Sapphire City's
Chapter 21: Motivation
Gin's funeral has been completed, more precisely the last homage ceremony. Gin's body was not buried in the ground. After being cleaned the body is put into a coffin and then stored in a special room of the body, there every front line or members of the dead are collected which will be handed over to the family when it is over. The family will never know about the original death of the front line member or the organization who died, because from the beginning they received his body, they only know that Gin died in an accident, not only the family but the relatives and people they know will also think that way, unless the members of the organization know the truth, all of it has been designed from the beginning.
During the funeral, Yuda notices Rizky. The younger brother of Gin, he never left the coffin of the older brother. He kept her company, feeling no fatigue whatsoever in his gray, sorrowful face. They were two brothers who were both chosen at the same time together but separated at unexpected times.
“abang, sorry” Rizky keeps wiping her brother's coffin “maaf bang, I shouldn't let my guard down, sorry”
Rizky constantly blames herself for the death of her brother. Judah so think, how the position of an operator, they are not like the Front line that plunges directly, but their burden is also very large they must continue to monitor the condition and situation when the mission. Moreover, they are also responsible for the safety of the front line itself.
Senny suddenly approached Rizky “already Rizky already, you do not blame yourself too much”
“but it's all my fault sen” Rizky bowed his head beside the coffin of the Corpse.
Yuda ventured to get to Rizky, but he also became concerned about Gin's death, as the young man died trying to protect him. Although there is a possibility that Rizky will blame him but Yuda does not want to hide or run like a coward.
“Rizky” call Yuda.
Rizky and Senny both glanced at Yuda.
“sorry, honestly the one to blame is me, I was the one who was off guard back then, forgive me”
Judah saw Rizky's reaction to him, the young man initially bowed his head while throwing his face, for a long time he was silent, but there was no emotion in Rizky just sadness. But Judah's heart skipped a beat in Rizky's reaction to him whether he would receive anger or rage or be reviled. But then Rizky stood up he faced Yuda, his red eyes showing how much he lost his big brother to him.
“to be honest I want to blame you” said Rizky as he clenched his hand “but I remember saying brother” right hand Rizky wiped the tears that came out of his eyes “abang he tried protecting you, from the first brother never regretted all his actions during here, brother he always tried hard so that his family was safe. You are not wrong Yud”
Yuda thought he would receive anger from Rizky, but he didn't. It was as if Rizky wanted to endure it all alone, not as an operator but as a younger brother.
After Gin's funeral, Rizky was given 3 days off. It was a decision from Verdic the chairman. A sister who has just lost her brother needs time to calm down until she is ready to return for duty. So that Rizky's position as a senior operator was forced to be replaced by others, but Verdic himself does not want to force Rizky back to duty because it all depends on the condition of Rizky itself whether ready again for duty or not.
Judah was alone in the canton, sitting alone in one of the chairs, but two days had passed since Gin's death, but there was no sense of encouragement from him, he did know since he chose to be the Front line there would be risks that must be taken, one of which is life. Now he had already seen with both his own eyes the death from choosing the front line. It's really a big risk. It was not just him who lacked the zeal for the mission. Andy also since Gin's funeral he kept in the room and didn't leave. Luca is in the treatment room because he was injured.
Whatever he was thinking now, whether it was the fear of death or the fear of seeing someone he knew die in front of his eyes. All that fear seemed to make his heart become empty and empty without purpose. Doubt enveloped him, as if he was unable to become a front line. But if he backed off was it the right choice.
A glass of water was placed on the front desk of Judah. Though he did not order anything dikantin and only intended to sit around. He glanced sideways, there was someone standing right beside him. Mirna's. The girl just stood still without saying and there was no expression on her face.
“sorry, I have no intention to drink”
“what are you doing here alone?” Ask Mirna.
“just want to go alone” replied Yuda.
“what do you think of Gin's death?” Guess Mirna.
Mirna's guess is right, Yuda can't dodge the girl's speech “why can you know?”
