Chapter 135: The Warning

"Here is your wine."

"Thanks, Silas."

"No problem."

I began eating my dinner and I took a sip of my wine, then 7 cloaked figures entered.

No one else noticed as they were hiding their presences, but it was absolutely obvious to me who they were.

"Hello Gabriel and co, what's with the cheesy cloaks."

"Gosh dang it, Rose. We were trying to be sneaky."

"You were failing at it."

Gabriel sighed and took off his hood and sat next to me.

Silas snorted.

"I never understood why people think they can sneak up on her. The only people who actually managed to do it had high level relics while she was a lot weaker than she is now."

The other 6 also took off their hoods. Two were looking at Silas.

"Is this supposed to be an archangel?"

"I think so…"

"He's kind of short."

Everyone looked in awe at the 7 archangels who stood with power.

Mammon walked out, noticed the 7, then walked straight back into his office.

"ROSE, STOP INVITING POWERFUL BEINGS!!!"

I yelled back.

"I DIDN'T EVEN INVITE THEM, THEY JUST SHOWED UP!!!"

Silence.

"OH."

"How often does this kind of thing happen?"

"A surprising amount of times."

Then, almost like someone used a summoning spell.

"ROSE, ARE YOU OKAY?!"

Elren and Thalia kicked through the wall.

"Yep, I'm fine."

"Oh, that's good."

They noticed the archangels.

"Who are these weirdos? Oh, hi Gabriel."

"Hello… Thalia."

…

"Are these the archangels?"

"Yep."

"Cool."

Most of everyone had already gone back to what they were doing, including Mammon who was now chastising Elren for breaking the wall.

The archangels were clearly not used to such indifference to their presence as even Gabriel had a look of confusion.

Gabriel looked at me.

"How much trauma have you put these people through?"

"Eh, not much."

Mammon coughed loudly.

"Okay, maybe a bit."

Celios walked in with a snort.

"You've brought more traumatic moments then there are people in this world."

"Now that's an exaggeration."

"Not much of one."

"Et tu, Thalia?"

"Anyways, that's not why we're here."

I smiled.

"I know, you're here to make an alliance with me to not only restrict the potential traitor withing your ranks, but also to investigate my power, so you know whether I am a threat that needs to be eliminated or not."

They all blinked. The last part got the interest of those around us.

"How did yo-"

"Hello!"

"GAH!"

Cassiel leapt in the air when Luma popped up next to her.

"Luma, please don't scare the archangels."

"But it's fun."

"Yes, but we want to stay in their good graces."

"Okay."

Luma moped and stole a chicken leg from my plate.

"I saw that."

"I have no money."

"Yes, you do."

Not only did I give her an allowance, but she also did odd jobs around town.

"Fine…"

She ate the chicken leg in one bite and began to run.

"HEY!"

I tackled her and we started wrestling.

"W-what's happening?"

"Betting 100 on Luma."

"Nah, Rose has it in the bag."

I won. Luma was still not entirely familiar with her body.

I sat back down as Thalia was paying Dallel his 100.

"Okay back to business. Luma is very good at reconnaissance."

"Gabriel, I thought you said she wouldn't abuse it's power."

"And I'm not, having her waive the level up requirements would be abusing her strength. Simply having a member of my faction conduct reconnaissance on those who have reason to dislike me, especially since one of you already did an action against me, is not abuse."

The man glared at me but relented.

"Fine, do you want to try it."

"I agree with Gabriel that it would be the best course of action. Luma, would you please not announce it?"

"Ooh boy, more of being told not to do my job."

"Please."

"Fine, on one condition."

"What?"

"You buy me that."

"Is that seriously your requirement?"

"Yep or no deal."

"Sure. Silas, a ham special please, for Luma."

"YAY!"

"Okay, so now she won't announce it."

"Did-did you just bribe the system with ham?"

"Yep, anyways, are we doing this or not."

