"The rulers don't make a country, it's the people that do." -Rei Regiis Diaboli

Teleporting flips my stomach upside-down; I hope I don’t need to take another gate like that. I was in a huge room chained and lined up with many and many other people. In the end, there was a man with three doors behind him; I wonder where they lead to. A couple of minutes later, it was my turn to walk up to this man,

“Kasai… you don’t have a last name?”

“No, sir.” He started looking at me head to toe, I guess having fancy clothing in comparison to everyone else does make me stand out.

“And who are you?” He opened the book he had in hand and started looking for something. “Ah, an orphan girl, huh?” This man was not human, he had what seemed to be lynx ears and many face marks.

“Yes, sir.”

“Wow… your childhood is horrible; how did you even end in hell?”

“I have a mission to accomplish, if you could send me to where the royal family is at, then I would greatly appreciate it.” The queen must be somewhere where her family is at after all.

“Hmm?” He started chuckling. “You really think I would send someone as stupid as you to the top class?”

“W-what?” Top class?

“I can only send 5% of the people I get in a day to high class, and you think you’re so special that you deserve being there?”

“N-no, that’s not-”

“Just because you found your soulmate, it doesn’t make you special! Just because you have a decent singularity, it does not make you special in any way, you bitch!” And here I thought that he sympathized with me.

“My condolences if you haven’t found your own soulmate, but I’m sure you will find her soon.”

“Shut up you half whore!” Does he really think insults will hurt me? “You will go to the bottom class!” He said while he pointed at the door all the way at the right. “Now!”

“Yes, sir,” I said while walking my way over. The door opened, and I walked through it. Three doors… top and bottom class… there must be different said classes in hell, and right now I’m heading towards the lowest one.

In a blink of an eye, I was somewhere else, kneeled on the ground. I got up and noticed that I was in some sort of ruined urban area. Many buildings were old with plants growing around them, the roads were bumpy with many holes on them, the cars didn’t even seem to work anymore, as in everyone was walking on the roads like it was nothing.

Through the whole crowd, I noticed that there were many poor people that had wretched clothes… no, not many, it seems like everyone here is like that. Many quickly started looking at me. I do stand out with these fancy clothes after all. A lot of people from the crowd started clicking their tongue and said,

“You think you’re better than us?!”

“It must be a high class…”

“Why are you even here?!” I quickly started walking away from the crowd and went into a back alley, I have to tear up these clothes if I want to blend in with the people. As I was going to start to break the clothes, I saw a man approaching me. I tried to take out my singularity, but it didn’t work.

“It’s no use, singularities only activate in the middle class.”

“W-who are you?!” I don’t need weapons to defend myself anyways. As he was approaching, I noticed that he was also wearing fancy clothes.

“I’m the one who is known as ‘Silver Tooth’.”

“What do you want?”

“My job is to go around the low class, and collect many beautiful gals like you, and all it took was a blink of an eye to realize how eye stunning you are. Heterochromia? You don’t see that around very often.” I think I know where this is going…

“I appreciate the compliment, but sorry, I’m taken.”

“Taken? You just arrived in hell. Don’t tell me that… you still have your memories; only high class are given their memories back.”

“… I do.”

“Well, it doesn’t matter. If you would be nice to join my group of girls, I could instantly boost you up to middle class… and who knows, maybe even a high class with your looks. I bet even the royal family would be interested in such a hot gal.” There is no way I’d ever accept such deal… but that makes me think of how many girls have sold their bodies just to get out of here… that’s horrible. I started walking away, but I had to walk by him to leave that alley.

“Sorry, but I’m not interested, I’ll find a better way.” Even if I did, I wouldn’t enjoy it at all. He grabbed my wrist and said,

“Playing hard to get, I see.” I quickly wrapped my hand around his neck and slammed him against the wall.

“Don’t, ever, touch me.”

“Gah- let me- go.” I quickly released my hand from his neck. What am I doing? I’m usually not this aggressive. “You bitch! I’ll make you pay for it one of these days!” He said while running off. I looked down at my hands and said,

“Maybe I just need a breather…” I managed to rip my clothes a bit just to try and blend in, I also rubbed the clothes against some dirt to get them even dirtier. “This should do.” I looked down at my breasts and thought to myself, I’m really going to stand out to men like him with these… hmm… I looked into a nearby garbage can, as nasty as it sounds, for something that I could use. I luckily found some bandages that I could wrap myself with.

I used the bandages to bind my chest. I know this is not safe, but I can’t even use my succubus powers in low class to change the size of them, so I have to do this the painful way. If my skin or anything gets damaged, I’ll just heal it when I reach the middle class. I have to do something about my face too… I’ll think about it another time.

I got out of the back alley and quickly started looking for some sort of map or something that could lead me to a way to access the middle class. It got a bit harder breathing with the bandages binding my chest, but it’s not too bad, I’d have to take it off in eight hours or so. After searching and searching around this never-ending town, I sat on a nearby bench to start thinking. Hmm… I saw many slaves looking around this place, and many were the same race of that guy that had lynx ears at the gate, maybe I ask for help from one of them.

