Mary's apartment was relocated near a huge lava pond that had a few dark statues in the middle of the red viscous liquid. It wasn't a large apartment, but reasonable enough for a graduate doing her first internship program. Although Mary could hardly find time to do any house work, the apartment was neat and clean in any standard. This all thanked to the daily room maintenance service from the Hell government's Department of Social Welfare: everyday cleaner nano robots will be filled in the air conditioning system, and after the owner leaves the apartment, the robots were then blown into the room to clean up any dust of scraps. Later, a huge magnet like sucker attract the nanobots away, leaving the room in its best state.

Mary just moved into this new apartment, she didn't have much time to decorate it into her style. However, as she wanted, the walls changes colours every 5 hours via chemical reaction, like a kind of squid. She walked into her room, her white dress was instantly removed and sucked into the closet for cleaning, this was due to the fact that her clothing contained string like electromagnets. Then, Mary snapped her fingers, as the invisible radio started to play her favourite jazz hip hop with heavy beats.

"Should take a look at the news," she said to herself as she moved towards toilet. A visual screen was produced in front of her through the mini projectors on the walls, and moved along with her as she entered the toilet.

The bath tub was already filled with mercury, after removing the rest of her clothing, Mary stepped carefully into the shiny liquid.

"Ahhh," she let out a relaxing moan.

"So Ms Willson, want me to lend you a hand?" the current program was the 90:00 Comedy, a creature with 6 extendable arms was talking to an old vampire.

"Sure son," the vampire replied.

The creature then cut off one of his hands and handed to the vampire...

ZAP!

"That was cancerous," Mary buried the bottom half of her face in the mercury bath, 'you sure need some new jokes, Mr Night,' she thought and blew a few bubbles that merged on the surface.

"Welcome to 90:50 news," the news program(there were quite a few news programs in Hell: a single layer can have more than 5 local news programs) consisting of a good looking devil, dressed in old fashioned maid uniform, sat at the reporter's desk, "the most important news today: the Senate just passed the long waited, Article 13..."

Marry stared up from her bath, mercury dripping from her chin.

"...here, we have Satan Octo with us tonight here, who'll explain how this new law will affect every one of us."

The camera turned towards the Satan, unlike when he was in the office, he was wearing a pentagon shaped black hat, "I really want to thank each one of you for this law to be refined and passed. Basically, let me be clear, our current energy gap is on a whole new level. If we can't get enough souls, all the technology around us will literally, die, so I beg all of you to keep supporting this Law that allows us to directly employ human workers..."

"Humans??" said both Mary and the reporter.

"Exactly," the Satan replied happily, he swung his tentacles in the air when he is happy, "unlike us, the humans are not restricted by the Hell-Heaven Treaty, I know it's quite ironic, but they can directly harvest souls."

"Very interesting," the reporter looked down at her information script that was continuously being edited by the backstage members, "so Mr Satan, can you please explain to us how this new process will work? Like how the humans will be employed?"

"Aha," the Satan stood up from his seat, but didn't significantly increase his height, "basically, this important task will be given to the House of Energy, and they are currently considering make a tryout with their members in the Department of Resources."

"WHAT?!" Marry stood up from her bath, and wrapped a spiky towel around her soft pink body.

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It was an exciting night, she had a long video conference with professor Rice, Jelly, Jessie and Jenny, who joined on the very last hour. Professor Rice was the most passionate in this program, he always had this weird interest in humans and he wanted to talk to one one day.

Jelly and Mary were both worried and excited of their new possible missions, while Jessie and Jenny (who won't be on mission for a week) wished them luck.

Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.

"If you find someone interesting," said professor Rice at the end, "don't forget to take it to Tree Bar, so I can have a nice talk with it."

"Sure professor."

Mary laid back on her bed, it was hard for her to sleep. She couldn't close her eyes thinking about her future missions, maybe she'll meet a cute human girl and she can... However, it became actually impossible for her to sleep when a wakening noise pierced through her walls.

"WHAT ON EARTH!" she jumped up from her bed, "ain't these walls suppose to be noise cancelling?!" It was from her new neighbour.

After getting dressed in her pyjamas, Mary stomped out of her room and rang the bell on her neighbour. At the same time, the noise intensified into some sort of electric music in her ears.

"I wonder who would play heavy metal in the middle of the night," Mary muttered as the noise stopped and the person from inside went to open the door.

The door opened slowly, but still too fast for Mary to react to the blinding white light that shot out from the room.

