So, this is Chitragupta, the scribe of lord Yama. He is the one who maintains a record of all good and evil actions of every living being.

  “Lord Yama there is no need to bother sir Chitragupta” said the farmer, “I know I have done all the good things in my entire life, even I sacrificed my life for the people of my village so that I can come and tell you that they are starving and they have no food including my wife and my daughter. You are God of death, lord Yama, you can easily solve our problem with a snap of your finger, please help us”.

  “Tell me everything, Chitragupta,”

  “As far as I can see, lord Yama, this person has done only good work in his entire life,” said Chitragupta while looking at a book.

  “See lord Yama, I only say the truth, nothing else,”

  “How did he die, Chitragupta?” asked Yama

  “He killed himself,”

  “I did it so that I can come to you and tell you that in my village people are dying out of starvation because all of our crop got destroyed in the rain, please help us, lord Yama, provide them food,” he said

  “Chitragupta…” said Yama while looking at him

  Chitragupta looked in his book, “he sacrificed himself to get food from the gods so that he wouldn’t have to see his wife and daughter die out of starvation”.

  “There was no other way, that’s why I did this,” he said

  “This is not tolerable at all,” said Yama, “you did good work all of your life, but you’ve made a human sacrifice, so I condemn you to hell of Raksogana”.

  “But I took my life, what’s wrong with that?”

  “It is wrong,” said Yama, “you should have stayed with your family and should’ve performed your duty by trying to provide them food, but instead you ran away from your duty and killed yourself, which was a human sacrifice, you will be condemned to hell, Yamadutas take him to hell”.

  “Lord Yama, please forgive me! Forgive me!” The farmer kept screaming, but the Yamadutas took him away.

  “Cut him deep, cut him that deep that his soul keeps screaming for eternity,” said a person who had golden eyes, long shoulder-length hair, and wore a red shawl that partly covered his muscular body. A black dhoti, a long piece of unstitched cloth was wrapped around his lower half. While looking at a person who was being cut by different people with a sharp knife and sword, and the Rakshasas were sitting beside him, feasting on his blood, singing and dancing in joy.

  A man fell on the foot of the person, and Yamadutas were standing in front of the person.

  “So, this is the sinner,” said the lord of Raksogana

  “Yes,” said one Yamaduta, “he is a framer and he made a human sacrifice by killing himself”.

  “Oh, is that so?” the lord glanced at the farmer, “Leave him here, I will take care of him”.

  The farmer grabbed the person’s foot, “Please forgive me, sir! Forgive me, please!”.

  The lord shrugged his hands off his leg. “I’ve not even started yet, and you started asking me for forgiveness”, and all the rakshasas sitting there laughed.

  “Please forgive me, sir! Forgive me! Show mercy!” the farmer pleaded.

  “hahaha, I think you don’t understand, you are in hell and in hell there is no place for mercy and forgiveness that only exist on earth where you don’t belong anymore” said the lord, “start cutting him as well and let my guest fill their stomach with his fresh, warm, blood” lord said while looking at the rakshasas and they all cheered together.

  Another Yamaduta came to the person, “You are summoned to Yama’s court, right now”.

  “Do you know what happened?” asked the lord.

  “Lord Yama didn’t tell me,” Said the Yamaduta, “he just told me to bring you to him in the court”.

  “Ok, let’s go,” said the lord, “don’t waste a single drop of blood of this man,” he said while looking at the rakshasas, and then gave a smile to the farmer.

  The person entered the court with Yamaduta, “We were waiting for you, lord of hell”. Said lord Yama

  “Sorry to keep you waiting, sire,”

  “Do you know why I have summoned you?” asked lord Yama

  “No, sire, I have no idea,”

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  “Did your past actions not give you any clarity? That's why you can be summoned to my court, where usually the souls have judgment,”

  “Sorry, sire, what is it about my actions?”

  “I’ve been informed that you are punishing the souls with more cruelty than you should be,” said lord Yama

  “I’m sorry, sire, but I suppose that in hell it is our duty to punish souls with cruelty,” said the lord

  “Well, it is, but not with every soul” said Lord Yama in a loud voice, “you are punishing the souls not according to the way which is decided for your hell, every soul is punished cruelly at a certain level as per their deeds but you are punishing them way beyond the level of cruelty that is decided for them”.

  “I’m sorry, sire, it will not happen again,”

  “There is no need for that,” said Lord Yama, “you will not get another chance”.

  “Please, Lord Yama, I beg you, please give me another chance, and I assure you that no mistake will ever happen from my end,” the lord begged and knelt in front of Lord Yama.

  “Okay, get up, lord of hell, I’m giving you one last chance, but if this time you do the same thing, then I assure you that you will have the enjoyment of punishment from every hell there is,” said Lord Yama.

  “No, sire, no, this will never happen again,”

  “But now you have to prove yourself to me,”

  “I’ll do anything, lord Yama, just order and it’ll be done,”

  “Now you are no longer lord of Raksogana,” said Lord Yama

  “But lord, you said that I will get another chance,”

  “I’m making you lord of Krimisha,” said lord Yama, “as you know what type of souls come there, it is a duty and challenge to prove yourself.”