“what you feel must be felt by everyone, no matter who. Especially fear, everyone must have it”
“you yourself how, are you afraid of death?” Ask Yuda.
“i'm more afraid of loss than death”
Mirna's reply made Judah surprised, the people who joined her first must be afraid of their own death. but Mirna rather than fearing death she was more afraid of losing her friends. Yuda was afraid of his own death.
“I want Defense mission, you want to come?”
“how I refused deh”
But the look on Mirna's face did not show any taste.
“sorry I forced come”
Suddenly Mirna pulled Yuda's back shirt forcibly
“hei,hei why play Pull-pull everything. I'm already nolak”
Mirna did not respond to protests from Yuda and continued to attract the young man to come with her. In the end, Yuda gives up and goes with Mirna for the Defense mission.
Yuda and Mirna arrive at the entrance of ITB campus. The atmosphere of the front road of the campus as usual crowded by students coming in and out of the campus, there are also some students who are eating at street vendors near the campus. But the crowd is only a statue of man with a sea of silence. But behind the sea of silence there is a blue light sapphire felt from two places. One from the campus and the other from the front side of the campus. The light is guilty from the front mosque complex.
In addition, the more here Yuda always felt the impression of Horror every time he visited a place full of human stone statues. Not only a stone statue that makes horror but the silence that almost makes every feather kudut everyone must stand. Moreover, the look on the face of each stone statue is engraved very clearly, for example the eyes, eyes on the stone statue like to move to follow anyone who passed the stone statue person.
On the side of the sidewalk near the campus were people hanging out with several herds of horses that had become stone statues. Yuda just remembered that the ITB campus is close to the zoo so it is not uncommon that this road is also an area where tourists ride horses. There is a horse rental here.
Mirna suddenly walks ahead of Yuda to the entrance of the ITB motorcycle parking lot. Judah who did not want to be left immediately followed Mirna. But somehow the effect here is just the two of them, no other Front line members here.
` “by the way why is the mission here?” Ask Yuda.
Mirna did not answer Yuda's question and remained focused ahead.
But suddenly Mirna's steps stopped just like that. Making Yuda confused by the girl who had been silent and did not care about the question from Judah, decided to stop his steps?. Yuda had thought about whether there was matis that appeared here so Mirna stopped her steps. But Mirna did not take out her weapon at all, leaving Judah even more confused.
“See that” says Mirna.
Mirna asked Yuda to look at the road. An entrance to the mosque complex. But Mirna did not point towards the compound she rather pointed towards the human statue that had just come out from there. Judah's eyes turned to look at what Mirna had just pointed at. His sense of emotion made him run hastily there. If only the world was normal, perhaps Yuda's actions would be very harmful to road users.
Judah's chest was like being made short of breath, he did know that sooner or later he would see this scene, but looking at it directly made his chest feel extremely smashed into pieces. But he has to be ready to face the reality of what he sees. Andre and his best friend Sela are turned into stone statues. They both stood in front of Judah. Although it had become a stone statue but the laughter of the two of them did not fade in the slightest.
Yuda wanted to scream, yelled loudly, he wanted to free his friends from the stone cage. Even if their statue is destroyed it will not change the reality.
“when did you find them?” Ask Yuda.
“when the trip home from the last mission” replied Mirna.
“why do you want to show this to me?” Again asked Judah, the kapala bowed with a sense of warning and sorrow.
“you think, if you see them both, what do you want?”
What do you want?, Mirna's words made Judah think. Yuda's heart suddenly moved. What he wanted as long as he participated in the battle was not for his own safety but at least to protect his friends, making his friends free from the shackles of the stone prison. Seeing what was in front was enough to make him realize what he had been taking up arms for, what he had been fighting for and at least made him realize what he had been advancing for.
“thank Mirna” says Yuda.
“I don't do anything” replied Mirna.
“but at least I want to thank you”
A small smile etched from Mirna's face, the cold girl who had almost no emotion turned out to be able to smile. However, Yuda is very grateful to the girl because thanks to her, Judah is able to come to his senses.[]