
Sapta was silent to hear the question from Nadhira, he did not know for sure who did it, but from the dream he got made him believe that the dream happened because of the power of Prince Kian who told him to stop the grudge.
"The culprit is Sena, who killed Aji to try to pit the two. She's the same age as Aryabima but she uses black magic to look young, she's a cunning woman" Sapta explained.
"Why did he do that? What's the purpose of doing that? Who exactly is Sena?"
"The children of Galih and Abiyoga are his greatest enemies, he has a jewel that is able to make him look young and the jewel is very dangerous because it is able to make someone lose his identity. Both wanted to destroy the jewel, so the only way he had to pit the two of them was to make it easier for him to defeat both."
Sena was known to be ugly in a village a long time ago, even because her face full of acne made her excommunicated in the village. Until one day he found a jewel that makes him look beautiful and youthful, the jewel contains evil power so that it can change the way of his mind.
Sena is blinded by the ambition to become the most beautiful woman in the world using the gem, making her forget who her God is and how to humanize man.
"Until one day, he gets a prophecy about someone who will be his opponent, it's you, Dhira. You are the one who is destined to possess the devil's jewel, and you are also the descendant of Nyai Ratih."
"If you knew I was the one who was destined to have the devil's jewel, then why did Sena just put it inside my body?"
"It's a game of fate. During this time only the first offspring can have heirloom objects from their ancestors, but different from you who can have them even though they are not the first descendants, Dhira. Sena thinks that with that she will easily control you, but in fact she is wrong because Rifki always protects you. He is even willing to endure the pain that is so intense just for your sake, you yourself will not know how the pain he has been enduring all this time,"
An instant pain arose in Nadhira's heart upon hearing that Rifki had sacrificed so much for her, the love Rifki had for Nadhira was so great that she was willing to do anything for Nadhira. Even Nadhira himself did not know about it, and only now does he know it.
"What did you say?" Ask Nadhira.
"When you were a kid, didn't you always feel sick from Sena? Rifki always makes you better, doesn't it? Because he has transferred the pain you feel into his own body, without thinking long of his life."
Nadhira's tears just trickled down, not even himself knowing about it before. Nadhira regretted it was too late to know, had it not been for Rifki by his side he might not have been able to survive until this second, and God had sent a figure like Rifki in his life.
"Sena killed my mother when I was just born, and I don't know what my mother's face was. With his cruelty he did that to my mother, until one day there was a good person who exchanged the baby with me, so that Sena did not know where I was. If the one who was born was a daughter then she would have survived from Sena, but if the one who was born was a man then Sena would have killed her."
*Flash back on*
In a hut there was the cry of a woman who was about to give birth to her child, the woman groaned in pain with her hand held tightly to her husband. The baby shaman who helped her to give birth was very panicked because the blood came out quite a lot from the norm, until some time later a boy was born who was called by the name Sapta.
The tiny baby was born safely, and even his mother survived in good condition. The family was so happy and happy at the arrival of the little angel they were waiting for, because the baby was the first child and the fruit of love from both.
The day after the birth of the child, Dwija went from home to deliver a baby shaman who had helped her to help with the birth of her child. Rifa herself was sleeping next to the baby who had been finished by his father, the baby was crying and writhing asking to drink because of thirst.
Rifa opened her eyes and tried to get out of her sleep. Rifa looked at the face of the boy she had just born, her cute face made her smile brightly without caring about the pain after she finished giving birth.
"Mother's son why cry? Thirsty huh?" Rifa asked the baby and lifted the baby into her cradle. "Drink a lot, son. Until you're full,"
In the middle of that, suddenly appeared a woman who was none other than Sena before Rifa. Rifa was surprised by his appearance because suddenly, Rifa herself did not recognize who the woman before her was.
"Who are you?" Rifa asked as she slashed one eye at the woman in front of her.
"I'm your husband's future wife,"
Deg
Rifa was so shocked to hear how her husband was cheating on her with the woman in front of him. She had just struggled to risk her life to give birth to her child, making her very shocked when she heard that the woman in front of her was the future wife of her husband.
"Mas Dwija couldn't possibly have cheated on me, you lied about it!" The woman was hysterical.
"We'll get married soon after I'm done killing you."
"You can't do that!"
There was an incident where Rifa tried to save herself from Sena, until Rifa was killed when a knife pierced her heart. Fortunately, the knife did not hit the baby in his carrier until the baby survived.
Rifa's body was shaken to the ground, but her hands were still tightly hugging the baby in her sling. Sena took the baby and intended to kill him, but stopped his actions when he found out that the baby had a pair of earrings attached to his earrings.
"Why are women born? Doesn't the prophecy say that the one born is a man?"
When Rifa was asleep there was a woman who had changed the baby, the baby boy was taken away by her and she exchanged with the baby who was also just finished herself. He had to do that to keep the baby boy safe, even though he had to sacrifice his son because of a big thing he had to prevent.
Sena is targeting Sapta because Sapta is a descendant of both Prince Kian and Nyai Ratih, which means he has the power of a xingsi heirloom kris as well as a demon jewel. Only have the power and not the real owner, but the child in the trunk is currently a daughter and not a man.
