"Note: This chapter contains extreme graphic violence and themes that some readers may find disturbing. I am writing this as a 'Seinen' style dark epic to maintain the realism of this world. Reader discretion is advised."
The scene shifts toward the Demon's head, who is crying. Tears are falling from his eyes, and just then, he sees a blurry shadow.
Demon's Flashback: 150 years ago from today
Morning time, the sound of a bullock cart is heard. Its rotating wheels are seen. In that bullock cart, an old man, a woman, and a 10-year-old small child are sitting. Some wheat sacks are kept in the bullock cart. The old man says to his son, "Son, this time there has been a very good harvest. We have gathered food grains for the entire year, and we will sell the remaining good grains in the market at a good price. And the money that comes from this wheat, I will buy new clothes and new shoes for you from that."
The old man says to his son while laughing, "Why son, you also want new shoes, right?"
His boy says loudly, "Yes father!" and his mother is laughing. While talking, those three arrive in a nearby city. By then, it has become afternoon. The boy says to the old man, "Father, now I am very hungry, why don't we eat something?"
The old man smiles and says, "Yes son, but I am thinking that first we sell this grain, then we will eat food."
The boy says, "No father, I want to eat right now."
The old man explains to him, "Son, when we sell the wheat, then we will have a lot of money, then I will feed you whatever you eat. Right now I don't have that much money. Until I come back after selling the wheat, for that long you go with your mother and take the ration supplies for the house, and I will go quickly and come back after selling the wheat right now."
The boy says, "Okay." The old man calls his wife's name and says that you both meet me right here after doing your work. They are poor. That man unloads his son and his wife from his bullock cart and goes away to sell the grain.
The scene shifts, after a little while that old man comes back to the same place after selling the wheat, and his wife and son too. Those three sit in their bullock cart and set off toward some good place to eat food. After going a little distance, they see a place; they stop there and go inside to eat food. Those three eat their food. After eating food, the old man is saying to his wife that you go outside, I will come after giving the money.
That old man's wife and son go outside and sit in the bullock cart. The old man takes out money from his kurta pocket and gives it to that shopkeeper. The shopkeeper returns the remaining money to that man after deducting the food money, and some people sitting there are watching this sight. They are some thieves. Among those men is a woman who is the leader of the gang. The old man has no news at all and he sets off back toward his village taking his bullock cart.
The old man is going on the way, he finds two paths there. One of the jungle and one that by which he himself had come in the morning. He thinks that if he goes by the morning path, then it will be around 12 o'clock at night by the time he reaches his village, and if he goes by the jungle path, then he will reach by approximately 8 o'clock at night. Then he asks his wife what he should do? Should he go by the morning path which will make them reach home very late at night, or should he go by this jungle path by which they will reach home much faster?
His wife says to him, "Have you ever passed through this path before?"
The old man says, "Yes, I have come and gone by this path before too, it's just a bit of an unpaved road, just for this reason people don't come and go so much by this path."
His wife thinks that after going home she also has to make dinner and it will be quite late by the morning path, then when will I make food after going home? She thinks this and says to her husband, "Let's go home by this jungle path so that we also reach home early and I can quickly make dinner for ourselves too."
They set off from there by the jungle path. After a little while, the sun sets. A strong wind starts blowing in the jungle. The sounds of animals and birds come in the jungle. Fireflies are shining in the darkness. Due to the wind, the candle lamp hanging on the bullock cart starts shaking. The fire of the candle inside it is flickering due to the wind. At that same time, the glass lamp breaks. The old man stops the cart. He sees that the light of many candles is coming toward him from the jungle, and in the next moment, his bullock cart is surrounded from all four sides.
The old man sees that there are horses on which people are sitting and they have swords and they are looking very dangerous. The old man gets terrified and his wife catches hold of her son tightly. Among those beasts, one man comes forward and with a single stroke of his sword, cuts the ropes of the oxen. The oxen run away out of fear and the bullock cart falls down. They chase the oxen away. The old man has nothing to fight with. He is not afraid of them but rather gathers courage and asks, "Who are you and what do you want?"
The leader of those dacoits comes forward. She says that you have asked me two questions, so listen to their answers too. "We are dacoits and I am their leader. And the second answer—we want food and money."
That old man says to them, "I don't have food but if you let us go, I have some money which you can take from me. I will give that to you, just don't do anything to us."
She says, "Okay." That old man gives her all the money he has and says to her, "Whatever money I had with me, I have given to you, now let my wife and my son go."
That child hides shrinking behind his father out of fear. Those dacoits laugh looking at that child; brutality is clearly reflected in their eyes. The old man, holding the hands of his son and wife, starts going through the middle of them, just then that chief of the dacoits catches the child's hand. The child gets scared and then that leader of the dacoits says to that old man, "Listen to me old man! You didn't even ask me what I want to eat? Won't you want to know what we people eat?"
The old man says to them, "No matter what you eat, it doesn't make any difference to me. Whatever money I had with me, I gave to you, now let us go."
That woman says, "We eat children, you foolish old man!" and she grabs the child's hand and pulls him. The old man gets angry and he runs and hits that horse so hard that the horse falls on the ground and with that, the commander of those looters falls down.
Seeing this, the other looters in anger stab a sword into that old man's wife's stomach, and another looter comes running his horse and cuts off that woman's head with his sword. That woman dies right there. And seeing this, that old man gets so much anger that he takes a stone and knocks that looter down from the horse and sits on top of him and hits his face with the stone so many times that his head is turned into a pulp. His eyes are gouged out, the brain bursts and comes out, and all teeth are scattered on the ground.
Just then the sound of his child groaning comes; hearing that sound, that old man's soul trembles. That child's throat is being cut slowly in front of him, just then that old man runs toward that child but some dacoits catch that old man's hands. Those dacoits make gashes with a sword behind his leg knees so that the old man cannot walk. And he sees his son being cut into pieces with his own eyes. Seeing that sight, the old man goes mad; he loses all sense. That leader of the dacoits takes out that child's heart and eats it raw right in front of that old man.
The old man is unable to do anything. Then the naked dance of death begins. Those dacoits, making a sound, start hitting that old man with their swords. Fountains of blood start coming out from various places on his body. They catch the hands and legs of that half-dead old man and lift him high and were just about to slam him on a stone when their leader forbids them from doing this. An entirely different way of killing that old man comes to her mind.
She tells her four men to lift this old man high by his hands and feet. And she goes and brings the yoke of that bullock cart and stands it upright. And she says to her men that "I will lift this bullock cart yoke like a spear and you all slam this old man on top of this yoke so fast that this old man gets impaled inside that yoke."
And they all do exactly that. They drive that thick wooden yoke of the bullock cart—which is placed on the necks of oxen—into his chest, and he dies right there. Those dacoits don't stop here; they throw him into a nearby well and leave from there sitting on their horses.
We see the sight there after their departure. A woman is lying dead in whose stomach a sword is plunged. A dacoit whose head is smashed, and a child who has been chewed half raw and the other half those looters took with them to cut and cook. And the scene of the well—that old man, blood is coming out from his body but his last breath is still going on.
Just then a Demon comes there. He sees a woman whose head is not there, a little meat of a child is left, and a man whose head is crushed. And he starts going from there, just then he gets another scent from inside the well. That Demon jumps into the well. He sees that the breaths of that old man are still going on. Even after so much happening, he gets impressed seeing his half-dead corpse; after that, that demon makes a small cut on his own hand with his nail from which blood starts flowing. That Demon puts that blood into that old man's mouth and at that very moment, that old man transforms into a Demon!
(Chapter End)