1 Chosen Tamers 1

Somewhere in Timurside, at a high university of Kreeton city, at the class time break, there was a young man who walking through the corridor of the campus, with his high head,  all the people of that campus were giving him the way as they also talking about him. Some boys whispered to each other to mocking him, there some other who felt envy of him and anything else. Meanwhile some girls were whispering to admire his appearance, some other were thinking how to get closer to him and anything else. But there was a young lady who had planned something to do on him that afternoon. She was actually shy and rather clumsy, but she gathered her courages from her best friends, and then she started to do the thing. She wanted to give him a lunch box and also tried to confess her feeling toward him.

"You can do it, Hani!!", that was what her best friends said to her before she finally ran toward than young man.

She was walking at first but suddenly her steadily increased her speed as she was running this time. The thing never seemed to be normal as her nervousness suddenly took over her mind. Everything was blank and then she tripped over her own feet and then fell down in front of him, as well as the lunch box that she had made for him, it spilled to the floor. The food spilled on the way of him, so he stopped on his feet. All people were looking at them at that moment. Some other girls started laughing at it in their group as they were starting to mocking Hani. Her best friends were running toward her to helping.

"Uh! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!", Hani was apologizing to that man as she quickly take out the food on the floor that blocked his way.

After that, the young man skipped out to passing that spilled food on the floor and continued to walk without a single word came from him. Leaving that girl and her friends cleaning up the mess. That girl looked so down in her face, even though her best friends tried to cheer her up. A moments later the next classes were starting. The people were attending their class.

In the class where that young man was, some of students kept talking about the thing happened earlier. No one talked to him though, he was focussing on the study and ignoring all people there. Until the class finally had over. On his way out of that campus to go home, a girl came by to him. This girl was more trendy than Hani, taller and more beautiful. She was so confident walked toward him and stopped him there. And he stopped.

"Hi, Tama! I heard that some girls have run over you to give you the lunch box! But she spilled it in front of you instead! I feel sorry for you! And for the exchange, I will give you this! I made it for you, you know!", that girl tried to give him a lunch box.

"Don't need it! And!! Don't be looked so familiar to me as called me that way!!", he said that as he walked away to leave her.

"Ah, sorry, Bias, but.., hei! Bias! I want to give it to you because I like you!! Hei! Wait!!", that girl was shouting but that young man, Bias, he didn't even give a sign and kept walking.

She was confessing her feeling to him but he didn't give a mind to it, she was rejected. Then she cried out.

On the middle of his way home, after shopped on grocery store, at the evening, in the such an empty alley, Bias was blocked by some people there, he was surrounded. Those people looked eager to assaulting him. But suddenly a man walked out from them to get closer to Bias.

"Hehh! You think you are a blessing, huh?! Do you think you can get what you want so easily when you ask?! Huh?!", that man said it in loud voice.

"Do you know who I am?! ... Of course you don't! Even though we are ever in same classes before! You're so much of yourself! Don't care about anything in around you! And here you are! End up in here! You will start to think about the other thing that have you done! And let me told you who I am! I am Deni Hans!! You better remember that name!!", Deni continued to talk and then he gave a punch to Bias.

With his hand, Bias deflected Deni's punch from hitting Bias' face. And swiftly Bias pushed Deni's body to make Deni fell backward. Deni's friends immediately help him to stand.

"You dare to hit me! You will regret it!!", Deni ordered his friends to strike Bias.

"You are the one who attacked me first!", declined Bias as he prepared to defend himself against them.

That was so, they started to attack Bias on every side. Bias who ever had learned some martial arts back then in his high school, he knew much about defended himself for these kind of fighting. Deflated the attack then returning the attack, dodging and strike back, and hold then countering. That guy tried to punch him from his back, he who had seen it was coming, quickly moved himself aside so he could evade that punch, then he used his elbow to strike that guy back on the vital spot. One down. The other guy came from his side, trying to give a punch too. Bias lower his body down to avoid that punch and quickly move toward that guy's side and strike that guy's ball with his knee strongly, that guy was bowing to feet hurting. Then with his elbow, Bias gave his final blow to that guy's back to make it down. Another one had down. After that two people came on the same time, they were trying to punch Bias. Bias could managed to block one of them, but another one hit his face hardly, he knocked back a little and then refined his stance quickly.

"Ahaha... That's good! Keep going!!", Deni was laughing and ordered them to continue attacking Bias.

Those two were moving forward then trying to give another punches to Bias. This time, Bias did a spin on his body as he moved forward to one of that guy. With his fist, after that spin, he hit that guy face in such critical damage. That guy slammed by that strike toward the other guy, they were falling down. But the other guy immediately stood up and tried to continue attacking Bias. But Bias had already on that guy's way as he ran and then jumped forward, he did a frontal kick that hit that guy's head hardly then made it fell down. After that Bias looked got tired, but there were still 3 guys left including Deni. Bias stared at Deni's way with his anger face. He was so tired too. And Deni saw this as an opportunity to beat him.

"He is starting to get tiring, you see! Now you two! Finish him!!", Deni talked to his guys as he asked them to attack Bias.

Bias was just quietly standing there, waiting for them to come on his way. That was so, those two were running toward him. Bias was refined his stance as he prepared to do some attacks on that stance. He waited those two to got even closer to him. Until he thought they were on the certain distant, he did a high rounded kick on them. It seemed so strong kick that hit those two and swept them away in one strike. Those two was down after hit the wall of stone fence of the house on the side of that alley. And then Bias continued to stared Deni in his anger face, quite murderous expression. Even in his tiring states. Deni got scared of him, that decided to run away from him, leaving his guys that all were laying on the street alley after being beaten by Bias.

"I'll remember this! You'll pay for it later!! Watch yourself, you damned!!", Deni was shouting while he ran away from Bias.

