After the shocking revelation and knowing that his mother has a connection with Rishika, he got so stunned.
After that, while Kartikey was proceeding through all the things, Rishika sat beside him, and she said, "Well now, these are the things I want to tell you, and I am damn sure that you didn't come here to know this, so what were your real intentions of reaching out to me? For your good or something else?"
Suddenly Kartikey came back into his senses after Rishika asked him about his real intentions for why he was searching for her. Then he got serious and remembered that he was here to ask her if she could help him and other people like him who couldn't control their own power, and then he said to Rishika,
I was here because I wanted to ask you if you can help us to control their power.
Us, what do you mean by "us"?
Well, yeah, there are dozens of people who have some special powers but couldn't control them.
Oh, so that's why you are here. Do you want me to come with you?
After listening to that she had read his intention, he didn't try to make things hard, so he accepted the truth and told her, "Yes, I was here. Please come with me and help us."
But then she says, "I will come with you, but on only one condition: if you agree to it, then I will happily go with you anywhere you want me to go."
He thinks for a second that the condition could be anything, but the outcome will be only one thing: that she will come with me.
"Ok, I will agree with your condition, but first tell me, what is the condition?" he said.
She smiled and replied that it's simple: you have to fight with me.
Kartikey smudges and thinks, "Huh?" I have defeated the uncontrollable Durga. What can an old Rishika do with
But it was his overconfidence that made him blind, and he didn't even try to think about a basic logical thing. Well, it's true confidence is good, but overconfidence is one of the worst things that destroyed even the most powerful person, like Ravan. Ravan was overconfident that a mere human could possibly defeat him, but he got killed by a mere human not because he didn't know that the human was, like him, the Protector of not only this world but all the multiverse. He died because he had overconfidence in himself and got eradicated by the great LORD RAM (Jai Shree Ram).
Now Kartikey is making the same mistake of underestimating the opponent.
The fight started with Kartikey giving Rishika the chance of the first move without even saying it. A powerful force of energy came and pushed Kartikey, and a mouthful of blood came out. He was standing still, but the impact of the force made him grab his stomach.
Then managing his balance, he makes a counterattack punch infused with spiritual energy, a powerful punch, but it gets easily deflected by the use of her surrounding air, and his attack is tanked by her natural energy.
He got amused but didn't stop attacking her, but all the attacks were just useless because she deflected, tanked, or reflected the attacks.
After getting humiliated by Rishika, he got exhausted but didn't accept the defeat, but after seeing his condition and not getting destroyed by someone, she got impressed, and after that, she made a final move. She joined her hands together and performed some chants and mantras while performing some final attack-type moves, which looked like a holy dance.
She moved her foot in a circle while moving her right hand in front and her left hand at her back, and with her final move, she shot a powerful energy blast from her hand, which was not invisible; it was visible and looked the same as the force of the aurora borealis, and then the energy hit Kartikey and sent him flying 12 to 15 feet away from where he was standing, and with this
K.O.
KARTIKEY LOSES
MVP OF THE MATCH IS
RISHIKA
After this Kartikey got unconscious, and Rishika took him and took him to the cave where Ananya and Durga were staying.
Feeling a strong energy coming towards the cave, Ananya got ready to face anything.
Durga, who had just woken up and was searching for Kartikey, had felt something similar, and then she ran towards the entrance of the cave while Ananya tried to stop her and ran towards her, but she got stunned when she saw that Durga was crying while seeing outside the cave.
After which she followed the way she was seeing. What she saw made her angry because she saw a woman was dragging the unconscious Kartikey, who looked like he had been beaten like a pig. His face was swollen and purple; some regions were red, and if someone who didn't know him quite well enough saw him, they would say that he had been killed.
Filled with rage, she started sprinting towards that woman but got humbled with a single slap, which made her remember her ancestors, and then she started shouting. Run, DURGA; she is some evil woman possessed with some powerful entity. Run.
YOU FOOL, SHE IS THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD WHO I BELIEVE BLINDLY. SHE IS THE GURUMA I WAS TELLING ABOUT, AND WHAT THE FUCKING KARTIKEY DOES TO HER?
Ananya says in her mind while touching her cheeks, "Durga, you fool. Kartikey didn't do anything to her; all the damage was done by your GURUMA, and by seeing her power, I'm damn sure Kartikey didn't even touch the soil she was standing on."
After that Durga ran toward her GURUMA and asked what was happening, how did she find her, and what had this madman done to you? Did you get injured anywhere?
After seeing the confusion, she tells them what had happened, but she doesn't tell the part where she tells Kartikey about his mother. She was keeping it secret because she had to know more about him, and the only way was to go with him and help him.
After listening to the story, Durga laughed at both Ananya and Kartikey, but Kartikey was not in condition to do anything, so he just made a gulp of his anger while Ananya was treating him and trying not to even smile, but after seeing him even having difficulty swallowing his saliva, she burst into laughter, and then she said, "Sorry, Karthik" (a love name given by her, and only she can call him that), "but you are far stronger than the time you fought Durga, but you got so beaten up that you could not even breathe properly."
After all the laughter and joking about how badly GURUMA beat Kartikey and his audacity to give the GURUMA to make her first move, they all sat silent, and then they started the talk about where to go first.
Durga wanted to go to Pangea, where she wanted to meet her villagers, but GURUMA wanted to go to Aryavart, and especially to Bharat, where she wanted to meet Ram.
So where will they head? Will they go towards Pangea or will they head towards Aryavart?