The Winter Promise

Chapter 120: The Good Ending Is Not Bad.

It was a hot Sunday but rain clouds had covered the sky at that time, maybe just waiting a few more moments until the rain fell.

Right now me, Riki, and Maul are already inside that can lead to the direction of Tanah Abang.  Today we want to go to Akbar's house because his aunt and uncle want to thank him for what we did to his brother Akbar.

Actually I told Akbar to say to them there is no need to bother doing that. But according to Akbar, the two of them kept clean hard to thank us.

“Where have you been this Mul?”

Riki immediately gave a complaint to Maul because lately he has never been with us at all. Even when at school, he did not gather with the others in an ordinary place.

“I still have business with case yesterday.”

“Did you find anything out of it?”

I became curious about it.

“Yesterday my father asked for my help to track the location and find out about the identity of the boss of the buyer.”

“Then you found it?”

“I have not found who that person is, the instructions given are very few to reveal that person.”

Hmmmmm... I guess Maul can do that easily. This man is very careful in his actions. How many couriers did he hire in this. If it's like this means the only way is to directly solve the core problem.

“How can a person like you not find it Mul?”

Riki felt disbelief in what Maul said.

“It is possible that the person hired the services of an expert hacker to hide his current location and identity. If that's the case, it's only natural that I can't find it.”

If indeed that person uses the services of hackers as well, it means he should also be looking to know about us-us. This is very worrying.

“Are you not worried about the existence of this hacker Mul?”

I asked Maul.

“If for that you two just calm down, as great as any hacker he hired, they can not possibly find out who the person who managed to catch one of his couriers.”

Maul said that with great confidence.

“Why is that?”

“I have checked the area around the warehouse which yesterday became the place of transactions and also the warehouse. There are no surveillance cameras located there, there is indeed one surveillance camera belonging to the police to supervise traffic, but it is located very far away from the warehouse location and very many people are passing through that road.”.

Hearing that made me breathe a sigh of relief, as I did not have to worry about being terrorized in the future.

“Again my father did not put our names in the police file, so he will not be able to search about us anywhere.”

“Can you handle that Mul?”

“Take it easy, as long as I know the pattern used by that hacker, I can easily find out who he is.”

For now, I better hand it over to Maul.

“I can't wait if you already know who that person is.”

“What's really why? Do you want to catch Rik?”

Maul asked Riki who was excited at the moment.

“I'm just curious about people who have a lot of money like him.”

It's not just Riki, I'm curious about it.

“It's obvious that person is entrepreneur Rik. Whether it's a businessman or a person who has power.”

Saying to him.

“Why are they using their money for something like that? They should give it to someone who is not capable. There are still a lot of people who can't afford it in Indonesia and they need it more than they spend it on something like auctions.”

You are not wrong Rik, indeed the number of people not able to in Indonesia is not small. But I also doubt they can think like that.

If they had thought like you, there was no way they would have done that.

“Mul, can you figure out how to get into that auction?”

I asked Maul.

“What's the reason?”

“Because if we want to solve this case in the fastest way is just that, nothing else.”

I think for now that's all I can think of.

“Do you have any Mar instructions?”

“I don't have many leads but I do know. If you want to get into the show, you must have a.” ticket

“What ticket did you just mean Mar?”

Maul became interested after hearing that.

“I don't know what a ticket is and how to get one. I only knew that when I interrogated the buyer.”

“Are you sure he's not lying?”

“Someone who is near death is unlikely to lie.”

I didn't feel like he was lying to me at the time either.

“What did you do to that guy while he was interrogating him?”

“Ya something of the sort.”

Maul should have known from Riki about what we were doing back then. Is it possible that Riki hasn't told Maul that yet?

If I haven't been too lazy to tell him.

“But how can we get that ticket? We just don't know which places were used in the auction event.”

Riki said to us.

“If if we do not get the ticket, inevitably we have to use a feed.”

