5 March xx18

"Another dream about her."

Light wakes up after a nightmare about the day he lost his sister.

As a Judge who kept storing up as many bad memories as the number of people he had saved, Light can no longer experience a normal dream. To be exact, he could but it is very rare for a Judge to have a normal dream. For every day in a month, there probably only one or two times where he would experience a normal dream and sometimes none at all. Most of the other time, he would experience countless nightmares from the bad incidents of all the people's memories inside his heart or his own painful memories.

Light takes his smartphone on the shelf to his left.

"6:30. still have time until my part-time job."

"I better prepare myself."

Light folds his hands and prays. He prays every morning as an act of asking for God's guidance and blessing for his daily activity.

"Amen."

Light gets out of his bed and walks out of his room. He walks towards the stair heading one level below, but as he passes by his sister's room, he stops.

"Morning, sis."

Light greets her nonexistent sister every morning with a very quiet voice and a sad smile as an act of acknowledging her presence when she was still alive.

Light walks down the stairs, proceeds to head to the living room, and takes a seat on the couch. He turns on his TV, and starts searching for the news channel. He's watching the news while eating a simple breakfast, an instant cup noodle.

"The largest cults of devil's follower have been kil---" *zzzt*

"The whereabouts of the legendary Queen of Cat---" *zzzt*

"A mass murder occurred in the---" *zzzt*

"A serial killer is on the loose, authorities have issu---" *zzzt*

"A group of self-proclaimed terrorists has causes disturbance here and the---" *zzzt*

"Same old crime news here and there as usual."

After breakfast, he took a bath and prepares himself to get ready for the day. In his room, He grabs his sister's earring that he always puts on a shelf and wears it on his left ear.

"Please watch over me too today, Luca." said Light talking to himself.

Light leaves the house. He activates his Faith power on both of his legs and gathers wind as they formed a small twister on both of his feet. Light starts to fly away and left the house towards his daily routine.

          5 minutes later. . .

As a Judge, I am supposed to have a strong Faith power compared to other Believers in general. This is due to my duty as a Judge to ensure victory towards the people I have to save. Most of the time, I have to make my targets unconscious first before proceeding with my Judging. This whole stuff about Judge is something that has never been done before in any history. This is a completely new system implemented by the One True God through me. However, even as a Judge, I still can't escape from the harsh reality of a soon-to-be grown up. Because I. . .

"Welcome!"

. . . work as a store clerk in a famous convenience store brand while wearing their symbolic uniform.

"Is this everything, sir?"

"Yes, please."

"Okay, that will be Rp 26,000!" (Rp = Rupiah, currency in Indonesia)

"Here's the money."

"And here's your changes. Please come again!" said I as I bow and fake a smile until the customer left.

"Sigh~ Smiling all the time is exhausting. Still can't believe someone who's anti-social like me works in a service job, but at least the pay is good enough for a part-time job. And the store manager is kind too."

Since this is just a small branch in my town, usually I'm the only one here until lunchtime. My shift is over at lunch break and there are more people handling the store afterward.

After work, I usually continue to fly between the clouds, searching for the people I need to save and do my Judge's duty.

"(It's 9:00 in the morning. I better clean up some stuff since it's usually not that crowded at this hour.)"

I left the store counter and starts cleaning up the storage room.

"Ugh. . . It's so dirty. Luckily, this is pretty easy with my Faith power."

I transformed my right hand and start absorbing dirt on the entire room. It only took me 10 seconds, then I proceed to tidy up the store items and boxes in the storage room.

It's been an hour but it seems like I still won't finish anytime soon. Then I heard someone's voice.

"Excuse me, is anyone there?"

*!*

I immediately left the storage room as soon as I heard the voice that belongs to a girl.

"Coming! Sorry for the inconvenience."

I quickly walk to the store counter and the girl drops the item she picked on it.

She is wearing a short sleeve black hoodie. She is putting the hood on the whole time. I also cannot see past her knees from the store counter.

"That item will be Rp 50,000, miss."

As I tell her the price for the item she showed, I catch a glimpse of her face that is slipping out of the shadow, under her hoodie. I saw a girl with black long silk hair. However, it was still too dark to see her face since it was covered by her hood. 

I was stunned for a moment, but as I lost in thoughts admiring her silky hair alone, she suddenly takes me back to reality with a slam on the counter.

