Handpump
In the world, it is said everyone is born with a destiny—every step, word, and blow already written by God Almighty, whose grace ensures nothing strays from His plan.
Once, fifty-one Sakti Peeths—organs of a goddess who burned herself—held the worst horrors beneath Aryavart, now India. During colonization, the British dismantled them, unleashing terrors upon the world.
In answer, nations united to form HANDPUMP
Hunt, Arbitrate, Neutralize, Delimit, Protect, Underwrite, Monitor, and Preserve.
Their creed: "Neutralize the threat, preserve the world."
Rudra, fifteen, a serial killer fresh out of his 2-year isolation jail, was already weary of life’s predictability and prophesied to die before he reaches 21. He longed for something raw, uncertain. That yearning awakened Bhairava—a sentient dress in the form of his old school uniform, a relic of days he missed.
With it, he became a hunter—and discovered he was leaving subconscious checkpoints in the river of time, pulling him back whenever he died. His fight was no longer just against monsters but time itself.
Yet he bore the Curse of Cassandra; no one believed his warnings. Still, he roamed, seeking the scattered Shakti Peeths. In a world where every fate is fixed, he would have to become the one thing beyond God’s plan—uncertainty.