After seeing Deni had gone away, Bias almost fell as he kept stood up on his knee. He was so exhausted after that fight. Then, he gained his energy that left in him to walked up to go to his house. He left those guys alone without reported them to the guards of the city. Then treat himself on his house, alone. No one noticed he was wounded since he was just leaving with his father and some of his servants, but they just worked as they used to be, such as cleaning house holds, cooking the meal and serving in on the dining room, guarding the house and some others. No one of them who worked on their personal butler, and also they prohibited to get themselves on Bias and his father's personal business, including treating the wounds unless these two couldn't do it themselves, they would asked their doctors to treat them.

Bias father's, Satria Tama, was a successful business man who always focused on his businesses, trying to bring the name of Tama family to be on top of business legacy. But he had no time for meeting his own son except at the dining time. For Bias, he had got every supplies of his needs from his father but that was all, no directing contacts happened on it. He always spent his everyday lonely, especially after the day of his mother died when he was in the middle of his J high school time. She got sick and had fought on it for year but she never got better until she got passed away. And then Bias was being raised by his father alone. Even he used to be a spoiled boy in his past, after his mother passed away, his father forcedly taught him to be an independent man. That was it, as the results of that teaching, he had no friends at all since that time up till this time. Even so, his lifestyle and his intelligence were always making the people around him felt envy of him and so many people wanted to get closer to him, but his cold hearted always turned them down. And yet, there was a thing that he actually wanted to do about that, he just never eagerly to do that and ended up leaving them.

Next day, Bias came to campus to attend his classes, there was a mark left on his face after being punched yesterday, and all people staring at it as they talking about it in their own group. Bias actually used to it though, but this time felt different. In some side of those people, there were Hani and her friends. Despite to the thing had happened yesterday, she still had her care for him in some way, even she couldn't express it directly. This time, she really wanted to come at him and asked him for his condition but suddenly someone came from behind her and her friends broke out the way and made them stepped aside. She was Yasmin, the girl that had been rejected by Bias yesterday. She brought some friends this time, they were from her team of the cheerleaders club. But she ordered them to stayed on their place as she would face Bias alone. So, she moved closer to Bias and made him stopped as she started to talk.

"Oh, Bias! What happen to your face? Are there someone who hate you so much that give this bruise on your face? Just tell me! I'll make them stop for sure, but in return you have to go out with me! How do you say?", Yasmin said that but Bias just gave her his silence.

"Isn't it a huge opportunity to date the most beauty of this campus? And also they would stop laying their hands on you too!!", she continued to talking, but Bias seemed figured something.

"You're the one who send them to me, aren't you?", Bias replied made Yasmin rather surprised.

"Ah! No! No! How can you say something like that? Why should I do that to you? Do you think if I will date someone with the beaten face? Oh! That's not what I meant..", she kept talking.

Hearing that made him got furious, but he thought the things had settled yesterday, so he didn't want to mind it. That was so, while she was keeping talking with her mouth, he just slipped away ignoring and leaving her there. He headed toward the class.

"Hei! Bias! Bias!!! Wait!", she was calling him but he ignored.

This time she didn't crying like the last time, as her friends came closer to her, she seemed planning on something else, that was something bad.

The class started and everything went normal, normal for Bias meant he got his own time alone again even the people around him kept talking about him, he didn't give a mind to that. Then class was over, break time before next class. It was not like everyday that Bias actually would went out the class when the class was over. That day, he stayed little longer at the class until all people left away, then he headed to the door to get out of the class. Suddenly someone bumped on him in front of the exit door before he wanted to go out of room and that person came into the room. That person was Hani, she actually came by to Bias for lent herself to treat the bruise on his face.

"Um! So-sorry! I don't see you coming out the way!", she was apologizing for bumped on him all of sudden.

"Hmm..", Bias reacted to her as he started to walk away to get out of the room but Hani stopped him.

"Uh! Ta-umm- Bias! Wait!", she called him out, he stopped and turned himself around, kept in his silent.

"I, I want to treat your bruise on your face..", she said that as she showed the first kit box on her hands.

"I don't need it!... I've taken care of it myself..", he replied as he left away.

He turned her down again. But this time she actually moved on her own without her friends' help cheering on. It was her own initiative. To think that no one would actually come for to take care of him.

The evening was coming, the classes had done for Bias, he was heading home. But then in the middle of his way home, at the empty road. Some people had blocked his way like yesterday, they were even so many than the last time. Then the familiar face came up to greet him, the same person as yesterday, Deni.

" Hei, bastard! You seemed still had your head high?! Let me teach you to look down then, will you?!", asked Deni to Bias.

" Even you're just running away yesterday? What thing you can teach me then?", Bias was mocking him.

" You bastard!! You will die here!!", Deni seemed giving order to his guys to attack Bias, but no one on moved.

He started to felt angry but suddenly another man came by on his side. As he held Deni's shoulder.

"Calm down yourself, he's just alone! Why should we rushed on him! He would go anywhere though..", said that man to Deni.

" Oh! Big bro Bayu! I'm sorry..", Deni was apologizing.

Bayu Hans, he was Deni's big brother, he was quite famous there as the leader of the goon group around Kreeton city. Some people were being afraid of him. But Bias didn't know about him, he didn't really care about the thing though.

"Let's talk a little, would you?!", Bayu asked to talk with Bias as he came closer to Bias.

Seeing him getting closer, Bias prepared himself as he did the defense stance then. Bayu stopped on his steps.

"Wait! Wait! I'm not gonna fight you, alright!? I'm just wanna talk to you!", he kept talking but Bias ignored him as he kept on his defensive stance and kept silent.

"He looked so hard to be handled in persuasive method though, maybe he really want to feel the pain himself! All of you! Give him a taste!", Bayu ordered his men to attack Bias.