"*Sigh* Fine."

I shook hands with the leader and then I smiled.

"Pleasure doing business with you."

I was fully aware that I was annoying them, but I also knew that most of them were going to pressure me into doing it. I wasn't going to enter from a diminutive point.

A few actually looked impressed, including the leader who still acted like Luma couldn't feel anything.

Gabriel laughed.

"That was quite fun to watch."

"It was?"

"Yes, it's quite rare to see an Archangel be at a loss, and you got all of us there."

Cassiel looked at me.

"You seem to have been doing well since our last meeting."

"Hm?"

Everyone looked at Cassiel in confusion, so I explained.

"I once entered my core and found a book, one of the places it brought me was Heaven. She was on patrol then."

"Speaking of, where else did it bring you."

"To Earth and to Hell."

Then everyone froze and looked at me in shock, with the exception of Gabriel.

"I was wondering how you got it as a warp point."

"Yep, going there was quite useful in beating Asmodeus… still feel like I was cheating though."

"Yeah, it kind of was a cheat, then again, going there and not succumbing to agony is impressive, even for an admin."

"The demon I spoke to said pretty much the same thing."

That got his attention.

"Demon?"

"A woman, quite kind and regretful of her deeds. She gave me some good advice…"

I froze, I didn't think anything of it at the time, but now…

"'You're a human but different…'"

"What?"

"That's what she said. When I told her that I was a deity, she was confused."

"Because she saw your true stats that are hidden when you are in your body."

"Yeah."

The leader held his hand over me.

"Go into your spirit form, then I'll verify your stats and see if I notice anything."

Gabriel slapped his face.

"Why didn't I think of that?!"

"I do not know."

I exited my body and the man held his hand up.

"Analyze."

Then he broke out into a cold sweat and started coughing.

The archangel fell over and we were shocked.

Elren rushed over.

"Aspect of the life dragon: Redemption!"

The angel stopped choking and sat up.

"Thank you."

"No problem."

"Michael, what happened?!"

"I… her race… it's human, but different."

"What do you mean?"

"It's like whoever decided your race didn't know where the letters were on a keyboard."

"What?"

"It was spelt out with symbols."

Luma looked confused.

"That doesn't make sense at all."

Michael nodded.

"It doesn't. Though, that's not the most concerning part."

"What?"

"She has 0 mana and only one skill."

"THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!"

Luma's shout made us jump.

"Every being is born with at least 100 mana. And one skill doesn't make sense either."

"Was the skill called, Me?"

"Yes… how did you know, Rose?"

"I don't know. It feels like I shouldn't, but I do."

Luma seemed more surprised by that than anything else.

"You remember something of it."

"Just that skill… why?"

"This can't be possible. It shouldn't be possible."

Michael grabbed her.

"Luma, what do you mean?"

We were shocked not only by his usage of her name, but by his concern.

"Her mind was reverted, that means that the memory never existed. She shouldn't remember what never happened."

"Who reverted her mind?"

"I… can't tell you."

I looked at Luma.

"Please tell me."

"I I I can't. It's not that I don't want to… I'm just scared of what will happen if I do."

"Why?"

"Because that… thing awakened because of that knowledge."

We were all confused, but I partially understood.

"So, you don't know how they would react to that information."

"Yes. I'm sorry."

"It's fine."

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Luma Pov

What? Why are you-

Authors note: Close call. Try not to blurt out too much next time.

S-sorry.

Authors note: It's quite alright, besides, the next conflict is arriving soon.

Why are you telling me this?

Authors note: Why not, you won't tell anyone, because if you do, then you must explain the story, then… then things will get a bit messy.

Did you make Rose remember?

Authors note: … of course, nothing here happens without my permission.

I see.

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"LUMA!"

"AH! What?!"

"You went into a trance. Are you okay?"

"Oh, yeah, I'm fine."

She got up and left. Leaving her ham.

I don't think she convinced anyone.