[ED:- Hello everyone. Itâs been a long time. So, finally Iâve returned back after going through hell (lol my exams). As promised, weâll now try to deliver those 4 chapters either this week or next week. So, hold on tight to ride on the hype train.
-Kenny Stryker]
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âSara?â
Sara appeared in front of me, standing in a gallant pose. All my attention was directed at her, who was elegantly using her wings to stand on the ground, but at the same time, Scalaâs attention was also directed towards her.
âWhat does a mere angel want from this fight at this point in time?â
Having her fight interrupted in a sweet spot, Scalaâs voice tone didnât seem pleased at all, however, despite receiving her glare, Sara didnât change her composed expression. I wasnât sure if she were crazy or sane enough to interrupt the fight with that attitude, but soon enough, she went briefly into the core of the matter.
âItâs about time to stop this battle. An emergency situation had occurred.â
âAn emergency situation?â
Hearing that, I turned to look at Sara again. It was indeed an information that shouldnât be neglected, but Scala did the exact opposite by ignoring it.
âWhat about it then?! Iâm in the best part of the fight now!! Donât get in my way!!â
âAre you intending to violate your conditions with the Divine God?â
The moment Sara mentioned of âDivine Godâ, Scala suddenly stiffened at her place.
Conditions with the Divine God and an emergency situation?
I couldnât understand the situation very well just from hearing Saraâs report.
âWhat happened?â
âA prisoner had escaped.â
When I asked Sara about what happened, I heard a different voice answering my question from behind. It was Lina who was revealing a worrying expression while walking toward us. She probably met with Sara while we were fighting. That face she was making said that she knew everything about the situation.
âLina.â
âYou went out of control earlier; are you okay?â
The first thing she did was to ask about my safety; although I didnât want her to ask about that part, honestly. It looked like she saw everything I did earlier. I casted my eyes down and made a gloomy face.
âY-You donât have to feel bad about it. Everyone has their moment of time when they want to scream loud.â
âJust, please, stop it. Youâre gouging my heartâŚâ
Her awkward way of cheering me up ended up hurting me more. Infact, if I could move now, Iâd go bury myself somewhere immediately.
Iâm never using that skill againâŚ
I made a decision with myself while writhing in shame and embarrassment caused by Linaâs unskillful encouragement. As I blamed myself for using the
ăFull Blastă
skill, Sara was having a difficult time convincing Scala.
âOriginally, one of the conditions was to not destroy a large part of this world. You know that your fight will get forcefully stopped if you were to exceed the agreed extent, right?â
Sara was asking Scala with a somewhat strong tone. She was right; Scala went too far in her destruction. She demolished half a mountain, mowed down countless trees and even lapsed an entire area. I also contributed to her destruction a little bit, but it was still too much. While I agreed with Sara, Scala tried to object with a defiant attitude.
âI still didnât destroy anything in my eyes.â
âCome on now, look at your surroundings.â
This entire area is demolished. I wonder how she was able to say that despite being in the middle of her own mess. When I started feeling irritated from hearing her claim that she didnât destroy anything with such confidence, Lina seemed to agree with Scala on the other hand.
âWell, sheâs not wrong.â
âEh? Really?â
âScala-sama often destroys 60% of the worlds she goes to in her mission to capture Fallen Gods. Of course, the Fallen God is also included in the percentage. If you think about it that way, this place is almost intact.â
When I heard Linaâs explanation, I looked at Scala with an appalled face.
Sixty percent!?
Thatâs more than half the world. Moreover, she even gets the Fallen God caught in her mess. I feel like sheâs more of a criminal than those escaping Gods.
âIâm impressed with how long youâve managed to keep your job without getting fired.â
âItâs not like she does not get fired. Itâs more like she canât get fired. Well, most of the worlds she gets sent to were in the brim of collapsing, so having them destroyed is not that big of a deal.â
So they only send her to empty worlds, huh. Thatâs the proper way to do it, after all. Nobody wants a prospering world to get destroyed and turned into rubble. But even though I agreed with Lina, Sara still didnât back off and continued to convince Scala.
âThat doesnât matter. Weâre in an emergency situation now! Iâm going to have your battle suspended!!â
âAhh?! Donât fool around with me!! Weâre still not done here!!â
Saraâs attempt at persuading Scala turned into a loud dispute as the both of them gradually raised their voices. It doesnât look like their arguing will end anytime soon. If they can just continue this way for 10 minutes until I can move again.
Iâm cheering for you, Sara.
After having her indirectly buy me more time. I cheered in my heart to Sara who was still loudly disputing with Scala. After a short while, I realized something impressing in Sara.
âWow, that Sara is amazing. She can keep that attitude even while talking to Scala.â
Scala is always feared by her surrounding as the Goddess of Destruction. Even Lina has lost her cool when I mentioned that name to her on phone. I can only get impressed by watching Sara having a dispute with her.
âSara is famous among angels, by her unusual composure. She often gets entrusted with similar duties.â
Yeah. She was pretty stubborn the first I met her on the island. Despite knowing well our differences in level and power, she still stood in my way and insisted on destroying the magic circle.
âI told you, Iâm not gonna stop here!!â
âAnd I told you!! It is an emergency situation!!â
Their dispute continued and its intensity increased along with it. Sara was no longer showing any respect towards Scala. Come to think of it, what was the emergency situation again? I totally forgot about it after hearing Linaâs explanation.
âHey, Lina. What was the emergency situation again? I heard you saying something about âescapeâ.â
Lina seemed to have remembered the reason for Saraâs arrival only after I asked her again then she started explaining.
âAbout that, there is actually a prisoner who escaped from theăInfinite Prisonălocated in the Heaven.â
â
ăInfinite Prisonă
?â
Thatâs a disturbing name now.
â
ăInfinite Prisonă
is a place for punishing countless prisoners, generally Fallen Gods. Anyone who enters it is fated to suffer for eternity and can never leave it.â
âAnd youâre saying that someone from there had escaped?â
âYes. Iâm not very sure how the prisoner escaped, but they seem to have run away to this world.â
I revealed an annoyed expression.
ăInfinite Prisonă
; if weâre talking about someone who escaped from there, he must be quite the scoundrel. Moreover, why did he choose Earth-chan out of the all the worlds of the universe? Thatâs too much to be called as bad luck.
âIâm really unlucky todayâŚâ
I muttered along with a short sigh. Nothing good happened to me since the day summer holidays started. I wonder why Iâm this unlucky. As I felt sick and tired of the endless problems occurring around me, Lina added another important information to her explanation.
âThe prisoner who escaped is not like the other prisoners.â
She talked with a somewhat bewildered expression.
âWhat do you mean?â
âListen to this. The name of that prisoner isââ
At that moment, before Lina was able to speak his name, I heard another familiar voice reverberating in my head.
ââ It has been a while, human.â
Apparently, everyone heard the voice in their heads since they all stopped talking. But for some reason, I couldnât spot anyone near us and neither could I sense their presence.
I searched in my memories for the person who had this voice until I found the exact person.
âIâve been wanting to meet you all this time. You canât imagine how dearly I waited for the day to take my revenge on you.â
Following those words, the sky above us became distorted and twisted until a single hole was made within it. A man came out from that hole and looked at me.
âArenât youâŚâ
I instantly remembered everything about the man once I saw his face. He looked worn-out and his mask was full of cracks but his outer appearance was still the same as that of the Fallen God of Hatred, Germa.