In fact, a girl named Lily left Anna and the Pitung. Together with hundreds of VOC soldiers and high-ranking officers who were also victims of the big battle. Their cries could not be held back anymore.
How come! The gentle girl who used to joke with the twins and was always in trouble with Akno who was accidentally never sensitive to his actions to Herman, the girl who always heard Daisy's complaints and listened to her radio every morning in the living room of Mr. Dekker farm. She died without leaving the slightest part of her body as if she had never existed, she left no traces of anything except for a few items left in her room at the farm.
As if it was the night itself.
The great battle which resulted in the death of almost all VOC soldiers in Batavia was immediately covered by the VOC Headquarters in Amsterdam which decided to move troops immediately from Ambon. Then by The Heeren Zeventien decision, newly appointed Governor-General and wroted in newspapers that Pieterzcoon died of the disease.
1628, history records the failure of the attack of Batavia by Sultan Agung's army and Pieterzcoon's sudden death due to illness. However, the river filled with carcasses, and the appearance of Sultan Agung in Batavia for some reason suddenly continued to roll in the mouths of the indigenous people and became a legend that the newspapers could not erase.
Then dawn just rose from a ship sailing from Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. Looking forward to the story of the girl Anna in steadfast, holding on to hope.
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1629, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
A child got off from his father's lap.
"I won't go too far, daddy!"
"Alright, then just with one condition from daddy, you can't disturb the other passengers. Do you understand, Edward ? "
"Fine, I understand"
As the child ran in the lobby of the new ship they were on.
Duk duk duk duk ...
With joy, he ran down the hall of the ship's lobby, until finally, he stopped in front of a strange figure.
Topped with a straw hat and cloth clothes that looked dull but stretched out wide over his sturdy body, a long sword was slung around his waist while his teeth were gnawed at a yellowed wheat branch ready to be harvested.
Then the boy ventured to greet.
"Uncle, why are you picking up that branch? Dad said if you like to pick something, your teeth will be hollow, you know!"
Hearing the boy's innocent greeting, the figure turned and looked down while wiping the child's head, and at the same time, the sound of the ship's bell rang indicating the ship was about to leave.
Then, together with the gust of the west wind, the ship sailing for the majestic city on the western tip of the island of Java departed, bearing the same name as its destination city, the ship called ... Batavia.