Mastenges

171. Last bullet

"Eh has come home," Erna greeted Typhoon who had just returned home and walked towards his room, to meet his son and wife.

"Mother?" Typhoon looked at Erna who was arranging food dishes on the dining table of Berta's house.

"Aren't you surprised to see mom?"

Typhoon smiled slightly and approached Erna and kissed the back of the hand of the woman who had given birth to her almost 34 years ago. Then he did the same thing to Galang who was faithfully waiting for Erna who was busy in the kitchen.

"How's your job?" Ask Galang.

"Alhamdulillah ba good," said Typhoon.

"Yes, take a shower and meet your wife's daughter. We will have dinner together" said Erna.

"Yes ma'am," the typhoon stepped out of the dining room into his room.

Slowly, Typhoon opened the door of his room. He was very afraid to make a sound that would disturb Jagat or Bella who was asleep in the room. As the Typhoon stepped in, Bella looked at him with a smile.

"Assalamualaikum, I thought you were asleep" said Typhoon who immediately approached Bella and kissed her soft forehead.

"Waalaikumsalam, have you gone home?"

"Are you, Jagat is sleeping?"

"Yes, um,"

"From earlier?"

"Just now."

"Well, I'll take a shower first.." Typhoon Speaks.

"Yes," Bella said.

"Oh yes, in two days I will be discharged from the City" said Typhoon again.

Bella was stunned and looked at the Typhoon in disbelief.

"But mas, shouldn't we attend daddy's punishment?" Ask Bella.

The typhoon fell silent, his face bowed deeply.

"Mas, won't mas be present?" Ask Bella again.

The typhoon lifted his face, looked at Bella and came back to his wife. The cyclone sat on the edge of the bed and grabbed Bella's body and grabbed her in his arms.

"Mas why?" Ask Bella who feels there is a change in the Typhoon that does look very agitated tonight.

"Nothing, I'm just a little tired. I also want to apologize, there is a task waiting. So, I can't attend that execution day." Resolute Typhoon.

Bella let go of the Typhoon's embrace and stared intently at the Typhoon.

"What task is it anyway?"

"It's a secret, baby,"

"Can't you tell the wife?" Ask Bella.

"Yes.no dong," Typhoon smiled and gently stroked Bella's hair which covered part of her pretty face.

"Keep, if if if daddy asks about mas how?" Ask Bella again.

The typhoon swallowed his salivary and threw his gaze into the corner of the room.

"I'll write a letter to your daddy. I hope, daddy will understand, when I'm on duty. Later, what do you want to be present?"

"I don't think I'm strong, I have a baby anyway. Let me wait for daddy's body here, "Bella's tears are dripping down her cheeks.

Typhoon let out a long sigh and hugged Bella tightly again.

"Yes, you should be at home with your mother. Let me be my representative, let Baba be there."

"Yes," Bella wiped her tears.

"Oh, don't cry. Later your ASI will be reduced a lot. Poor Maize," Typhoon peeked Bella's forehead. Bella smiled and raised her face again.

"I'll take a shower, please,"

"Yes, um."

The typhoon went into the bathroom and pensive there. In two days, Pongki's execution will be carried out and he has tried to refuse to be one of the five executors tasked with executing Pongki. But it was a special request from Pongki, he could not possibly refuse the last request from the in-laws he loved so much. The typhoon cried in front of the mirror on the bathroom wall. Same with Bella, she has no power to endure her grief. Perhaps right now, Typhoon's grief transcends the grief of Bella herself. How could he stand in front of Pongki whose eyes were covered in black cloth and aim at the muzzle of his weapon right in the heart of his father-in-law.

"Yes Allah... Why should this be, "The inner.

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At the family dinner, the Typhoon was more silent. Her silence attracted the attention of both her parents and Bella. Typhoons are often pensive and do not hear when asked questions from both parents and Bella.

"Mas" Bella touched the back of Typhoon's hand.

The typhoon gasped and looked at Bella's face with a nervous expression.

"Sickness?" Ask Bella again.

"Ti-no," she said.

"You why the hell is le?" Ask Erna.

Galang, Erna and Bella looked at each other. Until finally Galang took the initiative to catch up with Typhoon who was smoking on the veranda of the house.

"Smoking again?"

Typhoon turned his head and looked at Galang who was sitting next to him.

