TIKZ [Moving To The Golden Age]
096 - SIMULTANEOUS CHANCE OF PUNISHMENT

Idaline stared at the small back that was shaking violently. This little boy must have received many torments that would later become traumatized.

He closed his eyes removing the pity that appeared within the chest.

True said Loro, the guilty must be punished.

For this negligence can result in great war and severe damage if not discovered.

"Slamet, I'll give you one chance."

Slamet got up and leaned against the wall nearby. He moved his lips answering Idaline without a sound.

Slamet dragged his feet and prostrated himself in front of Idaline.

"Determine, your lover or your family?"

"Of course the servant's family, Your Majesty," answered Slamet.

He loves his homeland more than his family and he loves his family more than his undercover enemies and teases him.

So even if the Maharani does not give a choice, Slamet has set the course.

"This. Prove it." Idaline throws a keris in front of Slamet's head prostrating at his feet.

Then Idaline flicked her hand and a woman was dragged in by some soldiers into the room.

Idaline flicked her hand telling the soldiers to come out.

Slamet grabbed the keris in front of him and then stumbled to walk towards his lover.

He could not hold back the water in his eyes seeing the lover drenched in blood worse than the wounds he received.

Her body may be seven years old but Slamet is just like Widya who remembers life in the modern world.

The difficult life after the father married again made him often see the real faces of people who are two-faced.

Most of them are hard to change.

And he doesn't have much time to change someone's nature.

"I love you. Very sincerely, I do anything for you but it turns out you're just playing me." Slamet set his voice that was getting lost.

Then Slamet looked at his silent lover without a sound and did not blink.

" Bye, my love!"

Slamet took the opportunity as well as the punishment given his brother's best friend.

Idaline closed her eyes as Slamet pressed a dagger against her chest.

The lover's blood splashed onto Slamet's body, soaking his scarf.

Slamet's eyes were empty, he had just killed his first love with his own hands.

"You go to sleep" said Idaline holding Slamet's head.

Slamet fell to the floor with his face facing each other with the lover. Her tears fell mixed with the fresh blood that was still flowing.

His lover smiled slightly, he was glad that someone who managed to enter his heart was just like him.

They both love their country.

"Bring him into a cell" Idaline told the soldier in front of the wlaka room.

The soldiers bent their legs crouched, placed their left hand on the ground and bent their right hand in front of their chest. "Okay, Your Majesty." they replied in unison.

"Maharani," called Boco who had just come with Arsa, she was a little worried to see the blood on the white cloth that Idaline was wearing.

Did their Empress betray them?

"Mind affected. Now it's back. Gentlemen need not worry" Idaline said without questioning. "I'm sorry." Idaline walked away from Boco and Arsa without hearing their answers.

He took a long breath. His intentions came quickly so that people did not know even known troublesome people.

It seemed that he had to prepare a script to answer questions from the members of Sapta Prabu.

"I don't understand Your Majesty's words" Arsa said following the cell guard with Boco.

They were walking towards the Sapta big family detention center.

"Can you explain, Mr Baga Sapta?" tanyanya stood in front of Baga's cell.

Idaline went to Bale' Ndamel. He will finish it right now.

He did not want the Keraton party to be involved which would make the problem even bigger especially if the public knew about it.

"Their Empress's intent was affected and now it's been cleared?" tanya Hayan did not take his eyes off the file in his hand.

"There is no curse for the traitors in their bodies. The emperor could repeat the oath again to make it more thick," said Idaline felt they were innocent.

They were framed anyway!

If they really cooperated, they would be exposed to the curse of a traitor and as low as the curse would make them overheated for an entire month.

But none of the Sapta family was sick.

Hayan put down his file and looked seriously at the woman sitting in front of him. "Maharani, this time it can't just be.."

"I risked my life."

"What?"

Hayan's eyes glinted. He broke the pen he was holding.

This woman did not really love her life.

First Djahan then Widya.

Are he and their son not on Idaline's priorities?

Hayan was very angry but could not vent his anger on Idaline or the people she loved.

