The Ghost Story of LESTARI
35. Bad Choice

Damar was brought home by the servants of the Father, faced directly to Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira.

Damar who initially thought his father would have a haunted face when he welcomed him, or would have prepared with a weapon in hand to kill him, it turned out the opposite.

Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira was told Damar had been taken home and was seen walking quietly from his resting room.

He sat down in front of the son, looked at him and smiled.

Yeah, smile.

After all the madness that he had put in by getting so many people killed, he sat down as if nothing had happened.

"Finally I can see you again."

Said Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira with his calm heavy voice.

It was like he had a double personality.

Damar who saw his father was so calm finally so thought that all meant was fine.

Ki Gedhe Tirtayasa managed to make his father open his heart and breastplate for what had happened.

And that means also, his relationship with Lestari will go as he hoped, Samsul also must have gone home with Ki Gedhe Tirtayasa safely, he said, and Mang Dayat must be currently resting because it is tired of taking care of Damar.

Damar momentarily sighed.

He who thought well felt so relieved.

"Have you eaten?"

Suddenly Dad asked.

Damar nodded.

Of course, as a child, the attention of parents, especially in the moment after the two were in a dispute made Damar's heart so full.

Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira smiled again while sleepy.

Then...

"My son's room."

Call Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira.

"Yes Dad."

Answer Damar.

"Can I ask you a question?"

Ask Dad.

Damar nodded.

Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira smiled.

"Are you really in love with a girl named Lestari?"

Ask Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira.

"Yes Dad, I really love Lestari."

Answer Damar.

"And I want to marry her."

Continue Damar anyway.

"What about the girl? Does he love you too?"

Ask the Father.

Damar looked at his father.

"Yes Dad, we love each other, that's why Damar asked Dad to let him go. Moreover, Dad is a great Master who can get the Widow flowers wherever you want, of course releasing Lestari which is only a young girl will not be difficult for Dad. I'm sorry if Damar sassy Dad, but really Damar spoke as a child too, if Dad wants to get married, Dad better marry a Widow whose age is not too different from Dad."

Damar.

Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira looks to sigh.

Either because he was relieved, or just trying to calm down.

Then...

"Dad will bless us, won't he? Please marry us Father, I as a man must take responsibility for what we have done."

Hearing Damar's sentence, the look on Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira's face changed for a moment, but then he again tried to calm down.

Silent.

Just a minute passed Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira chose silence, while Damar in front of him was also seen silently waiting for the father to speak first.

Honestly, Damar could not guess what his father would say later.

Until, suddenly...

"All right, I'll marry you."

And that answer finally sounded break the silence.

Damar clearly could hardly believe hearing that his father had not only accepted his relationship with Lestari, but would even marry her off.

"Dad... Thanks."

Damar.

"But..."

His sentence is hanging.

Damar looked at his father.

Ask Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira.

Bows down. His heart again shrunk.

"It doesn't matter if you're just in love with your father's future wife, but all you do is approach her, take her away, and even fornicate."

Said Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira.

Damar was silent, not refuting his father's words.

"Dad left the girl in Padepokan Ki Gedhe Tirtayasa so that her chastity is maintained until one day you can marry her, Daddy maintains her dignity and honor even though she is only a little girl."

Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira's voice began to tremble.

"You love him, Dad's the same, but you ruined Damar."

Said Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira again.

"And..."

Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira then asked his servant to bring Mang Dayat into the room.

Damar jerked.

What exactly is going on.

And Damar was growing more and more incredulous as the father's servant dragged the skinny old body whose skin was peeling and bleeding.

Damar's eyes brimmed, he looked at the father in disbelief.

"You made Dad do this."

Damar vibrates.

His chest was hot and his anger was stirring.

"Dad! You're..."

Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira smiled.

"You choose, Dayat I torture again to death following your friend Samsul and Ki Gedhe Tirtayasa and his family and married Lestari without having to be a son of Father again, or you save Dayat and let Lestari become a prisoner of the Japanese."

Damar clenched his hand.

But when Damar clenched his hands, a servant who was also the executioner of Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira stepped on the body full of wounds Mang Dayat until Mang Dayat screamed in pain.

"Dad heard that the Nippon soldiers were gathering many indigenous girls and also Dutch descendants to serve as their slaves, just give Lestari to them, but she was no longer holy."

Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira smiled at Damar triumphantly.

"Dad... You're... Why are you like the Devil!"

Damar was furious.

"You started it all Damar."

Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira stands.

"You want to keep marrying Lestari, I will kill Dayat in front of you. You save him, you give Lestari to the Japanese soldiers. Choose that!!"

And in front of the residence of Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira heard the sound of people arriving.

"They've come, they already know where Lestari you're hiding. You choose."

Said Father.

Damar stared at Mang Dayat whimpering on the floor with a terrible wound. Damar's heart is broken to pieces now.

"If you choose to save Dayat, I will forgive him, I will let Dayat go."

Damar was crying for being so desperate, all the flavors mixed into one at this moment.

"Hurry up, you don't have much time. You know the Japanese don't like waiting too long."

Said Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira.

Damar ended up with an unusually limp body talking.

"Alright, let Mang Dayat go, promise me you won't hurt him, if you break your promise, I'll replace killing all your ashes."

Damar.

Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira laughed out loud.

"What can you do? Right now you can't do anything."

Damar who heard the words of his father felt so sick.

He didn't expect to have such an evil father.

"I'll see Lestari once more, let me hand her over myself."

Damar.

Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira grinned.

"Just do it, I don't care. Haha..."

Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira feels he has really won.

Seeing the man who captured his love is now powerless to have his love fully makes the heart of Mr. Ageng Parta Prawira so happy.

Damar approached Mang Dayat, helped him to his feet and then took Mang Dayat away from his father's residence.

Several servants and representatives of the Japanese army then asked Damar immediately to Lestari's place to arrest him.

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