"...Ah, finally." I looked around to find myself lying on a comfy bed, "Looks like that was just a bad dream."

I was in a Yellowish tinted room. It had some children's toys around me, how odd. My body, it's still White though, meaning I must still be in that Heaven 2.0 thingy. Owww, my head...

"What the fuck...?" I trudged along to the mirror, only to find my face completely obscured in its reflection, "Why can't I see...?"

My body was White from head to toe still, and along my back was a golden spine. I couldn't see my face in the mirror, or any reflective surface in the house for that matter. Water surfaces, shiny silverware, metallic appliances, they all showed my body properly, but whenever I aimed them at my face, it'd get blurry.

"Yo! Finally awake, I see!" The guy from before called out to me, "Check it, golden scars!"

This is one of the two other people that were with me while we were getting summoned into Heaven. That Divine voice said something about us being the first three guests to arrive. So the house I just left, and the yard across from me where he is... They must be our property, I assume.

"Sick, look at mine." I turned my back over.

"Whaaaat~? Your whole spine is golden!" He gawked, "Hey, quick question."

"Shoot."

"Can you see my face?" He asked.

"...Yeah, you're perfectly visible. Can you see mine?"

"Yep, all good." He stood there in thought for a couple of seconds, "I can't see my face. It's blurry when I try to."

So my assumption was right, he has the same condition I do. I wonder if this is supposed to be the case for everyone. Maybe not seeing your face is like a way to keep everyone humble or something. The Gods would probably have the answer for this, but it's not like we can just find them roaming around, probably.

"Hey, you." The other guy that was with us popped out of their house, "You're her, right? The girl that was with us when we first got summoned?"

"Yeah, so you guys met up already." I crossed the street to talk to them more easily, "Are you two living together?"

"Hm? Nah, I just invited him over to chat a bit." The first guy chuckled, "We wanted to think up names for each other, since no one remembers who they were, and we think we came up with a pretty good solution."

Oh? This is interesting, certainly calling everyone "this guy" and "that guy" will get rather stale and confusing after a short while, so I'm glad to hear it.

"Lay it on me." I chuckled.

"Gimme your hands." He showed his own, "On the back of everyone's palms should be two letters. These are your past life's initials."

"And how do you know that?" I raised an Eyebrow.

"That's... I dunno." He shrugged, "Going off of logic, I guess. In any case, we thought of basing our new names on this. For me, it's Elegy, short for L.G."

"Ah, I think I get it!" I smiled, "So since mine are M.G, then I should be Megan!"

"It's a nice name." The other guy gave me a thumbs up, "I chose Seebe, by the way. Y'know, S.B?"

Seebe... I'm not gonna say it's weird, since it'd be rude, but he definitely could've gone for something better... or just more conventional, for that matter. Couldn't it have been Sebas, at that point? It's at least a real sounding name, dammit.

"N-Nice to meet you then!" I shook his hand with an awkward smile, "...Seebe."

"Same here, Megan!" He smiled.

"And you two, Elegy." I shook his hand as well, "May we remain good friends forever."

"The feelings are mutual." Elegy nodded, "Welp, we solved the naming issue, but there's still the thing about not seeing our faces."

"She can't see hers either?" Seebe sighed, "Bummer, but at least everyone else can see our faces, so it's not like it poses a real issue."

"The way you say that makes it sound like there're more pressing matters to attend to." I giggled.

"Yeah. A huge issue that's way more important than us not recognizing ourselves in the mirror." He pointed to our bodies, "We're walking around outside in the nude."

"N-Nude!?" I covered myself up hastily.

I totally spaced out and forgot about that part! Right, my body's snow White just like the cloudy floor and pure sky, so it all kind of blended in! Geez, these guys are so gonna think I'm a pervert! ...Wait, no, everyone else is naked as well!

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"No need to cover up, the Gods took any spots that require a leaf, so to speak." Elegy explained, "That being said, it still feels kind of wrong to just roam around like this, so I'd really like to go find something to put on."

"Maybe there's a closet in one of our houses?" I figured.

"Sure, I don't mind checking." Seebe shrugged, "I mean, it beats roaming around these endless streets looking for someone selling clothes."

"True that." Elegy agreed, "Besides, we might find out more about our pasts if we look through everyone's houses."

That's... also very possible. Right, my house's interior is Yellow, and it has children's toys everywhere. I highly doubt everyone else has the same layout, so maybe your house in Heaven reflects what kind of person you were before death?

"Hmm, it'd make sense..." I muttered, "If we're in Heaven, then it's obvious that everyone's yard should be filled with the things they most wanted as humans. And if that's the case...

"Then we could also potentially find out our real identities!" Elegy finished my thought, "In that case, let's go through my house first, since Seebe and I already started."

"Let's do it!" I put my hand out, "Team on three! One, two, three...!"

"Team!" We shouted.

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Entering Elegy's house first, I was greeted by quite the sight. An empty, yet colorful interior. Nothing but four walls, a ceiling and a floor, but somehow, it still evoked a sense of vastness. Maybe it's a trick with color theory. I dunno, I'm not an artist. Or maybe I am? Whatever.