As I was thinking, I saw a demon walking by, whipping a lynx boy to carry a block of cement. This scene reminded me a lot of myself when I was a little girl and got forced to do things I didn’t want to do.

“Hurry up, you idiot!” I quickly got up and stopped the whip from hitting the boy again.

“What are you doing?” I asked.

“Huh? Who are you?!” I quickly knocked him out with the martial arts training I learned back in Greenterra; having my memories gives me a great advantage over them. I hit two pressure points in his head that made him fall on the ground instantly.

“W-woah… that was so cool.” Said the boy. He seemed to be around the age of fifteen, but I could be wrong, he is from another race I don’t know about after all.

“I need you to come with me,” I said.

“F-for what?” He asked.

“Just come! Do you want to be found by another demon?!”

“N-no!” I feel myself more prone to anger now, what’s happening with me? We walked back to the back alley where I was to talk in private. “You’re not going to kill me, right?”

“Of course not! I saved you for a reason.”

“T-thank you.”

“You can thank me with some information.”

“Information?” He asked.

“Yes, I need you to explain everything; I just arrived here in hell not too long ago.”

“Oh, I see.” He kept staring at my eyes for some reason.

“What are you looking at?!” I asked with an annoyed tone.

“N-nothing!”

“Then hurry up and explain!”

“Yes! So, hell is…” He went on explaining how hell is divided into three levels, and how the devil queen was the person who made all these rules. He went on to explain how the only way to go to middle class from low class was to either win the nearby casino or win the colosseum deathmatch tournament they host every week.

“Hmm… fighting is all I’m good at, so I think I might try this Colosseum as dangerous as it sounds.”

“Why do you want to go to high class anyways?” He asked me.

“I… I will kill the devil queen and make hell a better place for people to live, and I will free all the lynxes from slavery, I promise.” He looked at me with glitter in his eyes and said,

“R-Rei? You finally arrived?”

“Huh?” He jumped on me while crying and said,

“Finally! We knew that you were going to save us, we knew it all along!”

“Hey, get off me! Don’t touch me without my permission!”

“S-sorry.” He said while getting off and blushing.

“Can you explain who this Rei is?”

“Oh, right, your memory must be erased. Come with me to our basement, we can talk more at peace in there.” Basement? We walked away into a ruined building. We sneaked and crawled under some rubble and we arrived at this room that had many other lynxes in the refuge. Many of them looked sick and tired.

“Big brother is back!” Yelled a young girl with ruby hair. She seemed special compared to everyone else. Since everyone else had black hair, she was the only one with ruby hair.

“Thomas! What happened to you?” asked another boy.

“Sorry, I got caught by a demon when I tried to get some food for you all.”

“Who is she?” Asked the girl walking up to me.

“She is the person who saved me.”

“Woah, really?! Thank you so much!” Said the young girl.

“N-no problem… uhm...”

“Aiko! Aiko Peruggia.”

“You’re welcome, Aiko.” She smiled at me.

“So, these are your siblings? Aiko and that other one in the back?”

“My name is Nicolas.”

“Yeah, Aiko, Nicolas, and…”

“And?”

“We don’t know what happened to one of them, his name is Vincenzo. He almost had enough money to take us out of here with the casino rewards, but he disappeared.”

“Oh, that sucks.”

“I think he just left to the middle class without us… what a bastard.” Said Thomas.

“No, I think he will still come back to us, I believe in him.” Said Aiko.

“Whatever… anyways, here we got Rei!”

“Rei?! Like… THE Rei?” Said Nicolas.

“Yup, Rei herself.”

“H-hey, I don’t think you should go around and say that I’m-” The girl jumped on me and hugged me.

“You’re finally here!” I didn’t mind much that she hugged me. I just smiled and stood there quiet.

“I forgot to tell you, but Rei was the very first devil queen!” Hmm, I remember Maria saying something like that, but I think she said princess instead, I guess she was wrong. “She was said to be the best queen that ever reigned. She made everyone live in the same class, and her benevolence was incredible. Some say that she even gave up half of her devil blood to save an angel.” So, I’m supposed to be the reincarnation of this queen?

“What happened to her?” I asked.

“She was… assassinated by the first angel king, Ochiru.” So the Aizawas and Maria were right; Ochiru killed Akira’s fiancé, which was Rei, then he also killed his sister Suisei, Akira went berserk and fought Ochiru, ending it in a tie, killing both in battle… and I am the reincarnation of Rei, while Rukito… is the reincarnation of Akira. I see this is starting to make more sense now to me. “Some people say it was this current queen the one who snitched on Rei’s relationship with Akira to Ochiru. But Rei was said to be reincarnated one day and save us from this dystopia! We never lost hope because we knew you were going to come one day!” He said while smiling together with his siblings.

“So, she basically is the cause of death for Rei?”

“Yes, and now you, Rei, you have to take the throne back from this fake queen.”