The After 150
Together again (2)
“Kakanda, open the door. Please forgive me, my body moves by itself, I can not do anything.” Sahut Alex who keeps knocking on the door of the room rara.
The moment was still vividly remembered in Rara's mind, as she witnessed firsthand how a predator tore apart its prey, as splashes of blood stained her face, and how at the end of his one-on-one person he could trust in the palace killed his one-on-one last hope rara of Kakuro.
As the sword pierced through Karsa's body, Rara was faced with a sharp sword blade covered in blood. Rara looked at the suffering face of Karsa and immediately came out a blood clot from her mouth.
In her final moments, Karsa smiles in front of Rara with blood still dripping from her mouth and falls on Rara's lap.
Seeing Karsa fall on her lap, Rara's mind is shattered. Everything was mixed and Rara cried hysterically, she cried, she laughed, uncontrollable emotions overpowered Rara.
Alex quickly removes Karsa's corpse and hugs Rara tightly. That moment became the biggest regret of his life, he was not aware of what he was doing, the pressure to protect his brother seemed to push himself to move without thinking long.
“Kakanda, what should I do. please forgive me.”.
“Go there !!” Reply with screams
Hearing the loud repulsion of his older brother Alex was speechless, he gloomily stopped knocking on the door and left the room.
It has been 2 weeks since the palace was shaken by revolutionaries and black cults. At the end of the event, Alex and Gaust managed to wipe out the intruders in the palace along with the royal special forces.
The leader of the Black Cult was conquered that day and fortunately the king along with other members of the royal family was sure to survive the shocking incident.
However, even though the conditions in the palace had improved the crisis that befell the kingdom had not ended. The more days of crisis that befell Purva the worse.
Unrelenting earthquakes shook Purva, destroying much of the countryside and agricultural fields. In addition, the famine in the Purva peninsula also continued to increase over time.
In the midst of this chaos as the people kept asking the king only replied.
“This crisis is coming to an end, I will vouch for it, and until that day comes we must be patient and persevere, the almighty will surely save us all!!” Call the king in his speech to thousands of people.
While the palace family tries their best to maintain the royal condition, Rara simply shuts herself in the room. For days he did not come out of the room and no one could enter his room.
“I can't take it anymore.. what it means..”.
Rara grasped a knife in her hand and stared at her with a trembling body. His mind was crazy, from the beginning in kakuro he did not expect that in the end he would be in the condition he is now.
Countless efforts made by Rara to end his life but, in the end, he never did. Every time he tried in the end he would keep shouting and throw the knife away.
Alex who sometimes heard the screams could only fall silent regretting his actions, the figure of brother he once had now lost his mind.
One day Rara realized something, when she was carried away to the basement she saw many people in confinement. However, among those people was one who looked familiar, feeling as if he had seen that figure somewhere.
“Kakanda... I brought you food, I just put it in front of the door as usual.”
Just as Alex was about to take the food he had put down earlier, the plate looked as if it was not touched by Rara at all. With a heavy heart, Alex replaces cold food with warmer ones and leaves quickly.
“Kakanda must eat in order to feel better, and also... does anyone need anything?? …” Alex stopped for a moment in front of his sister's room door waiting for an answer, and just as he was about to leave was the sound of his brother.
“Alex, do you know.. where our mother is..” Call slowly from behind the door.
Alex thought he was always ready to listen to his older brother and give him answers, but hearing his older brother's long unheard questions, Alex paused and thought.
“What is Alex? You must know something, right? I saw someone who looked familiar in the basement, you must know something about that, right? Am I wrong Alex?”
“Yes I know one or more things about that sister, then what do you want about that, what do you want to know.”
“Then take me to the basement…
“Rubanah? Now?”
After a long time the door to the princess's room finally slowly opened, in an instant alex watched the rara that he had not seen for a long time and immediately turned his body.
“How? Do you mind alex?”
“Kakanda, after a long time not out of the room the first place you want to visit is rubanah.”
“Yes right, is there something wrong with that? that's the only place I want to visit right now.”
Alex took a deep breath and was forced to grant his brother's request.
Alex takes Rara to the basement on demand. Along the hallway of the palace, people's eyes were diverted to Rara who had been very long unseen, her beautiful and graceful Paras had not changed at all since people began to worry about her.
Arriving in the rubble Alex and Rara were greeted by guards and they walked around the ridge with the direction of the guard.
At that place Rara witnessed many prisoners and also the place where Karsa fell on her lap.
The prisoners locked up here have broken the highest and toughest laws in the kingdom, once they're locked up there will be no one to save them.
“They will continue here until the end of their lives?”
Hearing Rara's question the guard took a deep breath and heavily replied.
“More precisely, as a punishment their bones will remain here until they become dust.”
After a while walking, Rara stopped in front of a cell, she saw the prisoner in the cell and it turned out to be similar to the prisoner she suspected before. The prisoner's figure seemed familiar in Rara's memory as if his silhouette had ever been seen.
Rara looked at the guard with a face shrouded in curiosity and teary eyes.
“Who is in this cell? Who is this prisoner?”
“Yang noble princess... prisoner who is in this cell is-”.
“Guard, open his cell.. let him make sure himself.” Alex answered, interrupting the guard
In a hurry, the guard checked the key in his pocket and immediately opened the cell door, once the door was open and entered and immediately approached the prisoner.
As Rara opened the veil that covered almost the entire face of the prisoner she was surprised to see the hidden face. Instantly his whole body trembled and his mind was dizzy. As soon as the prisoner noticed Rara, he stroked her face slowly and then smiled subtly.
“You Very beautiful girl yes..” Call that prisoner.
“A... I... Do I know you?”
Rara immediately realized, the prisoner's face looks very similar to the face he sees every day in the mirror.
“Kakanda... The woman is..”.
“Why Alex, what has he done? Why would the king do this?”
“The queen was detained on charges of being involved with the princess's theft case years ago.” Answer the guard
“Daughter theft? Is that me?” Once again asked Rara while looking at alex and the guard who lowered his head.
“You are right, noble princess, doing that act is the same as defying a god, therefore by order of the supreme leader of the religious senate, the queen is given a sentence of rubanah.”
“Alex, do you and also the king.. Daddy accept this? You guys accept this?” Rara asked as she pushed Alex down.
“Indeed the broken world we live in today, therefore when I become king I will change everything..
The disgust filled Rara made her immediately leave the cell leaving Alex, she went alone from the basement back to her room and once again locked the door.
Inside her room Rara was lying limp on the mattress lamenting the ceiling while thinking about everything that had happened, she saw a knife lying on the carpet and then picked it up.
As he lamented the shiny blade of the blade the teardrop fell soaking down the blade, he then put the blade down and cried on the mattress.
He had completely given up, he thought that there should be no more reason for him, it was already unanimous choice to actually leave in order to be able to return with the others far away.
Unknowingly Rara fell asleep in her tears, once she reopened her eyes all she saw was a night sky decorated with thousands of shining stars and crescent moons, in front of him was a huge, shiny lake reflecting the light of the sky.
There was the sound of footsteps on the side and when he turned his head he could not believe what he saw. Previously he thought in this world there was no one else he could trust, there were no more people left in his past.
But he was wrong, he forgot someone who was very valuable to him.
“You are Dirgantara Aksa Colored.”.
“You are Asmaraloka Kirana.”.
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