THE TASK OF HELL
The Death

They speak in English. Translation.

Only darkness was seen even though the eyes were wide open. Warm and bright lights never came. I don't know how long the eyes have been open in silence without knowing what to do. The soul feels empty like empty without passion and resigned to events. Until suddenly ....

"Vesper," called out to someone with a big voice that made the soul tremble. Fear is felt by a woman until she is nervous when her name is called.

"Yes?" he answered doubtfully where he had been before, he had never felt this kind of fear while still alive. Suddenly, "Oh!" shock the woman with full rounded eyes when the figure of a creature wearing a hooded black robe sat behind a stone table appeared.

His body is as big as a Buddha statue in Leshan, China. His body was illuminated by the dim light around so that his figure was clearly visible. However, his face did not look like it had no appearance. Even his hands and feet were not there, everything was dark.

However, the black robe worn by the unknown figure moved including the head covering. It felt an extremely terrifying aura emitted by the figure that made the woman named Vesper gulp. Vesper who was once famous fierce and feared by everyone, as if there was nothing in front of the big-voiced figure.

"Give me one chance. You accept this task, I will allow you to return to Earth. Refuse, I will return you to hell to continue the torture."

Practically, the figure's speech made Vesper widen his eyes. He remembered how the relentless torment he had received made it like eternal life in that place.

"Recome! I gotcha!" the answer without hesitation. Instantly, "Agh!"

Vesper is stunned when all the memories of his life on Earth return to the last moment before he dies. Vesper's breath. His body until bent with wide eyes widened because surprised by the way his life during the mafia. He felt movement beside him. Slowly, the woman's head turned. His eyes widened when he found two figures on his right side.

"Well! Whoa!" exclaiming someone who made Vesper's head also turned to the origin of the sound on the other side.

"You!" squeak Vesper with a crinkled forehead.

"Vesper?" call a man who is no less surprised by himself.

"You ...," someone said, pointing.

"W-what happened? Oho! I-I .. drift!" screeched at a man with bulging eyes because his feet were not on the ground.

Vesper was puzzled when he realized that he was not a human being, but a human-shaped blob of gas that had a body, face, two hands and two white feet. Their bodies are also transparent. Vesper was stunned at being able to see another spirit figure standing in front of a man's spirit. The spirits stared at their new forms beyond reason. The five spirits were panicked and confused until their eyes returned to the large figure in front who was moving and made the silence instantly felt.

"Recover your memory until the last day before death to pick up as a guideline, here are all the feelings like a living human," said the big faceless figure who made the five spirits in front of him gulp.

"So .. are we really dead?" ask a man who is none other than Adrian Axton.

The figure nodded slowly. Everyone looks tense. They observed changes in the body that were like smoke because it was not so clearly visible. However, the spirit beside Vesper smiled widely. He seems to not care about himself now. Vesper, who was the only woman in the place, smiled.

As the two approached each other to let go of a deep longing, suddenly, "Argh!"

Vesper stopped his steps instantly when he saw her ex-husband—Erik Benedict— being grabbed by another spirit and she was Joel Ramos.

"What are you doing, motherfucker!"

"Let go, asshole!" erik shouted furiously which ended in a fistfight between the two.

"Hehehe, this will be very interesting. I thought seeing Han and Kai singing was enough to make me happy. However, seeing Erik and Joel fight like this, makes my life happy" Axton chuckled.

Vesper chose not to comment. She only saw two of her ex-husbands punch and kick each other, but they were both unharmed. The punch of the two made their spirit form like it was torn apart, but then it re-integrated again. And so on it was as if the wisp of smoke was eternal. Until suddenly ....

"Armghhh!"

"Oh!" the shock of Vesper when he saw the bodies of Erik and Joel crashed until both of them floated high up.

"You who!" joel shouted furiously.

"I am the Death. Welcome to a place you know .. hell."

Instantly, a huge blaze appeared around the five spirits. Hot air feels like a body roast. Panic immediately ensued when an explosion of hot magma hit their bodies. The breaths of the five men were stung with pale faces as they remembered the torment received in hell. Although their bodies were spirit and eternal, but the atmosphere like a place of torture seemed to have no effect.

"Stop! Stopit! We have accepted your offer! Don't return us to torture!" antony Boleslav shouted in fear as he tried to escape the eruption of magma that was just under his feet despite his body floating.

"Huh, huh!" vesper panted as the place that reminded him of the eternal torture chamber vanished.

The five spirits were limp. Erik and Joel returned to their place where all five stood lined up before the Death.

"I'll let you mess up all your life in the world. Now, you have died and received punishment for crimes committed while in the world. You can no longer live like a human, but my duty will allow you to blend in with humans and live a life like theirs. However, you will not be able to feel what is the pleasure of the world. It's just that I don't get rid of the feeling because you're going to need it on duty" said the figure amid the five spirits' panic.

"What is our duty?" erik asked with a gasp of breath and tried to come back strong.

As all the spirits waited for Death's reply, suddenly, "AAAAA!"

Vesper Zeno, Adrian Axton Giamoco, Erik Benedict, Joel Ramos and Antony Boleslav were sucked into the robes of Death. Their eyes widened when they saw a dazzling light at the end of the dark passage. Instantly, their eyes closed tightly because the light was so bright.

"Oh, this ..," said Vesper when he opened his eyes and saw life in a big city, but different from his time when he was alive.

The bodies of the five spirits were above the hustle and bustle of humans passing by in an area with colorful lights dazzling the eyes. The moon does not appear even a nearly invisible star because it is blocked by towering tall buildings typical of metropolitan cities. Death was not seen among them, but a black crow perched on a traffic light lamp post, not far from their existence. The night in town is like a festival.

"Why ... is different? What year is it now?" asked Antony who was flying around among the group of eccentric human beings on Earth, piercing his body just like he was invisible to them.

"2200."

"What!" the cry of the five spirits was shocked with wide-eyed eyes.

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