MYFATHER
Episode 36's
”Many women as you describe in this place. Then I'm sure now that you did see it wrong..”.
Jarwo frowned not to accept, ”But I would not mistakenly recognize the woman with her neck flaming red.”
Hearing this Wayan straightened the body, ”Red lit how do you mean?”
”In the middle of his neck is a red circular stroke. Almost as red as fire, if I hadn't seen her before getting drunk maybe I would have mistaken her for a necklace.”
”So? Then how do you make sure that the circle is on the other woman that night?”
”Kan told you it's the same woman. She wears the same outfit with the same neck mark,” Jarwo insisted. ”Indeed that night I was going to bedeng to pick up three more bottles of whiskey as a guard friend. There the woman slumped in front of the morgue door. He was making sure that no one was around. In fact it is not..with that hour last night and gossip stories about ghosts or corpses and such.
”Unless a drunkard needs to pass by there to pick up whiskey, which is his energy source,” Wayan satin.
“I don't know what he was doing there but he was so relaxed.”
”You keep an eye on him?”
”Only until when he entered the room..” replied Jarwo.”. I guess because..maybe I couldn't bear to chug that whiskey and was too drunk when I got out of bedeng to return to the guard post.”
”So you didn't see what that woman did?” tanya was half disappointed
”No. It's none of my business anyway, right?” jarwo replied in a shitty style. ”I am a hygiene volunteer! What he did was not my responsibility! But if I see her again, I can confirm her face.”
This is what Wayan is waiting for. Handed over a photo he had saved earlier behind a jacket, Jarwo noticed for a moment before exclaiming loudly, “Yeah, this is the guy. How did you get the photo?”
“I told you I have suspicions. Your story just reinforces my guess.”
”Then who is he? Some kind of crazy maniac or there are cannibals in this region?”
”Nobody! And I don't need to share this information with you because it's still under police investigation,” Wayan boasted.
”Well, right. I've guessed you're a cop,” Jarwo patted his thigh with a satisfied face, as if proud not to play because his guess was right.
”Which I want to know if he's with someone?” ask Wayan.
”No. She's alone.”
”Then how can the woman carry the dead man alone?” tanya Wayan
Jarwo was silent for a moment. The answer that came out of his mouth sounded so soft, ”He didn't bring it. The body flew.”
”Fly?” doctor Assegaf was wide-eyed to hear that.
”Initial I guess I saw it wrong. Too drunk. Thought it was an owl coming out of the morgue window. But come to think of it, the shape is too big for a bird, after all the figure does not flap its wings. It was as if he was floating in the air and going somewhere.”
”You had time to observe the direction of the departure?”
Jarwo thought for a while, ”Northwest.”
”Thank you.”
”What do I get after telling you all this?” Jarwo frowned.
”Coffee and bread are enough in return. Counting so that you do not get drunk today,” Wayan responded before leaving Jarwo with doctor Assegaf.
The doctor asked Wayan a few moments after they were in another room, ”Then you already have a guess who this one is?”
”About that..”
”Who is he?”
”The girlfriend of a friend in the office.”
”You know the case of the disappearance of an American baby girl named Stella?”
”Stella Felds..ya, of course..the couple is here to seek first aid.”.
”Which at their son's mourning mass, Seto came there. He had met my friend who was dating this girl and missteps because Seto gave a warning that he did not heed. Instead, that person might have accidentally told Seto's identity to the kuyang.”
”Is your friend that..maybe he will be a sower?”
”Kurasa. But I think he's just taking the first step. Their relationship is not very familiar. But I'm sure that it was me who chose it. And at a stage too early that Seto came to intervene.”
”Can I imagine, surely the girl does not like it.”
”Very dislike. Maybe Seto also had a chance to say something that made my friend wonder. That Kuyang certainly did not want his movements narrowed by suspicion.”
”For that he quickly silenced Seto. There's a chance the young man is looking for him.”
”Persis. And beat an experienced person like Seto need to use high technique.”
