The moment they heard this question from the Maharaja, those two men disguised as thieves became thoroughly unnerved within themselves. Looking toward the Maharaja with joined hands, they spoke out together in a thoroughly high-pitched voice, saying, "O Maharajmoshai, who among us should choose who will steal, let me hear? Rather than that, why don't you raise your own royal finger and decide once and for all, go—exactly which thief between the two of us will perform the grand task of stealing that cloth bag from Rupanjan's room with his own hands today, you tell us!"
The moment he heard these words from the mouths of the thieves, the Maharaja narrowed his crafty two eyes a little bit and, raising his royal finger forcefully toward the second thief standing in that line, spoke out in a thoroughly grave voice, saying, "Very well! Then today, by my order, you—meaning this second number thief—shall enter inside Rupanjan's room with thorough cleverness and perform the task of stealing that cloth bag of his with your very own hands! Go, get ready in a single minute!"
No sooner had he made this grand conspiratorial move completely firm with the thieves than the Maharaja wrapped his royal veil around his body and advanced straight toward Rupanjan's bedroom with thoroughly rapid steps. Arriving before the closed door of the room, using his royal hand, he knocked forcefully with a 'knock-knock' sound and called out in a thoroughly restless voice, saying, "Ore Rupanjan child! O Rupanjan—without wasting even another single second of time from inside your room, come outside into this corridor with me thoroughly quickly let me see, child! I have a thoroughly urgent, dangerous, and formidably essential royal matter to speak with you completely alone, child! Come outside thoroughly quickly!"
The moment he heard such a restless and urgent call of the Maharaja from inside his own bedroom, Rupanjan, without harboring the slightest bit of suspicion, jumped out of his bed and stood up. Opening the massive wooden door of his room thoroughly quickly, stepping outside into the corridor, he stood before the Maharaja with joined hands in deep reverence and said, "What happened, Maharaja? For what formidably urgent matter did you rush before my room yourself so early in the morning? Tell me, Maharaja, I am completely prepared to listen to all your words!"
At the exact moment Rupanjan opened his bedroom door and took a step out into the corridor to speak with the Maharaja—in order to seize that grand, perfect opportunity red-handed, that second man disguised as a thief slithered inside the room like a snake along that secret tunnel path! Sweeping his crafty eyes around the room for a single second, he grabbed Rupanjan's large essential cloth bag kept beside the bed—in which he had thoroughly carefully kept all his ornaments, clothes, and money—with a sudden jerk of his dirty hands! Then, within a single second, pressing that cloth pouch under his armpit, escaping in a single bound along the tunnel path, he went straight and hid it like a thief inside the massive almary of the Maharaja's personal secret examination chamber! And because our innocent heroic man Rupanjan was thoroughly busy talking with the Maharaja while standing in the corridor—he could not comprehend even the slightest bit that such a grand incident of thievery had taken place inside his room. Standing in the corridor then, looking toward the Maharaja with thoroughly curious eyes, joining his two hands, Rupanjan asked, "Yes, Maharaja, now speak out opening your own mouth let see, bapu—what such grand essential matter did you wish to speak with me standing alone? I am becoming thoroughly anxious to listen to your words, bapu, speak!"
The moment he heard this question from Rupanjan's mouth, the Maharaja, realizing that the devilish move inside his mind had succeeded, burst into a massive fiendish laugh. Slapping Rupanjan's shoulder, he spoke out in a thoroughly loud voice, saying, "Hahaha! O you supremely courageous Rupanjan child—the grand, grave message I came to give you standing in this corridor is nothing else. I came to tell you from my own mouth merely this—that the formidably dangerous second test of your life has not started during some noon or afternoon hours today—it has begun in a single second right from this very moment, standing upon the floor of this corridor, re child! This alone was what I had to tell you! Now, without standing here for even another single moment, come straight to that secret examination chamber of mine let see, bapu; the true judgment of your test will take place right there!"
Hearing about the sudden commencement of the test like this from the Maharaja's mouth, Rupanjan was indeed thoroughly surprised at first, but without becoming the slightest bit unnerved, he followed behind the Maharaja with thoroughly slow and heroic steps and arrived straight at the main court chamber of the Maharaja. The moment he set foot inside the chamber, making his two eyes large, looking toward the Maharaja, Rupanjan asked in a thoroughly curious tone, "Maharaja! You are saying that my second test has supposedly begun completely from now! But if you do not tell me from your own mouth even the slightest bit exactly what kind of a test this second test of mine is, or what formidably dangerous task I must perform with my own hands standing in this jail-like court—then being a flat-out ordinary human being, how shall I understand the true meaning of this untold test of yours, let me hear, Maharaja? Tell me everything openly, bapu, otherwise I am unable to understand anything at all!"
The moment he heard such an innocent question from Rupanjan's mouth, the Maharaja clapped his royal hands, and with a sudden jerk, summoned those two men disguised as thieves from a corner of the court, making them stand right face-to-face with Rupanjan! Placing his royal sword beside the throne, raising a finger toward Rupanjan, the Maharaja spoke out in a thoroughly grave and strict voice, saying, "Listen, Rupanjan child! These two ugly men you see standing right face-to-face with your own two eyes with their faces cast down like thieves upon the floor of the court—these two are the most famous and absolutely notorious two thieves of this entire kingdom. And the news of your true test is this—a moment ago, when you were thoroughly busy talking with me standing in the corridor, seizing that grand opportunity red-handed, any one flat-out thief among them quietly entered inside your bedroom—and stole away that essential cloth bag and pouch of yours, which is dearer to you than your own life, in a single second with his own hands, escaping in a single bound, re child! Now the true challenge of this second test of yours is—exerting the force of your discerning intellect and grand foresight, you must speak out red-handed before everyone in this court in a single second that—despite both of them being thieves, exactly which thief touched your cloth bag with his own dirty hands and truly stole it away! Exactly who the real thief is among them—you must prove and show that from your own mouth today, child; this alone is your test!"
The moment he heard such a formidably shocking piece of news with his own two ears from the Maharaja's mouth—that his essential cloth bag and pouch of money had been stolen away like a thief—our heroic man Rupanjan became thoroughly shocked and completely stunned within his mind in a single moment, re! Placing his hand upon his forehead, becoming thoroughly amazed, looking toward the Maharaja, he spoke out in a thoroughly intense voice, saying, "O Maharajmoshai, destroying this peaceful morning of mine in a single moment, what kind of a strange and wretched miraculous test have you arranged with your own hands, let me hear, re, huh? You are addressing both the men standing in this court as flat-out thieves from your own mouth—yet you are asking me to find out in a single second who the real thief is from among them! Without seeing them, without knowing them, how shall I understand from my own mouth in a single minute exactly who has stolen the bag from my room, huh? I do not know even the slightest bit about their dirty thievery beforehand, bapu! This is a thoroughly impossible test!"