0-Divine Judgment

"Well, that was unfortunate."

The goddess Hominis snapped her fingers and waited for the girl's soul to ascend to Limbo. She had seen deaths and lives much less dignified than hers, but it was the perfect opportunity to try something she had been thinking about for a long time.

The soul that came closer little by little belonged to Lebe, a humble girl who had managed to survive nineteen years without many resources. She had lived as an orphan for just over half her life with almost no help from others. She had a good instinct to survive in a desert, go several days without eating and avoid strange diseases.

In fact, what killed her was a stray bullet from a conflict between an Ethiopian tribe and a couple of guards from a Chinese multinational. She didn't even know she was out of her country. She was the perfect candidate.

"She's not going to die quickly, she has nothing to lose, no attachment to her roots and she has a future ahead of her." The goddess smiled and patted her shoulders. "Girl, you're a genius. Oh, here it comes."

She coughed and straightened to meet Lebe. Meanwhile, all the other human souls lined up behind a secret door to await for the Final Judgment: Paradise or Hell. She had to be fast.

“Welcome to the Afterlife, Miss Lebe. I have been accompanying you since your descent to Earth."

The immaculate vibe of the goddess was incomparable to how she made herself look when alone. That is, when she took breaks between Final Judgments to go to the bathroom or sleep. Omniscience was the one thing she never stopped.

"Hey? I'm in...?" Lebe looked at the walls and reached out to touch them. The wallpaper was cheap and the design was so repetitive that every three meters she could see the same purple supernova, among hundreds of galactic formations.

The goddess stopped her before she could touch it. Luckily she could read her mind.

"Don't touch them!" She took a breath and returned to her divine vibe, calm and pure. "You may end up in Hell if you touch the walls. It's a rule that the Supreme God gave us to the goddesses so that we don't abandon our obligations," she lied, completely ignoring that behind her there was a door that led to the public bathroom where the goddesses from other worlds gossiped between breaks.

Lebe jumped back and addressed the goddess. The size between the two was immense.

"Does this mean I died?"

More than sadness, her face wore a look of surprise. Of course, there wasn't much that could be understood when, from one moment to the next, one finds themselves with a bullet in the brain. Fortunately, her death had been instantaneous.

“Normally we would hold a moral trial here,” the goddess explained, “the Last Judgment. However, I have a mission for you that I have never given to any human."

"Are you going to revive me!?"

"What? Pfff..." Hominis contained her laughter, simulating a cough. "Tell me, my girl. Why would you want to go back to your previous life? Haven't you suffered enough?"

Lebe looked at her incredulously and stuck a finger inside her nose.

"I liked living," she said as she dumped a snot on the floor. "Yes, there were bad things, but I was able to live a long time without anyone's help. I didn't even need yours, although I'm sure you had a rule about not helping humans or something."

Hominis made an effort to keep smiling and hid her anger. What she couldn't hide was the vein that stood out like a second smile on her face.

"Well, yes, well, you understand. I can't help humans and I can't get out of here, so I have to sit on the same floor where you dropped your... You know, forget it. I'm running out of time. I'm going to make you reincarnate."

"In my own body?" Her eyes were brighter than the stars on the cheap wallpaper.

"No, in another world. One different from yours and administered by another goddess."

The idea arose from a discussion she had with the goddess Ophidia after she ate her empanada for lunch. As revenge, she would make someone reincarnate in a different world so that Ophidia would be forced to do countless bureaucratic paperwork just to justify to the Supreme God the presence of a human in her territory. In theory it was something illegal, but since it had never happened, there was certainly not going to be any problem with the lax Supreme God.

Hominis chuckled to herself, And as punishment for dirtying my room I'm going to make you the most inconvenient breed.

"Well, I'm running out of time and I have to go back to judging the souls of your fellow men." Impatient, she forgot the façade of a responsible and kind goddess of hers. "Ok, bye, good luck!"

Lebe's body began to disappear from feet to head and, by the time she was knee-deep, the room lit up red and a siren began to wail like crazy.

The last thing Lebe saw was some Cherubims dragging the goddess Hominis by her hair. The last thing she heard was a soul in Limbo complaining that the line to enter heaven was too long.