"Sorry baba," Typhoon immediately turned off his cigarette in the ashtray on the table in front of him.

"Stop smoking, you have a baby."

Typhoon smiled clumsily at Galang's advice.

"Yes, it'll be reduced."

"Not down, but try to stop,"

"Yes," said the Typhoon, scratching its non-itchy head.

"You look so agitated, what's up?"

Typhoon looked closely at Galang, then he smiled again and lowered his face.

"What's up, son? Tell baba."

"It's about work alone ba," said Typhoon.

"OK if you don't want to say it. But I think you need someone to comfort you."

Typhoon turned towards Galang who was sitting next to him while smilingly looking at him. At that very moment, his eyes began to glaze over.

"Have you ever had a task you couldn't forget for the rest of your life?" Ask Typhoon.

Galang let out a long sigh and cast his gaze towards the garden of the house. While the Typhoon patiently waited for Galang's answer that looked agitated.

"Early," said Galang, after a few minutes he fell silent.

"What?" Ask Typhoon curiously.

Galang smiled faintly and looked back at the Typhoon with a shady look.

"Baba was forced to shoot his own best friend."

Typhoon shook his head and looked at Galang in disbelief.

"How can you?"

"Everything can happen on duty."

"How's the story?" Typhoon asked who seemed very interested in the story about Galang still on duty.

Galang again let out a long sigh and lowered his face.

"At that time, Baba served in a conflict area. Baba has arrested the leader of an organization group that makes a riot in an area. Baba has handed the suspect over to the local police. At that time, the police was a friend of baba who happened to serve there. We've been friends since education, and we've met there."

"Then?" Typhoon seemed very impatient to know what happened.

"Shortly, the baba's best friend released the suspect and received bribes from the group. Imagine, baba caught the leader of the group risking their lives. Not only baba, but the baba team that almost died in the field of battle against the group."

"When the baba returned to the police station, and the suspect was no longer seen there, his emotions exploded. Baba was really disappointed in Baba's best friend. Usut had a mouthwash, it turns out he is the nephew of the leader of the group. Baba also saw a lot of money neatly arranged in her desk drawer."

"Then? Baba shot him?" Ask Typhoon.

"Not yet, but baba warned him. Baba is very emotional. Baba tries to tell him that baba and team are risking their lives and maintaining the sovereignty and peace of the country together with the TNI and Police who serve in the field."

"But instead he intended to shoot Baba, as she tried to take him to the leader. If he had not died, it would have been the baba who died. So, when baba dies, how can baba keep the promise of baba to your mother and you?" Galang looked at the Typhoon closely.

Typhoon heaved a heavy sigh, and shook his head, a sign of him completely inexhaustible with the attitude of his baba companions.

"Quickly he grabbed his pistol tucked in his waist, and fired it right at Baba's forehead. Luckily, the bullet missed. The bullet just grazed the helmet he was wearing. Baba felt very threatened as he was about to fire a second shot. Finally Baba decided to shoot the last bullet right in his heart. And he collapsed right next to his desk."

The cyclone shook his head. He really did not expect what Galang had faced on the field while he was in charge.

"Then, what happened to Baba?"

Galang let out a long sigh and smiled bitterly.

"Propa pulled to the center. In the interrogation, Baba as the leader of the team, trying to protect all team members. Therefore, Baba also had time to get punished for the incident. Baba was told to disappear for some time until the situation returned conducive. Finally well this way, after going here and there, finally baba stranded in Riau and served there until retirement."

"Imagine if Baba dies, you'll never meet Baba. Baba will never be able to keep her promise to your mother. At that time, only the faces of the two of you appeared. I can't, it's not time for baba to die. Baba must defend this life for you and your mother. For the promise of the contracted dead in your mother's heart."

Typhoon bowed restlessly, he rubbed his face violently.

"Now, what are you going to face?" Ask Galang.

The cyclone looked at Galang closely. Tears began to pool back in her eyes.

"Just like Baba, I'll shoot the last bullet" Typhoon said.

Galang sighed and embraced the Typhoon tightly. Without asking much more, he just wanted to try to calm down the Typhoon that tonight desperately needed his shoulder rest.

"Here son, lean on Baba's shoulder,"

The storm sobbed, blowing all the emotions in his heart. A sense that so burdened him as a son-in-law who would execute the death of in-laws he loved so much.