1 March 2018. . .

  *THUD THUD THUD*

  The sounds of footsteps reverberate inside a dark alleyway in the afternoon in a city in the west where the sky has turned orange.

  *THUMP THUMP THUMP*

  Followed by a heavier set of footsteps reverberating through the same dark alleyway. The alleyway is surrounded by three-story tall buildings on its left and right. The alleyway itself is pretty spacious. It can fit six adult men if they were to walk side by side, completely fine.

  *pant pant pant*

  "(If I got caught. . . I don't even wanna think about it!!!)"

  Three young men in their 20s are chasing a teenage girl. The girl ran as fast as she could as if she owed the three young men a huge debt. The girl looks to be in her high school, as she wears the uniform. She is 166 cm tall and weighs approximately 67 kg. The girl is quite busty for a high schooler with a D-cup bust size. All the young men have a similar body build, with 171cm tall and weighing roughly 82kg each.

  *THUD THUD THUD*

  "THERE'S NO WAY TO RUN GIRL!!"

  "YOU'RE ONLY DELAYING THE INEVITABLE!!!"

  "ONCE WE CATCH YOU, WE'RE GONNA HAVE ALL THE FUN IN THE WORLD UNTIL WE'RE BORED OF YOU!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

  Once the girl heard the things they were saying, she fastened her running pace to the absolute limits that her physical body allows.

  "(MUST NOT GET CAUGHT AT ALL COSTS!!)"

  *THUD*

  "KYAH!"

  The girl trips over a small rock in the alleyway and immediately falls to the ground. She scrapes her knees, and they bleed a bit.

  "Ouch! It stings!"

  "SHE FELL!! GUYS, LET'S GET THEM!!!"

  "YEEEAAAHH!!"

  *!*

  Hearing them scream, the girl immediately stands up again and runs as fast as she can again while toughing it up to endure the pain on her knees. Because of her fall, the distance between her and her chasers has gotten closer a lot.

  "GIVE IT UP, BABY GIRL!!"

  "JUST SURRENDER TO US AND WE WON'T BE ROUGH WITH YOU!!"

  "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! SOMEONE HEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLPPPPPP!!!"

  They all screamed, yet all of their voices never reached the main streets outside the alleyway.

  "Hey, we're quite deep into the alleyway now! Do your thing, Mark!"

  "Okay!"

  One of the three guys, the one named Mark, has long black hair. He suddenly stops himself mid-running and turns around. He opened his right palm, and his right palm was covered in ice.

  "Ice wall!"

  Mark points his frozen palm forward, and then all of a sudden, an ice wall appeared out of nowhere. It stands as tall as the buildings around.

  "Yohoo! That's a clean wall! My control has gotten better and better these days!"

  A little bit further into the alleyway, and the other two guys are still chasing after the teenage girl.

  "Dammit, that girl's actually so fast! Is she a runner or something?"

  "I'll catch up to her!!"

  "Ooohh? Using your Faith power? That will be a breeze."

  The man named Jack, who has blond hair and wears a purple bandana on his head, opens both of his palms, and then he jumps up in the air a bit. Fire bursts out of both of his palms, and it propels Jack's entire body forward. He is flying in midair inside the dark alleyway at high speed.

  "HELLO GIRL!!"

  *!!*

  All of a sudden, Jack has already caught up with the girl. The girl was startled to see Jack floating in mid-air with fire coming out of his palms. Jack was in the air, floating diagonally right in front of the girl, and then he swung his right leg and kicked the girl right on her left cheek.

  "KYAAAAARRGGHH!!"

  The girl was slammed to the ground by the kick. The kick was so heavy that the girl's cheek immediately turned purple as there was fire bursting out of the back of his leg, strengthening the force of his kick.

  "It hurts!! *sobs sobs*"

  The girl starts crying in pain as she groans painfully on the ground. Jack safely landed near the girl after moving at such high velocity by moving both of his palms forward and shooting flame to kill the momentum of his flight speed.

  "Now, now, now!! You can't run now, girl!!"

  "No! Stay away from me!!"

