Blackmailing the King of Afterlife

"She's awake!" a blonde, chubby woman shouted as she saw Frey get her consciousness. She was in charge of securing the grim reaper's body. It was because the owner of the vessel that Frey is currently using is a vigilant Grim Reaper named Celestine. The said lady Reaper run away after she knew that she will be kicked out of being a Reaper and will be thrown back into the boiling lava of Hell Kingdom.

The new lying body of Frey suddenly move, her eyes keep on blinking several times, and tried to twitch her right finger. At least three people appeared in her blurry eye. On her right is the chubby blonde, her mount is moving and looks like she was saying something but doesn't have any sound to Frey's ears.

The other one on her left, is a young man wearing a black leather jacket, having wavy hair and a pointy nose. He looks worried and somewhat frustrated as he bit his fingernails.

Frey closed her eyes for ten seconds as she felt more drowsiness from him shaking her shoulders several times.

And the other one is the woman standing behind the man dressed in pure black. Frey caught a glimpse of her so he could tell that the woman didn't seem to care about what was happening around her, her two arms were entwined in front of her and she wasn't looking in her direction.

"Celestine, it's good you're awake. Are you alright?"

"Aren't you thinking, Harley? Why would you ask her that? Do you think she's okay in this state? She was covered with bruises, her skin almost erased from the scars and burns she suffered."

"I'm sorry, I'm just really worried about her." An annoying sneer came out from the blonde lady whose name is Harley.

"Know what? It's better if you call the guard and says that she wakes up," the man said again.

"Oh yes. Just a moment." Harley rushes out of the room to head to the superior.

Harley is a runner physician of the reapers. Grim reapers are not immune to disease but they can take wounds and pain from Helldoom. But that is not the only scope of her duty, sometimes in an unexpected situation she also helps a person who needs his medical services — but that person who is not supposed to die but is on the verge of their death.

Frey thought that when her eyes opened again, her family would be in her front hugging her. She hoped that everything she saw and happened a few moments ago was all from her dream or imagination. But no, the System is real, as she woke up in the Grims World.

Frey shook her head slightly and forced herself to calm down for a moment, she needs to think of a bright idea on how to deal with the new people she was with.

"Celes, do you recognize me?"

Frey stopped on her daily thoughts, her eyes ran to the man who had been beside him for a while and was causing her trouble.

[System analyzing . . .]

She was startled by that voice.

'The system.'

And a square angle started to blink several times in her vision, it was taking too long to focus on the face of the front man. It take several actions before it finally stopped and the young man's face was captured.

[Analyzing Complete . . .

Name: Andreus

Age: 557 years old

Level: 8

Position: Security Specialist

STRENGTH: 85%

INTELLIGENCE: 70%

SKILLS: TELEPORTATION

SHAPESHIFTING

SPECIAL ABILITY: Specialized in swords.

Andreus waved his palm a few more times across the face of what he thought was Celestine. He thought of helping her to regain her power as soon as possible before the Council can continue the punishment Celestine was supposed to get. But what he didn't know is she was not Celestine in the first place. That someone is occupying her friend's body and taking a hard time dealing with it.

"Captain, what are we going to do? She's still not talking." Now he turned to the woman who was in her other habit.

"Can you take it easy?" The gentle face of the woman was already shining, it was obvious that she was ahead of them in age. It cannot be said that she is old because her complexion is healthy and his long hair will prove that he is only in middle age.

And when she faced Frey, her face was caught by the System.

[Analyzing Complete . . .

Name: Farvati

Age: 982 years old

Level: 9

Position: Team Captain

STRENGTH: 95%

INTELLIGENCE: 90%

SKILLS: TELEPORTATION

SHAPESHIFTING

TELEKINESIS

SPECIAL ABILITY: Specialized in Archers and stringed swords.

The System impresses her, she knows what she will need next.

"A-Andreus?" She pretended to be confused and seemed unsure of his name. She slowly twitched her eyes as if something was blocking it.

"Thank goodness nothing bad happened to you. C'mon, do you need anything?" From the tone of Andreus' voice, it was obvious that he was worried about Celestine.

"I-I'm fine," Frey said as she slowly raised herself on the soft mattress she was lying on.

Frey then quickly responded to that soft bed, she wondered why there was such a thing in the place. The system speaks nothing but, grim reaper, hells, and souls. So why is there something like this with them?

PING! There was that intriguing sound again from her system.

