Chapter 2: Woes of King Yama

Chapter 2: Woes of King Yama

King Yama hurriedly wielded his wooden staff and created a torrential gate, throwing Dan Shi without a warning.

Swoosh!

The poor ghost was promptly sent to a Royal Fantasy World as a dragonling.

Alas, a cruel knight found her nest and carved out her mana heart.

"Old man, I'm back—" Swoosh!

To the Mecha World as Juggernaut.

"Old man, I'm—" Swoosh!

To the Beast World as a Behemoth!

"Old man—" Swoosh!

To an Apocalyptic World as an Infected Beast!!

"Old man—" Swoosh!

To the Demon World as a Demonic Duchess!!!

"Old—" Swoosh!

And to more parallel worlds that the author cannot name anymore!

Dan Shi keeps coming back to the Hall of Afterlife, dying prematurely without using up her supposed lifespan in most of her reincarnations!

"I give up! I. GIVE. UP! This can't be done anymore!" 

[A/N: I gave up too just send her already!]

"Oh wow, tell me about it." Dan Shi rolled her eyes and pressed her lips into a thin line.

Shouldn't she be the one saying that after all she had been through? But this audacious old man still has the heart to rant in front of her, Dan Shi was in utter disbelief!

Frustrated King Yama looked at the piling stacks of complaints from other worlds.

His face was painted green and contorted grimly while grumbling about how he couldn't keep continuing these hapless incidents anymore.

"My Lord, why don't you just send her to another dimension." A black bipedal dog with green cat eyes, wearing a golden tunic suggested to his ears.

Wearing his beguiling sinfully radiant smirk almost saying, 'Let's shake off this troublemaker and be done with it.'

"Tse! If it was that easy to breach another universe under a different Supreme God, I would have thrown her to one. But..."

King Yama looked above the ghost's head; his face grimaced at the sight of the blinding digits. 

[1,499,966.6] 

He was sure that if she died again in her next reincarnation earlier than what was supposedly written in her destiny form, this ghost would ascend to godhood!

And the god who will be stripped from his duties will be surely him!

The same god who made this situation progress into something irreversible, ah.

Before King Yama could make up his mind, a creature with the same features and clothes, however, wearing plain white, came running frettingly inside the throne room.

He was gasping for air and drenching with cold sweat. A clear sign of him being mortified to his core.

"My L-lord, the He-heaven's Inquisition Team... T-the Heaven's Inquisition Team is on this way here! What should we do?" the poor pale fellow asked, his feeble uneven teeth still trembling in fear.

"T-the Twin God and Goddess of the Punishment Hall as well as the Goddess of Rebirth were also present and leading the group!"

As if on cue, at the mention of their names, the huge gates outside of Yama's Hall started creaking open.

From the huge glass window, King Yama could see the conspicuous group each mounted in a white pegasus. His face paled comparable to a paper sheet when he saw the grumpy look on Aganis' face.

With no time to react or think, King Yama, who instantly felt ominous, waved his hand toward the silent and clueless ghost. 

Out of nowhere, a familiar vortex appeared and slowly started sucking her. 

It's that damn portal again! There's no way Dan Shi will be conned again this time!

"You shi—Old man! Where are you sending me again? I don't want to die anymore!" Dan Shi exclaimed begrudgingly and tightly grabbed onto his wooden staff, crafted from a holy birch tree.

Dan Shi clung to it like a leech even when her palms were getting burnt into charcoal red, to keep herself from being swept away.

At this point, her feet already floating. Well, she is a ghost, so floating is—no! She is floating sideways and on the verge of being swallowed again! 

Almost half of her body was already inside the void!

'N-noooo! Heck, I was purged as a witch and roasted like a lamb last time. It was so painful and scorching hot!'

"Ah, ah! Let go, Dan Shi. Let go, I say!"

King Yama frantically said while cautiously peering through the huge glass window. And sure enough, the Juries of Heaven's Inquisition Team are already walking towards the very hall room!

"Tse! Do you know how much pain I suffer every time I die? I refuse! I don't want to die anymore. I can just stay as a ghost and wander the earth! Just let me be!" The girl's firm indignant voice reflected her resolute objection and desire to avoid another impending useless death.

"Ah, I get it! I get it! You won't die anymore." The old god coaxed. 

Why did he even forget about this old bone? King Yama lamented.

Would he be stressing out like this if he could just neglect her on the side like a plot of barren wasteland?

Now that the girl had become an ill-star after staying as a ghost for several million years, her fate had become one with death and could not resonate with a living body—one which their current universe could not accommodate.

In addition, there was also the issue of her ensuing godhood which cannot and must not be fulfilled under any circumstances!

Else a current god will have to perish for a new post to appear.

That can't be him! No, yada!

"Yes, yes. You won't die. Of course, you won't be silly."

King Yama smiled impatiently and urged her while unclasping each of the girl's fingers off his precious staff.

"You can stay as a ghost as long as you want but ah you have to go now, my dear ghost!"

"If you still come back, I will make sure you become double dead meat in your next life. So don't come back, okay?" he threatened jokingly with a smile. 

If she really comes back, King Yama will be the dead meat!

However, Dan Shi's current humor was in no way able to get his pun.

W-what?!

This shrewd old man!

After making her undergo so much pain and trouble, he still has the heart to threaten her!?

Heh! What double dead?

He already made her not a double-dead, not a quintuple-dead but a screwed meat that was eaten alive in the apocalypse and demon world!

Ah, those trashy insects who bite their own master!

Does he really think she was afraid of being a lump of dead meat when she 'lived' her whole 'dead' life as a ghost and died countless times?

Oh, it doesn't make sense just like her being 'alive' but dead in a sense!

Once bitten, twice shy.

Fool me twice then shame on me!

You wanted to dupe me? Heh!

"AAAH! THE GODDESSES ARE HERE! THE JURIES ARE COMING~!" 

Due to the sudden deep and hollow scream of the female ghost, King Yama, who was already nervous and antsy, unconsciously loosened his grip and let go of his staff in his panic.

He spun his body and perspective to meet the 'entering' Goddesses and juries. 

It's just that...

Swiiiish~ 

What greeted him was only a gust of dry wind that blew and swept the dust along the empty hall.

"I'll be taking your staff as a parting gift! See you never, petty old man!" Dan Shi's voice echoed before being completely sucked by the void.

"DAN SHIII!"

King Yama roared and tried to reach out his hand at the disappearing image of the girl who held the precious branch in her embrace but to no avail.

The troublesome girl is gone to another cosmic realm and so is his holy staff!