Marrying the Depression Master
CH-38 My General (part 2)

Ara sat down next to Jack, looking at the man whose hands were still looking for his general. Ara saw Jack's shirt that had been tattered camping and blackened because the smoke of the fire was also hollowly exposed to melt from the toy.

Both of Ara's hands held Jack's face to look at her. Their eyes meet. Jack's eyes were red, there was a puddle of tears there.

“Jack see me!” said Ara. Jack looked down again, and Ara raised her face again. Jack would bow again but Ara raised her face again.

“Jack! Hear me! Look at me!” ara said, forcing Jack to look at her.

“You must heal Jack! You must heal! Don't let anyone hurt you!” said Ara.

“My general!” muttered Jack.

“Ya Your General! You must heal to take care of your generals!” said Ara, tears came back to her cheeks.

Jack looked down at his generals in his arms. Ara was still crying over Jack's condition, it turned out that the drops of tears were not just wet on her cheeks, her body was slowly wet as drops of rain began to fall.

“Master! Rain, let's get out of here!” said Mr. Beni.

“General! General!” jack said, getting up again and his hands scavenging again a pile of toys that had begun to extinguish, looking for miniatures that he had not found, until the minitaur in his lap fell again into the paving block.

“Jack, let's go in!” invite Ara, but Jack does not pay attention, still looking for his miniature let the rain flutter his body as well as a pile of toys that slowly began to extinguish in the rain.

Ara turned to Beni. Now Mr. Benipun is raining.

“Jack!” call Ara again, but Jack ignored her, he was still looking for another miniature buried despite the increasingly heavy rain. It did not feel his wounds were hit by rainwater.

“Mistress, we'd better get in,” said Mr. Beni.

“I'll accompany Jack,” said Ara.

Mr. Benipun did not speak anymore, immediately left them.

Ara looked at Jack who was raining looking for his miniature, as well as his water that was soaked. He was surprised that Jack had no sign of the pain that Jack felt, even though his hand was injured, he just saw it hurt.

Does Jack feel pain? Or is Jack used to wounds? Why where does his mind go? Where there are people who are accustomed to injury or pain.

Suddenly he felt he was not rained anymore, when he saw it up turned out that Mr. Atam was paddling him. Mr. Beni also brought two umbrellas and patted Jack who was still scavenging in a pile of toys that had been extinguished fire exposed to rain water.

“Entai until when will Jack be like that?” mummified Ara.

Then came some people there wearing full raincoats. They help Jack find the miniature under the pile, clean the place and sort out toys that can be saved but unfortunately there are no toys intact. Even miniatures were not found intact. If there is not all burned but the body parts there are already burned and melted.

Arapun stood looking at them, it seemed like Mr. Beni who had the servants of the house help Jack find the miniature.

Long enough they collect all the miniatures, because Jack is so memorized how many miniatures he has. He did not want to leave before making sure that the miniatures had all been evacuated.

“Master, all the miniatures have been found!” said Mr. Beni, while continuing to protect Jack.

Jack stood staring at the miniature pile. Now the servants put all the broken miniatures in a clear plastic box that instantly turned black. If the toy is not rained, maybe the plastic box will melt exposed to the heat of mini melt.

“We enter Jack, you will be sick, your wounds must be treated! Your generals have been found all,” said Ara.

Jack didn't speak, as Beni lifted the white spot. Ara reached out her hand hugging Jack's arm carefully as Jack's arm had multiple burns.  Then he entered the house leaving the yard.

Mr. Beni kept the miniature box on the table in Jack's room.

“Luka Tuan let me treat,” said Mr. Beni, staring at Jack who was brought by Ara sitting in the chair in the room.

“No, let me treat it,” said Ara.

Beni looked at Ara.

“I'm sorry, I didn't take good care of Mister,” said Mr. Beni.

“No, Mr. Beni, you have done your duty well,” said Ara, staring back at Mr. Beni.

“Pak Beni, there's something I want to ask!” exclaiming Ara, approaching Mr. Beni.

Mr. Beni immediately turned his head and looked at Ara.

“Why is Jack not in pain? Is he immune to pain?” ask Ara.

“Master is used to the pain,” replied Mr. Beni, then nodded and walked out of the room and closed the door.

Ara was silent, still clueless, why was Jack used to the pain?

Ara turned to Jack who was holding the miniature box. He immediately went to the bathroom, took warm water to wash Jack's wounds.

Ara sat down next to Jack, her hand took the box from Jack's lap and it was kept on the table. Jack let him take the box with a heavy heart, he grieved his generals were charred in flames.

“You must be sad your General is on fire,” said Ara, his hand outstretched unbuttoned Jack's tattered shirt and took it off slowly. He picked up a towel and wiped the sturdy body carefully afraid of Jack's injured body part.

Ara stared at that sturdy body with many thoughts in her mind. It took many years to form the body of the seatletis. When Ara cleaned the burn, there was not the slightest grimacing reaction from the man.

“Do you really have no pain? What you did was dangerous Jack,”, said Ara. Started treating Jack's wounds and bandaging them. His chest was injured by hugging a melted miniature.

“Your injuries are quite serious Jack, forced in the meantime you can not dress, I will just cover you so you do not get cold,” said Ara, then looked at the face of the man who was unceasingly staring at the miniature box.

Ara could feel Jack's sadness. The gift from his father that he could not possibly get anymore was completely broken.

“Jack, you need to heal. Tell me, what should I do to get you well Jack? Don't let anyone hurt you! You gotta fight Jack, you gotta fight! All the keys are on you, you must have the desire and confidence to heal,” said Ara.

“Actually I'm afraid of this incident Jack. I'm afraid you're hurt, I'm afraid Mr. Beni is hurt, I'm afraid myself is hurt. No one protects me here Jack, no,” said Ara, again tears trickled down her cheeks.

“I want you to heal Jack so you can protect me, ”continue Ara, still staring at Jack.

“I wonder why your condition is getting worse. Though at that time you can talk a lot, what's wrong with you Jack?” asked Ara, tears were dripping down her cheeks.

Ara cried while looking down to hold back the cry but it turned out that her sadness was unbearable, she was crying as much as she wanted.

 Suddenly he is shocked by Jack's hand which wipes away his tears. Ara immediately raised her face looking at Jack.

“You don't want me to cut?” ask Ara. The man did not answer.

“General can't die!” jack said later, in French.

“Why are you saying that again? I don't understand,” said Ara, her hand touched Jack's cheek, she smiled, she felt more and more affectionate with Jack despite Jack's situation like this. In her heart, Ara still hopes that Jack will recover and return to normal so that they can undergo a normal marriage.

“I'm sure one day you'll recover Jack!” said Ara, trying to get excited again.

Suddenly he remembered something.

“Jack! You wait here!” exclaimed Ara, then got up from her seat and ran towards the room where the toy was stored.

When the door opened, his heart was broken again seeing that the room was completely destroyed. Bastian and his friends smashed all the glass in the room from the front door. Some people are cleaning the place. Ara closed the door again, seeing Jack again holding the box. He immediately came out of the room looking for Mr. Beni.

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