"Are you alright?" The shopkeeper worriedly asked the teenage girl who was eating her third ice cream.
"Mmm mmm I'm fayn," the girl replied. Her tongue wasn't moving properly. It was frozen from eating too much ice cream.
"One mooee." The girl requested.
"No. Pay and get out." The shopkeeper mercilessly kicked out the girl.
"Thish ish noth profosonal..." The girl complained.
But the shopkeeper showed no mercy. If the girl gets sick after eating too much ice cream, her family will blame him.
Without any surprise, it was Abhi.
After becoming human, she developed an uncontrollable urge to eat. She was attracted to everything edible. Her favourite was ice cream.
It was cold and sweet.
It was a completely new feeling for the God of Death, who wasn't required to eat. Even when she ate, she ate only warm food.
"Heyy... Do you want ice cream?"
Abhi turned towards the sound. An old man with messy hair and dirty clothes was looking at her.
"Do you have?" Abhi asked. She didn't have a good first impression of the old man.
"Yes."
"Which flavour?" Abhi asked.
"Va... Vanilla..." The old man was a bit confused.
"Ok. Please give me two." Abhi happily requested.
"Huh? hmmm... Come with me." The old man was a bit confused.
The old man walked a few steps and looked back to see whether the girl was following him.
To his shock, the girl parked her cycle and happily followed him. She took out her purse and started counting the money she had as she walked.
He was gawking at the girl. He slapped himself to make sure that he wasn't dreaming. Even in his wildest dreams, he never expected that the girl would actually follow him.
"Where is it?"
"Below the bridge. Follow me."
"Ok." Abhi followed him.
Within a few minutes, they were below the bridge. The plants and trees on either side of the stream hid the spot below the bridge. The water was also flowing while dancing between the rocks.
Abhi looked around suspiciously. Three men were sitting below the bridge in the hidden spot. They were smoking and playing cards. There were empty beer bottles in the vicinity. But there was no ice cream.
"Hey... Look who is here." The old man shouted as he neared the spot.
"Who?" They looked at Abhi.
Abhi turned around. The old man was standing right behind her, blocking the path.
"Don't make a noise. If you cooperate, you can return alive." He said with a lecherous smile.
"Even if you make noise, no one will hear it." The other three men surrounded her. They didn't need to be told.
"There is no ice cream?" Abhi asked with a sad face.
"Hahaha... What a stupid kid. I never thought it would work." The old man laughed.
"There is no ice cream..." Abhi murmured absentmindedly.
She slowly understood what was happening. They were bad men. There was no ice cream.
"So this is why adults tell kids not to follow strangers," Abhi murmured.
"Hahaha... No need to be scared. Why don't you play with uncles for some time?" One man asked.
"This is wrong. What you are doing is wrong. You will pay for this crime in the coming many lives. How can you cheat a little girl after promising her ice cream?" Abhi tried to reason with the bad men.
"Hahaha... What an innocent girl! Now start crying. This elder brother likes it that way." A man said with a creepy smile.
"Elder brother? Aren't you all elder sisters?" Abhi asked. It looked like she was confused.
"What the hell is she talking about? Someone hold her down. I will clear her doubt." One man arrogantly said as he moved towards Abhi. It looked like he was the leader of the gang.
The others suddenly appeared around her to prevent her from running away.
"You bitches should have just given me the ice cream. You shouldn't have given me false hope." Abhi said angrily.
"Huh? What happened?" The leader, who was right in front of Abhi, was confused. He started searching for something in his pants.
"What are you doing?" The old man asked. He was getting impatient.
"It... It's not there..." The leader was shivering.
"Hahaha... You lost your little treasure?" Another man teased the leader.
"SHUT THE **** UP," The leader screamed. He patted his crotch and kept on searching.
"Ahhh.. AHHH..." The old man screamed. He was wearing the traditional mundu.[1] He was also searching at his crotch.
"Why are you elder sisters so worked up?" Abhi asked innocently.