Then they were coming all at once striking Bias. It started with one man jumping kick toward him. He could managed to dodge it but another man also did the jumping kick toward him from the other side. Bias couldn't just dodge it since it was too late for him to evade, so he used his hands to blocked that man kick and he did it. That man stopped. But the other one came with the punch toward his face, he tried to bow to evade that punch but the man that he stopped earlier, used the knee toward his face when he was bowing. He got hit, and that was hard hit on his face. Some other men kept coming at him as they gave their punches, kicks, elbows and knees toward him. At very first moments, he could manage to block some of them but then hit by hit, strike by strike, made him lost focus on upcoming attacks, he even barely managed to defend himself then. He fell to the ground but no one of them stopped hitting him. Until suddenly, a voice of someone's shouting was being heard loudly by them.

"Help! Help!! There's a robbery! Help! They are striking the victim!! Help!!", that was what it sounded.

Hearing it, Bayu ordered them to get away.

"Someone's coming this way! It will be bad if the guardians also come, we get outta here! Don't forget his money! Take them out too!!", ordered Bayu to his men as he was the one who first ran away from that place.

They were starting to run after some of them looked for the money of Bias on his pockets and his backpack. They were afraid being chase by the guardians of the city. They didn't want to be prisoned. But at that time also, Deni had his time to give some kicks on beaten Bias there.

"Here! And here! How is it feel?! Do you learn it now?! That's all what I can teach you, you bastard!!", that was what he said and after gave last kick he ran away.

He was so left behind by the group, and as in hurry on his running, he tripped on his own feet and made him fell to the ground. For some moment he had fallen, then he regained his strength and stood up again. When he stood up he turned his head back to check on Bias, then he found someone had with him, someone that he knew. But then he kept on running afraid if the real guardians would come and chase him down.

Back to some moments behind, on another side, after she thought they had been running away so far, she quickly came closer to Bias, she took out her first kit box and started to treat him. She was Hani. Her home was actually nearby. When she was on her way home she saw Bias were being blocked by some people there and then they started to attack him. She was thinking to find a way to help him but she was out of options.

Suddenly the thing came to her mind, yelling for help. That was so, it actually did well to repel them to go away. After that she came to help the beaten Bias.

After some moments she had treated Bias, Bias who got unconscious for a moment, finally woke up. He tried to move up but Hani stopped him.

"Don't move for now! You're not in good shape for moving, Tama... Um, I mean Bias..", said Hani to Bias.

But Bias seemed to not hear her and kept on moving. He felt too much hurts all over his bodies, but he kept on moving.

"Ugh! Guhhk!", he reacted on his hurting.

" I told you not to move!", she repeated to tell Bias not to move.

"Ugh! Hhhg... Aghh..", Bias fell on his knees after he tried to standing up.

"If you insist of moving! Then let's move to my house it's nearby! Yours is still too far! You can't manage to get there in this current state..", said Hani as she helped Bias to stand then walked to her house.

Then they moved to Hani's house. Bias seemed to decline but he couldn't do anything about it. Even he needed her helps to stand on his feet, for the more to walking. After some minutes they arrived at Hani's house.

"I'm home!", Hani was greeting as they were coming in.

"Welcome home!", Hani's mother was greeting her back as she immediately opened the door for her.

"You come late today! What hap-..", her mother tried to ask her why she came late but then got surprised to see her brought the messed Bias with her.

"Oh God! What's happening to Tama? Come in here! Let him sit in here!", her mother asked Hani to put Bias on the chair in front of their house.

After made him sat on the chair, Hani immediately came in to the house, she wanted to pick up medical kits on the medical box in the house, some of them that she didn't have in her first kit box earlier. Meanwhile her mother made a herbal drink to minimize the feel of being hurt of the wounds Bias had. After she took all she needed to treat him, she started to treat Bias' wounds and bruises.

"Here! Let him drink this! It will somehow decrease the pains of his wounds!", Hani's mother passed a glass of herbal drink that she made for to be drank by Bias to Hani.

And then Hani helped Bias to handle the glass as he drank that drink. She did that because Bias could barely handle that glass by himself. While on the treatments and all, Bias just could do silent. He had no idea what should he said in that moments. And then after some moments, the treatments that Hani did to Bias had done.

"Alright that's all! But you must not to move so much, okay! You have to rest a bit here! I will tell your father that you will come late today-..,!! Oh, right! I forgot to do that earlier! I'll do it now then-..", said Hani as she seemed like to rush to go inside the house for call Bias' father but Bias stopped her.

"No! Ugh! No, please! Don't call him or anything..", that was what he said to her.

" Um? Why? Wouldn't that he be panic if you come late?", she was asking.

" Ugh! No, he'll be fine! Just don't call him or anything, please..", Bias repeated himself.

" But why?", Hani was wondering.

"I said, he'll be fine!!", Bias replied in high intonation.

That made Hani stopped to ask, she went silent for a moment before she finally finished to clean up the treatments trash and then took back the medical kit to its place in the house, she left him there alone. After some minutes, in his walk that limping, Bias came inside the house, he saw Hani was sitting on the couch in the living room, she seemed like crying herself. He was actually shocked to see that but he didn't show that.

"Thank you very much for the treatments, I will go now..", Bias said that and turned his way to walk out.

" But your wounds-..", she would say more words but Bias stopped her.

"I'm fine! I can call for a taxi!", Bias said it.

" Alright I'll walk you-..", she wanted to help him out but he declined.

"It's fine! I can do it myself! You've done enough..", that was what he said as he left her there, he walked away.

Hani actually wanted to be more being help for him but she afraid that she would cross the thing that would make him hurt so much, so she just obeyed his words. She somehow understood him, his feeling well. She felt sad for him. Then suddenly her mother came to her.

"He's leaving?", her mother asked to her.

