On the other side of the world, in the middle of the ocean, in the North Atlantic Ocean, there is a prison that was built entirely underwater. The prison is in a rectangular shape, and it is about 1,000x850m in size, and it is 100m tall. The existence of this prison is kept in extreme secrecy that even amongst the Ten Commandments of God, only three people know about it, which were Miyu, Lucas, and Rowki.
This prison is built in agreement with the United Nations Organization, or UNO for short. A global international organization where every single country from the entire planet gathers together in order to achieve and preserve world peace. But even within this massive organization, only a select handful of people know about this prison.
Even though it's underwater, Lukia, being both the Seventh Strongest and the best water-based Believer, was not involved in the slightest during the building process. Miyu, the Second Strongest, with her Faith power, Telekinesis, simply moves all of the water away, creating a gigantic pocket of air, allowing special and private construction workers to be able to work as if it were on land.
With the help of Lucas, the building process went a lot smoother and quicker than initially scheduled. He was the one who did all of the heavy lifting without breaking a sweat, preserving the workers' stamina for maximum building efficiency and speed. Also, reducing the amount of money needed since there is no heavy equipment or vehicles are needed.
As soon as the building was finished, Lucas teleported all of them back to their offices, and Miyu quickly deleted their memories by physically removing them using her Faith power without harming their brains in the process.
The prison was built on a flat, gigantic ocean floor, three thousand meters deep under the sea. There is a glass dome built in front of the gate with a short hallway leading towards the prison gate. The glass dome was waterproof, and it had no doors to enter from the outside. Miyu and Lucas arrived inside the glass dome. The only way to enter this glass dome was to use teleportation-type Faith powers just as Lucas did. The name ‘ACHERON’ was written on a giant signboard above the prison gate.
Miyu lifts her hand off Lucas’s shoulder, and they both walk towards the gate and enter the prison.
*CLAK*
The prison gate opened, and they were greeted by four gate officers inside.
“Welcome back, Miyu-sama! Lucas-sama!”
“What are your businesses here??”
The four gate officers greet them kindly.
“Good afternoon, everyone!”
Miyu greets them back kindly.
“We’re here because you got someone new!” answers Lucas.
“We’re just gonna go do the usual, and we’ll leave, alright?” said Miyu.
“YES, MA’AM!” salute all four of the gate officers.
These four were previously criminals who were also Believers, as this prison is strictly for Believer criminals. Their crimes were dire, but not as dire as every prisoner inside this prison. Miyu has punished these four, killing them by removing all of their memories, wiping them clean, and giving them new identities to work inside this prison. They have scars and tattoos from their previous life, so Miyu fabricated new memories within their minds to explain those stuff on their bodies.
In these new lives, they are all able to live, work, and get paid properly. These four are not the only ones. There are almost a hundred security guards inside this prison to keep watch and guard everyone. There is no head security as Miyu had ‘programmed’ all of them to work willingly and as effectively as humanly possible. None of the people who worked here has their original personality, just like the four gate officers. Lucas often drops by alone to bring them food stocks enough to last for a month, for every guard inside this prison, and ‘nutrition’ for all of the prisoners. He is also the one who drops off all of their salaries every month. He handed them over by hand to each and every single security guard here.
Each floor of the prison is exactly five meters tall, and there are 20 floors inside this underwater prison. There are no jail cells inside this prison because the way prisoners are confined is very different from a normal, everyday prison.
For the first floor, this floor is entirely dedicated to facilitating all of the security guards who basically spend their entire lives in this place. There are giant changing rooms, a large shower room, a private swimming pool, a large dining room, a large office room, and a gigantic bedroom that allows every single security guard to sleep in the same place. There is also a secret room that has no door; only Miyu and Lucas know. The room can only be accessed by Lucas using his Faith power. There are hundreds of CCTVs inside this prison for safety precautions, even though there is zero worry about anything going wrong. The secret room and its entrance remain the only spot of the entire prison not covered by the CCTV.
They are given shifts to switch every day, every 12 hours, so that the others can rest while the rest are on shifts. There are no holidays or vacations for the security guards, as they’ve been ‘programmed’ once again to never yearn for such things. At most, they swim in the private pool as a way to have fun inside this prison.
*Step step step*
Miyu and Lucas walk through the first floor towards a certain empty wall between the shower room and the private pool. They both walk through the wall as if there’s nothing there. Inside the walkable wall, there is a small passage for about 10 meters. On the other side, there is an empty wall.
