Reborn
PART XIII

"What if he wasn't?" Ask Rael. Dafa looked at him with a strange look. Rael's confused.

"The captain has a dark story in his family. His late wife had a close friend of a Chinese blaster. Time massacre he's again duty outside the city. His wife hid her friend with her son in her house. But after being rescued he killed his son's wife to protect his family in the captain's house"

"Hmm, yep too"

"Yes, that's his own close friend. Even his youngest son at about 6 years old was also involved in the murder of his family Fendy" Rael sipped his coffee.

"Where do you need to go pro?" Ask Rael.

"I'm not bothered by the blaster. In fact, our nation is also a mixture of the descendants of foreign nations. Unless the pure Indonesian people come from 1 pure citizen of the country. That you?"

"Let's know, I don't really understand the situation as to why this is so. When it happened, I didn't know anything"

" How old are you, anyway?"

"18 years" answered Rael.

"Oh, huh? We're 4 years apart" Rael stared intently at Dafa.

"I think 30 years" he said.

"Haha... I'm not that old"

They went back and enjoyed their drinks. Rael put his empty glass behind the grass.

"I think the local opinion makes a lot of sense. It feels like the country is slowly being colonized. But even blaster is not so. Maybe it was some people but it did not have to be a massacre, right" said Rael.

"So you're white too?"

"Nobody's also because my life is threatened" Suddenly Rael took off the chip in her ear and showed her real face.

Uhukkc... Uhukkc...

"Hey, what does this mean?" Dafa chokes on his tea seeing Rael.

"That's what?" He asked for a small, beaded round object in Rael's hand.

"Hmmm... What is this. Maybe some kind of hologram mask. But the way it works also changes the shape of my face. My face becomes numb if I wear it too long"

"You're a crossbreed?" Dafa looked at Rael intensely.

"Yes, as you can see" Dafa just gawked.

"Hey, for decades I knew there wasn't a blaster army as flashy as you"

At first glance there was no Indonesian blood from him. Long blond hair, bright blue eyes like jewels, sharp nose, white skin shining. Which shows his Indonesia only from his eloquent language and there is no foreign accent in his pronunciation.

"I understand. It must be hard to stay here. So all this time you've been hiding your face. Your parents too?" Rael smiled in anguish.

"My parents are not there. General Hassan and his wife took care of me all this time"

"Treating you?"

"M-hm"

"That explains why he's watching you so much. You're his son apparently"

"Really real angel gilakkkk!!!" Dafa Whispering. He turned his face to hide his reddened face from Rael. 'When wearing a mask is already beautiful bangettttttt', Dafa's inner voice. He bit his lips thin.

Rael chuckles. He heard the Dafa whisper with his sharpened hearing but pretended not to know. If Dafa knew his former self, he might feel disgusted to be close to Rael.

Rael plays the chip in his hand. To be honest, of course, he also did not like having to live in hiding all his life because of the State conflict.

"Why are you showing it to me?" Ask Dafa.

"Once again, maybe because I don't want to keep hiding. There are at least one or two people who know I'm alive. As my crossbred self is not this fake mask" Dafa noticed Rael's chip.

"It won't last forever" Dafa said.

"But that thing is good too. Even though I don't know where you got it from"

"Haha... Well. It was made especially for me"

"Oh, so. Who made it?" Rael smile.

"Eummm...my uncle....?"

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"Hello, honey. How's there? Rael ate?" Ask Linda on the phone.

Rael looked out the window holding his phone. The atmosphere of the dormitory at night was so calm. The soldiers who were practicing this afternoon had already entered into their respective rooms.

"Haha... Apaan. Yaudah changed it was mama" Rael laughed hearing her parents scrambling for her phone turn.

A few moments later Hassan won. Linda locked herself in the room because she was upset that she couldn't talk any longer with her beloved daughter.

"Hello, Rael?"

"Hello, pa. Rael's still here"

"Rael how are you doing there?"

"good. Physical and spiritual health" Reply Rael.

"Good, dong. How was the mission yesterday?"

"Hm... Rael made a mistake yesterday. Rael leaves Rael's job to take care of the little boy passing by" Rael lays his head on the window.

"Why is that? So it was punished?"

"Punished by no means. Rael was slapped 5 times"

"Are you serious?!!! Who slapped papa's son?!!! You're your papa, Rael!!" Hassan raised his voice.

"Hahhhhh?!!!! Who would dare slap my son?!!!" Suddenly, Linda's voice screams.

"Haha... No, Rael was wrong"

"Oh my God, my son. It must hurt, yes" Linda said.

"So anyway, ma. Now there's no taste"

"Hushhh.... It's papa's turn, huh. There's mama in that room" Hassan drove Linda away. Rael chuckles at Linda's grumbling voice.

"You know how Rael must have done that there's a reason, right? If Rael thinks it's good, do it. But it's got to stay focused on Rael's job, yeah"

"Yes, pa" Rael stared at the full moon from her bedroom window.

"Rael. Papa wants to ask. There's been a rumor, isn't there?"

"What rumors?"

"Hm... Means not yet"

"Yet, anyway. Shorten again maybe. What rumors?"

"The latest incident of the tragedy 5 years ago was apparently planned. It's likely that our country was pitted against sheep by its own people"

"Oh, huh? Then why the same? That was 5 years ago, right, pa"

"It's true, Rael. But the purpose of it is to destroy our country. And that person is also still continuing his actions"

"What reason? There are people who can act that way. That which wants to be destroyed is not a monopoly toy"

"Indeed right. But that's the truth. Last night there was a number that sent a threatening message to the president's number. It has been tracked and originated from the former capital of Jakarta, but that number has not been valid. The SIM card has also been found. The identity of the sender is not known only written the initial V in the message"

"Do you know the president's number?"

"There is a possibility of involvement of state officials. Or it could be the message. Papa was worried because the message was sent just as Rael was running errands nearby"

Rael thought back to his trip yesterday. He did not remember seeing anything suspicious there. Or maybe—?

"What will happen next?"

"Hmmm.... In the near future the higher-ups will form a special team to search for that person. Papa also took part in the formation of the team later"

"Rael may ask no help, pa?"

"Solicit what please?"

"Enter Rael in that team" Hassan fell silent.

"Rael know something?" Now it was Rael's turn to be silent.

"Later papa try. We wait for the results of Rael's assessment first, yes" Hassan continued.

"Yes. Thanks, pa"

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