The Lost Of Ramadan
Thalib the Musafir Part 2

The boisterous sounds of children playing as well as the parents speaking were heard echoing in a room, the children ran in and out and passed by the maidservants and also the parents who sat in the available seats.

At that time it seemed limp was not excited for Akira who was holding three bowls of porridge, in front of him there were two grandfathers and one grandmother who was chewing her food.

“Why are you! do I have to tell you again to bribe me!” yelled grandpa in white in the middle.

“A’ahh ..” Akira answered while bribing him, while the grandfather next to the mangosteen.

“Sorry-Sorry,” said Akira with an uninspired face.

“Already do not continue to shout at him so, look at him so scared,” said grandma on his left.

“Hahh ..?!” said Grandpa in the middle.

“I told you not to yell at him!” the grandmother shouted in defense, but it made Akira change the look of his face because of shock and sunging.

“This boy like him should indeed be treated like that for him to quickly mature!” replied the grandfather in the middle loudly while the grandfather next to the beard.

“You guys, can't you see his face, he's still an innocent kid, don't milk him so!” the grandmother continued to defend.

Starting from that the three old men continued to argue before Akira. “Yeah, I thought this would be easy, it turns out that being in this place is not what I imagined, if you know so this way I will force to be with Ayumi rather than with Shiro,” he said inwardly recalling their plans in the beginning.

The flashback

“Yosh .. thanks to Akira we know where to go, namely to the shelter of parents in our village,” said Chio after finishing drawing the building and circling it on the map that Akira drew on the board.

“In our village there are two buildings that are deliberately made to accommodate parents who already have no family, they are very well cared for by residents who work on the company of village elders. This place is also now used to leave the children who are left behind by their parents to work, but also sometimes the village children like to play there just to ask for food provided, but also sometimes the village children like to play there just to ask for food provided,” said Chio explained while pointing to pictures of buildings that he circled across each other.

“Oh .. it's like Nursing Home,” exciting Akira.

“Yah .. maybe that's the name in your world. Well because the ceremony yesterday you did not come to follow and the punishment that has been set by the village elders now is to devote to all the village elders, namely by working for 5 days in that place. So we'll split the two groups. According to what Shiro asked, Ayumi and I will come to our building and you will both go to the area. No problem Shiro? all I know is that you've been around a lot in the area with your father while working,” Chio continued.

“Cih ... well I will approve it,” Shiro replied still looking lazy.

“You sure bro let Ayumi along with Chio alone?”

“Cih .. he is not someone who is interested in women, so I do not need to worry about it,” Shiro replied with a sly smile.

“How many times have I told you that I'm not like that! I'm just as lazy to play around with women as you often do!” chio shouted furiously and was annoyed that Shiro always mocked him so.

Shiro does not listen and whispers with Akira. “You should immediately find a lover in this village, otherwise you can be near him,” he whispered.

“Shiro!”

“Chio, emm .. I thought our friendship was here, I hope you can find a boy friend who can understand your feelings, ” said Akira teary-eyed and smiled at him.

“Akira ..!”

“Aha ha .. Never mind, don't do it so, we better get going now. Because this will be a long and tiring time,” said Ayumi immediately made them all bowed lethargic and lazy.

In contrast to Akira, he was actually surprised by their lackluster behavior. “Loh this is only five days, as a young man like us, of course it is an obligation for us to serve parents, as a young man, and again as a young man like us of course this will be very easy?” said Akira who looks excited, but it makes them more downcast as if telling Akira that he still does not know anything.

The flashback

“Huhh .. geez,” Akira said accompanied by the voices of the three parents who were still arguing.

“Bro ... Are you really sure you let Chio be with Ayumi?!” akira asked Shiro who was being bullied by the children.

“Cih ... quickly just do our job!” shiro replied as he prepared to face the group of children who wanted to catch him.

“Friends let's search him, we take all his money!” zen shouted at the others, at once they ran fast and jumped into Shiro's legs, hands, body, and head making him lose his balance and fall.

“Hemmh .. well," he replied, "ano ... Grandpa, Grandma.” Akira called out to those who were still arguing.

“Haahhh ..!” yell them simultaneously.

Akira's surprised. “Eh ano I mean ..”

“Talk true young man!” said Grandpa in the middle.

“A’ahh .. actually the reason we work here is not only because of punishment, but want to ask about the legend of Thalib the traveler whose story is famous in this village,” replied Akira.

“What?!” shouted the middle grandpa.

“He said he wanted to hear the legend of Thalib,” said the grandmother next door told while the grandfather next to him was a mangosteen.

“Daddy I heard, it's just that I was shocked because it's been a long time no one has ever asked that story,” replied grandfather in the middle.

“people now no longer care about the story, when it could be the legacy of our village legend, it is unfortunate,” he continued while shaking his head and making the grandmother and grandfather next to him bow down sadly.

Hearing that Akira just kept quiet. “So how far do you remember?” ask the Grandpa.

“A’ahh .. I only know when he was in Sabbat village, I mean when he talked to the blacksmith.”

“A’ahh ..”

“Temple, he is an expert in telling stories, especially about that story,” said the grandmother and grandfather on the left side of the mangosteen.

“Hey quickly tell her! don't you like it if anyone wants to listen to that story,” said grandma while looking at grandfather in the middle who is still silent

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“Alright ..” answers are lazy.

