Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 10 Part 1 "The Search For New Partners"

POV Lodewijk

The death of my brother who was shot by a police officer who used a sniper as his weapon finally rose to the surface and became the media headlines for days. For days too, I could not avoid the attention of the media crew and got a call to fulfill their interview calls and also fulfilled a call to testify before an investigator regarding the death that had befallen him.

Actually, mr. Erwin told me that in the house where I was held there was a camera that recorded what actually happened at that time but Ilya managed to hack the device that recorded the incident so that I am safe at least for now.

Now, the only thing I can do to avenge my brother's death is to finish what I started. In the house where I now live, I found many files containing documents about cases that he had taken care of.

He won many of these cases by cheating with the judges who conspired with him and the mastermind behind all this was his superiors who were in the circle of deep state organization that controlled the government from behind the scenes.

In addition, mr. Erwin and his trusted subordinates worked with me and Ilya to track down and find the whereabouts of the people who were the main source of all these problems, but our search resulted in nothing, unless we managed to lure them out of their nest and that is what we were thinking about now. It is futile if we win this false accusation case if we don't find who are the mastermind behind of all the problems we've faced.

At the same time, I, who is now at his home, was discussing about a number of people whom he considered suitable to be my partners who would collaborate with me to continue my investigation. However, I think I have to apologize to mr. Erwin because I have to refuse.

"I'm sorry mr. Erwin but with all due respect, I refuse to work with a partner. I often work alone because for me having a partner will only adding weight to my responsibility."

"That's why I offer you to cooperate with partners. You're one of those who became our enemies's target and if you die, their biggest threat will disappear and we won't know who their superiors are. The reason of why you have to work with partners is that so your partners can protect you from the enemies who wanted to kill you."

"But what if it turns out that my partners are double agents and they cooperate with them too, have you never thought about the possibility of your trusted people will betray you someday? You are a high ranking officer in the police investigation division, you should know about this."

"But your partner candidates are natives."

"Does that even matter? ​​I saw that the presiding judge and one of the adjunct judges at the hearing several weeks ago are natives and based on the documents owned by Ludwig, their place is at the bottom of the plot. They are their lap dogs." I paused then continued my sentence.

"Inlander and ausländer those words are only labels, those words cannot be used to determine their loyalty meneer."

"Then what is your best advice? Can you guarantee that what happened to you several weeks ago will not happen again?"

"Of course I cannot guarantee my own safety, but are you sure you can guarantee my safety while your own safety might also be threatened because you yourself have a dual role so that you are not getting caught defending the side that you are now defending, right?"

He was stunned to hear my answer then a quiet atmosphere filled the room for a moment then, he exhaled and continued his sentence.

"Huft, verdamnt Lodewijk, du bist richtig gut im Reden, stimmt's? (damn Lodewijk, you are good at talking, aren't you?)" he said then shook his head, sucked his cigarette stick, exhaled the smoke and continued his sentence.