" Yeah..", she answered.

"Hmm... He is growing fast! He has become stronger and stronger. The little Tama has been a yound fine man, hasn't he? Heh?!", her mother somehow teased on her.

" Mom..!! Stop it..!!", she reacted on her mother's teasing.

" He has stopped to play with you since his mother has passed away. I've never seen him since that day, but today, only in one look, somehow I knew that was him, the little Tama that we know..", her mother kept talking.

" He's not like the little Tama we've known now... I don't think he even remembered the past we have had right now..", Hani said it in sad face.

" Hmm?! Little Tama will be little Tama, even though he is growing up, the memories of past in him will not fade no matter what. The life is surely changing people, but it can't change the memories their had in them. Give him a time to remember them, but don't force him if he's actually don't want to, he could be have some reasons to not to do that, okay?", explained her mother to her.

" Um, okay..", she was nodding.

"Now, you better take a bath then, before it is so late, you're so messed there..", said her mother.

" Oh, right! Ah, it's already so late though! Haa..", she was rushing to think that she had hadn't taken a bath yet since she had so messed after helped Bias today.

"Don't so rush! The bathroom would not move anywhere! Take your time, dear..", her mother was reminding her to slow down.

And then went to the place where Bias was walking to the street to get some taxi to go home. As he was walking, he could sense someone was  following him. Then when he was waiting for taxi, this person who followed him, came closer to him. He turned himself to see who was it. Then he saw a man with white clothes was coming to him.

"Don't worry! I'm not gonna hurt you! I come here to tell you something..", that was his first words to opened the conversation.

"Not interest-..", Bias tried to decline but that man kept spoken.

"Your life will be changing drastically! Your fate is waiting for you somewhere else around this world! Don't be so stubborn for your own ego! You have something else in your heart which actually wanted to be done, don't hide it anymore! Unless you want to feel the same regret that you have ever had when you lost someone you dearest again!", as he said that he walked away then in such fast move, he vanished.

"What do you mea-..! Hei! Wait!", Bias was suddenly wanted to know what he meant by that but, he had gone.

Next day morning, in his current condition, Bias didn't attend to his classes, he even didn't come to the dining room when he usually had morning breakfast with his father. His father got wondered as he asked to the one of their maid.

"Where is he?", Bias' father, Satria Tama, was asking to the maid in expressionless voice.

"Master Bias is in his room, my lord..", that maid humbly answered to him in lowering her head.

"Why doesn't he have his breakfast? Doesn't he have any classes today?", he continued to asked.

"I could not know about that matter, my lord, but yesterday when master Bias came home, master Bias seemed messed with some bandages on his body, my lord, that is what I saw last night..", she answered again with the same gestures like before.

"Trying to play a champion, huh? Very well, just left him be!..", as he said that, Satria stood up and then left the dining room to go to work.

"Yes, my lord..", responded his maid.

As he left the table, all the maids were bowing to honour him. And then after that, they cleaned up the table. Meanwhile, Bias was on his room, felt sick of all his wounds. But the treatments from Hani and the herbal drink from her mother were actually helped him out to decrease the pains.

On the evening time in dining room, the dinner time, Bias got on his chair of the table. This time, he met his father with his current state. He just ate as usual, ignoring his father as much as he could. Then he finished his dinner and got up to go back to his room, but his father started to talk.

"How would you catch up with your classes today?", that was the question came from his father.

"I've gotten them online..", Bias answered him.

" Try not to do unnecessary things beside your studies, unless you can live your live in your own, then get outta here, but if you do that, don't ever think you can go back to this family again!", said Bias'father.

Bias stopped for a second before he walked away to his room with some words.

"Yeah..", that was it.

Then he left his father there alone to go to his room. He just entered his room, but before he headed his bed, someone was knocking his door room.

"Excuse me, master Bias..", that was sound one of his maid who worked there.

"Yeah, what is it?!", Bias with loud voice responded her as he opened the door of his room.

"I am sorry for disturbing you, master Bias, but there is a call for you, master Bias..", she said it as she lowering her head.

"Who is it?", Bias backed to ask again.

"She said she is Hani's mother, master Bias, she is still on the line..", as she said that, Bias was walking to the phone line place to take on the phone.

And then he picked up the phone.

"Bias speaking..", Bias started the conversation.

" Tama! I'm sorry to call you this late time, but Hani hasn't come home yet, she never came home this late, especially without any message that she gave me.., perhaps, she is with you today, or maybe do you know where is she?", Hani's mother was asking to Bias about Hani's whereabout in sad sound.

"Ah, I'm sorry she's not with me today, and I don't know where she is..", Bias answered.

" Oh! Is that so?.. Alright then, but if you could know where she is, please let me know, okay... Thank you for the troubled, bye..", after she said so, she hung up the phone.

"Oo..", Bias seemed like wanted to say something but the line phone had disconnected.

After he hung the phone, Bias went back to his room. He entered his room, and then somehow he looked out the window. There, he saw a silhouette which moving to the garden. It stopped there. And then he recognized that figure, the man that he met yesterday before he got the taxi. He opened the window to ask what he wanted to do there, but before he started to speak up, that man was already talking.

"Your girlfriend had been kidnapped by the guys that had beaten you up yesterday. They hid her in the abandoned building some blocks from here. You better help her now before she was... You know, I don't wanna say it though..", that man, wiseman Cok'Ro, explained the situation of someone.

"My-.., my girl-friend? I, I don't have any.., what do you mean by that?", Bias was asking in his confusion.

" You are really much understanding what I meant.., just remember what I have told you earlier..", wiseman Cok'Ro said that and then went away, really fast.

"Hei! Wait!!", Bias tried to stop him, but no use, he had gone.