“Umpan?”

“We will have someone willing to be bait and let him be kidnapped by them.”

I dare guarantee that no one will want to do such a stupid and reckless thing. If there is such a person, surely we should be able to give him a very big reward because the things he did were very risky.

“Then how do we find it from the feed?”

“That's easy, we just need to put a tracker on the body of the person who will be this feed.”

Whoa! I've seen it in detective movies. Can we do something like that?

“And the problem is currently..”.

Maul looked towards the two of us very deeply.

“Who is the fool who wants to be the bait to be kidnapped?”

“I'm willing to be the bait if you two are sure if this can solve the case.”

I forgot that he's among us a reckless fool.

“We can not use male feed, too dangerous.”

“Why?”

Riki was a little disappointed by Maul's reply.

“If Amar's estimate of the time is correct. If they catch a man, surely they will kill him after they kidnap him, because they only need his organs

“If it is like that, I resign myself to be bait.”

Riki became scared when he heard that.

“Tumben once you're afraid of such a thing.”

“Of course Mar! Who is not afraid to hear that, besides that I am also young and there is still much I want to do.”

“Measure no one knows Rik.”

Saying to him.

“And the other problem is we can't use women, it's too dangerous for them.”

“How about we think about the problem of the ticket first, if it can we can only think of the next plan.”

Riki made a very good suggestion.

“You're right Rik, we better leave this to the police. Because the more here the more dangerous for the size of school children like us.”

Anyhow there are schoolchildren talking about this like us. If only the current situation on the bus was not empty, I would also be a little reluctant to talk about it now.

Finally after a long journey, we arrived at Akbar's house. I could see Akbar waiting for us right in front of his house.

“What was on the road jammed?”

Akbar came straight to us.

“Not too jammed too.”

“Mari enter! Aunts and uncles are waiting for you all inside.”

We entered Akbar's house and in the living room there was already his aunt and uncle who were sitting while watching television with the Princess.

“Uncle! Auntie! They've arrived.”

Seeing us enter the house, aunts and uncles immediately stood up and greeted us.

“Come on you please sit!”

Back, my uncle and aunt thanked me as well as the others.

“We are both very grateful to you for risking your lives for our nephew. We don't know what we should do to repay your kindness.”

They exaggerate too much.

We were risking our lives at the time, but we didn't really think it was anything big. After all that made us have to risk our lives because of Riki who was acting alone at that time.

“No problem uncle, we are also happy if can help.”

I try to smile in front of them.

“Then, I'm sorry to go back first.”

I went to the kitchen to do something there.

“No, I think thank you alone is not enough to repay your kindness.”

It's very inconvenient if it has to be like this, I'm more comfortable if they consider this mediocre.

“Just calm uncle, we all don't really care about it.”

“Amar is right uncle, as long as everything is safe we are happy.”

Riki helped me to get out of this.

I should have left this matter to Riki from the beginning, since I was not too ordinary in this kind of conversation.

“I am very happy because Akbar can find great and also good friends.”

Now uncle Akbar commends us.

Riki was so happy to get such a compliment.

“By the way how is the Princess doing now?”

Riki looked towards the Princess who was still busy watching cartoons on television.

“He is fine, his mental condition is also stable because he himself still does not understand what happened yesterday. He only felt that he was going for a walk with his father and fell asleep while on the road.”

Of course he doesn't know anything because we managed to save him. If yesterday we did not manage to save him, surely his mental condition would be problematic.

The sleeping pills saved everything.

“Do uncles know about the continuation of his father Akbar?”

Riki asked uncle.

“Yesterday I followed his trial, he was sentenced to fifteen years in prison and also a fine.”

Fifteen years in jail for a long time, I don't know if he's gonna get a cut of the prison term or not.

“That was a long time ago.”

“Hopefully with the punishment he lived could change his attitude and not repeat his mistake again.”