[SYSTEM TALKING TO HOST: Grim reapers have their world to live in but aside from that they also have territory in the real world. And the Host is here now in what they call the Annex, this place is an office where grim reapers work to collect and escort souls from Earth to Afterlife. Grim Reapers have the privilege of this place, especially if they have the badge from the King of Afterlife.]

'Ohw, that's awesome!'

"It's good you're awake," Farvati said casually. "Hurry up and you'll be summoned to the council. I can't help you anymore, Celestine. You broke the rule." Her aura was very brave and full of strength. At her power level, Frey was sure that she was a Grim Reaper with strong power.

Frey felt the urge to know what rule Celestine broke to be criticized so hard. She should have an idea for she was Celestine starting today.

Her brain began to leave a message for the system.

'Show me what happened to Celestine before I ended up in her body.'

[Error.]

'What? Why can't you show me that information?'

[This matter is confidential, the system can help you in other aspects except for this one.]

Frey just frowned in annoyance. How can she move forward if she lacks important information? She needs that broader information, the whole thing, not just a summary. But as the system says no, she should find her way to figure it out.

. . .

After a few hours, her feet were already guiding Frey toward the Council. Inside the room, respectable deities were sitting and waiting for her trial to get started. According to the news he caught around while she was pretending to be sleeping, Celestine run away from a hearing like this one. Celestine is one of the weakest and has the lowest ranking level among all the Negotiator reapers. Every year the council replaces the reapers who are weak and welcomes new ones. And the day Frey and Celestine agreed was also the day of her escape.

Celestine's desire to live more motivated her to make the switching decision. She fled and ask the System for help, and she won. They even imprisoned Frey's soul to her body and are getting better at the outside world.

However inside the council, from the long table and fancy high chairs sat the deities, their clothing varies according to their position but all were pleasant and exploding with power. And the one in the middle of the twelve gods wearing a silk long brown body cover with a coat made from the body of a lion spoke.

"Grim Reaper 2027, Celestine, you are accused of violating our race's standards. Running away from responsibility and going to the human world to hide is a disgrace to our world. Being of a low level in your state is even more so, your punishment of beating to hell will be increased. After a hundred days, you will be thrown into the blazing fire and will be unrecognizable. You will not achieve reincarnation for a thousand more years."

Murmurs filled the interior of the council, some left disappointed and others even seemed to like the superior's decision.

Frey also couldn't believe what she heard. She didn't expect Celestine to do such serious things even knowing the consequences. But there was a certain percentage on her mind saying that her decision is also right.

'If it were me I might even kill them all in anger. Just because Celestine is weak, they can do whatever they want. Didn't she do anything right during those times?'

"Your name will be erased from the books and history of the Afterlife Organization, you will be unrecognizable and become nothing, you're just a rain that watered the crops on the summer days of the year. I will remove your badge and you will never set foot in Helldoom again."

Once again Frey's status boomed like popcorn, in everyone's eyes she was the Celestine they were punishing. She doesn't have the strength to fight especially since she had no further idea about the grim's world.

Frey glanced around and in every reaper who was there, no one wanted to speak or even commented about what happened, that's when she realized that the deity who spoke had a very strong power. He's capable of keeping his subordinates obey him.

But in Frey's mind, she can't agree, her journey is just beginning and it can't just end now. She had to find a way.

PING!

AN ITEM IS AVAILABLE

° Open

° Delete

Frey jumped in surprise at the tickling sound released by the System. She seemed to have guessed the reason for the envelope that suddenly appeared before her eyes.

Because her hands were secured with a chain covered in fire she was unable to press the message that she received, so she tried to see if it will work if she just said what she wanted.

'Open'

Then the details of the 'Item' appeared on the blue screen.

°Sneak Peeker°

How to deal with King Amadeus°

> Go for 100 coins

Frey's eyebrows tried to merge in confusion. 'What is this all about?' She was a little taken aback but then still used her 100 coins to open the said Item.

"Go!" King Amadeus's voice bombarded the room, he was giving a command to the Hell guards that was on Frey's back since the beginning of the trial. "Escort her to the Hell of Sinners, she will be having her first punish with Lumiendo."

The guards pulled Frey, but she resisted. An intriguing smile is painted on Frey's lips as she looks up and does an eye to eye contact with King Amadeus.

"Can you take me to that Hell that you were talking about after we discussed what happened in Alabama?"

Frey got the fish out of the sea. She keeps on praising the system for the idea of giving her the footage, she doesn't teach that the System can do the blackmailing process. But on the other side of Frey's mind, she also felt a little confusion about Alabama.

What is King Amadeus doing in Alabama with blood on his hand?