And then for the moments, he thought about all things that man said. All the things, included the words that he said yesterday. And for some reasons, Bias remembered about Hani, and the other thing, how could that man knew much about him. He never met that man before, but that man even knew his feeling of regretting of his past, his hidden feelings and some other. He was totally confused. But that ended immediately when he for once more time to remember that man's words, "Your girlfriend had been kidnapped by the guys that had beaten you up yesterday. They hid her in the abandoned building some blocks from here. You better help her now..".

" My girlfriend? Girl friend? Could it be, Hani?!", that was what on Bias' thoughts, it increased his evidences after her mother's call last time which looking for her.

" The guys who beat me up? Those guys on yesterday afternoon!", he kept thinking to suspecting a thing.

And then he remembered about the abandoned building at some blocks from his house, he knew where it was. But, for a moment, in his current condition, he didn't think he could do anything to help her. He thought to call for the guardians of the city to ask for help, but then he thought he couldn't just asked them to help him for something based on suspecting. He couldn't ask some of their family guards also, because their job desks were limited in area of the house only. He had no other friends either. All his thoughts were suddenly stopped popping as something in his heart occuring the memories of someone. He didn't want to have another regret in his life. So he decided to go for himself, in his current state, even it was all better than yesterday condition though.

Then he headed toward the abandoned building that he thought as suspecting location where they were in. He finally arrived at the near distant before that abandoned building. There, he saw two people were standing guarding the entrance of that building, they might be people of them, he didn't really know, even he had already forgotten all of their faces in his mind. He thought that he couldn't just come there with bare hands, so he was looking around to find something to armed him up. He got an iron sleeve that laid on the corner of building nearby. With rather limping, he ran toward those two with the iron on his hands. Those two noticed he was coming as they were prepared to stop him. As they saw Bias was armed with an iron, they took out the folding knife from their back. But Bias didn't stop at all and rushed forward as he got them stricken by his iron sleeve from his hands. They were beaten by single strike on their heads from the iron sleeve. And then, Bias picked up those knifes and hid them in his clothes, in the case if he heeded them later. After that he entered from the entrance. Not so far after entering that area of that abandoned building, there was Deni and two men guarding him.

"Oh! You come! So you could find out where we are hiding your girl!! You let your girl walk home alone when you know there is the danger would threat you! I knew that yesterday, she was coming to help you when we got your head under our feet! She shouted out to make the guardian noticed our doing on you! We're afraid of being chase by them so we decided to retreating. And then she came to you to help you stood up again, I saw that!", Deni started to talk.

But Bias was simply just doing silent since he actually had no idea what Deni talking about.

"But still you let your guard down! Letting her all alone to walking on the empty street like that when there were some wolf had got their eyes aiming at her! And then here we are! Because we got her now!", Deni continued to talk.

" Where is she?!", Bias loudly asked.

"Ho!! You see! Maybe she is just having some fun with some of our guys right now, can't you tell! Ahaha..", Deni was laughing so much.

" All you wanted is me, she got nothing to do with it! Let her go!", Bias was asking to let her go.

" Nothing to do with you?! Of course she has something to do with you!! That's why you got to come here! But seems like you got too late, I don't think they could hold themselves back to have such cute girl with them defenselessly, ahahaha..", said Deni in his laughing.

" You scums!!", Bias took out the knifes as he was ready to attack them.

"Hmm? You're so naive! Do you think I'm not armed myself up! Well, you're death meat!!", Deni took out a pistol from his suit as he also ordered his men to attack Bias.

Those men also had the knife on them, they ran toward Bias to attack him. Without hesitate, Bias threw one of his knife to the one of those men. It stabbed on that man's chest, but before another thing had to be done, Bias had already rammed on that man while pushed that knife even deeper stabbed in, that man fell on the ground as well as Bias. The other man tried to stab Bias but by his hand, Bias deflected that man's hand which holding the knife out so that didn't hit him. And then by his other hand which holding another knife, Bias stabbed that man right on his heart. Then he pushed that man back to falling to the ground. But without his realising, a bullet from the gun had hit him on his shoulder. Bias almost knocked back by that.

That was Deni who shot Bias with his pistol. He seemed to shivering so much handling the pistol that probably made him missed the vital organ of Bias.

"Cih! I missed his vital! It can't be helped! It's my first time shooting a real fire gun! My hands can't stop shivering! But let see the second shot!", he said that as he shot another bullet toward Bias.

This time, Bias could dodge it well. That bullet even hit his fallen men.

"Damned! How about this! This! And this!!", Deni was shooting repeatedly to hit Bias.

But his bad aiming and Bias' well evading made no bullets hit on Bias'. Until he ran out of the bullet.

"Tcihh!! It's out of bullet! Shit!!", Deni was mumbling himself.

Meanwhile in other side, Bias had seen like he was drained out his energy. He felt the pain from his all wounds too, and of course that bullet on his shoulder as well. But he still tried to stand up there. He had no time to waste there, something else important had to be done after all. Saving Hani. That was on his mind, his heart. Then suddenly, someone appeared on the second floor of that building that widely opened to face down to the first floor. Bias and Deni noticed that man.

"Big brother! You got a good time, didn't you?! Now can you switch out with me to handle him for a moments? I wanna taste her too!! Haha..", Deni was talking to that man, Bayu, as he asked to switch up with him to fight Bias.

"Huh! So... You're... Really... Coming... Huhh..", those words came from bayu before he fell down from the second floor to the ground floor.

Seeing that Deni immediately ran toward him to check his condition, but of course, he died.

" Big brother! Big brother!! What happen to you?!!, Hei!!", Deni shouted calling for him.

Bias wondered what had actually happened there. And then another figure appeared on that second floor too. This time, Bias recognized him, he was who called himself wiseman Cok'Ro. He was standing there looking at Bias with smiling face.

