10 minutes later. . .

  Thank you for the purchase!" Light bows towards a customer.

  Light and Lily are currently working at Light's part-time job at the convenience store five kilometers away from his home. He offered Lily a job here, and she was also accepted immediately. She has the same shift as Light.

  Light and Lily both wear the store clerk's uniforms. Light is handling the counter and customers while Lily is handling supplies and tidying up the items in the store.

  "How do you do, Lily?"

  "I'm fine. I kinda like doing this. Thanks for inviting me. And I also felt a little bit guilty because of what I did a month ago, about paying with toy money. . ."

  "Glad to have you here! And don't mind that. I already covered it up with my pay."

  Lily then walks towards Light at the counter and whispers.

  "So, when are we going to do the Judge's stuff?"

  "Later, after our shift ends. It's exactly at lunch break."

  "Oh, I see. You know, I've been kinda excited for a while. I spent a whole month imagining that I would do things to help people for a change. I'm pumped!"

  Lily is excited and shakes her body like a little kid in a candy store.

  "Don't worry, just enjoy your time here first."

  "I will!"

  They do their conversation in whispers. Light has been hiding the fact that he is a Judge from the store manager. He had told Lily beforehand not to casually talk about Judge's stuff when other people are around, especially the store manager.

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  Lunch break, 12:00. . .

  The store manager always comes to the store at exactly lunchtime.

  "Ah, so is this the one, Lunehart-san?"

  The store manager asks Light as soon as he enters the shop.

  "Yes, Manager-san. She is also my girlfriend!"

  "Nice to meet you! My name is Lily!"

  Lily bows as she greets the manager. Light shoves his elbow softly against her waist as he whispers to her.

  "Oi, your full name!"

  "Oh, right!"

  "And also, don't slip up, or else you'll tell him your real identity as the Queen of Time!"

  "OH! Right, right!"

  They whispered to each other.

  "M-My name is Liliana Aiha! You can call me Lily. Nice to meet you, Manager-san! Thanks for allowing me to work here with my boyfriend!"

  "Ah, yes, yes! Be nice towards each other, you two! Lunehart-san, take good care of her as a man!"

  "Yes, of course, Manager-san!"

  "Okay, you guys can leave!"

  "Thank you for having us!"

  Light and Lily bow their head as they excuse themselves. They changed their store uniform into their casual clothing and left the store afterward.

  "Before we go do our Judge's duty, I'll take you somewhere to have lunch!"

  "Now that you mention it, I do feel hungry."

  "KYAAA!!" Lily squealed.

  Light suddenly picks her up in his arms without warning her. He's carrying her, the princess-carry style.

  "Hold on tight!" Light smiles at Lily, whose face is very close to his.

  Lily grabs hold of Light's shirt as per his demand. Light transforms his feet and starts gathering the wind as it forms a whirlwind around his blackened feet. He flies upwards and heads to their destination.

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  10 minutes later. . .

  Light is flying above the sky with Lily.

  "I can travel faster, but I can't carry you while accelerating myself. Your blessing will prevent that, right?" asks Lily.

  "Yes, unfortunately." answers Light.

  They are currently 5000 meters above sea level. Light starts descending fast towards a certain building below, and he has no intention of slowing down.

  "L-Light-kun, is this gonna be okay?"

  "Hm? I'm surprised to see you get frightened at this level of speed. Didn't you always run a lot faster than this?"

  "Well, I-I was always in control, but this time I am NOT!"

  Lily tightens her grip on Light's shirt.

  "Oh, so it's like that. Makes sense."

  Light stops in midair only 5cm away from the ground. He then releases his hold over the whirlwind on his feet and drops to the ground smoothly with Lily in his arms. He puts down Lily as gently as he possibly can.

  "Let's eat here!"

  Hearing Light's words, Lily realized that they had landed exactly in front of a restaurant.

  “Nasi Padang Restaurant?”

  "Yes, this is one of my favorites!" said Light happily.

  They enter the restaurant and sit down on one of the many seats. The restaurant is quite crowded, given that it is lunchtime. After sitting down just for a few seconds, Lily is starting to get confused.

  “Light-kun? Where is our menu? There’s nothing in the table, only foodware.”

  “Hehehehe! Just you wait and see!” said Light as he smiled, which made Lily even more confused.

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  After only about five seconds, Lily was utterly surprised when she saw one of the waiters come to their table, carrying a stack of so many dishes in both of his hands. There are about 20 plates that he carries at a single time.

  “EEEEHHHH???? Light-kun, what kind of Faith power is that? Is this restaurant using Faith power as an attraction to entertain their customers? That’s kinda unique and awesome!!”

  “Ahahahahaha! No, he doesn’t have any Faith power! That’s just pure skill.”

  “HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHH??”

  Lily shouts so loudly, and Light immediately shushes her.

  “SHUSH!! Lily! Other people are eating around! Don’t shout! You’ll bother other customers!”

