A Golden Piece of Bread

*Both Shin and his sister can be seen washing dishes with lots of other workers. From the inside, it's hard to tell that this place is built in a narrow alleyway given how big it is*

Sis and I scrubbed the plates with gentle hands. A worker standing beside gave us a side look and said, "These kids are not bad". He seemed impressed. Probably because he didn't expect anything from us. But the truth is its our first time cleaning dishes. sis quickly learned to wash dishes by watching the other workers and I learned from her.

Sis looked at me and said" if it's too hard, you can rest. I will take care of the rest"

"It's alright" I said as I continued to wash the dishes trying to look strong. I felt that as a man I should be strong.

Then we spent the next 4 hours washing dishes, serving food, and repeating the process over and over. We were basically working as waiters

When the clock hit 12:00 Am everything started to calm down. All the customers started to leave, and the staff were preparing to call it a day. I sat on the floor because I was tired, and sis stood beside me placing down the last remaining plates. But then I noticed one of the waiters taking some of the food and walking away. At first glance it doesn't seem anything much but for some reason I smell something suspicious.

"Sis, can you finish the dishes? I have something to do". Sis looked a bit suspicious of me. Thinking that I might be doing something dangerous but decided to trust me anyway. "Alright but don't take too long, okay?"

I gave her a smile and walked away. I slowly followed that waiter from behind. The waiter went toward the hallway and entered Garyuu's office as I followed him all the way like a rat.

The man then looked around the room and pushed a book on the bookshelf.

The book was a trigger to a secret door. As soon as he pushed the book, the ground beside him split in two and a hidden staircase was revealed under the floor. The man carefully walked down the staircase. When the man went down, I slowly entered the room and approached the staircase. I was trying to be as sneaky as possible.

When I looked down, I couldn't see the end of the staircase. It was dark. So dark that it looked like the entrance to the underworld. I slowly walked down with careful steps. Slowly, slowly, after what felt like an eternity I reached the end.

When I reached the end, I couldn't believe my eyes. The sheer magnitude of the sight left me shaking. For the first time in my life, I was scared. I was scared that I had seen something I shouldn't have.

The place was still dark but there were dim lights to keep everything barely visible. It was like a large prison with multiple cells. And in each of these cells, there were either half-dead people or corpses. That place smelled disgusting. A single breath of melted human flesh made me sick to the stomach. I vomited on the ground but quickly regained my composure.

Each of these cells had decomposed dead bodies inside them and all of them were filled with blood. In each of these chambers alongside the dead bodies were a lot of medical tools. It looked like some kind of weird experiment was being conducted here. Honestly, those medical tools looked more like torture tools.

Some dead bodies that hadn't decomposed yet had multiple organs of their body cut off. their fingers, eyes, legs, and arms were all cut into pieces. Looking at this place as stood in fear I wondered *Is this the Devil's basement*

Then suddenly, I heard some footsteps. The waiter that I have been following is now returning maybe. I quickly hid behind a stone pillar and somehow managed to evade him. But just as the waiter was about to go up the stairs he glanced at the stone pillar. Maybe he felt my presence I thought,

But the man left shortly after.