ALAS ROBAN [END ]
BANQUET

After being confused, Bima finally ventured to tell Azzam about what happened at the restaurant. Unfortunately, Bima's words were answered with laughter. Azzam did not trust Bima at all. He assumed that Bima deliberately pranked himself.

"Do I look like I'm joking?" bima asked annoyed.

"That's exactly the point, if your face is not convincing, how can you fool me. But baby, your dress this time failed."

Bima took a long breath.

"Zam.."

"Don't tell me you like Ayu too!"

"Not Zam."

"Good, I hold your word. We are friends since Orok (infant). Don't be ruined because you took my lover."

"You guys are dating?"

"Yes, I've."

"When?"

"Yesterday," Azam replied as he smiled a smile on his lips.

"Buck!" bima Mind.

"You must be advising me about Tantri, right? take it easy, I will not make you as my affair cover. I'll be fair to both."

Azam laughed gigglingly.

"Crazy for you? don't play with women's feelings!"

"Bim, have you seen Ayu's charm? I really can't resist it."

"But Ayu is not human, he is Zam's genie."

"That's what you're talking about again. Don't keep joking! Ohya, come with me tonight to Ayu's house. Just to prove that Ayu is not a ghost like you said."

"No, I don't want to. Don't go there either!"

"What the hell is this? gini deh, I promise I will obey you as long as you want to come later tonight. Just prove that Ayu is a ghost but, if the result is otherwise, you don't bother me sam Ayu again huh!"

"Zam.."

"Okay deal, I assume we agreed. I'll pick you up tonight!"

"Zam.."

"I'm back, assalamualaikum."

"Waalaikumsalam, Hail! finger runyam his business."

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After Maghrib was right, Azam picked up Bima at his house. Bima had tried to resist but Azam, continued to force. As a result, Bima can only obey the invitation of his friend. As expected Bima, Ayu's house is not far from their house but strangely, Bima feels foreign to Ayu's house. Bima felt that all this time, never saw a house standing there.

"Zam.." call Bima while pulling Azam's sleeve.

"What?"

"I feel awkward, right? I don't think there's a house here."

"If not, whose house is it?" ask back Azam while pointing to a house in front of the two.

"It's Ayu Bim's house" Azam said.

"As I recall, this is Hasan's garden."

"Oh Bim! you're the same I've been wandering around for a long time. How do you know that part of Hasan's garden has been bought by Ayu's parents?"

Although Azam's speech made sense but Bima's mind was still not calm. His steps felt forced when he and Azam continued walking and then said greetings. A voice answered their greetings from inside the house. Shortly, the door opened.

"True buk, I am Azam and this is my friend, Bima."

"Let's been a lot of stories about you guys, let's go in!"

"Thank you."

"Please sit!"

"Yes." Yeah."

"In a moment, Ayu's out, just wait!"

"Good buk. My mom must be Ayu's mom, right?" ask Azam.

"Yes, I'm his mother. Well, that's Ayu, here's ayu!"

Ayu sat down next to her mother. For a moment, Bima was amazed by her beauty but regained consciousness when remembering the incident at the restaurant. After talking for a while, Bima and Azam were welcome to eat. The menu that day is soto complete with sambal and crackers. In addition, there is also tempeh and fried tofu as a complement to the dish.

All the dishes look appetizing. The smell filled the room. Without further ado, Azam quickly ate it. While Bima is still worried. Seeing Bima who was silent, Ibu Ayu asked Bima to immediately taste it. Bima nodded her head while saying a meal prayer. Unfortunately, his mind just keeps getting riled up. As a result, Bima read the short letters in her heart. Starting from the verses of Qursi, Al Fatikhah, An Nas and many others. His intention to calm the tremors but what happened instead made him stunned.

Bima almost vomited if he could not stand it. How not to nausea, Bima saw that the soto dish that Azam ate turned into a snake body piece. In fact, his head was still intact inside the bowl. While the sauce is fresh blood that smells very rancid. Bima quickly pulled the Azam spoon and then threw the bowl in front of him.

"What do you mean Bim?" ask Azam not understand.

"Can't you see?"

"Can, I can see clearly when you throw away my food."

"Zam.."

"What's? you why? at least not this polite in front of Ayu's mother."

Bima immediately pulled Azam's hand while inviting him to leave from there. Unfortunately, Azam threw down Bima's grip just like that and there was a debate between them. Azam was angry because Bima made a groundless commotion.

"Are you crazy?"

Bima shut up and pulled Azam back out of the house. Once again, Azam threw out his hand while making a mockery to Bima.

"You're crazy Zam. The food you eat is not soto but snake meat with blood sauce."

"Bima enough! I don't know why you're doing this. If you don't want to go in, please go! I'll come back and apologize for this incident!"

"Don't Zam don't!"

"Go there!"

Bima could only sigh long as Azam turned around, returning to Ayu's house. His mind was filled with worry as well as fear. In the end, Bima stepped away from there. With a furious heart, he walked home and prayed for Azam in his heart. Pray that God would protect his friend.

Arriving home, Bima asked her mother about their new neighbor. Unfortunately, his mother's response made Bima more worried because, his mother looked confused when Bima said about the Ayu family who bought the land mikih pak Hasan. His mother insisted that until this moment, had never heard the news about Mr. Hasan selling his land or about someone who built a house on the land owned by Mr. Hasan.

...Deg.. ...

"Yes, what else is this?"

"What's Bim doing?" ask her mother who is starting to wonder.

"They're.."

"What's wrong? story to mom!"

"Azam knew a woman named Puspa Ayu who, he said, lived in a house built on the land of Mr. Hasan. In fact, Bima had just come from there and it was true, there was a house there. Bima also met with Ayu and his mother. Granted a banquet too but.."

"But why?"

"Bima did not eat at all because the inner Milky Way felt riled up until when Bima read prayers, the food that Azam was eating, the food that Azam was eating, turned into pieces of snake meat along with the snake's head intact with a fresh blood sauce in its bowl."

Mom Bima was shocked.

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