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Chapter 4 - Chapter 3- Progression

Nitish seemed concern about Shringar's mental health and Shringar noticed that fact. But she could not help it, and think about Sanskar's connection with "Enigma" because Shringar got to remember about her father's conversation about "Enigma" to some mysterious person from Sanskar's narration. Shringar suddenly got a message from an unknown number. The message says, "I apologize to disturb you like this but I know your father Abhigyan Das and I know your family as well. I need to talk about your father with you personally that is why I texted you like this. But I can not tell you in the phone. Meet me in Tingle coffee shop, at 5:00pm, and please do not give this information to anybody. - Officer Prakash.

"I see…." Shringar said to herself. Her thought process started, "Officer Rani asked most of the questions when she came with Officer Prakash. She did not really give time to Officer Prakash even though they were in the same position. At least that is what it seemed by the number of stars on their shoulders. But since officer Prakash wants to talk about my family personally like this, so that means this is something that he could not have done in front of everyone. But the only matter is… will this be okay? I do not have any sort of memory. So how can I possibly analyze the situation….? But this will be a good opportunity to know about my past. Nitish does not like it because it will be harmful for my mind. But I would like to take some risk." 

All the cars seemed to be running fast. "I think Tingle Coffee shop is good." "Yes even though it is new here." Said two random customers. Shringar seemed to be looking at the traffic sitting on one of the outside benches and drinking the free water given by the waiter. "I came here 15 minutes earlier than the designated time." Shringar thought to herself. After sometimes she noticed a blue colored car going towards the parking lot. "Tingle Coffee is a new shop and it does not get much customers yet. Cars seems rare and it is exactly 5:00pm. That is definitely Officer Prakash." Shringar said. Officer Prakash started approaching Shringar. He was wearing a gray shirt and brown pants since he is off duty at this moment. Shringar noticed and started thinking, "If a person would judge another person only by their looks then I can describe that Officer Prakash has the face of a water lily or you can say he looks as beautiful as any pretty or sweet flower you can think of. I can say he is more of a beautiful person than handsome. But he always wears a frustrated, angry and serious look on his face, which might make him a bit intimidating. Though I never judge a person's whole personality by their looks. So I will carefully see what officer has to say to me. I guess life does give hard times which can turn any kind of person into the serious side." Officer Prakash sat in front of Shringar and started speaking in his usual calm tone, "Shringar thank you for coming here. I really appreciate it. Since you already read my message so you know a summary of what I here to talk to you about. I know you might not believe me since you do not have any memory of your family. But there is nothing else I can do about it for now. But I will definitely try to explain to you." "Do not worry about it Officer Prakash. For now I would like to listen to what you have to say to me."

"Okay." Officer Prakash sighed. "Mr. Abhigyan Das was a good man. He saved me once. So we became good acquaintances. Even I heard about this "Enigma" from him but I did not really pay much attention to it, because it was their personal matter. But I could guess that they were using this word as a code name for something." "They?" Shringar interjected. "Yes, they means your father, mother and their three friends who traveled somewhere together. They started talking about "Enigma" after coming back from their journey only. At first I myself wanted to know about it but later I left the matter as it is. I suspect "Enigma" to be "Swara".

 "Swara!? Really?" Shringar asked. Officer Prakash answered, "Yes, because "Swara" was discovered eight to ten years ago by six Indian travelers who never exposed their identity to the public. And they went on the journey ten years ago. Swara is also known as the Enigmatic energy. That is why I suspect it. But if this Enigma has something to do with the recent series of murders then we need to investigate it. But Officer Rani did not agree with me. So I have sent a request to Chief Varnika." "But will she accept?" Shringar questioned. "I suppose so, because Chief Varnika lost her husband. He was also murdered by one of those ultra violet costume guys." "I see" Shringar said. "The truth is I am here to tell you that I would like to help you know everything about this case whenever you need any sort of information related to it. This morning I was at miss Dorothy's place with Officer Rani for questioning about her situation. Their I met miss Elina who told me about you, and your determination to know about the culprit. So I will tell you."