The other two men suddenly felt the unusualness of the situation.
"Come on. This is not a good joke. We have a girl..." One of them started talking. But his words got cut in the middle. He froze. His manhood had disappeared.
The fourth wasn't any better. He also patted his crotch and started screaming.
"What did you do?" The leader asked Abhi. He was truly scared.
"You promised me ice cream. Never give a little girl promises that you cannot keep." Abhi replied cooly.
"Ice cream? What the ****. I will kill you." The old man screamed as he charged towards Abhi.
Abhi snapped her fingers.
He tripped and fell.
"Who... Who are you?" One man screamed in horror. He had just clearly seen what the girl did.
"Me? I am just a little innocent girl looking for ice cream." Abhi replied with a smile that was not a smile. Her gaze drifted to the vines that were hanging from the trees on the banks of the stream.
***
Fifteen minutes later, Abhi walked out. She was counting money excitedly. There was no need to explain that the money belonged to the bad men, who were no more men.
At the same time, the bad men, who were no longer men, lay below the bridge and cried. There were many swollen marks on their bodies. They were crying like babies.
All of them checked their crotch, hoping that the thing they lost would return.
"I shouldn't have done something like this. How am I going to face my wife now?" One of them lamented.
"Was she angry at us for what we were about to do or because of the ice cream that she didn't get?" The leader, who had calmed down a bit wondered.
"Is that what you are worried about? You are not a man anymore." The old man screamed.
"IT IS YOUR FAULT... You brought that witch to us..."
The gang of bad men, who were no longer men, started fighting each other.
"I cannot even piss while standing." The old man sobbed as he tried pissing, while standing.
***
In the God realm of another world. A group of Gods were gathered around a sphere. The magic sphere was displaying the earlier incident. It even had sound. It was God realm's version of live streaming.
They all had dumbfounded expressions. King of Gods plopped onto his throne. Another God facepalmed himself. Some Gods looked outside through the window, pretending that they didn't see anything. God of Justice, who usually had her eyes closed, was staring at the sphere dumbfounded. A bit more and her eyes would pop out of the skull.
"Maybe it was a bad idea to watch her." King, who was on the throne murmured.
"Her Excellency Death was just teaching them a lesson for having wrong thoughts. This is totally fine." The nameless God who was sweating said. It was his idea to watch God of Death through the magic sphere. He didn't expect to witness something like this.
"Definitely. It... It had nothing to do with ice-cream." A God named 'Mechanic' said. He was the same God who collected the souls of the criminals from the King.
"Mmm mmm..." God of Justice vigorously nodded. It was a cute scene.
No one wanted to say they watched something they were not supposed to watch.
"I am curious about that thing called ice cream," King said.
"I too..." Another God agreed.
"Young six, find and smuggle some of that ice cream here," Justice ordered to the nameless God.
"Definitely. We should study it and make sure that it has nothing poisonous in it." The nameless God replied.
The names given to the gods had a special significance. Even though the nameless god didn't have a given name, he named himself 'Six'. While others would call him 'Young Six', it was more or less like a nickname.
"Get all the available flavours. Be careful not to cause trouble due to material transfer across dimensions." King added.
"Definitely. I will go now." Six excitedly left the hall.
***
Abhi returned to her bicycle and began pushing it. Her fingers were shivering a bit.
'So this is the limit to which I can use the divine power. Anything more will harm this body. I should be really careful from now onwards.' Abhi told herself. At the same time, she noticed that the shivering wasn't as bad as before. In other words, filling her stomach with food reduced the backlash due to using divine power.
A small van slowed near her. It was a Maruti Omni, the vehicle infamous for all the kidnapping scenes in movies.
The sliding door on the side of the Omni slid open. A young, handsome man looked at her.
"Hey, girl... Do you want candies?" He asked.
"Huh? No. But do you have ice cream?"
Far away, the gang of gods who were still watching the magic sphere shook their heads in disappointment.
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[1]Mundu: Traditional garment worn around the waist by men.