Chapter 10
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A week after the attack, more detailed results about the victims have been recorded in full.
The result was determined. According to the results of the investigation and search, more than 550 people suffered minor injuries, 153 people suffered serious injuries, 3,693 people died and 2,719 people were declared lost.
The data is used for the benefit of the next government. One of them, the data will be used for military trials. The military hearing that was held was aimed at bringing to trial Major General Brendan Vink who led a division of troops of more than 15,000 soldiers.
Major General Brendan Vink is on trial for his delay in helping the City of Perth which is the target of attacks by other dimensional beings.
In the military tribunal, several important people were present, such as three military judges, the clerk and the public prosecutor. As well as, several other military soldiers who came to watch. The trial for Major General Brendan Vink's case was attended by only a few important journalists. Especially journalists from major news stations.
Major General Brendan Vink has a fairly old appearance with black hair that is already covered with gray hair. Brendan Vink's face still looks strong even though his face is starting to age a bit with a thin beard that starts to decorate his face. Major General Brendan Vink is over 40 years old. Currently, Major General Brendan Vink is wearing the official Australian military uniform. Major General Brendan Vink was sitting in a chair in the middle of the courtroom. He sat facing the judges' table and prepared to hear the judge's verdict.
Brendan Vink is faced with accusations of negligence in his duties due to his unpreparedness to protect their people and their city. With this, the military court sentenced Major General Brendan Vink to a two-level demotion.
His rank which was originally major general was immediately dropped to colonel. Not only Brendan Vink, but several of his subordinates also received the same punishment in the form of demotion.
In addition to the demotion, Major General Brendan Vink also received a suspension in the form of an undetermined period of time.
Now, Brendan Vink is back at his home in Westonia. Westonia is a small town 300 kilometers from Perth City.
Brendan Vink's goal to return home was because he was suspended, he wanted to meet his wife and child, whom he had left behind for a long time. In addition, Brendan Vink also wants to take a break from his work.
Brendan Vink is escorted by a lieutenant and a subordinate soldier. On the way back to Brendan Vink's house, the long journey should take almost 8 hours. They took the trip using a pickup truck type car.
During the trip, Brendan Vink kept thinking about all his mistakes. He felt the reward for demotion was too low for him. He thought of the citizens who were victims of the ferocity of the monster's attack. Everything is his fault.
Brendan Vink also remembers the whole battle and yesterday's news. If he had arrived earlier, surely the victims would not have been as many as reported.
The troops led by Brendan Vink were late due to the large number of vehicles crossing the road to Perth City.
Various problems filled Brendan Vink's mind. Brendan Vink closed his eyes and tried to remember other good things. He began to remember his three children and his beautiful wife. Brendan Vink has a wife who is 3 years younger than him. His wife had long brown hair, blue eyes and was a little old. Apart from his beautiful wife, Brendan also remembers his three children. His first child is a boy named Chris and is 14 years old, his second child is also a boy named Harry and is 12 years old, then his third child is a girl named Samantha and is 11 years old.
Because he is busy with work, Brendan Vink has not been able to see his family for almost 5 months. Now Brendan Vink will meet his family.
Brendan also remembered that his first child would be sick of entering high school at the end of January. Then, her second child will move up to the second grade of junior high school and her third child will start entering junior high school.
After almost 9 hours of traveling, Brendan Vink finally arrived at his house at night. Brendan Vink immediately got out of his car carrying a large bag which he carried using only his right hand.
"Thanks for bringing me here, sorry if I didn't mean to invite you guys inside." Branden said to his three subordinates who were in charge of delivering him.
"It's okay colonel, you need some time alone and we can understand it." One of his subordinates reply.
After they said goodbye, the three subordinates left Brendan Vink in front of his house. Brendan Vink looked at the house where he and his family lived. The house is white with a red brick roof. Brendan Vink's house is quite spacious and has a large enough green lawn to run around and play.
Brendan Vink looked at the house where he and his family lived. The house is white with a red brick roof. Brendan Vink's house is quite spacious and has a large enough green lawn to run around and play. Seeing his house caused many memories to suddenly pop into Brendan Vink's head.
Brendan remembered his wife and himself when he first moved to this city and immediately decided to buy this house. Previously, this house had a low price because it was rickety and abandoned. Then, with great effort they both repaired this house. During the first few years of their marriage, Brendan Vink could not accompany his wife because he continued to have military duties that required him to be away for months and even almost one time he did not see his wife and first child who had just been born.
As he promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel, he began to have free time to return home every few months because his work was more relaxed.Then, about a year ago, Brendan Vink was promoted to major general.
