Light was streaming in my eyes.
'I must be in heaven,' I thought, and I let myself still, feeling blissful and uncaring.
"Wake up! Krista-chan! Wake up!" A voice shouted.
Hmm... A voice? Do you usually hear voices in heaven? Maybe they are angels... I felt unbothered and uncaring at the moment.
"Damn it, it's all your fault! Couldn't you see we wanted to be alone?!" The voice shouted.
"It's not my fault! I was sent to bring you back immediately. You have no time to waste with this mortal!" Another voice, higher, resounded.
"You are asking me to leave her alone, and then you just came along, and she got hurt again! What's the point of an angel if you can't help others?" The deeper voice insisted.
"We are angels, yes, but we cannot save everyone. It's supply and demand, as you can say, and your time would be much better spent doing more important things than being with this human," the higher voice, female, I finally realized, said.
"Not until she wakes up," the first voice, male, I too, realized, insisted.
Through all that, I managed to catch some words. I heard angel, so I must be in heaven, but they also said mortal and human, meaning me.
But I died, I'm certain of that! How the freak could I be alive?!
Must be that damn filthy first male! Dang it!
Then, I thought: Why did they say angel, then? What does it mean?
And I don't recognize both of their voices, and being a star, I knew nearly everyone in school. In addition, if I were alive and in a hospital bed, it would be those 8 hovering over me, not two strangers I do not know of.
Also, the way they talk of mortals and humans, like they themselves are not one. Then... if I'm alive, what is going on?
"Agh!" I shouted suddenly as I felt something burning my face, interrupting my train of thought. I immediately stood up and wiped my face, although burning my hands as well. I was definitely alive, dang it! So much for the Pearly Gates of Heaven, but looking at my surroundings, I was more well aware that I was outside.
Behind me was a crumbled and ruined church, with the foundation chipping from the inside.
In front of me was a handsome brown haired boy with sea green eyes with a rugged and rough personality but a smile from his face diminished it.
Standing behind him was a girl the same age, tapping her foot impatiently and narrowing her eyes. She had white hair and black eyes, hardened as those of a warrior. I also saw that she was also holding some flask.
"Are you OK?" the boy asked, looking at me with worry.
"Fine," my answer was short.
Satisfied that I was fine, he rounded on the girl and said, "What did you do that for?"
The girl shrugged, "It was the fastest way to wake her up."
The boy disregarded her quickly and said to me, "We will talk later, I have business elsewhere."
I don't know your name," I said, looking at this strange scenery. I don't even know where I am.
I should be at a hospital waking up from my attempted suicide with those crazy 8 males and hopefully, a police officer arresting me for attempted suicide. Then, I could finally get away from them.
Instead, I stuck myself in a strange world and strangers. The very least, I could start over without anybody any wiser.
The boy still had on his smile, "I'm Percy Lance. We'll see each other soon." Then, he simply... disappeared in front of my eyes. So as the girl.
As I wondered where was Houdini for that amazing trick, I crouched down, head in hands for the agony as finally waves and waves of memories were upon it.
When it was finally over, I stood up, my eyes bleaker and my soul tortured as I finally knew where I was.
***
When love was a puppy dog instead of the snarling pit bull that I had the dreadful experience of, before I met those boys I mean, otome games were my absolute world. Love was to me, at that time, a great entertainment to be found in the world of 2D. In fact, it was fun catching the hearts of men, experiencing the adventures along the way and living a story from the bleak reality.
After I unfortunately snared the affections of those 8 boys, I dispensed the otome games because they seemed like a cruel joke in coincidence that I managed to capture them as if I were the heroine in an otome game.
During those happier moments, I remembered being fond of an otome game called Angel's Love, where the heroine, a normal girl, managed to capture the attentions of angels. That's right, angels. Why do you think the name was Angel's Love?
Angel's Love consisted of 8 capture targets, all angels of course, with their own troubles. But all with the same goal.
To acquire God's throne.
Angel's Love, as the capture targets are angels, the backstory also had something to do with angels, meaning heaven.
Heaven, in the game anyway, is filled with angels of different factions, living a blissful life under God's rule where everything created was simply from his imagination.
Then, God became sick... and was dying, thus needed one ruler in His place.
The eight factions were battling it out, where one boy distressed by the outcomes went to Earth, to a church for peace.
And one girl, a churchgoer and so God devoted that she couldn't stand to see the sights of the disrepair church, set out to pray at it the last time as a final goodbye.
There, the boy met the girl and the girl met the boy.
The boy, Percy Lance: a capture target.
The girl, Krista Loverin: the heroine.
And also the person I so happened to be now.
Now, I wept silently thinking, 'Why me?'