"I'm sorry, but you have to go to sleep."

  "Huh?"

  "Senpai, would you please?"

  "Of course, Kouhai-kun."

  Neo walks up to the man. He lifts his right hand, and it turns silver.

  Neo's Faith power is Silver Matter, a transformation type. He can transform his body parts into a silver metal that doesn't actually exist anywhere in the world. It is a new material that only belongs to him. The silver matter is the toughest material amongst all other existing solid materials. It won't break, crack, or bend, and it has a ridiculous amount of mass, but it has one weakness, temperature. An extreme amount of high or low temperature can easily break the Silver Matter apart.

  "W-w-w-w-w-what is that?"

  "Have a nice dream!"

  Neo punches the man right on the head using his silver hand, and he immediately loses consciousness.

  "Senpai, you could've killed him there."

  "I held back properly. So, don't worry!"

  Neo's hand returns to normal.

  "My turn."

  Yuki walks to the man. She stabs the man on the chest with the Sword, and it turns black. Yuki pulls it out and stabs it into herself. Yuki and Neo receive the memory of the younger brother who spent half of his life envying his older brother.

  . . . . .

  "So, the older brother did offer him help, but he refused?"

  "Sigh~ Foolish. He wanted the entire wealth instead of just accepting his brother's offering."

  "I mean, I can kinda see why he refused. The inheritance process was blatantly unfair. Just because he was born a lot later, he loses the entire right to be the successor."

  "Senpai. . ."

  "This whole brotherhood sort of reminds me of—"

  "Senpai."

  *!*

  Yuki's voice suddenly goes deep, but still without any facial expression. Neo was taken aback.

  "I'm sorry. . ."

  "It's okay. It is not that easy to move on from the past. After all, everyone has different tolerance towards trauma."

  ". . . ."

  The two of them were frozen silent. No words were uttered for a few seconds.

  "Senpai, I'm gonna thaw the other men one by one. Can you knock them out? I'll call the police later after I save them, too. I'll give them prayers all at the same time afterward."

  "Ah, sure!"

  .

  .

  .

  At the exit to the city, Yuki and Neo have finished their Judge's duty for the day.

  "So, where are we going to sleep tonight?"

  "Let me check the map."

  Neo pulls out his smartphone and opens the map app.

  "There's a small town that has a standard quality hotel about 145km to the south. There's only one hotel there, though, and it is outside of this desert."

  "Do we even have the money to stay the night?"

  "Uuuhh. . ."

  "Should I just create an igloo somewhere comfortable?"

  "But how about the sand underneath? Sleeping in sands sounds like torture, uuggh. . ."

  "Senpai, I can just easily cover the sand over with my ice. . ."

  "But that would still be too cold, Kouhai."

  "Then how about we sleep under the blanket together with no clothes on. That way we can keep each other's body warm."

  "W-WHA--?? HOW CAN YOU SUGGEST SUCH A THING!! ITS-ITS-ITS-ITS-ITS TOO SOON FOR US!! THERE ARE A LOT OF STEPS BEFORE THAT!"

  "Senpai, I was just joking. We don't even have a blanket."

  "Oh. . . Sorry, I. . . can never tell the difference. . ." said Neo with his face turning red.

  "Senpai. We've been together for a while now, get used to it already."

  "How can I? You use the same straightforward expression whether you are joking or when you're actually serious, not to mention your monotonous tone! Realistically, how can I even tell?"

  "*Sigh* We’ll continue this another time. We have to discuss our shelter for the night."

  "(TCH! She's the one who started it!)"

  "How about we find and sleep next to an oasis near here? I don't know if there is even one in this desert, though."

  "Alright then."

  Yuki generates ice from the bottom of her right foot. She then shapes the ice into a large bird and jumps on top of it.

  "Senpai, get on."

  Yuki offers Neo a hand.

  "Alright, alright!"

  Neo takes Yuki's hand and hops onto the top of the bird as well. They sit down on the bird's back, with Yuki on the front, and Neo directly behind her. The bird starts flapping its wings, and they soar high towards the night sky.

  "I'm still amazed by how you can control this bird made of solid ice as if it's really animated and alive."

  Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.

  "I am a Judge after all. God said that we needed this much capability to overcome the sins of the entire world."

  "Sins of the entire world, just dealing with one person is already mentally exhausting. I can't even imagine how you can face the sins of the entire world."

  "I'll figure something out. Eventually. . ."

  "You're right. And I will always be there to support you."

  "Thank you, senpai."

  *!*

  "Speaking of which, I see an oasis over there, senpai." Yuki points to the west.

  "Alright, let's get down there."

  Yuki commands her ice bird to descend towards the oasis. Once it lands, Yuki and Neo jump off it.

