Fine then
Then his usual cheerful smile returned
I’ll help you I’m sure to come in handy and I can even be your shield if it comes to that
Eh B-but then you might die too
If you died my life would have no meaning
He sounded nonchalant and wrapped his hand around Mutsuki’s elbow
Mutsuki bent his shoulders because he felt like he had gone too far
However he did not have time to hesitate He thanked Lucia wrapped his arm around Lucia’s and started toward the center of the cleared clouds
But then a red blazing flame tore apart their clasped arms
There was no heat but Mutsuki was tossed to the ground by an intense gust of wind He looked up and saw a pillar of flame rising next to the spot he had been standing in
Gwaah
Lucia had pushed him away
Lucia Micha What are you doing Micha Stop
The flames attempting to crush the boy were the wings growing from Micha’s back as she stood in the park
That angelic flame would not harm Mutsuki but it could be fatal to a demon like Lucia Mutsuki paled and ran over to her
The woman lacked her usual kind smile
Now that Metatron is in use I will return to my original duties As there is a risk of this city being wiped out I will take the Serpent’s Eye holder Fujita Mutsuki to heaven for protection
Micha Stop this Micha Lucia will die
With FeTUS’s destruction we no longer need the demons who held them in check That demon boy has no more value
With words colder than he ever would have imagined from her the flames raged
Over the past two months he had seen her fight only twice However she had acted calmly then and had placed escaping danger as her top priority
This was different She was clearly attacking an enemy She was directing killer intent toward Lucia
Stop Micha Stop
Mutsuki grabbed at her to stop her but the flames passed through his body without feeling even slightly warm Micha did not even flinch
Khkh
After the surface of his body turned to charcoal Lucia stopped fighting the pillar of fire pressing down on him
His body melted into a thick black liquid Dread filled Mutsuki for a moment but that liquid mixed with the rainwater on the ground escaped in all four directions and reformed into Lucia a short distance away He spat out the ashes in his mouth with the same cold smile he had used when facing Ange
So you’ve finally shown your true self ‘Micha ’No I think it’s about time we heard your
real name and not just the nickname
Nickname Mutsuki had a very bad feeling about what that meant and he took a few steps back from the woman he was grabbing at
I’ve heard the stories of the old strongest angel who slaughtered more demons that any other in history and went by the alternate name of Michael up in heaven
Those are old stories
I thought it was odd that only two angels were sent to protect Adam who could become a great turning point in history But if one was the current strongest and the other was the old strongest it makes more sense After seeing that Mutsuki had moved out of the way Lucia pulled out his beloved scythe
Ahhdah
He covered a distance of several dozen meters in an instant and swung the thick and sharp blade
Not even Ange might have been able to dodge the speed of the attack that Micha received head-on
No the angel of unknown name who went by the nickname of Micha
I’m not as young as I used to be
She caught the tip of the blade between her index and middle fingers
I don’t have even 2% of the power I used to At my prime I would have vaporized you in a single second
Their power was perfectly matched She had used just two fingers to stop the demonic attack that had just as much force behind it as a swing of Ange’s sword
Gh
She pulled him in and swept her wings at him Lucia somehow managed to lean back out of the way but just a graze from the flames was enough to turn his body to charcoal
Allow me to correct you on one thing
Even if her red flame wings were lower temperature than Ange’s blue ones the concentration of their blaze was far greater A single touch was enough for the heat to penetrate deep into Lucia’s body Ange was never chosen to be Fujita Mutsuki’s bodyguard After all it would be a problem if the angel meant to become Metatron grew attached to the human world
Lucia grimaced as he regenerated his burned skin and Mutsuki trembled at the strength of this angel who seemed cruelly different from the woman he had known for the past two months
I’m not as young as I used to be so I personally decided to have her tag along to help me In other words
The angel going by the name Micha brushed back her blonde hair like always
Originally I was meant to protect Mutsuki on my own
But the cold smile on her lips was very different from normal
I can deal with FeTUS the demons and any other irregularity on my own
Kah
In the remains of Megutono Academy’s clock tower Ange suddenly released Machina and left the gaping bowl-shaped hole in the grass
Oh You aren’t going to finish her off
Machina was not moving but she was clearly still alive Ange supposedly had nothing but hatred for humans so Rapha tilted his head at this sudden act of mercy
Ange ignored him and made her way to the center of the clock tower
Jiyuuni wait
The angel had become a ball of fire hot enough to melt the earth so simply leaning down on Machina had done quite a lot of damage Machina could not get up but she called out in a scratchy voice
Ange did not respond
Oh dear Leaving a witch like this is certainly a problem but if Ange doesn’t want us to I suppose we can’t do it eith-oh
Rapha frowned as he watched on and he suddenly looked up into the sky
The clouds had regained their strength after having a hole torn into them and the rain was starting to fall once more
All the moisture on the ground had been vaporized when Ange had appeared as a ball of fire but the rain wet it once more
Perfect
A smile appeared on his beautiful face and he pulled a green ball from his pocket
He flicked it over into the crater Machina lay in
Machina had finally managed to sit up and she looked down at what had fallen onto her stomach
Just as she noticed it was something wrapped in a basil leaf a dark red substance like a stickier blood oozed from the gaps in the leaf The look on her face changed when she saw it
It absorbed the rainwater and grew
A Succubus Ahh
We sealed this one and returned it to a fetal state But given moisture it will regenerate and
grow without end
By the time she thought about throwing it off of her it was too late The demon burst out of the herb and clung to the surface of Machina’s skintight suit
It seemed the angels had been working on countermeasures for the humans of FeTUS they generally had so much trouble with The unclean creature being used by one of heaven’s messengers mercilessly assaulted the girl That is not a violent Succubus It is a parasitic demon known as an Incubus and it is harmless It merely incapacitates its host
A parasiticdemon
Although it does use a somewhat vulgar method
The young man chuckled as he accompanied Ange to the center of the tower
Vvv
The golden wings bursting from the girl’s back formed a sphere that enveloped the two of them
That sphere would not allow anyone but Rapha her guide to approach The raindrops were vaporized and even the ground they stood on melted like chocolate
You three keep an eye on that witch
After that instruction to the other three angels Rapha and Metatron sank down into the earth
Wait Jiyuuniabh
No one really needed to keep an eye on Machina because she could not move
The demon known as an Incubus continued to grow and wrapped around her body It seemed to be made of the same substance as the Succubi that Lucia used so she had no way of fighting it