I don't know if all of Akbar's family does have this kind of forgiving nature. Because if I were to experience this, I would still harbor hatred for my father.

Then the aunt brought us some food one by one from the kitchen that she seemed to have prepared before we got here.

“Wad uncle, don't bother.”

Riki felt bad about the things that aunt and uncle did.

“Have nothing to say, today we intend to entertain you. You guys used to come but we're not jamu, right? Think of this as a replacement for your visit yesterday.”

It could be like that.

At that time his aunt Akbar served a lot of food, there are vegetables, salted fish, tofu tempeh, sambal, and also lalapan.

It looks simple, but this is already very uploading taste.

While we were enjoying the food, suddenly an excused voice came from the front of the house.

However, the unusual reaction was shown by Akbar as well as his younger brother. When they heard that voice, the two of them immediately ran towards the front door to greet the person.

It seems like the person who came here is someone special to them, and I already know who that person is, you should have guessed it too.

Aunty and Uncle also followed Akbar to the front door, which left Me, Riki, and Maul confused by what was really going on.

The three of us peeked out of the living room to see who was coming.

Right in front of the door, there was a woman standing there carrying a large suitcase that she had placed beside her.

“I'm sorry!”

That was the first word that came out of the woman's mouth to Akbar and the Princess. He cried in front of Akbar and the Princess and kept apologizing to the two of them.

“Mother!”

The princess then hugged the woman who was none other than her mother, and her mother Akbar hugged the Princess very tightly.

Riki and Maul are shocked to learn that she is Akbar's mother.

Although I already knew that it was Akbar's mother, but I was also a little surprised because I did not expect that he would come at a time like this.

I can also see Akbar trying to hold back his tears so he doesn't cry.

“Already, you better get in first. Not nice to see by neighbors, it happens that we are also eating.”

Aunt told her mother Akbar to join us in the living room.

Akbar's mother joined us in the living room. The princess who had previously watched television, was now sitting on her mother's lap. He seemed very happy to be reunited with his mother.

Likewise with Akbar, although he tried to look mediocre but I can tell that he was very happy.

“Surely you are his friends Akbar who have saved the Princess huh? I am Akbar's mother, I am very grateful to you for saving Princess.”

“Where does aunt know that we did it?”

“Mba already told me about this issue.”

The MBA? Oh, maybe what she meant was her aunt Akbar.

“Mother is sorry yes Princess for leaving you.”

Said Akbar's mother while stroking the Princess' head.

“I like happy ending.”

Riki smiled very widely while looking at me.

Yeah! I don't think an ending like this is bad either.

Then Akbar's mother handed a letter to the three of us.

“What is this?”

I said while taking the letter.

“I myself do not know what the letter is, but I got the letter when I was at my brother's house.”

I opened the sealed letter and looked at the contents.

“This!”

I was shocked after seeing the contents of the letter.

“What's Mar?”

Riki and Maul were curious about my reaction.

“When did aunt get this letter?”

“I got it a few days after at my brother's house, when it was the postman who delivered it to me.”

“Try me see.”

Maul took the letter from my hand.

Maul and Riki looked at the contents of the letter together.

So in the letter was about an offer to sell himself to his mother Akbar at an auction to get money, there is also a web address that seems accessible and will show where the auction is held.

Our path is getting closer to breaking it.

“I can't access it.”

Maul was disappointed that she could not access the page on her phone.

“Is there anything you want to do Mul?”

“Can I request this letter? I need it to investigate something.”

I looked towards Akbar's mother as this letter was still hers.

“Please, I do intend to give it to you.”

“For now forget about it, we better celebrate this happiness first.”

“I totally agree with uncle.”

And we continued the meal with a sense of kinship that was very strong.

Akbar and the Princess looked happy as well as the aunt and uncle.

The letter given by his mother Akbar is also a glimmer of light to solve the case. I feel like in a moment, we can finish it right away.

the End Chapter 120