MIRAGE OF HEARTSTRINGS

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The day ended with karna being busy in work and ashwatthama working right beside him while chatting in the office as the workers work throughout the day until after sunset an arrow with letter tied on it swoosh past them towards karna who caught it bare handed.

Reading with a neutral face, karna crumbled the letter in his hand while looking at ashwatthama who also read the letter by peeking from behind karna as he Sigh asking "what are you going to do now?"

"talk"

Already expecting this answer from his best friend, Ashwatthama walk behind karna who is going inside as he(ashwatthama) says "I know you don't like violence much but you also don't want Anga to get any type of problem, right? You can't always especially when the case is of 'stubborn bastard who is too much of evil', right? So you have to go"

Karna sighs as he watch the letter burning in the fire of lamp before nodding towards ashwatthama "do you have any work?"

"no, you just go. I will stay here"

Nodding karna came outside to the garden before whistling as all the workers came outside watching a beautiful white horse running towards karna. Karna look behind at ashwatthama, Vud ji and then at avyaan and avni as he says "I will be back soon, Ashwatthama will stay here till I come back"

They all nodded as they watch karna jumping on the horse before saying as the horse run away "let's go Ashwa"

Ashwatthama sighs before looking behind as he shake his head while saying "you all can go to sleep now, I am not hungry"

The workers watch ashwatthama going towards his room before he notice the concerned expression on vid ji's face who is looking at the palace gate from where karna just left as avyaan says "you don't have to worry Vid ji. Bhratashree is very strong, no one can defeat him, just chill"

Nodding with a light smile, Vid ji went away as the Pandavas in duguise couldn't help but to be impressed by the fact of how much they all trust karna...................But still, what could be the reason of sudden emergency departure? Something must had happened.

NEXT DAY

The next day went calmly with not much chaos from avyaan and avni who practiced sword fighting together before going back to their work while ashwatthama look through karna's work with the help of Vid ji and kanak. Of course, everyone knows karna, Ashwatthama and duryodhana are best friends and the trio trust each other blindly but if taking about duo then ashwatthama and dushasana are like typical sibling duo while karna and duryodhana being close friend duo.

The day went simple until by the dusk, they hear galloping of horse as the palace door open making them alert before they sighs when they saw karna coming with his horse ashwa. They notice karna's long hair that are tied in ponytail are wet, means he came after Puja as he went inside to his office while ashwatthama stand by the window.

"welcome back"

Karna nodded, rubbing his forehead slowly before muttering out with closed eyes "a cup of warm tea, please" as Kanak nodded, going outside to complete his request.

Ashwatthama kept looking at karna until they hear sound from outside making them go outside as they watch avyaan coming with three royal stamped scrolls in his hands while the workers just look at karna who is looking neutral but his eyes says he needs rest.

"Bhratashree, these scrolls are from Chedi, Sindhu and Magadh"

Karna nodded taking the scrolls from avyaan as he spoke making everyone shock "Sindhu, Chedi and Magadh comes under Anga now. It will be ruled by me"

Saying this karna went inside with ashwatthama trailing behind while the others just stayed in shock until avyaan yelled out happily as they all also cheered except Pandavas who were still in shock of knowing 'the immortal Magadh Raj' being defeated by karna before kanak also went behind the two Kings.

"so, you defeated all of them?"

"not defeated, killed"

"everyone?"

Kanak watch karna shaking his head as he says "only Magadh Raj and Sindhu Raj, not Chedi Naresh. He can't die right now, he has a boon" making ashwatthama nod before he patted on karna's shoulder while saying "Congrats though"

Taking the cup of tea from Kanak's hand, karna sat down on his chair as he sip on his drink before opening the scrolls one by one to read while ashwatthama yawned, going outside, maybe to rest as kanak stayed with karna.

Going through all the files with everything, karna put all away before looking up to notice kanak standing there still making him frown as he asks "you stayed till now?"

"I wasn't supposed to leave, it is my duty" Kanak says making karna shake his head as he says while stretching his arms "not at night. You duty starts from morning to evening, only at the time when I need you. Other time you are free to do anything and at night you are supposed to sleep and rest. Go to sleep"

Kanak nodded as karna stand up, going towards his own room while kanak went to his servant room which does not feels like servant's one.

"ah......wait kanak" Turning around at the sudden call, ka ka watch karna coming towards him as karna says "tomorrow duryodhana is coming. I want you to put all the documents in the cabinet carefully"

"ji Maharaj"

No, no matter what kind of worker is a person, they aren't supposed to touch King's important documents but it is karna, the man who trusts his every single worker and if karna trusts a person then it means they are in more control than anyone.

"OK, good night"

"............you too.......maharaj"

Beside........tomorrow the person whose life has unknowingly got tied with them, whose life has been nothing but a pawn to his trusted mamashree, whose life has shortened due to his mamashree yet he does not know that, is coming and for some reason kanak can't help but feel his hands sweating. Don't know what is going to happen but one this is sure, they have to be prepared from anything cause after coming here, they are unfolding more and more secrets day by day and what comes next? no one knows.

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