  The girl crawls backwards on the ground as she endures the pain on her face. But then she bumps into the other guy, whose name is John. He has a mohawk of black hair. All three of them wear similar outfits with a black leather jacket, a white T-shirt, a pair of ripped blue jeans, and different colored shoes for each of them, respectively, in red for Jack, green for John, and blue for Mark.

  "Where are you going now, girl?"

  "No. . ."

  John forces the girl to stand up by pulling up the girl's hand.

  "Ukh!"

  "You kept running and running and running, and you never stopped even when we kept asking you to! It was honestly so tiring! I think we need to teach you a lesson!!"

  "I-I'm sorry!!!"

  John raises his right fist and punches the girl right in the same bruised left cheek from before.

  "AAAAAAAKH!!"

  The girl falls towards the ground from the pure force of John's punch.

  "Now, now, calm down, John! Let's not break the goods too much, otherwise we won't enjoy it! Her face is very pretty, so let's leave it at that!"

  "You're right! I'm sorry I was being emotional! I hate running and you know that!"

  "Yeah! So you see, girl--"

  Jack crouches down towards the girl on the ground.

  "--John is really annoyed by you! If you pissed him off enough he'll torture you! Your best course of action is to just obey each and every one of our demands! You understand?"

  "*sobs sobs* it huuurrrtsss!! It huuurrttsss!!"

  The girl didn't answer, and she just cried on the ground as she covered her left cheek with both of her hands. The bruise on her left cheek turns into a darker purple, signifying a horrible internal bleeding.

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  "I said--!!"

  Jack stomps the girl's stomach with his right foot.

  "KYAAAAHH!!!"

  "--DID YOU FUCKING HEAR WHAT I SAY?"

  The girl is now holding her stomach as an act to ease the pain, as she keeps crying.

  "Please stop!! It hurts!! Please forgive me!! *sobs sobs*"

  "Stand up!"

  Jack commands the girl despite her groans of pain.

  "*sobs sobs* Please don't!!"

  Jack points his fist towards the girl, and his fist catches fire.

  "Stand up! I'm not gonna say it again!"

  ". . . ."

  The girl toughened herself up and tried to stand up whilst enduring the pain on her stomach and her cheek. Once the girl stood up, John pushed the girl towards the wall on the left by grabbing both of her arms at the wrists.

  *THUD*

  "KYAAAHH!!"

  "Say, how old are you, girl? Are you perhaps 15?"

  "Her uniform is from one of the high schools in the city. DAMN! High schoolers nowadays are rocking such massive. . . prizes!!"

  "Hahahaha! Prizes! I like that Jack!!"

  "Alright, John, you're already holding her anyway, you can start!"

  "Wait, really?! Wohoooo!! Then you're mine, girl!!"

  *sobs sobs*

  The girl kept crying and shed her tears. John grabs the girl's shirt collar tightly.

  "I'm gonna pull this off in one go! You ready, baby girl?"

  "*sobs sobs* Please don't!!"

  "HAHAHAHAHAHA!! I WASN'T ASKING!!!"

  "RIP THEM OFF, JOHN!!!"

  "WILL DO!! BON APETIT!!"

  *BAAAAAAAM*

  *BWOOOSSSHHH*

  *!!!!*

  John was merely milliseconds away from actually ripping her clothes off, but all of a sudden, he was kicked to the wall on the right side of the alleyway. The impact of the kick also causes a small shockwave, and it reverberates through the entire alleyway.

  "WHA--??"

  John's entire body was planted deep into the wall. He landed on the wall face-first, and he lost consciousness on impact.

  "WHO THE HELL DID THIS?!"

  Jack looks around the alleyway, and when he looks to his right, he finally sees someone standing in the alleyway.

  "HUH?"

  There was a boy dressed in all black. He has black spiky hair that waves from the front to the back. He has an antenna hair that stands tall, and it curves sharply upwards halfway through. He has a pair of purple, sharp eyes. His face looks moderately angry. He also wears a silver earring with a cylinder ornament hanging from his left ear. He's wearing a black sleeveless hoodie with a pair of black short-arm socks on his forearms, a pair of black long jeans, and a pair of black shoes.

  "Assaulting high schoolers in the afternoon?! Not exactly a good hobby to have!"

