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Precap :- The Grim Reaper and Yash must clean up after Shaurya's reaction. Anokhi takes her exams.

Unable to touch the goblin's sword, Anokhi makes a last-ditch effort to go for the fairytale twist and plants a kiss onShaurya's lips. His eyes go wide and he just stands there like a statue, blinking in shock. When she pulls away, he asks if she's gone crazy. Anokhi gets angry at that, arguing that she's doing everything she can think of to make him prettier (thinking that this is what happens when she pulls out the sword), and that she's the loser in this deal: "I'm sure you've done this lots of times, but that was my first kiss!" His mouth hangs open and she grouses that she didn't want to use it up like this, and suddenly reaches for his collar again to give it another try. He backs up and tells her to stay back, but now she's determined to do anything to keep her end of the bargain, thinking that he's going to take back the presents and kick her out of the house.Shaurya asks what she plans to do if it doesn't work this time, and she says, "Then there's only one thing left-true love." He starts walking to the door, and Anokhi shouts after him that she'll love him if she has to, because she's not going to give her stuff back. Lol. He whirls around and she walks right into his chest, and she apologizes, especially for going to the trouble of making it snow. At the mention of it, Shaurya makes the snowflakes freeze in midair. She asks meekly if he's going to kick her out now, and he barks back that he's not, and stomps off. Anokhi happily trails after him with the reminder that he can't go back on his word now, not after he signed her contract. Back at home,Yash asks with tears in his eyes if Uncle Shaurya is really not coming back, and Reaper clutches the house deed to his chest and says gravely that Shaurya ended his immortal life, and that death is just another door that everyone will walk through someday. Yash breaks down in big wailing sobs and cries at the foot ofShaurya's chair for him not to go. He even takes out his Shiny new credit card and cries, "I don't need the card! Just come back!" Awww, you know that's love right there. Right on cue, Shaurya walks through the front door with Anokhi, and Reaper gapes, clutching his house deed a little harder. Yash is just happy to see him again andShaurya hugs him tightly as Yash cries, "Uncle, are you back? Are you back? I love you!" Shaurya comforts him and says, "Yes I am. Speaking of which, will you give back the card?" Hee. Yash's tears dry instantly. He clutches his wallet as he recites Reaper's line about death being just another door, and suggests that Shaurya just go back where he was headed.Reaper agrees, to which Shaurya requests that he return the house deed. Reaper directs his anger at Anokhi and her lack of follow-through, and that remindsShaurya to ask for the purse, perfume, and 5 million rupees he gave her. Now all three of them are clutching their precious parting gifts from the goblin, and Anokhi goes for the hail-mary: "middle-aged-woman, I love you!" Yash and Reaper stare at them, while Shaurya just shakes his head implacably. All of a sudden, Reaper shoves Yash out of the way and says into Shaurya's ear, "I love you too! middle-aged-woman!" HAHAHA. Shaurya jumps back and yells at him to shut up. With his parting gifts all repossessed, Shaurya meets with Grandpa and asks if he already burned the painting he gave him. Grandpa says he did, andShaurya laughs it off hoping that it's a joke. Grandpa rather enjoys making Shaurya sweat a little, and he says it's his punishment for saying goodbye. Grandpa says he'll have Yash bring the painting back, and whenShaurya says he's grateful and sorry, Grandpa asks if he could maybe stop trying to die and start trying to live. "Isn't it a good thing that through you, somewhere in this world, someone who lived well can be given a strange and beautiful fortune, a miracle?" Grandpa asks. Outside, Grandpa's secretary gets out of his car and looks up at Shaurya's mansion and wonders aloud, "A man who doesn't age..." Uh, that's not good. Shaurya ponders the unexpected twist that the bride couldn't pull out the sword, and also his vision of Anokhi at 29 without him by her side. "Is it the future that changed, or the oracle that changed?" he wonders. He admits that he likes being back here, and calls himself thoughtless for being happy at that. Reaper sits Anokhi down to grill her, and she gives him the quick version about not being able to touch the goblin's sword. Reaper grumbles that he came back alive, and she misinterprets the comment to be directed at her, agreeing that she almost got left behind in that field. Reaper thinks in his head that she still doesn't know what happens when she pulls out that sword. "Should I tell her? Then the goblin will die of anger. And this house will be mine," he thinks. Reaper wonders why she can't touch the sword, and she asks if maybe the goblin was right about her not being his bride: "Will the real bride who can grab the sword show up? Will she... be pretty?" Lol.Anokhi figures thatShaurya won't give her a hard time, but the very next morning, she can't even take a bite of her steak without Shaurya passive-aggressively commenting on the house expenses going up with another mouth to feed. He wonders how they'll do aallllll those dishes