Om constantly looked at the hole in the sky with hopeful eyes. He looked until his eyes were tearful. But soon, he realized something. The hole in the sky was gradually getting smaller and smaller as if it was regenerating itself. From where Om was standing, the hole looked small. But in reality, it was quite big so, even if it seemed that it was closing up quite quickly, it would still take a little time to completely close up.
But still, seeing that the hole was gradually getting smaller and smaller, Om realized that his plan was completely doomed. Even with the Lucky Candy, he couldn't summon the God of Death. Now, Saksham couldn't be revived. Now, a family was going to be ruined. Now…He would be a murderer. But one last time, Om once again looked up in the hopes to see a miracle happen. But the only thing he saw was that the hole in the deep blue sky was gradually getting smaller and smaller until it almost disappeared.
Om saw this and drooped his head down. Countless emotions flashed in his heart. And one of them was even…relief? Om felt this and suddenly realized something about himself. Since the time when Saksham had an accident, he had been constantly searching for a person and a reason to blame all his faults and mistakes on. When Saksham sacrificed himself to save him, he completely blamed the drunk driver.
Then, when he realized that Saksham was still alive so he took him to the AIMMS hospital instead of anywhere near, he was subconsciously thinking that if Saksham died in the way to the hospital, he would then comfort himself by telling that he wanted Saksham to have a better chance at surviving and that's why he took him there.
And now that Saksham died and his family was also going to be ruined, Om thought about using all his [Lucky Spins] to save him even though he somewhere believed that it was impossible. At the time when all his tries failed, he would once again comfort himself by saying that he did his best.
Although all this was definitely not his intentions, and only subconsciously hiding away from the guilt and responsibility, but this made Om feel disgusted with himself. And now that all his inner feelings had been exposed to himself, he firmly shook his head and made up his mind to finally bravely face the reality, his responsibility, and the guilt that he had been hiding from. Now, he would not make any excuse to himself that he had done his best so he couldn't save Saksham. Now, he would accept that Saksham's death was his own fault. It was his own fault since the beginning.
After thinking till here, it was as if a heavy weight had been lifted off his chest and shoulders. His breathing felt a lot easier. His slightly bent back also straightened up a lot. His constantly tensed nerves also eased up. Om knew that he was responsible for all this and he had to face it. So, why not just face it directly than running away from it.
Om clenched his fists as he breathed in deeply as turned back and started walking back towards the terrace door. When he reached the door, Om turned around to look at the sky one last time. He wanted to look at the place where the black rose petals had torn up a hole. Once he looked up into the sky, he was shocked to find that actually, the hole had not completely closed up. It was as if something was forcefully stopping the hole to recover back to its original position.
Om squinted his eyes to look at the sky and get a clear picture of actually what was going on there. After a moment, suddenly, Om's body shuddered as his mouth went wide agape. He saw a pair of skinny black hands with long and sharp black nails, were actually stopping the hole from shrinking.
Suddenly, the hands started stretching the hole to make it bigger. Om saw the hole get bigger and bigger until it surpassed the size it had previously been opened. This expansion of the hole cracked the void around it a little.
But, at this moment, the hole suddenly stopped stretching as if it had reached its limit. But it seemed that this much width was not enough to satisfy the person inside the dark and endless void. It once again gripped the edges of the opened void and once again pushed and suddenly,
BOOM!!
The void once again cracked, this time with a very load *boom*. The boom was so loud the all the birds sitting in the area of around a kilometer panicked and started flying here and there in fear. But this time too, no human was able to hear this noise.
Now, looking at the hole in the sky once again, it had been stretched to a whole new level. And due to forcefully widening the gap in the sky, the void around the hole had also been cracked like a mirror.
And, as if angry at the forceful entry of this person in the mortal world, the clear blue sky changed instantly.
The beautiful white clouds hid somewhere as dark and gloomy clouds took their places. The whole sky darkened and became very gloomy as the sun hid behind the clouds. The temperature of the air also dropped down quite a bit. Cold, freezing air started blowing strongly. Soon, these winds transformed into the storm. The clouds also started roaring thunderously. The thunder and lightning flashed in the sky with such ferocity and feverishly that Om had ever seen in his life. The thunder and lightning struck at the void continuously, as if trying to stop whatever was inside the void from taking a step in the mortal world.
After seeing such a scene, Om was dumbfounded. He didn't think that he would be able to see such a scene in his entire lifetime. If even half of that thunder touched his body, then he would definitely vaporize into nothingness right then and there.
But it seemed that even the thunder and lightning was not enough to stop it as, at this moment, Om saw the two hands which had opened the hole in the sky, slowly coming out of that hole. First came its hands, and then came the legs, and then the entire body.
Looking at the person that came out of the giant void in the sky, the hair on Om's back seemed to have exploded with coldness as his legs started trembling. All the hairs on his body were erect right now, even the hair in between his thighs (don't ask me how). As he saw the face of the one who came out of the void, Om felt that there was something very familiar about him. Om had actually seen him somewhere but couldn't remember where.
After a moment of contemplation, a bulb suddenly lit up in his head as he remembered where he had seen him before. And as he realized who it was Om couldn't help but blurt out, "Ry…Ryuk?!!"