Niken Areline
The face hidden
Inside his house, after all the guests had left, Alan stuffed his clothes into a suitcase. He let Vivi's stuff stay in position. Even leaving her brother's room door still open. From the sofa, she could imagine Vivi still in her house. Maybe you're tidying up your clothes or walking up the stairs with a novel. Alan sat down and closed the suitcase and locked it.
“Come out,” says Alan.
Sanca's snake figure came back out from behind the wall, piercing through like a ghost.
“I know what you want,” said the snake, his tongue sticking out.
“What's your name?”
“Whose do you think?”
“Larem?”
“Yes,” snake Sanca wrapped around the sofa gracefully and looked into Alan's eyes.
“How much?”
“As much as you can.”
“Hahahaha,” Larem laughs. “I show a small part of my magic.”
Larem stared at the ceiling above them, alan following Larem's gaze. Then from the ceiling, falling pieces of money fractions of a hundred thousand with a very large amount. Alan watched the money that kept falling like leaves in the fall. However, Larem instead noticed Alan. The man was not amazed at all, probably because of the hole in his heart. Think Larem.
For fifteen minutes of money falling, the rain of money stopped. Now it was strewn with a hundred thousand coins on the floor, piled up as thick as an eye.
“I need a big suitcase.”
*
The situation in the Areyan kingdom had already begun to be conducive again. The soldiers, aided by the residents, removed posters of Niken Areline that were attached to each wall. King Darna re-occupied the throne, a happy expression implied from the ministers and other members of the kingdom. The baron is locked in a dungeon with both hands bound by Metta's stone handcuffs. The court has decided that the Baron will be hanged before all the people in two days.
Meanwhile, Niken Areline shut herself in her room. He lay sideways hugging a pillow. After Niken was brought to the palace, Jaka removed the effects of the glass ball magic. As a result, even though Niken or Alan thought of each other, they would no longer be able to be found in the Hirena tree. Niken has also been given a warning by the Tronatu court. If he used his magic to open a portal to another world, then he would be locked up for life in the Tronatu royal prison. In anticipation of that, king Darna begged Niken to wear a bracelet on his left hand made of Metta stone. With the aim that Niken can not use his magic. The bracelet was tightly bound by a key. In addition, the agreement about the curse that was in Niken's blood still applies to the future.
The princess kept crying all day. He refused to eat the food or leave the room. The maids did not stop begging princess Niken to eat. But sadness defeats everything. Some fairies were flying in the princess's room, they looked at her.
*
This morning Dimas woke up from his sleep, he was staring at a photo of Clara Gretchen at the table. The woman smiled encouragingly in the morning. Dimas sat down, then got off the bed and opened the curtains. Let the sun in and light up the entire dark side of his room. However, just as he was about to open the room door to go to the bathroom, he realized something that made him fall sitting on the floor.
His right hand has returned, the hand that has been amputated by the doctor has now returned intact in his arm. Dimas confusion, not even a single scar. He could feel and move his hands. Then he slapped his own face and felt pain, breaking his assumption that this might just be a dream. But no, that right hand has really grown again. He immediately locked the door of his room, it could have been his mother or father coming in to see the situation and Dimas difficulty to explain the things that had happened.
Dimas sat back on the bed and was still shocked to see his arm. Touch the tip of your thumb to your little finger, then say my name. Suddenly the sentence crossed his mind. Aulia, a woman who was present in her dream. Dimas.
“Aulia.”
*
“What do you want?” dimas asked until Aulia stopped in front of him.
“For now, understand your strength.”
“Explain!”
“With a Lonat dagger inside your hand, your body will have incredible speed and immunity. Besides being resilient, you can also feel the evil intentions of someone around you. And, use that keris to fight the evil magic power.”
“What does evil magic power look like? Berselasin!”
*
The day after Vivi's funeral, Julia Nada comes to Alan's house. The woman knocked on the door. Someone opened it, a middle-aged woman with a frown on her forehead, sunken eyes and hair unraveling to the side. Tone of confusion, he had never seen the woman in Alan's house before.
“Sorry mom, Alannya is there?” tanya Nada, maybe he's Alan's distant brother, he came because of Vivi's death. Inner tone.
“Mas Alannya has gone out of town mbak.”
“Hah?” Tone of confusion, even Alan has not had time to tell that he will go out of town. “Where is ma'am? How did you not know me, huh?”
“Jakarta, Alan asked mom to leave to take care of this house while he was in Jakarta,” he replied while holding the door. “Whose mom is it?”
“I metemennya ma'am,” replied Nada, the look on his face is still confused, maybe also a little upset. Then he took his phone and made a call to Alan via Whatsaap.
*
Alan buys a 55th floor apartment in the South Jakarta area, he leaves his old house and pays his neighbors to take care of his old house. Now, Alan's appearance had completely changed. Alan diligently trained his body with some Gym equipment that he bought. The muscles in his body were completely formed. Her hair was always straight back. Every day for this month, Alan ignored incoming calls from Julia Nada. However, he was always hesitant and had a sense of guilt when ignoring the call. Often Alan stared at the call for a long time, distracting him, but he refused to pick it up. It might feel like closing the door to a little cat on a cold night, letting it fall asleep on the doormat.
*
At night, Alan stood on the balcony of his apartment. Downing a bottle of beer while holding onto the fence and seeing the sparkling lights of the metropolis. It turned out that things had not changed, her heart still weeping over the loss of Vivi. The pain deepened when he was away from home. When she sees something that reminds her of the only person she loves. For example, when watching TV, no one has to master the remote like Vivi. Or knock on the door to wake her up in the morning.
“Do you want to do it now?” Larem asked from behind, the snake was coiling in Walnut's lounge chair. He asked about Alan's plan to get into Cana. Larem was obviously enthusiastic to hear that, even Larem would use his magic to protect Alan from the effects of reducing by half the remaining lifespan of someone who, crossing another world, would be a real threat.
Alan gulped back his beer bottle, he finished one 800cc bottle. Throwing the glass bottle down then turned to look at Larem and said.
“Ya,” Alan has been crying profusely.