  "Kouhai, I'll gather some leaves from the few trees around here. You make an igloo near the water!"

  "Okay."

  .

  .

  .

  10 mins later, they have built a quick igloo over the sand near the water. She also created an ice dome to cover the entire oasis, making it an enclosed space. She also freezes the sand inside the igloo.

  "Okay then, let's sleep, kouhai."

  "Senpai, if you can't hold it any longer, you can assault me whenever you want; I wouldn't mind it."

  "I SAID STOP MAKING JOKES LIKE THAT KOUHA-KUN!!!"

  "Okay, senpai, let's go sleep."

  "*pant pant* At least I am tired and it makes me sleepy."

  The igloo is small, measuring only 2x2 meters in width and being square-shaped.

  They sleep next to each other.

  . . . . . .

  ". . . . I can't really sleep like this. . ."

  ". . .Are you conscious of me, senpai?"

  "Yes, thanks to you earlier. . ."

  ". . . I see that sort of makes me happy."

  "(Wow, please stop being honest like that. My heart is gonna explode at some point.)"

  "I'll face this way, you'll face the other way. We have to be up early next morning."

  "You're right. Good night, kouhai."

  "Good night, senpai."

  .

  .

  .

  The next morning. . .

  ". . . "

  Neo slowly opens his eyes.

  ". . .Another day arrives."

  Neo tried to sit up, but he noticed a significant weight on his body.

  "What? K-KOUHAI-KUN?"

  Yuki rolled over to his side, and half of her body was on top of him.

  "Kouhai, oi kouhai! Wake up! It's heavy!"

  Neo shakes Yuki to wake her up.

  "Mmmmmm. . ."

  "Oi, wake up! It's morning already."

  Yuki opens her eyes.

  "Senpai, why am I on top of you?"

  "Ask your bad sleeping habits!"

  Yuki suddenly pouts her mouth and rolls away.

  "(Pouting with her flat expression is just straight-up weird. . .and surprisingly adorable. . .)"

  "Senpai, you're no fun."

  "Please stop making jokes that will put me in a weird mood. . ."

  "Fine, let's just get up and get ready."

  "Oh, Kouhai, what are you going to do with our morning routines, like baths and stuff?"

  "I'll make a bathroom on top of the surface of the oasis, senpai."

  Yuki went out of the igloo. She taps the oasis water with her foot and freezes it entirely, then she creates a small room that looks like a bathroom that has no cover on the top side. She also creates a floating ice platform above the room. Neo comes out of the igloo as well.

  "How are we gonna take a bath then?"

  "I created this bathhouse separately for each of us. I will control the ice platform above to melt little by little to mimic a showerhead so we can wash our bodies."

  "Wow. . . The application of your Faith power is really creative!"

  "Originally, I planned on making it one big bathhouse so we could bathe together, but as I was making it, my heart raced so much I just scrapped the whole idea. Let's take a bath, then senpai."

  "O-Okay, Kouhai-kun."

  "(What did she just say so casually just now?)"

  .

  .

  .

  10 mins later. . .

  "Alright, you better thaw all the ice here. It's bad for the environment to have this much ice over in the middle of the desert."

  "Senpai, there is natural snow even in the middle of the desert at night, though it’s very rare. You just wanna sound smart, didn't you?"

  "N-NO I DON'T!!"

  Yuki thaws all of her ice around the oasis.

  "Okay, Senpai, let's hunt down people who succumb to Envy again today."

  "Alright!"

  Yuki and Neo leave the desert and go about their day.

  .

  .

  .

  On the other side of the world. . .

  "FALL BACK!"

  *THUMP THUMP THUMP*

  A group of people is retreating under the command of one of their comrades.

  "Hey, hey, don't run away! Just accept your fate!"

  *FWOOM*

  Suddenly, their path was blocked by a wall of scarlet flame that emerged out of nowhere.

  "What? What is this fire?"

  "Go ahead and touch it, you'll feel super good!"

  Runelt and Rena are currently cornering a group of a street gang that they suspect has a connection to the underworld. They are inside a hallway in their hideout.

  "Confess on your own, or we'll make you talk and you will not like it!"

  "Which one of you was contacted by someone from the underworld?"

  Runelt transforms his entire right arm into the phoenix's talon while Rena aims her burning palm towards them.

  "W-WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?"

  "W-WHAT IS THE UNDERWORLD?"

  "Bro, are you for real?"

  "Okay, Rena, do it!"

  "To all of them? Or just one of them?"

  "Do them all!"

  "Okay, nii-san!"

  Rena summons a dozen small fiery scarlet doves and sends them all towards all the gang members and burns them all.

  "GYAAAAAAAA!!"

  "AAAAAAAAAAKH!!"

  "HOOOOOOOTTT!!!"

