Before
doing the mission Hades was bored.
Lately,
there are many people prefer death than living. They are on the death door,
coma, their spirit left their body. Hades gave them a test in order to know
wheter they still want to live or not.
99%
of those who partook the test are tired of living.
Hades
sat behind a desk that full of piled paper. His legs are stretched forward on
the table. He leaned on his wide pair of black wing. His bangs is covering his
closed eyes.
Just
like that, there is nothing changed after 100 years.
Looking
at that god, Lyre wanted to reprimand him, but she didn’t do it because she heard
the bell was ringing.
“There
is a guest, Master,” she said while looking at the door.
“I
know” Hades replied. He didn’t know how many times Lyre told him there are a
guess coming in the past 100 year, it was as if he couldn’t hear the bell
ringing.
Lyre
hastily opened the door and greet the guess. The guess was an elegant young
man. Maybe the word beautiful is the right word to describe him. He has a
silvery blonde hair, A blue deep eyes and a fair skin. Based on his appearance
maybe he was 21 or 22 years old.
Just
like any other people who has entered from that door, he was confused. This
place wasn’t a paradise, there are nothing to be amazed with. There are only a
desk,a chair, a mysterious door that led to another place and a dark cloud like
floor.
The
young man stared at Hades. Lyre already seen that kind of expression a million
times. Human or more precisely every ex-human candidate always felt the same
thing when they met Hades. Admiring while fearing, seeing hope while losing
hope, worshipping while hating at the same time. They all felt the same
contradiction when they saw Hades. Hades are well known and are called with
many other names. Hel, Pluto, Izanami, Izanagi, Reaper, Death and all of that
name has one thing in common.
The
God of Death.
Hades
opened his black eyes and stared at the young man expressionlessly.
“Come
in,” that god then stared at the door that led to another room.
“Where
am I?” the young man nervously asked. “Who are you?”.
Hades
let out a sigh. Or more precisely looked like letting out a sigh because
normally a god doesn’t even need to breath. He took a parchment and lazily read
it aloud.
“You
are in the transit,” he explained. “You can choose to keep living or resting in
peace. If you choose to keep living, then you’ll go back to the human world.
and if you choose to not to keep living then you can rest in peace in another
realm.”
Then
Hades explained about the young man’s life, and what just happened to him. The
last part was the most interesting, it should be, but lately it felt so
boring. Killed, die in an accident and
suicide is a detail that often appeared.
The
young man nod after hearing Hades Explanation. He seemingly understand while
not really understand at the same time.
Oh
by the way, the young man’s cause of death was because he was killed.
“Now
enter.” Hades told him to enter the grey door. “If another half an hour you
came back to this room, then that means you still want to live. If not... then
you may rest in peace in another realm. Understand?”
“Are
there something behind the door?” the young man frowned.
“I
don’t know,” Hades calmly replied. “you can meet anybody and find anything. You
are the only one who will know when you enter that grey door.”
Lyre
softly held the young man’s hand and escorted her to the grey door, that
afterward automatically opened with a strange shriek. There are nobody there
and there is nothing inside the room. Just a plain grey colored room.
“The
test will begin when the door closed,” Lyre said.
The
young man hesistatingly entered the room. Then the door automatically closed.
“Let’s
wait for the result” Hades mumbled.
There
are wall clock, pendulum clock, or any other type of clock. So they can only
count every second passed on their mind. That god leaned on his wing again, his
eyes are closed down and his hands are laid on the desk. Lyre stared at hades
with an unfazed admiring expression.
A
long time ago, Lyre has fallen in love once and know how it feels like. Her
feeling to Hades wasn’t love but clearly there are a potential that it may
change to.
If
Hades is a human and his gloomy aura changed into a bright one, Lyre was sure
that everywomen in the world will fall in love with him. Based on his
appearance alone, Hades already exceeded what the word handsome can describe.
His elegant face, his deep eyes, soft and beautiful hair. His appearance was
very majestic.
Unknowingly
half an hour has passed. Slowly Hades opened his eyes. Lyre stared at the grey
door full of hope.
But
unfortunately...
That
young man never came back.
***
“Is
the human world really that bad?” Hades mumbled as he stared at a parchment
containing that young man life and death record. The parchment only has two
column, life and death. Then Hades began to fill the death section. “Lately
there a lot of people who wants to die.”
“But
master has gone to the earth before,” Lyre said. “What does master think about
it?”
“That’s
a hundred years ago, and at that time I was busy handling that mad dictator,”
Hades expressionlessly said. “That guy was really hard to handle but that was
the most interesting part.”
“A
hundred years is not a long time. I believe things haven’t changed that much.”
Hades
raised his eyebrows. “Then life in there is still hard as ever.”
“If
master really curious about it, master can just go to there again.”
“What
are you talking about Lyre? I can’t go to the human world unless necessary,”
Hades said while leaning on the chair. “Based on the people who came here
lately it is very unlikely that I’ll need to go to the human world for the time
being.”
It’s
been a long time since Hades has to go to the earth to handle a mad dictator or
a serial killer. When Hades go to handle that kind of people he always make it
fast and clean. Because of that many rumor started about the cause of their
death.
They
are a very rare case. When they die they’ll go straight to hell without needing
to undergo a test beforehand. That is the consequence of killing a lot of
people. It is better to send those people to hell before they kill a lot of
people.
“Do
you really think so?” Lyre raised her brow. “I think it was the opposite. The
guess that came here lately killed in a same way, and that young man was
included. Do you not feel that it was weird?”
“Do
you mean the people who lost their liver?”
Lyre
nodded while trying her best not to throw up.
“I’ve
gotten an instuction to handle the person who kill them. I’m not really interested
in doing that kind job” Hades mumbled.
In
the following days everything goes the same as usual. Recieving the guest,
telling them to go to the grey door (100% choose to rest in peace), and
cleaning his wing. Hades thought his days gonna be like that until another
thousand years.
Unfortunately
he’s wrong.
Because
a moment after he finished filling a form of a broken hearted girl, he was
ordered to descent to the earth.
Translating Indonesian novel, that thought never crossed on my mind before(lol). Well, I only ever read Dewi Lestari's novels and didn't know the current trends either:D
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chapter. I hope NU accept this so there will be lots of readers and lots of inspiration for you and lots of chapters for me to read.
ReplyDeletenice, an indonesian novel and using kumoko FA as background is a good decision
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