“Lucas-kun, would you please?”
“I guarantee you can also open this wall, Miyu-chan, but alright.”
Lucas raises his right arm, and it glows in purple dimly.
*GRAHK GRAHK GRAHK GRAHK*
There is a vertical purple line in the center of the wall, and the wall slides open quickly as if it’s just a normal sliding door. There is a small, square secret room behind the wall, only 5x5m in size. Both of them walk inside the secret room where there is a single pod machine at the center of the room.
Lucas pulls out his purple mini cube and pops it open.
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*THUD*
“OUCH!!”
The Game Master was unconscious, but when his body fell to the concrete floor below, he woke up from the pain.
“Urgh. . .”
He quickly gets up and sits up, holding the back of his head with one hand.
*!*
“Where am I?”
*!!*
He sees Lucas next to him and sees Miyu for the first time next to Lucas.
“Who are you?”
“Hello, Game Master-san! My name is Izumi Miyu! I am the Second Strongest Believer in the world! I am also the leader of the Ten Commandments of God! Pleased to meet you, NACHT-KUN!!”
*!!!*
The Game Master hasn’t said anything, and she already knows his name.
“For the record, no, Lucas-kun here hasn’t told me your name! I simply scanned through your brain to find out your name, and that was pretty quick! Your own names are important after all, I didn’t even need to scratch the surface.”
“. . .”
“(Scanned my brain? What is she talking about?)”
“Exactly what I’ve told you! My Faith powers basically allow me to do anything when it comes to the human mind! That’s the most general explanation of my Faith power that I can give!”
“(Did she just. . . read my mind??)”
“Uuhh. . .yes! Didn’t I just tell you?”
“. . .”
The Game Master continues to be dumbfounded.
“Miyu-chan! I think this is a pretty normal reaction to anyone who just found out about your Faith power. . .”
“I guess. . .”
“So, what are you going to do to me?”
Miyu crouches down to his level.
“We’re going to ‘kill’ you! And keep your body in a perpetual stasis for the rest of eternity!”
“. . .”
“Or at least until Lord Jesus comes back on his second coming!”
The Game Master, surprisingly, wasn’t surprised. It seems like he had already accepted his fate, no matter what it is.
“Fine. I accept it.”
The Game Master closes his eyes. Miyu stands up.
“Before we proceed with the procedure, I’m gonna offer you mercy. I’ll grant you one last wish before you’re gone!” said Miyu.
“. . .”
The Game Master thinks for a few seconds.
“It’s alright! There’s no need to rush this! We have all day, even if it takes that long.”
The Game Master smiles.
“There’s no need!! I already know what I want! Say, did you say that you can do anything regarding the human mind?”
“Of course! There’s no reason for me to lie, given my position!”
“Alright then, I want you to alter the memory of a specific someone!”
“. . .”
Lucas already knows who he meant, and Miyu quickly understands after reading Lucas’s mind.
“I understand!”
Miyu quickly alters Claire’s memories, who is far on the other side of the world, from where she stands.
“It’s done!”
“. . .Is there any way I can see the proof?”
“Easy! I’ll connect a line between you and her mind. You can try talking to her.”
“I see. Please do.”
Miyu closes her eyes, and an invisible connection is created between the Game Master’s mind and Claire’s.
“. . .”
“Go on! Talk to her!”
“(Claire! How are you?!)”
The Game Master speaks inside his head.
“(. . .)”
Claire did not respond.
“Hm? I thought you said we’re connected?”
“We are! She just didn’t answer out of confusion! Talk to her again!”
“. . .”
“(Claire! Hello! It’s me, Nacht-kun!)”
“(HUH? WHY IS THERE SOMEONE SPEAKING INTO MY HEAD? HELLO? WHO ARE YOU?!)” Claire is shouting inside her mind on the other side of the world.
“. . .”
The Game Master understood everything, hearing her response. His face looked sad, but he had already accepted this.
“(Claire! I’m sorry for ever involving you in my crazy and horrific plan. I should’ve never involved you from the beginning. I apologize, Claire! From now on, I’m moving on! Please have a good life ahead of you! Next time, don’t date a murderer, okay? I have always loved you, my dearest Claire!)”
“(HUUUUUUUHHH?? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? WHO ARE YOU?? PLEASE GET OUT OF MY HEAD!! WHAT IS GOING ON WITH ME? AM I GOING INSANE? SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!)”