  "IT BURNS!!!!"

  "GYAAAAAAAARGH!!"

  All of them fall to the floor, and they roll back and forth in excruciating pain.

  Runelt walks forward towards one of the gang members. He lifts a man who has a piercing on his nose with his burning talon.

  "AAAAARGGH IT BURNS!!!"

  "Tell me! WHO ARE THEY? WHO MADE CONTACT WITH YOU?"

  "AAAAAAARGGHHH!! I-I DON'T K-KNOWWW!!"

  "BULLSHIT!"

  Runelt slams the man to the floor.

  "AAAARGH!!"

  "Are you sure you wanna play dumb?"

  "AAAAAAAARRRGGHHH!!! I KEEP TELLING YOU I DON'T KNOW!!"

  Runelt picks up the man again. He walks over to Rena and slams him in front of her.

  "AAAAAAAAAARRRGGHHHH!!!"

  "Rena, make him talk."

  "Roger!"

  Rena creates a dozen of doves of scarlet doves again. The birds hover over the man and slowly descend on his burning body.

  "If you don't talk, these birds are gonna gouge your flesh out by plucking it little by little!"

  "AAAAAAAAAARRGGHHHH!!! STOOOOOOOPP!!!"

  "So, your choice?"

  "AAAAARRGGHH!! I'LL TALK, SO STOP THIS BURNING FIREEEEEE!!!"

  "*sigh* See, you could've made this easier for yourself."

  Rena puts out the scarlet flame on all of the gang members. Her birds also leave the man and are now standing on her head and shoulders. Runelt also un-transforms his talon back to his normal arm.

  "Well then, talk!"

  "*pant pant pant* T-Truthfully, that woman. . .never really introduced herself. . ."

  "Woman?"

  "Yes, that is the only thing I know about her."

  "Then, what did she say to you?"

  "She-she promised us something, something that she said wasn't ready at the time *pant pant*"

  "Tch, this is too vague!"

  "We've been a gang for only a month. We were trying to raise our influence in the underworld. She approached us, lending a helping hand."

  "I see. So, then, what did she promise you?"

  "I-I'm sorry. I couldn't say. She was being vague. Something about boosting our Faith power significantly."

  *!*

  "Nii-san, the only thing I can think about is raw emotion, but that isn't something you just ‘promised’ to someone."

  "Hmm, we lack crucial information. It's still too vague to make assumptions. For now, all of you, go to sleep!"

  Runelt transforms his hand into his talon again. He proceeds to punch all of the gang members and makes them all fall unconscious in a really quick succession.

  "So, we don't need to judge them, right? After all, they weren't really doing anything when we came. We just stormed them based on some rumors we got."

  "True, but just in case, we'll peek their memory."

  "Isn't that an invasion of privacy? Not to mention, we won't know what kind of memory we got if they don't have any strong negative emotions anyway."

  "That's not true! He felt fear about his encounter with someone from the underworld. We'll get that very memory from him."

  "*sigh* I know you feel so strongly about your duty as a Judge, Onii-chan, but sometimes I see Light-nii-san in you. How you're willing to do the extreme to achieve your goal."

  Well, you could say that about any of the Judges, honestly. Regular people wouldn't just go around saving criminals from their doom. Of course, we're willing to do extreme things.

  "I guess that's a fair point."

  Runelt summons the Sword of Purification. He takes the man's memories from him and transfers them to himself.

  ". . .Tch, it's no use. "

  "Yeah, that woman hides her face pretty well."

  "It's almost as if she knew. . ."

  "Okay, Onii-chan, that's just too paranoid."

  "*Sigh* anyway, we better continue our search for the 4th Judge."

  "Alright, let's keep this in mind."

  Runelt and Rena leave the area and continue their search as well as their daily Judgment.

  .

  .

  .

  10 hours later. . .

  "H-How did this happen?"

  "Sleep!"

  *WHAM*

  Neo punches a guy whose half of his body was frozen solid. The man immediately went unconscious.

  "Your turn, Kohai!"

  Yuki summons the Sword of Purification and stabs it into the guy's chest. Yuki and Neo then receive the emotions and memories of the guy's painful past.

  They are both currently inside the guy's house's living room, somewhere in a big city surrounded by desert.

  ". . ."

  "Pitiful. These people needed to be saved more than anyone else."

  "He attacks his own brother because his brother took away everything important to him. How do we help him kouhai?"

  "We don't. . . Just like usual, we pray for them and ask God to take care of them."

  Yuki then proceeds to take a pose to pray. She lifts both of her hands forward towards the unconscious man. Suddenly, the man was engulfed by a bright white light, and the light gradually dispersed.

  "Amen."

  *BANG*

  *!!*

  Suddenly, a sound of gunfire rang across the house.