  Lily immediately covers her own mouth.

  “I apologize! I forgot!”

  The waiter proceeded to place all of the 20 dishes that he carried by himself on the table one by one, so orderly, without spilling any of the food. Afterwards, the waiter bowed his head to us.

  “Have a good meal!”

  “Ah, t-thank you!” said Lily.

  “Thank you, sir!” said Light.

  And then the waiter left.

  “L-L-L-Light-kun! Why is he giving us all this food? This is definitely going to be expensive, right?”

  “Hahahaha! Actually, you just pay for what you eat! If you don’t eat most, it’s gonna cost fairly!”

  “I-I never knew such a restaurant existed!”

  “This is a custom from Padang, as the name suggests. It is a region of one of the five giant islands of Indonesia, Sumatra! Their food is one of the best in all of Indonesia! Enjoy, Lily!”

  They both take a pose to pray.

  “Amen!”

  Lily was overwhelmed by the many dishes on the plate. There are many dry foods and soupy foods. They are all so colorful, there are red, brown, green, yellow, and there are also meat dishes, fish, and vegetables of so many kinds.

  “Light-kun, I don’t know what to pick.”

  “First of all, take a spoonful of rice from that big rice basket. And then, I recommend, Beef Rendang, Cow Brain curry, dried beef jerky, Cassava leaf, Egg Balado, and then Fish head curry.” said Light as he pointed to each of the foods he mentioned.

  Lily proceeded to do as he requested. She takes a bite of everything in order. Firstly, the Beef Rendang.

  “MMMMHHHHHH!!! SO GOODD!!! WHAT IS THIS, LIGHT-KUN?”

  “Beef cooked for very long hours in coconut. . . something. I don’t know the details behind the cooking process. I just know this is my favorite food ever!”

  “MMMHHH!! I agree with you! Next!”

  Lily takes a bite of the Egg Balado next.

  "SPICYYYYYYYYYY!!!"

  "Oh ow, are you okay?"

  "BUT IT'S GOOOODDD!!!"

  "Ahahaha! Thank goodness!"

  And then Lily proceeds to enjoy the time of her life enjoying new food that she never existed in her whole life.

  And so, Light and Lily enjoy their lunch together. Light enjoys seeing all of Lily’s reactions to everything since this is her first time, and Lily is enjoying all of the food as she has never had any luxury in the past.

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  10 minutes later. . .

  “AH! I’m full!” said Light, satisfied with his lunch.

  "THAT WAS SO FUN AND UNIQUE!! THANK YOU, LIGHT-KUN!!” said Lily as she hugged Light tightly.

  “Y-You’re welcome.” said Light, blushing a bit.

  After Lily lets go of her hug, Light finally confirms Lily’s time to properly work as his Support.

  “Then it’s time for work, Lily!”

  “Yes, Light-kun! Finally!”

  "Wait a minute, have I told you about my other ability as a Judge?"

  "I only know about that Sword and that blessing."

  "Oh, sorry about that! Come, I'll explain on the way."

  Light offers Lily a piggyback ride this time. She hops on his back, and he flies upwards after transforming his feet.

  "Where are we going exactly?"

  "Nowhere in particular actually, I go everywhere I suspect to have the most cases where rape might happen."

  "R-Rape?"

  "Yes, as a Judge of Lust, that is the one case that I've been dealing with the most, although cases of lusts aren't always rape."

  "That sounds scary, but we're saving them, right?"

  "Yes, that's what I do after all."

  "How do you know when a rape takes place?"

  "I don't, but here comes one of my abilities as a Judge. I can detect lust using a Lust sensor that has a 5km range limit. Once I detect a lust, I don't know how far away it is from my position, and that's where my next ability comes into play. It's called Lust vision. I can light up my eyes into a dim pink color, and that enables me to see lust physically, and it appears as a gas-like trail. It has a limit of 2 kilometers of range."

  "I see."

  "But since I 'feel' lust, you can also feel it too. So, we both know when someone's lusts are within our range."

  "Convenient."

  "But not all lusts are bad lust."

  "What does that mean?"

  "Well, lust that comes out from a pair of husband and wife isn't really a sin."

  "I see, that makes sense."

  "Now, I want you to use time-stop immediately when you feel lust, understand?"

  "Yes, I'll do my best."

  Suddenly, Light felt lust within the area, and Lily felt it as well.

  "LILY!"

  "Understood!"

  Without any hand signal or body movement, Lily stops time. Everything in the world has come to a halt.

  "I'm starting to get used to this time-stop feeling." said Light.

  Light activates his Lust vision, and his eyes glow pink. He saw pink fog down at a city that they randomly passed through.

  "Down there!" said Light.

  Light immediately descends fast towards the pink fog. He landed safely with Lily on his back. The first thing they see somewhat relieves them.

  "Oh, thank God he hasn't started assaulting her."

  Light let out a sigh of relief as he placed one of his hands on his chest.

