11 years ago, when I was in high school in grade 2 and was 16 years old and before the release of the EOA game, Rifai had men who always followed him here and there. His subordinate is named Rizal.
Every time at school, I always saw Rizal near Rifai, whether to go to or to rest or to come home from school, he always followed Rifai all the time. Even though Rifai just ignored his presence, Rizal didn't care about that.
At that time, Rifai was quite famous in the area where we lived, even some schools knew his name. However, Rifai's popularity is not in terms of good, but in terms of bad. Every day, Rifai always creates problems in the area where we live or outside the area where we live. He did it just for his pleasure, to fill his spare time which he thought was boring.
And that is why Rizal always approaches Rifai. He was always involved with the problems Rifai experienced, even a few times he just created his own problems.
How many times have I advised Rifai not to involve someone in his problem, but he didn't listen to it. My father who is busy with his work does not know this, only I know.
When I met them several times, I always saw Rizal carrying something and giving it to Rifai. Rifai received these items, some were discarded.
Rifai only accepted items in the form of food and drinks that Rizal gave him, he threw away items in the form of jewelry and other items. I don't know how Rizal got his hands on these things, whether he was indeed a rich person or if it was stolen goods.
And when a middle-aged man and woman came to my house, I became aware of the source of these items.
Because Rifai's responsibility is in the hands of my family, the two middle-aged people came to my residence. The two middle-aged people are none other than Rizal's parents.
They came to my residence to explain everything that happened to them, my father was not there because he was busy with his work. They explained that their son often took jewelry, land certificates, and sometimes also took his father's pension without them knowing. They also explained that if their child was caught taking the items, the child would threaten them and sometimes hurt them.
When the mother showed the bruise on her blue shoulder, I felt sorry to see her. After all, these two people are his parents, but why could that person hurt him. This is too much for a child.
I also explained what happened, and returned their belongings, the jewels that were thrown away by Rifai even though what I returned was not complete. Even though I've returned the jewels, that's not what they wanted. What they want is for Rizal to be back to how he used to be, to love his parents.
Rizal began to change since entering high school and hanging out with the wrong people. In addition, at the school there is a respected person in the area, namely Rifai, this is getting worse. And to make matters worse, in this area, there is a boom in drug transactions, this is clearly making their condition even worse.
Even though Rifai likes to make trouble, but he will never use that item, even if someone uses it in front of him, he will attack those people.
Therefore, the thing that I was most afraid of was that Rizal took these items to buy drugs, in addition to giving Rifai's belongings to his parents.
Feeling sorry for their condition, I tried to persuade Rizal not to take their things anymore and asked him to love his two masters.
However, it's not positive that I get, I even get negative results from my efforts.
I spoke when I made an appointment with him at a cafe. Several times I advised him and several times he refused. Even so, I didn't just give up.
I persuaded him and continued to persuade him until he would accept it.
Feeling myself taking care of it too much, Rizal suddenly took out his smartphone and called someone. After a while, he suddenly led me to a narrow alley where there was already a crowd.
When I looked at them, I saw that their eyeballs were already red, which showed that they were affected by drugs.
Since my aim at that time was only to persuade Rizal, I did not cause trouble with them and thought about running away from that place. However, Rizal even asked his friends to beat me there.
In the end, I was there battered by the punches and kicks from them, without the slightest bit of resistance.
When I got home, I treated all my wounds by myself, and was limp. Dinda, who was still 5 years old, could only cry when she saw that her onii-chan was badly injured.
"Don't cry, Dinda! I'm fine. "
"But... but Onii-chan..."
"Yes, don't cry anymore. If you're still crying, tomorrow I won't make you breakfast."
Dinda nodded while wiping her tears and said, "O-Okay, Onii-chan. Forgive Dinda who has cried this."
"Smart Imouto. Hurry in to your room there!"
When I went to sleep, my whole body felt so sore and sore, that even a drop of sweat fell on my bed. That night, was a really long night for me. It felt like the body was being burned.
Really, the thing I don't wear the most for me.
The next day, I forced myself to go to school and tried to persuade Rizal again.
But when I was at school, I didn't meet Rizal for the first time, but Rifai.
Rifai saw all the bruises on my body, and I turned around to run away from him. However, because he thought I was in trouble, he suddenly prevented me from running away and wondered how calm my wound was.
Obviously, I wasn't going to tell him this and could only lie. And when a gap escapes from him, I take advantage of it.
Several days passed, I always saw Rizal and his friends talking about me and laughing at me because of the wounds all over my body. I also avoided direct contact with Rifai and kept running away from him.
But when one day, a problem got my school excited, I just realized that Rifai was secretly trying to find out who made me like this since we first met.
That night, without me knowing, Rifai, who already knew who injured me, immediately came to a place where Rizal was there.
The next morning, I received news that Rifai was at the police station at this time. After arriving there, the police officer said that Rifai almost killed someone and explained it in detail. I know who that person this cop is talking about. Well, that person is none other than Rizal who is currently in the hospital.
Feeling guilty for his actions, ignoring my words about Rizal, Rifai immediately apologized to me as a close friend and as one of his family.
I also feel guilty for just doing this alone, I apologized to him and called my father to help him get out of prison.
I explained everything to my father and asked him for help to free Rifai. And immediately, my father could only come home a week later from his service to a country.
Without thinking, my father immediately acted quickly and took care of Rifai's problem at the police station. At that moment, I explained all Rizal's ugliness to the police and said that they all used drugs and beat me like this.
And three weeks later, Rifai finally got out of the police station and was able to return to his school.
Because my father felt anxious about Rifai and me, my father made a condition for Rifai not to approach me until each of them was mature and could help each other. Rifai also agreed to this and learned to hold back his emotions. And my dad suddenly bought me a computer and some devices for me to play EOA games.
Engrossed in our own world, we didn't realize that Rizal had been discharged from the hospital. After 2 months passed, I just got the news that Rizal killed his parents for making him like that, almost got killed because of Rifai's tantrum and reported his actions to the police.
After killing his parents, Rizal became a fugitive and fled here and there. And when a month passed as a fugitive, Rizal was finally found and arrested by the police while he was dealing drugs.
And a few years later, before my father quit his job and decided to start a small business, I became friends with Rifai again after we graduated from school. I asked my father to also buy EOA gaming kits for Rifai, and my father bought them.
We also enjoy life and slowly forget this incident.
"Rizal yes, Rizal... It's useless, I don't remember," I said, looking at Rifai with an expressionless face. "Who is Rizal? Is he human? Or... animals?"