As Emon absorbed the darkness, his body became cold as ice. At that moment, a mysterious merchant appeared in the village market. Clad in tattered robes but carrying a golden prayer bead, he claimed to be there to collect a 'Debt' Emon's grandfather owed. The merchant was no human; he was an emissary of Iblis himself.
The Third Twist: The merchant saw Emon's weakness and offered a deal. If Emon surrendered the ownership of just one of the 1600 djinns, the merchant would remove all the internal pain and restore Emon to a healthy, normal human. Just as Emon was about to consider it, he saw that the specific jinni the merchant wanted was actually a fragment of Emon's own mother's soul, which his grandfather had hidden among the djinns for protection. Emon faced a terrifying choice: his own health or his mother's eternal rest. In a 4000-word psychological warfare, Emon proved his worth. He banished the merchant, but the emissary left with a warning: "You won today, but the 1600 shadows inside you will consume you from within."