That’s the way people in this strange town behaved and it came as no surprise to him as he smiled at the angry man trying to compose himself to tell him what he was there for. ‘No one in this world is really bad! If they are bad, they are being bad to you not for the entire world. There would still be people praising a bad guy who killed thousands of others. Why is it or how is it that a bad man can also be good!’ he thought before coming here, ‘this man could be bad to me, bad to his wife but might be good to the other woman or his brother or mother. Now my duty is to find that goodness in him for me and the rest is for the sanyasin to take care’
‘Yes, you’re right,’ he said with the same calmness not being affected by the man’s rudeness ‘I come from a city working for a global business firm that provides upliftment to small towns and your town is one of them. I know that you’re close to the local minister and thought you might lend your helping hand to this good cause after seeing this proposal’ he said waiting to see what the man’s intentions were.
‘If it can help me and my town and my name can be part of this, I might…’ said the angry man, hiding his hesitation.
‘Me, My Name’ so that’s his catchword.
‘Thank you, sir. That’s your greatness. Let me show you this’ he intruded and quickly displayed on his high-end gadget luring the sturdy man with some photos and charts and eye-catchy animations which he had prepared much earlier, as planned. The contents were overshadowed by the appearance. His management classes came in handy!
The man got deeply involved in the gadget and saw some unbelievable features in a machine that he had never imagined. The gadget could talk, tell him his location, and react to his commands to name a few which none in the small town had any idea about. He further showed on his device some of the town’s places that the man himself had not known.
‘These are the places from 2nd century B.C. and are your town’s real treasure. You need to protect them’ he flashed a morphed image on the tomb with the man’s name being engraved on it. The man got all the more excited seeing his name on a tomb and visualized how much he would be praised or rewarded and remembered forever if that really transformed.
‘I can help you by all means but I’m not the decision maker and you need the consent of the minister.’
‘That’s fine. If you can accompany me to few places and show me around before taking me to the minister, rest assured it’s my responsibility to convince him. And my company’s head will come over to finalize the deal with you and him’ he said, further diverging the man into this trap.
‘Thank you’ said the man after his benefit was shown to him on a device in imaginary forms without knowing that it all can be erased in no time. The wanderer made him feel proud of being the chosen one in the entire town and his name and fame will remain for centuries to come not just in the town but in the entire world.
‘We do not have hotels nearby. Where would you like your accommodation to be?’ the man was much polite than himself!
‘It’s alright. I’ve managed to find my nights’ stay here n there. Please see me at the cave house tomorrow early morning. We’ll start from there’ he said to the man who had transformed from being angry and arrogant to dreamy and happy.
‘He’s not bad, but a good man to me now’ said the wanderer to himself and walked off hoping his deception won’t come to haunt him later. ‘Only the sanyasin can see to it and what do I lose! I’m only a wanderer and it’s only a fair-game…’
Continues…
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