The Treaty of Invisibility
TARGET TUMBALS 3

At night at 21:20 pm, wib,

Boss Karso and Romlah sat in the living room feeling uneasy. His mind was raging and pounding without knowing why. The husband and wife seemed so anxious.

Even though there was a glass of coffee and various kinds of cakes and fried pisan on the table, but there was not a single one that he ate.

On the face of the husband and wife was clearly implied a very great turmoil. Every now and then the Karso boss smokes his cigarette deeply and then exhales the cigarette smoke with a slight bang.

Even without realizing it, the cigarette that had just been ignited and only a few times the suction had been directly rubbed and then thrown into the ashtray.

While Romlah unwittingly kept his head down looking at the fingers he played with bent, folded into a fist. It did it repeatedly cover up his anxiety.

"Surely you have bounced and sprinkled powder from the Mbah into Jaka's food?" ask Romlah in the midst of his anxiety.

"Father sure ma'am," insisted Karso's boss.

"Really sir?!" Romlah is still not so sure about what boss Karso did.

"Mom sure, why don't you believe that!" sulkan boss Karso.

"But my feelings are not calm, sir. Is this because this is the first collision we gave?" rome half asked.

"Yes, maybe mom. Let's wait for the news after midnight. People must be in a hurry," said Karso's boss.

Tomorrow is the 1st of the Syuro, according to the mandate of Sapto's altar that there will be a group of stealth monkeys coming. They will pick up the spirits of those who have been marked by Karso and Romlah as a collision.

At midnight at 00:00 wib, the group of stealth pickers will take the lives of people who have eaten the powder that has been given a spell on food.

"It's easy, Jaka's kids must have eaten it!" resolute boss Karso calms Romlah while calming himself.

Actually, Boss Karso was also no less anxious despite trying to convince himself that the bait had been eaten by the mang Jaka family. But somehow the boss Karaso still feel gamang.

'There is no way that food is not eaten with the Jaka family. The food is delicious and expensive, even Jaka himself said that his son and wife must really like it, ' said the boss Karso in his heart.

"Is it possible that the food was not eaten, sir?" ask Romlah disperse the daydream of boss Karso.

"Oh, it can't be mom. At that time Jaka aja until his food was so sweet. And when I bought him to take home, he was very happy. He said his wife's son would love it" said Karso's boss.

Without feeling the night is getting late approaching midnight. I don't know how many times Boss Karso looked at the wall clock.

"One more minute at 12, ma'am" said Karso's boss covering up his anxiety.

"I, iyya sir," said Romlah who was also no less anxious.

Boss Karso stared fixedly at the wall clock. His eyes followed a long clock that moved closer to the number 12.

Now a few seconds longer needle length will pass the number 12. Without realizing it, in Karso's heart, he counted it.

"Three... Two... One.." muttered Boss Karso.

Hearing Karso's voice count, Romlah immediately turned to him.

"Jam twelve sir" whispered Romlah.

Instantly the bosses of Karso and Romlah fell silent a thousand languages. Both of them were as stunned as they were waiting for something to happen.

The atmosphere became silent until only the sound of clockwork was heard so clearly. Even the sound of long clockwork that continues to move around like a konyong is like the sound of a drum that is shot in rhythm with the husband and wife's heartbeat.

10 Minutes passed, then,

But nothing happened. The atmosphere remained silent and silent. Boss Karso and Romlah looked at each other with questions in their hearts.

"Yes easy-mease mom. Means we've fulfilled his promise" said Karso's boss.

Now the look of Romlah's face was a little more relieved because she judged that her husband had run his ritual correctly.

Unlike the previous Romlah very restless because his heart is not so sure of the ritual that Karso is doing is right or not.

Various allegations and prejudices such as misreading mantras, incantation sentences are not memorized or there is a sentence of the mantra that is missed, all the prejudices that make Romlah anxious.

"Yes, we've gone to bed, sir" asked Romlah.

"Let's go ma'am, we'll wait until one o'clock" replied Karso's boss.

Boss Karso also now seemed to have started to calm down a little, unlike before whose face looked very agitated and anxious.

Boss Karso was just picking fried bananas that were cold and still piled on the plate after feeling a little calmer. Slowly, Karso's boss put a banana into his mouth.

In just one mouthful of fried bananas it ludes into his mouth and then followed by sipping his black coffee that has been cold.

Then Boss Karso took a kretek cigarette out of his pack and lit it. He sucked it deeply but this time his suction was slower as if he would really be enjoying it.

Time continues until close to 1 am. The atmosphere was still silent there was no such thing as he feared.

"That means the tumbar has been taken," muttered Karso's boss.

"Yes mom, we're sleeping. It looks like it's settled, hehehe." said Karso's boss chuckled.

"Yuk sir," replied Romlah.

Boss Karso and Romlah got up from the guest chair and stepped into the room. The lights in the living room had been turned off Romlah when walking to follow the boss Karso behind him.

In the room, Boss Karso lay down his body followed Romlah lay down his body next to the boss Karso after first turning off the room lights.

"Sir, I don't hear no noise of citizens yes," said Romlah.

Karso boss did not immediately say, he was silent because Romlah's speech was like a reminder of his words. That there will surely be news from the citizens when the crash is taken.

Karso's boss predicted the incident would shake people all over. However, until 1 o'clock in the morning it turns out there was no incident as he predicted.

Not yet the boss Karso answered him, suddenly the sound of shutters open wide as in the break from the outside.

"Braaaka!"

Instantly Boss Karso and Romlah jumped up from their lying position. The husband and wife were sitting on the bed looking at each other with their eyes widened in fear.

Then reflexively Boss Karso and Romlah turned to look at the window that was open. His curtains were waving in the night breeze from outside.

Not yet had his surprise answered, suddenly popping black figures surround the bed of Boss Karso and Romlah.

"Si, sssi, who are you!" banged boss Karso with a trembling voice.

At once Karso and Romlah trembled in fear while watching the figures surrounding him. Boss Karso and Romlah saw clearly the black figures had dense feathers all over their bodies.

The feathers were visible when the bodies of the figures were decorated by light from outside that entered through the broken window.

About 10 black and hairy figures stood on the edge of the bed. In his hands each held a different weapon. Some were holding swords, iron rods, and tridents.

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SERIATE....