Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 12 Part 4 "De straf"

*Play the song above for the theme of this part, the song is a soundtrack from "De Oost" movie

POV Gertrud

My two sisters and I were driving to where they were last seen. Geertruida said she saw the three people that we were targeted walking towards the gas station via the street's cctv cameras which she could access via her smartphone, even though she wasn't sure whether those three people were those that we were targeted or not because the sun wasn't fully up when she last checked out the street's cctv monitor.

Earlier, there was a white Toyota Hilux car passing us at high speed at the opposite direction from the direction we were going. The streets around here are quiet. As far as we drove, only that car passed us. I wanted to put suspicion to that car but it was useless. According to the latest information we got from the police assigned to spy on mr. Erwin's side. He said the three people came here using an online taxi and not using a private vehicle. The only way to find out is for us to go to the gas station and interrogate the employees who work there.

The three of us arrived at the gas station, entered the gas station area and parked our motorbikes in front of the convenient store. There are only 3 employees here, each of them were arranging the shelves of the merchandise, cleaning the windows and one person manning the cashier. The three of us looked at each other and nodded then went inside. I went to the cashier and stood in front of him.

"Yes, how may I help you?" he asked with a smile. I took my police badge from my pocket then told him about my intention of coming here.

"I'm from the police force, I'd like to ask you a few things." I replied to him briefly, while watching his movements, his body became tense.

"Did you see these three people here?" I asked him while showing a photo of the 3 people that I was looking for through my smartphone.

"No, I didn't see them, as you see, my friends are arranging the merchandise and wiping the windows, our work shift has just started." he answered trying to remain calm in his casual tone without showing any fear.

"May I check you and your friends's wallets?" I asked him.

"I'm sorry ma'am, if you want to carry out an investigation, shouldn't there be a warrant?" he asked.

Ah, he's too innocent, sometimes police like us don't have to follow standard procedures, let alone special units like us. Well, I feel sorry for someone like him, just a civilian who is caught between the war between our faction and them but what else can I do? Orders are orders after all, we have just been given a new type of poison for our killing action and have never been tried on any human. I might as well do a test here and report the results to my superiors.

I took out my gun and pointed it at him, his movements began to show fear seen from the look on his face and eyes. I repeated my request one more time.

"I suggest that you don't argue much with the police or do you want to die here? Which one is your choice?" I asked him.

In the end he and his friends handed over their wallets, we checked and photographed their identities along with the numbers related to their citizenship data and Trude came over to me while pulling the arm of the person he was asking, bringing him near me, Geertruida did the same thing.

"What have you got?" I asked them both.

"He has a driving licence for a four wheeled type vehicle." Frida said.

"Same, her too." said Frieda about the person she had examined.

The three of them have gathered in front of the cashier, I walked to where Geertruida and Trude stood, I stood between the two of them still pointing my gun to the cashier employee followed by Geertruida and Trude doing the same to the other two employtees.