Punishment and Rebirth

*Buzz*

*Buzz*

"Hello, this is angel six one three"

"Six one three you failed to ensure that your target John Smith died at his determined time, and you caused the death of a human before their secluded time, even going as far as to cover it up. Due to the nature of this incident you and your current direct supervisor need to report to the board of directors, and CEO immediately to receive your punishment."

"But, but it is my first day in the Department of Death, and I was only trying to fix my mistake, not cover it up."

"It does not matter six one three, you messed up so bad the upper management is going to have to get involved directly."

"I understand. But what is going to happen to John Smith?"

"I have not been provided any details on that matter. I am sure the upper management is still trying to determine how to handle the situation best. I assume that you know which building in floor that you should be going to Now."

"Umm, yea the really big one in the holy city, and it is probably the top floor."

"Close, it is the floor directly below the top floor. The top floor is the CEO's office. You never want to get called directly there little angle. NOW get going! You are already in enough trouble. You don't want to get in trouble for being late and making them wait on top of it."

"Okay, well thank you for telling me the right floor to go to I guess."

"Do not thank me six one three, I am just doing my job, as much as I hate it. I would love to be reassigned to the Department of Birth someday. Feathers, why am I talking to you, you need to go now six three one. Goodbye."

*beep*

With her head lowered angle six one three flew towards the thousand floor tall building at the very heart of the holy city of heaven. While the building had no official name the angles often called it God Tower or New Throne Tower, thanks the the CEO's office being the literal Throne of Heaven. With a deep heavy sigh, angle six one three walked through the automatically opening double glass doors and into the main lobby of the building. It was far from her first time in the building, as her Godnet engineer's office used to be on the hundredth floor, so she knew all to well that she needed to check on as the front desk.

"Good morning six one three, upper management is expecting you. I was told to tell you to go directly to the lounge outside of the board room on the nine hundred and ninety-ninth floor. If you have to report to the board members, I can only wish you luck six one three."

"Thanks, Noel. I am probably going to need it."

*Bing*

Steeping into the elevator angle six one three pushed the button for the nine hundred and ninety-ninth floor, practically in tears by the time the elevator doors closed. It took several minutes for the elevator to reach the nine hundred and ninety-ninth floor. During that time six one three did her best to regain her composure. However, she still looked quite distressed when the elevator doors opened on to the nine hundred and ninety-ninth floor. As soon as she stepped off the elevator. An angel dressed in a pure white business suit, sitting behind a large desk, said: "They will call you in in one moment six one three. For now, take a seat in one of the chairs. Remember as angles we can ask for forgiveness too. I was told by Him to remind you of that."

Walking across the golden carpeted floor, six one three took a seat in one of the lush white leather chairs, placing her head on her hands. After what seemed like an eternity, the massive wooden doors or the board roomed opened behind her.

"Six one three, they will see you now. Please come in and stand next to your supervisor."

Walking thought the doors of the board room six one three could see a intimidatingly large crescent shaped boardroom table stretching before her. At the very center of the curve sat God himself in a highbacked white leather chair. To his right set Jesus, and to the left was The Holy Spirit. On either side of the crescent sat the many archangels that where the heads of each department. She proceeded to walk inside coming to stay in beside her supervisor. She was doing her best to maintain her composure, but her hands were trembling.

"What do you have to say for yourself angle six one three?"

"I made a terrible mistake, due to not being in the right place at the right time. Once I realize my mistake, I tried to correct it on my own instead of reporting it immediately. All I can do is humbly ask that you can forgive me Holy Father and allow me to do my best to make it up to you and Jhon Smith."

"This was her first day, and first assignment in the Department of Death according to the records, so why in Heaven was she not under the supervision of you, or one of the more experienced angels in the department?"

"Holy Father, there are currently three wars going on, on Earth at this time. One of them is bordering on becoming World War Three. I simply did not have an angle to spare to supervise her first assignment as I normally would. I made the mistake of not checking on how common the name was on Earth and Vlaras."

