THE LORDS OF JUSTICE

15 : SPLIT PERSONALITIES

Two days after his enrolment for the last semester , Darshan was at the restaurant to have his dinner . His busy schedule already had been started ; after ending his own classes he went to teach the new high school batch , he had to take two classes . Exhausted and hungry , when he reached there his eyes automatically scanned the restaurant and that person was nowhere to be seen , his mood became more disturbed . He was thinking every possible thought to avoid the truth that he was already missing that person .

When the waiter came with his unusual order he was lost in thought so the waiter said "brother, you look tired but your face is saying that you're having some serious problems too."

Darshan was back to present , smiling a little , he said "it's nothing actually, you know how tight my schedule is."

Then he looked at Vinay , a medium sized young man , whose age seemed to be less than him .

"Yes, I know. How was your home trip?"

"Good."

"Glad to hear that. Okay then take care of yourself. Good night."

"Good night."

After finishing his dinner when Darshan returned to his hostel room , his brain was totally in mess ; sometimes thinking about Yash , sometimes thinking about the spirit who almost choked him to death , then the thought of Death Lord . He suddenly realised that there was another presence in his room , turning on the light , he saw a man in his early 30s with a deep tan complexion . The man was reading a book from his book self with so much attention , that he didn't even notice that the room's light was on . Darshan cautiously controlled himself and saw beyond the outer complexion of the man , he immediately knew that it was a ghost and a soul too , whose soul essence was pure as the whole form of the ghost was glowing blindingly white .

Darshan thought to himself "what?! Again a messenger ?! What do I do with myself now ? I'm really getting involved with the supernatural beings! Wow! "

Then he said with an even voice
"you should not touch other's things without asking , you know? "

The ghost was startled and wordless for few moments , after keeping the book at its right place he bowed and apologetically said "I beg your pardon sir . I like to read books and you have a lot of interesting books , I.......I got intrigued ."

Then standing straight he looked at the tall , handsome young man who was still near the closed door with a heavy bag hanging loosely from his shoulder , tiredness was clear on the creamy white face , nothing was special at all in his appearance ; but how this man could see him was the biggest question in his mind . He was about to ask when Darshan raised his hand and indicated the chair to sit while he sat on the bed .

Darshan saw that the soul actually sat down , he didn't want to be late for sleep so he started "I myself don't know how I can see you guys . "

"I think it's not limited to seeing then , you can do many more things"
the ghost said in amusement.

"I still don't know what else I'm capable of . Just give me the letter ."
Darshan said with an irritated tone .

The ghost immediately took out a black envelope and gave it to Darshan . The ghost was thinking about the man in front of him , how long he had been connected to the system , how close was the connection between the Death Lord and this person and why a human was so important in the crisis of Naarook when he had already found out the solution .

While opening the letter , Darshan shook his head once and said
"don't worry , I'm not connected for a long time . It's just the second letter . I even don't know what the system thing is . Now please don't bring more thoughts to irritate me ."

The ghost almost forgot that the person could see through memories , he had to shut his mind down .

Darshan took few minutes to read the letter carefully and was totally surprised to find out that the Death Lord sincerely wanted his help in proving the ghost's innocence . If the ghost had any malicious thought then he had to write down in details .

Darshan had so many questions like a whirlwind , that for few moments he stared at the letter , thinking "why does the Death Lord need my help in this? Doesn't they have superpowers to see anything they want to see ? Why is he seeking my help so sincerely when I'm just a human ! Forget it Darshan , if you really have to know these , then you only can get the answers from them ."

Darshan looked at the ghost and said
"look at me , don't move and don't dare to bring thoughts in your mind ."

The ghost wasn't fearing the young man but this time the young man's voice seemed so much superior that he could not help but carried out the orders .

Darshan saw the man's life before death , also the life after death and except for studying , inventing things , he didn't get anything suspicious about his before-death life . When Darshan saw the after-death life , he was surprised to find out that he was learning the secret of the systems of Naarook ; the control office in the forest , Utkalgarh was being used as a portal to Naarook , the ghost and the fairy tribes worked together to keep everything in order , the Lords and Ladies were somehow being lack of the power of divine vision , a Lord went against all ancient rules and became rival , at the moment that Lord's minions were planning to do something in the office , it was Naarook's crisis time and the ghost in front of him had invented an idea with the Death Whip . Then Darshan knew why the Death Lord wasn't trusting a interior worker who had months of training ,  and moreover whose idea of intrusion prevention was highly risky .

All these minutes while watching the ghost's memories , Darshan didn't realise he was a completely different person .

When finally he didn't want to watch more , he stopped and spoke with the an authoritative voice , "Biswadev . I know since you're dead this name has nothing to do with you now . But I'm going to call you this . I'll give you a message , please help me to give it to the Death Lord and I apologise for thinking you as a messenger , you're a more important person . Try to get success with your plan ."

The ghost was totally amused by the strange gentle manners of the young man which he knew wasn't present there before , he realised that the person was different as if he had two personalities within him . But he dared not to ask why , how Or who , he simply nodded .

Then Darshan wrote the letter and while handing it over he said "tell him not to be so cold hearted towards the workers , or one day the fear of him will drive you all out . One more thing, tell him if I was present there I would've liked to restore the whole infrastructure of the old building ."

The ghost again nodded while scrutinising Darshan very carefully and realised that the person was again the previous person who at the moment seemed to be confused .

Keeping his curiosity aside , the ghost said "if I have your permission sir , I should leave now ."

Darshan was still confused about the whole incident , he could remember that he didn't see anything suspicious about the ghost's before-death life , he also remembered the control office of Naarook which was in the forest and worked as a portal , but then what he saw he couldn't recall as if for some minutes his mind switched to another person's memory .

Seeing the letter in the ghost's hand he only nodded once and the soul of the engineer vanished . Darshan had discovered that his mind was split into two personalities and he badly wanted to know that who was present there when he was not himself .

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Hey, Readers,

So Darshan is receiving more letters from the Death Lord! !!!!! Seems like something big gonna happen! !!!!

What exactly happened to his memory  ?!!!!!! Who was present within Darshan  ?!!!!! 😮😮😮

Let's find out in the upcoming chapters! 😉😉😉😉

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                 ..............Anasuya Raj

20th July, 2020