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Chapter 19 - “Replay of Truths”

"Thank you, sir, for your help."

"No mention."

Inspector Akhil continues his investigation.

But so far, he hasn't found anything that could help him reach the killer.

Meanwhile, when Ravi gets tired of searching for a way out, he finally accepts that this is how his entire life will pass.

He sits on the bed, turns on the TV, and starts eating while watching it.

But while watching, he notices something strange…

All the episodes playing on the TV are in repeated form.

Every scene is being replayed again and again.

At first, he ignores it, thinking it's just a coincidence.

But when it keeps happening with every episode, he loses control.

In frustration, he throws the glass in his hand at the TV, shattering it into pieces.

As soon as the TV breaks, the entire environment starts changing in a bizarre way.

He begins to smell something burning, hears a strange and unbearable sound in his ears,

the lights start flickering, and the room becomes extremely hot.

Unable to tolerate it, Ravi panics and starts hitting his head against the wall.

As a result, his head gets badly injured.

Within moments, his eyes begin to close, and he slowly loses consciousness.

On the other side, seeing Vikash fills Alka with an unknown anger.

In her mind, she even starts imagining ways to kill him.

Just then, Vijay arrives and says to the others,

"Guys, if you're done talking to Alka, please step outside. She needs to take her medicine. But before that…"

He places hot chole and puri (food) in front of her.

"Alka needs to eat this first."

Alka smiles slightly on seeing Vijay, and he smiles back warmly.

At Vijay's request, all the friends leave the room, leaving them alone.

"Thanks, Vijay, for taking such good care of me."

"How could I not take care of you?

In fact, if you want, I'm ready to take this responsibility for a lifetime."

"Vijay, you again…"

"Sorry."

"By the way, do you know who kidnapped me?

And how did you find our location?"

"No, I still don't know who it was. But don't worry, I'll find out soon.

As for your location, the kidnapper called me.

I tracked his last location and saved you."

"Can you give me that number?"

"Yes, of course."

Vijay sends the number to Alka on WhatsApp.

After giving her medicine, he leaves.

After he leaves, Alka asks the doctor,

"Sir, if you don't mind, can I use your laptop for a while?

I need to send an urgent email, otherwise I'll suffer a huge loss."

After thinking for a moment, the doctor agrees and gives her the laptop.

Once she gets it, Alka uses her own software to hack the number and extracts all the information about that SIM card.

She finds details about the owner and every call made from it.

As soon as she checks the call history, her suspicion turns into certainty—

Everything that happened to her was done by Vikash.

But she still doesn't understand why he did it.

"Did he find out everything about me?

No… if he had, he would've told everyone—especially Vijay.

Then why did he do this?

Did I ever do anything to him?"

"Not yet… but maybe now I will have to."

"He shouldn't have messed with me.

But it's okay… now that he has…"

"It's okay."

Alka smiles to herself.

After that, she carefully deletes all her activities from the laptop and returns it safely to the doctor.

Meanwhile, Ravi regains consciousness.

It's night, but he has no idea about the outside world.

When he looks around, he is shocked.

"How… how is this possible!?

Everything was scattered… then how…?"

In reality, everything is exactly the same as it was before he turned on the TV—

perfectly arranged.

Nothing is out of place.

The TV is completely intact.

Vijay brings Alka to Anam's house.

Sitting beside her, he gently says,

"Alka, you should go back home.

Staying with me could be dangerous for your life.

I don't want what happened today to repeat.

Please… go home."

Alka listens calmly and replies,

"Okay, Vijay, if that's what you want, I'll go home.

But there's no guarantee that we'll be safe there either.

Here, at least you were there to save me.

But there… something might happen and you may not even know."

"But still… it's okay.

I'll leave tomorrow morning.

Okay?

Good night."

She goes to her bed.

But hearing this, Vijay starts thinking deeply,

"No… sending Alka home like this might not be right…"

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