Not long after they left the room, Adanu Raksa starts muttering in his dreams. His body temperature slowly rises, and his face begins to sweat.
"Get away! Get away from me!"
"Leave her alone! Don't hurt my mom!"
The scar on his left calf slightly reopens, and dark blood leaks from it. It's a bite mark from the flesh tendril that tried to swallow him last night.
There's also a kind of white aura leaking out from the wound. The white aura is slightly mixed with a dark one.
Old woman Ratih notices his deliriousness and gets back to check his condition. Sadly, the odd aura isn't something to be easily seen by normal people. Not to mention the room is only lit by a bamboo torch from outside.
All she finds is the little blood in his left leg. Once she tries to touch the bite mark, there she realizes how high the kid's fever is.
"Get away! Get away!"
Adanu Raksa is delirious again, making the old lady even more anxious. Ratih tries to wake him up by gently tapping his cheeks, but to no avail.
The boy isn't just dreaming in his sleep. He was completely past out before this, and is currently experiencing a black out, with his brain trying to suppress his memory to protect him from the trauma.
"Barja!" The old lady calls in a hectic way. "Barja, come here quickly! There's something wrong with the kid!"
Old man Barja gets in, and checks on Adanu Raksa's condition. Once he puts his palm on the kid's forehead, he finds the forehead abnormally so hot that he immediately takes his hand away.
"We need to do something. He could die if we leave him like this!"
Barja goes out to find some hot water, something they don't have at the moment. He can't calm his mind and starts making a mess in the kitchen.
Ratih can hear the ruckus, and leaves Adanu Raksa to help her husband in the kitchen. But later, when they get back to Adanu Raksa by bringing hot water and a small wet cloth, they are shocked by the presence of a strange transparent white creature, having ugly face with long messy hair.
"Kyaa!!!"
Ratih screams with a high pitch. The clay pot containing water drops from her hands and shatters on the floor.
The malevolent spirit ignores their presence. It behaves strangely, like a junky on a high, hovering above Adanu Raksa while inhaling the corrupted aura that leaks from his wound.
Barja tries to chase the strange creature away by scolding it, but the spirit simply ignores him. Eventually, he dares to approach, lifting Adanu Raksa to get him away from it.
Only then does the evil spirit show a reaction, showing her mad face to Barja and scolding him with a foul hoarse voice.
"You lowly human! How dare you interfere with me! Give back that child!"
Barja steps back in fear. Now he realizes what this evil spirit wants, and immediately invites his wife to leave by taking Adanu Raksa away.
Just as they leave the house, they see a group of people getting out of the woods. They look like fallen soldiers coming back from war, having torn uniforms of the Chakradwipa kingdom soldiers.
"Thank God! There are Chakradwipa soldiers passing by!"
Full of hope, Ratih approaches them asking for help. But Barja immediately holds her hand, as he realizes something wrong with them.
"Ratih! No! Don't get any closer to them!"
As those four foreign figures get closer, Barja begins to be able to see them clearer. To his surprise, it's actually something far more terrifying than the evil spirit earlier.
They are actually a group of demons, in the shape of living corpses, with a few arrows stuck in their bodies. Most of their flesh has rotted. Barja can even see the cheekbones and jaw beneath the rotting flesh of one of them.
"Oh, God! Where do these demon come from?" Barja mumbles with a pale face.
The closer those bizarre zombies get to Adanu Raksa, the crazier they become. Although still with unsteady rigid steps, those undeads begin to move faster. One of them even stumbles once, and causes the other one near it to also fall.
"Barja! We can't stay here! We need to ask for a shaman's help in Rejo village!
Barja leads his wife to run away to the backyard. But it turns out that his hut has been surrounded from all directions, by demons that are slowly approaching from the dark woods.
Having no choice, Barja hands over Adanu Raksa to his wife, and then back into the house through the kitchen. He picks a machete that is tucked into the wall, and rushes back outside ready to fight.
He is just a peasant. But still, he is a reliable man and brave enough when needed. He swings the machete without showing any fear, injuring the nearby undeads blindly.
But those zombies don't show any pain, no matter how hard he butchers them. Cornered, he gets back inside the house, and piles up stuff to block the door.
"Ratih! Where are you?"
To his surprise, his wife has collapsed in the living room, with an evil spirit hovering over the still unconscious Adanu Raksa.
"No! Ratih!" Barja cries with a pitiful face. "Curse you! What did you do to my wife?"
He jumps at the evil spirit and swings his sword with so much anger. But the sword simply passes through the evil spirit along with him.
Right at that moment, some part of his life force is accidentally drained out. He falls into a small coffee table and smashes it, while his machete falls on Adanu Raksa's chest and snaps the kid from his nightmare.
"Sir! Ma'am!" Adanu Raksa mumbles with great fear and confusion clearly seen in his face.
The two old people haven't completely passed out yet. They just look so weak, with great mental pressure on their heads.
Even so, they still try to protect Adanu Raksa. Barja crawls to his wife, and together they take Adanu Raksa away.
But there is no place to run at all. In the end, they are stuck in a corner of the hut, embracing Adanu Raksa while blocking his view from all the horrors that surround him.
"Stupid human!" That one evil spirit sneers by following it with an ugly laugh. "I'm not at all interested in your stinky soul. But the kid! Give me the kid! Let me eat his spirit, a spirit coming from the soul that has been tainted by the great Carrion Flower Devil!"
The two elders begin to realize the true condition of Adanu Raksa. And somehow, Barja is tempted to abandon him in order to protect his wife.
"Dear! Let the kid go!"