“It’s a part of the plan. That was John’s ultimate act of sacrifice for their plan to work. They want you Ansh. They want to use you to get rid of us, because they know they can’t do anything as long as I am alive. And as far as why they would kill Rishi, is the answer to everything that is haunting you, and me as well.” Duryan paused to light a beedi and took a long drag, blowing smoke as it swirled against the picturesque night sky. He resumed talking in his grave voice “After you went to prison, something strange happened. Our faction crumbled, Karthik switched sides. Mulab abandoned us as well and the cops started hunting us like stray dogs. Yuthiraja became the most powerful one in Shahr, just like that. We were destroyed. I was still working with the lower rungs then, trying to shape up the gang from the root. Jhanji’s fear was gone. It was your brother, Rishi, who had the courage to take them on. I tried to dissuade your brother from that, but he wouldn’t listen. Maybe it runs in the family; the stubborn attitude. Years before he told me that something was strange with those guys. That maybe they were up to something big or hiding something hideous. He became obsessed with that conspiracy theory of his. He kept pushing himself to get to know what was it that they were working on. Earlier that night when he was killed, he had called me and he sounded scared, really scared.”
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