Play In Darkness (Eng/END)

55. Follow The Path of The Moon

Imdad met Maya's gaze attached to him. "I followed Delisha here too because I was worried about Rani. Fortunately, the child was not prejudiced and thought of me as the Raj she used to know," continued Imdad. He took a deep breath and let out a sigh. "Being in this new form leaves me confused and exhausted."

Maya sat at the dressing table, but the mirror did not reflect her reflection. "You're just not used to it," Maya said, "I was like that when I just became a ghost, but to be honest, you are not an ordinary spirit. Your radiant energy is very strong, your chakra is different from other spirits. You can get rid of other creatures and your kiss brings Delisha's spirit back into his body. Imdad, I think you should find out who you really are."

Imdad was silent thinking about Maya's words. He is an orphan and there is no clue as to who his parents are. If his true self has anything to do with his past life then he should start by investigating Rajputana Udai Singh. If Delisha was reincarnated because she died earlier than Rajputana and Devdas turned into a human after that, then no one knows what happened to Rajputana. He remembered Delisha talking to a banyan tree in the ruins in the wilderness. He was sure there must be a creature that had lived there for a long time. The creature may know something.

Imdad looked expectantly at Maya, making the woman's ghost stuttered. "W-what's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"

Imdad takes Maya's hand. "Miss Maya," he said, "you are quite experienced at this. Help me investigate my past. Accompany me on my way!"

Traveling alone with a handsome boy, when will that opportunity come? Without hesitation, Maya answered with a happy sigh, "Oh, yes, Imdad, I do!"

***

At 2 in the morning, Delisha arrived at her residence. Her steps were nonchalantly entering the house. The condition of the company that keeps losing money has put pressure on the head of the company and the board of directors as well as the associate leader of Xin India. Calming them down and thinking of ways to improve the situation drained her mind and energy. Moreover, the oblique news about Imdad's death and Imdad's scandals with several women circulated on the internet, causing a lot of negative comments and a negative effect on the Indian Xin stock market.

The IT team of Xin India has prevented the spread of the news but still cannot reduce the issue that has already spread. Moreover, the news is continuously released on various sites every hour, showing that certain parties deliberately do that. So far, from the results of her team's investigation, the perpetrators of the spread of the news came from the HiTech Superpower belonging to the Kapoor Clan.

In the living room, Delisha hesitated in silence, slowly changing her legs towards the main room. To Imdad's room which they sometimes use to sleep together. Delisha turned on the light and looked around the room. The room was immaculate and the sheets on the perfectly firm bed. The room had previously been warm and comfortable to live in, now the air is cold and suffocating.

I can't imagine losing you, Delisha ... I'd rather die than lose you…. Delisha remembered what Imdad said to her when they made out. She thought it was just a joke and she laughed it off. Now, it's a painful memory. In her chest there was pain and her lips trembled against tears. "Have I hurt you that much, Imdad?" she muttered softly to the false shadows.

She reminiscences when on the bed, she laughs at Imdad. It is funny. You're good at flirting, Imdad, it's no wonder you have lots of women.

I'm serious. I will kill anyone who dares to touch you.

Delisha shattered her memory. Tears began to fill the eyelids. She turned off the light and ran away from the room. Arriving in her room, Delisha immediately buried her face in the pillow to muffle the tears.

She thinks she can be strong all the time and keeps busy helping her forget all the memories about Imdad. But living is not as easy as saying it. When alone and lonely, the memories become real and painful.

That night, Delisha fell asleep again, crying.

***

"So your real name is Delisha, Marianne-ji?" Rani repeated after hearing Delisha's explanation. They sat across from each other at the dining table for breakfast.

Delisha nodded while sipping the black coffee that Auntie served.

"That's a very beautiful name," said Auntie, who was also listening as she placed three plates on the table and another cup of coffee on the chair Imdad used to use. Auntie was silent for a moment. "Oh, my God, I ... I forgot ..." sighed Aunty, sobbing. "I think Raj is still with us ..." Auntie sobbed and covered her face with a scarf and hurried out of the dining room.

Delisha was as calm as possible and continued her breakfast while Rani looked at the figure of the old woman leaving. "Why are you crying just because Raj didn't go to breakfast? Auntie is so whiny!" murmurs Rani and she drinks the milk.