"Ahh!" Mary put her arm over her eyes.

"Sorry!" an outline of a gigantic creature appeared as the bright light dimmed, "I just love lamps too much."

Mary slowly unblocked her vision, and stared at the creature. The most noticeable feature of its body was the pair of huge round, orange shining eyes. Aside from its eyes, the rest of its body was covered in thick layers of brownish fur. However, its six arms were hairless or rather like metal cylinders connected together. A ten stringed electric guitar was held between two of its arms.

"I'll first put aside your hobby of...lamp collection," Mary finally recovered her ground again, "but why the heaven do you want to choose the worst possible time to play your ear deafening instrument?"

"Wait, hang on a second," the creature checked his guitar then suddenly looked up, "I AM SO SORRY! I forgot to put the mute on! Please, please, please don't report me to the layer..."

"Fine," Mary yawned, "next time I'll literally smash your thing into bits."

"By the way," the creature spoke timidly, "are you Mary Jingo?"

"How do you know my name?"

The creature relaxed and put his guitar beside the wall, "do you remember a guy named Moth Yuen?"

Marry studied the creature's shape once again and she made a small gasp, "oh my satan! Don't tell me you actually become an adult moth!"

"YEAH!" Moth laughed.

"I can't believe it!" Mary laughed as well, "Back then, your are just a huge worm which I like to sit on."

"Wow," Moth said depressively, "you were actually so mean to me back then."

"Who cares, you were literally a crawling cushion," Mary grinned, showing her white fangs, "anyways, how's the Law school?"

"Wanna come inside and talk," Moth rolled his huge round eyes slightly, "I'm still not use to standing by two legs."

"Oh yea!"

Moth's room was piled with, of course, electronics, all types of lamps hanged from every possible spot in the ceiling, covering every bit of the wall. In the centre of the room was a stack of 5 enormous sound projectors (that could even used to produce military grade ultrasound waves). After searching through his sea of lamps, Moth finally found a foldable chairs and handed it to Mary, he then bent down with six of his legs on the ground, like an insect.

"You went to University of Layer 5?" Mary sat down on the chair, "I heard the law courses are kinda tense there."

"True," Moth pointed at his desk (that was impossible to find in the pile of lamps), which, brick like books laid messily upon it, "that's what it takes to study in the finest law school in Hell."

"How long do you still have till graduate?"

"Three more years."

"Damn," Mary sat straight quickly, preventing herself from falling into one of the big lamps behind her, "I have already completed a year of internship after finishing my engineering course at IIT (Infernal Institute of Technology)."

"That's true for the technical courses," Moth said sadly, "you know, law is quite a complicated subject."

"True. Oh!" something reminded Mary, "have you guys been studying the Article 13?"

"YEAH!" Moth replied excitedly, "that's why I am so hyped tonight, although I'm a night specie. My professor and my class had discussed about this topic for quite a long time already."

"Tell me about it," Mary presented her usual cute smile.

"Sure," Moth opened a virtual screen in front of his eyes, they were covered in microscopic sized words , "basically, as you should know, we are gonna hire humans, to kill humans, right?"

"Yep."

"I mean this method had actually already been used for a long time, for example such as the souls in the Contributor's Layer. However, back in the old days, we could only give little mental hints and guides that weren't really reliable. I mean, there were some successful cases like the guy who started the human world war two, and the guy who conquered more than half of the human world. However, they were just rare cases, and only appear in a few centuries. Also, the Heaven had tried to get souls to their side as well, it's much easier for them, most of the souls can easily go to Heaven at the Court of Justice, that's why we need a new generation of lawyers to argue for Hell. There was also a high chance that a single person might be affected by Heaven at Hell and same time, and 70% of the time, they'll follow that damn artificial intelligence. However, after some research, we discovered if a human is allowed to fully act by their own will, they are more likely to be beneficial to us. Allowing them to work with us will greatly increase their hatred of the Heaven. Currently, I was invited to work on a large project to creating a perfect defence argument, if this new law is discovered by the Heaven. We just need to argue that although the fact that the humans are only hired by us, it was still their own will to work with us."

"Thanks Moth," Mary stood up and petted Moth's fluffy head, "now I understand the whole story."

"No problem Mary," Moth vibrated a little so his fur stood up, "if you have more question about law, just visit me."

He sent Mary his coordinate code so she could search for his address, and Mary did the same, "I'm working at the Department of Resources, if I can get hold of a human,I'll tell you."

"No problem Mary!"

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