TEARS OF JOY.

As viki and sucharitha is going to have their lunch, there is group of people gathered on their way and it seems they are listening to something. So viki decided to take another way and is about to take a step, but at that time he heard a very familier voice. It made him to stop his steps. Sucharitha who is besides him also stopped her steps and looked at viki and asked that,

"Why did you stopped, let's go I am feeling hungry"

But viki didn't answered her question and moved towards the crowd hurriedly.

"Hey, wait where are you going it will more time, if we go through the crowd, hey are you hearing me"

But even if she shouted, he didn't stop his phase and moved even hurriedly. As she watched this, she felt angry beyond words as she is feeling peak level hungry. She thought of going to restaurant on by her own, because she has money they just made. But she didn't feel like and followed behind viki.

As viki moved forward he heard the voice more clearly, before that he is only speculating about the person in the voice but now, he is certain that he not anyone other than one of his close friends, chanakya.

Before in the forest when the blue light enveloped chanakya as he is about to get hit by the beast's paw. Viki is only seen him getting enveloped by that blue colour and after that before he can take look at chanakya he is sent flying by the force he is not able to see whether chanakya is fine or not. So, he can only pray to heavens for his safe being. As for others he is certain they will be absolutely fine.

Viki is standing in the crowd and listened to what chanakya is saying along with others. he seems to be telling a story of seven fishes and seven princes. As he narrating the story everyone is laughing and cheering for chanakya. But viki is the only one who is having smile on his face as the tears rolling from his eyes.

Sucharitha is finally catch up to viki and as she is about yell at him, she saw him crying with a smile on his face, which looked very strange.

"Hey, are you alright why are crying with a smile on your face its creepy, you know"

But even so viki is not responding to her. It caused her to misunderstood him as gone mad and she shouted loudly at him.

"VIKI WAKE UP, ARE GONE MAD. HEY SNAP OUT"

As shouted the people around stopped their laugh and everyone looked at viki and sucharitha. Chanakya who didn't notice viki's presence before also looked at the people below and traced to their look and found viki who is looking at him with tears. As he looked viki the pain and happiness both overwhelmed him and he suddenly started to cry loudly as he run towards viki with full speed.

As chanakya run towards him, viki also run and both hugged each other and cried out loudly. The surrounding people's who don't know anything in the situation also started to shed tears, as most of them who present there are mainly non- cultivators, so they were affected by both viki and Chanakya's sadness. Sucharitha also somewhat lightly effected by it. If it is before she went to the forest, she will also be affected by this, but as she experienced a life and death situation, her will become stronger and due to it she is not affected by the scene which is happening before her completely. As they were cry and laughing the moods of the surrounding peoples also started to alter, sucharitha who not fully affected by it, moved towards viki and patted his shoulder and showed him the surrounding. As he observed the surrounding people, he is shocked to see they are crying. Chanakya also seen it and both of them stopped their cry and restrained their emotions. After some time, the surrounding peoples also got out of the situation and looked at each other blankly and everyone suddenly turned towards the place where viki and chanakya previously present but didn't find anyone there and the crowd suddenly burst into discussion of what happened and why they were acting like that.

Viki and chanakya along with sucharitha run into an alley where no one are present and both looked at each other and restrained from their cry. After five minutes of silence sucharitha not able hold back and shouted.

"Hey, viki can you tell me what's going on and why are you crying, and who is he?" asked sucharitha as with taking any gap.

At that time chanakya also looked at sucharitha, he didn't notice her all the time and looked at viki and asked.

"Who is this young lady? viki" asked chanakya.

Viki adjusted himself after some second and started introduce them to each other.

"Sucharitha, this is chanakya and chanakya, she is young lady of the pandava family and I am currently working as personal guard of her"

"What is this introduction, you said my full address and you only said his name only, what is that"

"Okay, chanakya is one of my family members, is it enough?"

"Oh, he is also an orphan, like you?"

As chanakya heard their conversation, he maintained his silence as it is the story created by sumithra, when asked for their details. So, he remained silent.

"Hello, I am sucharitha as viki said and I am from the pandava family"

"Pandava family, one of the five great families in rakshasha town?"

"What great families? what are you talking about?"

Asked viki as he is fully confused.

"You don't know about their family background and you still working in their family. Pandava family is one of the five great families and it is in top until last 11 years for nearly 3 hundred years, because of some unknow reasons it started to decline from the top of the five great families and they are close with kuboja family" said chanakya without a stop until interrupted by viki, as told to stop there.

