“I’m hungry.”
Ange quietly complained while sitting on the
couch with her arms around her knees.
She checked the clock and found it was
already seven at night. According to the Jiyuuni timetable, it should have been
dinnertime already.
She was still hungry because the boy in
charge of preparing that dinner had yet to return.
“Where did that idiot get off to? He’s
late.”
It had been five hours since she had left him
at school shortly after two, yet he still had not returned. She rested her chin
on the Lazy Bear cushion in her arms and puffed her cheeks out.
Micha chuckled as she stared at the rain pouring
down out the window.
“If you’re worried, you shouldn’t have left
him in the first place.”
Micha sat down next to her.
“Just because you were removed from
bodyguard duty doesn’t mean you can’t accompany him.”
The woman stroked the girl’s red hair.
Ange put on a lopsided frown and did not
reply.
He had not been told, but the alert level
for Serpent’s Eye Possessor Fujita Mutsuki had been lowered.
He no longer required a 24/7 bodyguard and
simply had to be monitored. As long as the angels knew what he was doing, he
was permitted as much freedom as he wanted.
One could say Mutsuki’s work at making
friends with Machina of FeTUS and Lucia of the demons had paid off.
Of course, this had only been decided among
the angels and the enemy organizations had not been informed.
That meant Ange was no longer tasked with accompanying
him at all times. She had also been given another special mission.
At the moment, she was not Mutsuki’s
bodyguard, so she had not been abandoning her duty when she left him at school.
“If the observation team hasn’t said
anything, he must be playing with his friends. If you’re that hungry, why not
get some take-out?”
The girl ignored the suggestion with a
sulking look, so the older angel narrowed her eyes and laughed.
Then she looked outside again.
“But this rain worries me. Did Mutsuki-kun take
an umbrella with him today?”
“He had one this morning.”
“Hmm, so he wouldn’t be taking shelter from
the rain. I wonder why he’s so late.”
Micha tilted her head.
Ange also looked out the window while
pouting her lips.
She saw the sky dumping down even more rain
than earlier in the day.
“Knowing that idiot, his umbrella might
have broken in the wind.”
She got up from the couch.
“Take-out would have a hard getting to us
in this rain. I’ll go find Stupid Mutsuki, so you stay here, Micha.”
She walked quickly to the front door.
Ange had her back turned, but Micha caught
a glimpse of her face from side. It was as red as her hair, so Micha burst out laughing.
“You need to be more honest. Just admit you
want to eat Mutsuki-kun’s cooking.”
“…! Th-that is not-…”
Ange turned back with her face an even
brighter red.
However, her outburst of anger came to an
abrupt end as she shut her mouth like normal.
“Once Metatron begins, I’ll have to say
goodbye to him anyway.”
“…”
“If I’ll never have another chance, it
would be a shame to miss even that idiot’s bizarre creations.”
She left.
Micha’s face stiffened as she watched her
leave.
The usual enjoyment of teasing that younger
angel was nowhere to be seen.
Ange left the apartment with her own
umbrella and a spare one for him.
It was past seven. With some help from the
thick clouds, it was already quite dark out.
It was a fairly windless typhoon, but they
seemed to be near the center. The rain grew nearly horizontal, so she would be quickly
soaked even with the umbrella.
After making sure no one was watching, she
produced wings of blue flame from her back.
She wrapped her body in the two thousand
degree flames. A layer of air formed that deflected all of the raindrops that approached
her. Even if one did get close, it would be vaporized before it reached her.
(I guess I didn’t need two umbrellas after
all.)
She laughed to herself.
An umbrella was relatively useless in this weather,
so they would need to use her wings to remain dry on the way back. In that case…
“…”
The two of them would only need the one
umbrella.
“~~”
She shook her head and her face grew oddly
warm.
(He can just get soaked on the way back.)
That would be more enjoyable. He was sure
to tear up as the rain drenched him despite the umbrella, so she could laugh at
him before having no choice but to let him inside her wings.
And then…
“Heh heh.”
Her expression relaxed as she imagined it
and she followed the path back to school.
“C’mon, move in closer, Ibekusa. I’m
getting soaked over here.”
She suddenly heard a familiar voice in the
rain.
“…”
Her small smile froze over when she saw the
three people walking toward her.
“You can make a new umbrella with your
Springloaded, can’t you? So let Mutsuki-kun and me have this one while you head
home with that.”
“Negative. Using Springloaded for personal
matters is frowned upon.”
“Calm down, you two.”
