Legacies
Legacy issues

"Burhan, thank you for coming. Before you go back to Jakarta tomorrow, I have something to ask you."

"Regarding my granddaughter, Eka?"

"Yes. I still don't think it out. And even if using reason does not arrive. How can your grandson come to Adi's grave and help take care of it then come back and after we get home, you try calling and it turns out he's at home with your son-in-law."

"That's my grandson, it can't be predicted. I can only pray that my granddaughter is okay."

Eka who was eating cake on the terrace with her tant was shocked by the voice of her father who called.

"Yes dad, just a minute. Aunt, I'm going in first."

Eka immediately went inside the house and saw her father sitting in the dining room.

"What's the matter dad?'

"Sit Eka. I want to talk."

Eka sat across from her father.

"What's the matter dad? How come dad's face seems pissed."

"So my grandfather called my father and told him everything that happened in Magelang. What have you done?"

Eka took a deep breath.

"Eka didn't do anything dad. Eka just helped Adi. He asked to be buried under a banyan tree. And Eka helped him until Adi could be buried right under the banyan tree. That's all."

"With you suddenly coming there? This doesn't make sense. And you greet them there as if you were present."

"Dad, did you ever think. Since childhood Eka was given this inheritance by the late Mbah Kung. And so many events were beyond common sense that Eka had to deal with all that was invisible! To be honest, Eka wants to live like Eka's other friends. Who had no fear at all times. Adversary, Catedain as a madman! Do you want to take this job? The task given by the father ancestor! A task that should be the responsibility of the father and all of his brothers and sisters! But finally it has to be Eka! Eka tired of father, Eka tired of always being suspected, always required to be able to fight invisible creatures."

Dad was shocked to hear Eka's complaint, yes actually this is a legacy that should be his responsibility not Eka.

"Eka, I'm sorry if according to Eka father ran away from responsibility for the father's ancestral heritage. But please Eka should really be able to choose which one Eka should help and which Eka does not need to help. As happened in Magelang, many questions from the family of the late Adi regarding Eka."

"Dad, Eka couldn't explain. Most importantly when Eka went to Magelang, Eka did not bother grandfather, grandmother, father and aunt. Eka's body is here, in this house. But Eka's spirit goes away for a while to help Adi get her wish. Let Adi calm down. That's it, dad."

"Yes, grandpa, grandma, dad and aunty know. But their minds are different. They think you're a shaman. They think you're not religious."

"What do you mean by saying go forever!"

"Dad, sorry. Not everything Eka does is pleasing to dad. Since the mother and sister died, since then also the father away from the same Eka. And Eka felt that the father built a wall for Eka. What's wrong Eka? Everything's changing. Is it because of the inheritance from the father's extended family until Eka has to lose her mother and sister? If you can change places, let Eka go, mother and sister still accompany father until now. So this legacy will break in Eka."

Eka got up from her seat and went to the room leaving her father who was still sitting on the chair.

Dad rubbed his face rough. Since the death of his wife and twin children, the father feels half his life is gone.

Eka, I'm sorry. Dad admitted wrong. Though the father still had Eka, but the father never paid attention to Eka again and gave her affection as before. If time could be turned, I would like to have a mother, Fadli and Fani again. And you're stuck in a family circle of fathers who can't be broken. Because even if you go, there will be another successor from the next generation.

I stood up and walked over to Eka's room, which was closed to the door.

I faintly heard Eka's voice talking to someone in the room.

Who are you talking to in the room? Ah, let. We are getting bigger and know what is right and what is wrong.

Dad passed from Eka's room and went into her room.

"Eka, why are you crying? What was? Same story as me, who knows I can help you?"

"How can you help me? While your soul is not one frequency with me? I live in the real world now. You live in a world of waiting."

"Don't be Eka, at least I can still help you even though it's different in the world. Because you have helped me get my resting place as I wish. And I am ready to listen to all your complaints. I wish we could be friends."

"Adi, we're already friends so you don't have to ask anymore. I'm helping you because I want to help and I don't want any help from you. For all that can help me is God and myself." Eka's face looks angry and annoyed to Adi.

"Sorry Eka, sorry, if I offended you. I was in your position when I was alive. I have no friends, my parents love my brother and sister more. Although they always say that they treat their children as equally indistinguishable but I feel the difference that my parents make. Just like your life today."

"Adi, different cases. Don't equate my life with your old life! And don't bother me anymore. Our world is different, not always you can accompany me. All I can do right now is pray that your spirit is calm. And don't keep visiting me. Because there will be another soul that resembles you approaching me and saying that it is you!"

"But Eka, this is my truth, Adi. Who just died and asked you to tell my parents that I want to be buried under the banyan tree. I am neither a genie nor a demon incarnated as Adi."

"Yes, although I do agree that the one currently in front of me is Adi, but I do not fully believe and believe! So you better go. Because if you are like this, it is the same that you are a genie or a demon who is trying to tempt me or others to do evil things!"

Eka prayed and took her prayer.

Adi leaves Eka.