”Yang means breaking the limits of killing a living human other than his victim.”
“For that Seto must be a victim, so the meal in other words. Though as we know, I do not eat adult humans.”
”If you already know the culprit is certainly easy to trace it, dong?”
”It's not that easy. I still don't know where she lives.”
”You think he'll just leave his address?”
”Actually I'm not sure but there is one possible place for it.”
”Where is it?”
”File personnel KPC.”
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Rockets sniffed about through the lush bushes and throngs of wildflowers while Wayan squinted against the sunlight that seeped between the leaves of the trees forming a kind of natural roof as high as a five-story building, forming an extraordinarily beautiful yellowish-white light curtain. Unfortunately that is not what attracts the two different types of creatures at this time, they are hunting the creature...
Kuyang usually hid their identity well, therefore knowing that Mirna was a kuyang at the first meeting was something of an accident. It happened during an incident at Ca’Soleh restaurant. When the rocket, his dog tackles, catches Mirna. Rockets lived with Wayan since childhood, during which he often smelled the smell of kuyang combated by his employer and also hated him, with his sense of smell he often helped Wayan find the smell of human adherents. And that was what he got from Mirna, who was eating with Yudi.
He had seen the girl several times in his office. Wayan smelled the foul intention of the kuyang, whether he was crazy or too innocent, the kuyang seemed to choose KPC as a place to look for victims. The victim he meant, was senajo or the victim of the mother of conception, because many men who work in KPC which of course can be chosen easily.
In accordance with the cycle of his marriage, the kuyang must give birth to the next generation to pass on his strength and extend the life of his knowledge. If not, my followers will be consumed by their own knowledge. And Mirna is very smart to choose Yudi, an employee who is still relatively new and does not know anything about my myth, which is, and maybe also not too dizzy with local wisdom because modern youth seems to believe about ghosts and supernatural creatures. Something that sounds like a stupid story....
Hayan did not like the young man. A pretentious young man who feels himself smart and can manage everything just because he tastes good education and comes from the capital. It was very sad, in his opinion, but even if he did not like it, he could not let the monster kill Yudi. Like the praying mantis, I kill my partner after mating. They will also kill the child if they find the child is a boy. Which is maintained by my bloodline which is only a female gender so that they can be successors to their knowledge.
And the kuyang moves very fast, like a spider cages its prey, he shackles Yudi with romance that makes him drunk kepayang, which ends with sleeping together in the mess room Yudi, Yudi, made her late to the airport and kidnapped her until she went missing for three months.
I don't know what happened to that young man. Three months is not a short time. And when it comes to dealing with me, that young man is definitely dead. The only clue he had was just this personnel form which, it felt ridiculous to imagine that the kuyang wrote down the address of his residence on the employee form.
Kuyang was a shadowy citizen who could casually appear and disappear. They never feel the need to be bothered about the certificate of self but this one I...and that ego is what makes Wayan can get a lot of information about Mirna in the company's personnel form, such as the address written in full and KTP. Wayan laughed in his heart, how can this one of me have ID?
And he finally followed the address listed there, the only clue he could get, the village of Nganjalu. It makes sense, because the village was adjacent to the place where Seto disappeared. His best friend must have followed the tracer thread they left behind last time in the Rawen forest while following kuyang, and one of the villages that bordered with Rawen was Nganjalu located in the east.
Before searching Nganjalu, Wayan took the time to go to the location where Seto was killed. A place overgrown with pine trees with blackish stems that have been roasted by the sun for hundreds of years and are still covered in police yellow ribbons. Expect to find something that escapes the attention of police or journalists.
Honey, the time between the murder and her presence there has been so long that she has found nothing strange. Blood may have dried up, broken branches may have replaced new ones, fallen leaves have stood back in the freshness of the dew, the former footprints of the panther or its claws may have been wiped away by dust, and whatever may be a silent witness of Seto's struggle with the demon has been kept tightly in the arms of the authoritative forest.
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