  "The fuck are you brat?"

  "The name's Light. Light Lunehart! I am a Judge. The Judge of Lust. I am a member of the Seven Layers of Judgment! Pleased to meet you!!"

  "Judge? Lust? Judgment? The fuck are you talking about brat?"

  "Well, I don't expect a brain-dead guy like you who thinks it's okay to molest someone to understand!"

  "THE FUCK DID YOU SAY?! WATCH YOUR MOUTH OR I'LL---!!!"

  *BAAAAAMM*

  All of a sudden, Jack was sent flying away from his spot.

  "(W-What? I didn't even see anything?)"

  Light disappeared from Jack's sight, and he punched him on the stomach and sent him flying, but the sequence of events happened so quickly that both the girl and Jack didn't see anything until it was over for a few seconds.

  "AARRGGH!!"

  Jack landed on his back towards the hard ground below. Light is now standing in front of the girl.

  "Are you alright, girl?"

  Light makes a gentle smile on his face towards the girl. The girl blushes a bit seeing his smile. It felt so dreamy to a high school girl for a boy to come out of nowhere and save the day, it's just like when Prince Charming, wearing white armor, came riding a white horse to save a princess of a kingdom from a certain doom.

  "I-I'm fine. . .Thank you for saving me!"

  "Did they do anything to you before I arrived--!!!"

  The alleyway was dark in the afternoon, and when Light's eyes finally got accustomed to the dark, he saw the horrible bruise on the girl's left cheek.

  "Which of the two did that to you? And did they do anything else to you?"

  The girl was silent in fear because of what had happened previously.

  "Did they threaten you before I came? It's okay! Just tell me! I promise you they will not harm you any longer now that I am here!"

  Light assures the girl with both his words and his gentle smile.

  "T-The guy with the blonde hair uses his Faith power to kick me on the cheek, and then that guy on the wall that you kicked also punched me in the same place. But then the blonde guy stomped on my stomach with his leg. Both of these are still hurting so bad. . . *sobs sobs*"

  The girl starts crying again as she tells Light about what happened.

  "Okay, you can go home! I'll take care of the rest! And don't worry about the bruise! Go see a doctor, and they'll help heal your bruises! Don't mind it too much, okay! It won't affect your pretty face! I promise!"

  Light smiles gently after telling the girl to go. The girl blushes at the sheer gentleness of Light's words and his smile.

  "O-Okay! Thank you once again for saving me!!"

  "You're welcome! Now, off you go!!"

  The girl left Light as she ran towards the exit of the alleyway to the main street.

  "Now then. . ."

  *FWOOOOMMM*

  All of a sudden, a raging fire is coming towards Light. The amount of fire suddenly appearing was enough to fill the full width of the alleyway.

  "HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! DIE YOU SHITTY BRAT!!! DIE TO MY GLORIOUS FIRE LIKE THE SPOILED BRAT YOU ARE!!! HAHAHAHAH!!"

  *FWOOOMM*

  That amount of fire came from Jack, precisely from both of his hands.

  Jack is a Believer with Heat Body, as the name of his Faith power. He can shoot out fire from any part of his body for as long as he wishes. His fire is also powerful enough to be used as a jet propeller that can propel him in the air that allowing him to fly. His Faith power is an Elemental type. He has a Source that is located on his left foot.

  Every Believer's Faith power functions under unique rules that are different from one Believer to another. Generally, Faith power has a category that they all fall into based on their way of activation. There are five categories of them: Elemental, Transformation, Armament, Summoner, and Special type. For every category type, they all follow general rules outside of the Believer's specific rules.

  For example, for an Elemental type, every Believer in this category can use the power of elemental energy. The amount of energy that they can produce is limited individually and varies between each Believer. The general rule of the Elemental type is that they all have a 'Source'. This 'Source' is simply a body part of the Believer that was chosen at random. If an Elemental Believer's 'Source' was damaged to a certain degree, they will lose their access to their Faith power, rendering them powerless, but only for an entire minute. Their body part that became the 'Source' will be healed on itself to full recovery, no matter how damaged they are for 30 seconds. And after that 30 seconds, there's another 30 seconds of being unable to use their Faith power. Their Source also lost their sense of pain, they won't feel any pain if their Source is damaged, no matter how painful it was supposed to be.

