“The automatic bidet…It’s the best thing to ever happen to my butt! Thanks to your people, I think I’m gay now!” James excitedly shakes Yu, his voice filled with enthusiasm.

  “So, you’d let me use a strap-…,” Mira inquires.

  “NEVER! It’s not the same, eh!” James quickly cuts her off.

  Before the conversation spirals, David leads the group through one of the rooms, arriving at an onsen. Unlike the rest of Hell, this floor follows a twenty-hour day and night cycle, which is now reflected on their bands – complete with a peculiar countdown displayed beneath the time.

  “This place changes every day. Today, it’s an onsen,” David explains.

  “What’s the countdown for?” Wyn asks.

  “Hell’s Day. It’s like a national day but for Hell. I should get you guys involved in the preparations and…”

  “No, thanks,” Wyn interrupts firmly.

  “Is the onsen unisex?” James asks, casting a sly glance at Mira.

  “Always – whether it’s an onsen, swimming pool, or beach. Sadly, we have to go through an unoccupied room to get here.”

  “Excuse me, Mister David, but could we kill the creatures inside these rooms?” Lisa asks.

  “Yes, but they’re too weak to be worth anything to any of you.”

  Wyn and Yu exchange glances, both visibly drooling.

  “Can we boil eggs in the onsen?” Yu wonders aloud.

  “You can now buy raw eggs or any food here, but personally, I think eating in the water is a bad idea,” David responds.

  The duo seems unfazed, focusing instead on their dreamy thoughts of onsen-boiled eggs, ignoring David’s concern. Despite their eagerness to explore the onsen, Wyn’s team is left disappointed as David leads them to other attractions first. A new feature quickly grabs their attention: the floor selection menu. Upon closer inspection, they notice that the second and third floors are now available, though David opts to leave the second floor untouched for the moment.

  Instead, he points out that the menu includes an option to warp to what appears on the map as Nerds’ HQ, but entry is restricted, requiring approval from one of the nerds. David is one of the few who has been granted one-time access to the structure. As a reward for saving their lives, the nerds painted his weapons.

  Another destination on the menu is the Old Cat Factory, which is open for visits but demands a fee of one thousand catnips for each entry. Similarly, “torturing” a criminal in the Torture Chamber requires the same fee. While these new destinations are intriguing, the steep costs leave the team feeling conflicted about their next steps.

  “So much for the ten thousand catnips we got from the Failed Prototype…,” Yu mourns.

  “When everyone’s rich, then prices inflate. This sucks,” Wyn says.

  “Oh! I forgot to mention that if your team is on a different floor, you can see them on the map only if you select the floor they’re on. However, communications are unavailable unless you are on the same floor,” David adds.

  “I want to torture some rich criminals,” Mira says.

  “You read my mind, sister!” Lisa echoes.

  Inside is a vast room lined with square pods, each containing a criminal, their brains connected to wires that feed into an intricate network. These pods are stacked in tall, ominous towers, pressing against the walls, with their dim, pulsating lights. On the ground floor, terminals are placed in front of the pods, offering a way for anyone to interact with the system. For a price of one thousand essence, visitors can design a nightmare that a particular criminal will endure. Observers, however, can watch the criminals' dreams free of charge.

  “Oh! No way! He’s here?” James exclaims.

  On the terminal screen, visitors can select a category of crime or search for specific criminals by name using a virtual keyboard. While there are no fictional writers or readers here as claimed by Dark Force, the majority of the criminals are politicians. As James scrolls through the "Slavery" section, he stumbles upon a familiar name – Jeffrey Bessoz.

  In this dream-like punishment, Bessoz has been captured by the angry people of Rottendam in The Neverlands, for bribing the government to dismantle a historic bridge so his superyacht could pass through without altering its course.

  Every day, the former CEO is jolted awake by the sound of a rooster tied next to his mattress-less bed. Chained, he’s dragged outside his tiny tent, stopping briefly to wash up and use an outdoor bathroom with no privacy. After five minutes, the chains pull him again, this time dragging him to a construction site, where he labors for free. During work hours, there are no breaks – no bathroom, no rest. This cycle repeats endlessly.

  “No need to change anything here!” James remarks.

  The team also encounters many souls who escaped justice while alive. The so-called “lizardman” suffers, constantly watched by floating eyes, no matter what he does or where he goes. Those who abused children are now trapped in dreams where they revert to their younger selves, enduring the same horrors they inflicted on others, on repeat. Higher-ups who endorsed forced arbitration are left in agony, slowly losing their own body parts or loved ones from the use of everyday items, all while stripped of any ability to seek justice.

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  Even ordinary people who misled others with deceitful ads, especially popups, now face a world where advertisements bombard them at every turn. High-profile scammers become wealthy, only to be scammed into ruin. The fathers who dressed their daughters as dogs, become dogs themselves. Those who forced others to listen to Nickelblack find themselves trapped between large speakers with the band’s songs on full blast.

  After Mira pays a thousand catnips, the team – especially Wyn and Mira – works tirelessly to alter a former terrorist leader’s dream. In his new nightmare, his family members explode one by one, splattering chunks across his pristine mansion. As he flees the house, he's captured and subjected to unimaginable tortures.

  "You kids are scary...," David remarks.

  "Tell me about it," James echoes.

