Darshan was nervous, it's not that you get letters from the Death Lord everyday after all. The spirit handed over the letter to Darshan, who took it with a shaken hand. The envelope was pitch black with golden border, the letters written on it were of a man who loved sophistication very much as those were written in golden ink. The envelope read only his name like "To, Darshan ", no surname, no address, not even a single word as if the Lord didn't want to stain his name. Darshan unconsciously touched it and felt a distant sorrow, which stirred something within him but it didn't come out.
Inside was a good measured article, seeing that Darshan understood he had to get his troubled mind in one place. So he sat down on the bed and pointed the chair for the spirit to sit.
"I'm dead sir, I don't need to sit or eat or sleep " the spirit politely answered.
"I'm sorry for what happened to you today, I shouldn't have chased you so you wouldn't have come to kill me."
"I should be the one to apologise, sir. I ran away from surrendering myself and by doing that my sins increased. I made the mistake to think of you as an officer."
"It was a whole messed misunderstanding then, no one is to blame but only Fate."
Hearing this the spirit flinched, he wanted to say something but stopped himself. Darshan watched the spirit who already had become transparent for the strike of the Death Whip. He tried to see more memory as he badly wanted to see the Death Lord's face but no success, again only the hooded look.
Darshan was disappointed but he let it go and started reading the letter. The letter was written with intense patience which started with enquiries about - his health? Then his exams, then came to the real matter of the afternoon incident. From that passage it was full of apologies. The Death Lord himself was sorry to him because he didn't reach there before the spirit could grab him. So he sent the spirit as a messenger for himself and to give the spirit a chance to apologise . The letter ended with a huge amount of well wishes .
Darshan's face was surprisingly blank . He was pissed , the whole incident was due to the mistake of someone else's and he had to suffer . He looked at the spirit and said
"was it a day of apologies or mistakes ? I nearly lost my life ! "
The spirit calmly answered ,
"sir , you saw the Death Lord with your own eyes but you are not dead , you were saved by the Lord himself . That means your life is blessed with his protection , you don't have to worry about loosing your life ."
Darshan gulped down his anger as the truth shrank into him . Huffing , he said "I need you to tell him that I accepted the apologies and thanked him for saving my life ."
"Sir , if you don't mind , the Lord wrote a letter to express his words . So it'll be better if you write a letter too ."
Darshan was ashamed for his this kind of behaviour , he collected a white paper and wrote what he wanted to say with as much sincerity as he could give . Folding the note , he handed over it to the spirit and said
"about your mom , I'll see what I can do to help , my mom is a doctor . You don't worry , okay ."
Staring at him amusingly , the spirit said "you can see through memories ! The Lord told me that you can see ghosts , but not this ."
The spirit knew why this person in front of him was given importance . He added "I apologise again sir , and thank you sincerely . If I have your permission , I should leave now ."
Darshan shortly nodded and the spirit vanished into thin air .
Darshan could not afford to think about anything , he badly needed to meet his mom . So he decided to leave for his home the next morning . After packing his luggage hastily he went to sleep but waited for the dreams to appear . They didn't appear and in few minutes an exhausted Darshan was asleep .
When Yash reached his apartment at No. 1 Braj Avenue , he saw that Manohar already had scattered all photos , testimonies , and some recorded evidences from the local CCTV cameras on the floor of the small hall . He didn't know what was going on in his junior officer's mind.
"Ah ! Chitragupta ! it's already so late, why are you not asleep yet ?"
Yash calmly asked while Manohar was totally lost on something already airing on the laptop .
Closing the door Yash saw he was watching the footage of Darshan's chase . He knew Manohar had enough skills to find out the truth behind his lie . But it came to Darshan's character , Yash hardly kept his voice down and said
"Manohar , I've already asked him and he told me that he was just wanted to help me in catching the man . That's all . Who knew that the accident would happen then ?!"
He quickly stopped the video and Manohar stared at him for few seconds . Then lowering his gaze , Manohar said
"I'm sorry . You must have figured out something in that earlier investigation to declare him innocent ."
Earlier in that afternoon , while Manohar was on the way to the murder scene , Yash had called him from the accident scene to inform that he was going to investigate someone from the university and he had to check the accident scene first . At that time Manohar didn't know what might have been the vital connection between all of those that his senior left him alone for hours to handle everything himself .
Manohar had been living with this person more than eight months while Yash had been living in Utkalgarh more than one year ; he had a good name among his fellow officers for his extraordinary case filing talent and he never failed . So Manohar had taken him as his mentor and every time he tried to follow his path .
"Then it's very clear that the case is to be closed . I've already ready the file for closing the case ."
"Ah ! Chitragupta ! You know me so well already . Thank you ."
Taking the file Yash was about to turn to his bedroom when Manohar asked him "How was the other mission?"
"Oh ! I failed . It was a half success though . What's your opinion ?"
"He looks calmer , not so much tidy but polite than your last boyfriend at least ."
"How many times I have to tell you that he wasn't my boyfriend ?!"
In this matter Manohar had permission to tease or advice Yash as he was "very poor material" in Manohar's opinion . Since Manohar had been living with Yash , he never saw him flirting with girls or trying to pursue them or even heard from others about him doing those , but only saw one man meeting with him regularly , caring about him ; but it had been six months that person didn't meet him . Manohar thought they broke up as Yash was a bit restless in these months . So he took the initials to advice Yash and surprisingly Yash agreed at that time .
He was relaxed to see his mentor with a better choice after so many months . He encouragingly said "you should not leave this in its begin ."
"Who said that I was leaving him ? I'm going to meet him in the morning . I'll leave very earlier so wish me luck"
Yash said immediately , a smile curving on his lips .
"May the Lords be merciful to the both of you .
Good night , sir."
Yash promptly went to his room and closed the door , but Manohar was still in the hall , suddenly he whispered
"Oh ! My my ! they look so much similar !"
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Hey readers,
So imagine the DEATH LORD asking you about your health !!!
That's creepy ☹️
Again Who is this ex-boyfriend ?!🙆
Let's find out it in upcoming chapters 😉😉
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...........Anasuya Raj
1st June, 2020
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THE LORDS OF JUSTICE
FantasyThe Lords and Ladies, the Divine beings of the planet Jag-Ath became desperate to gain one of their lost divine powers, which was taken away from them because of a curse that was casted upon them, when one Lord became rebellious and caused one Divin...