The woman suddenly became hysterical when she felt the arrival of someone in the room, Dwija herself who had just returned home was very surprised to find out that his wife was dead. Dwija immediately approached him and hugged Rifa's body tightly, and she stared in anger at Sena.
"You killed my wife, didn't you?" Asked Dwija furiously.
"No. There was a robber who came here, your wife immediately screamed for help and I came here and found that the condition was like this, she left her son to me."
Sena made up a story afterwards, he said as if the incident was true because there also looks the goods in the house scattered and messy.
Somehow, Dwija immediately believed it just like that, Dwija seemed to be hypnotized from Sena so that the man seemed to be losing his identity. Until a few months later they were married and the three lived together until where Rendi was.
*Flash back off*
Sapta shook his head, "The two have no blood relation, which means Manda is not a child of Sena. Until now Sena has not had children, while Amanda is the son of the woman who helped me, but it is very unfortunate because the woman has died. Dhira, don't hate Manda?"
"Sapta, I have absolutely no hatred for Manda. She's even considered my own little sister, even without being asked, you don't have to worry about that."
Sapta was happy to hear it, although in his heart implied a sadness when he lost the people he loved. He vividly remembered the story told by his adoptive mother, the woman did so not without reason, there is a secret that requires him to do so.
Sapta was the son of Dwija and Rifa, while Dwija was the son of Abila and Hamzah. Abila herself was the son of Abitama who was the biological brother of Abiyoga, both of whom were separated brothers since they were born.
Abiyoga wanted to tell Chandra about his long lost twin, but he had not yet had time to tell it but God had taken his life first. Until now, neither Aryabima nor Chandra knew anything about Abiyoga's brother.
"Dhira, I want to tell you something I've experienced. But listen to me,"
"What do you mean by that?"
"Then my father was hit by the explosion at the cave, and the death of Amanda's birth mother. Anhar, a descendant of Galih has adopted me as his adopted son, I was raised by him until this very moment. They were very kind to me even though I was just their adopted son, they loved me like their own son. Actually they are not evil, just because the revenge of the past makes them lose their identity. I love them so much, and I'm sure you'll help me to let them live. We're just as likely to settle this grudge, if only one side walks then there's only hope, but if both sides walk then both can be reconciled."
"I know how you feel, Sapta. And I've also lost a child, to let it go it's not easy, it hurts a lot if a mother has to lose her child. Forgiving them is a very difficult thing for me,"
"Dhira I know, you and Rifki must have been really hurt back then. But please, don't hurt my family, they're not completely wrong in this, they're just pitted against sheep by Sena. I beg you, forgive them."
"Are my apologies able to bring back my son's life? Take back Grandpa Arya's life? Take back Oma Sarah's life? Theo's life? Or even the others? That can't happen, can it, Sapta?"
Nadhira's tears were getting louder and he immediately held his chest that felt pain, he did not expect that the man in front of him was defending the person who had killed the person closest to him. He had lost so much to someone he cared about, that it was very difficult to forgive the culprit who had killed them.
"I'm sorry I couldn't bring everything back, Dhira. But with an apology, we can prevent this hostility,"
"I'll think about it, but not now."
Sapta himself knew that it would not be easily accepted by Nadhira at this time, let alone that the woman had sustained such severe injuries all this time. It may be true that he still needs time to do so, and will not be able to easily forgive the person who hurt him so badly.
"As her guarantee, I'll try to find Aunt Lia."
"What do you mean?"
"Tante Lia is alive, Dhira. But she's somewhere else, unknown to others, I'll try to find her as long as you're willing to forgive my adoptive family."
Degs...
Nadhira is very surprised by what Sapta says that Lia is still alive, for years he sought the existence of Lia but never found all this time. The person who had missed him was still alive, Nadhira did not know why his mother until this moment did not return to him.
"What do you mean?" Ask Nadhira.
"It's true Aunt Lia is alive, Dhira. But he's far away from all of you, I'll try to find him,"
"Mama is really alive? You didn't lie about this? Mama's still alive, isn't she? Sapta, don't lie to me about Mama. I don't like being lied to just for your ambition,"
"I'm not lying to you, Dhira. Aunt Lia is still alive, and only my father knows where she is,"
"Pak Dwija once told me that she didn't manage to find Mama, and she said that Mama was gone in an accident that time."
"Dad didn't say it because he was detained by Sena at the time, Dhira. Before Dad was arrested he told me everything even though I didn't really understand it, I could hardly accept that he was my parents because I met him when I was that big. Then he said something to my mother, I don't understand what happened back then, but slowly he explained everything to me before I was adopted into the Galih family."
"You didn't lie to me, did you?" Implied a sense of happiness on Nadhira's day when he knew that his mother was still alive in this world.
"Why doesn't Mama want to come back?"
"There may be a reason, Dhira. I'll look for him, but if I don't come back you don't have to look for me,"
"What do you mean?"
"I brought you here so that no one would hear our conversation, if I didn't come back I might have been killed by them,"
"Who do you mean?"
"He's..."
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