Shringar thought for a bit and asked, "Why do you want to help me? I figured most of the information are confidential." Officer Prakash said, "Yes, and that is why I don't want you to tell anyone that I'm going to give you information related to this case. And I want to help you because I told you before remember? Your father saved me once, so I owe him my life but unfortunately he died." Shringar mentioned, " But still we have to be a bit careful because Nitish told me not to trigger my memories." Officer Prakash looked at Shringar and said, " Oh dr. Nitish? To be honest I think he should become a model instead of continuing his life as a medico, due to his physic. But do not worry I will try not to cause trouble. So should we actually consult with him about it? But If we do then he will definitely tell this to officer Rani as he is her friend. And she always try's to catch my tail." Shringar demanded, " No do not worry. I would like to take this risk, and for starters I would like to meet miss Dorothy because Elena told me a lot about her even she gave me a message this morning about how you talked about me to Dorothy's mother." Officer Prakash asked interrupted, "This is at your risk then Shringar. Be careful. First I would like to know where did you actually meet miss Elina because she's not from your school as per I remember." " Yes I met her in the free counseling session Devki Psychiatry Institution." Officer Prakash said, "I will take you to Miss. Dorothy. Her house is not much far away from this café shall we go now?" Shringar nodded and they started walking. Officer Prakash said, " The first person who died was prof. Laksh Adhikari who was a history professor. He was killed around eight years ago but that case got dumped. Later the next case started last year with Chief's husband. We are still not sure why it all started out of the blue after so many years." Shringar was thinking about the surname, "Adhikari". So she said, "Do you know officer Prakash that another friend of mine from the free counseling session had to go through a similar thing and he was the first person who told me about the code name enigma which his father used to talk about when he was alive so I think you're talking about his father only…" Officer Prakash said, "You are talking about Sanskar Adhikari?" "Bingo. Well nothing serious because I should have just say it straight Because he told me about this incident of his father and the murderer and stuffs so I actually wanted to tell you about Sanskar before but I didn't know how to start and just….. I just did not know how to begin with it." Officer Prakash said, "We will open Mr. Adhikari's case as well. Since it is in a different police station so it will take a bit of time." While walking Officer Prakash noticed Dorothy coming towards them. Dorothy said, "Hello Officer Prakash. Are you off duty at this moment?" Shringar noticed that Dorothy looks exactly like a foreigner with brown hair and brown eyes. But we know she is an Indian. She is wearing a long sleeved long frock. And she always has he worried look on her face. " Yes. Miss Dorothy, this is Miss Shringar Das whom I mentioned about during your testimony this morning." Dorothy held my hands and said, "I really needed to meet you and wanted to discuss about the case. With you and Sanskar. Can I come to your house tomorrow with Elina and Sanskar. This is really important. I can not discuss here." Shringar nodded and said, "Even I also wanted to discuss about it with you Dorothy." Suddenly two boys approached us. "Shringar?" The three of them looked towards the direction of their voice. Dorothy said, "Lalit?"

Lalit asked, "Both of you know each other?" Shringar asked, "Sorry Lalit I don't know you." Lalit and the other guy said, " I am Lalit Roy, we all know that you lost your memories." The other guy said, "I am Gaurav Das. We are both your classmates." Dorothy said, "I did not have the pleasure of meeting Gaurav but Lalit took me to the hospital that night of nightmares." Shringar said, "Fine. I will be joining school this week we will meet then. I should go back home now." They agreed. But Officer Prakash warned, "Be careful not to trigger Shringar's memories with your discussion. It might cause her mental health issues." Shringar noticed his concern and swapped her phone number with Dorothy, then left. Officer Prakash said, "Let me give you a lift." Shringar nodded.

While silently walking back to the Tingle Coffee they noticed a small pandel. "I don't think there is any festival around." Shringar said. Officer Prakash replied, " Yes seems like something else is going on inside." Shringar asked, "Interested to know?" Officer Prakash said, "Yes…. I guess perks of being a police." Both of them started walking towards it. Shringar notices a lot of people around. When they entered the pandel, they noticed a pretty small chandelier hanging on above. Shringar noticed officer Prakash going to ask about the event. Shringar started looking around. She tends to push herself to remember her past and at the moment she is doing the same. That definitely makes her tired. It felt like she got reborn with the continuation of her previous life. Suddenly she saw a man wearing an ultra violet colored dress. She got a little scared but noticed that he was not wearing any mask as per the testimonies. But still the man did not look normal to her, so she planned on informing it to Officer Prakash.