they have, and Anokhi volunteers to do dishes. Then while she's washing dishes, Shaurya walks around behind her sighing that there's sooooo much laundry, and wonders if he should just throw his clothes away. Are you reverse-Cinderella-ing her?He sticks to her side the whole time she's doing all these chores, and when he starts commenting on the dust in all the rooms, Anokhi shakes out the wet towels right in his face. She does it again and again, and then they start bickering about who's got more resentment to air. She argues that he shouldn't be so quick to assume that she isn't the bride just because she can't touch the sword, and that he might regret being mean to her later. She tosses his own words back at him, about how he liked every day he spent with her, because the weather was good, or bad, or just so. He startles her by saying, "Yes. Today too." The sudden swooniness catches her off-guard. She asks why he's giving her a hard time then, and he says those are separate things. She doesn't think so, but offers to amend their relationship status then, if he doesn't think she's bride material. She suggests girlfriend to his boyfriend, but he says no. He shoots down acquaintance too, and when she suggests tenant, he tells her to pay rent then. Later, Anokhi complains to Reaper about it and says she andShaurya are enemies now. Reaper suggests that maybe they need something more powerful than the goblin's curse to beat it: "True love?" he offers. Anokhi says she already tried that, thinking of the kiss, while Reaper asks what she tried exactly. Behind them,Shaurya hides his face behind his towel shyly and stammers, "Were you always the kind of girl to just say that stuff... about the kissing... to just anyone?" She points out that she didn't actually say it-he did-and argues that it doesn't really have anything to do with him because it's her kiss to tell.
Shaurya: "Where is there a yours and a mine in a kiss? Even if there is, half of it is mine!"
Anokhi : "Fine, have half."
Shaurya : "No, I don't want to! I don't need it!"
Anokhi : "Fine, I'm going to keep it all!"
Shaurya: "Do it! You're the greedy one!"
Pff, I can't believe this is a fight.
They stomp off in opposite directions, and Reaper mutters, "Some of us can't even call because we don't have business cards, and you guys are..." Reaper gets so worked up that he storms into Shaurya's room and demands that he kick Anokhi out if she's not the bride: "What, you don't want to? I'm asking you to kick her out so we can live happily, just the two of us, like we used to!" LOL, this took a weird turn. Reaper sounds like a jealous boyfriend, and Shaurya is confused at the description of them having lived cozily before she got here. Besides, Shaurya argues, Anokhi knows too much about them to be kicked out now. Reaper sees right through him and says he just doesn't want her to go, butShaurya won't admit it. Reaper thinks he's happy that Anokhi couldn't pull out the sword because he gets to live and see her for longer, andShaurya rambles that he'd be crazy to be happy about that when he's been waiting to die for 900 years... except he's totally grinning from ear to ear as he says it. So then Reaper graciously offers to take her to the afterlife, since he and Goblin are such good friends, and he's probably really annoyed by all the kissing and whatnot. Shaurya blurts in a panic, "Who says we're friends?! Where is there friendship between us? Is cheering me on to die what a friend does?!"
Reaper gets his big aha moment: "See? You're happy right now that you didn't die!" Shaurya swears that he's not, and that he's just trying to keep his promise like a man because he signed a contract.
Reaper snarls, "I guess you weren't a man when you gave me the deed to the house." Reaper storms out, leaving Shaurya calling after him in a futile attempt to get the last word in. I love that he's taken to calling Reaper "saja," which is short for "grim reaper," but also means "lion." Shaurya reads over Anokhi's contract and smiles giddily to himself. Most of the clauses are protective : that he won't kick her out of the house, that he won't forget that he's supposed to be her lamp and watch over her until she dies. It also asks him to show up when she summons him on the first snow each year, and to act as her boyfriend until she gets a boyfriend. He finds her studying out in the dining room, and she says it's to be near the snacks, since he stopped bringing them to her room ever since he stopped needing something from her. He takes issue with her getting snippy, but she warns him that you don't mess with a senior about to take the college entrance exam. She asks sweetly if he happens to know the answers to the test, which of course he does. He offers to tell her once she's done solving her practice questions, and she suddenly lights up. Shaurya hesitates and starts to bring up the first snow, but she cuts in at the word "first" and tells him not to be too burdened-it was her first kiss, but... He cuts back in to stammer that he was going to say first snow, and they both get awkward. The day of the college entrance exam rolls around, and Shaurya walks Anokhi to the bus stop and gives her a lunchbox. She takes it huffily, noting that a lunch wasn't really what she was hoping for. He offers to give her the test answers if she really wants, but she stops him before she's actually tempted to hear them.
