Chapter Fifty Five: Dark Matter Particle

Time is a great healer and a great killer.

Anyone wasting time suffers a lot.

Wahid Bhat

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"Have you seen it? Have you identified which ring was it?"

"I think I do not. I was blinded by the light."

"Liar! I know that you were able to identify the ring that I was looking for. I can see it in your eyes. You cannot keep things from me. I can read your mind like a book!"

"You may be the Prince of Darkness as you have repeatedly claimed to be, but a Dark Master like myself is a subordinate to none."

"And where is this audacious disrespect is coming from? You are nothing but full of shameful tricks. I can kill you in an instant if I took it upon myself. Now, you can tell me who is wearing this particular ring, or I will put you to death at once. Tell me."

"As I have stated just moments ago, I do not know and I do not care. And I am not afraid of you. I have mastered the darkness enough to be anything but afraid. You will have to search for that particular ring yourself."

"I see. How clever. But you will be afraid of the light now, isn't it?"

"Maybe. But I am totally willing to be slaughtered by the light, if that's what it takes to liberate some of these oppressed souls, in order to get away from the evil clutches of your self-proclaimed principality. I neither fear you nor respect you. I am simply under your power. For now, but not for good."

"Then I will have to kill you in the most brutal way. That would be my honor until you plead to be spared. I can definitely do that."

"You may succeed in inflicting this horrible fate upon me, Dark Prince, and mind you, I am no longer afraid of the excruciating pain of shame if the light will be directed to deliberately harm me. Even if you punish me for my skills as a manipulator of darkness after that painful contravention, you still have lost your cause. You will never arrive at the right person where you can confiscate this ring from. You only have three attempts, I am reminding you, and nothing much else."

"Are you threatening me with your silly tricks, dear Magician?"

"Not at all. Great Prince."

"Both of us know how your own kind's magic have aided the power of the Occult. You will be put to unimaginable shame in the most brutal manner possible if such thing be exposed for everyone to condemn."

"That is probably so. However, I am no longer afraid of the light as much as you do. I have freed myself long time ago in deciding to let go, and let the collective fate be done by its own accord. If the truth will destroy me, then so be it. I will cordially go back to the cosmos as a substance of dark matter. This life has been both good and bad to me. On both counts, the feeling of being alive and being dead was the same. But now, I must oblige to return. Destiny is calling."

"I admire your courage, silly Dark Master as you are. But a heroic deed will profit not the dead. You are a fool to believe in this uncomfortable truth, when a little lie will be enough to sustain the existence of your very own perspective."

"I feel safe for now. You cannot just murder me. You still need me to locate the ring. That is all what matters."

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