The Great Road to The Underworld

In life, there is a always a type of fiend that inspires all the other fiends. The office fiend that steals the department cheese inspires all the other fiends to steal stationery and vacation time. The fiend who smuggles spirits into an underage party, inspires all the little fiends to smuggle automobiles, drugs and whatnot.

And there is a fiend among fiends. A captain, the boss, the owner of a pirate ship. The true criminal that is the bane of society. This type of fiend also inspires others fiends. This is what justifies his reign. They worship me. Thus I am.

But there is a type of fiend that does not inspire other fiends to do bad. Instead, he inspires them to do good and relinquish the path they are on. This isn because he is a buddha who preaches good.

This type of fiend is so scary that even criminals are afraid of crossing paths with him. They will turn into good people just to avoid him! If fate ever brought them into this fiends path, they will gouge out their eyes rather than meet his eyes.

Lest he be provoked…the fiend of hell. The Hell King.

That type of fiend was what Aniket was.

Five hundred years ago, during the Technological Era, a phenomenon called virgin harbour was discovered during the deep exploration of the Mariana Trench. Ideally, a virgin harbour is present in almost every deep crevice and abyss of earth. The virgin harbour can be expanded to produce great stretches of land in a new dimension.

Though empty in the beginning, the land can produce great minerals and oils over time. Thus it is called the Wine Land. Where the skies and mud are both the colour of wine. Where, with time, the fruits produced are great intoxicants to mankind.

The Wine Land caused the third set of wars in the human realm. After the wars have settled, the victors have claimed they have won the territory through dignity and justice. Thus the Wine Land had been renamed the Dignified Realm.

From great calamities come great reforms. After the War of Dimensions, humanity was spurred on to bring greater peace and greater dignity to itself. Thus occurred a series of reforms throughout the world in a collaborative effort. From this effort, the first that changed is the prison system.

While the law of the various countries cannot be merged, everyone agreed to one thing. There are criminals that cannot be reformed.

To hold the criminals that perpetuate evil in prisons and show no sign of reforming, the World Prison had been constructed.

A fully automated prison facility with the worlds most dangerous criminals, all in one place. There is not a jailer nor a guard in place. Prisoners must grow and prepare their own food. They must work to earn food, electricity, blankets and clothing. They must exercise in the yard to earn a shower, they must earn merits through various systems in order to process their lawsuits. So on, so forth.

The prison shines as a white jewel in the Dignified Realm. For thousands of kilometres, there is nary an anthill in sight. If anyone escapes, they must find their way back to the prison themselves. But survival depends on whether they can escape the automated rifles and landmines on the way back.

Not surprisingly, every day is Diwali in the prison. In the lax environment with no guards, someone is always escaping and coming back in pieces.

However, there is one even