Chapter 55: Punishment of Stealing
"If I found the store owner, I would fucking kill him," Johnny said with a hint of anger.
Waiting for a criminal while being the army chief of a Kingdom was an insulting act for him. If someone other than the king had told him to do this, he would have slapped that person. He respected the king so much that he couldn't suggest against the order or even think of refusing it.
"Don't worry. We'll find the store owner. Even I want to kill that man. He had made us wait here for hours," Twinkle too agreed. She didn't want to come here, but her uncle, the current head of the Stiller family, forced her. But their motive was different before coming here. They wanted to rope the store owner into their family before they knew about the king summoning him, but now, they wanted to help Johnny and become even closer to the king.
They weren't the only ones who were irritated by the missing store owner. Many would come and go from the store regularly. Many presents in the crowd even thought of stealing the pills from the shelf, but they controlled themselves against it. It would bring an insult to their family in Kakot and other cities.
While everybody was chattering in the store while waiting for the store owner, there were sudden changes in the store. Suddenly stairs started appearing in the store. The sudden stairs stunned everybody. When they looked up at the source of the stairs, they found a locked room. Suddenly the door opened, and a man and a cat exited the room.
Everybody had shocked looks seeing the sudden situation. They never expected an invisible room in the store. Johnny had a bewildered look on his face. He was a peak Void Condensation expert, and he couldn't find a room and a man while being here for hours.
"You're the worst store owner. Who lets their store empty while being somewhere else?" Aakesh had only taken one step when suddenly someone complained to him. He ignored the complaint and expressionlessly went down the stairs.
"So, What do you want to buy?" He asked after returning while ignoring the look of shock on the crowd's faces.
"Move!" Johnny pushed away people standing in front of him and went to the front. "You need to come with me. His highness has summoned you," Johnny angrily announced.
"Why would I come with you if someone had summoned me. Tell your king to come here and meet me," Aakesh responded expressionlessly, making most people gape in disbelief.
"How dare you talk like that to our king?" Someone in the crowd glared at Aakesh after hearing him. He wanted to make a better look in front of the army chief as his reverence for the king was well known to everybody living in the Bisan Kingdom.
"So, do you want to buy anything?" Aakesh ignored Johnny and other reactions and instead asked the crowd standing in his store.
"You need to come with me. The king has summoned you," Johnny announced once again, but this time there was an authority in his voice and pressure released from him to force Aakesh to do what he said.
Aakesh was going to throw Johnny out when suddenly Lily resting on his head, whispered something to him. The next moment Aakesh smiled wryly, and suddenly his feet started moving forward.
"You should've already accepted the summon at the start. I wouldn't have to force you to move," Johnny scoffed, seeing his pressure work.
Johnny then left the store and made his way toward the royal place as Aakesh followed him expressionlessly. Everybody in the crowd only looked at him with pity at first, and then some gloated after remembering the tone he spoke.
"He left his store open once again," One of the men in the crowd murmured in disappointment. It was the same man who complained to Aakesh when he took his first step down the stairs.
Everybody then started leaving the store, but no one noticed a man, instead of going forward, was moving backward. He had decided to steal the pills when everybody left, and he would be alone. With one pill costing 25 inferior Primal stones, there would be something special.
As he expected, everybody left the store, and he became alone. "Finally! Everybody left," He murmured and made his way toward the shelf. He then gently touched the glass to see its hardness. "Good Lord!" He exclaimed in shock as he felt he was brushing against a rock.
He then took out a hammer from his ring and the next moment bombarded it on the glass. What he expected didn't happen. There wasn't even a dent on the glass. He was going to try to break it once again when he felt the world shaking in front of his eyes, and the next moment, he lost consciousness and fell to the ground.
"Where am I?" The man opened his eyes in an unfamiliar jungle and exclaimed in fear. He looked at himself only to see himself in his soul form.
"So, you tried to steal from the store," Suddenly, a hoarse voice echoed in the jungle. The sound sent chills to the man. He didn't have a body, yet he felt like standing in a cold area.
"Who are you, and why are you doing this to me?" The man said in a trembling voice. He could feel that he was going to die.
"Why did you try to steal?" The voice ignored the man's question and asked.
"I needed mone-. I wanted to sell it for myself and made some money," He lied at first, but then his mouth went out of his control, and started honestly speaking the next moment.
"Which punishment do you think would be sufficient for your crime?" The voice asked another question.
The man at first wanted to speak "Nothing", but his lips didn't move and automatically "Death" came out of them.
"Good!" The voice exclaimed in joy, and the man lost his life the next moment as someone swallowed his soul form.
"Disgusting!" The voice then disgustingly threw up the soul form as it tasted disgusting. The more sins the man did in real life, the worse the taste of the soul will become.. The owner of the voice only once looked at the soul and then disappeared from the jungle.