  *!!!*

  Suddenly, all of the fire inside the alleyway flows into a single point and forms a sphere the size of a basketball.

  "W-WHAT?"

  It was Light's doing. His right forearm has turned pitch black, and there is a fireball currently floating and forming on his blackened hand.

  "Nice! Your output is not bad! Though I still expected more to be honest!"

  Jack stops his fire. He was bamboozled by what he saw. All of his flame, instead of burning the boy alive to a crisp, now obeys the boy instead.

  "YOU'RE A BELIEVER? WHAT IS THAT BLACK HAND? WHAT IS YOUR FAITH POWER?"

  "Go figure! That's the basis of fighting a Believer!"

  "SHIIIITTTT!!"

  Jack points both of his palms forward again, and he shoots another raging flamethrower, but the fire only ends up being absorbed into the boy's ball of fire, and it even grows in size because of it.

  "WHATT?? MY FLAME DOESN'T WORK?"

  "Wanna see something interesting?"

  "Huh?"

  The ball of fire on Light's blackened hand slowly and surely flows into his entire blackened forearm instead. Once the ball of fire was gone, there were now rotating streams of fire across his entire forearm.

  "Here we go!!"

  Light disappears from Jack's sight, but then he immediately reappears above Jack. Light immediately punches Jack in his face down to the ground. It happened so fast that he didn't even react. Jack was punched to the ground. He immediately loses consciousness at the moment of impact with Light's blackened fist. At the same time, all of the flames whirling on his forearm also burst downwards towards Jack and formed into a vortex of fire. The vortex of fire leaves a burnt mark everywhere on the ground, but Jack himself wasn't burned at all. Not even a single body part of his was burnt, and not even his clothes.

  This is due to the rules of Faith power, which it cannot harm its users no matter what. Although there are certain conditions to bypass this. So the damage done to Jack was purely from Light's punch alone.

  ". . ."

  Light looks at all the burnt marks on the ground.

  "His flame is hot enough to burn the ground on contact? His Faith power isn't actually bad. How on earth did a guy like this even awaken his Faith power? He even used it to harm a high school girl..."

  *SIGH*

  Light lets out such a big sigh of relief, and his right arm turns back to normal.

  "At the very least, I arrived right before they actually molested that girl. That means I wasn't late! Thank God!! Now then, it's time for my actual job!"

  Light turns around, and he walks towards John, who's also unconscious, planted deep into the wall. Light blackens his right arm again, and he pulls John out of the wall. He throws John on the ground, and he rolls a bit and eventually stops.

  "Alright, now to that guy who created that ice wall. . ."

  Light ran towards the outer part of the alleyway and was shocked when he reached the spot where the guy, Mark, was lying down.

  *!!!*

  Mark was nowhere to be found.

  "DAMMIT!! I SHOULD'VE HIT HIM HARDER!!"

  But then Light thinks of the worst scenario at the moment in his head.

  "That girl. . . She was passing by here, don't tell me. . ."

  Before Light is lost in his thoughts, he decides to act fast. He transformed both of his feet pitch black, and he jumped towards the exit of the alleyway. With just a single jump, he leaped out of the entire alleyway and has now landed at the exit. The strength of his jump also created a small crack on the ground behind.

  Light prepares to jump again, but this time he leaps diagonally upwards towards the sky. There are a lot of people walking by at the entrance to the alleyway. Yet most of them are unbothered by Light's actions. This is because Faith power has simply become normalized in this world. Faith power is seen simply just like any tools or vehicles, and such.

  Light has reached the heights of the clouds with just a single jump. From above, the beautiful view of the city as it's lit up by the sunlight in the afternoon makes everything shine orange. The view of this everyday event is such a spectacle when seen from high above the sky.

  But Light didn't jump this high to enjoy the beautiful scenery. He closes his eyes and reopens them, and now his eyes light up in a dim pink colour. He scans the city below with his eyes.

  "Got him!!"

  Light immediately propels himself diagonally downwards towards a certain building in the city.