Real Inheritors

reality in plain sight

Armed with the money given by one of the guards who knew him very well, Dafi sought public transportation to his home. He was also told from that place had to take public transportation three times with different majors to arrive at his destination.

Dafi who has not seen the world outside the detention house for too long certainly feels alien to the surrounding. A lot has changed, especially around the road that used to be often used as a busking route.

Deg.

Dafi stared at the barrage along the road under the bridge S, which had been a silent witness of the incident almost 13 years ago. The place is now a park where some people are seen sitting casually on synthetic grass while playing their phones.

Shortly thereafter, Dafi prepared to stop right at the fork leading to his house. Luckily he still recognized the small stall near the big tree that was there.

“Kiri, Bang,” said. Dafi got out of the car and paid the fare. 

Dafi gave a smile looking straight at the path he was about to take. With wide strides he rushed to get home to meet his parents.

Five minutes later Dafi began to look confused. A lot has changed around that place. No longer a slum with the smell of garbage that is characteristic. Except for two skyscrapers that are still in the process of work.

Yep. Dafi was the son of a scavenger. His parents used to scavenge and sort out garbage to be sold to collectors. Not only his parents, neighbors and residents around also many who do the same. But now it looks much different. The place is now surrounded by barriers because there is a building project.

Dafi continued his steps while looking at the project workers who were busy with their work on the building. Suddenly he remembered his father and mother. Dafi ran to the place where his family lived, but the place is now flat, and made way to the project.

“Where are father and mother? Where's Ica? Where is Bi Marni, Mang Herman ... Where are my friends? Yeah, God! Where are they now?” muttered Dafi with a pushy look.

Dafi circulated her gaze, and accidentally saw a name that felt familiar.

BIANTARA.

There was also a banner that read:

In this place there is the construction of BIANTARA TWIN TOWERS.

Dafi's jaw stiffened instantly. The name was the same as the man who had visited her at the detention center. Does that mean his entrapment has anything to do with the construction of the twin towers?

Uh. It doesn't feel possible. He was just a child who understood nothing at the time. Then what is the motive of her trapping? 

“Mother.” Dafi was suddenly startled when she remembered her mother's figure. Dafi turned back to the small stall he had seen earlier. Arriving at the shop ….

“Bah. How are you?” sapanya while sitting next to the old man in the long wooden chair in front of the shop.

The aged man momentarily frowned, then asked with a flat expression. “Where are you? New look.”

“I ... from somewhere, Bah,” sahut Dafi slowly while lowering his gaze. In Dafi's heart he guessed. Is it true that the old man did not know what happened to him first?

“Wherever you are, you should not forget to go home. Especially forgetting the parents. Sin,”.

“No way I forgot the same old man, Bah. The proof is that I am home now. I remember Abah too. Try, Abah remember not the same as me?” ask Dafi with a faint smile on her face.

“Who are you not important. But as a boy, you should have been there when your father died, your mother was sick to death too. How can you do that with them? What kind of child are you?” the man sounded sarcastic.

“What? Father and mother ... died?” Dafi was shocked to hear the words of the old man who owned the stall. But he tried to shake it. Meanwhile, hearing Dafi's question, Abah instead of answering moved from the chair.

“Toto died a few months after you left. One year later, Ayu followed. If you want to meet them, you ask the janitor at Rawa Gede public cemetery. If he's still around and you remember, you know him. He used to be RT here,” is clearly that brother and makes Dafi instantly fixated.

Toto and Ayu are her parents' names.

Dafi's steps seem slow, but forced to keep going to get certainty. Although it is true that the name of the father was his parents, along the way Dafi prayed that the news was not true.

Almost thirty minutes Dafi walked towards the funeral. Once there, unexpectedly someone greeted.

“You're Dafi huh? Right ‘kannu Dafi?” tanyakanya.

Dafi turned his head, and of course remembered the face of the man before him. “Pak RT.”

“Aalhamdulillah's. When free?” ask him with a relieved face.

“Today, Sir.”

“Thank God. To father yuk's house. Not the house anyway, precisely the hut,” he said later.

“Thank you, Sir. But ... Mr. RT, I want to inquire about my Father and Mother.” Dafi hesitated to say it. However, he did not expect to see the gravestone of his parents there.

“You know?” The two eyebrows of the man were linked.

“Tau what, sir? I wanted to ask them where they were because I had seen our old house. Where did my parents move, sir? Perhaps Mr. RT knows,” said Dafi hopefully anxious.

The man sighed in his breath. Without saying anything, he asked Dafi to follow in his footsteps. Dafi. He hopes his parents are still alive.

“Come. Father tell me the truth. You must be strong, Dafi. That's your mom's message.”

Hearing that, Dafi began to step and follow the man before him down the gap of the path that was between the rows of the navel.

Deg. 

At once Dafi felt his heart crashing into the deepest recesses. His feet that were still stepping, suddenly stopped when his gaze found the names of his parents stamped on the stone of each navel is very simple and what it is.

“Here they are, Dafi. Mr. Toto and Ms. Ayu are dead. Later father tell me what happened. But now, pray for them. You stay first yes. I was at that place,” said the man.

Dafi. His face was red withstanding the crying. He remembered the promise to please his parents. But now all he saw was their belly button. At once Dafi gathered at the side of his father's grave while holding back a chest-stifling cry.

“Bu. Sir. Dafi has come home,” he said in a trembling voice. 

Dafi closed his eyes, trying to calm his troubled heart. After a while Dafi prayed to Almighty God to put his parents in the best place by His side. After Dafi had been there for a long time, she moved with a raging feeling inside her chest.

“Biantara. I swear I will avenge all this,” his wrath in the heart.

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