and finally before leaving, Ki Idir advised that this incident did not need to be told clearly to anyone, he said, because this is a disgrace from his family. Beni and the others agreed they wouldn't tell anyone what they were going through, bad memories of losing friends because people they consider friends would be better not to remember them for the sake of sacrifice and the good name of their friends. Arie had been lost before but he had managed to return and had paid for everything as a friend.
"Thank you for your help."
Beni is grateful that she, Anita and Aini can survive this incident, although Randy and Arie must be the victims of their misguided. But Ki Idir shook his head with a charisma smile on his face that never disappeared.
"There's no need to thank me, I should be the one apologizing, because my brother was the cause of all this."
Ki Idir apologized to the three teenagers with a sad look of loss and guilt, but Beni, Anita and Aini did not blame Ki Idir in the slightest, instead they were very grateful with the help that Ki Idir and his students had given. After that ki Idir farewell by giving his last bitter smile before they left the three of them.
"Hey, they're here."
The sound of the shout was heard getting closer along with the faster steps approaching Beni, Anita and Aini.
"You guys okay?"
With breath still gasping one of the climbers who found them immediately asked their situation and what happened to them.
The climbers consisted of six SAR team and four local people at the foot of the mountain, they deliberately sought Beni and others to this mountain, because after the specified time during registration, which is for four days of climbing, they do not go down to report to the registration post, even up to one week there is no report that they have returned, he said, for that in the form of a search team to ensure the state of Beni and the others.
"Where are your other friends? Aren't you six?"
The SAR team along with the locals were confused and happy because they survived but with a number that was not in accordance with when they left.
Beni recounted the events during the six of them climbing, but that story was not the story they had actually experienced, for the sake of Ki Idir who had saved them, they promised to be forever silent with all they experienced during their Last Ascent.
After explaining the events on this mountain, apparently they understood, because little did they hear about the growing issue about the situation on this mountain, but they also prefer to keep their mouth shut so that the reputation of this place is not polluted to be able to cripple the economy for the residents who seek sustenance from the existence of the place.
"Yes, now that you are with the residents back down, the six of us will be searching the gorge to find and evacuate the bodies to your two friends."
After that they separated with the six SAR teams they went down the mountain with four residents, while the SAR team immediately traced the road to the ravine to evacuate Arie and Danu.
After several hours they walked down the mountain, they finally arrived at the registration post just before dawn broke, the residents who had helped them immediately told them to rest in the house which was none other than the registration post.
In the afternoon after nearly twelve hours of searching, the SAR team that was tracing the ravine to evacuate Danu and Arie's remains have returned, but they came back with only one body that had been wrapped in a body bag, they claimed to have only found one body despite tracing almost every side of the ravine and around the place where Arie's body was found, because if indeed they fell together they should not have fallen too far, the two bodies would not have fallen too far, but the results remain nil.
Beni who was curious, slowly approached the body wrapped in the bag, then opened it and saw the body and rightly guessed, it was Arie's body.
Meanwhile, another team dispatched to evacuate Randy's body has returned with the body, they leave when Beni tells about Randy's body that he was forced to leave in terrible conditions. After finding the body they understood what Beni meant and again they agreed not to tell everything.
Elsewhere, someone had run far enough through the forest with a gasp of breath and some wounds on his body, wounds on the back that were deep enough to ignore him completely, with his remaining strength he tried to reach the other side of the mountain, which was very rarely touched by humans.
"I should be able to, it's not over yet, I'll be back hahahhaa."
With a horrifying laugh amidst the silence of the forest, he gazed at the distant gazes, thinking and imagining all of his unfinished ambitions and would surely pass on.