Delisha opened her cell phone as it read an incoming message and her eyes widened when she read the message.

[Hi, my girl, don't be sad anymore, I have a surprise for you! Your one and only, Xandy]

Xandreena Aurora Xin here? Where?

A servant hands over a package for Delisha. Delisha opened the package and her eyes were rounded. A new model phone with an X logo on the back. Delisha recognized the cell phone as a thing from the future.

Rani put down the glass of milk and looked at Delisha with her innocent eyes and asked, "Delisha-ji, you know a woman named the moon and a man named Rajputana Udai Singh?"

Delisha turned her round eyes to Rani and her mouth stiffened unable to move.

Rani said eloquently. "The woman with golden brown hair and gray eyes met me last night. Her name is Xandy. She said you must know Chandni and Rajputana. They are my biological father and mother."

Does that mean Rani was the child who was still in Chandni's womb when Chandni died?

Delisha froze all over her body. Slowly, she went to Rani's side, leaning on one knee beside the child's chair. Her hands nervously caress Rani's face who looks at her in surprise. "Rani ... sweety," Delisha didn't know how to explain, she had children without ever conceiving and giving birth to them. "... from now on, as it is been said, I am your mother."

***

At a hotel in the foothills of the Kashmir Mountains, cool morning air blows into the room through the wide-open balcony doors. The white curtain in the doorway drifted off the wind. A young woman with long golden-brown hair lay lying prone on the big bed while playing with her cell phone. A thick blanket covered her body that was not wearing any clothes.

Richard Lee, wearing only his pajamas pants, crossed the room carrying a tray of two cups of hot black coffee and two slices of fry bread. He sat on the edge of the bed, put the tray on the nightstand then ruffled the hair of the woman who became his future wife. "You followed me to India just to make me relax all day," muttered Richard.

Xandreena sat with the blanket to her chest and reached for a cup of coffee, taking a small sip because it was still too hot. The 20-year-old woman lay back on the bed, stretched out to gaze into her husband's brown eyes. "You don't like it? Then I'll disappear ...."

Richard immediately caught her arm. "Ah, don't!" exclaimed Richard. "I just don't know what to explain to your father and mother so I have to postpone my departure to Indonesia."

"Just say I show up to cause trouble and you try to prevent it, they won't mind," Xandreena said, tugging at Richard's arm to keep the man confined. "Besides, they always tell you to step in on my personal business."

Richard grinned broadly at his wife. "What have you done this time?"

Lying back under Richard, Xandreena's arms were wrapped around the dark brown-haired man's neck. "I'm helping Delisha," she said happily. "I saved her child 250 years ago and brought her to 2010. The child is alive and she is 8 years old now, the same age as our little daughter, Delisha."

Richard gasped. "Why did you do that? Xandy, isn't that too risky for you?" he said anxiously.

"Don't worry, honey, it doesn't matter to me, because the child isn't born yet, so it won't add to my age. After all, the baby is going to be immolation. I won't let that child die in vain at the hands of bad people."

"The child from the past? Delisha's child? How did you find her?"

Xandreena removed her arm from Richard's neck and looked away. Without any makeup polish, her red cheeks were clearly visible. "I didn't mean to. I went to India to trace the life of July Andrews. You know I'm very jealous, Richard, after all, July was a part of your life and she gave birth to Delisha. I'm just curious."

Xandreena's gaze wandered over to the time she had come.

*

India, 1989

*

At that time July Andrews was 10 years old and she was hiding in the woods for a reconnaissance mission exercise. July squats behind the thicket. The night was pitch black with no moonlight. The girl did not expect to see a husband and wife walking hurriedly in the forest carrying a package in his wife's arms.

"Shaman Gaurav predicted that this child will bring havoc for our family, but you still defend it. This child carries a demonic soul in him. You see, Shaman Gaurav fell unconscious while trying to fight the demon," scolded the husband to his wife. They are around 40 years old.

The wife sobbed. "But he is the child we crave after decades, there is no way I could kill my own flesh and blood. How can I know what this will turn out to be?" whined pitifully. She opened the cloth in her arms and exposes the appearance of a pale little baby, silent, and motionless.