  "So, what do we do now?"

  They saw that a man was in the middle of tying up a girl with a rope; the girl had her mouth shut by duct tape in a dark alleyway, even though it was daytime. The man was in his twenties, and the girl was in high school, and she was wearing her school uniform.

  "Let's move the girl away!"

  Light and Lily untie the rope from the girl. Lily removes the duct tape from her mouth. She then undoes her time stop on the whole world except for the young man.

  "HELP!" the girl suddenly screams.

  "Hey, it's all right!" said Light.

  The girl takes a glance at Light and Lily, as well as the man who tied her up.

  "What is going on?"

  "We saved you." Lily answers.

  "Why is he not moving?"

  "Don't worry, it's my Faith power. Now go, we'll take care of this guy."

  The girl stands up and bows.

  "T-Thank you for saving me!"

  "It's all good! Go home!" said Light.

  The girl runs away from the location, leaving only Light, Lily, and the man in the back alley.

  "Lily, free him!"

  "Yes."

  Lily returns the flow of time to normal for the young man.

  "Just you wait, girl, I'll take you to—What the?"

  "Hey, scum!" said Light to the man as he walks closer towards him.

  *BAM*

  Light blackens his right fist and punches the man right in his face. The man falls to the ground with the back of his head, kissing the ground first.

  "ARGH!!"

  Light readies another punch.

  "Sleep!"

  Light punches the man once again. He lost consciousness and lay down on the ground.

  "Light-kun, is there any reason why you knocked him out?"

  "There is."

  Light summons the Sword of Purification in his hand.

  "You see, this Sword only works on an unconscious body, so I did need to make him faint."

  "Oh! Now that I think about it, you never did explain how that sword works. You only told me how to summon it."

  "I apologize, it's faster to demonstrate it anyway. Watch!"

  Light stabs the Sword of Purification on the man's chest. Little by little, a horde of black aura got absorbed into the sword it changed into the same black color as the aura. Light pulls the blackened Sword of Purification out.

  "Lily, this is negative emotion. The next thing I will do is to stab it into my chest. I will receive the man's emotion, but it also contains the memory associated with it. I know I said that a Support can only feel the emotion of its corresponding Judge, but this is special. You will also receive his memories. Are you ready? Let me warn you that these are always painful."

  Lily gulps and answers.

  "I'm ready!"

  Light nods. He stabs himself with the blackened sword right in his chest. The black aura was absorbed into his chest, and the Sword of Purification turned back into its pure and bright white color.

  Light and Lily receive the memories of the man. They both saw that the man was venting his stress. He was pressured nonstop by the people around him. He failed his college entrance exam for the third year. He failed to get a part-time job in the meantime. His friends abandoned him, and his parents kept pressuring him into a corner.

  *pant pant*

  Light was exhausted, but he could keep his head straight as he had been doing these for more than two years now.

  "AAAAAAAAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!"

  *!*

  Lily suddenly screams.

  "STOP PRESSURING ME! STOP CORNERING ME!"

  "LILY!!!"

  "AREN'T THEY, MY PARENTS? WHY CAN'T I EVER FEEL RELIEVED WHEN I'M AT HOME?"

  "LILY, CALM DOWN!"

  Light approaches Lily quickly and holds both of her shoulders.

  "LILY! IT'S OKAY! IT'S NOT YOUR MEMORIES!"

  *!*

  Lily stops and realizes what happened.

  "L-Light-kun. . ."

  Lily's head falls to Light's chest.

  "You okay?"

  "I. . . I'm fine. . ."

  Light rubs Lily's back to ease her pain.

  "It hurts a lot for the first time, but as you keep going, although the pain doesn't hurt less, you do get stronger and become able to endure it after a long time."

  "L-Light-kun. . . This is painful. . ."

  "Yes, it is. . ."

  Lily realized something.

  "You. . . have been doing this for more than two years? All alone all this time?"

  "Yes. . ."

  At that moment, Lily realized how heavy the burden of a Judge is as well as a Support.

  "I. . . feel guilty for making you do these."

  "NO!"

  Lily objects immediately.

  "This is the price to pay for all those people I've killed in the past. I can take this! I will endure this!"

  Light feels Lily's guilt just by looking at her face when she said that.

  "So, what's next? Are we done?" asks Lily.

  Light lets go of Lily and walks towards the unconscious man on the ground. He squats and puts his palm on the man's head. He prays, and his whole body glows in white light. The man's body also glows white after a bit.

  "Amen!"

  Light ends his prayer, the light that engulfs their body disperses, and he stands up.

  "We're done here!"

  "What did you do?"

  "A prayer to ask God to give him strength. It will help him face his current reality, he will feel enthusiastic and optimistic facing that wall, though it won't do much, however, if the person doesn't want to change."

  "That is. . . wonderful. . ." said Lily as she smiled.

  Light picks up Lily on his back again and they fly again to somewhere else, finding the next case of lust.