"How many weeks has it been you in the town?"

"I had come out of the forest two days before"

"What, you had known all these only in two days in the town" asked sucharitha with shock.

Viki also shocked by it, he knows chanakya is smartest person in the group, but he is still underestimated his ways.

"Viki how many days has it been you in the town?"

"I had arrived in this town about 15-16 days ago"

"You have been in the town for fifteen days? how did you reached that early"

After that viki started to narrate how he had arrived and he did leaved a single detail of he is saved by sucharitha and was recruited by her grandfather and them being here to sell medicinal herbs.

After he heard about full story from viki, chanakya thanked sucharitha endlessly. Viki is special existence to all 8 kids. To the 8 kids, Viki is more precious their own life, so as viki, to him they are also same.

"Stop this thanking session and viki let's go and eat, I am dying from hungry" said sucharitha with pleading look as she knows that viki has just meet one of his friends and she didn't want interrupt their catch up but she can't help it as she is too hungry now.

"Okay, chanakya lets go and you tell me how escaped from the beast"

As they are moving towards the restaurant, chanakya started to narrate how he is able escape from the beast. As the blue light covered him the attack didn't fall on him and after that a woman formed from the blue light wielding a sword in her hand and cutting the beast into innumerable pieces, which is happened in fraction of second and the strange feeling in his heart and the final word before the light entered into his body. After that how he roamed in the forest and is only able to leave just before two days, he didn't leaved a single thing.

After that they had entered the restaurant and order the food. sucharitha is fully of happiness, because it is her first time eating in the restaurant. Viki and chanakya also enjoyed their meal, as they usually eat roasted meat of vegetable soups, without any spices. As they are eating viki asked chanakya about how to sell the high ranked herb. Chanakya told him about a place where the high ranked herbs are purchased and said he will lead him there. But he also said they only purchase goods the peoples who has membership and having a licence. If one doesn't have a licence, the price they get will be 60% of the market price only.

Viki suggested chanakya to take the test to get licence, as he is more knowledgeable than viki. It turns out chanakya also thought of taking the exam but he doesn't have a sufficient amount of money to take the exam. It turns out the fees for the exam is 1 bronze coin. Viki also doesn't get paid as there are 20 more days for him to complete a month, to get paid. Sucharitha is out of option as she doesn't carry that much money with her and if she asked her grandfather, it will be troublesome. So, they finally decided to sell herbs in the market and earn money for the test. It may take some days and at present they had 8 aluminium coins and they need 92 more to be able to pay for the exam.

After that they paid their bill and went to the shopping district and again started to sell herbs, but this time they selling the herbs collected by chanakya in his time in the forest. He had collected so many herbs, which counts to nearly thousand.

These herbs are also sold like hot onion pakodi(1). The total income they get is 25 aluminium coins and when they are added to previous ones, it will be equal to total of 33 and only 67 coins to reach their goal. But they were out of herbs. They waited to look for the one who buy the high ranked herbs. It took them two hours to sell three herbs and the income is 17 aluminium coins as the remaining coins to reach their goal has become 50. After that they waited for one hour and the sun started to sink into western horizon, so they closed their shop and started stroll in the market to look for the amusement. As they don't have any objective, they wandered aimlessly in the market place.

They did find so many strange things being sold in the market and even some peoples are selling stones also, but they seem to be in different colour and from the ones normally found on the road side. Viki and chanakya both brought some cloths, as viki only has two sets of cloths, those are pandava family's worker's uniform. But he also has clothes made by his mother, which are more high quality than the ones he brought in the market and there is quality gap of heaven and earth between these two, so he didn't wear them. Chanakya only has clothes given by sumithra to all the kids, when they are cultivating in the mountains. They both put their clothes in the universal bag and sucharitha didn't brought any clothes, as she has many in her room and now, they need to save money for Chanakya's test.

As they are strolling in the market, they entered a lowly dense area. Here there are only some weird things are selling. Some are selling sticks, some are ropes, which seems to be very old. They strolled along the way, but chanakya suddenly felt trembling in his body. As he felt trembling, he stopped there and looked around in confusion. He doesn't know why but he felt pain all over his body.

As viki and sucharitha find that chanakya is in not following them, they looked back and see a scene which caused them to shock beyond words.

What they seen is chanakya is having a pained look on his face and his body is covered in the green shades all around his body. He is controlling unimaginable amount of pain by gritting his teeth. The green shades are moving around his body, as if they have their own life. As the green shades are moving, chanakya felt like his bones are being dipped in the most powerful acid.