00:00The head of the shroud was hanging from the ceiling.
00:03His eyes were hollow, black liquid dripping from the holes.
00:07A soft laugh escaped from his half-torn mouth,
00:11like someone laughing at an inevitable death.
00:16Our king, is awake.
00:19The hiss was cold, low, but it echoed throughout the room like the ringing of a bell from the supernatural realm.
00:24Mbah Saroh acted quickly.
00:26With a swift movement, he reached into the cloth pouch at his waist and threw a handful of black powder into the air.
00:33The powder exploded like small embers and formed a faint circle of light on the ceiling.
00:39Close your ears, galang, shout change Saroh.
00:43Galang reflexively obeyed, and suddenly the supernatural voices that had been echoing seemed to be cut off.
00:49Silently, the shroud's head groaned.
00:51Its body burned with a halo, and it slowly pulled itself back up onto the ceiling.
00:57Disappearing into the darkness of the lotek.
00:59Mbah Saroh sighed heavily.
01:02It's not just any shroud.
01:03It was one of the king's four bodyguards.
01:06If they have already moved, it means our time is getting shorter.
01:11Galang sat back down, his body shaking violently.
01:14Why is all this happening to me?
01:16He murmured the lyrics.
01:18Why me?
01:19Why not someone else?
01:21Mbah Saroh looked at him.
01:23This time not with an angry look, but with pity.
01:27He sat next to Galang and said,
01:30Slowly, because you are the pancer, the center of the four directions of the spirit.
01:35Your great grandfather was not only a kiai,
01:38but the guardian of the boundary between this world and the world of death.
01:42And that blood is passed down to you.
01:46Then why is it only now rising?
01:47Mbah Saroh looked at the broken window,
01:51evening breeze,
01:52hit his long head.
01:54Because someone has woken him up,
01:57someone read the kalam first.
02:00With evil intentions,
02:01they want to resurrect the pocong king for their own purposes.
02:05But since you are the one reading it with legitimate blood,
02:09what they raised was not just ordinary pocong troops,
02:12but the entire structure of the former death spirit was sucked away.
02:16Galang couldn't say anything.
02:19His head is heavy.
02:20The world he knew was profitable.
02:22He is no longer an ordinary teenager,
02:24who just want to investigate horror stories for Youtube content.
02:28He now stood in the center of the vortex,
02:30between life and death.
02:32Mbah Saroh stood up.
02:33We have to be prepared.
02:36We have to head to the white cap tree tonight.
02:39I can protect you.
02:41But I can't fight them all alone.
02:44If you give up,
02:45everything will end.
02:47Not just for you,
02:48but for this whole village.
02:50Galang looked at him.
02:52Slowly get up.
02:53Even though his body was shaking,
02:55there was something in his chest.
02:57A feeling that has never appeared before.
02:59I'm scared, yes.
03:00but also a kind of calling.
03:03A call to face the inevitable.
03:07I am coming along,
03:07Galang said softly.
03:09If this is my destiny,
03:10I have to finish it.
03:12Mbah Saroh nodded,
03:13then pulled out a package from his cloth bag.
03:17Take this,
03:18he said while handing over a small, black keris.
03:22The blade is covered in carvings of Old Javanese script.
03:24It is a keris pancer.
03:26The heirloom that your great-grandfather used to seal the Pocong King.
03:30As long as you hold it,
03:32the pocong cannot merge with your body.
03:35Galang held the keris.
03:37Cold.
03:38But it feels alive,
03:39as if the blade was beating to the beat of his own heart.
03:43In the distance,
03:44There was a long howl from the forest.
03:47Followed by the sound of trees rustling.
03:49As if the land itself groaned,
03:51Mbah Saroh turned towards the voice.
03:54The gate has been completely opened,
03:56and the white cover is ready to welcome us.
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