SELAQ
Episode "Doyan Medaran" (23)

SELAQ

Episode "Doyan Medaran" (24)

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The night no longer shakes. The insects have returned to the nest. The mist curtain slowly descended, accompanied by falling dew, adorning the flower buds.

Unfortunately, it was not an ordinary night.

If the knights, honor the night by ending the war. But not with souls floundering under the lust of wrathful angkara.

The war still continued at the East and North gates of Bunge village.

The cry of a human child and the desing of weapons clashed in the air. Adding to the horror of the village atmosphere covered in fog.

“Stop!” raden Mas Panji's voice boomed.

His right hand held the handle of the mace on his shoulder. The left hand is ruffled.

The Tunggak Village troops who knew the voice of the Village Chief immediately stopped the battle.

Raden Aryadi and his students went in search of the direction of the sound. Find out the owner of the voice that saved them from the bloodthirsty army. Their chests rose-drowned, sending breaths of breath.

Their position is desperate. Surrounded from all directions. The remaining disciples were around a dozen people, the rest had already lost their lives.

Fortunately, hundreds of reinforcements dressed in all-black arrived on time.

“Who ordered you to fight?!” raden Mas Panji's face was red. Pugnacious.

His hands trembled, impatiently throwing a mace at the stubborn head of his army.

“I order you guys to stand guard outside, not storm Bunge Village!” continued.

Sawung Galih came forward. Then immediately kneel before the Village Chief.

Lips smile. Eyes glazed. Thankful that the village chief survived the disaster.

“Please forgive my lord. If this war were a mistake, no one would be more to blame than me. I do not intend to defend myself and be ready to take responsibility,” Sawung Galih said at a distance of two spears from Raden Mas Panji.

“why didn't you obey my orders?” the face of Raden Mas Panji still implies wrath.

He could not believe that the highest-ranking officer in his combat force was acting beyond his command.

Sawung Galih then told me about the outbreak of war. So did the unrest of the soldiers who received news of him fainting.

“I'm very worried about Raden. It's better that I die than Raden suffers. There was no choice for me but to go against orders and deploy troops to ensure the safety of the raden. I did what I could do Raden,”.

Raden Mas Panji. His body was buffeted by the cold night wind. He turned his gaze and watched hundreds of corpses drifting in an uncertain direction.

“Tak should not have had this many fatalities,” lilihnya.

Sawung Galih's face bowed. He realized, his decision had made Raden Mas Panji disappointed.

“Raden, I was wrong. I am ready to accept the punishment,” Sawung Galih said without hesitation.

Raden Mas Panji. His mouth was tightly clenched. His eyes watched so many casualties.

“With what I can penetrate my carelessness Raden, as severe as the punishment I will carry out,” Sawung Galih said.

“Cut your tongue!”

The command that Raden Mas Panji uttered shocked all who heard. No exception, Raden Aryadi and his students.

No words were spoken from the lips of Sawung Galih. His head is still down, though,

Then ...

“Sreett!!”

Sawung Galih's right hand extended forward. On his right palm a piece of soft flesh covered in blood drooped limp. While the left hand of Sawung Galih holding a maje or knife he used to cut his tongue.

Everyone who watched was shocked.

“Sawung Galih shows his loyalty,” Raden Aryadi said.

“But why cut off the teacher's own tongue? He will be mute forever,” that disciple is hard to accept Raden Mas Panji's orders. “Why is he so cruel as to make such an order, whereas Sawung Galih has shown his loyalty?”

“Atau Raden Mas Panji didn't think Sawung Galih would actually cut his own tongue?” ask the others.

“He knows,” Raden Aryadi said.

“Maha teacher, Sawung Galih desperately fought to ensure the safety of Raden Mas Panji, but after that the defendant even ordered a tongue cut?”

Raden Aryadi did not answer.

The old man took a deep breath. Gathering energy to explain the important lessons of the events between Sawung Galih and Raden Mas Panji.

“In military doctrine, obedience is everything. Compliance trumps the language of feelings such as love, compassion, and caring,”

“Why is there such a doctrine?” catch another student again.

“Obedience is the key to running missions. Without obedience to run the command, the mission can fail,” Raden Aryadi said.

The man slowly stroked his whitened beard. Then continue his words, “In a mission, the soldier will try to be weakened at all costs by the enemy. Son, wife, lover could be taken hostage. Treasures, thrones, or ranks would be used teasing him. But a tough soldier will not change in his determination to complete the mission. The state's job is above everything else. They put aside their personal, group, and golongannya interests,”

“This tongue-cutting event will make the enemies of Tunggak Village think a thousand times, trying to invite the village officers to betray Raden Mas Panji,”

The disciples of Raden Aryadi nodded in understanding. Although their conscience remains difficult to accept and consider the order excessive.

Raden Mas Panji walked up to Sawung Galih who was still kneeling with his right hand sticking out a piece of his tongue. His breathing roared incoherently. Her chest rumbled, tight.

He grabbed the tongue piece, Sawung Galih, and ...

“Bruaaaaaak!!”

Raden Mas Panji threw a mace beside Sawung Galih. The earth is shaking violently.

He raised both his hands to the side of his chest. Then the power squad shouted towards the sky.

“Waaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”

Raden Mas Panji screeches down. Shaking heaven. To awaken the gods in the throne of luxury.

Soon after, he stepped closer to Sawung Galih. Pulling his neck violently until he stood up. Next his right hand hardened to form a circle, then with all his strength to punch the stomach and face Sawung Galih.

"Bhuuk... Bhuuk ...!!"

The military officer fell. Then rise again with a stagger. Raden Mas Panji immediately hunted down and rained down with fists with all his might.

Sawung Galih just let his body get beat up. He did not fight the Village Chief. While no other soldier dared to break up.

Until one day Raden Mas Panji's fist so severely hit the jaw of Sawung Galih. The military officer staggered and collapsed and did not dwell anymore.

Daden Mas Panji bust drowned. Following the roaring breath. His body was upright in front of Sawung Galih's body lying helplessly.

Some soldiers approached Sawung Galih. They want to lift his body.

"Surge!" hardik Raden Mas Panji's.

The soldiers abandoned the intention. They did not dare to defy his orders.

Raden Mas Panji then approached him, lifted up Sawung Galih's body, and placed it on his back.

A stream of water flows slowly. Wetting the corner of the eyes of the gigantic-statured Village Chief. Deep in the heart He holds immense pain.

"Let's go home Sawung Galih" he said.

Raden Mas Panji walked while holding Sawung Galih. Soon after, another officer followed in his footsteps through the night concentration in the forest of the Rinjani valley. Behind them the other soldiers followed regularly.

"You rest on my back. I'll take you to our village" he said.

Raden Aryadi stared at the departure of Raden Mas Panji and his troops. Not long after, the eastern gate that became the battlefield was gradually silent.

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