"Good to see you coming! Do you realize your true self now?!", wiseman Cok'Ro was speaking to Bias.

But he got interrupted by Deni angry voice.

"Hoi!! Who are you?! What are you doing there?! What are you doing to my big brother?! Are your payment not enough for you?!", Deni was shouting to wiseman Cok'Ro.

" I'm sorry, kid! You mistook me for your henchmen, but I'm absolutely not one of them. I'm here for my own business..", said wiseman Cok'Ro.

" Whaa..!! Then who ar-..!", Deni seemed like to ask another thing but his words stopped.

It was Bias, he hit Deni with his hand opened, he stroke Deni's chest with his fingers hand that pointed forward toward Deni's chest, it was like stabbed in. A second later, Deni was out of consciousness, he fell out to the ground. Meanwhile Bias, he was still on that stance of striking Deni, he didn't move a bit. He looked surprised himself. "What had happened?", that could be the words that filled in his head. He didn't realize what he did just now. Until a moment later he backed to his conscious. His hands was trembling. He was still wondering what had happened to himself. Then it was stopped by a call of voice.

"Bias Tama!..", that was wiseman Cok'Ro who called.

He had already stood up in front of him, carrying Hani on his arms, she looked unconsciously.

"Bias Tama, you had showed me your true potential to wielding the power of Péngéndalí, but before you got to the next test, let me award you with this..", wiseman Cok'Ro handed unconscious Hani to Bias.

Bias took her on his arms, but in his current power, he looked couldn't carry her well, so he lower his body as he kneed and put her down on the floor while kept holding her upper on his arm.

"What happen to her?", Bias was asking to wiseman Cok'Ro.

"Here your present, eat it first! It will restore you power!", wiseman Cok'Ro also gave him something to be eaten.

"What is-..", Bias was asking but wiseman Cok'Ro just made him to eat it.

"Just eat it!", that he said as he made Bias eat it.

After eating that thing, Bias felt his energy restored. And then he repeated his questions.

"I feel refreshed! Oh! Alright, you haven't answered me yet, what happen to her?", asked Bias.

" Don't worry, she's just unconsciously, she will wake up soon! I made her so, for her own good!", replied wiseman Cok'Ro.

" What are you doing?! What have you done to her?!", Bias was got furious.

" Don't worry! I did nothing to her but to made her sleep for a while! And you need not to worry about anything of hers, no one of them have laid a single finger to her last time, I can guarantee that! She's still your pure cute Hani that you had known in your life!", wiseman Cok'Ro said in smiling face.

"... I don't really know what to say, but, why you seem like to know much about us? Especially me?! Even no one in my house knew anything about me! No one, ever since my mother had passed away that time..", said Bias, he seemed rather sad.

" No one? Is she included in it? Or her mother? Oh well, she's not particularly knew about your currently actually! But this girl!? Do you think she doesn't know much about you? Or you are the one who don't know how much she cares for you!?", responded wiseman Cok'Ro.

" She... I knew about her, I knew much... That's why, that's why I made the distant with her, so that, she would not be getting hurt if she's around me... But in the end, she just.., I made her being targeted of something that I misbehave... I should have to atone my fault that I regretted from my past, but it just lead me to another regret for my life..", said Bias, he seemed like to say his true feeling.

"Hmm, I knew that! But at least you don't repeat that mistake again now, hmm, not yet, I guess..", wiseman Cok'Ro responded to Bias' words.

"How could you know that?", Bias asked again.

"I have observed you for whole time especially on these days! When she dropped her lunch box in front of you which actually for you, you rejected some other girls, your fights and the last time when you're being treated by her in her house!", said wiseman Cok'Ro to Bias.

" Who are you?! Stalking me like that!", Bias was asking in high voice.

" I've to do these! To see how much worthy you are for being recruiter for the academy! Oh, pardoned me for my impolitely! My name is Cok'Ro, I'm a wiseman from Robochi Protector Academy..", wiseman Cok'Ro was introducing himself to Bias.

"Wiseman? Robochi Protector Academy? What is that?", Bias started to wondering.

" It's an academy which train the future protectors of this world against the threat that will be threatening this world! At least, that's all I could say it to you for now, for the more, you need to see it yourself whem we actually arrived in there! So, how'd you say?", wiseman Cok'Ro was asking for confirmation.

"I, I don't really get it, but you look to be someone who can be trusted, unless you are actually the one who planned these all..", Bias was saying.

" Oh, please! I'm a wiseman! Even though I should not be the one to say that! But, that's real who I am! And also, you have already known who planned all of these to you, right?! So, don't get wrong idea and follow your heart! But it is okay if you want to say no for my offer! Then, my job to scouting has done here! We will be not to meet each other again! That's your choice! So, what is your choice? Say it loud and clear!", wiseman Cok'Ro repeated his words after some explainations.

"Hm,... Alright! Give me a time to think about it! I need more times to decide it!", Bias asked for additional times to think.

"Alright! That can do! But I haven't much times to be waste! I'll wait for your answer tomorrow, after your classes, come to this place again, I'll be here! I know you can't decide it today! Beside, you need to bring her home with you! She had hard day today! But don't worry! They haven't had laid their single hand on hers these whole time, I can guarantee that! And like I said, she will wake up very soon! Now then, it's my time to leave! See you tomorrow..", as he said that he walked out the room then he was gone.

The moment after wiseman Cok'Ro left, Hani regained herself as she started to open her eyes.

"Hei! Are you alright?", Bias was asking her condition.

But the moments she had opened her eyes she immediately hugged Bias.

"Tama, I'm so scared!!", that what she said while hugging Bias.

"It's, it's okay! You're safe now..", Bias responded.

A moment later, Hani let out her hug as she seemed embarrassing.

"Um, s-sorry, I got reflex of my-my last moment.., before, before the, um, I mean before I lost my conscious.., hmm..", she tried to explain her condition.