Atta girl.
She brags that she'll get them all right anyway, andShaurya is so impressed that he pets her on the head affectionately, just like she taught him. It unnerves both of them, and they get so lost in the moment that they don't even notice the bus arrive and take off with all the other students. They realize how awkward it's gotten and Shaurya says he'll pat her on the shoulder very naturally, and Anokhi says she'll look at his watch very naturally. That makes her eyes pop out though, because she's about to be late.Shaurya: "Don't worry. Have you forgotten that your boyfriend is a goblin?" She reminds him that he said he didn't want to be her boyfriend, but he says, "That was a lie," and grabs her hand and starts running. Time slows as they run happily down the street together, and Shaurya takes them through a doorway and comes right back out after teleporting her to school. As he walks out, a bicyclist nearly runs into him and stops to yell, but Shaurya vanishes and reappears right in front of him. When the bicyclist passes, Shaurya gets a glimpse of his future-riding recklessly into traffic and getting hit by a car. After the exam, Anokhi comes out to see all the other students being greeted by their mothers, and can't help but think of Mom. She looks at the sky wistfully and waves up at her with a smile. Anokhi heads home by herself, but when she arrives, she findsShaurya, Reaper, and Yash standing by the door to greet her with a cake.
Awwww.
Reaper says it was his idea, Shaurya paid, and Yash picked it up, holding the cake out to her. That is so adorable. Anokhi is so touched that she bursts into tears, and the boys are taken aback. But she says through tears, "It's because I'm so happy!" She decides to make a wish and asks to go to the movies with Shaurya, since she gets a discount for having taken the college entrance exam. She blows out the candle andShaurya tries to stop her, but he's too late and he gets teleported three feet away, ha. Reaper and Yash are confused when he shows up behind Anokhi, and he just tells them not to try and understand. Shaurya announces that her wish is granted and tells her to get ready to go to the movies, and the boys are disappointed when he doesn't let them come along. Reaper says he has something important to ask Yash, and then asks where he got his business card, describing its rectangular shape and four corners like it's a foreign object.Yash says he got his from the family company, and Reaper whines, "I want one!"Reaper thinks of something else he's curious about, and asks Yash about being Babli's landlord. Yash confirms that he owns a building, and next thing we know, Reaper is standing across the street from Babli's chicken shop as she locks up for the night and heads home. He follows her just out of sight, when a drunk customer runs into her and asks her to stay open for one more drink. Reaper glares, and all of a sudden, the drunk man flies way up into the air and lands in a bush. Well that's not suspicious or anything! Babli gasps and wonders why she keeps seeing such strange things lately, and runs home in a fright. Shaurya and Anokhi kill time before the movie by playing the toy claw machine in the arcade. Shaurya offers to win her anything she wants, only to fail miserably, and she snarks that it's useless that he can summon gold when he can't even get a toy out of a machine. They settle in for the scary movie andShaurya tells her not to be embarrassing and shout too much, and Anokhi asks how scary it could be compared to her 19 years of a horror show life. Ha, they're watching Gong Yoo's Train to Busan, and apparently goblins are terrified of zombies, because he screeeeeeeams bloody murder and sends popcorn flying everywhere like a big scaredypants. She clamps a hand over his mouth and has to apologize to all their neighbors, and complains later that she didn't get to pay attention to the movie at all because of him. She says she isn't very hungry, so Shaurya gets petty and orders a single sandwich and doesn't share. Anokhi asks why he's still holding a grudge and why he bothered giving her all those gifts if he was going to take them back. She thinks it's weird that he gave them to her like he wasn't going to be around anymore, and then realizes that all the gifts were exactly what each person wanted. "Like a farewell gift. That's right, isn't it-farewell gifts? You were going to leave us once that sword was out, weren't you?" she asks. Shaurya reminds her that he said he'd prepare to go far away once he found the bride, and Anokhi gets choked up as she asks where he's going, and if he still wants to leave.But he answers, "No, I don't want to go. But if the bride really does appear, that choice will no longer be mine." She hangs her head at that, thinking that he means to leave with another woman someday, and he asks if she'll let him go then. "No, I won't," she says, tamping down her tears. She tells him to just abandon her, and adds that she'll leave first so that she doesn't have to watch him go. Yash drives Anokhi to school the next day and hears that she's still Cinderella ( the