Reaching the Moon
Chapter 10

Brawny

"Mama! Papa!"

The cry of a child was heard in a car that was overturned on the highway. The atmosphere of the night was quite dark and silent as the car driven by three people hit the road barrier.

The fear of the child's growing and haunting when he realized his parents sitting in the front seat no longer gave any response.

When a shadow of someone came over, the boy was about to scream for help. He hopes his parents can be saved quickly.

"He's not dead yet" he told someone by phone.

"Well, I'll finish!"

The child's body trembled in fear, his breathing was also restrained when he saw his parents being finished right in front of his eyes. Especially when the man was about to duck down to look at him sitting in the back seat ....

"Mrs ...!"

"Sir ...!"

..

"Moon?"

Nizawa's attention on the phone was instantly distracted when she noticed the Moon's movements. Starting from his hand that moves slowly, the look of his face that looks frightened, to the forehead that is wrinkled followed by sweat that soaks his temple.

"Mother!" Nizwa came out of the guest room where Moon was in the care for several days to call her mother.

"What's up, honey?"

"Moon, it looks like he'll come to his senses, Mother."

Khaira nodded and walked first to the Moon room to see the condition of the woman followed by Nizwa in the back.

"Mama, Papa, Brother Star ..."

Khaira frowned when she heard the soft sound of the Moon. The woman began to examine the situation last month and again noticed her face which was still like a frightened person with an irregular breath.

"Nizwa, does she still have a family?" ask Khaira.

"Nizwa doesn't know, Mother. But when he met at Incheon Airport, he said he was with someone."

"Incheon Airport? You guys met there? Mother was confused about how you met this woman from town A, while you are from Korea."

Nizwa was silent, as soon as her memory when she met the Moon that morning turned back around.

..

That morning, Nizwa and Nizam were going to the airport together. However, because they were worried that it was too late, considering that only a few minutes later the plane would take off, they finally decided to pass the shortcut, although a little rocky.

Unfortunately, right on the fork, the road they want to go through is even blocked because it is temporarily in repair. As a result, they had to choose another shortcut. The road seemed lonely because it was in the middle of the forest. Only a few large vehicles passed through it, even at night when carrying the project.

When they had entered the forest area, Nizwa suddenly asked her to stop because she saw a hijab-wearing woman sitting alone while hiding her face in both arms resting on her knees.

The woman was heard crying so much that Nizwa did not have the heart and was about to approach her. At first Nizam did not allow it for fear that it was just a trap, but Nizwa persuaded him until the man collapsed.

How shocked Nizwa was to learn that the woman was the Moon, her new friend who now looks miserable with wounds on the head and watery eyes. Moon cried and asked Nizwa for help without saying what happened. Tired of crying, plus her shaken psyche, the woman finally fainted.

Nizam who saw it also finally came down and helped lift the Moon into the car. For a moment the brother and sister discussed, until finally they decided to bring the Moon with them to city B by land.

..

Nizwa was still reverberating in daydreams, suddenly regaining consciousness as Khaira spoke her name, until she reflexively confirmed what her mother had said about her encounter in Incheon.

"Is Nizam still overtime?" now Khaira looked at her youngest child.

"Maybe, Mother. Nizam has no news from yesterday.

Khaira let out a breath while clucking. "What's the matter in his office until overtime continues? That's so weird about your sister. Maybe I should marry her so she doesn't spend her life just working.

Khaira walks out and pulls out her phone and calls Nizam.

"Hello, assalamu 'alaikum, where are you, son?" khaira started the conversation over the phone.

(...)

"Go home to rest, ka-" Khaira's words were interrupted when she heard Nizwa's voice calling out to her.

"Have you heard that, Zam? Go home right now, we need to talk about the moon."

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Nizam put his phone on the table after ending his call with his mother. There was a sense of relief and calm when he learned that the Moon was conscious. For some reason too, he suddenly wanted to immediately return to city B to see the state of the woman directly.

Even so, his mission today to find out information about Simon must be completed first. As of right now, Nizam is at the police station where Diki works. He was sitting in a special room with a man who had been arrested by Diki who was none other than a former member of the Black Shadow motorcycle gang.

"So, what do you know about Simon?"

"How's my brother doing?"

Nizam closed his eyes for a moment to calm himself down. He really does not like if the question he is asking is even answered with another question.

"Your sister is fine, two days ago she just had a tumour removal surgery. The situation is getting better now" replied Nizam.

It was seen the man before him breathing a sigh of relief. "Thank you for helping and taking care of my sister" he said, rubbing his face with a faint smile

The room went back into silence for a moment, before the man started to make a sound again. "Simon is Marcel's right-hand man. Almost everything related to Marcel always involved his interference." The man stopped his words for a moment.

"My last target was Simon's niece and your girlfriend. I'm sorry." The man was overwhelmed with guilt.

Nizam paused for a moment to digest what he had just heard, trying to string together the information debris without involving feelings. Of course he must be wise at this time, otherwise, maybe this man before him had already entered the hospital due to his attack due to the outpouring of emotions he had been trying to endure since.

"Is not Simon's nephew Marcel's wife?" nizam asked back after looking calm.

"Simon's nephew was two, one was Marcel's wife, but one was Marcel's target. Regarding the reason, sorry, I don't know."

"But from the car fire only one victim was found, where is Simon's nephew? Why was only Aura there?"

"I don't know, I'm just doing my job."

"Is your target still alive? I have to find him" asked Nizam again.

"I don't know, I really don't know."

Nizam rubbed his face violently, then began to speak, "Then, who told you to? There's no way Simon would want to kill his own nephew."

"I don't know. It could be, Simon was a double eye, he was willing to do everything for money. In fact, the twin of my target was married to Marcel for being forced to just for money and a secret that was out of the question."

"Confidential?" repeat Nizam with furrowed eyebrows.

"Yes, Marcel has a secret that only the two of them know. I suspect Simon's nephew knows their secret." The man paused for a moment to catch his breath. "It's just my prejudice, I don't know for sure who exactly told me to, but after some thought, it looks like they could be a target to examine" the man continued.

"You said yesterday if the order came from a text message, could you give me the number?"

"Just ask your police friend, all my stuff was confiscated by him. Just so you know, it's a disposable number, it'd be hard for you to track it down if you just used that number."

After extracting information about Simon, Nizam and Diki leave the room, the man is returned to the holding cell.

"Zam, I've finished checking the package you gave me at that time" Diki whispered to Nizam. "Follow me" he continued, taking Nizam to a deserted place.

"How did it go?" ask Nizam curious.

"It's not drugs, Zam. That's an explosive."

"What's? but how can it be? Didn't they ever get involved in a drug deal?"

"This may be a different case. Zam, do you know? your efforts now even open up new facts about more complicated cases. We're not just talking about murder, or drugs, we're talking about suspected terrorist groups."

Nizam was dumbstruck for a moment, his hand involuntarily covering his own mouth in disbelief at what he had just heard from Diki.

"Then, what are we gonna do? If you talk about groups, wouldn't it be hard to conquer if only you and I worked?" ask Nizam.

"Therefore, I will present this matter to the headquarter in order to immediately create a special team to investigate the case further."

"Don't head office!"

"Why?"

"I suspect they have cooperation with the police there, considering the Aura case alone, they tried to close it. I'm afraid those groups will realize our plans if we cooperate with them. What if you just talk to the police chief here?" nizam proposed. He recalled the Moon saying they were dangerous and cooperating with the police.

Diki was silent for a moment while thinking. "Alright, I'll talk about it with the police chief here."

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