A Crazy Love - S02 E105

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A Crazy Love - S02 E105

Read Story: SEASON 2 EPISODE 105

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“Okay. But from your statements, grandpa holds a lot of power within the Imperial Nation. Which means a lot of people to protect them as well. How am I supposed to kill him and yet escape?” Markus asked the main point.

“There is a secret tunnel beneath room no.4 for bodyguards. It ends up in the backyard of that grandpa’s mansion. After that it’s your decision on how you tackle the guards and kill grandpa. But I had a suggestion for that as well.” The old man replied.

“And what suggestion is it? Let me hear it.” Markus replied.

“Fortunately the window to the living room faces the backyard. If you manage to get inside, there is a main switch present in the room adjacent to it. You can turn it off for a while to distract the guards and then carry on with the plan.” The old man said.

“How do you know about this all?” Markus asked.

“I am not the only one who has suffered all this. There are many, losing their near and dear ones daily in this hell. It was their sacrifices until now that I have gathered all this information.” The old man replied, his voice heavy, as if remembering the ones he had lost.

“Hmm. Thank you for the information.” Markus said.

“Don’t thank me. Just kill that bastard to thank those all who brought this information till me.” The old man replied, a sad smile on his face.

“May I know your name?” Markus asked before they climbed down the tree.

“Edward.” The man replied before both of them quietly climbed down the tree, going their own ways.

Next day, early in the morning, Markus was called out with his stuff to shift in the bodyguard team.

The team was nowhere near his expectations. It was a team made up of youngsters with no experience or proper training.

The people weren’t welcoming, nor were their leaders. Markus decided to lay low to not attract much attention. He was given room no. 11 with six other men to share the room. None of his roommates were friendly enough, and thus he decided to work alone.

He started with the basic training that was given to the team while working day and night endlessly. He never talked to anyone and would always sit alone to have his barely edible meals.

Finally on 27th day, a man from his team approached him during lunch.

“Sid, Wanna join us?” He asked.

Markus looked at the man and was internally surprised at his fortune. The man turned out to be the one staying in room no. 4, the one where the tunnel was located.

“Thank you.” Markus or Sid, replied in a weak and polite voice, not making the man put up any guards against him.

“I have always seen you have meals alone. Why didn’t you befriend anyone?” The man asked while walking towards his group of three men.

“I don’t know.. know how to talk much.” Markus replied, trying to play weak.

“Don’t worry. You can join us whenever you want.” The man said, trying to be good with Markus.

After all, these men were simply poor people brought here for hard labour. Some prefered to remain silent while suffering all this, while others felt that maybe mingling and supporting each other could make tough times easier.

“Thank you.” Markus said in a low and polite voice.

By the end of week, Markus started talking a little more than earlier. Plus his weak behaviour made people lower down their guards and talk frankly with him.

Markus thought that he had already wasted much time, and thus decided to start with the action.

He asked his other four friends from room no.4 to not eat today’s meal and give it to him, as he was gonna make a better dish out of it.

Others being poor didn’t find a problem in giving up on one meal, even if the food didn’t turn out well after Markus’s cooking.

Markus, who had collected some herbs surrounding the garden where they lived, used those to add some flavours and roasted it more.

Once the break was given, he directly went to room no.4 with the dish. Surprised would be too less of a word to describe the reaction those men had after taking the very first bite.

For the first time in months, they were getting to eat something so heavenly and delicious. And that day onwards, it became a habit of those people to save their food while Markus would do some random seasoning and bring it back to their room.

But unknown to all, he would always inspect the room minutely, to see for any evidence of the tunnel. He kept doing it for three days before he found a tunnel hidden discreetly beneath one of the beds.

Without wasting much time, Markus decided to check the tunnel out today before executing his plan properly.

Thus, like always he prepared the dish and went to their rooms. But this time, he had mixed a little of valerian roots to it, intending to make them asleep real quick.

The five of them had a hearty meal before slowly the other four started to feel sleepy, ultimately dozing off.

Markus left their room to keep guard on the other two roommates of room no 4. Once he saw that both of them left the room, he instantly entered, without making any noise.

Since his target was already settled, he quickly went towards the bed and crawled beneath it, opening the tunnel lid gently.

Though it took him a lot of effort to open it up as the lid seemed closed for quite some time.

Eventually he climbed inside the tunnel before properly closing the lid behind him.

But once inside, he immediately realised the problems he would be facing while actually executing the plan, and he couldn’t help but curse at the tunnel he was supposed to cross tonight.

