A tail flicked aggravatingly into the everlasting void of darkness as Osomatsu bit his lip. Sweating, he stared jaggers into Heaven, the place where two of his brothers would forever live apart from him.

Osomatsu was a devil in the afterlife. After he had died, he had hoped to reunite with his other brothers, who had died before him. However, as there was the existence of the two separate categories named Heaven and Hell, the afterlife wouldn't have his wish be granted. Osomatsu could only sigh as he hovered in the void of darkness that was called the "Death Base," seeing his own loneliness and sorrow reflect in the darkness he was assigned to work in.

"Damn Grim Reaper," the devil mumbled to himself as he bit his fingernail, turning his dark eyes away from the light of Heaven. No one but the rulers of Heaven and Hell knew, but Osomatsu secretly harbored a deep endless pool of bitter hatred toward the Grim Reaper; he blamed the dark figure for changing the courses of his and his brother's lives with its reaper of death.

A familiar sound suddenly rung into Osomatsu's ears. Frowning, the devil sighed. Another person has entered the Death Base - otherwise known as the initial dreaded area where the dead arrived. As the guidance devil who was in charge of leading the dead to Heaven or Hell, it was Osomatsu's job to attend to this dead person. With reluctance weighing on him like a large boulder, Osomatsu fluttered his dark demonic wings and lifted them to fly to his cilent.

Forcing a smile to appear on his face, Osomatsu approached the dead person, whose figure was illuminated so that the devil could see him. "Hello! Welcome to the Death Base," he welcomed the ghost, who now wore an expression of confusion. 

"Am I... dead?" they asked. With those few words, Osomatsu sensed the usual feelings of dread and realization filling up the poor person.

"Yes, you are," the devil nodded with a mischevious grin. "Now that you have died, it's up to me to determine whether your place is in Heaven or Hell." 

The deceased earthling looked up at him with fearful hope, perhaps wishing that the devil would choose their place in Heaven. "Is it true that hell is full of nothing but tortures?" they asked. Ignorance pricked at them like a terrible burden, giving the devil no choice but to briefly explain part of the concept of the afterlife to them. 

"Partially," Osomatsu answered, somewhat feeling indifferent to this common ignorance. "While it is true that hell is full of many tortures waiting to punish the sinful, hell is also the place for people who can't move on from the flawed humans they once were in Earth. It can satisfy your desires quickly, making Hell very overpopulated in comparison to Heaven."

"Oh, thank god," the ghost sighed in relief. Osomatsu could only assume that this person have lived their whole life believing the simple concept of Heaven and Hell foolish teachers always chose to teach their young students.

Suddenly, a brief flash of light appeared behind the dead person, followed by the familiar ring that signaled the arrival of the dead. When the light disappeared, it left a new small group of ghosts for the devil to sort.

Acknowledging the new arrivals, Osomatsu nodded to his current cilent. "Off you go, then," he murmured. Pointing to the direction to Heaven's light, the devil instructed "Head to the Path to Heaven to begin your test. Only your will and determination will decide your place in the afterlife."

Exchanging the devil with a quick nod, the dead person quickly headed toward the place Osomatsu pointed them toward. Osomatsu watched them go for a brief second, then turned away to continue guiding the arrivals to where they belong.

"Hello!" he grinned again, repeating the same procedure as the one he followed to greet the previous ghost. "Welcome to the Death Base!"

"S-so I really died..." a female voice murmured to herself. This time, it seemed lost in not confusion, but rather in itself.

"Yep," Osomatsu agreed. He turned to the female voice to smile at its owner, too, expecting to see the normal pleasing sight of a cute-looking girl. However, what he saw instead caused his heart to skip a large beat and pound like a jackhammer.

(aw man, this would've been much longer and consistently good if it weren't for the fact that I had to go to sleep last night ;-;)