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Chapter 7 - The First Judge, the Judge of Lust (3)

Light's house, outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, 20:00. . .

Light lands safely in front of his front door. He opens the front door and enters the house.

"I'm home. . ."

There was no response, only a silent breeze of air across the room.

". . . of course, it's been two years already."

Light goes to the kitchen, opens his refrigerator, and takes out a cup of instant noodles. He prepared hot water and the noodles. Afterwards, he sits in the dining room alone with his hot cup noodles. He takes a pose to pray.

"Amen!"

He eats dinner all alone.

*Sluurrrp*

"Mmmhhh! My favourite!"

*Sluuuurp*

Light enjoys his cup noodles in peace. One thing about him, though, is that he eats noodles using a fork instead of chopsticks. He tried using chopsticks in the past, but he's so bad at it that he just gave up.

*Sluurp*

"AAAAAHH!!! REVIVED!!"

His diet hasn't been healthy as he eats instant noodles most of the time. Afterwards, he took a bath. And then he goes to his room and plays a video game on his PC.

Two hours later, the clock says 10:31. He turns off his PC. He takes off his silver earring and places it on top of a shelf. He goes to the bed and sits on it, and he takes another pose to pray.

Light prays to the One True God as a way to report everything that he has done for the day. This isn't exactly mandatory for any of the Judges as God never told them to do so; this is just what he wants to do every day.

"Amen!"

And afterwards, he finally goes to sleep.

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2 March 2018. . .

*BEEP BEEP BEEP*

Light opens his eyes and turns off the alarm on his phone.

"6:06. . ."

Light wakes up and sits on the bed. He prays yet again and asks God to give him the strength to go through his daily routines.

"Amen!"

He quickly leaves his bedroom, but when he passes by his sister's room, he stops.

"Morning sis. . ."

He stands silently as he stares at the door to his sister's room. And then he goes to the first floor and prepares breakfast. For breakfast, he simply eats two sandwiches. He takes a bath afterwards and prepares himself for the day. He also wears the silver earring on his left ear daily.

"Watch me over, Luca. . ."

Light leaves his front door and locks it. He blackens both of his legs, and he jumps up high towards the sky.

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*BEEP BEEP*

"Welcome!!"

Light bows his head down and welcomes a customer.

He is working as a cashier register as part-time in a convenience store in the city next to his. This is a famous brand convenience store, and he's wearing their infamous blue and white striped uniform, complete with the blue hat.

Given how strong his Faith power is, he's still unable to defeat the reality of working shifts as a responsible person.

"Is this gonna be all, sir?"

"Yes!"

"That will be Rp. 30,000![1]"

"Ah, an exact change! Thank you, mister!!"

*BEEP BEEP*

"*sigh* This job is tiring because of how much I have to smile. . . My neutral face isn't happy after all."

It's currently only 7:30 in the morning, and just now was the only customer that came.

"Hmmm, I might as well tidy some stuff up!"

Light leaves the cashier register to go to the storage room in the back. He tidies up some stuff and resupplies some shelves that have diminished stocks. He's been managing the stocks and tidying stuff in the storage for about half an hour. He didn't realize that there was someone on the register.

"Excuse me? I wanna buy something!"

"Ahh!!"

Light immediately leaves the storage and runs quickly to the cashier.

"Sorry for the inconvenience! Will that be all?"

"Yes, please!"

The customer was a girl. She is almost as tall as he is. She dresses in all black, similar to him. She wears a black short-sleeved hoodie and short black pants. He didn't see past her legs as she was standing in front of the register. She covers her head with the hoodie.

"That will be Rp. 25.000!!"

The girl gave Light the money, but then he saw a glimpse of her face under the shadow of the hoodie. Her face was. . . beautiful to his standard. His heart skips a beat.

She has black long hair under the hoodie and a pair of beautiful, clear blue ocean eyes. Her hair looks so smooth and silky. In all of his years in school, Light hasn't seen a girl who made him feel like this just from the way she looks alone. He was captivated by her pretty face. 

The girl suddenly grabbed the item she had purchased and immediately left. He was startled when she suddenly left.

"(I kinda wanna see that girl again. . .)"

And then Light regained his focus, and when he was about to put the money in the register, he realized that the money was fake; it was toy money.

"GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! SHE MAY HAS A PRETTY FACE BUT HOW COULD SHE SCREW OVER AN HONEST WORKING PERSON THAT I AM?"

Light wanted to chase after the girl, but then he backed down of his own accord.

"*sigh* It's only Rp. 25.000, I'll just put my own money to cover this purchase!"

*BEEP BEEP*

"Ah! Welcome!"

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At noon, Light's shift is over. He's only working for half a day. The store manager and several other workers come at this hour to work their shift.

"Ah, Lunehart-san! Thank you, as always, for covering for us for the morning shift!"

"It's okay, Manager-san! This works best for me, too!"

"Here I bought you lunch! It's a healthy one, don't worry! I know you've been eating a lot of cup noodles as of late!"

"Ah! T-Thank you for your kindness, sir!"

"Alright, you can go, Lunehart-san! We'll take care of the rest!"

"Appreciate it! Then I'll take my leave, Manager-san!"

Light leaves his shift after he changes back into his casual clothing. He leaves with the lunch and a smile on his face.