Indian folk version) in the house, while she dubsShaurya the evil stepmother. Yash thinks it's odd that his uncle, whose thousand-year wrath can be squelched with one glimpse at an idol girl group on TV, is nothing but a big grouch ever since Anokhi came along. He figures that she must really not be his type, and Anokhi grumbles at the mention of girl groups and says that everyone says you're supposed to get prettier once you go to college. "Just wait till I get into college!" she grinds out, cracking her knuckles. She goes to fill out an essay application at a university and Shaurya arrives to pick her up with a bouquet of flowers. Anokhi walks around campus and stops to stare at the baseball team, and freezes when she sees a ball hurtling right at her in the air. She braces for impact, but a glove swoops in to catch the ball just inches from her head, and she looks up to see a handsome oppa standing over her. She smiles and then seems to recognize him: "Anmol oppa?" He recognizes her too and says she's gotten prettier and taller, and pets her on the head. In the distance, Shaurya drops his flowers and scoffs bitterly as he watches the whole exchange. He wonders jealously if that baseball player is the lunch date 29-year-old Anokhi was waiting for in his premonition, and clouds roll in as lightning strikes overhead. Heh. At home,Yash tries to get Shaurya out of his funk, but he just lies in bed and mutters, "He tousled her hair. I wanted to break his wrist." He whines that he should've just had him play piano so that they wouldn't have met, and Yash doesn't understand a word he's saying. Anokhi comes out of the shower and tousles her hair, thinking of Tae-hee oppa with a big goofy grin on her face. She flashes back to her childhood when she'd been a little girl waiting outside the batting cages and admiring him. She didn't know then thatShaurya was in the batting cage right next to Anmol, and thought that the middle-aged-woman was super annoying for cutting off her view of oppa. She takes out her ice cream cake, and Shaurya zaps everything over to his side of the table and announces that he's going to eat it all by himself. "I want to eat ice cream because it rained. Because it rained," he says, clearly wanting her to ask about it. He hoards the cake like a little boy and she calls him petty, and finally asks why he's depressed. She guesses that it's because of the sword, and wonders if it's supposed to be pulled out at all, saying that they tried kissing and loving and nothing worked. He argues that she didn't mean the "I love you," and she counters that he didn't mean it either. She says he has a weird personality, and he says the same of her, but she says defensively that she's young. Shaurya: "So what? You're going to get old and I won't! I'm going to stay young and beautiful!" Pfft.She points out that not getting old doesn't exactly make him young, and says she saw her first love today and has no room to seeShaurya as beautiful. He sputters, "What love?!" She brags that Anmol oppa is really good at baseball, and Shaurya crows that he's so awesome at baseball, she doesn't even know. I'm so embarrassed for you right now. The next day,Shaurya storms into the baseball team's locker room and demands to see Tae-hee, who comes out in slow motion likeShaurya's about to fall in love with him too. Shaurya grouses without any introduction: "Were you... going to look like this? You're the best looking one here!" Anmol seems to recognize him and asks if he doesn't remember seeing him when he was a little boy. Flashback to the batting cages : Little Anmol saw Shaurya swinging wildly next to him and tried to offer some batting pointers. Shaurya insisted that he didn't need any help, so Little Anmol had asked if he wanted to make a bet. It's not like a goblin to ever pass up a wager, so Shaurya agreed that the first person to hit ten balls would get a wish granted. And then he proceeded to get his ass kicked by the little boy, who was way better at baseball, even then. After winning the bet, Little Anmol ran home and found that his piano just up and vanished, just like he'd asked. And back at the batting cages, Shaurya played for real when no one was around to watch, hitting homeruns without breaking a sweat.In the present, Anmol asks if he isn't the same middle-aged-woman, though he thinks it's weird that Shaurya hasn't aged a day. The only thing Shaurya can do is deny it, though it doesn't seem convincing. At home,Shaurya asks Reaper to help him out and erase Anmol's memory, but Reaper isn't inclined to help him out, even when Shaurya says rumors will spread and he'll have to leave. Shaurya says that Reaper was the one who wanted to live happily together, and Reaper counters that according to Shaurya, they never did in the first place. Shaurya leaves in a pissy mood, and turns back to light Reaper's bean sprouts on fire out of spite, saying that he'll regret not helping him out. Anokhi steals into Shaurya's room and takes two copies of her contract with Shaurya out of the purse he took back from her. He catches her red-handed and wonders curiously why