"So, the fault is not entirely yours six one three. However, you made several mistakes, that lead to a major one. In light of this you will be punished to some degree, even though you admitted your mistakes and asked for forgiveness. You can relax, I am not going to banish you to hell for a mistake that can be resolved to some degree. Instead, I am going to give you the chance you requested and allow you to make it up the John Smith that you took before his time."

"You are to use your knowledge of the innerworkings of the Godnet, and technology in general to help him in his transition into a new life, in a new world. To make things easier on him, I am going to have his rebirth, if you will, take a slightly different route. When He wakes up, he should be close to the age he was before his untimely death. In the grand scheme of things, a year or two will not matter all that much. Feel free to make use of whatever they call that global network on Vlaras. If he somehow manages to kill himself to soon, We will have to do something about it at that time."

"Thank you for your mercy Holy Father. I will go do as you have commanded."

"Before you go, it is high time that you had a real name six one three."

"What, You are going to give me my el name, even though I messed up so badly?"

"Yes, it will make things easier if you have to directly interact with him but try to do so as little as possible. Also, do your best to not fall in love with him. I thank we all are all too familiar with just how attractive humans can be to angles that spent great deals of time around them. The temptation will only be all the stronger where you are going Siael."

"Thank you, Holy Father."

"You are dismissed Siael, we still have to hand down judgment on your former supervisor, and you defiantly do not want to be around for that. We will all be keeping a close eye on you, and because this assignment is a unique one, please report any difficulties you have directly to department head of Birth, Life, Death, or IT as they will need to determine how best to proceed."

With a deep bow, Siael excused herself from the board room and headed directly to the elevator. Having left the building with a much better expression than what she entered with, Siael flew towards the location she left John Smith at in a half-born state.

As Jhon Smith started to regain consciousness, many alarms started going off in his head.

*Bling*

Vlaras Global Positioning and Intergraded Information Neuro Network initializing.

*Err, Err, Err*

Warning, Warning. Outside interference detected. Anti-intrusion protocol enabled. Initiating Auto reboot and intrusion purge. Stand by.

*Bling*

Reboot successful.

Vlaras Global Positioning and Intergraded Information Neuro Network online.

*Ding*

Congratulations on reaching your twenty-first birthday. You are no authorized to choose a new name for yourself and are required to select an occupation from they're both available options.

*Bling*

Pleases input new name.

Trying to make scene of what was going on, and why text was appearing in front of him as it it was being displayed on some unseen computer screen, John Smith began to recall what the angle had told him. If those fragments memories where not flooding into his mind, he would have thought that he awoke to find himself trapped in some sort of video game like the protagonist of some poorly written isekai anime. He now totally understood why she asked him if he was a gamer. Seeing the cursor still floating in front of his face, John Smith thought long and hard about what he should call himself from now on. the angle was pretty clear on telling him not to use such a common name. Not having any idea on how to input his choice, he said it out loud.

"Zeph Demonbane."

A little girl walking past him hand and hand with her mother about twenty steps away from him, turned to ask her mother; "Why is that man talking to himself?"

"I do not know dear, maybe he is drunk or something. I know that sometimes my customers at the bar get so drunk sometimes that they think that their interface chip is some sort of ghost, or they forget that they can simply think about what they want to say to it."

"Oh, okay mommy."

"Let's go. It is best you stay away from people like that. He even has the mark of Cain on his forehead. I have never seen one of them that did not at least try to cover it up in some way."

*Bling*

New name entry successful. Please select an occupation from the list below.

1) Store clerk.

2) DMV data entry specialist

3) Neph. Enforcement officer

4) Chef

""Hum, I definitely do not want to even consider the first two options, and I always wanted to be a cop as a little kid, so I guess I will go with the third option."" John Smith, now called Zeph Demonbane thought to himself. he was secretly glad that the little girl asked something that lead to him learning that all he had to do was think about what his response to what the woman call an interface chip was. What he still could not get over was the fact that he thought he had seen where the woman had three tits, and not two.

You have made the choice of Nephilim Enforcement Officer. Please wait while the proper changes are made to your file. Your Vlaras Global Positioning and Intergraded Information Neuro Network interface chip will need to reboot completely and will be offline for approximately five minutes.

SYSTEM REBOOT IN

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