When Newone and Ginew finally arrived in the Underworld, utter chaos awaited them: King Yammer's underlings ran to and fro like madmen, picking up soul after soul that was piling up at the main entrance to the Afterlife.
The Captain watched the comings and goings curiously, while the blondie had taken on an annoyed expression and, huffing, had commented: "Here we go again...".
Ginew turned to him, confused: "What do you mean?"
Newone snorted again: "I mean that very probably some other catastrophe is happening on Earth and people are dying. I hate it when that happens..."
Ginew was about to ask him a little more about the situation, when one of King Yammer's imps, blue-skinned and clad in a white T-shirt and dark trousers, came running up to them, yelling in a ringing and highly irritating voice: "Oh Newone! You're finally here! What took you so long?".
The young man rolled his eyes with an annoyed expression: "As long as it takes Larry...Now hurry up", he extended a hand towards the imp, who barely reached his hips given the boy's considerable height (at least 6' foot), "Give me the list of new souls to recover so I can get to work as soon as I have accompanied the Captain to his companions in Hell".
Larry therefore handed him an almost kilometric list, to which the young man quickly began to devote his attention; he glanced over their names, until Ginew saw his bored expression change into one at first surprised, then perplexed... and finally filled with spiteful tension.
"Larry", the young man's voice suddenly became deep, loaded with a somewhat menacing aura, "Why is this name here?".
Ginew, struck by his sudden change of mood, and being a rather curious fellow, leaned over the blondie's shoulder to read the name he indicated. "Isn't he the guy you work for?", he asked naively, regretting it immediately after when he felt the boy's aura getting more and more menacing, so much so that he was forced to take a few steps back. But what was going on?
And above all why that aura was so familiar to him?
Larry, however, did not seem to notice the danger, because he limited himself to commenting: "You read correctly Newone, King Kaio has passed away. Now he should still be on the Snake Way, so-".
Larry never finished that sentence, because his neck was immediately gripped in a death grip by the hand of the blondie, whose eyes now shone with an angry light and whose scream of anger shook the whole Underworld.
"WHO DARED TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS?"