The Passion of the Segara
Eps. #38 Arriving In The City

The ship that brought Segara back to the city has increasingly left the island. Segara still sat daydreaming on the deck of the ship without caring about the wind that was quite strong in his face, his mind still could not escape from the Pearl. Half his soul was left in the fishing village.

"Pearl, I'm sorry! I didn't tell you all about my memories. But believe me, baby! after all my business with Alfin is done, I will definitely return to pick you up," he promised inwardly as he stared blankly at the middle of the ocean.

Segara continued to daydream, a year he lived to be a Segara and settled on the remote island, and during that time also so many sweet memories that he missed with Pearl there, there, it was very hard for him to leave the island.

"Boss, outside the wind is very strong, you should just sit inside!" genta Tegur.

Seeing his superior who had been sitting daydreaming on the deck of the ship, Genta immediately approached him. Segara only glanced at Genta, but he remained silent in his seat regardless of the reprimand of his assistant.

"Here I bring you a cup of coffee, boss!" Genta brought two coffees in a plastic cup in his hand and one glass was thrust for Segara.

Segara grabbed the coffee from Genta's hand, but he still did not move from his seat.

"I can understand what you're feeling right now, Boss!' said Genta while sitting in the chair next to Segara.

"What can you understand, Genta?" sahut Segara was cynical without even turning his head towards Genta.

"Love, Boss! the man in front of me right now is just a Segara who is drunk with love and very afraid of losing his love!" cibir Genta, while sipping coffee and smoking a cigarette.

"What do you know about love, Genta?" segara grinned with facial features turned upset because of the ridicule of his assistant.

"The love affair may be I'm inexperienced, boss. But for the time being you should put aside the affairs of the heart, many more important things that we have to solve!" genta stressed their main goal of returning to the city.

"Remember, Boss! right now you are Arkha, and not Segara anymore!" genta said again with great emphasis.

Segara just popped his lips and still did not turn his head towards Genta while sipping his coffee.

"You don't have to remind me that anymore, Genta! I know what I have to do!" ketus Segara's.

"Yes, when I decided to return, I was Arkha, not Segara!" sungutnya while getting out of his seat and into the ship without caring about Genta who is still sitting there fun to enjoy coffee and cigarettes.

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Without feeling the ship had been splitting the ocean for almost twenty hours. Now they're at the port.

"Wear this, Boss!" Rendy hands over a hoodie and face mask to Arkha.

"For a while, no one should know you're back, boss. That way we'll have an easier time trapping Mr. Alfin into our trap!" rendy again.

Without asking, Arkha immediately put it on, then they got off the ship to a place where a black SUV was already on standby waiting for them.

Rendy sits in the steering wheel and Genta sits next to her, while Arkha sits in the passenger seat in the back. Along the way Arkha continued to set his sights out through the windshield of his car.

"A year later I disappeared from this city, everything is still the same as it used to be." he murmured.

"Take me to the hospital, Rendy! I'm going to see Mama Yuna!" arkha's orders when their car is already speeding on the main road in the city.

Rendy was silent and did not reply while glancing at Genta who was also silent after hearing Arkha's command.

"Hey why not answer! didn't you hear my orders, Rendy?" snapped Arkha.

He became very upset to see the two assistants who just fell silent not responding to his orders.

"Sorry, Boss. We'd better see the Big Lady next time. There are still many other important things that we have to do now" Genta refused.

"Nobody is more important than mama right now, Genta! I have to see him, mama should know that I'm actually alive!"

"But, Boss..?"

Rendy tries to prevent Arkha's desire to meet her mother, as if there is a secret she has not wanted to reveal to her superiors.

Although forced, Rendy finally willing to obey Arkha's wishes.

"What did you bring me here for, Rendy!" Arkha rounded his eyes as Rendy stopped her car in front of a mental hospital

"Actually, the Great Mistress is being cared for here, Boss." Genta said in a soft voice while bowing his face.

"When you hear the news of your death, the Great Lady is in shock and must be treated here, Boss!" continued.

"Mama...., why did it go like this?" arkha said sadly.

Arkha immediately rushed out of the car, with half a run he got into the hospital.

Arkha's legs suddenly felt stiff unable to move when he arrived at the hospital yard. His eyes were fixed on a middle-aged woman with her shabby clothes and random hair was sitting on a bench. The woman's eyes looked empty and her face was beautiful.

"Mr..!"

Arkha rubbed his face, as if he could not believe what he was seeing at that moment.

Slowly he moved his legs closer to the woman and squatted down in front of her. Arkha opened the cover of his face while removing his hoodie hat.

"Mama, it's Arkha your son, I'm back, Ma! I'm alive, I'm here to pick up mama!" arkha said while hugging the woman who was none other than her mother Yuna.

Tears were unbearably dripping from both his eyeballs, he was very sad to see the condition of his mother at that time.

But Yuna remained silent, she did not even react when Arkha hugged her, her gaze still blank.

"Ma, look at me, Ma! does your mom not recognize me?" arkha asked again while looking into Yuna's eyes and tightly holding her hand.

Yuna slowly raised her face.

"She!" only that word came out of his mouth.

"Yes I'm Kaka, Ma. I'm back, I'm not dead like people thought I was!" arkha said.

Kaka was Yuna's affectionate call to Arkha during her childhood.

"Well..., kaka...., go home, son! don't stay in mama! hiccups. hik..!" yuna said while crying sobbing but her gaze was still nanar not one bit turned towards Arkha.

"Ma.., I'm here, I'm home!" arkha said again while looking at her face and rubbing her mother's cheeks.

"She! you are indeed a wayward mama's child, after you go home mama will pick your ears. Mama won't let you play into the sea again! ha.ha.ha!" yuna snapped while wide-eyed.

His gaze still looked far away, he did not care at all about Arkha who was still holding his hand.

"I'm sorry, sir. is this patient your family?" greet a nun who was near Arkha and Yuna at that time.

"Yes, Sister!" arkha replied briefly.

"Yuna's mother doesn't remember anyone at all, sir. Even his own name he forgot. All he remembered was his son Kaka. We were very difficult to help his recovery, he had difficulty eating and was difficult to communicate, his emotions were very unstable. Sometimes crying and then suddenly laughing," said the nurse.

"During this time no one has visited her, as far as we know, Ms. Yuna is from a family, she can be treated here because she has a lot of insurance" continued the nurse again.

"Did Livina never come here, Sister?" ask Arkha.

"Sorry, Sir. We don't know, all this time that we knew Yuna's mother was a kara, her son had already died from an accident at sea!" the sister's story again.

Arkha sighed deeply, seeing the state of her mother she became very sad, she was also very disappointed because she realized that Livina had never even cared about her mother.