Her husband dug a shallow hole in the ground, about the size of the baby. "I'm sure Gaurav is not making this up. You even dreamed a lot while you were pregnant with this child, you saw the figure of our baby as Rajputana Udai Singh, the man who 250 years ago slaughtered hundreds of human beings. He also beheaded women and the holy shaman. We must not fight the holy sorcerer. That's a curse! This child is full of curses and he has angered the genies of darkness," he muttered as he threw a shovel to the ground.

"This child can't live!" snapped the husband, throwing his shovel and grabbing the baby from his wife's arms. Together with the cloth that wrapped the tiny body, the father dropped the baby into the hole he had dug and rushed to fill it with dirt followed by the mother's sobs.

"But he's dead ..." his wife whispered. She wanted to bury her child properly, not in the middle of a terrible forest like this.

"I don't care! We must obey Shaman Gaurav's orders, this child must be buried as soon as possible!"

After burying the baby, the man grabbed his shovel and pulled his wife's arm, who seemed reluctant to leave the place.

Without anyone being able to see (not even Xandreena), two men with white wings landed on the side of the mound. They were wearing white clothes ornate gold.

The black-haired man crouched down at the mound. "There's a baby in it, but he's very weak. Are we here to take his life?"

"His human body is indeed very weak for this soul to become his life force," said his companion, the silver-haired man. It took out a sphere of life glowing golden from behind its wings. "This is the soul of Rajputana Udai Singh who has received the mantra Devdas. Rajputana Udai Singh is blessed with the sun's light. His soul is the descendant of the highest genie in the genie caste. There are not many genies of this type because they are meant to be rulers of all kinds of genie must submit to him. "

"I didn't know that," murmured the blackhead, standing up to stare closely at the ball of life in his partner's hand.

"That's why I have a special authority. This genie power was weak after the death of his body and in order to survive, he must be sealed in the human body. He will become a new human."

Black Hair did not make a sound again as Silver Haired man pointed the ball of life into the mound of soil and spread out his palms. "Rajputana Udai Singh, with the authority given to me, I seal your soul in this body. I erase your memories of the past so that you can live your new life."

The two angels flew away as a young girl dressed all in black jumped out of the bush and crouched beside the mound. With her dexterous hands, the girl dug the ground and she was stunned to find the baby figure in it twitching. Movement indeterminate like a surprise. The air from its tiny nasal cavity pushes against the ground which blocks the flow of breath. The baby made a muffled whimper.

"You're still alive ...!" exclaimed July in relief. She lifted the baby from the ground and placed it on her lap. He pressed the piece of communication device against her ear. "Senior Veer, come here quickly! Guess what I found in the middle of the forest? A baby!"

The name Rajputana Udai Singh leads Xandreena to the past and she sees a woman like Delisha who becomes the man's wife.

*

Back to the present, India, November 2018

*

Richard lowered his head and kissed Xandreena on the forehead and then looked into her gray eyes. "I feel really bad leaving Delisha in a state of mourning. Why don't we prevent Imdad Hussain's death? Even though I don't really like that guy, as long as he can make Delisha happy, I don't mind."

"I feel that too, Uncle, but things can't be prevented and they deserve to happen. Imdad Hussain's death is the way Delisha must take to make her stronger. We won't know how Delisha's abilities have developed, except by putting her under pressure, my mother said. I didn't completely agree with her, which is why I looked for other ways to help Delisha. One of them was by saving her child in the past. The child will become her friend and I hope she won't be sad anymore. "

Richard frowned at his wife calling himself Uncle. The calling only took effect when Xandreena was a child and was not yet his wife. "You call me Uncle, hmmph, Xandy, don't start bullying me, I'm not your uncle, I'm already your husband. Or do you want to be a bad girl again?" joked Richard, running his lips over Xandreena's jaw and giving her light kisses. "Do you miss my punishments?"

The woman laughed out loud. "That sounds very hot, Uncle ..." Xandreena teased. Richard tracing the crook of Xandreena's neck made the woman hold him tight and groan softly. "Oh, Richard ...."

"Now that's better ..." sighed Richard and kissed his woman even more.