Mystery of Room 13
Part 78: The Mysterious Man

"Han, if the man in the coat is not in the dance troupe because it is already in the possession of the ghost of the railroad crossing. Then, what is it that causes Gayatri not to be there either? Isn't he wearing a powder pellet too?"

Again and again I just shrugged when the question was thrown by Wulan. I myself also do not know how exactly the reason why Gayatri is not a slave to the dancer but she became a ghost without appearance. I remember the notebook of the late Priyambodo that Bu Ning gave me. I hurried to pick up a book that I hadn't opened in two days.

"Lan, maybe here we'll find an answer. How the Gayatri did not become the slave of that terrible dancer."

With Wulan, I slowly opened the first page of the book. The first page is about a beautiful and romantic love poem, apparently Priyambodo is a romantic man. If I were to be given such a beautiful poem then surely my heart would melt. Page after page I opened until halfway through the book I found a small note tearing my smile apart.

The rose was uprooted from its stalk, left to wither and die.

I'm not taking care of her, I'm pulling out her beautiful petals.

Rose, forgive me for making you melt.

At the end of the short poem it says the same date and year, when Gayatri was being harassed. I caught a glimpse of the calendar hanging there. The rose that Priyambodo refers to is Gayatri. Lost my assembling to make a beautiful poem if I end up having to pay dearly with his most precious crown.

My tears were dripping from the thought of how helpless the beautiful girl was when she was set up by the man who was the lover of her best friend and also two other people taking turns. I never forgot the anger and vows he had taken during his sadism.

"The savages deserve to die!" I said as I slammed the notebook with a furious rage.

"Han, patience. Now we better rest first. We don't have to think about anything else."

"But, Lan. I hate this Priyambodo. He wrote love poems for Gayatri but he also corrupted Gayatri. He should not only have lost a hand but his body should have been crushed into pieces and kept on being eaten by a whistle."

"Propsy. Not that you also told me that he also saved Gayatri Saar was being snared by the dancer's shawl. Even at the end of his life he still asked that Gayatri not be a slave to the dancer? It means Priyambodo is a man who sincerely loves Gayatri dong."

"If he loved Gayatri as she is echoed in his poems. He should have kept even the courage to fight his friends to protect Gayatri, instead of tasting Gayatri's body that had been stained by the other two clothes."

My heart is so furious and Priyambodo. I'm sick of her paddling love poems but not the same ones she does. It is better that I sleep now than that my heart will become more and more congested because of my anger at the three men.

My sleep is very slumbering, besides being angry but this body feels sore all. I don't know how long I slept, which I obviously had a dream of beating the man I know named Priyambodo, yes even if only in a dream at least I can vent my anger on him. No longer my heart. I woke up with a smile.

"What are you dreaming about, Han? Why was it fitting sleep you smile exactly crazy. Honestly, what dream are you? Must be a slovenly dream." The woman covered her mouth with the back of her hand.

"Bahmu. I had a dream of revenge against that stupid boy." I told her fiery story, how I hit her to the brink. Not to mention I kicked the most sensitive part of the man's body with all my might. As a result, the man immediately fell down and shouted in pain. "Thankuratin, so that's a smart man not a stupid man and this kind of savage."

"That's the Priyambodo. He doesn't deserve to be called Priya but a boy, so Priyambodo is a stupid boy."

"Han, but this foolish boy seems to be the man who turned Gayatri into repentance."

"Masa? I don't believe."

"This is trying to read this," said Wulan while pointing to the writing he was reading.

Lirih I read a writing that tells us that Priyambodo was very happy because he became the priest of the Gayatri prayer. Gayatri was determined to stop the use of the powder pellets even though she knew the true risks she faced later.

"Huh, this is serious, Lan? Gayatri and Priyambodo loved each other not out of revenge, right?"

"You know, Han, on the last page I read it goosebumps, Han. That if he had to sacrifice his life, he would have done so that Gayatri survived the dancer's terror. It's sweet, Han."

"So the man was there because he replaced Gayatri as the slave of the dancer, but why did Gayatri disappear after that like being swallowed by the earth?"

The question of Gayatri's disappearance remains a mystery. I try to strengthen my heart by rereading the pages I missed. In this book, Priyambodo is like pouring out his heart for Gayatri. He also wrote of the jealousy he felt when he saw Gayatri close to two other forced missile offenders. However, the man also wondered why his colleagues were both killed in the near future.

Priyambodo is just a human. He also had time to suspect that the death of two of his colleagues was Gayatri's plan to take revenge on the bastard man who had hurt him. Priyambodo could only prepare if at any time when Gayatri also demanded revenge for his actions at that time.

Love cannot be guessed when it comes when anger starts to subside. The sincerity of the heart of Priyambodo managed to make Gayatri bend her knees and fall in love with the man who helped destroy her life.

In Priyambodo's tutelage, the two were determined to seek a better and more religious life. Priyambodo promised to accept any condition Gayatri. Because he knew that he was also responsible for the misdeeds that had been done by Gayatri by using the powder pellet.

Priyambodo did not heed the words of people about him who chose Gayatri whose face slowly began to brittle. He also had a chance to quarrel with some of his relatives because Gayatri was considered to bring bad luck. Every man who approached her must be dead.

There is something that makes me surprised from this book that Gayatri feels scared because there is a man who always sits in front of the index while looking at him sharply. Several times the man stopped Gayatri from getting acquainted but Gayatri always avoided. However, every time Gayatri was driven home by Priyambodo, the man never appeared before them.

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