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Chapter 6 - General John Willem

On the full moon night. Tama is visiting the night market with Nadia. The night market was quite busy. There are traders of clothing, accessories, bags, and there are several rides for games. There are Kirana, Denok, and Limbur set up a tent. It turns out that Kirana's job all this time is to be a fortune teller at the night market.

Limbur and Denok set up a visitor registration booth in front of the tent. They both are promoting fortune-telling services in front of their tent. Many people visited the registration booth because many young people wanted to predict their fate.

Not only young people but also some elderly visitors joined the queue at the registration booth.

"Please come in, sir" said Denok.

"thank you miss"

The old man entered the tent and met Kirana. Kirana sat on a chair, she placed her hands on the table. On the table were incense and a basin filled with flowers and water. Kirana wears her royal green dress. Her hair is long and loose with a pin that hangs from the top of her hair.

Then Kirana invited the old man to sit in front of her.

"I want to know how much longer my age will be, can my disease be cured?" asked the old man.

Kirana began to stir the basin filled with water and flowers on the table. She closed her eyes for a moment. Then she opened her eyes again.

"Do you want an honest answer?", asked Kirana.

"Yes, be honest with me. I'm sure I won't be long," replied the old man.

Then Kirana told him that the old man would die on the full moon next week. But Kirana told him not to worry about his little grandson. Later there will be a husband and wife who will take good care of him.

"Then, I will be willing to accept this fate. Previously I was afraid that my grandson would be alone and nobody who care of him, because he was an orphan".

"You don't have to worry, tomorrow at 9 am, come to Cempaka Park, you will meet the couple there," said Kirana.

"Thank you miss, may God will bless you"

The old man walked out of the tent. He walks slowly. Then Denok came and helped the old man to get out of the tent.

"God bless me? I'm waiting for that day", said Kirana.

Meanwhile, Tama and Nadia, who had already left Kirana's Fortune Telling Tent, still couldn't believe that their boss was a fortune teller at the night market.

"It turns out that being a fortune teller can make her rich too, it's natural, the queue is that long", said Tama.

"But I don't believe in the prediction when she said I would fall in love with another man, it was impossible", said Nadia.

"That's right, I think Kirana is can not be trusted"

"Kirana?"

Nadia was surprised by Tama's words. Tama seemed familiar with the fortune teller earlier, even though he had just met that day. But Tama quickly changed the subject so that Nadia forgot about it.

As they were walking among the vendors at the night market, Tama saw someone who has a face similar to General John Willem. The Caucasian man walked with 2 other tourists. Tama said in her heart: "That face, I seem to have seen it".

Finally, Tama remembers that the face he saw was the face of General John Willem who entered his dream. Then Tama grabbed Nadia's hand and walked quickly because he wanted to follow the man whose face was similar to General John Willem.

"Tam, where are we going, why are you in such a hurry?" Nadia asked.

"Wait a minute, there's something I need to confirm."

Even though Tama was already walking fast, he still couldn't catch up to the man whose face was similar to General John Willem's. He has lost track of it.

The night was getting late, Tama and Nadia agreed to end their first date. Tama also took Nadia back to her house. After that, he returned to Princess Villa.

On that night, Nadia was happy because she had met Tama, but she just remembered that she forgot to ask for Tama's cell phone number because Tama's previous cellphone number was no longer active.

"Duh, how come I forgot to ask for his cellphone number, after all, next week he will be here again," said Nadia.

Tama has arrived at Princess Villa. He came first to the Villa, while Kirana, Denok, and Limbur had not yet returned from the night market. But Tama didn't go straight to his room to sleep. He sat in Kirana's study to wait for Kirana.

The clock showed midnight, Kirana and the others had just arrived at the Villa. They brought a lot of equipment and then put it on the floor.

"Ouch, I'm so tired, my back is all sore," said Kirana.

"Are you just arrived home?" asked Tama.

"Huu looks at this young man who is in love, it's so nice to sit and relax in my chair".

Tama stood up and helped to clean Kirana's and others' belongings. Then Denok gave a gift box to Kirana.

"Your Highness, this is a gift from a visitor, he said your prediction was very accurate, so he gave this as a sign of gratitude", said Denok.

"Wow, what's that?" asked Limbur.

"Huhh.. here,, here,, if Limbur's eyes immediately bulged, it must be filled with money" said Kirana.

Kirana opened the gift box. It turned out that the contents were not money, but gold bullion. Everyone gathered to look at the contents of the box.

"No wonder you are so rich, it turns out that you just got a token of gratitude for gold bars" said Tama.

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on the next day, Devan was looking for something on the internet. It turned out that he was looking for a shaman who could exorcise ghosts.

"Wow, I got this, Mbah Gendeng (name of the shaman), the location is near the Serang Mall, why is there a shaman near the mall, I think that shaman should be in the cave, but that's okay, try it first".

Devan sent a message to the shaman that he found on the internet. Then he made an appointment with the shaman. He did not realize that at that time if there was Tama who was standing behind him.

"Van.. van.. you don't be tricked, is there a shaman next to the mall?", said Tama.

"Duh, how come I get goosebumps in broad daylight huh... Tama,, Tamm..." said Devan.

"What's up bro?"

"Duh I know it must be Tama".

"Yeah, it's me behind you"

"Tammm.. we're friends, why are you scaring me anyway... Momyyyyyy". Devan screamed then he ran to his room.

Devan immediately locked his room and lay down on the bed. He covered his head with a pillow.

"Ah, it sucks, Devan, I just want to borrow a laptop, you know" said Tama.

After that, Tama began to find out about the history of General John Willem. He also found some information. Websites from around the world mention that the body of General John Willem was dumped into the lake. After that envoys from the Netherlands came looking for his body, but they could not find him.

"Oh, maybe because Kirana has taken his body"

Then Tama found out about Kirana on the Internet, but he didn't get much information.

"It seems that her family covered up her life story, so there is no historical record of her".

After getting some information, Tama left Devan's boarding house, but he forgot to close the website page he visited earlier. Devan is shocked when he sees his laptop.

"Princess Villa in Banten? Looks like I wasn't looking for this" said Devan.