Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 22 Part 7 "Holmgang"

*Play the song above for the ending of this part.

POV Lodewijk

My car that I was driving finally arrived at about a distance of two hundred and fifty meters close to the coordinates of the building that the Breivik sisters gave me through the videos that they made, in which the coordinates of the building were in a forest located at the foot of the mountain.

I took a deep breath and let it out, trying to calm my heartbeat, which had been beating so fast because I was afraid. The fear that I feel was not the result of me walking towards my own death but the fear that I feel was the accumulation of my experiences of being tortured by the Breivik sisters coupled with my worry that I would fail to save Riri due to losing the battle with them or died as a result of getting into their traps that they had made and would make me failed to save Riri.

I really want to go back to my apartment to bring Ilya and Tantri here, but if Ilya and Tantri are here then they will be murdered and I don't want them to be killed just like Ilhan and Chandra who were killed by them. I also didn't bring a gun because the firearm that I used to use was at mevrouw Sofia's house and she is in the Netherlands now. I was actually walking towards my own death and I was so scared thinking that I would die failing to save Riri but I had no other choice, this was all that I could do.

I opened the notes application on my smartphone, wrote my will and sent the will to Reiss's WhatsApp number via my second number, asking him to send the will that I had written to Tantri in case I don't return to Tantri and Ilya within a month. After the will was successfully sent and the message that I had sent showed two ticks icon, I pulled out my second phone number sim card then threw it away then continued to finish the rest of my journey to the coordinates of the building by foot.

My footsteps felt very heavy as I walked closer to the coordinates shown by Google Maps on my smartphone until, my two eyes could faintly see the appearance of a house made of wood exposed to sunlight that would sink on the western horizon, there is a large tree on the trunk of which hangs a large rectangular contact-shaped cage next to the house and inside the cage there is a body of a human lying down while in front of the large tree a person is seen sitting cross-legged holding something with both of that person's hands.

I who saw the scene immediately turned off my smartphone to prevent Tantri and Ilya tracking me down when they got the will that I had written and sent to Reiss.

The closer I got to the big tree, the more clearly I could see what the black-robed and hooded person that was sitting cross-legged has in that person's hands. It was an axe whose handle was probably as high as that person's shoulder and the size of the axe head was quite huge.

The person revealed herself by opened her hood and lifted her head up and looked up at my face, her white blonde hair was slightly fluttering due to the blowing wind. She gave me her sinister smile at me then moved her axe to her side and stood up.

"Finally, I thought you wouldn't come Lodewijk Engels, but I knew that the person who is now being held inside that cage could make you come out of your nest to find me." she said to me with her cynical tone.

"What's the reason you're doing all of this? You can kill Riri right away if you want but why don't you kill her?" I asked her.

"Because, like I said, I want you to get out of your nest so I can finally kill the people who made me fail to complete my missions one by one, starting with you." she said answering my question.

"Why don't you kill me and my friends at the same time with your men if you want to kill us all?" I asked her again.

"Oh, I almost succeeded in doing that, but again the luck that you and your friends had seemed to have succeeded in protecting you and your friends from death because you and your friends managed to avoid the bomb trap that I set in that apartment. So, since my trap failed, I will kill you and your friends one by one." she replied.