Now, Brendan Vink is walking towards his house. From a distance, a large black dog appeared from the dog door at the bottom of the front door.
The dog immediately ran fast to Brendan Vink and tried to play with him. Brendan happily welcomed the dog immediately. The dog, named Sorrow, was more than 6 years old. Brendan Vink and his family had several dogs, but the dogs had died from their age as well as disease.
"You really miss me." Brendan said while stroking the fur on his dog's body. Brendan immediately walked towards the door of the house accompanied by Sorrow.
When Brendan was a few steps from the front door of his house, it suddenly opened wide and revealed a woman. The woman has black hair with a gray shirt and white trousers. His face had an expression of surprise and joy. Tears of joy started to appear in her eyes.
"I am home." Said Brendan.
His wife immediately ran outside and hugged Brendan tightly.
"I really didn't expect you to come tonight" Said his wife happily.
"Sorry if I didn't call you guys. I wanted to surprise you and the kids too. Hey, what about the kids? Have they fallen asleep?"
"Not at all, we just finished dinner. I have some leftover roast that I haven't finished."
"Alright, I'll help finish after meeting the kids."
Brendan and his wife went straight into the house. As soon as Brendan entered the door of the house, his three children immediately greeted him with Joy.
"Dad!" His three children hail as soon as Brendan entered the house.
"Hey, you've all grown up." Brendan hugged his children one by one.
Chris, their eldest child looks mature like a young man in general. His shoulders were broad and his muscles were starting to show through his tight shirt.
His hair is brown like his mother and his eyes are brown like his father. His first child was already as tall as his father's chest, his body was quite tall and big for children his age. Brendan Vink's first child has a dream to become a soldier like his father.
Their second child also has a strong build and is only inches from his brother. His hair was black like their father's and his eyes were blue like his mother's. His second son was wearing a black sweatshirt with a long purple pants.
His second son's face was very different from his brother's. If his older brother's face looks excited, his younger brother's face looks calm.
While their third child is the most beautiful, her hair is long brown like her mother. Her eyes are also bright blue like her mother's.
In addition to her beautiful face, their daughter also looks cute. His daughter really reminded his wife when she was young.
In a few days, the daughter will enter middle school and her first son will enter high school. All three of their children go to the same school.
"Father, how was the battle yesterday? Are you okay?" Ask his daughter worried.
"Yeah, I'm fine. You can see I'm perfectly healthy and not hurt at all." Answer Branden.
"Kids, I think your father needs some time to calm down and get some rest. He needs to rest himself from a long journey." Says Branden's wife to her children.
"Huh, even though I just wanted to have a long talk with dad." Her daughter murmured sulkily.
"Don't worry, we can talk later."
The three Brendan children went straight to their respective rooms. Brendan went straight away eating the rest of the day accompanied by his wife. After dinner, Brendan immediately bathed with warm water to clean himself at once to relax the whole body and his mind.
After a bath, Brendan broke his clothes with white shirts and gray pants. Brendan who looks tired directly lying on the bed in their bedroom. Brendan's wife also lie down next to him.
"You must be very tired, it does not matter if you sleep now" Say his wife.
"I do not want to fall asleep after coming home here, I want to talk about something before going to sleep, Jenny." Brendan reply to his wife.
"I think you're tired and need a rest?"
"Yes, indeed, but I can not go to sleep because there are some things that are proud. Please help me forget it."
"Well, what do you want to talk about?"
"I do not know, something is about the news."
"Well, our a few days television is always filled with news about attacks in Perth City ..."
"Maybe we'd better talk about anything else. Like how the school's children."
"Yes, they will start to go to school again some days later in late January."
"I've got it a little bit, some of my colleagues also talked about their children who will come back to school."
"Oh I remember, several times Samantha had talked to me, she wanted to move school out of town and did not want to continue at school in Westonia."
"What? Why?"
"SHe said she was tired of going to go to same school here. Her friends are very boring. She said it very difficult to get a new friend and experience."
"Where did she want to move?"
"I do not know, maybe to Rockingham with my brother's family."
"I do not know, I think that's not too bad, I'll try to talk with her tomorrow."
"Okay. Sorry if I have to tell you about this, but news of you failing to overcome yesterday's attack has already spread. I saw your name mentioned several times in the newspapers as well as the news.
"Yes, have they reported about the reward I received?"
"What? I don't think they said anything about it."
"Maybe tomorrow they will report it."
Brendan conversation with his wife ended there. Brendan who was very tired prepared to go to for duty in the dreamland.
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