Another day went by as the sun went down behind the mountains.
Fireflies glowed over flowers. The stars twinkled in the sky with their moon.
But Lysa sat alone on the stone. She kept waiting for him, and he didn’t come back today either.
Six years, it’s been six years. He made the promise to return in one year. Mina was right! He was the big liar!
"Siff... snif.."
Tears rolled down from her eyes.
When are you returning, Karna!
Lysa couldn’t understand why he was doing this to her.
"Sister Lysa! Sister Lysa! Look here!"
It was the shouts of Priti.
Lysa turned and saw Priti waving at her as the young man carried her in his arms, walking toward her.
"Karna!.’’ Lysa even stopped blinking, stood up from her place, and ran toward him.
"Karna..." She muttered. More tears rolled from her eyes. Her vision became blurry. But she didn’t stop or take her eyes off him, fearing he would disappear again.
His beautiful figure became blurry and blurry. Lysa pushed her pace.
"Karna. Ahhh!’’ Her foot twisted on a stone.
"Hey, hey careful’’
***
Karna used quick teleportation and embraced Lysa, supporting her against his chest.
"Hey you!’’ Priti shouted in complaint as he just left her there.
Karna stuck out his tongue at her.
Priti snorted and ran toward them.
"Hey, careful. Don’t you fall either,’’ Karna said before looking at the woman in his arms.
"You’re back, you’re back, liar! lier!, lier!, I will never support your decision again, sniff... You could never leave again!... Priti, Mina said, I let you leave. It was my fault. They blamed me... sniff! I hate you... Don’t leave again, please!’’ Lysa said, crying against his chest.
Karna hugged her tighter.
" I won’t, I promised. Ow! Ow!.. It hurt!"
Lysa bit his chest.
Okay, okay, I deserved it!. I made them cry. Sigh, attachment, huh... I can’t escape it, can I?
After reaching them, Priti slapped his shoulder.
"Why were you smiling when sister Lysa is still crying?!" She glared at him.
How dare she? When were they at fault? Karna thought.
’’She’s complained about you guys..."
" Shut up!" Priti shouted and wrapped her arms around his neck from behind and bit his shoulder.
"Ow!’’
Karna had already made his armor not appear, as he was aware that he was going to get a lot of scratches and bite marks.
’’ Sister Lysa bit him hard. You don’t believe it. He brought a wife! " Priti said and bit his shoulder again.
Lysa didn’t reply. She just pressed her face against his chest.
Karna chuckled as he looked at Himinbi standing at quite a distance. Noticing his gaze, Himinbi snorted and looked the other way.
"Hahaha...ow!"
"You’re still laughing shamelessly! Evil Asura, " Priti cursed him.
"Okay, okay, I didn’t do it deliberately, I swear..."
"Liar!’’
"..."
Karna decided to stay quiet and let her do what she wanted. Soon, she stopped biting his shoulder and started nibbling his neck.
Lysa also calmed down and looked at his face.
Karna kissed her forehead.
"I’m really Sorry!" Karna said.
Looking at him, Lysa blinked a few times.
"I thought something bad happened. That’s why... You weren’t coming. sniff! I thought because we did that, God got offended. Sniff..." Lysa started crying again, burying her face against his chest.
"What did you guys do?" Karna asked, shaking Priti with her shoulder.
Priti stopped nibbling his neck.
" Oh, we took a Sanyas a little."
"What?!"
"Since we want to leave our marriages, you know we did love them. It’s just that because of our parents. We didn’t mature enough back then... anyway, now it’s kinda hard to live with them.’’ Priti tried to explain.
"You guys still didn’t mature enough. Seriously, Sanyas, to go out of marriage?!. Karna said in disbelief.
But then he thought there still wasn’t a divorce system here. A wife couldn’t just leave her husband, though if the husband was evil, then she could complain to the king or someone. But there was no proper systematic way.
She can’t leave her husband just because she wants to leave. She could only leave and remarry if her Husband was lost or missing for years, with no news. Or her husband was dead. Or a became a sanyasi and left the world. And last, if he was impotent or became an outcast and committed a terrible sin.
With those conditions, women could remarry. Just her wish didn’t matter, and most women didn’t wish it either. They respected and loved their husband as some kind of God.
"So, you both took Sanyas, then why are you still clinging to me?" Karna asked. If he wasn’t wrong, Sanyas was like becoming a monk, leaving all worldly things, society, etc.
"Oh, dummy, we didn’t take Sanyas. We pretended to take Sanyas. So we could leave marriage without offending the village, and That’s why Sister Lysa was scared that we would offend the Gods since you were not coming back, she started imagining worse." Priti said.
"But I know nothing happened to you. I was a thousand percent sure you would break your promise and come late, but you came too late. And you even brought a wife. Because of her, you forgot us, didn’t you?!" Priti again dug her teeth into his shoulder.
"Ow! That’s not true. I only married her on the way, I swear! Hidimbi, why are you standing so far came here" Karna said, seeing her alone.
However, Hidimbi snorted again.
" I’m fine, Husband. I’m afraid I might slip my hand, and you would lose someone dear to you," Hidimbi said.
Was that a threat? I need to feed them my blood!
Karna rubbed Lysa’s back.
"There, there, I’m not going anywhere now. You know what? I got a divine blessing from that Lord Asher. Now, guess what that might be." Karna asked.
" Really! What the blessing?!" Priti asked. However, Karna ignored her. "Dummy!" she bit him again.
Lysa looked at him, with red eyes from crying. Karna cupped her face in his palms and wiped her tears with his thumb.