The nightmare ends

As the system went on to explain everything about Kevin's wishing heart and how it worked and how much effect it could have on things and people surrounding him, Ali kept listening to everything with full focus.

From everything, Ali learned about how his halo of luck could make others stupid and itchy to pick a fight or mock him for the tiniest of reason. It could also arouse the interest of heroines for the slightest of a reason, and give birth to the disgust and anger in a villain's heart.

Like if he helped someone cross the road or give a beggar 10/- heroines could jump and fawn over him thinking he's a good guy, yet simply bumping into a villain at the crowd or just looking at them could arouse a life and death hatred between them for no reason. All this is due to his halo of the protagonist.

Thankfully the system reassured him that he doesn't need to worry about this, as it prepared a little gift for him.

Other than that halo, Kevin's wishing heart could also turn any situation in his favor.

A weakness of this op ability that Ali noticed is that although Kevin's wishes could give him the solution to his troubles, but the problem itself could only be solved by Kevin himself. Like if Kevin's thirsty it can make a well appear in front of him, but can't make him drink. Or if he wished for money, his wish can make a bagful of cash appear in his path but picking it up from the road is his task.

That's why even when he wished for Ali's death, all he got was Ali in front of him but killing can only be done by himself.

'I can try to exploit this loophole.' Ali thought, making a mental note.

"Hey system, can't you just give me his whole plotline or something? That would make things so much easier." Ali asked once the system went silent after speaking tooo much.

[Should I just kill him for you my stupid host. That'll be even easier don't you think.]

[Be glad that the Devil chose you and I saved you. Just asking for more.]

"Hehe" Hearing the reprimand, Ali just gave an embarrassed smile and shrugged it off.

[I'll be going offline now, if you dare to die during my sleep and ruin my impeccable track record of wins, you should know souls exist. And I can capture them and put them in all kinds of hells for all eternity.]

The system gave a final warning, as Ali suddenly felt a pull in his body. Before he noticed anything, he felt a wave of heat hit his body like he was thrown into some active volcano. In just a moment his whole body was covered in sweat and skin started to get red and itchy.

"What _ where am I?" Ali said as he waved his hands and blew air through his mouth and looked around. Only to see that as far as his eyes could see, only an orange hue of flame was visible.

He turned back and started running back into a door he noticed a little far, but found that he was actually floating in the air, and the moment he moved his legs, he started to fall down.

Glancing sideways at the ground of lava below, Ali screamed instinctively in fear.

"Arghhhhhhh"

But the next second,

Ali woke up from his bed and looked around at the empty ceiling and white surroundings confusedly. Turning his head, he touched the soft mattress below and breathed a sigh of relief when he made sure he was in the hospital and not some hell.

'That wasn't real. Just a nightmare, just a freaking nightmare.' Ali said a few times in his heart as he placed his hand over his heart and felt it racing against his palm.

[If you want to avoid your nightmare turning into your reality, you better not die.] A voice echoed in Ali's mind and he understood everything.

"Get out you fucking system, nearly scared me to death. I'll throw YOU in hell, you bastardly bitch. Freaking psycho… … …" Ali cursed the system loudly as he looked around for a while. But got no response.

"Bastard went to sleep, it seems." Ali said, after he finally calmed down after feeling his throat getting dry after screaming so much. "The next time you wake up, I'll be sure to teach you a lesson. Fuck"

Ali breathed a sigh of relief as he calmed down and lay on bed again.

'So it wasn't a dream.' He thought with a smile on his face, as he realized nothing was a dream or a fantasy of his, but something very real.

Just as he wanted to lay on the bed again trying to rest his tired mind and body, someone opened the door to his ward. And he saw doctors and nurses rushing in nonstop. They all surrounded his bed and started doing their own things, as Ali just looked at all of them confusedly, following their instructions now and then.

"Mr Arya, are you feeling anything painful? We just got an alert _ !!"

An old guy with a gray beard came near him and asked him. But instead of answering, Ali just shot back a question instead. "How does it look to you?"

"Hmmm… your health parameters are totally normal. Heart rate, oxygen levels and BP too._" After thinking for some time the old doctor checked everything himself again and replied back.

"Good, I just had a nightmare, nothing else." Ali said under the confused and perplexed eyes of everyone.

"You can all go out and let me rest for a while." Ali said, removing a needle fixed over his hand and lying down on bed comfortably. "Ohh and someone drop some temperature, it's too hot here." Ali added opening the top buttons of his gown and laying down.

The doctors and staff just stared at each other hearing his orders and seeing his actions, confused if all the years of medical knowledge they had was just a joke or if this guy was simply an alien.

Otherwise how can anyone explain, how someone takes a knife to the heart and wakes up and says he just had a nightmare and is feeling hot.

