The Destiny Eclipsed

Despite the creepy look, his teacher's words were like a spark in the dry prairie, the flame of hope was ignited. Hari's c.h.e.s.t heaved up but soon he suppressed the excitement to let his rationale take over.

"Ummm… actually, I had a very strange encounter last month ... I met an eccentric guy, in the dream I suppose."

Hari didn't give a clear answer, after all, telling someone he met god would the stupidest thing to he could come up with.

"*Phew* well eccentricity is their trademark; so which organization did you join."

Old Marshal nonchalantly answered but Hari's reply stunned the experienced Marshal.

"Joining an organization, no... er.. our meeting was just a couple of minutes and he just blabbered some incomprehensive stuff before vanishing into thin air."

Hari answered with uncertainty.

"Which f**ker did you meet; he has lion's guts to ignore the alliance rules blatantly."

The old marshal suddenly burst in anger. Hari was baffled seeing his teacher swearing through his teeth.

"That guy didn't even give a name, no rather, I didn't even get to see his clear figure. He suddenly appeared out of nowhere like a phantom to spat some confusing theory about karma and destiny."

Hari gave a more elusive answer this time; mixing truth and lie to make a fool-proof c.o.c.ktail of story.

*sigh*

"Now things are getting complicated; earlier I thought of erasing your memory but…" The old Marshal was just speaking his mind but Anil suddenly interrupted.

"Ahh… what erase the memory."

Anil exclaim, and all his brother face-palmed; the Marshal hated being interrupted. If it had been any other day Anil would have been hanging upside down by now.

Fortunately for Anil, the problem in hand was grievous and above all, he has met Hari after years. Thus he just received a sharp scary stare from the Old Marshal.

"Anyway sooner or later you would come in contact with Ori Realm, so erasing your memory would be unnecessary."

"Hari, it's inappropriate to form me to disclose any secrets. From here onwards you'll certainly have some encounters with people like Yash; don't do anything rash, the water runs much deeper than you could fathom.

But, since the cat's out to let me just tell you this, 'His words were true.'"

Immediately Hari and his brother's staggered back to their seats, the old marshal sighed seeing their dumbfounded faces.

*sigh*

"I'll dispose of the corpse, it'll a bit complicated for you guys."

"Hari, I better than anyone know, there's no free lunch in this world, so here take this."

The old Marshal threw an illusory pinkish fruit, strangely, it became real when Hari caught out of instinct.

"That's a Nirvana Fruit – a universal cure, something I prepared for you. Though it's useless for you now, you could trade to your benefactor if you're in a moral bind. Also it a rare exotic item, even in that part of the world."

Anil still couldn't sympathize with their misgivings and helplessness.

In reality, their inner world was almost breaking apart; to this day they prided of being one of the strongest and believed to have reached the absolute peak.

But Yash's existence destroyed their ego, an exiled cripple has muscle power equivalent to super-soldier; it was almost humiliating.

After a prolonged suffocating silence, Anil voiced out his concern.

"So is the auction plan still alive?"

*******

While everyone was dwelling in silence, the auction's first invitation was creating an uproar in the city.

In a huge 10 storey building, Junchit Daily Headquarters; placed right at the heart of the city.

A woman was sitting in a Blue King-Sized chair; petting the white dog in her l.a.p while glancing through an article in a magazine on the other hand.

"Kira"

The women called out, and a few seconds later Six-and-half foot-high muscular women entered the office. Though she wore a perfect attire for a secretary, her unruly physique made the exact opposite of a capable secretary.

"Yes, ma'am"

The towering figure respectfully enquired.

"Kira, book a ticket for me in this auction, I'm interested in this Black Rudra. Also, cancel all the plans scheduled on that evening."

Then the woman placed the advertis.e.m.e.nt on the table before leaving with her pet.

Kira reached out her long hands and pulled the magazine; and went through it before adding it to her boss's schedule.

Similar acts played out in different parts of the city, many big shots were attracted for different items to be auctioned.

The Antiques and ancient relics attracted some of the crowd while most of them came for the exotic so on most of the high-class people had one reason or another to find themselves attracted to this Auction.

This Promotion solely focused on grasping the attention of well to do part of the population. And so the Auction House tickets sold out like hot pancakes.

While the New Auction house was going viral, back in Junchit Daily Headquarters; the auction's first customer.

"Ma'am you have two appointments on the said date.

First an Internal Departmental meeting here and later that day, Mr. Umar Razi was given an appointment with the date."

Kira swiftly spelled out her Chief's schedule.

"Cancel the appointment in the evening umm…, though Umar is an idiot his father is a true gentleman. Ok do it this way, tell them that I forgot the appointment and deeply apologize for the same."

"Yeah make sure you sent the apology after the auction."

Without turning her head, she just gave orders before leaving her office with the dog wagging its tail behind her.

Kira felt like crying, passing this message will certainly bring upon contempt for being an incompetent Secretary.

After all, she has never shown any interest in relationsh.i.p.s so far.

******

In the Hari's office, Conference Room…..

"So is the auction plan still alive?"

Anil once again asked his brothers, but this time he nearly shouted. He couldn't withstand the silence; further, their indecisiveness seemed a bad premonition.

These words sparked life into their blank eyes; Hari was the first one to recover, after all, he did have an illusionary experience with god.

"That's it, what's gonna to come will certainly come. Let's focus on the problem in hand, the auction is round the corner."

Hari's the spirit if their team when he breaks the team falls and when he rises the team stands.

So everyone threw Ori Realm to back of their head and high-spiritedly discussed the auction.