“At that time Thalib had arrived in the land of Sabbat, a prosperous country.” he said still not excited.

“Hey why with you, where is your greatness in telling the story, show him so he is also excited to hear it,” cut the grandmother makes the grandfather try to bring out his abilities.

“At that time he came by using his horse, a village gatekeeper immediately greeted him and asked. ‘Who are you and where are you from?.’

Thalib took a letter he had placed in the bag hanging from the horse and handed it over to the guard. The guard was a little surprised and then quickly opened the letter and read it. When he finished reading he suddenly saluted with one knee stuck to the ground and lowered his head.” The grandfather told me so excited that his loud voice echoed in that place.

The parents and adults there immediately turned their heads to the sound, the children were immediately silent while playing and also who was pranking Shiro. Zen, who was standing before the children he told Shiro to search, ran towards Akira and sat next to him, and Naoto and Haruka followed along with the other children.

Seeing this, my grandfather got more excited. “The guard asked again. ‘Is that person still alive?’

Thalib. ‘She has long since died, but thank goodness she has arrived in our country safely.’ Hearing that the guard stood up and hugged her while crying.”

“Grandfather, who was the guard and Thalib talking about?” zen asked, cutting up and raising his hand for permission.

“I don't know who either, because the story doesn't mention clearly who they mean,” Grandpa replied.

Grandfather continued to tell. “Thalib was very welcome in the village, the people came to the place where the village king was carrying various vegetables and fruits, there were also those who brought pastries and other food just to meet and hear the story of Thalib as he travelled towards their country. That's what is so amazing about this country the inhabitants are very generous and happy to share.

Thalib said to them. ‘I sting happy to all of you, because all the residents here are very generous, no wonder if your country can be very prosperous and prosperous.’

The king next to him answered. ‘This is all due to the teachings of that person and also help from our neighboring country.’

‘I even salute the children here, they sincerely give me the results of the bait, he says this lake is full of fish, every time I fish here, he said, my fish container is always full,” Thalib said in front of the residents until everyone laughed happily.”

Haruka cut off Grandpa's ceremony, at which time she was next to Akira. “Wah .. in the country is really prosperous, very different from our country, for example, when I fish my fish container is always empty because there is nothing!”

“Ha ha .. That's because you can't go fishing!” sahut Zen made Haruka frown, while the others laughed at him.

Not unexpectedly the people who were in that place all gathered to listen to the story, which was previously just cool to sit around chatting normally, he said, and the workers there who are just cool to rest now also gather together to listen to the grandfather who was once known to the expert to tell stories.

“Then how does the cake go?” ask Naoto.

“It did not feel like twilight had arrived, a gatekeeper ran towards Thalib who was still in the king's house, almost everyone had returned to his house. At last the guard reached the king's house and sat down before them, asking permission for Talib to spend the night in his house, because he wanted to hear the story of Thalib and the man who had taught them to be generous, at that time the king did not interfere and Talib was told to decide for himself. It was unexpected that Thalib happily accepted it as if a rope had connected the two of them. After that every day Thalib the traveler lived in the house of the guard. Thalib also strained to walk around the village, until one day when winter arrived the blacksmiths there began to work as in winter usually.”

“Loh why only when winter they just work?” cut Naoto.

“That kind of thing I don't need to explain for sure you guys know!” grandpa answered a little loudly, but those who heard did not understand.

“Maybe they deliberately did that to warm their bodies from the body-piercing cold, plus from their generous nature it is possible to give warmth to other villagers so they can see and learn how,” said Akira.

“Oh .. so did Kak Ken,” replied Naoto who still does not know, obviously because they never talk about Akira.

“A’ahh ..” said Akira Kaget and awkward, but everyone believes what Akira said while grandfather just shook his head, as well as Shiro who is leaning against the wall watching them.

The grandfather continued the story that has now been connected with the story of Ayumi until the end, the story is exactly the same as what Ayumi told until Now Akira has begun to understand the story of Thalib the traveler.

“Wahh .. Sabbat country is indeed very great, it feels like I want to go there to see it for myself!” zen and Haruka said in agreement.

“Mana maybe we go there, because we do not know where it is, different if we have the map,” Naoto said.

At that time the grandfather wanted to speak, but the hunt was cut by people who worked there. “There may be a map, plus the country never existed because this is just an ordinary legend, so it is very unlikely that it exists in this world, yes,” said one of the adults there made the children bowed lethargic, as well as his parents.

“While this is just a legend, we should still be grateful that we can all hear and take lessons from this story, that is the point of a story a lot of science that we can take, he said, it should have been passed down to our children and grandchildren later,” said Akira gave encouragement again to them.

The children were again excited and confirmed what Akira said as well as the parents and adults there.

“Kakak Ken's right. Come Kek tell others, for example the story of Grandpa when he was young,” said Zen excitedly.

“A’ahh ..” Akira returns awkwardly and Shiro smiles a little at Akira who is suddenly so.

Grandpa was smiling. “Come by tomorrow, it's late, it's not good for the kids to come home at night, let alone you're from the next region right?” replied the grandfather.

From the tone of the talk this time he was not like earlier who liked to shout, now he looks happy and happy because it turns out many children who want to hear the story of Thalib the traveler.

After that the adults there began to disperse and and there were only the workers who were still taking care of the parents. The children entrusted here have been invited back by his mother and father, they also look very happy, it is seen from those who tell the story of Thalib to his master.

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