WELCOME TO HEAVEN

There was an incident in an apartment in a certain town during the Edo period. Sakichi and some other people, who are tenants of the apartment building, were in the middle of persuading the landlord somehow to wait for the rent that has been piling up. There, a young priest appeared out of nowhere and he says calling out to Sakichi from behind the door: "This is the wondrous sake introduced by those southern barbarians. When you make your landlord drink this, he is going to completely forget something like the rent." Half convinced, Sakichi offered the sake that was handed to him to the landlord and said: "Why don't you have a nice drink?" The on looking people instantly also wanted to drink. Besides Sakichi, who remained distrustful, all drank the sake and went to sleep having a great feeling.

Then, the young priest from before appeared. Sakichi, hiding himself, saw what the young priest did. He raised his hands to the chest of a sleeping man and took out something resembling a bluish-white flame from the man's throat. He swiftly stored it inside a gourd. And like that the souls of the sleeping people were taken out one by one and were collected.

The young priest noticed the surprised Sakichi who saw all this and said: "I'm a Death God. I took the souls of all the guys who drank the sake. I will return to heaven now, having finished with this month's quota. Well now, goodbye!" Sakichi instinctively decides to hang on to the leaving Death God and followed him to Heaven. If done clumsily Sakichi himself would become an inhabitant of Heaven as well, however he wishes to return to the transient world [i.e. world of the living] with the 4 souls that were stolen...