['Difficult', she says. Soundwave tilts his head at that. It sounds almost as if she was in a similar situation. Not so going into hell, but more at the promise of tempting reward or wish. He'll file that mentally for later, as he continues on.]

It wasn't as if I had anywhere else to go if I were to refuse to sign the contract. Back then, I thought that place barred my only entry to the Afterspark.

[The Afterlife, in other words. Just dropping a hint that he may have died before that without outright saying it.]

One would imagine Hell would be a place of fire and endless torture. At least according to religious texts. Jigoku-cho, however, felt more akin to a... modern human city? Japan, specifically. While there were demons there, it was... relatively peaceful. On the day of my arrival, the city was holding a festival celebrating a truce between two clans.

[It really did not hold the image of what hell was like in his head with happy people and demons celebrating and drinking.]