Map of 7 Souls
Stigma : Ep. 30

20 Years ago -

Chen was a child who had a funny stature. His face was round, white, his nose small and trunked. But behind his cuteness, he is known as a quiet child. This attitude started from his gloomy childhood.

Chen is a Chinese, of Chinese descent who is already an Indonesian Citizen. His great-grandfather was a Chinese merchant who traded in Indonesia during the colonial period and after Indonesia's independence, they had succeeded in this country and eventually became Indonesian Citizens. Like people of Arab descent, India, the Netherlands and other countries that after independence, they were crowned as Indonesian citizens.

From Toddlers, Chen had already been subjected to harsh treatment by his father. His father was a drunk and a gambler. Initially Chen's father was a successful trader in his youth. After marrying Ms. Chen, who is from the Sunda tribe, Father Chen's business was destroyed. He blames his wife who considers as an unlucky carrier in his life. His opinion. Because of his hatred, then the hatred also has an impact and spread to Chen even though Chen is his biological child.

Chen gets rough treatment almost every day from his father. Being hit, kicked, treated like a real child. His mother of course tried to defend Chen and surely, his mother Chen got the same treatment even worse than Chen.

Chen is a child who grows up with a vengeful, reclusive nature and hates everyone who bullies or belittles him. She has no friends and no trusted people other than her mother. Childhood and adolescence are crossed with fights, his friends being opponents. Not because he's a bad boy but because he's trying to fight bully-an friends against him.

When you sit in elementary school, bully-an is always found in school and violence is always found at home. In those days, he responded to all without a fight making himself a quiet, vindictive and trusting person with no one but his mother. The most hated man in the world is his father. Furthermore, in his junior high school years, Chen had become famous for being a rogue person. Almost every day, they come home with dirty clothes and blood spots. The public rate, Chen as a bad person, trouble maker and petty criminal. In fact, if viewed further, it is not Chen who initiated all the fights but the people around him who disturbed his life and society also formed his personality as it was. In his mind it was enough while in elementary school to be silent and only to receive blows, insults, ridicule and bullying in all its forms without any resistance. But in the days of Junior High, his soul began to rebel. He will fight anyone who bullies or belittles him, especially if someone insults his mother. He'll be furious.

No one can comfort him. He also could not talk much about the contents of his heart to his mother because the woman was also full of burdens of life. He did not want to add to his mother's burden anymore. Only a flute given by the middle-aged man at the time of walking in the market, could comfort him. When alone, the flute is what comforts the heart. A sense in the self that considers his life unfair, trying to be treated by playing the flute.

The soul that was filled with grudge towards his father had been ingrained since childhood. His own father who formed his personal become a vengeful. He hated that man who had never once been a father figure to him. And finally, he ended it all.

When she was 16, after school, she saw her mother in the kitchen covered in blood, lying on the floor. There's a puncture wound in the chest right about the heart. He saw his father standing with a knife. His face was even more crazed when he came face to face with Chen. His father immediately snapped at Chen and attacked him with a kitchen knife in his right hand. The first shot, Chen can be evasive, but the second shot hits the upper hand. Chen grimaced in pain. His father attacked again by throwing a kitchen knife into the chest as a target. With a quick movement, Chen tried to resist the attack from his father using a flute taken from his pants pocket.

Ting.

Knives and flutes clashing. The flute Chen held bounced to the floor. His father was kicked back by Chen with his right foot. His father grew increasingly furious, attacking Chen back in full force. Chen was kicked back by his father and fell to the ground. The middle-aged man, slammed the knife back in his right hand into Chen's chest. Chen held off the attack with both hands. He held his father's hands together with his palms clasping the opponent's wrists. Try with all his might to resist the blow of the knife that has approached the neck. The two hands were now crossed forming the letter X in order to withstand the attack but the man's power was stronger, the tip of the blade was already approaching the neck. He lay on the floor, struggling with his father who was on top. Chen thought hard how to defeat the man above his body. The flute, which at that moment, was right not far from the position he was lying in, was trying to reach with his left hand. Taking risks, of course, when holding a man's attack on his body with one hand. The right hand that was now holding back the attack, was trying to channel full force into that section. The tip of the blade instead drew closer as its strength to withstand the attack was diminishing. A little more the tip of the knife stabbed him in the neck. He looked at the man who was on top of his body not like his father anymore, his face had already changed greatly like being possessed by a demon.

Chen's left hand had grabbed the flute that had been lying on the floor. Quickly moving his left hand, plugging the flute to the side of his father's neck.

Jamb.

