Part -5 (Trial of the Rapist)
I stood up alert. I strained my ears and tried to listen again... Everything around me became silent again.
I stopped moving and just kept my eyes on the ground, observing this and that. Maybe no one else in this village heard the sound, and even if they did, it seemed like they didn't have the courage to come out.
Just after a while again!
I heard a male voice. Without thinking anything else, I started running straight ahead along the path.
I started walking straight across the fields, searching for the source of the sound. It seemed like someone else was in danger!
In a very short time I reached that forest.
That word was never spoken again.
I'm standing in front of the forest. The crickets are calling loudly... and the sound of the fox is waking up the forest. I don't know which way to go...
There is very little grass, and on top of that, there are these forest trees.
At that moment, I heard someone's frightened and dry voice.
-"No... no... don't do this to me! No, don't kill me... don't do this to me..."
I turned and looked to the left.
In the dim light, I saw someone sprawled out, walking backward over the dry leaves... and addressing someone in front of me...
I ran to him. He shouted as soon as he heard my voice,
-"Save me, who is he... he will kill me!"
A young man from the village. I saw him in the crowd then.
The young man's dhoti and fatwa were torn and stained with blood.
Scratches on various parts of his body... I dragged him here. But I didn't see anyone in front of him...
-"There's no one there. Who are you afraid of, and who did this to you..."
-"That... that Pichashini... that Pichashini... he's back... he's killing everyone. Save me."
-"I'm here, don't be afraid. Tell me, who is he?"
-"The one who was burned to death five years ago..."
He couldn't say anything else... In an instant, I saw him floating into thin air right before my eyes.
And he got caught in the twisted branches of a tree in front of me. Two branches were right on either side of his throat. His screams echoed around him.
I couldn't do anything from the front. I couldn't imagine so much could happen in such a short time... I sat there, panting in the darkness. Dust and dry leaves were still flying around in the strong wind...
I heard a female voice
"No one can take away my prey..."
Then he was gone. Despite my best efforts, I could not find his presence in that place.
I heard the news while drinking tea this morning. Fear is growing all around. The people of the village are even more terrified!
I'll be out in a little while. Right at the place where I met Suniti the day before...
Even today, standing on the bank of the river, I saw Suniti.
Coming...
-"Aren't you afraid? Is this happening in the village?"
"That's exactly the question I wanted to ask you...
"You're not afraid, these things are happening in the village."
-"Ha ha ha... Tell me, what's more fearsome than being away from people? The most fear is those people. I'm away from them... safe. I don't feel any fear anymore. Maybe those who are dying or will die really deserved to die..."
- "So sure?"
-"I don't know... I said it could be."
So when are you coming back?"
-"I'm not going back. I can't wait until I catch and punish this angel of death."
-"If that's the case, you too will be trapped in the cycle of death gol."
-"Still, I'll leave after watching the end. But I won't lose..."
-"Just try..." Suniti smiled strangely!
To be continued...
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