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TL: Fatty Kindsword Ed: Wildhammer
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Wiro Sableng Book 1 Chapter 16
Once the Four Beards of Sanggreng Cave vanished from their sight, Wiro Sableng immediately released the accupoint blok at Nilamsuri"s neck. The girl looked around dazedly. She looked just like someone that just woke up from a dream, but she could clearly see the remains of battle around her.
Wiro laughed. “Nothing whatsoever,” he answered.
“Ah, you"re dreaming. I didn"t hear anything.”
Once she realized that, Nilamsuri promptly unsheathed her sword! “What have you done to me?” asked her, shouting.
But in the face of the girl, this youngster still put a smile on his face. “I hope you don"t think wrongly about me, sister.”
Wiro scratched his head. He didn"t want Nilamsuri to know who he really was. Thusly, he had to answer with a lie. “Did you remember how crazed you were when you fought against those Four Beards of the Sanggreng Cave?!”
“Listen sister, I only know a bit about accublock skills. Since I know that you won"t be able to best them, I had to accublock your artery and hid you behind the bamboo thicket. When they left I brought you back here and I released the accublock on your neck.”
“I"m indeed not asking you to believe me,” said Wiro Sableng.
“Huff…,” Wiro Sableng took a long sigh. “Haven"t I told you my name? It was you who still keep your name a secret!”
“Alright,” she said, “If you still don"t want to tell me, I"ll let my sword do the talking!” right after saying that, the girl quickly made a lightning-quick thrust towards Wiro Sableng"s chest!
Nilamsuri replied with a chained attacks. Her sword swirled all over, rendering Wiro could barely hold back anymore and he had to jump away swiftly. “Now you can"t hide anymore, brother!” said Nilamsuri. “Receive this Eagle s.n.a.t.c.hing Pigeon technique!”
“Sister!” Wiro Sableng shouted, “Unfortunately I still have something else to do. See you next time!” Finis.h.i.+ng his words, the young man jumped forward, lightly pinched the girl"s chin and escaped in a flash.
*****
The shop was quite empty. The night wind blew coldly from the valley. Wiro Sableng entered inside carefreely while whistling. The old man owner of the shop welcomed him with an anxious, pale face.
“Why is that?” he asked.
“Who"s afraid of them!” Wiro reb.u.t.ted.
“Who cares about who they are,” Wiro answered while sitting on the chair. Further, the shop owner again told him, “They are bandits feared around this Cimandilu River! They are the Four Beards of the Sanggreng Cave!”
The shop owner became silent. Just this afternoon he indeed saw how the young man gagged the mouths of the Four Beards of Sanggreng Cave with his bananas. Thus he asked, "Young lad, who exactly are you and where do you come from?”
“Have you been living here for long, sir?” Wiro asked.
“Hmm… then you should be familiar with the name Ranaweleng, right?”
“Why was it a pity?”
Wiro Sableng gulped. “Do you know who killed him?” This question made the old man looked carefully at Wiro"s face.
“There was one weird thing on that event seventeen years ago though,” the shop owner continued.
“At that time Mahesa Birawa and his men were burning the house of the late Ranaweleng. In that incredibly fierce fire a baby"s cry was heard! It was Ranaweleng"s baby! Everyone was anxious… how could they save the baby from that giant fire? At that intense moment, everyone saw a flash of black shadow. That black shadow moved incredibly fast charging into the fire and then disappeared. And after that the cries of Ranaweleng"s baby was also gone! When the fire died down everyone went to search for him, but they couldn"t find the bones of that baby.”
“Up until now, was the whereabouts of Ranaweleng"s baby still unknown?" Wiro asked
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The old man shrugged his shoulder. “If he is still alive, then he would be around your age, young man,” he said.
“He is. Up to two years ago, he was still staying here. But I don"t know where he is now. But whether he is here or not it doesn"t matter, it is the same. His four lackeys are as evil and cruel as himself, and the four of them are still wandering around this village. They never pay if they are eating here!”
“No… no! In fact those Four Beards of Sanggreng Cave deliberately came here from afar to settle some score with Mahesa Birawa"s lackeys that settled down here! And those Four Beards are definitely not good people. They are robbers that don"t lose in terms of savagery and despicableness from those Mahesa Birawa"s men! But when they reached this place, Mahesa Birawa"s lackeys weren"t here… they happened to be outside the village. It has been four days if we count today as well.”
Wiro laughed, “It"s okay if I consider this my debt right?” he replied.
While eating the banana Wiro Sableng asked, “What kind of grudge do those Four Beards of Sanggreng Cave brought with them here?”
Wiro Sableng fell silent for quite some time. Suddenly he remembered a name that was mentioned by Nilamsuri. “Do you know someone named Kalingundil?”
“Why is that?”
Of course Wiro Sableng was surprised over this revelation. But he hid his surprised expression. He then thought, why was the girl in the graveyard this afternoon asked whether both of his parents were killed by that man named Kalingundil?
“The girl wore a blue robe?”
The old man sighed. “Actually, Bergola Wungu asked me many times whether someone else is living in Kalingundil"s house. I told him that I don"t know. I don"t want to get in trouble, young man. If I said someone is and Kalingundil finds out, my neck would definitely be a sheathing stone for Kalingundil"s sword, as that girl is Kalingundil"s own daughter!”
Wiro nodded. “Revenge is like a rusted, broken iron that often knows not of proper payback.” He said. “Sometimes it is karma for someone that does accursed conducts!”
“That was your own fault,” said Wiro uncaringly. “Who told you old man to lie anyway!”
While the old man was brewing a gla.s.s of sweetened tea for him, Wiro Sableng was lost in his own thought. He didn"t expect that the blue-robed girl that attracted him was actually Kalingundil"s daughter, a lackey of Mahesa Birawa that had killed both of his parents.
“Nilamsuri. It"s a good name, the person in question was also pretty, but alas… her father was a fiend!”
“It wasn"t just Kalingundil, but every single one of his lackeys,” blurted the old man. Wiro was about to ask further, but his mouth was shut tightly as he listened that outside were the galloping sound of horse"s hooves. The four riders pa.s.sed by in front of the restaurant in haste. They weren"t the Four Beards of Sanggreng Cave! And when Wiro Sableng turned his head to the old restaurant owner, then the old man took a deep breath and said, “Those were Kalingundil and his lackeys. There is definitely going to be a clash with Bergola Wungu.”
Wiro Sableng laughed. He gulped the tea in that gla.s.s, and then he stood up. “Even though today I am not paying for the banana and the tea, but please don"t put me in the same breath as Bergola Wungu or Kalingundil.” Finis.h.i.+ng his words, Wiro immediately left the restaurant.
The old man picked up the gla.s.s that the youngster used to drink, yet something attracted his eyes that had started to grow blurry. On that gla.s.s he could see a series of numbers… He paid an even more careful attention, and there was no mistake! It was indeed a series of number 212. The old man could never comprehend how those numbers can be printed there. He tried to wipe it clean with his cloth. He tried to wipe it again and again, but the 212 numbers kept on lingering and inerasable!
“Well, well… this world is getting weirder as it is getting older.” The old man exclaimed inside.