there are two contracts when he only signed one. She uses her book of poems as her excuse for being in there and stomps back to her room with it. She notices a line he's written in the margin: "It was first love," and thinks peevishly that he must've had a first love, upset all over again that she gave him her first kiss. Her mood instantly lifts when Anmol oppa calls, and soon after, Shaurya stands on the roof of a high-rise like a goblin stalker, trying not to die of anger as Anokhi meets Anmol for a date. Shaurya comes home to a frantic Reaper, who's pacing up and down not answering his ringing phone. It's Babli, but he's freaking out because he doesn't have anything to say to her without a business card, and begsShaurya to answer for him. But Shaurya's still holding a grudge and refuses to answer for him. Reaper wonders where Anokhi is, and Shaurya snaps that she's busy roasting sesame seeds (a common metaphor for romance) at the ice cream shop, and Reaper wonders in his literal way why she'd roast them there. Reaper is too panicked to care though, and just rushes over to the ice cream shop to interrupt Anokhi's date and demand that she answer the phone for him. Anmol bows, thinking that Reaper is her father, and Reaper is greatly offended and asks his name. Anokhi barks at Anmol not to say his name or look Reaper in the eyes, and Reaper says ominously that if she doesn't answer the phone for him, he's going to ask the boy's name and write it down. Anokhi takes the phone outside, and Reaper sits down with Anmol and mentions that he quit piano to play baseball. Anokhi thinks that Reaper's lady friend will misunderstand if another woman answers his phone, so she tries to make her voice sound deep and acts like she's "Hitesh Bhardwaj's" secretary, calling him Chief, and then Department Head. Babli asks what kind of company promotes employees in one second, and says that he'd better show up at the café tomorrow, no matter what his title is, or he's dead. Anokhi relays the message to Reaper and wonders where she's heard that voice before, but Reaper wants to know what other personal information he should prepare before his date. She runs through the basics like age, marital status, blood type, assets, and ideal type, and the next day Reaper memorizes his stats on his way to the date. So this time, instead of sitting there silently, Reaper rattles off his personal stats like a laundry list-he's 34 years old, blood type AB, rents his house, will buy a car soon, and so on. He ends with: "And I missed you." Babli's jaw drops and she replies, "Me too." He smiles the most adorable smile when she says that. She doesn't see why he avoided her calls for so long if he really missed her, and he says he didn't think she'd like him because he doesn't have a business card. He promises to answer the phone from now on and asks Babli for her business card, wanting to know what kind of person she is. She leans in and says, "My face is my business card. It says it right there on my face: Pretty person." He grins like a fool and agrees. She asks what he likes, and he blurts, "Babli-sshi," making her swoon. When she clarifies that she meant hobbies and such, he says that he likes her unpredictability, which is more exciting than a drama to him. He says that she's his new hobby, calling her both "like a plan of the gods, and like a mistake of the gods." She asks if he has a religion, and he starts to get up and leave, sighing that there's yet another thing he doesn't have that he's supposed to. This time she's prepared and shouts that he doesn't need one, and orders him to sit down or die. When she wonders what his deal is, he starts to rattle off his stats again, ha. After coffee, Babli thinks they're headed to dinner when Reaper says she already ate a whole hot dog and shouldn't overeat, and that he has to go to a work dinner or pay a fine. She looks like she wants to give him a black eye. Reaper and his reaper hoobae head to their work dinner, and that same bicyclist who nearly ran Shaurya over runs into Reaper, shoulder-checking him. Blonde says that the man will receive retribution from the gods in a month's time. Hm... is that what happens when you touch a reaper, or are they saying that it was already his fate?Reaper arrives to pay for the work dinner (with company funds), though he belatedly realizes that the money is missing, and he's been pickpocketed by the man who just bumped into him. Their reaper colleague says they have no choice but to put on their hats and file out one by one. Ha, reaper dine and dash? But their plan involves leaving one man behind to take the fall, and our Reaper finds himself standing at the table alone at the end... and his hat has gone missing. Aw that's mean! Reaper has no choice but to call someone for help...Cut to : Shaurya sitting next to Reaper at the police station, saying that he's never seen this man before in his life. Reaper mutters that he'll trade him for Anmol oppa's memory wipe, and Shaurya suddenly tells the police officer that they know each other, starting now. Shaurya smoothly hands over his business card, and