" Ah, it's okay..", Bias replied.

"And, sorry for calling you by that name, you don't like it, do you? Emm, I don't mean to be so closed or something-..", Hani was apologizing.

" Mm, it's okay! We've already so closed anyway... And, whatever you called me, that doesn't matter at all as long as you still... Emm, care for me..", he said it in voice that slowly to faded, small voice.

"Huh?! Is that real?!", Hani was wondering even she seemed heard it well.

"You hear me, right?..", Bias responded, looked like a confirmation, he meant yes.

Hani immediately hugged him again.

"Wahaha... I love you, Tama..", that what she said while she was hugging.

She looked so happy to say that in accidentally. She was gotten carried away in the atmosphere and her feeling. But then she immediately awared of what she'd said, her face got red as it was blushing so much. Then she let out her hug and started to apologise, again, in her embarrassing face.

"Ah! Um... S-so-sorry, I'm sorry! I got carried away again! Huhu... S-sorry, I-..", she was apologizing too much until suddenly she was stopped.

Bias suddenly hugged her, he held her tight that made her stopped to say anything.

"Just be quiet already... Hmm..", he said that while he was hugging.

" Hmm... Hehe..", Hani felt so happy that time.

For some moments they were stayed like that. They seemed didn't care about everything around them. And then Hani started another conversation with a question.

"Oh! Um, w-where is the-the wiseman?", that what she asked, and as she said that Bias let his hug slowly.

"Hmm, he has gone... You heard his farewell words, didn't you?", replied Bias.

" Ah?! Um, what do you mean? Hm, I'm still sleeping that time, right? Right?", she was declining.

" Hmm, yeah, you exactly know that time when you're still sleeping..", Bias was teasing.

" Huh?!! What do you mean by that? Are you saying I just pretend to be slept that time?! Huh?!", she started to get mad.

" Of course, no... You're the one who say it..", he kept on teasing.

" Huhh! You really don't know about me! So mean!! Stupid Tama!! Hmmph!!", she really seemed pissed.

" Yeah, yeah! Alright, let's go back home! I'll walk you home, it has so late after all..", Bias was standing up as he got ready to go.

"Oh, right, it's so late, mom will got so worried!", Hani noticed that it was already night and she thought of her mother.

"Um, Tama! Mm, can you carry me on your back?", Hani was asking.

" Are your legs got hurt?", Bias responded.

" No! It's just,... Didn't you use to carry me on your back when we came home late? Or have you forget about it?", said Hani.

"How can I forget about that... It just, are you really okay with it? In your age now?", Bias was saying for the confirmation.

"What's wrong with age? We can do whatever we want to do as long as it fun for us! Everyone will judge whatever we do anyway!", Hani was talking as she got up on her feet.

"Well, if it's okay for you..", Bias got on stance to be ready to carry her on his back.

"Hehe..", she got up to his back.

And then they moved out of that place. Left those people there and walked toward Hani's house that some blocks ahead. At that quiet night, the moon was shining brightly, the street that they passed was also so quiet, no much people passing by, on their way to Hani's house, Bias was carrying Hani on his back quietly, no words came from him nor from Hani neither. But suddenly Hani remembered about Bias' wounds.

"Hei, Tama, have your wounds had healed?", she was asking.

" Well, they don't feel any pain at all now, after I ate something from that wiseman, all pains that I felt somehow were gone..", said Bias.

" That's good to be heard, hehe..", responded Hani.

" Tama, are you tired? If you do, you can put me down, I'll walk on my own..", Hani was asking Bias.

" No, it's okay, it's just, do you gain some weight recently? You're heavier than like the last time I carried you, that time, you even lighter than our wooden table in our class, right?", Bias was teasing.

" So mean! Stupid Tama! Still bullying me on my weight like that! Hmm, of course I got some weights, I have grown up to be young lady, you see... Eh?! Don't think about disgusting thing, you pervert Tama!!", she seemed so lively there.

" What're you talking about? You're the one who think out that way, aren't you? Hei! Don't hit me so hard! And, don't move so much or you'll fall!", Bias was troubled himself.

But then she stopped to talk as she kept on silent. She was still on his back, carried by Bias. They almost arrived at her house. And then suddenly they met Hani's mother, she immediately got closer to them.

"There you are! Where have you been till this late?", Hani's mother was talking to Hani.

" Ehm.. I,..", Hani was confused what she had to say, she didn't want to make her mother worry.

"Actually, she is with me, in my house, aunt Fiyah, I'm sorry, last time I was lying, I'm so sorry to make you so worry..", Bias was talking to Hani's mother while he covered his bullet wound from her by using Hani's arm which tangling on his shoulder.

" Oh, I see, so you even ask Tama to lying now, huh? I'll cut your allowance this week as your punishment! Now get down from Tama and go to your room!", Hani's mother seemed got mad at her.

" Ah! No way!!... Okay, okay I got it! You go back first, I'll go back soon afterward, there is something else that I want to talk to Tama, okay..", Hani asked her mother to go home first.

"Hoooo!! You dare to order me around! I'll cut your allowance for two weeks then! And if you are not at your room in five minutes, I'll cut it for a month, you hear me!!", her mother said it as she left them.

"A month?!! You must be joking!!... Haa..", Hani reacted to her mother's words as she got down from Bias' back.

" You better go now then, before your mother raise it up again..", Bias was teasing her.

" Humph! Shut up, stupid Tama!", she hit Bias' head.

" Aww! You're still so violent as you used to be, huh? I thought you have changed like when I saw you in campus!", Bias reacted to what she did to him.

" That is all because you're also seemed changed, you see! Humphh!! But nevermind that! There's something I want to ask you, it's about that wiseman question that ask you to come to that building again tomorrow, are you going to?", Hani was asking.

