Canticles

36. Shrewdness

After Deri repents and marries, Sentosa gives up most of his property to be managed by Deri. Even so, Deri is not greedy. He kept thinking about the happiness of his three mothers and all his half-brothers. Even Deri entrusted some of Sentosa's companies to be managed by his half-brother.

Deri also founded the Hospital to express his affection for his father. Sentosa was very happy when his name was pinned as the name of the Hospital established by Deri.

Over time Sentosa's health began to experience disorders. Sentosa's deteriorating health worries Deri. With various efforts Deri tried to heal his father including foreign medicine.

" We have a Hospital, but why did Papi have to be taken out of the country all the hell Der...?" the Sentosa protest.

" Gapapa Pi's. In addition to incomplete equipment, I also want Papi to vacation there. Away from Indonesia makes Papi relax and do not need to think about all the affairs here. And that is one of the important things for the healing of Papi..," said Deri.

" Papi is old and Papi can die at any time. But Papi wants to die in Indonesia, in the middle of Papi's extended family." whined Sentosa.

" Papi ain't gonna die anytime soon. Kan Papi still has to watch Papi's grandchildren succeed and become people including Dipo..," said Deri with a choked voice.

Realizing that Deri is sad because of the condition of his son who has a deficiency makes Sentosa trough. Sentosa knew very well that Deri was worried about Dipo's life when he was gone. Sentosa also gave up. He followed Deri's advice and went abroad to seek treatment with one of his daughters.

Dipo is one of Sentosa's grandsons as he also has two grandsons from his other children. Sentosa loved Dipo because Dipo was a child born prematurely.

Dipo was born with mental retardation. Although the physical is perfect but there are shortcomings in Dipo. Unfortunately it was only known after Dipo was ten years old.

Initially the family thought Dipo was a spoiled and stubborn child because it was too spoiled by the grandfather. Dipo often rampages and throws objects around him if his wishes are not met. But sometimes Dipo can act so sweet that it makes everyone fooled.

The unstable personality of Dipo made everyone start to 'sunny' and slowly move away from him. This makes the lack of supervision and security Dipo was ignored. Until one day Dipo was kidnapped by a rival business man Deri.

During the captivity, Dipo often gets punches and kicks that make his entire body and head hit the wall. And that impact was fatal for Dipo. The mental disorder is getting worse. And since Dipo was rescued from the hands of the kidnappers, Dipo is increasingly difficult to control.

Although often raging, but there is one thing that can divert the emotions of Dipo. Dipo is very happy to visit Sentosa Hospital. The reason is because there are many people and many people. Maybe due to trauma during captivity used to make Dipo do not like to be in a place that few people including at home.

The presence of Dipo at Sentosa Hospital did not provoke attention. That's because the physical condition of Dipo is the same as most people. If you do not know Dipo well, ordinary people will consider Dipo as a normal healthy man.

Dipo appears like a cool and established adult man. This is inversely proportional to the character of Dipo. Even though his age was already an adult, but Dipo mentally like a ten-year-old child.

And when Dipo was called by the police, Deri and his wife were out of the country to visit his father.

Hearing the news of Dipo's arrest made Deri and his wife surprised. They decided to return to Indonesia immediately. Despite trying to cover up the bad news from his father, Sentosa knew it too. He whines home because he can't let Dipo get hurt again.

The presence of Deri and his wife at the police station made the media crew who had gathered to cover the news was excited. They're awaiting Deri's statement about the arrest of her son. But the tight escort of the bodyguards made it difficult for media crew to get close to Deri.

Typhoon turned his head as his men brought Deri to him.

" Oh yeah. Leave Us and please close the door" said Taufan, glancing at Deri and his lawyer.

" Good afternoon, sir. I'm Deri, Dipo's father. And this is my family's attorney" said Deri, extending her hand.

" I'm a Typhoon. Let's sit down..," said Taufan while shaking Deri's hand.

" Speak, my name is Hendra. So we came here to talk about the arrest of Mas Dipo Pak. Can you please explain why Mas Dipo was arrested...?" ask the Deri family lawyer.

" This is Mr. Hendra, Dipo proved clear and convincing to have abused a Sentosa Hospital patient named Aura.," said Taufan calmly.

" I'm sorry Sir. Did you catch it wrong. Mas Dipo may not have committed se**al abuse because he has a slight deficiency..," said Hendra doubtful.

" Oh yeah ?. What shortcomings does Mr. Hendra mean...?" ask Typhoon does not understand.

Hendra seemed to swallow the saliva with difficulty. He glanced at Deri hoping that it would be Deri who would tell Dipo's shortcomings. But it seems that Deri is too tired to just quietly observe the talk of Hendra and Taufan.

" Mas Dipo is an adult, but unfortunately mentally more like a ten-year-old child," said Hendra carefully.

Hendra's remarks startled Typhoon. Because viewed from CCTV footage and visa evidence stating if the Dipo healthy and normal. Moreover, the bruise suffered by Aura proved that Dipo was very experienced in doing that.

" Please don't protect the suspect with Mr. Hendra's absurd alibi. You know what the consequences are...?!" ask Typhoon does not like.

" I understand Sir and I don't want to talk. We came here with a statement from the Mental Hospital about Mas Dipo's mental condition.", said Hendra while offering a map containing Dipo's health file.

Typhoon snatched the map that Hendra thrust and read a file containing a statement from the Mental Hospital about Dipo's mental health. There it is written if Dipo still has to do health checks periodically and take drugs.

" If Dipo is still sick why do you let him roam around in public unattended...?!" tanya Taufan riled.

" It was our fault Mr. Typhoon. But that wasn't intentionally what we did. Because usually there is always someone who accompanies Mas Dipo when he comes out of the house. When the fateful event occurred, Mr. Deri and his wife were not at home because they had to go abroad to visit his father. Negligence of the house person causes Mas Dipo to be free from supervision.," said Hendra explained.

The typhoon seemed to be twitching his forehead because he did not expect that the case he handled this time would be more complicated than he imagined.

" Can We meet Dipo now...?" ask Deri impatiently.

Taufan nodded then asked a man to drive Deri and Hendra to meet Dipo.

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