Reaper's eyes go green with envy and he shouts, "You have a business card?!" He's still huffy about it as they exit the station, and when Yash runs up with tofu for Reaper to eat, he asks if Yash knew that Shaurya had a business card.Yash says of course he does-he owns their family's whole company-and Reaper pouts jealously and stomps off alone.Yash watches Reaper dodging around other pedestrians and asks why he's always doing that, and then it dawns on him that this is that thing he heard them mention, about seeing something when he touches people. Shaurya confirms that Reaper sees a person's past life when he touches them. Yash asks if Shaurya has any special powers like that, and Shaurya says being alive is his special power.Yash trails after him like a puppy, teasing, "You don't have anything other than making it rain, do you?" Shaurya is furious when he walks into Anokhi's room and sees all her bags packed, and Reaper says she's probably with Anmol oppa. She hangs up onShaurya and doesn't answer when he calls back, soShaurya heads out to go threaten some ghosts to find out where Anokhi is. Yash delivers the scroll painting that Grandpa asked him to return toShaurya, and he and Reaper decide to look at it for curiosity's sake, thinking that it must be expensive. Yash rolls open the portrait of the young Mohenjodaro queen and says that she's pretty (speaking of past lives...) and wonders if she was Shaurya's ex-girlfriend or something. But it's Reaper who's absolutely floored, and his face twists up in pain as soon as he lays eyes on the portrait. Time seems to slow, and a tear escapes, and another... and soon he's crying and clutching his heart in agony. We cut to Babli looking forlornly out the window at her chicken shop, and then we flash back to Mohenjodaro. The young king had come outside the palace walls and laid eyes on a beautiful young girl who was playing with friends and balancing bowls on her shoulders as she walked-his future queen. He smiled at her and as soon as she noticed him, she lost her footing and the bowls shattered on the ground. Gayatri Granny calls it the start of a truly tragic love, and sighs, "Fate is so sad. Love isn't a sin, so they may not have sinned..." She's talking to Reaper's Blonde, who doesn't know what she's talking about, but asks why she keeps raising his rent. He doesn't seem to know that his landlady is Gayatri Granny, and she just says in a deadpan voice that she keeps seeing the grim reaper since he moved in. Shaurya finds Anokhi singing at someone's wedding
(the lyrics go: "Among people countless as the stars I met you
We knew each other as if in a dream
My heart was full just giving but I received love too
It was all a miracle
Even if eternal time passes we'll meet again
If our love is fate
If I'm your miracle") and she smiles when she sees him in the audience. They walk home together and she says that she got a second job, and she likes singing at weddings, except sometimes they make her a little sad because weddings remind her that she doesn't have a mom to light the candle, or a dad to walk her down the aisle, or friends to bring her gifts. She says, "That's why I think I obsessed about being the goblin's bride. Because it felt like I was getting a family." Her eyes glisten with tears and she says she thought that a family had come to her like fate, and Shaurya starts to feel bad. But she says she's the sorry one, and apologizes sincerely for not being able to pull out the sword. She says that she's working extra jobs and preparing to move out, and asks if he'll just wait a little bit and give her a fifty percent discount on the nagging until she goes. Shaurya just quietly wraps his arms around her in a hug, and says that he can't give her the discount. She pulls away and asks in a quiet voice for forty-five percent then, and he starts laughing. All of a sudden he's struck with massive pain in his chest from the sword, and it sends him reeling. Alarmed, Anokhi looks for some way to help him and reaches for the sword... and this time she can wrap her hands around the hilt. Omo. She tells him to hold on and starts to pull the sword out, and it actually begins to move. But before she can pull it any further, he shoves her away, and she's thrown so hard that she goes flying into the air, straight for the side of a truck. Shaurya teleports behind her just as she's about to crash-land, and he breaks the impact of her fall, sending the truck colliding into a row of cars with such force that they turn over like dominoes and burst into flames. He gently puts her back down on her feet, and as he hugs her tightly from behind, he says in voiceover: "The oracle was right. The future I saw was right. Through this girl, I will end his curse of immortality and return to nothingness. The human lifespan is but a hundred years. Is the thing I'm turning around to look at one more time my immortal life? Or is it your face? I think it's your face."

𝕸𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖑 𝖑𝖎𝖋𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝕾𝖍𝖆𝕶𝖍𝖎 (MUBARAK HO) Where stories live. Discover now