Lucas blinked as suddenly a strange view appeared around him. The air felt unnaturally calm, Tall trees with soft, silver bark reached toward a blue sky. The atmosphere was peaceful, as if he had stepped into a beautiful place.

Lucas was facing a humanoid with its body white, it had no signs of features other than hair on his head and red glowing eyes.

Lucas asked, "Are you a god?"

"Yes, and I will decide your fate." The white humanoid responded.

Lucas said calmly, "Okay."

After taking some time, the mysterious white being then said,, "You are going to hell for all the crimes you committed."

Lucas replied, "Okay." In his mind, he thought, *Well, I guess I did kill people and a lot of animals (indirectly—like in eating food), insects, and stopped going to church, etc.*

The being in front of him was confused, wondering, *Why the heck is this man not scared of going to hell?*

It asked, "Are you not scared of going to hell?"

Lucas said, "Should I be? Can't you read my mind since you're God? You probably already know why I'm not scared of going to hell. So why ask these pointless questions? Just send me already—you're wasting both our time. Don't you have other souls to judge?”

The being felt confused, thinking, *What the hell? I was just trying to scare this man, and he keeps saying this stuff.* He let out an awkward cough and said, "Well, I was just kidding," before forcing a laugh.

Lucas looked confused and then asked, "Then am I going to heaven?"

"Nah," the being said. "You're in a place called Heroic World."

"Heroic World?" Lucas asked.

"Yeah, that's what I and some others call it. Basically, whoever dies saving someone—people from Earth, insects, animals, fish, whoever—if they did a heroic act and died at that moment, they come here. But you need to die at that exact moment. If you survive and die later, you won't get the benefit of coming here. I don't know how it works, but yeah, that's how it works. Do You get it now?"

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Lucas was even more confused. "What?"

He asked, "Then are you also one of the guys who died saving someone?"

The being said, "Yes, I died while saving a little girl from a truck."

Lucas thought, Isn't this a classic anime moment? but kept quiet.

The being asked, "What about you?"

Lucas said, "Well, terrorists attacked the plane, and I died while saving citizens." In his mind, he thought, *Well, I did it because I just wanted to die, but before dying, I wanted to do something interesting. It was really fun. I never knew I had this in me. Well, it seems like my hard work paid off. I’m going to be all over the newspapers, TV, and everything. Too bad I can't enjoy it, but at least I did something amazing before dying.*

Suddenly, Lucas snapped back to reality and got a clearer look at the figure. At first, he had thought this white, handsome being was God, but now, as he focused more closely, he noticed something odd about him. Shocked, he blurted out, "Wait... where's your, uh... you know, your penis and balls? And why aren't you wearing any clothes?"

The figure said, "Well, we're dead. Dead people don't have that. As for clothes, if you want them, you'll have to make your own. Your only option here is leaves, unless you kill an animal or someone—but they'd just disappear and reconstruct somewhere else in this world with their body intact. Besides, we don't really need clothes. We don't feel too hot or cold here. Don't you notice it too? You're just like me, except for body shape and hair length.”

Lucas said, "Wait, what?" He looked below and was shocked. His penis and balls were gone, and so were his nipples. He was entirely white in those areas, there was not even a hole, but his build was still there—muscles, though without veins. He was standing on a rock with some weird design on it, like a summoning circle in anime.

Lucas felt a bit sad but reminded himself he was already dead, and maybe he’d be moving on to the afterlife soon, so it didn’t matter much. *Looks like the afterlife really does exist. I just hope God forgives me for not believing in Him,* he thought. *Well, whatever. It's kind of His fault for not showing up once in a while and creating so many different religions and making smart people not believe in him.*

"Well, whatever," he said. "What's your name?"

The being replied, "My name is Minato. What about you?"

Lucas said, "I’m Lucas. Nice to meet you, Minato."

Minato said, "Same."

Lucas asked, "Can you tell me more about

this world?"

Minato said, "Sure. Let's take a walk while I explain the situation."

Lucas nodded and stepped off the stone platform.

As they started walking, Minato said, "Well, I have a lot of questions too, but let me explain to you about this world first. That stone you came out of is where people like us appear. If you die in this world, you will randomly appear again from that stone. So basically, we are immortal."

"Wait, can we feel pain?" Lucas asked.

"Yes, we can feel pain." Minato said while also nodding his head and he pointed to a pillar in the distance. "See that? On top of that pillar, there are those mysterious green balls. When you touch them, the same black hole that sucked you into this place would appear and take you out.”

"But there are also different colored balls. For example, underwater, you can find blue ones, jn regions with snow you can find white, deserts you can find yellow ones and in plateaus or mountains with little vegetation, you can find brown ones.”

"There are other coloured balls which you can find in dungeons."

"Dungeons?" Lucas asked. "And do the colors matter?"

Minato said, "We don't really know. I and some others came to a conclusion after a while, but no one actually explained this to me or anyone else. You're lucky you found me—at least you'll have some idea and won't carelessly mess with this like my friend Mucus did.

He paused, his face became sad as he continued, "Mucus was my first companion... I worked hard to tame him, but he thought this thing was a ball and tried to catch it... and ended up getting sucked into one of those black holes. Mucus, why are you so dumb?!" he shouted in sadness.