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Jakarta, Indonesia, 21:00. . .

"Another day of productive day! I've saved about 15 criminals today from their own doom!"

Light is currently sitting on the rooftop of a ten-story building. He is eating instant cup noodles yet again.

*Sluuurp*

"Mmmmhhh!!!"

He enjoys his food as he also enjoys the views of the city with so many lights coming from the buildings, as well as cars' headlights on the highway below. Not to mention the clear dark sky with so many stars and a half moon shining above.

*Sluurrp*

*gulp gulp gulp*

"Aaaahhh!!"

Light finishes his dinner and drinks bottled water to cleanse his palate. He transformed his hand black, and then he absorbed the cup, the plastic fork, and the plastic bottle, and they all vanished into his blackened hand.

"I guess it's time to end the day!"

*!!!*

Light stood up and was ready to head home, but then he suddenly felt a lust coming from somewhere in the city.

"Last one for the day!"

On top of his Lust vision, as a Judge, he can also sense Lust. But his Lust sensor doesn't tell him from which direction the Lust is coming. That's when his vision comes into play. His Lust sensor has a range of 5km in a radius, but his vision only has a 3km radius of where the Lust starts becoming visible to him.

Light uses his Lust vision and is surprised that the Lust was simply coming from the building on the other side of the highway. That building was a bit taller as it was fifteen stories high.

"That's a hotel, but of course!"

He wastes no time and immediately flies to the rooftop of the building. Once he landed, he walked down the stairs and followed the trails of Lust. He also blackened both of his feet, and they absorbed any sound that he made, making him walk silently. He keeps going down until he reaches the 10th floor.

He stops at the door that says 'Room 496'. He transforms his right hand, touches the doorknob, and absorbs it. He easily opens the door without making any noise. There was a very short hallway and a door that led to the bathroom on the left. He keeps walking, and then he sees a window door with a balcony on the outside. On the other side of the balcony, there was a bed, and there were two people currently on it.

"Just give yourself up to me! Or I'll hurt you!!"

"Noooo!!! Please let me go!!"

There was a fat middle-aged man on top of a girl who looked to be in her 20s. They were both covered by a blanket, and they were naked underneath. Light walks silently behind them before he introduces himself. They were so occupied with each other that they never noticed him in the room.

"We're both ready anyway! So why don't we----!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

All of a sudden, the man magically floats away from the bed, naked, and the back side of his neck lands right on Light's blackened right palm.

"Forcing yourselves on someone, huh?"

"W-WHAT? WHO ARE YOU?"

Light ignores the man, and he looks towards the woman.

"Miss, wear your clothes and leave! I'll take care of this asshole!"

"O-Okay!"

The woman hastily puts on her clothes, and then she bows her head on the bed.

"THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU FOR SAVING ME!!"

"It's okay, miss! Go! And be careful on your way home!"

The woman immediately runs away and leaves the room safely.

"Now then. . ."

"AAAKKHH!!"

Light throws the man towards the wall, and then the man falls towards the bed on his back.

"So what were you doing to that woman exactly?"

"Urgh!! Why do you care? I was paying her money so she could survive this month financially if she agreed to sleep with me!"

"Sounds like she never agreed! Are you making this up?"

The man slowly rolls over to sit on the bed and covers himself with the blanket.

"ENOUGH!! WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU BRAT? DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM? YOU'RE MESSING WITH THE WRONG PERSON!!"

"Really? Do you know who I am instead?"

Light looks towards the man, and he blackens half of his face to instill fear in the man.

"HIIIEEEEE!! WHAT ARE YOUUUUU??!" 

*BANG*

But then, all of a sudden, he pulls out a gun from under the blanket and shoots Light right in his face. Turns out he's been scrounging his clothing from under the bed to take the gun.

". . ."

Light remains unfazed. The bullet that went into his head disappeared and vanished.

"WHAAAAAAAAATTTT?? BUT I SHOT YOUR HEAD!!! HOW ARE YOU ALIVE?"

"It seems like you wanna play rough!!"

Light lowers his tone, and he shows clear signs of anger. This scares the man a lot.

"NOOOO!! WAIT!! PLEASE LET ME GOOO!! IM SORRY!!! I DIDN'T MEAN TOOOO!!! PLEASE SPARE MEEEE!!!!"

Light slowly walked towards the bed silently as he kept staring at the man with a murderous glare.

"NOOOOOO!!! PLEASEEEE!!!! W-WAITTTT!! HEY!! WAIIIITTT!! THERE'S SOMEONE ON THE BALCONY!!! BEHIND YOUUU!!! LOOOKKK!!"

"As if such a trick would----!!"

Usually, Light isn't the type of person who would fall for the oldest trick in the book; however, this time, he does indeed feel the presence of a human being behind him. He turns his head around as he slowly undoes the transformation on his face.

*!!!*

He saw a familiar face. He saw the same girl that he met this morning. This time, she let down her hoodie, and Light clearly saw the girl's entire appearance for the first time in full. He also noticed the beautiful, silky-smooth, long black hair in its full length. Her hair reaches her lower back.

One thing that he immediately noticed was that although her eyes looked pretty, they also looked lifeless.

[1] 1 American Dollar is about 16.000 Indonesian Rupiah

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