Kotori stumbled as the sequenced ended. She felt tears in her eyes. She looked at Okateratsu who was giving her a knowing expression.
What she saw was likely Okateratsu’s life.
“Kotori?” Amelie asked her a concerned look on her face.
“How long… was I standing there” Kotori gasped
Amelie gave a puzzled expression
“What do you mean? You looked at Okateratsu and then staggered”
Kotori realized the sequence she had seen had passed in an instant. She had seen why Okateratsu was trapped down here.
[The angels don’t act like that right?]
When Kotori was in heaven, she didn’t pay much attention to the other angels.
[Wait did I even see any angels working?]
She was currently rifling through her memories. Kotori had spent most of her time in heaven playing around she didn’t remember much from the time there. The face of the angel though, there was some resemblance. The angel in Okateratsu's memory was Gabriel even if it did not look like it.
That same inhuman expression. The emotionless wolfish smile.
[That… was him.]
Even if it did not look like him.
[Why though?]
The Gabriel she knew was a lazy angel who didn’t care about her existence. Not the evil man she saw in the memory.
[Could he have been lying?]
The words of Nero echoed in her head.
Kotori asked Okateratsu if she knew anything about Nero.
Okateratsu had no clue.
Kotori was now very confused about the nature of this world. The game-like elements and Mana which made no sense.
[Just where am I in the first place]
The multiple worlds that Okateratsu was in when she collected souls had similar sorts of mana and gam systems but this world had an abundance of mana.
No other world had as near as much mana as this one did.
Kotori tried to ask Okateratsu about this world and she was unable to explain anything.
Okateratsu was just as clueless about this world in her despair she didn’t bother to learn about it.
Still, this was the first time Kotori had met anybody who was directly connected to the angel.
Okateratsu was unable to help Kotori any further and she nudged Layla closer to them.
“Oka-san, do I really have to?”
Okateratsu angrily nipped at her.
“Eek!” Layla yelped jumping away
Okateratsu motioned for them to leave.
Kotori looked as Amelie who had also noticed that this meeting was done. Although their meeting was brief Okateratsu had no intention of attacking them.
They quickly left the deep cave. Making their way back up the long staircase.
“Ahhhh mou!” Layla said the moment they finished walking up the staircase.
“No more walking!” Layla said frustrated
“hmmm?” Kotori asked
“I’m done walking! Carry me!” Layla said
[A so she’s one of these types] It seems that Okateratsu’s pride had rubbed off on Layla. She had already gained an Ojou-sama personality.
“You are all lower life forms! You should bow down to me!” She loudly proclaimed her arms cross in front of her.
Kotori rolled her eyes
“You know these two are the same as you right?” Kotori said pointing to Shu and Umi.
Both of them were staring daggers at Layla. It seems they didn’t like her disrespect of their master Kotori.
“Waaaaa?” Layla quickly cast status on them
[So she had “status” too?]
“No way!” She said
“Why do you two stay like that?” She said looking at them
Shu and Umi’s expression changed from anger to puzzlement.
It seemed like they were having a spirit conversation with Layla now. Kotori could activate her [Spirit Seer] Skill and eavesdrop but decided against it.
Shu and Umi’s eyes seemed to widen as the conversation went on further.
Their bodies began to glow.
And the Kotori saw them in their human forms.
“Kotori-Sama!” Umi said hugging her.
Kotori once again felt her face buried in Umi’s “mountains”
“What?” Suddenly Umi and Shu had transformed without having Kotori cast a buff on them.
“Umi… please let go of me,” Kotori said. She was being suffocated.
“Ahh my bad”
[Ah these troublesome spirits] Kotori thought once again.
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Where is she? What do you call Heavens Prison for souls it does not want ? A Place to put People you want out of the cycle of reincarnation? Silly Kotori its Hell.
Hell seems surprisingly green.
They're clearly not the same as Layla. The origins are different.
Some quick edits:
had similar sorts of mana and gam systems -> game
clueless about this world in her despair she -> world, in
Although their meeting was brief Okateratsu had no intention -> brief, Okateratsu
[A so she’s one of these types] -> [Ah
her arms cross in front of her. -> crossed
Kotori had spent most of her time in heaven playing around she didn’t remember much from the time there.
playing around(./,) She didn't...
[Just where am I in the first place]
[Just where am I in the first place(?)]
The multiple worlds that Okateratsu was in when she collected souls had similar sorts of mana and gam systems but this world had an abundance of mana.
mana and gam(e) systems...
No other world had as near as much mana as this one did.
No other world had nearly as much mana as this one did.
Okateratsu was just as clueless about this world in her despair she didn’t bother to learn about it.
about this world. In her despair, she didn't...
[A so she’s one of these types]
[Ah, so she's one of those types...]
And the Kotori saw them in their human forms.
And then, Kotori saw them take their human forms.