The tunnel was too narrow, barely fitting for Markus’s huge body. Secondly there was no light at all. But thankfully Markus had come prepared beforehand, carrying a torch. But the problem was carrying the torch while climbing down this narrow tunnel.

Plus once inside, he couldn’t make out what time it was outside. All those who were brought here were only given basic clothes and food. No more, no less. Not to mention something like a watch.

But Markus knew that he had entered this tunnel at around 9 pm. And he had already decided to come out of this tunnel by 4 am, before the guards were called for training.

With this thought in mind, he started counting, trying to match his pace with seconds of the watch. He tore a piece of his cloth, tying it around his neck with the torch attached to it.

This way, he made it much easier to climb down with the help of both of his hands. Thus without any more delay, he started the journey downstairs.

Though the journey was definitely not an easy one. The temperature drop along with closed space only added to the already present difficulties. Plus after some distance, he had to crawl all the way instead of climbing down.

And Markus with his towering figure, muscular body definitely couldn’t easily fit the small space. Hence the difficulty level was only increasing.

Markus had already counted till fifteen thousand, yet there was no end of the tunnel. And Markus knew that he couldn’t wait much, because this count meant he had already crossed the half time and yet he was nowhere near the end.

He still decided to continue a little further. Maybe till count of seventeen thousand before he will stop wherever he was and return back speedily.

With that thought, he resumed crawling. Just when he was at sixteen thousand nine hundred and forty three, he could see a dead end ahead. He increased his speed before reaching near the wall, standing up to climb the wall.

After almost twenty or so steps of climbing he could feel firm covering above his head. He took a deep breath and composed himself before silently pushing the lid away, knowing he was taking a huge risk.

It took him some time, but eventually the lid shifted a little, showing that it was open. Markus, stopped breathing while slowly removing the lid away, and climbing another step to peek at the area outside.

But the first thing he saw was footsteps approaching and he instantly closed the lid. He waited there with a rapid heart beat, ready to fight if in case the owner of footsteps had seen him.

He closed his hand into a tight fist, his breathing stopped, body on complete alert and defensive mode.

He closed his eyes for a moment.

‘Little lamb, I have promised you that I will return. I am not breaking this promise.’ Markus told himself before quickly opening his eyes.

After almost thirty seconds, he felt the footsteps going in another direction, towards the right of this tunnel.

He waited patiently for almost a minute till the sound of footsteps faded away. Once he was sure that there was no noise outside, he once again lifted the lid slightly, so that only his head and eyes were above the level of the tunnel.

‘There!’ He thought to himself while looking at the window, almost at a distance of twenty meters.

‘Ok. This will be some really difficult task.” Markus thought while considering the distance he had to cross before reaching the window, that too when the garden was fully lit and guarded.

With that Markus decided to return now as he had seen everything he needed to. He gently closed the lid properly above his head before starting his return journey.

Thankfully he was already aware of the kind of path it was, hence he was much faster while crawling back.

And finally after time unknown, he reached the dead end from where he had to climb up.

Once he reached above, he slowly lifted the lid above his head, trying to check the situation inside room no 4.

He peeked through the gap, only to find the entire room silent and slightly lit, which meant that the day was about to break.

He silently opened the entire lid before coming out and closing the lid behind him. Just when he thought to come out from beneath the bed, he heard some sounds.

“Hey, wake up! It’s 5 am. Those men will be here anytime soon. How can we all be so careless to sleep so soundly!! Let’s get up quickly.” One of the men exclaimed.

‘Huhh! Man you were like sleeping all this while. Couldn’t you have slept for five more minutes? Are you doing this on purpose?’ Markus thought, not knowing what to do since all others were awake.

“Where are those two? Shouldn’t they have woken us up before leaving on their own?” Another man said, complaining about the other two roommates.

“You know how they are. What were you expecting? They have been like that since the very first day. Let’s just forget that those two exist with us in the same room.” The first man said.

“Hmmm. Even Sid didn’t come. He would have definitely woke us up after seeing we are nowhere. Let’s go and search for him. Maybe he hasn’t woken up as well.” A third person said.

‘Don’t worry about me. I am fully awake. And you don’t have to put in so much effort for me. Please don’t search for me!’ Markus thought from beneath the bed.

“Yeah. Get up guys. Get ready for another hell like day!” The man said before climbing down the bed, the rest of them following his suit.

“Hmmmmmm. Gooodd morninnng everyone.” Suddenly they heard a sleepy voice greet them.