  Before they begin altering another dream, David successfully convinces Wyn’s team to leave, explaining that they can return later. Now at the entrance of the Old Cat Factory, they scan their bands, and have catnips deducted from their accounts. Here, visitors can simply walk past a door, identical to the ones found at campsite entryways. The moment they step inside the "Wait Here" circle, a demon cat comes running toward them, panting.

  "Huff, huff. Welcome to the cat factory! My name is Panther and I will be your guide!"

  The factory was once known as the Cat Production Factory, originally used to produce cats after Hell’s Lord successfully created the first several batches. However, as the cats sent to the living realm thrived and multiplied, Hell no longer needed to produce more. The factory was then repurposed as Cat Hell, where cats underwent training to become demons. Later, its functions expanded, and the name was ditched in favor of the current one.

  The vast factory serves multiple purposes. On the main floor, cats undergo their training. Unlike human souls, cat souls are automatically transported via portals to one of the hundreds of classrooms. Cats continue to be added to the same classroom until the number reaches about a “million” – according to Panther – before the training starts. They are taught what happened, why they’re here, and what it means to become a demon. Afterward, a large portal opens, leading them to the next room where machines inject them with needles to expand their bodies to the size of an actual demon.

  When the speech chip is injected into their heads, it doubles as a scanner to categorize the new demons into two main groups: "less intelligent" and "intelligent enough." Those in the first group are sent to levels one through six to assist in maintaining order. Their limited intelligence allows them to respond to only one task or inquiry at a time. The second group is assigned to the seventh level, where they have the chance to earn essence and reassign themselves to various roles. Cats with at least ten thousand essence have the option to become a moderator guard, a grim reaper, undergo rebirth, or remain in their current role but with the added title of “elite demon” to boast about.

  Those who choose the former two roles are sent to a special room where they undergo training for their new position. They are either equipped with weapons and armor or reduced to bones by a similar machine to transform into a grim reaper. For those choosing to be reborn, a supercomputer – similar to the one used for human souls – determines their destination in a special room. However, this option is limited to a total of nine times for each cat, as there are already many cats on Earth.

  In the basement, cats gather and mingle freely. While there are private rooms available, they often prefer to be out in the open doing their “things.” At the center of the floor stands a large catnip distribution machine which feeds catnips into the demons’ mouths. Following the floor’s day-night cycle, each demon is entitled to a daily small catnip pouch. However, they can choose to skip their share and accumulate catnips for a larger sum. Those who save over one hundred catnips gain access to the "back room," where they indulge in a massive catnip party lasting the entire day-night cycle. Despite Wyn’s team's repeated requests, Panther refuses to let them enter the back room.

  “How about the campsite cats? They never leave their stations, so how do they get catnips?” Wyn asks.

  “We deliver pouches to them,” Panther replies, wrapping up the factory tour.

  “Wait! Can we make a request now that we’re here?” Wyn asks.

  “Sure, I guess…”

  “I want to abolish the ability to rename creatures. It can get dangerous, you know?” Wyn says, nudging James to pull up the description of the traineater. “See? It says here that it roams alone and lives in the train tunnel in the city, but we found them in a group in the Dark Forest!”

  “Well, have you ever renamed or changed a creature’s description yourself? If you have, your request will likely mean nothing to management.”

  “...In that case, goodbye!”

  Returning to the factory entrance, they realize it's now night.

  “Your request somehow reminded me about that new feature to keep our fallen friends’ bands,” David says.

  “Oh, that? It was me and Cateto.”

  David’s eyes widen, and suddenly, he wraps Wyn in a tight, suffocating hug.

  “Thank you! Thank you so much! It means a lot, not just to me, but to everyone down here!”

  “It was Cateto who pushed for it. Go thank him too.”

  David, recomposing himself, gazes up at the sky with a smile.

  “That’s it for today. Tomorrow, I’ll ring on your tents. I want to show you the second floor,” David says, warping back to the tents, leaving Wyn’s team to themselves.

  Mira gives Wyn a hug, then calls the rest of the team for a group hug where Wyn is in the center.

  “Now I understand your conversation with Cateto earlier! You should’ve told us about that feature. It was nice of you two to fight for it,” Mira says, her voice shaken.

  “I didn’t want to bring it up. Afterall, we couldn’t keep Anish’s band.”

  “Let’s go boil some eggs in the onsen,” Yu suggests during the hug.

  Selecting the “Elite Square,” the team appears behind the square’s stage. Yu purchases a dozen eggs and goes to his tent to grab them before distributing a couple to each member. They then make their way on foot to the onsen.

  “Oppa, help me undress, or you can tear them off. Show me your inner beast!” Mira says in her sexy voice, lifting her arms while facing him.

  Wyn blushes all red.

  “D…don’t you know how…how to…to…to undress yourself? It’s…a…a, ahhh, skill we all learned when we were y…young, right?” Wyn seems to stumble on his words.

  Without a single word more, Mira undresses right in front of him, faster than the time when she avoided that one sly hug from Anish. Shocked, Wyn turns back to look away, only to find Yu is already also fully undressed. At this point, James can’t contain himself. He pulls Mira aside to find their own private spot.

  “Landon Junior has risen!” he says as he carries Mira with him.

  Yu jumps into the onsen, holding all the eggs in his arms, calling Wyn and Lisa to join.

  “How did you even undress with that many eggs???” Wyn wonders.

  Shyly, Wyn keeps his underwear on, while Lisa goes in fully clothed.

  “You don’t have to be shy around us. Being that flat, you’d blend in well with us!” Wyn says.

  “MISTER WYNNN!!!”