"This time.." Hayan gritted his teeth. "Enough this time you're like this. Promise not to meet anyone before you get permission. Including the Great Hermit," Hayan bargained.

"I, Idaline, swore I would not meet anyone unless I had the permission of my husband, Nirankara Hayan Wijaya, Maharaja of Bhumi Maja. If breaking I will ma–"

"Quite the promise," Hayan cut, this woman really does not love her life. "Now return, Empress. According to him or Sapta's family will be gone by then!"

Idaline complied with Hayan and rushed back to their residence.

Hayan threw out the pen and tore off the paper on which was written the execution date of Baga Sapta and his sons.

He took a brush and wrote another edict.

"Sapta's family was exposed to Soca group studies. Almost something bad happened if not found immediately. Therefore, Baga Sapta and his family will be transferred to Madura to undergo a long paternity. Accept this goodness" said Huna in front of Baga Sapta and his prostrating sons received the edict from the Maharaja.

"Hamba is very grateful to His Majesty the Maharaja. May His Majesty the Emperor always be endowed with wisdom and majesty" Baga replied receiving the gold-plated paper.

"Mr Sapta. You know where this greatness comes from. Then look at your family carefully," Huna's message left them.

"I will remember."

The journey from the deepest prison to the kulon gate which is not the main gate requires them to pass through the high walls of the kedaton.

Baga cupped his hands together and lowered his head through the Kedaton Sedap Malam. He and his sons swore that they would return this favor.

Their lives belong to Idaline.

"My son must be tired of being elated mother continues, huh?" idaline murmured caressing her stomach.

"Your Majesty, the Capuri Palace has been renovated, can now be occupied," said the Idaline room attendant.

"Call two people from each kedaton at random for a move. Choose who has never served great people" Idaline said.

Idaline deliberately chose people who have never been in contact with a big person because in this way little possibility of trickery is done in the new Capuri Palace.

And most lowly people are treated unfairly by their superiors.

When they had ascended to the top, they would try hard to remain in that position and would commemorate their former superiors who were cooperating with the high nobles.

By suppressing those who cooperated with nobles outside the court, they must have thought of having proclaimed loyalty to Idaline.

Maharani the ruler of Bhumi Maja.

"Okay, Your Majesty."

The dayang retreated regularly and out chose its own people who intended Idaline.

Shortly after, Siji and Loro, hiding on the roofs of the rooms, descend to Idaline.

"Udel, we can't see you anymore if you move. Stay here" said Loro worried.

His brother has committed many sins. If at any time the Emperor had no interest in Idaline, his cousin's sister might not have accepted death.

But something more terrible than death.

"Mas Agus and mas Agis just go back to Djahan."

"No, Udel. You are already in his grasp, Sapta alone can he destroy without the need for consideration of others. Are you alone?" Loro looked at worried Idaline.

"We'll do it." said obediently Siji.

"Mas?!" Loro looked at her siblings annoyance. Does this brother not understand their sister's situation?!

"But tell us if you have any problems. Directly then too. Anything. The slightest problem," Siji's message.

"Mass? How are you this? Our sister has committed some major sins. He deceived His Highness the Emperor by going to the Refutation, hiding the Soca chief, faking the Sapta family's circumstances, then now expelling the personal knight the Emperor directly selected??"

"Just calm. I won't forget you guys" said Idaline ignoring Loro.

"If you want to go, just go alone aaAAA," Loro yelled as Siji pulled her up. His brother did not release it to the residence of Mada.

Idaline slipped the last hairpin and wore her scarf over her shoulders and back.

Then he sat down at a small table pouring tea and took a sip once.

While inhaling the scent of jasmine, Idaline's eyes drew forward.

"Well now what do you want, head of Soca?"

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© Al-Fa4 | 19 November 2021

Shhh.

The Sapta and Sapta Prabu families are different.

Sapta's family is Widya's family.

Sapta Prabu consists of elders who will decide on the problem that the Emperor cannot solve in addition to having the task of the Maharaja.