  “But Krimisha has another lord,” said the lord

  “I’m aware, he will take your place and he will correct the mistakes you have made because he is much more capable than you, and on the flip side, I will also be able to see how well you will perform your duty in a new hell”.

  “I will not disappoint you, lord Yama,” said the lord and bowed in front of lord Yama.

  “Good, it will be better for you,” said Lord Yama, “now you can go”.

  The person got up with his head down and went straight out of Yama’s court.

  What do you think, lord Yama, that you can make everyone do whatever you want, not with me, I will show you how you should rule over hells, and you will not rule anymore, even if you are a God. You have insulted me in front of the whole court for only doing my duty; I’ll have my revenge on you.

  Ivaan was running from the people through the farms, holding two hens by their necks in each of his hands.

  “Stop you thief, give my hens back,” said the butcher, chasing Ivaan with his people

  Ivaan was running at a rapid pace, and then he disappeared into the farm, which shook the butcher and his people.

  “Where did the boy go?” said the Butcher, “Find him”. And they all started searching for him on the farm, but they didn’t find him.

  The witch was preparing a potion. “Where did he go? I told him not to get out of the house; he never listens to me,” said the witch. Then she heard the knock on the main door.

  When she opened the door, she found Ivaan standing there holding two hens in each hand.

  She tightly hugged him, “Where did you go? Didn’t you know I was so worried for you?”

  “It’s ok, mother, I heard you needed two hens, look, I have brought them,” he said, she looked at the hens and smiled

  “Those are nothing, you don’t know how precious you are to me,” said the witch by hugging him again, “promise me that you will not go out without telling me”.

  “I promise, mother,”

  “Tell me something,” asked the witch, “Nobody saw you stealing these hens, right?”.

  “They did,” he said with hesitation

  “Why don’t you listen to me? There’s danger outside, so you shouldn’t go outside,”

  “They only saw me, but not my face,”

  “Did they chase you?” asked the witch

  “Yes, they did, mother, but I left them behind,” he said by folding arms

  “How did you do that?”

  “Last time you showed me an underground passage through the farms,” said Ivaan with a smile.

  “Aren’t you smart one,” said the witch, “looks like I also have to be careful of you”.

  “Mother,” he said, “I just want to help you, I don’t want you to get tired by doing a lot of stuff”.

  “Oh, come here,” the witch called Ivaan, “I understand my boy, but right now you haven’t learnt many things which will put you in constant danger, and as I always told you, you are the most precious thing to me in the whole world”.

  “I promise I will take care of you, mother,” he said, “and I’ll help you by learning all those things which are necessary for me”.

  “Oh, my child, you are so sweet,” said the witch, “now it's time for your lunch, look what I have prepared for you”.

  “Give him more pain, more pain than he can endure,” said the new lord of Krimisha

  The person was constantly being tortured, but he wasn’t even screaming.

  “How can you bear so much pain?” asked the lord

  “Looks like you are new in this hell, that’s why,” said the sinner, and he laughed at the lord of the hell.

  “How can you laugh at me? I am lord of hell!” the person shouted and grabbed his neck.

  “Are you?” asked the sinner, laughing while he was being choked, “but by actions, you are looking like a small, stubborn child”.

  He started torturing him more, but he didn’t even scream.

  “Look what I have told you,” Said the sinner with a grin, “you are just a small, stubborn child, my soul is much stronger than any soul because of magical practices, and also it’s not your cup of tea”.

  All the people he was torturing started laughing at him.

  What have you done to me, Lord Yama? You’ve turned me into nothing. Looks like your ruling days are over, Lord Yama, and I am the one who will bring an end to your reign.

  “Yamaduta,” the lord of Krimisha, shouted

  “Yes, lord,” Yamaduta appeared next to him

  “Held a meeting with all the other 27 lords of hell, tell them I want to discuss something important,” and then he turned back to his work.

  All the lords of hell gathered in the council meeting.

  “Where is the lord of Krimisha? he called us, didn’t he?” said the lord of Tamisra

  “Lord of Krimisha, will be here soon,” said the Yamaduta

  “I’ve heard that the new lord of Krimisha was shamed in the court by none other than Lord Yama himself,” said another lord to him

  “Is it true?” asked the lord of Tamisra

  “Well, it is indeed the truth,” said the lord of Krimisha, who appeared behind them, and he walked towards his chair in the council.

  “Can we ask why you called us?” asked the lord of Tamisra

  “Patience, please take your seats,” said the lord of Krimisha, and all the lords sat on their chairs.

  "Now tell us, as you know we don’t get much time, I have many souls to punish today,” said the lord of Tamisra

  “I can understand, lord of Tamisra,” said the lord of Krimisha, “which itself is the reason why I have called this council meeting”.

  “What, I am not able to understand?” said the lord of Avici, “lord Yama has ordered us to punish the souls, whatever their number is”.

  “That is the problem that I am talking about,” said the lord of Krimisha

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