*BAM*

"Here's the money! Keep the change!"

*ka-chlank*

She puts the money on the counter by slamming it. That caught me off guard as I was dumbfounded.

After that, she left the store quickly.

"(That shocked me so much, I feel like my lifespan has been decreased by two years.)"

I let out a relieved sigh as I also feel I miss the chance to get to know her better.

"(Huh? Wait? What am I thinking? It's not like I have any interest in that girl! I was just surprised by her beauty. Yeah, that's it! It's just been a while since I met a girl in my age outside of Judge's duty.)"

"Huh?"

I question myself while I the money she gave me.

"Wait, WHAT THE HELL? This is not money!! It's freaking toy money!! GODDAMMIT! I HAVE TO GO AFTER HER!!"

". . ."

"On second thought, I can't just leave the store."

"Sigh~ I'll use my pay to cover for this purchase." I said as I sob a cry of defeat inside.

*Ka-chlank*

"(Oops, another customer?!)"

"Welcome!"

          Lunch break, 12:00. . .

"(My shift is over. Time to do my Judge's duty.)"

*grooowl*

"Hahaha! You sure are hungry, Lunehart-san. Go on, have lunch! You're done for the day, good work!"

"Good day, Manager-san! Thank you as always! I'll be taking my leave then."

The store manager usually drops by a few minutes before the lunch break and helps the store with the other co-worker. The manager is a 60-year-old married man, sometimes even his wife comes to the store to help out.

I don't particularly feel lonely handling the store alone, in fact, I should be thanking him instead for allowing me to take the morning shift since not that many people come by, and I can handle them just fine. Since I don't personally like dealing with people outside of Judge's duty, especially servicing them as customers which is something that I should never say.

After I left the store, I transform both of my legs. I gather whirlwind on both of my feet and I flew vertically upwards. I am off to do my Judge's duty.

          Japan, 13:00. . .

Light arrived in Japan. He usually goes here casually to have lunch since he loves Japanese food a little bit too much, especially ramen. He also has saved up yen since he came to Japan so often, it's almost regularly.

"(There's Tokyo! I better find a place to land.)"

After looking around the town, Light decides to land on top of the Tokyo Tower, but before the thought escapes his head, he stopped.

"(Wait a minute, if I recall, using Faith power on landmarks like these are forbidden. I might even get charged a lot of money or even go to jail if I'm not mistaken.)"

Light stops midair and descends slowly to the city, landing on the side of a walkway. He has officially landed in Tokyo.

"(Aaaahh. . . I love this atmosphere!)"

"Time to have lunch!"

He walks around the street searching for delicious food to sates his hunger. Or to be exact, he can't decide what to eat since all of the smells coming out of the food stores and restaurants are just so tempting.

In the middle of his utopia of delicious smells, he suddenly remembers something crucial.

"(This area is full of high-class restaurants if I even try to eat in one of these places I won't survive until next month, financially.)"

Light's happiness was suddenly blasted away by reality.

"(I'll go grab cheap takoyaki and onigiri. . . )" as he sadly decides what to eat in his thought.

Light looks around for more low-economy-friendly food stalls while he walks past all of the high-end luxurious restaurants. 

He finally found a street food stall. The stall provides several seats so buyers are able to sit down and properly enjoy the meal. The most popular item on the menu is a hotdog, but he personally is allergic to sausages in general. He always finds himself having stomach issues every time he ate one. So, he purchased a few shrimp tempura and a rice ball. 

He walks up to the nearest seat and sits to enjoy his meal. Light can finally have his lunch. He eats lunch with pleasure even though it's just some cheap street food.

Until suddenly. . .

*!*

"(It was only for a moment, which means. . .)"

As a Judge, Light has a 'lust sensor'. He can at least sense lust 5 km away from him, but he can't tell whether it's far away or near him, but that's when his next ability comes into play. It's called Lust vision. When his eyes lighted up in dim pink color, he can physically see lust as gas-like trails. That is the ability where he can exactly pinpoint the lust's whereabouts but it only has a 2km range limit compared to his sensor.

Near the place where Light eats, there is a train rail, specifically one that belongs to the bullet train. Light quickly gulps down the rest of his meals.

Light has been a Believer for two years now. During that whole time, he experiments with his Faith power on a lot of things. Until one day, he found the fastest way to move from place to place.