" Hmm, so you really aren't sleeping at all that time, are you? Hmm..", Bias still teased her about the thing.

"Emm, just forget about that matters already and answer my question!", Hani insist.

" Hm... I think I will go..", Bias was answering.

" Are you leaving this town?", she continued to ask.

" I think so..", he replied.

"How about your classes? Your house?", she kept up on questions.

" I can go online for the classes,... And for house, I think I will start to live my own, I'll manage to it!", answered Bias.

"...So you will leave me behind again? Even though I have studied so hard to catch up with you to get into the same campus with you! Huhu... You're so mean-..", she started to cry.

But suddenly Bias kissed her lips before she finished her words. She got really surprised by that. That was just a few seconds. And then Bias gave her some other words.

"That kiss is my promise to go back! Don't worry! No matter how far I go! I've known which home I should go back again! Few years ago I kinda thought I've lost my home to go back, but now I've realized that there's another home that left for me to go back, that's you! Hmm... Now you should go back to your room before your mom got any punishment for you again!", said Bias to ask Hani to go home.

" Nnn merr tmmm..", Hani seemed to say something, but it was so soft that Bias couldn't understand it.

"What do you say?", Bias pardoned.

"... Kiss me one more time..", she asked for more kiss.

Bias was little nervous even he had done it just now. But then he got himself up and kissed her for another time. After that, he let out and then he wanted to repeat his words that asked her to go home but,

"I think those are still not enough after all..", Hani was saying.

She said that then she came closer to Bias as she gave her long kiss that made Bias actually surprised. That kiss was longer than the last two kisses. After some moments, finally she felt that enough and she let out in happy face.

"... Hehe... By the way, you will still come to campus tomorrow, right?", Hani was asking.

" Yeah... Em, and, can you-.., hm, can you make your hair into the fishtail again tomorrow? Like you used to be when back then in past?", Bias asked Hani to do something tomorrow.

"Huh? Fishtail? That's seemed so childish, you see? You want me to be stock of laughing in campus?", she seemed to be declining.

" You can't, huh?", Bias seemed down.

Suddenly some voice heard by them.

"HANI!!", that was her mother voice came from her house.

"I don't say I can't, I don't know, I'll think about it! Well, I really need to go to my room now, okay! You better not get into troubled while you walk back home, you see! Then see you tomorrow!!", as she said that, she rushed up to her home and left Bias there, laughing alone.

And then the next day came, Bias arrived to campus as he looked for Hani but he didn't found her anywhere, so he went straight to his class. After some minutes he got in his class, Hani actually came to campus, late, but she came to her class for the morning class. In her class, she got so much harassments just to see on her appearances. She got weirder appearances than she usually did. Her classmate were secretly laughing at her everytimes they had eye contact to her, in other words, she noticed all her classmates were actually laughing on her. But she got backed up from her best friends that actually also felt she was doing weird thing that day, but she didn't tell them her reason. After the class, time to break,  everyone in her class went outside the class while still laughing at her, but each one of the suddenly stopped laughing after they passed the door. They got surprised to see someone that never got to another class except of his class, especially when it was break time, stood up in front of their class. He was Bias Tama, a cold student in the campus that never actually got interacted with other students. He looked like a someone who only thought about himself. But thanks to his appearance, his intelligence, his wealth and his fame family's name, he got real reputation in the campus. He'd also known as a man that always rejected all ladies in the campus, including all top beauties of the campus. Even those things  dragged him in to trouble sometimes.

Back to the time of break, Bias kept standing there until almost all students of that class came out, but no one that he wanted to meet, he had found. He thought she wasn't coming today until he looked in to the class and he found her, she was still sitting on her chair alone, she looked so sad there. But he put on happy face when she noticed him. He was actually feeling happy to see her doing what he requested, even though he knew that it was so hard to be dealt with. Then he came closer to her and dragged her hand out to go to the canteen with him.

On the way to the canteen, no body found was laughing at her, they were confusing to think what happening there. Some girls were getting jealous to see them. And her best friends were seemed happy for her, she could get close to Bias. No body knew that they two were the childhood friend yet. Even it was growing to be more than that this time. Some other were thinking something up with them. And to Hani, her sad face was statically changing into embarrassing face, to think all the students attention in the campus were actually came toward them two whole time. But then it changed into happy face, after she saw Bias' happy face all the time while they were spending the times together.

Then that day classes were ended. Everybody got ready for home, as for Hani, no more students that laughed at her anymore, she even got some new friends who actually wanted to ask her about her relationship to Bias. Of course she only said that they were actually childhood friends, since Bias hadn't asked her to going out yet, and in other side, she also didn't want to make an uproar issued in the campus that would troubled her in next some semesters, even though what had happened that day had already made some uproar to the campus. After the class, some people came to talk to her about the issues, that made her going to be late for home actually. After she managed to finished the conversation and went home, she met the person that changed her life that day, Bias. He was waiting for her to walk home together. And then she remembered a thing, that day was could be the last day they could meet each other, because he would go with the wiseman to somewhere else. She didn't really want to ask the details about that though. But then, they two walked home together. Bias walked her home before he came to the wiseman in the promised place. They didn't talk at all on the way, just holding each other hand whole the time. They almost arrived to her home. And then suddenly she stopped. That made Bias stopped too.

"... One more time..", then those words came from Hani.

Somehow, Bias knew what to do, then he gave her his long kiss on her lips that made her close her eyes. Long enough until finally he let out their hands that held each other from the campus, and then he let out his kiss from her. He left her there alone while she kept her eyes closed. She actually didn't want to see his leaving, that was why she kept her eyes closed for some moments until she thought he had really gone for sure. After that she slowly opened her eyes then went in to her house. By some words came up in her heart, "Have a safe trip and come back real soon..".

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