Chapter 63: Aakesh and Punta
"Who are you?" Aakesh asked Punta with his face pale.
"What are you doing here?" Punta ignored his question and instead asked another.
"Why should I tell you?" Aakesh responded with a cautious expression on his face.
"You aren't the one I fought before losing consciousness, Wait are you his friend," Aakesh's face turned paler as he took two steps back and shouted at him.
"I would not let you hurt me like your friend did," The next moment, his face turned crazy as he shouted and rushed at Punta.
Punta was taken aback by the sudden turnaround. Before he could say something, Aakesh reached him and punched him. Punta was shocked to see the movement and weight of the punch.
He was already injured due to the fight with the stranger, but still, he was a peak Void Forging expert, so the opponent had to be at least Void Forging to hurt him. But, the next moment, he was stunned as he couldn't dodge the punch and hit him on his face.
"Aagh!" A painful groan escaped his mouth as the force of the punch threw him backward. He flew to the wall and landed with a crashing sound.
"Ugh, PLEASE STOP!" Punta shouted to stop him even before checking the injuries he received. He underestimated the man's power and got a hard crash in response to that. His injuries turned worse as a result.
"Why should I stop? So that you can backstab me?" Aakesh acted like an innocent person and rushed again toward Punta.
"Please stop! I am not his friend. I am the last king. I-"
Punta declared, but his words came to a halt with a sudden crash. He then looked at the man who had just punched him a moment ago, lying on the ground.
"You should've told this first," Aakesh stood up while brushing dust from his body.
"Now that you know my identity introduce yourself and tell me what were you doing here?" Punta asked after taking a deep breath.
"Hello, king, I am Aakesh, an ordinary store owner who opened his store just two days ago. I was here because the king summoned me here," Aakesh, in a single breath, introduced himself and told the reason for him being here.
"You and ordinary!" Punta scoffed. He was still not able to stand up after the crash he had due to him.
"Yes, king, I am an ordinary store owner," Aakesh responded as if he didn't understand the sarcasm in Punta's words.
"Leave it! Tell me, why did my son summon you?" Punta didn't want to argue with Aakesh, so he asked another question.
An awkward expression appeared on Aakesh's face after Punta asked this question. "Tell me you don't need to worry. You won't be charged for any crimes," Punta declared after seeing the awkward look on Aakesh's face.
The awkward expression in no time turned into a laughing one as he said while laughing out loud, "Oh, I killed the son of the Prime minister, and when he sent some guards to kill me, I killed all of them."
A dumbfounded expression appeared on Punta's face after hearing the crime of the man. "Damn it! I shouldn't have pardoned the crimes," He thought in his heart, as killing more than one person was a crime punishable by death. But as he had given his word, he couldn't go back on it and punish the man for it.
"Oh well, the Prime minister is already de-" He was thinking in his heart when the scene of his son's corpse appeared in his mind.
"Did you know why the man killed my son?" His face turned expressionless as he asked Aakesh.
"Yes," Aakesh smilingly nodded, feeling happy for pardoning his crimes.
"Tell me!" Punta asked with a hurried expression on his face.
"When I arrived here after the king summon. He arrested me for killing hundreds of citizens belonging to his rule," Aakesh started telling the story. "Since I'm so strong," He added while showing off his muscles.
"The king had to call hundreds of guards to arrest me in fear of me attacking the guards. But when the guards were leaving after arresting me, suddenly a man engulfed in dark appeared right at the front of the Prime minister," He continued the story. "The man asked the Prime minister, 'Where is it?' After the Prime minister heard the question, he acted like he had no idea of what the man was talking about, but I clearly saw the change in his expressions," Aakesh added.
"The man and the Prime minister argued for a long time. The king watched everything happening in silence, but suddenly the Prime minister turned around and asked the king for help."
"The king, being a good person, interfered between the man and the Prime minister, but unfortunately, the man turned out to be a powerful person and killed the king in a single strike. After that, all of us acted to kill the attacker, but the man was too powerful for us to defeat them," He added. "Only I and the king's uncle were able to fight the man. The Prime minister tried to run, but the man found him and killed him. In the battle, I lost consciousness, so I don't know what happened after that," He concluded while pointing at his muscles to show how strong he is to survive after fighting with the man.
Punta had no mood to get amused by Aakesh's antics. "Damn him!" He cursed out loud and punched the ground in anger, resulting in the entire royal palace shaking.
The entire royal palace was empty, right now as when Pinto took out the sword, the people present in the palace were the first to take the brunt due to the pressure emitted by it. So nobody came when the entire royal palace shook after Punta's punch.
"Hey, king, I'm leaving," While Punta was grieving his son's death, suddenly Aakesh announced.
"Okay, I'll come to your store whenever I get some time," Punta responded, while his face had a tragic expression. Aakesh nodded and left the throne room right away.. After leaving the room, he warped and appeared directly in the store.