Light starts gathering the fabric of space and space itself warps around his feet. He released the condensed warped space around his feet. He suddenly disappeared from the spot. 

He warped and repelled himself towards the bullet train. He is already on his way to catch up with it. 

Light reappears on top of the moving bullet train. The moment he warped, he already tries to pull the train itself lightly on the bottom of his feet in order to stand still at a moving object at such a high velocity. 

Light's eyes are glowing dimly in pink color. He casually walks across the top of the bullet train as he traces the lust's trails of aura.

Inside the train, someone is molesting a high school girl in the midst of the crowd. The girl cannot cry for help because she is embarrassed if people around her knew she was being molested, but at the same time, she doesn't want to be molested any further. 

As the molester tries to up his molesting, a pitch-black hand suddenly comes through from the ceiling of the train and grabs the man's face. People inside the train were startled including the girl who was the victim. It was Light's. 

Light pulled up the molester out and pins him down on top of the train. He gathers wind at his feet and levitates away from the bullet train as the train continues forwards leaving him and the molester behind at high speed. 

Light descends to the side of the rail track. There are wide rice fields in that area. He slams the molester to the ground.

"UARGH!"

"Do you have anything you want to say?" said Light in an incredibly pissed tone.

"WHO ARE YOU?"

"Before that, what were you doing? Any reason why?" said Light while trying to calm down.

"NO! It was just a coincidence that my hand lands on that girl's butt!"

"But then you feel lustful and decided to continue instead of realizing it was just an accident and apologize? Let me break your arm!" Light's tone goes high again.

"NO! STOP! I APOLOGIZE! PLEASE DON'T!"

"You're apologizing now? Fine, then."

Light summons the Sword of Purification in his hand.

"NOO!! PLEASE DON'T!! FORGIVE ME!!"

Light punches the man with his other blackened hand, ignoring the man's words, and knocks him out. He stabs the Sword of Purification on the man's chest. 

After the Sword finished absorbing the man's negative emotions, Light stabs it into his own chest. He receives the man's memories and emotions.

. . .

"So it's that kind of stuff, huh?"

Light learns the man's rough life with his wife. Their married life has come a long way that they feel exhausted with one another.

"Hmm, I don't exactly know what to do about this kind of problem."

While brainstorming for a piece of advice, the man wakes up. It has been ten minutes since Light started thinking of what to do.

"Sir, please talk this through with your wife, with the most sincerity and honesty. That's all I can think about."

". . ."

"Lastly!"

Light puts his hand on top of the man's head and starts praying. A bright light began to shine down towards both of them.

"Please refrain yourself from harming other people like you did today. May God's blessings be with you." said Light as he leaves afterward.

 8 hours later. . .

On top of a building's rooftop, Light is eating cup ramen while enjoying the starry night sky alone.

"(I saved 9 people today. I feel accomplished.)" said Light to himself feeling happy.

Once he finished gulping down the last slurps of his cup ramen, he sensed yet another lust.

"Last one for today!"

Instead of throwing the trashes, Light transforms his hand and absorbs all of the trashes including the food packaging, completely clearing any leftovers behind.

"(That building. . .)"

Light flew towards a building diagonally to the right of the building he just enjoyed his dinner from. There was a highway separating the two buildings that have been closed for some time. He landed on the building's rooftop. It turns out this building is a 25-stories building.

Light activates his Lust vision. A trail of lust became visible to his eyes, and then he follows the trail.

"(It's coming from downstairs.)"

Light quickly hurries to look for the way down. He found a door leading to an emergency staircase. He ran as fast as he can through the emergency staircase and the trail of lust leads him to the 19th floor. It took him a whole minute to reach the 19th floor from the rooftop.

*PANT PANT*

"I should. . .start. . .exercising. . ."

*PANT PANT*

"(My body is on a whole lot worse state than I thought. Such is the body of a nerd.)"

Light walks slowly as he gradually speeds up through the corridor of the 19th floor. 

On the long corridor, there are doors with numbers indicating the number of each room. For some reason, the room numbers here are all 3-digits. Room number 496 is what it says in front of the door where he stops.

"(This is where the lust is coming from.)"

Light transforms his arm and touches the door handle. He absorbs vibration to prevent sound to come out as he opens the door.