Magic Village
Those Who Don't Believe

An hour more Aisyah and Dara waited for Grandpa Joko to come home, but Grandpa was not home yet. Aisyah started to worry, what if something happened to her friends?

"So Grandpa hasn't come home yet?" Aisyah asked, she can't even sit quietly there.

"You take it easy Aisyah, you must have a way to bring them back here." Entertain Mbak Ningsih.

"Sir, what is this village?" Dara who had been silent since then began to ask, because she could no longer hold back her curiosity.

"It's 05:00 Ma'am," said Aisyah, glancing at her watch." We pray dawn first yuk! Just keep up with the story." He added again, he deliberately interrupted Dara's talk, because if he had started to talk there would be no end, it could be until the new day was up.

"Yes, I'm right we pray at dawn." Mbak Ningsih added, they ended up performing dawn prayers with Aisyah being his imam.

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After the dawn prayer, Mbak Ningsih again invited them to sit in the living room, and how happy Aisyah and Dara were to see Rudi and Andi already there, sitting with Grandpa Joko.

"Rudi..!? You guys are okay, right? dara panicked, worried that her friend was hurt by the strange people.

"We're all right Dar." The one Rudi answered.

"So they were almost taken to Ki Dani's house, thank God you came on time, dad said they were his friends the father's grandchildren from the city." Grandpa Joko explained.

Andi began to kneel her forehead, her head felt throbbing, her stomach also followed the pain."akhh."Andi groaned in pain, what is this?

"Why are you An?" Aisyah asked frantically, Grandpa Joko then took the water bottle that was on the table, and gave it to Andi. Andi stared at the bottle with a strange look.

"Have a drink first.! Tell the old man, his face looks not worried at all, as well as with Mbak Ningsih, while they do not. so Aisyah began to think for sure the grandfather knows what happened.

"Where is the headache still.? Grandpa asked, when he saw Andi was calm again.

"Alhamdulillah, a little more muted cake." Andi replied, while continuing to enjoy the water in the Aqua bottle he was holding." But what is water? Ask the guy later. He was curious, because just a mouthful of drinking his head already felt much better.

"That's medicinal water, your headache must have a cause, so what did you see before you got here?" Ask Grandpa Joko.

Hearing Grandpa's question, they all looked at each other." You see what An? Ask rudi.

"Well, what do you see,?" Dara also became curious, but Andi also still did not answer, he looked hesitant.

"Do you see what the hell Andi is?" now it was Aisyah's turn to ask, seeing her friend from earlier did not answer their question.

"You must've seen the beautiful woman next to the green house, right?" Guess Mbak Ningsih, because he can't wait for Andi to say it himself.

"It's common here."Reply Ma'am Ningsih.

"The woman you saw has long since died, Nak Andi." Grandpa joko chimed in, making them feel tense, thankfully by then the sun had started to show its rays.

"Why? Are you guys scared?" Tanya Ningsih half laughed.

"What village is this?" Dara again asked the question that was not answered by Mbak Ningsih, because Aisyah had invited them to pray at dawn first.

Grandpa Joko, silent as she was, looked pondering before answering her. They are still waiting patiently.

"Some of us call this a magic village, because it's full of shirk, and some call it a morgue, or a death village." Hearing Grandpa Joko's words, made them goosebumps. Moreover, Dara, she even sat while hugging Aisyah, like a child who was looking at a demon alone. A kind-hearted Aisyah just let her best friend like that.

"Why isn't there a good one from the name of this village?" Ask Rudi in wonder.

"Everyone here no longer believes in God, if they are sick they always bring their treatment to Ki Dani's house, by giving a tumbal, the person's disease will be cured.

"Buffin?" They repeated Grandpa Joko's words, like disbelief.

"Rudi, Andi, Aisha.we must get out of this village as fast as we can!" Said Dara scared.

"You can't just leave this village." Ma'am Ningsih answered immediately.

"Why??? they were both astonished and felt that something was hidden by Grandpa Joko and Mbak Ningsih

"Don't Grandpa Ningsih want to hold us hostage here!" Dara Guided.

"Is Grandpa the same one of them as well?" Now Andi also participated in accusing Grandpa Joko and Mbak Ningsih as a plot of strange people.

"You can't leave here, it's for your safety." Grandpa was patient.

"Lied!!!"

Shouted Dara, she started crying again, it looks like the girl is really crybaby.

"It's up to you to believe it or not." Mbak Ningsih began to resign, because in the sense that there is no point in explaining the same to them, they still will not believe.

Mbak Ningsih stared at Aisyah, the girl was also looking at her, then Mbak Ningsih started talking again. "You may not believe us. But Aisyah she already knew what the condition of this village was like, ever since she first set foot in this village, she could already feel the great danger coming." Mbak Ningsih's words made them dumbfounded.

Was it true that Aisha knew from the beginning that bad things would happen?