The Treaty of Invisibility
ON THE THRESHOLD

The weather in the sky slowly turned pitch-black like a thick cloudy but there was no sign of rain. Moist air was felt very people who stuck at Mahmud's house.

The night has shown at 23:20 wib. The atmosphere in the yard still looks chaotic former mass trance land after the issue.

The playing cards were scattered everywhere, black and white chess pieces scattered in all directions were being cleared by Mang Sardi and five others who were not possessed.

While Arin, Dewi, Mak Ijah and Mak Nuni have fallen asleep in one room with Dede, a 3-year-old boy who is being targeted by the Monkey Demon.

The mass trance that had just hit eleven people who were harassing, made Abah Dul busy. One by one they neutralized his body after being possessed by a monkey demon for a long time.

Eleven people were laid in a row, some on the terrace and some on the courtyard floor because the terrace of Mahmud's house could not accommodate the eleven people.

One by one Abah Dul swept his palms from toe to head clearing the negative aura that Abah Dul still felt attached to the bodies of the eleventh person.

Faces of anxiety and panic enveloped everyone there, especially Kosim. While Kosim was just silent, his feelings were mixed, there was fear, anxiety and worry suddenly ambushed his feelings after seeing firsthand the mass trance. He seemed dumbstruck staring at the only victims of trance.

"It's my fault. Maybe me or my wife's son hunted down that damn monkey demon until those people became victims. Oh God, forgive me. Protect my wife's child. Now I'm not sincere they become a collision that I haven't done. I realized, I was wrong.." murmured Kosim inwardly as he lowered his head.

"Sim, you get water in the kettle as a glass." said Abah Dul.

Kosim did not respond. He seemed still dumbstruck while looking back at the people who lay before him.

Seeing Kosim not responding to his request, Abah Dul again asked him with a little more hardened his voice.

"Sim..! Cosim...!" Abah Dul.

"I, i.iya Bah.." - Kosim Gelagapan.

"Pick water on the kettle as a glass..." Abah Dul said, repeating his request.

"Yes Bah." answered Kosim briefly, as he passed towards the kitchen.

Moments after Kosim passed and entered the kitchen through the side door, it suddenly sounded from inside the house like a falling object and made a split sound twice.

Prang.. prang...!!!

The sound of glass was heard from the kitchen. Abah Dul, Mahmud, Mang Ali and the people on the terrace were surprised not to be upset. Mahmud immediately ran towards the kitchen, followed by Abah Dul and Mang Ali. Others did not dare to leave their place.

"Astagfirulah..! Kosiiim.." cried Mahmud.

Mahmud saw Kosim lying on the kitchen floor under the gas stove. His eyes, glaring, his tongue out sticking out while his hands were holding his neck trying to strangle himself.

"Tolooooong...!" Mahmud cried out in panic and anxiety.

"God willing..!" Abah Dul cried to see the condition of Kosim.

"Mahmud, Mang Ali, quickly hold his hand away from his neck" said Abah Dul.

With all his might Mahmud simultaneously tried to stretch Kosim's hand from the neck. But his efforts were in vain, and Kosim's hand grip was so strong that it strangled his own neck.

Mahmud and Mang Ali increased their strength to try harder to pull the fingers of Kosim, but suddenly the greater the energy released by the two, the more the strangulation.

While Kosim's condition became increasingly critical, his face paled. Seeing that, Mahmud panicked and cried hysterically.

"Change, please Kosim, Bah. Hurry up Bah, Kosim could die..." Mahmud cried out in his arms.

"You allies of the demon race have gone too far. It's gone..!!!" Abah Dul cried with his palm in Kosim's head.

Strange views are clearly visible, suddenly black smoke came out between the fingers of Abah Dul attached to the crown of Kosim. The black cloud of smoke was first thin, the longer the thickened the pitch floated upwards.

Along with the black smoke, Kosim shouted loudly. His voice is heartbreaking, though,

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.." Kosim's yelling voice sounded long shrill and slowly weakened and vanished.

Kosim glared limply leaning against the kitchen wall. Both of his hands that had been tightly clutching his neck immediately lying down to the side of his body.

"Mud, give me a drink quickly.." Said Abah Dul.

Abah Dul, check the veins on Kosim's wrist. Then move to the neck.

"Alhamdulillah, Kosim is still given a long life.." Abah Dul.

Mahmud then sat Kosim on his lap. Kosim was still unconscious, Mahmud immediately put the water in Kosim's mouth with a little forced.

In a half-sitting position, Kosim suddenly coughed up to spur Mahmud's water on Abah Dul's clothes crouching in front of him.

"Alhamdulillah." said Mahmud and Mang Ali simultaneously.

"Mahmud, Mang Ali.. It seems like tonight's events are still the beginning" Abah Dul said.

"Well..! Not yet done Bah?" Ask Mahmud.

"Not yet, the incident that almost claimed the life of Kosim was the act of Si Kuncen Pesugihan Gunung Ng. He tried to force the tribe of Kosim to become the inhabitants of Mount Ng." Terang Abah Dul's.

"I was forced to exterminate it because it was already very precarious. Yeah, maybe there, that Kuncen is lifeless in his lodge." Continue Abah Dul.

"Then if it's not over, who else will terrorize Kosim, or who will we face again, Bah?" Sergeh Mang Ali was curious.

For a moment Abah Dul sighed heavily, "It's heavier, it's very heavy. It feels impossible for me to face it myself, need the help of people who have higher kebatinan. If I were alone, it would be so overwhelming that I would die." Abah Dul is worried.

"Who are the people he can ask for help, Bah? Ask Mahmud.

"Well, that's who I'm thinking about Mud. We don't have much time until tomorrow night. My estimate, Friday night tomorrow right kliwon is the culmination of all this. Whether Kosim, Dede, Arin or even me, Mang Ali and you Mud, could have died from even more devastating attacks later" explained Abah Dul.

Mang Ali and Mahmud were speechless. There was horror from the facial expressions of the two after hearing Abah Dul's explanation.

"Of course, let that be my business. You do not have to think too much about who the person can be asked for help. Now take Kosim to the living room, lay him there for easy monitoring and guarding. I rejoined the others in front." Abah Dul said, then went out.

Every wrong action does not only cause regret. And regret will always come later after it has happened. As Kosim has done this act is now in the "Bound of Boundaries" of the consequences of his actions.

The most we must realize every time we do a bad deed is the risk. But it is very human when it has not felt the consequences, without realizing it as if we will not get the karma.

Now the fate of the Kosim family is on the verge of having to bear the risk of his actions. Is Kosim dead? Or is it Arin who is forced to inhabit the magical world of the demon monkey or Dede, the little boy who knows nothing?

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Seriate....