Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 22 Part 1 "Running Away Again"

POV Tantri

I never thought that our enemy would be so determined to quell the resistance of the people of VSI who wanted to be free from all the oppression they were doing to them by trying to kill mevrouw Sofia.

In the files that I gave to Ilya there was not a single file containing the party's plan to kill mevrouw Sofia. She who is still alive and safe so far is a miracle that I should be grateful for because with the photos of the bodies of SSE personnel and mr. Wisnu that she gave to me and Ilya through our WhatsApp, we were able to use those photos as evidence to uncover the crimes comitted by the party.

At her request, Ilya and I have already spread the story of the real mevrouw Sofia assassination attempt to various social media through the help of our comrades in cyberspace, the rest is up to mevrouw Sofia's confession to the mass media that the SSE are the guard dogs for the Neo-NSB party who was the original perpetrator of her assassination attempt. Now all we have to do is hide from their pursuit again.

The reason I asked Lodewijk to come with me to hide somewhere else was because he had already been arrested and held captive by the SSE twice besides, the SSE's movements were hard to spot plus I was currently suspended. I am blind to information while the news that I got from my friends in the police force and the information that I dug by hacking into their devices were just ordinary news and informations that didn't contain anything important.

In addition, after the news of the attempted murder of mevrouw Sofia circulated, I tried to track down Riri's whereabouts to determine whether her smartphone was active and at her house or not. This afternoon, when I tracked the location of her smartphone at Lodewijk's request to make sure whether she was at her house or not, her smartphone was indeed at her house, but I felt something odd because when I hacked her smartphone, the front camera of her smartphone showed her apartment room dim lighted with a little sunlight coming in because the lamps in her apartment room were not lit at all.

I myself ran away from my house because my father was killed by them in my own house and I had to fight to save myself to continue his struggle and fulfill his last request to me, to protect my house and its inhabitants, namely my place of residence called the United Republic of Indonesia from people who want to do wicked and sinister things to her and her people.

In the end, I arrived at my destination according to the location that Lodewijk sent to me through WA. I opened the front door my car then pressed my car horn. Lodewijk who saw my face immediately walked to my car, opened the front passenger seat door and sat next to me. After he went inside, I locked the door and continued driving towards Ilya's location.

Silence filled the atmosphere of the car and then Lodewijk asked me a question, a question which I had expected would surely be asked.

"Tantri, is SSE chasing us again and that's the reason of why you told me to leave my house?"

"Honestly, I don't know Lodewijk, I'm suspended, I'm blind to information and even though I've been trying to get information from my friends's devices in the police force that I hacked after seeing the news about the attempted murder of mevrouw Sofia, I still can't get any useful information that's why I called you and asked you to come with me because I was worried about our fate. Our enemies are always one step ahead of us, therefore we must be able to match our steps with them." I told him, giving him my explanation.

"Worried... about... our... fate?" he asked in a confused tone.

"Yes, I'm worried about our fate. What's wrong with that? Is there any problem?" I told him answering his question in a confused tone.

"Heheh, no. It's just that it is funny. You're worried about our fate and that's the funny thing about it because I didn't think anyone would still care about my safety other than their own." he said, giving me his answer.