Revenge By Law's
ARTICLE 31

The atmosphere of the special visiting room was silent for a while. Abi and Roy still look at each other with hate. Not because there is no topic to talk about, they are silent because they are careful in choosing the word to be spoken. Because, in this situation, every word that comes out is like a weapon that can attack the opponent, but can also be a weapon to eat master.

“What do you mean by revenge using the law, which you said a dozen years ago, is like this? Memorizing all the chapters that are going on in this country to humiliate me?”

Abi did not immediately answer the question of his interlocutor, but rather he stared at the window with a smile. The smile that Roy thought felt like a mockery.

“Why do you always think I'm just a robot capable of memorizing all the chapters? I will not waste my brain capacity on useless things. Why am I able to memorize some things? Because I knew a day like today would come so I memorized the chapters that I thought would be useful to face a day like today.” Abi sighed then looked towards Roy again. “Harmonied you? You think you're that special?”

Roy gasped at Abi's last sentence. He really felt insulted. “So, what is all this for? Wasn't I the one who got you beat up and jailed by the police? Didn't I make you drop out of school? Wasn't I the one who ruined your dream of becoming Regina's lover?”

There were still a few sentences that Roy wanted to say, but Abi immediately laughed out loud, making Roy again confused by his strange behavior.

“Fifteen years of learning about the law while living a life like garbage, is it only for you? I'm in prison for selling drugs and killing an artist, is it just for you? Hey, I considered you a great enemy only until the door of the police station fifteen years ago. After him? I didn't even think you existed.”

“La, then the declaration of revenge you said first is -”

“It wasn't for you. I have a bigger enemy that must take revenge from me.”

“You mean, you -”

“If I just want to take revenge on you, I don't need the law. I can attack you secretly while you're setting*b*h with the pel*c*r you rented in a sugar cane garden the night of the graduation announcement. Or I could have thrown you in the pool when you were drunk after a reunion ten years ago. I can also report to the White Fox gangster boss that his brother's killer is free from punishment for his corrupt prosecutor Leroy Jerold Kurniawan. You must know that gangsters are filled with murderers.”

The sweat on Roy's forehead began to pour out profusely. He did not know at all that his position was fragile in Abi's eyes.

“So, who are you after? My papa? Or that captain?”

“Your father? Louis Jithro Kurniawan's. Director of a construction company called PT. The Laras Jaya Karya (Persero) Tbk. Since ten years ago entered the ranks of the 10 largest contractors in the country with total assets of the company reached Rp. 104.35 trillion. Handling various prestigious infrastructure development projects, both from the government and from large private companies. Has various subsidiaries such as PT. Infrastructure Barrel, PT. Laras Property, PT. Energy Barrel, PT. Urban Baras, PT. Precision Barrels, and much more. He has 3 children named Lemuel Judah Kurniawan, Lidya Jessica Kurniawan and Leroy Jerold Kurniawan. The first and second children are quite intelligent and both are graduates of world-renowned universities so they are prepared to be successors. While the youngest child, stupid and always throwing a tantrum, directed to the field of law in order to help the company when tripping legal cases.”

“Ka, you also investigated my father.”

“Even I worked in one of your father's subsidiaries for five years and found a lot of interesting things,” Abi said with a face that showed a creepy smile. “The misappropriation of employee insurance, money laundering through a near-bankrupt subsidiary, the occult projects of regional budget drain, as well as the delay in employee pay are some of the many ulcers of your father's company. Unfortunately, I'm not too interested in that, although one day I will use it if he tries to disturb me.”

Roy clenched his hand tightly. It looks like the veins have started to come out of his arms, like veins on his face. He was very angry because he did not realize how dangerous Abi was. He's not just a lawman who acts in front of a camera when he happens to be caught up in a case.

“Be, means the Chief -”

Abi shook his head. He took his eyes off Roy again and now he's staring at his fingernails. Through his gesture, he wanted to make it clear that he greatly underestimated his interlocutor.

“You should realize that you are not an important figure in my life. To me, you're just a small component. No, you're just a pathetic product of a chain of legal crimes that live quietly but haughtily in our society and mess with the lives of little people like me. If I only focus on you, I'm like picking a leaf to uproot the tree.”

“So, who's the tree you want to grow that?”

Abi fixed his seat and brought his face back to Roy's face, making the prosecutor even more horrified to hear the answer from his mouth. “Not who, but what. What I'm going to destroy is the system. A system where people like you, your father and those jerk cops are snug all this time.”

“And you think you can do it?”

“Roscoe Pound once said, Law as a tool of social engineering. And I describe it with a different perspective. Strong laws that are able to become a tool of community engineering, will certainly also be strong enough to destroy the system of the bastard I meant earlier.”

 With trembling hands, Roy took a handkerchief from his pants pocket and wiped the sweat that had soaked his face. There were no more words in his head suitable for attacking Abi.

“But I will give you a good gift,” Abi said suddenly. “I'll admit that I was the one who instigated Dirga's boss to -”

Abi scratched his head while thinking for a moment.

“What are you doing?” roy asked who was actually quite tired with the surprises given by Abi today.

“You are also of course aware of having been a prosecutor in some cases involving your father's company and always you give a much lower demand than you should.”

“You, what do you mean?!” Roy could no longer contain his anger. He stood up and his left hand pulled the neck of Abi's shirt, while his right hand prepared to punch.

“To kill Reynold.”

Suddenly Abi touched Roy's chest, more precisely the pen stuck in the pocket of his shirt, and it made a beep. Roy had no idea Abi would do it. He took off his grip on Abi's shirt and held the pen Abi had touched.

“Are you -”

“I've given you a great record. A confession, even if you have to edit it a little because I said something less interesting in the middle.”

Roy looks more nervous than ever. He did not expect that Abi read his plan so easily. When did he start to realize it? Was it from the beginning of their conversation? Was that what made him talk about Roy and his father's ugliness in detail?

“You're lucky to be able to use the tape for evidence in court. But you or the person you're assigned to edit the tape has to be really smart so the tape can sound natural and not show that it's an edit. If not, I'll lure the judge so you play the footage whole.”

Roy's body is getting limp. He felt that he could not stand the attack launched by Abi. And it turns out that wasn't the last attack.

“I once said to my sister, if one day there is another apparatus that is not related to my case, visit me in the rutan as did Reynold, I want him to call the reporters. Incidentally, today he should have visited me and he would have known your arrival. So, prepare yourself to receive the presence of reporters outside rutan.”

Abi ended their conversation that day with a happy laugh, leaving Roy, still mourning his loss.