Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 8 Part 7 "Waffenstillstand"

POV Ludwig

I was sitting on my office's chair with my laptop screen displayed in front of me as I tried to rack my brain looking for ways to refute the evidences that Lodewijk has provided while sometimes sipping a warm beer from a glass that was placed next to my laptop until I got an SMS and WA message from Lodewijk whom I'm trying to ignore. However, the sound of my house's bell that he kept pressing was really annoying, forcing me to get out of my house.

When I got out, I saw the silhouette of someone riding his bicycle away from my house. That idiot, he left me food again. I walked to my gate then took the plastic bag that he hung on the bars of my gate and returned inside, headed for the kitchen and wanted to throw it away until I smelled the aroma of the food that recently made me addicted, salad with peanut sauce which the natives here call as Gado-Gado.

I opened the plastic bag and then inside there was a piece of paper containing handwriting, I took it and read it.

"Hej broeder (hey brother), I wrote this because maybe you are lazy to read my message from SMS or WA that I've sent. I heard from Liesbeth a week ago you ordered a Gado-gado so I made you one. Liesbeth taught me how to make it and there is Iced Cendol for you too. I gave you these as apology offerings if you feel that I was arrogant at the trial earlier. I know you won't forgive me and will continue to hate me so if you don't forgive me at least please accept this truce request like usual. I beg you to accept these or if you do not accept these, instead of throwing these away I advise you to give these to your neighbor or to any unfortunate person who will be glad to receive these. It's a shame if you don't eat these because these will be wasted. Please think there are people out there starving and hoping to eat these. If you think you are the best human race, please act like the best human race, don't just show me your ability to oppress other humans because if you can only act like that, you're just the same as animals in which for them apply the jungle's law where the strong win against the weak which you know that animals don't have moral compass and because of that, their level of intelligence are lower than humans right? That's all I want to say. Dag, ik hou van jou. (Bye, I love you.)"

After reading the message, my self-esteem almost took over me until I examined the message slowly again and I realized that what he wrote is true. I always thought that I'm the best human race but if all I could do is oppressing other people what's the difference between me and an animal?

I blew out my breath and then carried the plastic bag containing the Gado-Gado and the Iced Cendol to the dining table, prepared two bowls and then poured those two foods from the package into those bowls.

Using a fork and a spoon, I stir the Gado-Gado and eat it. Lodewijk, dummkopf (idiot), you scallywag silvertongue. Why is it so hard for you to give up to stop me from hating you? Can't you see that I've chosen my own path? What will you get from doing this? When will you realize that your brother doesn't want you to love him? Koppig (stubborn). Heheheh, I think you and I have one thing in common, we both are stubborn. Aren't we, bruder?

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German dictionary

Waffenstilstand = truce