Then officer Prakash came back and told her that the Pandel is for giving sweets to the public due to the inauguration of an orphanage called, "Devki's Bright Children". Officer Prakash even bought two boxes of sweets and gave one to Shringar. When Shringar tried to inform about the strange man to him, the sound of screams emerged through the sound of crowd. They saw a man got injured due to that ultra violet dressed man attacking on him with a knife. He said, "VeilTus betrayed me….. Betrayed…." Everyone seemed to be scared and Officer Prakash realized that the man lost his ground to reality. He immediately needs to be put in an asylum. Suddenly the man got a call from behind, "HEY YOU! WHY BOTHERING THE WEAK? COME AT ME!" When everyone looked in the direction of the voice. They saw a woman of around her late 20s wearing black heels, blue jeans, pink top and white shirt on it with open buttons, pink glasses, and hair bun with two huge locks in both sides. "That is Assistant Inspector Puja...." Said Officer Prakash who took few seconds to recognize her. "You know her?"

"Yes, she recently joined our force. She is a very clumsy woman with unreasonable amount of enthusiasm. But evidently strong. She even proved to be the strongest in our force. But this is the first time I have seen her in a casual dress up, that is why it took a while to realize that its her. But no wonder, such a reckless action, asking for a fight? Where she could have just draw her gun and force him to stop. For god sake he has a knife." Officer Prakash said with a bit irritation. The mysterious man ran at her without any hesitation and drew the knife towards her but swiftly she dodged the blow and gave a huge punch under his chin. He almost fell and screamed in pain. He tried to maintain balance and without giving him a second she kicked him on his abdomen and made him fall. But then he ran towards the crowd and hold child as a hostage. That is when Assistant Inspector Puja took out her revolver and pointed towards him, "This is police, lower your knife and surrender." Officer Prakash angrily said, "I am stupid enough to leave it to her expecting her to do something better." Shringar murmured, "Perfect." Officer Prakash looked at her with pure disbelief, " What are you talking about?" Shringar asked, "Officer, do you have your revolver?" Officer Prakash nodded realizing Shringar was upto something. "And do you have a silencer?" He said, "Yes, what about it?" Shringar said, "I have an idea. I have been looking evidently at their position. And waited for this moment." Officer Prakash looked back at them but could understand, the only thing he could see is the child crying his lungs out while the man screaming, "YOU ALL ARE TRAITORS!!" Shringar said, "Look above Officer." Officer Prakash realized what she meant and slowly made his move towards the side. Assistant Inspector Puja seemed to realize that this man is nowhere sane but still tried to threaten him, "I will shoot you if you don't stop this nonsense. The man started laughing while looking up and then the small chandelier fell on him. Since the Chandelier was small it did not really harm him much but instead the got out of him arms and ran towards his mother unharmed. The Chandelier worked as a distraction and Puja shot him in his leg to make him fall. But Assistant Inspector Puja and Officer Prakash drew their revolvers towards him and arrested him. He thanked Shringar. Assistant Inspector Puja asked, "You could have shoot him in his leg if you were hidden in the crowd." "No, if I was to do that, there was a possibility where he could have gripped on to the child stronger and kill him."

Assistant Inspector Puja smiled and said cheerfully, "How lucky we are that the chandelier fell on its own." Officer Prakash interjected, "No, it was not pure luck, but a mixture of luck and intelligence. Intelligence of Shringar." Assistant Inspector Puja shrieked, "WHAT!?" Officer Prakash nodded, "Yes, she was the one to ask me to shoot on the rope which was used to hang the chandelier on top, when the perfect timing came."

He walked towards her and said, "Shringar I am sorry but I can not give you lift today, we have to take care of this man." She smiled, "It is alright, I should go now." She went home alone.

While walking home the only thing that rang to her mind was, "What is VeilTus…?"