Episodes 68. Insane Woman
In a room where the Governor works and manages provincial documents.
"Do you know who this is?" Mr. Halim's voice asked, showing a photo of someone.
The woman's eyes widened and trembled slightly as she looked at the person in the photo.
"T-That's?"
"Yes... Isn't he your friend?" He asked, placing the photo on the table.
"Hmm..." The woman nodded weakly and tiredly.
As if she had just run 100 laps, the woman now looked very exhausted.
"I want you to dig up information on him! Maybe, if you try to befriend him a little, he'll slip up and give you information about Nova!"
The woman didn't respond at all, she continued to listen to the person's words while staring at her reflection on the floor.
"Besides, from the information I've gathered, you and he used to be very close, even the three of you were nicknamed the crazy trio."
"Hmm..." The woman pursed her lips into a bitter smile.
That past, she should forget about it.
There's no point in always remembering it, only suffering remains.
"Salwa?!" Halim called the woman's name.
"Uh, yes?!" She startled.
"Heh... Don't daydream too much, quickly do your task!"
"Y-Yes!"
Quickly, Salwa turned her body and looked at the exit door of the room.
She took one step, but...
"Wait!"
The person's voice stopped Salwa's second step.
With no choice but to be annoyed, she quickly turned her whole body back to the person.
"What?"
"Take this!" He threw something.
"HAP!"
Salwa's skilled hand caught the object thrown by the Governor.
When opened by both palms, the object was the latest creation of the pageblug.
"T-This?!"
"Take it, consider it as my thank you for working for me for over 3 years in East Dawa!"
Salwa's face looked pale, but she had to act and put on a smile for the old man.
"Thank you!"
Shortly after that, Salwa hurriedly left the room out of fear.
.......
Still in the same place, but the person is now alone while enjoying his cigarette.
From behind the glass of the building, he enjoyed the view of Hibaya city.
His mouth echoed, his eyes looked tired but thickened, and his fingers holding the tobacco slowly descended.
"I'm not doing this for you, Nova. But, because danger will come to me if I ignore this problem!"
He muttered alone in that place, but his voice didn't reach anyone.
Only the glittering lights of the city heard his fearful pressure.
.......
"Hey, who are you?"
"W-Who are you?!"
A woman with long red hair appears out of nowhere. Her hair straightens showing her elegant hair. The blue eyes that she has lighten and intimidate the dark room.
Both Sophia and the man were surprised to see a woman emerge from the darkness.
"I am a fighter who will save you all, and defeat this foolish man!" Salwa stared foolishly at the man.
She pointed her sword at the kidnapper's neck.
"Tch, you're not him... Then leave! Before I really get angry!"
"Why should I be afraid?" She stared mockingly.
"What a woman, huh? Fine then..."
The man turned and walked slowly toward the hostages.
BRAK!
But that wasn't his plan, with a quick glance, the man unleashed a powerful gust of wind.
"Ugh!"
Despite being hit by a very strong blow, Salwa's body only suffered a slight scratch.
"H-How is this possible?!"
"Hihi..." That smile, as if giving intimidation to the man.
"Singh Akash, right?" Salwa leers to the man with her intimidating eye.
"You are on the most wanted mafia list in India!" While showing a newspaper clipping containing news about the Indian man.
"Ha ha hahahahaha! So you know, huh? Then what?!" (Akash)
"Are you going to arrest me and take me back there?!" (Akash)
"They obviously won't dare to fight me! Once they see my face, the law won't stand a chance, and the strong will rule the weak." (Akash)
"All your efforts... Will be in vain-" (Akash)
TING!
But the woman ignored his words, choosing instead to attack him directly.
Now her sword had to face Akash's iron gauntlets.
"Feel this!"
A fire spell burned the iron molecules in Akash's hand.
BUAR!
Seeing himself being disadvantaged, Akash quickly threw the woman away.
"Fire, huh? Then, let me play with earth!"
The man took a sumo-like stance. A stomp he does makes the building collapse.
"Are you planning to bury both of us?!" Salwa glared angrily at the man.
"Not the both of us, but the five of us!" He said, pointing with five fingers at the hostages.
But that smile instantly disappeared, replaced by fear.
The hostages disappeared and none of them sat in the chairs.
"Hih!" Salwa put on a cunning smile.
"You've lost!" (Salwa)
Salwa changed her sword into a spear.
Right before the building collapsed, the spear was lifted up and spun like a helicopter rotor.
WUSH! WUSH WUSH!
The collapsing building instantly turned into a sandstorm, protecting the two of them from being buried alive forever.
The place they stood now was just an empty background without any rocks or grass.
"Fight me! Akash!" Salwa challenged the Indian man with a martial arts pose.
"You, Duryudhana's lackey!"
Note: Duryudhana is the antagonist in the Mahabharata story
Akash walked, throwing his fists to Salwa.
WUSH!
A strong wind blew towards the woman, but it seemed that the Indian mafia had forgotten about the basics of elements.
"Fool, my strength is stronger!"
Salwa unleashed a blaze of fire from her spinning spear towards the man.
The wind magic that was supposed to harm the woman now became an assist for Salwa's attack.
The raging fire became even more fierce than usual.
All this happened because the wind magic was weaker than her fire magic.
"Argh! Hot! Hot! Hot!"
Akash's body was engulfed in flames, making him wriggle on the ground.
SLEB!
Just as he wriggled, Salwa stabbed the man who looked like a worm in hot ashes.
"You've lost!"
The woman gave him a blank stare.
Disappointed, that's what the woman felt when facing her enemy.
"Rasyid, you can come out now!" Salwa called out to the man who had been hiding in the depths of the earth.
.......
"Thank you for helping me!" I said to the woman.
It was an honor to be helped by her, his intuition about this reliable woman wasn't wrong.
"You're so cruel! How dare you leave a woman alone in that place!"
Salwa complained about my actions.
I don't know why, but suddenly I smiled warmly at her.
'Salwa?'
I felt like I remembered her.
"Salwa?"
She looked at me with a slightly widened gaze.
A sweet smile finally emerged from the emptiness on her face earlier.
"Finally, you remembered me, Rasyid!"
How could I forget her?
Salwa was one of my friends and Rosa. She could be said to be the crazy schoolgirl.
Together with me and Rosa, the three of us formed our own group after school. Aside from the friendship I made with Jauhari and Farhan, of course. Salwa is a friend of the club I joined. My calmness always makes her annoyed. So she comes to me just to mock it.
And from there, I was able to get to know Rosa.
"Forgive me for forgetting the most important person in my life!"
Tears flowed from my eyes, even though it was just a memory that had returned.
But these tears couldn't be stopped forcibly.
TAK TAK TAK
Footsteps approached me.
"Calm down, everything is fine... I hope you can forgive things for what happened to Rosa."
Salwa made me tremble again, every time that name was mentioned. A fear made me tremble violently.
"Rosa? Who is she?" Sophia and the other two students asked as they walked towards us.
"Just a burning red string."
Salwa protected my past from my students, it seemed she understood my current condition.
.......
PLAK PLAK PLAK!
Someone clapped their hands at us.
"Akash really became a great bait, didn't he?"
"You guys didn't even realize that you are now surrounded!"
"I suggest you surrender and let us take those agates."
The man considered himself victorious just by looking at the numbers.
"You underestimate your opponent too much!" (Salwa)
"We're here... Stand strong!" (Sophia)
"Anything for you, Mr. Rasyid!" (Camal)
"Mr. Rasyid, we're with you!" (The nerdy-looking girl with glasses)
I felt a terrifying pounding in my heart.
'It's like... Someone is going to disappear.'
What is wrong with this current situation?