“(Just hearing her voice is enough. . .)” said the Game Master in his head.
“Cut the connection.” said the Game Master with a smile and closed his eyes.
“You sure?”
“Yeah! I heard enough!”
Miyu cuts the connection. This leaves Claire on the other side of the world, utterly confused. She quickly passes out and soon forgets about this whole conversation.
Lucas clenches his fist, and it is covered by a thin, see-through purple bubble that follows the shape of his fist.
*BAM*
He hits the Game Master on his head, and he loses consciousness.
“Isn’t that bittersweet, Lucas-kun?”
“. . .very slightly.”
“. . .”
“When I think about what all of the 24,000 people who were killed inside his infinite maze felt, I quickly lose my empathy towards him. How dare he get to have such a bittersweet moment? AS IF HE DESERVED ANY SECONDS OF IT!!”
Miyu puts her hand on Lucas’s shoulder.
“Lucas-kun! Calm down, alright! We’re just doing the procedure that we both agreed on since we established this underwater prison.”
“. . .I’m sorry for losing my cool, Miyu-chan! Let’s just get this over with!”
“Right!”
Lucas lifts the Game Master’s body, while Miyu opens the pod. Lucas puts the Game master’s body inside the pod and closes it. His body was automatically injected with multiple IV lines.
*Srrrrrrrr*
The pod was quickly filled with a blue liquid to the brim. This blue liquid is a strong, custom-made sedative that puts a person inside the pod to be in a perpetual sleeping state until they are taken outside the pod. This blue liquid also serves as nutrition that keeps the person’s body alive and healthy for at least a month.
Lucas lifts his right hand towards the pod, and it is suddenly trapped inside a blue cube. He quickly shrinks the cube into a mini cube with 1x1x1m width, length, and height.
*SNAPS*
He also snaps his finger, and another pod machine suddenly appears.
“This whole storage system is so unique, no matter how many times I see it, Lucas-kun! To think that your Faith power can replicate a real functioning machine with no downside whatsoever is so mind-blowing to me.”
“Appreciate the gratitude, Miyu-chan! But I really wish the Queen of Time would be here with us! Otherwise, I’d have to keep renewing everyone’s nutrition every single month for a really long time.”
“I get that, but we had no info on her whatsoever. I also can’t scan her mind, no matter how many times I try! Seems like Martin used his Faith power on her mind or something.”
*DEG*
Lucas was suddenly sweating and froze in place just by hearing the name Martin.
*!*
“I apologize, Lucas-kun! I shouldn’t have said his name so carelessly. . .”
“I-it’s fine, Miyu-chan! Let’s just give this to the officers and continue our missions.”
“R-Right. . .”
They both leave the room, and Lucas closes the wall behind. They approach one of the officers and ask them to put the mini cube with everybody else.
The officer brought the cube to the elevator, heading towards the second floor. Every floor above the first floor served as ‘jail cells’ for locking criminals up. But on the second floor, it was just a big, spacious room with no actual jail cells. Every single criminal here was put into this tiny little cube to fit as many criminals as possible. This entire space is simply filled with tall shelves all over. Each criminal’s cube was named with the criminal’s name by sticking a sticky note on the front side of the cube.
The officer puts the mini cube on one of the shelves and leaves the floor.
Since this building is only 6 months old, it hasn’t been filled to its absolute maximum capacity. Currently, only the second floor is filled with criminals’ cubes, and even most of the shelves are empty, given how small each cube is. This entire prison could potentially hold over two times the number of people on Earth, which is around eight billion people. There are only about one million and five hundred thousand numbers of criminals locked up and put into perpetual sleep in this prison. This is all possible thanks to Lucas’ Faith power.
There was a talk about the worst possible thing to happen, which is if Lucas ever got knocked out. His Faith power would turn off, and all of the cubes would pop open, and all of the criminals would wake up one after the other. This would create insane chaos inside the prison, but Miyu said she would mind-control everyone and put them out of their misery if that day ever comes as an assurance.
“Alright, guys! We’re leaving! See you next time!”
“Bye, guys!”
Greet Miyu and Lucas.
“See you next time, Ma’am! Lucas-sama!”
“See you two next time!”
All four gate officers give a salute to them.
Miyu and Lucas exit the prison gate and walk to the underwater glass dome. She puts her hand on his shoulder, and they vanish once again from his spot.