Finally after much deliberation and lost stares, one guy got himself together and turned back to leave. And seeing him, one by one everyone started leaving too.

Just when the last person was at the door, Ali remembered something and shouted "Wait.."

"Yes, Mr Arya. Do you need anything, do you feel uncomfortable, let me call the senior doctor, I'll _"

"Nothing, just tell me, how long was I unconscious for?" Ali asked, stopping the nurse's nonstop questions.

???

The young nurse looked at Ali and then at the watch over his head and then said "Your surgery lasted for 4 hours, and it's been 3 hours more since then."

"So it's morning outside already. Huh" Ali said and looked towards the window where he could see sunlight hitting the shades and passing through some corners.

"Is anyone from my family outside?" Ali asked as he caught a glimpse of black clothes bodyguards standing by the door. Though he didn't see their faces, he could guess their identities.

"Your sister was here some time ago. As well as miss Aarvi too. They should be nearby. Do you want me to call them?" The nurse nodded her head and asked, but Ali shook his head in response.

Looking at the hesitation on this girl's face, Ali could already guess that his rebel of a sister would have created a loud commotion in the hospital. And Aarvi either came up to calm her down, or they got into another argument again and took their drama elsewhere, so as not to disturb his rest.

But the good thing is, it looks like his parents didn't know or haven't arrived here yet.

That's a good sign.

Imagining the scene of his mother's worried face, Ali felt warm in his heart. As well as a headache incoming, thinking how many temples and prayers he would have to finish before she can let him go out again.

Her faith in Godhood is sometimes too much for even him to bear.

Shaking his head, Ali just smiled and shoved these thoughts away. He deserved an ear twisting for always making her worry, after all.

"What about Liv, the girl who brought me here?" Ali asked, remembering her.

"Miss Olivia left after the operation was successful and you were declared outside any danger." The nurse said, but her words only made Ali frown.

'She wouldn't have _' Ali thought something in his heart and sighed loudly as he felt that his guess was the only reason that made sense for her to leave him here and go out.

'I need to stop her before she finds him.' Ali said and stood up from his bed.

"Mr Arya, your injuries haven't healed yet. The sutures can open, please lie back down." The nurse said as she rushed forward to help him.

Seeing his reckless actions she cursed her luck for being the last one to leave and getting caught in this conversation. If anything happened to him in her watch, she can basically say goodbye to her apprenticeship and her future medical career.

"Phone, where's my phone?" Ali asked as he looked around atop the tables for his phone.

"I'll bring it, just please rest. Please, you'll hurt yourself_" The nurse said with a worried face as she grabbed his shoulders and started forcing him on bed, but where could her strength push a grown man down.

"Give me your phone, I need to call someone." Ali said and pulled her phone from her coat's pocket himself.

Pressing the unlock button he noticed the face icon on top of the screen and sighed.

"How old are you, don't you know face locks aren't safe?" Ali muttered as he waved the phone in front of her face and saw it getting unlocked.

The young nurse who was just about to refute his claim, could only laugh in embarrassment and swear in her heart to remove that damn feature from her phone.

Ignoring her actions, Ali just dialed the number of Liv and waited for her to pick up.

"Pick up, Liv. Come on, I know your phone's with you. Just answer the phone." Ali muttered under his breath as he called her again.

And luckily in the third try, she finally picked the call.

"If it's not something very important, whoever you are, you're dead."

hearing the sharp voice from the other side, a smile came to Ali's face and he laid his back to the wall.

"Speak??" Liv said again, getting even more angry over this unknown caller's sudden interruption.

"I'm hungry. You're bringing me breakfast, right?" Ali said remembering his previous promise on the note. "I know it was supposed to be my treat, but you know how it is. I'll treat you to a dinner later."

Hearing the familiar joking tone, Liv who was just standing outside Kevin's house holding a gun in her hands, ready to signal the dozens of guards standing behind her to start a rain of fire to blast this whole neighborhood into smithereens, instantly calmed down and smiled in response.

"If you leave me over a note this time again, I'll kill you myself." Liv said as she threw the gun in her hand at her driver and signaled him to bring the car over.

She had just signaled her guards to handle everything without her while pointing at a camera and her phone, asking them to send her live footage directly on her phone, when Ali's words interrupted her silent actions again.

"Ohh and don't do anything to that guy. He's mine to kill."

"..."

"Liv, I'm serious." Ali added again, hearing the silence on the other hand.

"Fine. Just rest better at the hospital. I'll be there in a few minutes." Liv said and shook her head signaling her guards to just turn around and leave.

Before leaving she took a final glance at Kevin's house and thought in her heart "I should've killed you and sent you to your father a year ago."