Waving his hand in utter contempt, the tantrik said, "Enough, enough! No need for any more feigned innocence and flattering! You've realized in your very bones how immense my supreme power is now, haven't you, you devilish child? From now on, whenever you speak to me, think a hundred times before opening your mouth! And listen... if even a single bad or disrespectful word about King Aditya reaches my ears, I will turn you into an even uglier, more lethal, and dirtier black bug than that snake! Then you'll realize what a bitter delight it is writhing and coiling in a rotten gutter!"
Rubbing his face against the floor in sheer terror, Jishnu whimpered, "No, no, no, Apnamoni! I will never utter a single bad word about him or about you ever again in my life! I have understood your infinite power one hundred percent! Forgive me!"
Snigdha had been trembling in fear all this while as Jishnu was transformed into a snake, but the moment Jishnu returned to his human form, the blood surged straight to her head in a flash!
Grabbing a fistful of Jishnu's hair with a hard grip, Snigdha delivered a violent, sudden jerk!
Baring her teeth like a ferocious tigress, Snigdha roared, "Why do you have so much nerve and pompous pride, Jishnu? Why do you go putting on those useless airs, tell me? Didn't I instruct and warn you well beforehand about how lethal and immense this Tantrik Boudi's powers are? Why did you go popping off your mouth knowingly, you absolute goat?"—Saying this, Snigdha held onto Jishnu's hair and landed a flurry of hard slaps and blows with her shoe across his face!
Then, dragging Jishnu by his hair like a dog, Snigdha began pulling him out of the dungeon—"Come along, you wretched fool! I'll straighten you out today!"
Meanwhile, Prince Prafulla and Princess Prabhasa were standing at the dungeon entrance.
Yanking Prafulla's hand, Prabhasa said, "Dada, come... what will you gain standing in this hellhole? Let's return up to the royal palace!"
Letting out a deep sigh, Prafulla and Prabhasa also left the dungeon and headed back upstairs.
Bringing him out into the open, empty courtyard of the royal palace, Snigdha released her grip on Jishnu's hair and gave him a violent, fiendish shove, sending him tumbling down.
Distorting her face, Snigdha yelled, "Cover your face and go straight home now! You don't need to stay here for another single second! Get out of here right now! It is because of a foolish and reckless person like you that all plans are getting ruined and turned upside down! Good lord, I was nearly dead from fear just a moment ago! Why are you acting so senseless, tell me? We have to seize all those crores worth of property and the kingdom of Junagadh—did that completely evaporate from your rotten brain, you fool? Can one seize property by standing around like a scared, brainless chicken? You absolute howling fool! Go on, cover your face and run out of here double-quick!"
Thoroughly shaken by the terror of being a snake, the tantrik's fiendish power, and Snigdha's beatings and tongue-lashing, Jishnu had shrunk down in absolute humiliation. Keeping his head low, trembling in terror, and without uttering another single word, he bolted away from there like a thief just to save his own life!