THE PENANCE 2: THE PREGNANT
TP2 - 22

In addition to hearing the sound of the baby crying, Dio also smelled the smell of feces. Slowly Dio opened the blanket. He saw the figure of a woman in white and long-haired who was present at his meet and greet. However, the woman looked terrifying with a body filled with human feces and her face bloody.

Dio was trembling in fear.

"Why did you throw me into that stinking place? It was cold there" said the woman.

"A-ryna?" Mumbled Dio.

Suddenly Arinda's ghost teleported and was in front of Dio's face. The smell of feces from Arinda's body gushed in piercing Dio's nose. Arinda strangles Dio. The man tried to escape.

"Dead you, motherfucker!"

Dio kicked Arinda in the stomach then he ran out. As Dio ran down the corridor, passers-by covered his nose due to the smell on Dio's body.

"Hey, you're not a prick, are you?" Grouse the man.

Dio called Haikal by public phone. "Haikal, the ghost came again with feces all over his body. He's choking me."

At the police station, Zega was calling Gunawan. "How's Ken doing?"

"He's better now. His digestion is problematic, because he doesn't like to eat vegetables."

"Then you're on two days off. You have to spend your time with your family" Zega said.

"Thank you, Senior. But, there's something I want to say."

"Say."

"When I checked Arinda's house, I saw a long-haired, white-clothed woman behind Arinda's house."

Zega snorted in annoyance. "Why do you always talk about women? Remember, you've got a wife and two kids."

"Not so, I think that woman is Arinda's ghost."

"What?" Zega looked surprised.

"Maybe he wants to tell me something. He took me to the sewer."

Zega seemed to think. "I have to get there right away."

After closing the call, Zega came out of his room. "Gitta, Bayu, Andy, come with me."

"Where, Senior?" Andy asked who saw Zega wearing his jacket.

The four of them arrived at Arinda's house. Zega called Gunawan.

"Where is the fecal discharge?" Ask Zega.

"About 400 meters from Arinda's house" replied Gunawan.

"What's? Explain, 400 yards from which way?" Ask Zega.

"To the northeast."

With Gunawan's help, the four of them find a fecal dump. The four of them were wearing masks and rubber gloves. Andy and Bayu shifted the cover made of cement. When looking inside, there was nothing but human excrement.

Zega rubbed his hair rough. "How can it be like this? How can?!"

"Senior Zega." Gitta tried to calm Zega down. "Senior."

Zega clenched his hands. "Am I slow? Am I trying less? We need to find the girl. I wish he was alive, but if he's dead, we'll bury him properly. He was excommunicated in this place. Even the people in this place did not care even though he disappeared. We get reports of Arinda disappearing after one week later."

"Senior, don't blame yourself" Andy said.

"Senior, we've worked hard" said Gitta.

Zega was silent and stared blankly. Gitta shook her arm. "Senior Zega."

Zega did not answer.

"Senior Zega!" Gitta's still trying. "Sir Zee!"

Zega looked at Gitta. "I've never handled a case where the victim was a woman who was sexually abused. I can't stand it and get carried away by emotions because of this."

"Senior! There's a scratch here." Bayu pointed at the cover of the fecal drain hole.

Zega saw. "Someone came before us and moved the body."

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^^^09.13 | 24 April 2021^^^

^^By Ucu Irna Marhamah ^^^