Abandoned school, 16:37. . .
*pant pant pant*
"I think we're far enough now!"
Inside a three-story abandoned school, Mark, the guy who created the wall of ice, is currently inside on the staircase, halfway towards the third floor. Next to him was the high school girl from before. The girl is lying down on the floor. Both of her hands and legs are frozen solid. Her mouth was also frozen, and she could not let out any sound. The girl struggles and shakes her body to free herself from the ice, yet the only noise she makes is the rustling sounds of her shirt and skirt against the floor.
"I'm giving you some advice, girl, if you move your body that much, it will break the ice along with your own hands and legs. If you wish for it, then please ignore my words!"
The girl immediately stops moving. She can only cry silently during her current predicament.
"There you go!"
Mark observes the girl's body carefully. Lust overcame him as soon as he saw the girl's build.
"Maybe I'll do you alone! My friends are all knocked out by that boy anyway!!"
The girl was scared the moment she heard what Mark was saying, but then again, if she struggles too much, her own limbs will break apart. She can only cry silently. He makes the girl sit on the floor and rests her back against the wall.
"Let's begin, shall we? Don't worry! I'm not as violent as my other friends! I'll at least make sure you won't feel any pain."
The girl looks away as she keeps crying silently. Mark moves his hands towards the girl's chest.
*BAAAMMMM*
All of a sudden, the wall on their right was broken, and someone came through it.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
Mark screams in shock, he shrieks like a teenage girl.
"Looks like I'm not late!!"
It was Light. He somehow tracked down both of them and has arrived at the abandoned school.
Light wastes no time, and he immediately punches Mark on his stomach with a blackened right hand. Mark was sent flying through a wall behind him, and he fell onto the floor inside a classroom behind the wall. The classroom was empty, there were no chairs or tables at all inside.
"AAAARRGGHH!!"
Mark groans in pain as he rolls back and forth on the floor. His back felt severely painful from the impact against the wall, more than the pain he felt on his stomach from the punch.
Light approaches the girl and crouches. He blackens his right arm again and touches the girl on her frozen feet. The ice disintegrates slowly, and it all flows into his blackened hand. He did the same to her hands and mouth and completely freed the girl from the ice.
"I apologize! I was being careless! I thought I knocked down this guy long enough!"
The girl cries, but this time, a cry of relief. Light pats the girl's hair to calm her down.
"Wait here! I'll take care of him real quick!"
Light stands up and jumps towards the hole in the wall. When he entered the classroom, he immediately realized that the entire classroom was frozen. The temperature here drops massively. The hole in the wall behind him also closed and was frozen with ice. Light notices that he started letting out white mist from his breath.
"Ah, I'm not exactly dressed for the occasion!"
The moment Light lands on the ice floor below. Ice spikes rise from all around him. They all appeared in a circle near the floor where he landed. He immediately transformed both of his legs pitch black, and all of the ice changed direction towards his two legs instead, and they were all absorbed and vanished.
"Laying traps? Now that I can respect!!"
Light looked to his left and right, and he found no sign of Mark. He blackens his right hand and crouches. He puts his blackened hand on the ice floor, but as soon as he's about to absorb all of the ice, multiple ice spikes shoot from the front, the left, the right, and the wall behind him. Each of the ice spikes has a diameter of 2 meters on its flat ends, is 70cm in length, and its other ends are sharp and pointy.
All of the ice spikes launch, and they all collide at the center of the classroom. The ice spikes collide for an entire minute, and each of those ice spikes breaks apart into pieces, and all the pieces fall onto the floor. There were so many of them that they made a huge pile of snow at the center of the classroom.
"YEEESSS!!! I GOT HIM!!! HAHAHAHAH!! Seeing how dangerous his Faith power is, I resorted to using traps, and I won!!! YIPEEEE!!"
All of a sudden, Mark appears from the wall on the opposite side of the hole, now closed, where he was sent flying through. Turns out he made two layers of ice wall on one of the walls, creating a hidden spot to hide between the walls.
"Now, now! Let me check his corpse to make sure I got him!"
Mark lifts his right hand, and the pile of snow slowly melts away until all of the ice in the classroom is also gone.
"What?"
There was no one under all of that ice.
"W-Where did he go? WHAT?"
*BAAAMM*
"AAAAAKKHHH!!"
And then suddenly, Mark was punched on his left shoulder from behind. He was sent flying again, and this time he flew through the wall of the classroom and landed outside in the school's hallway.
"AAAAARRGGHHH!!!"
"(That hurt him... So his left shoulder wasn't his Source? I haven't been fighting against that many Elemental-type! I have no idea what determines or what is the visual sign of their body part being their Source. . .)"
Light walks towards the hole in the wall, and he goes through it. He joins Mark, who landed in the school hallway in a sitting position with his back resting against the wall behind.
"You have any more tricks?"
"How. . . did you find us? I made sure to leave no traces behind. I froze the undersides of my shoes and made them have flat surfaces to make sure I don't leave any footprint behind!"
"I wasn't tracking you from your footprints. I was following your lust."
"My what?"
Light closes his eyes and re-opens them. His eyes are now shining in a dim pink color.
"These are the eyes of the Judge of Lust, me. With these eyes, I can see your sinful lust appear as pink aura streams, and I just followed them."
"Who. . . are you?"
"Once again, name's Light Lunehart! I am the Judge of Lust. I am a member of the Seven Layers of Judgment! I have come to bring divine judgment for the sinful!"
"Judge? Lust? Divine? What are you. . . talking about?"
"You'll understand! For now, go to sleep!"
Light clenches his fist, and it turns pitch black. He punches Mark on his head, and he loses consciousness.
"Done. . ."
