AS INCREDIBLE AS IT SEEMS, ADAM FELL ASLEEP on my couch, leaving my home in total silence. He must have been tired, seeing that he just woke up from his nightmare today. It took me about two weeks to get used to the environment in Hell, but opposite to him, I didn't feel like sleeping at all.
Thinking about it, the last time I slept was probably the day before I died. Not surprising, because I used to have insomnia, so I was never a friend with falling asleep. Well, at least now that he's unconscious, I can get some training underground.
You know, when I died, there was literally nothing in these woods, so I build this place in a year. It was good because I had something to focus on, and I always liked to construct things when I was alive. That made it all easier for me.
It's a three-floor home, which I like to kindly call a "cabin". While it seems like it has only one floor, the other two are underground. I'm proud of my job, I did my best. And within time, after I became a General, I started the redecorate everything with things I got in the Human world.
Don't get me wrong, we do have lots of things here in Hell, and we have a type of currency as well, called "aura". As I said, Hell is very much a civilization, but full of sinners. That doesn't change the fact that we do have very much everything down here, even water electricity, and even entertainment.
Although that's not surprising seeing how 80% of the famous people in the Human Realm came to Hell. Not complaining though, there are lots of shows, books, and good songs here because of that. The Light Realm is on the losing side on this.
Either way, we have everything. But not many new ideas like the Humans do, not to say about the things created by the Humans who didn't come to us after death. So yes, I get lots of those things up there.
Opposite to what I used to think, Hell isn't underground. It's more like a different dimension, just as much as the Light Realm. But it's always completely dark, and indeed quite dreadful. However, it's surprisingly rich, there's a little of everything here.
The stronger you are, the richer you become. That's probably a way to make people here thrive to become stronger, so they can get more money. And opposite to Humanity, we do not have poverty, which is quite shocking when you think that we are in Hell.
But it's probably because we are in Hell that there's no poverty. Because everybody here wants money and is doing everything to get it. Even the people in Sloth, because they have their way to do things so they won't become poor.
My jurisdiction is probably the one with the richest people. I'm quite rich myself, so I don't have to think about any of that. And I'm not at all worried about anyone who wants to get my position, no one dares to do that, and the few who do, get crushed by me, which scares the others.
And they are all fine with me being their General. After all, they are prideful about me being one of the strongest in Hell, making them, better than the others as well. That's a good point of having prideful people under me, I guess.
Back to my dear home, on the first underground floor, it's where my real library is, as well as my bar with storage of alcohol, and a professional kitchen. There's also a big-ass room full of food, especially chocolate, which I got in the Human Realm. And also a special cooler room where I grow, plants, vegetables, and fruits, and because they grow in Hell's ground, they would be very much deadly for a living being, but they are quite delicious for me. I confess I always liked cooking, I learned quite a lot of things with my grandma who also loved the kitchen, so that's what I do when I need to relax and the books aren't helping me.
Even though my home is a top-secret, there's another person who knows about it. That is, Toshi, but he keeps a secret. He lived here with me when I was training him, so no one would see him trying to become a General and be wary of him. Sometimes he comes here, but always undercover, so people won't notice him getting into my jurisdiction.
He also passed me some recipes that his mother taught him when he was alive, all Japanese food, but very good. Although I had to modify them for the fish we have here in Hell, and it's quite hard to get them.
Now, on the lower floor, there are two big training grounds, that can take all of my strength. I also have a big armory, a laboratory, an atelier for painting when I get bored, and a hydro-massage pool with cold water. Lastly, I also have a personal gym, which was very much one of my last acquisitions.
About the laboratory, I use it to modify all of the electronics I got in the Human Realm, so they can work on the energy we have here.
When you live for more than a thousand years, you end up learning a little of everything.
The stairs to get down here are in a hidden door in the library on the normal ground floor. There's also a bedroom on each of the underground floors as well, and just like the one I spend the night in, there's a portal that connects them directly with my chambers in Alexa-Hall, my castle downtown.
After training my swordsmanship, I went to the greenhouse and caught some of my black strawberries and red lemons, as well as some purple bananas and blue apples. Then I got back to the ground floor, decided to be cool, and make a dessert of Hell fruits for Adam to prove.
But when I was opening the secret door in the library, there he was, standing in front of me. It was so sudden that I jumped scared, and everything would have rolled down the stairs if he hadn't caught them from my hands fast enough. "Devil's above, don't go appearing out of nowhere like this, dumbass," I cursed, closing the door with the bookshelf and taking my fruits from his hands.
"What was that?" He turned to me, still in shock, pointing to where I had just come from.
Sigh. "That's classified," he giggled sarcastically.
"Where did you get those..." He stared at my bow with the fruits. "Things that are very much rotten!"
Biting my lip to hold my anger I turned my back on him and headed to the kitchen. "They are not rotten, idiot. Fruits from Hell are just different. Their colors are different, as you can see," I put them on the island of the kitchen. "And they taste even better than the ones in the Human Realm, not to mention that they make your body somehow stronger."
"How do you know that? They look quite dangerous and not at all edible," he swallowed, staring at them with a disgusted look in his eyes.
"Haven't you heard what people say?" He turned to me, confused. "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. And we cannot be killed. But they are very deadly for humans," when I said that, he stared at me suspiciously.
"You seem quite sure about that!" I smirked.
"Are you trying to ask me if I know this because I gave some to humans when I when in the Human Realm, and it killed them?" His face is hilarious, he doesn't seem so brave anymore.
"Did you?"
I took a black strawberry and bit it, licking my lips, the inside was light pink, delicious. "Yes!"
"You killed humans with those fruits? Now you are asking me to eat it?" I raised my eyebrows.
"I didn't ask you to eat them. However, you are already dead, Adam. It won't kill you, there's no need to be freaking out like that. You are lucky you're dead, or I would have murdered you already," he seemed uncomfortable and I smirked, finding this very amusing.
Then I choose one of the blue bananas, took her dark blue skin, leaving only the light blue edible part of the fruit, and bit it. When I looked at him again, he was almost eating me with his eyes, his jaw tensed as he watched me eat the banana. Devil's above, he makes it as if I was doing a sexual thing.
"You seem hungry," I mocked. "Swallow your pride and eat one of them, before I used them to make a dessert," he looked down at them, still disgusted, but chose the lemon.
I stared at him, anxious for his reaction. "Why does this orange look so... red?" That made me giggle, he's going to hate it. "Can you pass me a knife?" I did as he asked, watching as he peeled the lemon, swearing it was an orange.
"Those are one of my favorites," I pointed, trying to hold my laughter, and he stared at me then took a big bite on it, regretting it the next instant.
I burst out laughing, and he stared at me as if I had killed a baby. "What the fuck is this? Why does this orange taste so bad?" He search for trash and threw it inside. "Disgusting shit!"
"Dumbass, that wasn't an orange!" I exclaimed. "It was my red lemon. Which I kind of modified to be even more sour than usual," he didn't look at me, busy trying to wash his mouth on my sink.
"Why would you want a damn lemon to be sourer? What's your problem?" He turned to the fruits and took one of the black strawberries I was eating before. And without thinking twice, he ate it, seeming surprised by the taste. "Damn, this one is good."
"Told you! Now leave me alone," I pushed him out of my kitchen and washed my hands to start cooking.