CURSE Or GRACE
Distant Guest
Mr. Slamet has been ushered home by Ratna early in the morning. Ratna stayed overnight discussing the case of her father Panji, and continued in Nissa's room, ahead of the new dawn adhan he fell asleep, just asleep he was awakened by Panji to take Mr. Slamet home. Mr. Slamet wants to get home before his son leaves for work. After taking Mr. Slamet home he actually returned to Panji's house, not his home. The banner that saw Ratna returned until astonished.
"Who? You're not coming home?"
"You kicked me out?" Ratna swerved at Panji, Panji stared in confusion and could only scratch his head.
"I'm so sleepy, I'm going to sleep! If I go home for a lecture, I won't be able to sleep!" Ratna continued while laying down herself onto the sofa.
"You eat first, breakfast is ready, you can't sleep on the couch! After breakfast you sleep in my room!" Nissa shouted to Ratna.
"Good madam!" Ratna giggled and was greeted by the throwing of an onion thrown by Nissa.
They had breakfast together, while eating they were still discussing the matter last night. Ratna recorded all of Mr. Slamet's testimonies using her cell phone. They listen to the tape again.
"I agree with the option of someone else killing Mr. Lurah. Let's reconstruct the incident. Mr. Lurah came to apologize, he was welcomed kindly by your father and mother. Suddenly there was a person who took a knife fenced and stabbed hard the back of Mr. Lurah until his heart penetrated. Your father recognized him, told him to run, then he turned the position of the body, tidying the flower pot that shifted because he turned the body of Mr. Lurah alone. Then he saw the window of Mr. Slamet's wife's room open, he went to Mr. Slamet's house, asked for help calling the police, closed the window and curtains of Mr. Slamet's wife's room so that the police would not have to make him a witness. Go back home, have a slamet hit him. The police came, claiming to be the lone killer. Case done." Ratna summed up all the results of their talks last night. Panji and Nissa nodded in agreement.
"But who is he protecting? you have no debt, no enemies, or is it possible that you have enemies after you hit people in the market?" The pennant asked who.
"It doesn't feel like Mas, I was once in the market when I needed help using an ATM. It happened shortly before the murder. The people of the market respected him very much, at that time my father already had his strength."
"That means the person he's protecting is someone he knows well, and that means you and I are on the suspect list!" Panji chuckled smilingly at Nissa.
"The person he knew well and knew that you kept a knife in the fence, your name was crossed off Mas's list, but I still am!" Nissa giggled amusedly.
"He's a boy! Why didn't he ever help his father?" Ratna attacked Panji with a thimble. Panji looked furious, Nissa just laughed.
" Panji Mas never helped father, every vacation or home a day last night he itikaf mosque near our house, father did prepare it to be dai." Nissa explained to Ratna.
"Did you hear, right? I was prepared by my father to be a righteous husband, who would lead you into heaven." Panji laughed happily to be able to reply to Ratna's teasing.
"I'm disgusted by me!" Ratna sneered, but her face was red.
Nissa laughed at their behavior, for some reason she enjoyed her brother's feud with Ratna. Mutual liking displayed by mutual mocking and dropping. Not infrequently they insist on each other's arguments but not infrequently they compactly support each other. After breakfast drowsiness attacked the three fiercely, Nissa and Ratna immediately entered the room, Panji lying on the sofa. Not long after that, there was no sound in Nissa's room. So also Panji who have fallen asleep in a sofa. until the sun has risen they are still asleep. Until a greeting and a knock at the door woke Panji.
Panji got up and opened the door immediately. At the door he saw a young woman and a mother smiling at him, behind him was a security who waved to him and walked away from the Panji house.
"Good day, is this really Panji's house? " The young lady asked kindly.
"Is it right, myself? Who're you?"
"What business is it? Eh sorry but enter first, Panji realized he forgot his manners, he shifted his position and signaled for the two to enter. The two sat on the sofa, Panji immediately asked again their intentions and goals.
"We intend to thank Mas Panji for his help to me the other day.'
"But I'm sorry I don't know you guys, and thank you for what?"
"I'm the son of the deceased Mr. Lurah Prayitno and this is my mother" Panji gasped at hearing the name called Ratih. Simultaneously the two women had just come out of his room, Panji gestured the two to join, Nissa walked over to the kitchen, Ratna immediately headed for the sofa. Nissa joined in and brought drinks for her guests.
"Talk, this is my sister Nissa, and this is Ratna, our friend." He introduced to Ratih then turned in a different direction, "And you, this is Ratih and his mother, Ratih the daughter of the late Lurah Prayitno." The reaction of the two had been expected Panji, but the questions of the two are really unexpected. Smiling pennies.
"Let our guests tell us more than hear your mouths like firecrackers." Ratih smiled sweetly at the words of Panji. The sweet smile and the eyes of Ratih that could not be separated from Panji made Ratna's heart puff up.
"I came here with information from Haryati's mother, the commander of the Kebumen Police. I want to thank you for healing me from cancer. My cancer's cured because of your punches." Panji remembered the incident when he returned home, it turns out he was Pak Lurah's son, it was fitting Gilang would not hit him when Ratih asked him to stop.
"I'm the one who thanks you brother, if you don't hold Gilang, my head has been smashed by the beam."
"I also apologize for my son Gilang's actions, Gilang still can't get rid of his resentment towards you." This time his mother spoke.
"I also brought something for you." Ratih took something out of his bag, it turned out that a map folded neatly, he handed it to Panji. Panji confusedly opened the contents of the map, flipping through each sheet, unknowingly Ratna had already stuck close to him, reading the contents of the map together. Then Ratna shouted.
"This is a medical report from the doctor, this proves our opinion is correct, Mr. Lurah was cured before he came to your house!" Panji looked at Ratna, Ratna stared intently back at Panji with enthusiasm. Seeing the two so close to Ratih's heart, he did not know what his heart felt. He tried to force himself to smile.
"Really! I picked up my father from the hospital, he was cured of his heart disease, he told me he wanted to go to your house to thank you." The three hosts fell silent, Panji and Nissa struggling with their respective thoughts. While Ratna and Ratih looked at each other. The two of them tried to dissect each other's heads.
"This alone is valuable information, further reinforcing our assumptions, but why didn't Ms. Haryati tell me?"
"I asked him to withhold this news, so that I would give it to you straight away.The copy of this file was received yesterday."
"In theory we have been able to prove that our father is innocent, but still weak because there are no strong witnesses let alone no clue who the real perpetrator is." Panji explained to Ratih.
"Oh yeah, we've also been to Jogja, met your mother at the parlor. Your mother knew my mother well, they were childhood friends first," Ratih turned to his mother who was nodding to Panji. "Your mother recognized us, she took my hand and said 'My husband is innocent, he didn't kill your father' .Twice he said that to me, I became convinced that this was the truth." Ratih was speechless unable to continue his sentence, Nissa immediately reacted spontaneously.
"Mas Panji, if the mother can recognize her childhood friend, and can recognize Kak Ratih as the son of Pak lurah, there is a possibility that she has been cured. We have to go there to see him and extract information from him." Nissa said enthusiastically.
"Alright Saturday tomorrow we go to Jogja, I've paid at that time, but remember Nissa, what Ms. Haryati said at that time, maybe we will get the truth, but it will be difficult to fight for it in court, he said, I don't want to make you hopeful and disappointed."