"Dude, what's there to search?" I groaned, "What do you want us to put on, the Rainbow?"

"I'd like to think my place is empty because I already got everything I wanted in my past life." Elegy smiled proudly, "Or at least if I think like that, I'll feel less sad that I don't get anything."

"Hey now, I'm sure the Gods didn't mean anything bad by this." Seebe comforted him, "Besides, there might be a hidden passage somewhere. Looking directly at all the colors does get kind of blinding, after all, so maybe that's done intentionally to steer us away from the true treasures?"

"This isn't a dungeon, dude. It's a cheap condo you'd get scammed into buying because the previous owner said it came furnished." Elegy sulked.

"Just get on with the wall-hugging already." I pushed both of them to their own corners, "The sooner we touch every surface we can, the sooner we can actually start exploring something with actual furniture in it."

As expected though, Elegy's house bore no secrets within it. Just an empty house from ground floor to attic. It didn't take long for us to finish up our search, and by the end our palms were actually left colored in all sorts of hues and colors. Guess that's what we get for rubbing them on all the Rainbow walls non-stop...

"Hey, maybe that could work?" Seebe suggested, "Bodypaint, I mean. They're not real clothes, but since we don't have any ero zones anyways, it's a viable enough alternative."

"I'd rather we search the other two houses for actual clothes." I shivered at the mere thought of such a perverse solution.

"Nah, come on. Obviously I'd like that too." He continued, "I'm just saying, if we don't manage to find anything..."

"Then we'll go look through someone else's house." Elegy stated, "There's gotta be someone that wanted some nice designer clothes during their lifetime, right?"

At his sudden comment, Seebe and I just kind of stared at him in horror. He merely glanced back, confused why we reacted like this before it finally clicked in his head.

"Ah, with their permission, obviously!" He dialed it back.

"Phew, good." Seebe chuckled, "We thought you meant like breaking and entering."

"Well, if push comes to shove..." He reasoned.

"Elegy!"

"What? It's not like Heaven 2.0 has jails or anything. Nor laws, for that matter." He used that as a defense, "As long as no one gets hurt, who cares?"

"The more you talk, the less I feel inclined to remain in your house." I backed away, "Come on, let's just go to Seebe's house next. For everyone's sake, I hope you have a bed to sleep on at the very least."

"Ohoho, you have no idea...!" He laughed at my comment.

It wasn't meant to be something to think about too deeply. I just said it in passing, but to think I would actually predict what his home looked like was pretty damn crazy. Once he took us to his house, Seebe had some trouble opening the front door.

"Maybe it's locked?" I figured.

"Nah, just gotta... There!" He shoulder-tackled it a few times before it gave in finally.

The reason the door wouldn't budge originally was just as surprising as the rest of the interior. Hundreds upon hundreds of pillows occupied the cramped, cozy space. Each one had a distinct softness that made it different from the rest. No two pillows were the same, making it so you could essentially lay down anywhere and you'd always have the perfect resting spot.

"Jackpot!" I dived right into the sea of pillows, "This is great! I love this place! Seebe, thank God you were sleep deprived as a human!"

"We don't know that for sure." He laughed, "Besides, that's not all this place has. Let's go upstairs."

Upstairs? Nooo, but I wanna stay here~! Ah, but wait, can't we just use the pillow casings to make ourselves some clothes? Is there even a reason to continue the search? Hmm, alright. I've decided!

"O-Oi!? What're you doing!?" Seebe shouted as soon as he saw me tearing up his pillow casings.

"Making myself some decent clothes." I replied, tying the silky smooth baby Blue and torn up cloths around my chest and waist, "There. It's still not at the level that I want, but at least like this I won't be attracting any lecherous gazes."

"Pretty sure you're gonna be turning more heads with that swimsuit on than if you just went full nude like everyone else." Elegy noted, "In a society of nudists, the clothed are taboo."

And now he's a poet. This guy can be so annoying sometimes! It's like whatever I think of, he goes and criticizes it just to do his own thing! Hmph, in that case, they can just stay naked like the rest of these weirdos, meanwhile I'll proudly walk around with at least something covering me!

"If you're done with ruining my personal paradise, can we please continue on with the tour?" Seebe begged, "Upstairs we have the gaming room."

"Oh, I love games!" Elegy smiled, "So what, does it have like a pool table? Table tennis? Maybe darts? Ah, chess is also super fun!"

"...It's got a GS5." Seebe craned his head back with a scowl, "And every game you could ever imagine pre-downloaded in it."

"...Does that include chess?" He raised an Eyebrow.

".....Yes." Seebe rolled his Eyes, "Dude, do you even know what a GS5 is?"

"Not a clue, but it has chess, so what are we waiting for?" Elegy rushed up the stairs, "Come on, let's have some fun!"

"Ah, hold up!" Seebe hurried after him, "Don't touch anything you don't know the name of! You might break something!"

...GS5, huh? I see, I have no idea what he means by that.