Blood poured out to the left of Chen's face. The man on top of his body fell silent, snoring long, slumped to the side slowly. Chen got out of the guy. Rejected the man's body quickly and with a feeling of disgust. Chen then got up, took out a knife and quickly thrust a sharp object into his father's blood-soaked heart. The man only let out a short snort and stomped his body once upwards when the kitchen knife landed on the chest. His face is very flat. No regrets at all. But it is full of hate.

Chen's face was cold. He immediately removed the kitchen knife from his grasp. He approached his mother's body quickly. Lifting and leaning a thin body on his lap.

"Maaaaaa..," he screamed softly as he rubbed the woman's cheek. He shed tears. His face now looked pale and confused.

The middle-aged woman opened a few eyes. He tried to grab and hold Chen's cheek. "Per.gi.... Be... bus... right.. yourself...." The woman stammered and finally, her hand fell to the floor quickly. Drooping.

Chen shouted to his mother. Hugging an already lifeless body tightly. The blood that came out of the woman's body, stuck to the school shirt. He tried to shake the woman's body to regain consciousness. Her tears are breaking. But the lives that have been lost cannot return.

About an hour Chen held his mother's body. Trying to get back to the conscious. Stop wailing. Face's tangled. The blood on part of his face dried up a little. Trying to stabilize emotions. Then bring his mother's lifeless body to the backyard by lifting it in the front with both hands. Put the body on an old cot that was behind the house. Look for one thing in the corner of the kitchen. He found the thing he was looking for. There's a hoe in the corner of the kitchen. Quickly, take the hoe that is often used for farming. Hurry to the back yard. Digging and digging and digging the soil that is in the backyard.

Chen's house is far from the residential area. Since his father went bankrupt, they sold all the treasures in the city and moved to the village, more precisely to the forest. The nearest resident's house about 500 meters from his house headed outside. Into the forest there is no home anymore. So, this incident will long be known by the citizens. He intends to bury his mother and leave the house. Don't want his mother's corpse eaten by a beast. His father's body will not be thought of by him. The hatred for that man was already ingrained.

Chen had already dug the ground three meters deep. It was not difficult for him because he was raised as a farmer. In this teenage age his body has been formed very hard and muscular.

The night is approaching. The area was only illuminated by patromak lights that were turned on after digging a hole, half way through.

The skinny but muscular young man, came out of the hole and approached his mother's corpse. Carrying the corpse of the old woman and slowly putting it into the hole. She's not crying anymore. Trying hard to deal with this incident. So much bitterness that he endured for 16 years and it ended up being like this. This was not what he wanted in the course of his life but he felt not as lucky as others. The torment, humiliation and mockery of those around him made him a vengeful and mischievous teenager. He is not a drunk, he is not a drug and he is not a gambler like his father, but a man who likes to fight in order to maintain self-esteem. Here he is now. His hateful and vengeful soul was now avenged by stabbing his father in the neck and slashing a knife in the chest of the middle-aged man without regret. Just this time, he killed people but felt the devil had already clapped his hands and fused with him.

After inserting his mother's lifeless body into the hole, it quickly closed the hole bit by bit with the ground shaving at the side. Trying to overcome sadness. His face showed hatred. Hate his destiny, hate to be born into a family like this. Hate his father. Hate the God who does not side with him and hate the stigma of society against him. They formed themselves like this, he thought.

In about an hour, Chen had just finished stockpiling the hole. After that, hurry to the bathroom, clean yourself from the rest of the blood and mud on the body. Repeatedly pouring water on his body. His body looks very stocky when taking off all the clothes on the body. His arms, legs, abdominal muscles are lined up in six squares and his back is wide and muscular. Everything is so hard, as hard as the life lived. After splashing some water on the body to clean last time, it quickly snatched the worn towel on the bathroom door. He tried to dry his body and hair, wrapping a worn towel around his waist. Rushed into the room, picking up a few pieces of clothes and pants in the closet. Actually, she also did not have any good clothes, so picked up the clothes randomly. Put it in a ripped backpack here and there. Take a blue t-shirt that has been very faded and short jeans. And wear those clothes. Then he came out of the room, approached his father's corpse and pulled out the flute that was still stuck in the man's neck without hesitation. Dunking the rest of the blood on the flute by wearing a shirt on his father's body. Grunts once and shows a cruel face. His look was full of hate.

Chen headed back to the back of the house. Trying to wear worn shoes in a standing state. It does not take long to wear shoes that are not clear in color anymore. Then take the patromak lamp he was wearing earlier. Walk a few steps into the backyard and throw the surviving patromak lights onto the roof of the house made of rumbia leaves. Stand up, stay still for a moment. Before long, the fire started on the roof of the house. Chen ran deeper into the forest from the backyard. Run quickly without looking back. The roof of the abandoned house, has been engulfed in fire entirely, very quickly because the roof made of flammable rumbia leaves.

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