Fear

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PIC Peter Herrmann

Shiuli is sitting in a corner of the room, huddled in fear. Zakir Sahib is such a bad person. Worse than she imagined. Zakir Sahib has brought Sahida Begum’s big finger cut off for Shiuli in a gift box. Seeing which, Shiuli is terrified. The courage that was born in her heart dies. She can’t go to the police station anymore. Zakir Sahib didn’t just stop doing all this, he held the phone to his ear and made Shiuli hear the pain of the untreated Sahida Begum. As a result, Shiuli apologizes to Zakir Sahib for everything. She requests him to treat Sahida Begum. Zakir Sahib agrees, but in return, Shiuli will always have to obey his conditions. Shiuli is forced to listen to everything.

The lives of women who are raped in this society are very pitiful. Their lives are plunged into darkness through an incident. The same happened in Shiuli’s life. However, at that time, Shiuli dreamed of coming out of the darkness, relying on Zakir Sahib’s perfect acting. Shiuli was young. That’s why she didn’t understand that in this society, Shiulis, once tarnished, cannot bloom as beautiful flowers a second time. That’s why Shiuli had to pay the ultimate price for seeing a mirage-like dream.

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Three years passed. In these three years, Zakir Sahib achieved his various tasks through Shiuli. For three years, Shiuli’s body and mind became corrupted. She lost the interest in living in life. During this time, she tried to commit suicide several times. But she couldn’t. She was caught by Zakir Sahib. As a result, her mother Shahida Begum’s severed hand and toe came to her. She tried to go to the police three times, but she couldn’t. Zakir Sahib’s people kept an eye on her. That’s why she was always trapped. For which Shahida Begum paid the price. That’s why Shiuli gave up all hope. She accepted this life of hers. In a life where she didn’t even have the right to die in her own peace.

Shiuli has accepted everything. She is not trying to do anything bad anymore. She is not showing courage. Seeing all this, Zakir Sahib feels relieved. For which he reduces his surveillance on Shiuli. This is where Shiuli gets an opportunity. So far, he has tried many times to find the place where Shahida Begum is kept. Finally, today he got that opportunity. Shiuli follows Zakir Sahib and reaches Shahida Begum.

Shiuli follows Zakir Sahib very carefully and comes in front of a house. Zakir Sahib enters inside and closes the door. Shiuli was looking for a window around the house, through which the situation inside can be understood. Today, his luck has been with him. So he finds a window. But he was not ready to see what he sees through the gap in the window. He looks inside and puts his hand on his chest or side. Shahida Begum is in front of his eyes. Seeing the situation, his ears rang with the words of Sahida Begum, “Leave my daughter. You kill me. If you want to do business, then do it with my body. Leave my little gold.”

Chayan and his team went to the location mentioned by Diya. They approached Shafayet’s house and tried to understand the situation inside. Unable to understand anything, they broke the door and entered. But there was no one inside. They were all surprised. They looked at each room one by one. After a while, when they opened the door of one room, a skeleton fell on Chayan’s body. Chayan was a little scared at first. Later, he controlled himself and saw the room. There were several skeletons inside. On whose body was a paper. Where it was written, “My Shiuli.”

Chayan was observing the room carefully, at that time, a sound came from below. Chayan came out. He saw a carpet bed on the floor of a room in front, which was a little messy. Chayan noticed that the sound was better heard from this room. The sound was mainly of fighting. Chayan immediately removed the carpet. He sees the stairs leading to the secret room under the carpet. He goes down very carefully. The rest of his team follows him. Everyone, including Chayan, slowly moves forward. Chayan stops after a while. He is surprised. He sees Diya lying on the floor and Shafayet approaches him with a surgical knife. Shafayet says, “Shiuli? Shiuli?”

Chayan pointed the gun at Shafayet from behind and said, “Stop there, Shafayet.”

Shafayet turned and looked at Chayan. Chayan had been watching Shafayet from behind all this time. Chayan was shocked as Shafayet turned. His entire face was covered in bright red blood. It was clear that he had been drinking blood. Shafayet looked at him in that state and smiled and said, “The taste of blood is very sweet. The taste of blood from each group is different. Will you eat it or not, officer?”

Saying this, Shafayet held the surgical knife to Dia’s throat. Everyone, including Chayan, was shocked. When they started moving forward, Shafayet said, “Absolutely not. If you take one step forward, I will kill him.”

Chayan told her to calm down. He tried to explain that it was his mental problem. But Shafayet didn’t listen. In exchange for letting Dia go, he asked everyone, including Chayan, to drop their guns and tie themselves up. When they did not listen to Shafayet’s words, he held the knife to Diya’s throat. At one point, it seemed like he was going to hit her. As a result, Chayan was forced to shoot Shafayet. Which hit Shafayet in the chest. In the middle of the moment, Shafayet fell to the floor. Chayan came and caught Diya. The others caught Shafayet and Bazlu. Although Bazlu was not alive. Shafayet had already killed him.

After a while,
Diya regained consciousness. Chayan first asked her, “How are you feeling now?”

Diya did not answer. She thought about the incident that had happened to her a while ago. She said in a frightened voice, “Shafayet, sir?”

“Dead.”

Hearing Chayan’s words, Diya felt a little bad. Even though Shafayet was her sir, she was not ready to see the form of Shafayet that she saw today. Slowly, Diya told Chayan everything. At that time, Shafayet took Diya’s hand and brought her home. She tried to get close to Diya. And said, “My Shiuli. You are coming back.”

When Diya introduced herself as not Shiuli, Shafayet got angry. She took Shiuli and came to Bazlu. In front of her eyes, she cut Bazlu into pieces. And said, “I am doing so much for you and you say you are not Shiuli. Look, Shiuli, I have killed them for you. I have killed all those who have hurt you.”

Unable to bear all this before her eyes, Diya lost consciousness. Hearing all this from Diya’s face, and seeing the writing on the skeleton’s body in the room, Chayan realized that Shafayet was Shiuli’s lover. But! Chayan said in a worried voice, “The accounts don’t add up. Shafayet loves Shiuli. Her lover. How is that possible?”

“Why isn’t it possible?”

Dia, not understanding, asks. Choyan tells her, “Shafayet is 40+, while Shiuli is 23 or 24 now.”

“What?”

Dia is quite surprised. Then she says, “Shiuli is younger than me. I am only twenty-five. Shafayet sir is with her.”

“I don’t know. I haven’t seen any pictures of Shiuli growing up. However, she was very mean to her when she was twelve. I saw the news of that time, and looking at her period, I thought she would be 23/24. I’m just wondering what the girl is up to in life? She was hunted by animals at the age of twelve, then murdered at the age of eighteen. Someone from our administration was involved in that murder. I am very interested in knowing the story of the girl’s tragic life. But no one knows Shiuli through whom I can find out. Her family has been missing since then. I just want to know, at what stage of life did Shafayet meet this girl.”

Chayan paused and said again, “Shafayet also died because of my mistake. Otherwise, everything would have been known from him.”

Seeing Chayan’s regret, Diya asked, “Then why did you kill him?”

Sajal heard this. She immediately replied, “Sir, if you hadn’t done this, you wouldn’t have been saved.”

Diya was a little surprised to hear this. She looked into Chayan’s eyes with unblinking eyes. At that moment, Chayan’s phone rang. She picked up the phone to say ‘hello’, not at all prepared to hear what was being said from the other side. The other side said, “The serial killer has killed another person and dumped the body.”

Chayan’s world turned upside down. They had just killed the serial killer Shafayet, so how could a serial killer commit this murder?

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