Light lifts Mark effortlessly with his blackened right hand. He grabs him by his hair, and he walks and drags him towards the girl who's still on the staircase. He drops Mark, and crouches down towards the girl.
"Hey, are you okay? I took care of him!"
The girl was very anxious the whole time. Light may look strong to her, but she had no idea what his capabilities were. There's a slight chance that he'll lose, and the girl would become a victim yet again. But instead of running away despite that thought in her head, she decided to hold on to hope for him, so she stayed.
"*sobs sobs* Thank you *sobs* I was just seconds away from being. . .*sobs sobs*"
"It's okay!"
Light pats the girl's hair and strokes it back and forth.
"Everything is okay now!"
And then all of a sudden, the girl jumps to him and hugs him. He falls on the floor as the girl keeps hugging him. He was startled a bit, but he understood. After all, she was minutes or seconds away from becoming a victim.
Light pats her on the back. She kept hugging him and cried on his chest for a few seconds. And then she lets go of her hug and sits on the floor.
"I-I'm sorry! I shouldn't have latched onto you like that!"
"It's fine. I understand!"
"So what is your name, mister?"
"Light Lunehart! I am the Judge of Lust! I'm a member of the Seven Layers of Judgment!"
"Judge-san, thank you for saving me!"
The girl shows her gratitude by bowing on the floor with her head touching it as well.
"Please lift your head! I was simply doing my job!"
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A few minutes later, Light is carrying Mark in one hand, and he's with the girl that he saved in front of the abandoned school gate.
"Then I'll excuse myself, Judge-san! Once again, thank you for saving me! I will remember this for the rest of my life!"
"Don't mention it! Go and be careful!"
The girl runs from Light, but at a distance, she stops once again and turns around. She waves her hands, saying goodbye with a face full of gratitude towards Light. And then she leaves the scene.
Light jumps up high towards the sky with Mark on his hands. He's heading out back to the alleyway.
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*THUMP*
Light throws Mark's body on the ground. He has aligned John, Jack, and Mark's unconscious bodies side by side.
"Now, for the real reason I came here."
He opens his right arm, and a sword made out of pure light appears. The sword has a rear guard, and if the sword were put upside down, it would look like a cross. This is the Sword of Purification. It's a sword that can be summoned by the Judges.
Light approaches John on the ground. He stabs him with the sword right in the chest.
After a few seconds, the sword turns black, and he pulls out the sword. He stands up and points its sharp end towards his own chest. He takes a deep breath and lets it all out.
"Here we go!
Light stabs himself with the blackened sword. The sword turns back into its pure white state as the blackness flows towards him instead.
"Urgh!!"
This Sword has a function to absorb negative emotions from an unconscious person. Along with emotions, the memories associated with those emotions were also swept into. But the Sword only absorbs the person's currently strongest negative emotions.
And so, as if a bunch of videos appear inside Light's head, he obtains a painful memory belonging to John.
"Mom! Don't go! Mom! Please don't go!!"
"Mom!! Don't leave me!! Mooooomm!!!"
"URGH!! It's been two years. . .It's been two years, and yet, I can never resist these painful emotions."
Light shed his tears. He experienced John's memories about losing her mother to an incurable disease as if he were the one who lost his mother.
*pant pant*
"Is that. . . the reason why he became. . . a thug?"
*pant pant*
Light tries to calm his breathing. After a few seconds, he has calmed down.
"Two more. . ."
And then Light proceeds to do the same to Mark and Jack. He stabs them in turn and receives painful memories about their pasts.
*pant pant pant*
Light sheds his tears again.
"Dammit. . ."
It turns out that Mark loses his best friend in a street race, and Jack loses his older brother in a car accident.
*pant pant pant*
"I didn't see the part where they met each other and then hunt down girls like they do now. . . There might be other victims that I never find out."
Light walks and stands in front of the three of them. He unsummons the Sword of Purification. He puts his hands together and takes a pose to pray. He also bows his head and closes his eyes.
. . . . .
"Amen!"
Light opens his eyes. He opens his palms and points them forward towards the three unconscious young men. And then a white light came down from above, engulfing him. The white light slowly flows towards the three unconscious men on the ground. After a few seconds, the light disperses and fades away.
"I am finished here. . ."
Light blackens both of his feet, and he jumps towards the sky and leaves the alleyway.
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20 minutes later. . .
". . . ."
"Huh? What happened? Where am I now?"
*!!*
"AAAAARRGGHH!!"
"Ah, he's awake!"
"Yo, Jack!"
The three young men have regained their consciousness one by one.
"Ouch ouch! What happened? My body aches all over!"
"Jack, listen! Listen! Don't you feel something different about yourself?"
"Yeah, Jack! When we woke up, we immediately felt that something was different!"
"Huh?"
And then Jack finally realized that his chest felt lighter than it used to be.
"W-What is this?"
Jack suddenly shed tears.
"You felt it, right? There's no more of that looming emptiness in the back of my mind! And my chest felt a lot lighter when it usually felt suffocating!"
"What happened to us?"
"It's that boy, remember!"
"That boy? Ah. . ."
"He talked about divine something, right? Is this what that is?"
"I feel like right now, I can do anything right! There's no more of those doubts or negative thoughts in my mind that I will fail!"
"Yeah! Who on earth was that boy?"
"The only thing I know about any divine things is God, right?"
"Is this God's work?"
And then the three of them shed tears, and they all cheered happily for what happened to them. They keep having conversations about what they all want to do in the future.
What was supposed be a crime scene for rape, turned out to have the best outcome because of Light's interference. Light is a Judge, the Judge of Lust. He was chosen by the One True God Himself two years ago. He was tasked to deal with any crime incidents involving the sin of Lust. His main duty is to save the bad guys in the truest sense, while obviously not neglecting the victims as well.