"You...what?" Haruhi asked Hades in disbelief. She wasn't quite sure she had heard him correctly. How could he possibly not know how to work the internet?

"I don't know how to work the internet! Please, teach me. I'll let you play with Cerby for the rest of the evening in exchange!" Hades exclaimed. He was clearly quite upset and desperate. He had logged into the computer after it had finished its set up procedure but he had no idea which icon he had to click or which setting to change in order to access the miraculous internet he had heard so much about during his cultural scan.

"Please, come in." Haruhi curtly replied. It was an entirely different story when Cerberus was involved, or so it would appear. She had to admit that she found it suspicious that Hades didn't know how to use the internet.

If that was the case, then how on earth did he get to Japan from where he previously was? A travel agency maybe? Haruhi dismissed these thoughts for now as her current goal was satisfying her neighbour to the best of her ability so she could ultimately play with her self-proclaimed best friend.

Hades quickly made his way into the apartment and found that it was very average looking. Almost too average looking. However, he didn't have time to ask about this as he quickly took his sandals off before making his way to a sofa. Upon sitting on it, Hades flipped the laptop up before placing it on the nearby coffee table.

"Please, Haruhi. Hurry up; I need you." Hades asked in a rush. He was one step away from biting his nails which were a bad habit Hades had managed to drop several centuries ago, and he would hate to pick it up again. Cerberus would give him hell for it.

Haruhi's heart shuddered for a moment what Hades said he needed her, but she soon regained control of herself. All he wanted from her was her knowledge of how the internet worked and thankfully Haruhi wasn't stupid enough to misunderstand the meaning behind Hades's words.

She soon made her way to sit next to Hades on the safe before taking a look at his laptop. It wasn't very hard to find the problem.

"Um, hades-san, did you get the wifi password from the manager?" Haruhi asked with disbelief in her voice. It was normal for older people to be slightly less adept with technology. Hades did look to be in his late 30's after all, but surely there was a limit.

"What's a 'wifi'? I just want to access the internet!" Hades cried. He was very upset that his first obstacle in his new life was obstructing him from advancing.

Hades would honestly prefer fighting against both of his brothers at the exact same time, even if their water-lighting combo were particularly strong, Hades would face such an attack any day over his current struggles. Too bad they were both dead, and he was too strong for it to be a challenge. It would seem Hades would have to endure a little bit longer until his saviour could solve his problem.

"Ha-ah...just how did you get here from your home country?" Haruhi rhetorically asked while she entered the complex's wifi password and saved in onto Hades' computer so it would automatically connect.

"OHH! The cross disappeared from that symbol! Can I use the internet now? Can I?!" Hades excitedly asked. This was clearly a good sign because if anyone knew what they were doing, it would be Haruhi, or so Hades thought.

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"Yes, you can. Now, let's go to your apartment. Cerby-chan is waiting for me!" Haruhi irresponsibly claimed. She didn't even realise that she had essentially asked a man to take her home with him.

"Of course! If there is ever anything you need, do not hesitate to request it! Even if you need a country to disappear, then I shall try my best to do so. It would be the least I could do as thanks." Hades morbidly claimed with a smile. He then got up and led the somewhat shaken Haruhi to his apartment.

°There's no way he really is Hades from the stories...right?° Haruhi tried to convince herself. It would seem that Hades would have to redouble his hiding efforts. Perhaps wearing crocs tomorrow was indeed the correct choice.

They soon reached Hades's empty apartment, obviously since it was literally right next door to Haruhi's.

Hades quickly made his way towards the bathroom, presumably in an attempt to reach his seat, the toilet. Haruhi simply looked around and marvelled at how empty Hades's apartment was. It truly was a fascinating sight. However, she soon broke out of her stupor as she dove arms first towards her fluffy companion.

Cerberus was flustered. Should he just eat her?

In his moment of hesitation, he had been captured. He was held in a firm embrace, and he could only speculate that his master had offered him in some sort of deal. Betrayal seemed to be a concurrent experience that Cerberus was experiencing.

"Kya! You're so fluffy Cerby-chan!" Haruhi screeched while she began rolling around on the wooden floor that was Hades's empty living room and bedroom.

"Hmm, let's see, Gaggle? What a weird name." Hades said to himself as he found his way to his browser's homepage. He carefully manoeuvred his fingers to type out the word 'job' in Japanese. Hades was rather proud as it only took him 15 minutes to do so.

After he had accomplished that, he hit the enter key and was immediately greeted by a wall of while with several blue lines of text on it.

"Hmm, let's see...do I click on these?" Hades asked himself. He spent roughly 30 more minutes reading the blue text. Hades had completely forgotten about Haruhi, but who could blame? He was doing something very critical to his future right now after all.

Hades had found a row of text that read 'Looking for office staff in Tokyo'. Despite how vague it was, Hades immediately clicked it and only hoped something would happen. He was in Tokyo, and he wanted a nice relaxing job where he could talk to people. An office job sounded like a nice balance of the two to Hades.

He was soon taken to a web page of a small company named Games Inc. It would seem they specialised in games to some degree. What that specialisation was centred around, Hades had no idea.

He was quickly redirected to an application page.

"Oh, this is going to need a lot of concentration." Hades mumbled before he slowly began filling in each box almost as if this application would determine his entire future. Indeed, Hades did see it that way. Even after spending two hours to complete the form meticulously, he went through the effort of enchanting it with magic to make sure his application was taken seriously.

"Ha-ah. Well, now I just need to wait to receive an email it seems." Hades lightly said before he folded up the laptop and stood up. He then quickly moved his way out of the bathroom and into the room Cerberus should be in.

Hades was greeted by a small blob of happiness that quite clearly held a distraught Cerberus in its arms.

"Haruhi-san. I'll have to ask you to let go of Cerby and leave now. You've had plenty of time to play." Hades politely asked the woman curled up on the floor.

"Eh..bu-but..I know! You don't have a bed, right? Come sleep at my place! I'll sleep on the sofa, and you can have the bed. Please, just let me play with Cerby-chan more!" Haruhi pleaded. It would seem that Cerberus's soft fur and cute nature had ensnared the Japanese woman.

"Of course no-...that sound good, let's go to your apartment immediately." Hades quickly changed his answer when he thought about it. It certainly would look unnatural were he to refuse as humans did indeed seem to sleep. And it would also appear that they usually didn't do so on the floor, so Hades reasoned that taking up her offer would help decrease the likelihood of his true identity being revealed.

Then again, Hades had somewhat failed at that by using his real name, but who could blame the poor Divine Level Being? It would be rude to assume he kept up with the habits of mortals.