Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 21 Part 5 "A Brand New Car"

POV Lodewijk

The dawn has come, my two eyes opened by their own. I was lying on the bed in my bedroom and not staying at mevrouw Sofia's house since two days ago because tonight she will return to the Netherlands and because the area where my house is located is not a crowded place where vehicles or pedestrians always passing  by, mevrouw Sofia paid some money to the leader of the Jalan Darah Motorcycle Gang to have their members patroled at the area where I live to make sure that I'm safe because the SSE is still looming around. She also asked me to take some time to make contact with Tantri and visit her house to make sure that she is safe from SSE's atrocities.

She also gave me some compensation money for my car that sank to the bottom of the river in the forest during my escape from SSE's pursuit. The money she gave to me was twice the price of my old car. She gave me the money so that I can buy a new car.

I plan to buy a Porsche Taycan Turbo 4S because in addition with the car's extraordinary acceleration and speed that is useful for escaping from the pursuit of my enemies, the car has 4 doors even though the car is a sport car so it can carry more than two people.

The car also uses electricity as its fuel and since VSI will follow the steps of developed countries like Japan and European countries that are members of the European Union which will ban the use of fossil fuel cars by 2030, I don't have to buy another car.

After performing the morning prayers and eating my breakfast, I cleaned and tidied up my house then washed my clothes then showered and cleaned myself up then prepared to go to the car dealership to buy the car I wanted in cash. I stepped out of my house to the nearest tram stop and headed to one of the car dealership in this city that I had made an appointment with through e-mail with the sales person to do a test drive.

After arriving at the bus stop in the area of dealership of my choice, I got off the tram and walked over to where the dealership building is located, got into the showroom and told one of the sales person about the appointments that I have made by showing the screenshots of my e-mail's message with the contact person of the dealership that I'm currently at.

The sales person asked me to come with her to a room then she asked me to sit on a chair. We were separated by a table and then me and her negotiated the price of the car I wanted to buy and the payment method I wanted to use.

The sales person seems to always try to manipulate the conversation so that she can direct me to buy the car with credit installments but I know this kind of trick so I can keep the conversation still in the track that I wanted to go with so I don't get caught up in her offer about all the advantages of paying with credit installments which actually all the benefits are meaningless if I I have to pay credit installments because I am a Muslim and I should not pay interest on credit debt which is part of the practice of usury.

In the end, after negotiating for a long time, the sales person called the manager of the dealership that I visited and then she suggested the price I offered for the car I wanted to buy to her manager. After talking for a while with the manager, the sales person told me that the price couldn't go down as much as I wanted then I showed the sales person the price of the car I wanted at several online dealerships and several other dealerships I had contacted via e-mail and telephone including this dealer I visited.

There are two dealerships who charge lower prices than the dealership that I currently visited even though the location of the dealerships are outside this city and I told her, the reason I came to this dealership is because the dealership I visited was in the city where I live and I felt too lazy if I have to go out of this city just to bought a car. In the end the sales person called back the manager and conveyed what I had told to her then the sales person gave her smartphone to me so I could negotiate directly with the manager.