Mystery Kitchen Miranti
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Amanda opened her eyes slowly, then squinted several times as she was disturbed by the incoming light touching both her eyeballs.

His head was still dizzy and heavy. For a moment Amanda could not remember what had happened. Amanda saw some people sitting around the sofa where she was lying. One of them is Miranti.

"Amanda, are you awake?" Miranti rubbed Amanda's head gently.

Amanda closed her eyes for a few seconds to suppress the pain in her head.

The mind tries to remember what happened.

A young woman stomped Amanda's feet in eucalyptus oil.

And another woman gave him a glass of water complete with a pipette.

After feeling somewhat recovered, Amanda tried to get up and was helped by Miranti and the others.

"You're okay, right?" ask Miranti back. A worried look emanated from the face of the restaurant boss.

"It seems, I was greeted by the residents of your restaurant," said Amanda weakly.

Miranti smiled. "Bias, who is so everywhere loves there." Miranti tries to calm Amanda down.

"A lot of istighfar, Brother." The woman who had been stomping Amanda's feet spoke up.

"There's a lot, Vi," Amanda told the young woman.

"Yes, Via and Nia please get back to work. Amanda let me be with you." Miranti gave instructions.

"I'm sorry Mir. On the first day of work, I was troubling everyone." Amanda is guilty.

"Why apologize? It's not your fault" Miranti smiled.

"Eh, but it's really scary, you know," continued Amanda while recalling a figure who had scared her.

"Here, don't remember it again. Next time be careful." Miranti tries to calm Amanda down.

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Miranti was standing in one of the windows of the workspace overlooking the sea. The office is located on the second floor of the restaurant. The second floor is where Miranti lives with her family.

For the sake of comfort, his workspace was also made there.

Miranti's face looked anxious, her mind was raging, and her heart felt uneasy.

Suddenly someone opened the unlocked door, Miranti turned her head.

A middle-aged woman approached Miranti.

"Mama just heard a story from your employees" said the woman who turned out to be Miranti's mother.

Miranti looked at pias. "Ma, why did he suddenly come?" miranti asked with a trembling voice.

"Are you sure it's him?" Mirna the mother asked back.

"From Amanda's words, I'm sure it's her."

This time, Mirna was worried. "Hasn't his soul been shackled by Mr Cik?"

"Ma, I don't want to lose what I got. I've been working hard to build this restaurant. I've sacrificed a lot for this." Miranti was crying.

Mirna hugged Miranti's body. "Mama will talk to your Uncle." Mirna tries to calm Miranti, who is now her only child.

Their conversation was interrupted by a commotion outside the study. Miranti and Mirna immediately ran there. Azka seemed to panic after her sister who ran around while holding a very sharp knife.

Miranti and Mirna were shocked to see the sight. "Geez, Fatur!" scream Miranti was worried.

Miranti slowly approached Fatur, her youngest son who was now standing at the window. The 5-year-old boy laughed happily while swinging a knife.

"Fatur, come down, son. It's a danger." Miranti tried to persuade, she did not want to be rash so as to harm Fatur.

Without a care, Fatur remained with his dangerous action. Even jumping up and down over the window while giggling.

"The daughter is coming. The princess is coming." Fatur said that sentence many times with a tone full of happiness.

Miranti glanced at Mirna upon hearing Fatur's words. The two looked at each other. Fear haunted the mother and child.

"Fatures. Down yuk. Let brother carry behind," Azka persuaded.

"Ga. It wants the same papa." Fatur whining.

"Yes, I'll take you to papa's place." Azka tried to get close to the window.

"Yuk, down yuk. Here's the knife let the brother who holds it," Azka persuaded back.

"Don't want to. This is for the Princess. This is to get the Princess' heart." Fatur prancing with excitement.

The mouths of Miranti and Mirna gaped at the words of Fatur. They looked at each other again with eyes glaring at each other.

"Yeah!" scream Miranti panicked.

Mirna nodded incoherently. The middle-aged woman was no less furious.

"Fatur, come down! That's dangerous!" Mirna started screaming and lost her patience.

Fatur stopped, then stuck out his tongue as if sneering at Papa Mirna. His expression now turned angry.

"Wicked granny!" Fatur yells at Mirna.

Mirna's body shook with anger, but tried to be controlled to keep the situation. He tried to take a deep breath in order to calm down.

"Fatur, we're going to papa yuk's room." Azka patiently continued to persuade her sister.

Finally, Fatur. When about to drop the body on Azka's back, Fatur's eyes glanced sharply and savagely at Mirna and then alternated towards Miranti.

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"Papaa." Fatur was excited when he saw a man sitting weakly leaning against a wheelchair. With impatience Fatur wanted to jump immediately from Azka's back, but Azka held back that Fatur did not fall.

"You used to have the knife with brother. Later afraid to hurt papa you know," Azka persuaded.

Without a fight, Fatur handed the knife to Azka. Then he got off Azka's back and ran into her lap.