Only Abhiraj's voice echoed through the street.
"MOM… MOM…!"
His voice was breaking—a voice born not from pain,but from helplessness.
Aditya stood there, frozen.
Breathing fast.Mind completely blank.
His eyes had returned to normal.The red… was gone.
"What… did I do?"he whispered.
He remembered nothing.
Only this much—he had fallen…and now this was in front of him.
Abhiraj was on his knees on the ground.Blood dripped from his face.His hands were trembling.
He looked at Aditya—but there was no anger in his eyes.
Only fear.
"You… you don't understand," Abhiraj cried."They have my mother."
Aditya's ears began to ring.
"W… who?"
Abhiraj clutched his head tightly.
"North.""North's No.1."
The name itself made the air feel heavier.
"If I don't work for them…"Abhiraj's voice cracked,"…they'll kill my mother."
Aditya stepped back.
"So all this—""This syndicate… this power…?"
Abhiraj nodded.
"It was all forced.""I was nothing more than a chained dog."
Hearing this, Aditya, Arjun, and Swati were left stunned.
PAST SCENE
Siddharth (Abhiraj's father)(Leader of the North No.1 Syndicate – Iron Vow Syndicate)
A knife was stabbed into his stomach.Blood spilled from his mouth.
Anirudh(Former Iron Vow's second-in-command, Soham's uncle)
"I warned you not to make that promise," Anirudh said coldly."But you didn't listen.Now watch from above—I'll force your son to do exactly what you vowed never to do."
Tears filled Siddharth's eyes.
His eyes closed…and never opened again.
Abhiraj witnessed everything.
He ran toward his father—
But Anirudh grabbed him and dragged him away.His mother was taken as well.
They brutally beat his motherand locked her inside a room.
Abhiraj was given a warning—
If he didn't obey…his mother would be killed immediately.
Present
Silence.
Eight years had passed since that day.
Aditya's fist clenched on its own.
The crystal-blue necklace around his neckfelt strangely cold.
Inside his mind, Aditya spoke—
"I will build my own syndicate…to destroy all of them."
Aditya looked up.And ask Abhiraj
"Remember our conditions?"
TO BE CONTINUED…