Lucia had not had one, so the three of them
were making their way to the apartment under a single umbrella.
Mutsuki was in the middle, Machina was on
the right, and Lucia was on the left.
The rain was blowing nearly horizontally,
so all three of them were soaked. The umbrella was essentially meaningless, so
they were really just using the shared umbrella to flirt.
Lucia complained, Machina calmly parried,
and Mutsuki settled things.
Mutsuki had enjoyed their earlier raw
intercourse, but he enjoyed this too. He could not stop smiling.
“…”
When she ran across them and saw the boy’s
smile, Ange quietly closed her eyes.
“Ange?”
He tilted his head when he saw her near the park right next to the apartment.
“What is it? I was just on my way ba-…oh.”
He noticed the two umbrellas she held and guessed
what she was doing.
He tried to move close, but…
“FeTUS Witches Miss E…Ibekusa Machina.”
She spoke and his feet came to a stop when he
saw the look on her face.
She always looked irritable and she would
sometimes smile or look surprised, but he had never seen this look over the
past two months.
It reminded him of the lonely look of a lost
child.
“I owe you one for warning me in advance of
Black Cat’s attack.”
“Ange…?”
“I will repay you for that now.”
Mutsuki frowned, but Ange paid him no heed
and closed her umbrella.
“FeTUS stands in opposition to heaven’s
command concerning Adam. It has been determined you are in violation of Deadly
Sin #32. The angels will now use Metatron to exterminate your sanctuary…FeTUS
Headquarters.”
“!”
The girl spoke plainly and Machina also gave
a look unusual for her: surprise.
Even Lucia’s expression changed. Mutsuki
alone could not follow what was being said.
“Metatron will be activated within thirty
minutes of the present time.”
However, he could tell Ange was declaring
war on FeTUS.
“Our target is your headquarters and any
resistance would be futile. If you wish to live, then run away.”
The angel turned her back and Mutsuki prepared
to call out to stop her.
“Now, now, Ange. You know you can’t give
advance warning of divine punishment.”
But another familiar voice spoke first. The
boy gasped as four angels landed between him and Ange.
Three were red-winged female angels he had never
seen before, but his eyes naturally focused on the angelic young man he did
recognize.
“What is going on, Rapha-san? …What is this…Metatron?”
A tremor filled the boy’s voice because he
could tell this was serious. Rapha only gave his usual gentle and somewhat cold
smile and did not answer.
“————!”
A moment later, Machina turned around and
ran toward the school.
The balance between humans and angels had
been desperately held together before, but Mutsuki could clearly sense that it had
fallen apart.
“Ange?”
“…”
She did not respond.
She let go of the umbrella she had brought.
Before the handle could even clatter to the ground, the five angels took flight.
At the very last moment, he felt like he saw
her blue eyes looking back at him over her shoulder.
Utterly dumbfounded, he turned to Lucia for
help.
“What was that? What is going on?”
Even Lucia’s behavior told him something
was wrong. Normally, he would have smoothed things over with some kind of joke
about them being alone together, but his expression remained tense.
“They’re using Metatron on a single human organization?
The angels must really feel cornered.”
“What is that? What is Metatron?”
The demon boy was the only one he could
rely on, so he grabbed his shoulders and shook him. He dropped the umbrella, so
the pouring rain pelted their heads.
Lucia looked up and seemed unsure what to
say for a while.
“Simply put, it’s a gigantic bomb the
angels use.”
“A bomb…? H-how big?”
“I don’t know. It varies from case to case.”
He brushed up the wet bangs plastered to his
forehead.
“It was used to destroy the Tower of Babel
and to wipe out Sodom and Gomorrah. It also sunk the island of Atlantis and the
continent known as Mu. Including Agneya and the Arrows of Indra, about 90% of
the world’s phenomena that symbolize god’s wrath were caused by Metatron.”
“You’re kidding…”
On the upper end, it could sink a
continent. That was an unimaginable scale.
The humans of FeTUS would certainly have the
upper hand in a direct battle with angels, but what if a great calamity was
used before the battle even began?
Angels, demons, and humans. Three
organizations held each other in check around Fujita Mutsuki.
The stalemate had been growing more stable,
but now it had utterly collapsed.
Thanks for the chapter!
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ReplyDeleteMan I'm just waiting now for that Ange x Saya, unfortunately x Machina, scene. The series has become pretty dull now. I mean he's fucked Machina so many times it's not even hot anymore. I want more Ange scnes
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