Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 2 Part 4 "Verdediger"

*Play the song above for the theme of this part

Mevrouw Sofia was paying attention about me and my meme that is intended to insult Prime Minister Willem van Huizen, sometimes she gave me additional ideas or suggestions in order to make my insult more piercing.

"Hihihi sinjo, I think the wording needs to be changed a little bit, how about this "When indonesians and muslims around the world migrated to the Netherlands, Willem van Huizen's reaction, chuckles, I'm in danger"."

"Ah, yes, it'll hurt a lot more."

I once thought that a person that come from the nobility like her doesn't want to be friends with people like me who are mixed or people from indigenous background but after my first interaction with her in campus and saw her task group that comprised of three indigenous people, my view towards her changed, I have to apologize to her later.

I saw the clock on my laptop screen, it's been an hour since the protest has been carried but google map shows that the streets are still blocked, the only way to quickly get home is by using the shortcut, unfortunately I ran out of dog snack to be spread later.

"Huft, damn."

"Why Karim?" Muhamed asked.

"I ran out of dog snacks."

"I have it."

"Oh?"

"Yes, I bought it at the middle of last night at 24 hour convenient store along with some potato chips to be eaten when I was studying."

"I have it too." said Ilya.

"Alhamdulillaah, then do you guys want to stay here or go home?"

"I want to go home, the news update said that the protest has already turned into riot, I do not know who has provocated the people there and caused the protest turned that way." Muhamed answered.

"I bet the ones who provocated the masses are the members of the police force or maybe the Schutterij, or maybe some people are paid by them to provoke the protesters and the police force all at once." said me to Muhamed.

"Well then, let's go home to avoid the riot."

We all tidied up our stuff, then stood up, walked to the gate of the campus before we saw something was wrong in front of the campus's gate.

Dor, dor, dor, dor!

Blaar, blaar!

Fwoosh, fwoosh!

My ears heard the sound of repeated firearms blasts, the protesters from this college who wore the alma mater jacket and should be in front of the volksraad's building somehow re-gathered here and ran inside. Smoke began to spread everywhere, I was standing during the panic while mevrouw Sofia, Muhamed and Ilya crouched and covering their nose.

"Cough, cough, cough! Karim, get down! Cover your nose! Tear gas!"

I saw the police began to ran and poured themselves into the campus, some of the protester groups who burst into the campus started to make a line of human blockade to hold the Schutterij force who proceeded to get further into the campus's buildings whilst trying to keep their distance. A group of female protesters began to entering the buildings searching for protection even though there were several female student groups that help to make the lines of blockade together with the male student groups, some of them began to shout to each other amidst the chaos.

"Bescherm de meisjes! (protect the girls!)"

The sound of cries and shoutings of the group of students who attempted to keep their lines of human blockade could be heard when the Schutterij force began to use their batons and hitting them against the students blockade. Seeing this situation we started running away from the gate.