"Eih? Uncle Dominic, you are awake! How do you feel right now? Do you need anything? Like tea?" Maria asked, rather surprised and happy.
"I'm feeling alright now, the incense works well, but a cup of black tea would be nice." said Dominic.
"Aye! I'll go preparing it for you right away!" said Maria as he ran to the rack to get the tea leaves and ran out the room with the tea leaves.
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"I don't know if you know about this incident that happened hundreds of years ago, where one of the previous Archangels, father of Master Gabriel, make a gravely mistake by doing a sudden assault with his angel's army to a village which is under the authority of the almighty Kingdom. The assault caused a great damage to that place and lots of innocent people lost lives because of that. And they said that, the legendary healer, Lord Shiya is badly injured in order to protect the villagers." said Dominic.
Maria remembered something similar but without Shiya, he doubts if those two are the same incident.
"One of the young angels in my clan found this to be quite wrong even for the Archangel, so he secretly informed the King of the almighty Kingdom about it. His Majesty is merciful enough to not taking any harsh action but just a warning to Heavenly Realm. However, Master Gabriel's father did not take the warning seriously, and did another assault to another place that is under the protection of the almighty Kingdom which totally enraged His Majesty, and so, that well-known tragedy of Heavenly Realm happened." said Dominic, before taking a sip of black tea prepared by Maria.
"After that, Master Gabriel took over the position of lead Archangel. As he is still quite young and immature, he feels that the young angel in my clan is responsible for his father's death, and he wanted to execute that young angel, but then the identity of that young angel is totally unknown, and no one dares to admit it. So he decided to execute all the young angels in my clan, which with no doubt, I would not allow that to happen. To atone that, I agree to bear full responsibility for what the youngster in my clan had done, which Ied to the answer you are looking for. "said Dominic.
"Oh my... That's really..." Maria can't find any words to say. He feels that it's really hard to accept all these pieces of information, especially the one regarding Shiya.
"I always know this Gabriel is not the best person, but how could he actually do that? I thought the candidate of Archangel should be the one with perfect personality, for the very least I know that the previous lead Archangel Michael would not do something like that." said Maria after he finally calmed himself.
"This can't really blame him, he is still quite young and his father's death affects him a lot, moreover, there's a weird influence at his side." said Dominic.
"Weird influence?" said Maria.
"Yes, I once sensed an extra unseen presence when I having a face-to-face time with him in Heavenly Realm, although I don't really know who is that person." said Dominic.
"Ah... Are you sure it's alright to say this out loud? Especially to an outsider like me?" Maria asked as he sensed something really confidential in that statement of Dominic.
"Well, it doesn't matter now, I tried to protect the pride of Heavenly Realm but they never plan to let me go." said Dominic with an obvious attitude change.
"Eh?" Maria feels that Dominic had found out something that Maria doesn't know how to let him know.
"The whole area where Shadow Punisher been sent to had totally annihilated by a great holy fire right?" said Dominic, in a rather down mood.
"Ah... So you found out." said Maria who was actually trying to hide that from Dominic. Dominic nodded.
"When you briefly told me about what happened to the Shadow Punishers, I sent a tracker there and sensed the trace of holy fire, however, someone seems to found out about my tracker which lead to the invasion of Kirin Demon you see just now." said Dominic.
"Oh my... That was close, it's really fortunate that Ben-chan reminded me about you which is why I rushed back here in time." said Maria.
"Yes, and I'm glad that you saved Marco, it's a comfort to know that at least she survived." said Dominic.
Maria nodded without saying anything, he is thinking about how he should arrange all the new pieces of information he gets from Dominic and reports it to Sky and Chris. However he can't really know how Chris would react if he found out about it, especially when it is regarding Shiya, and he has a great confusion in it that he would rather choose to hide it and slowly find out the answers on his own. Another issue that Maria worried about is that, would this incident causes Dominic to lose his faith and loyalty to Heavenly Realm, would this be the beginning of another inner war for angels? Well, he doesn't know, but for the very least he knows that he is to be extra cautious in this whole matter...
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Secret Base, infirmary, examination /treatment room, Ben is checking on Sky's daily examination reports to see whether he should 'release' him from the infirmary. While waiting, Sky received a text message from Null Dimension.
"Hmm? Ah! I got a message from Chris!" Sky shouted which successfully drawn Ben's attention.
"What did he wrote?" Ben asked as he approached Sky. "Let's see..."
The content of the message can be separated into three parts. The first part is regarding Sky's condition, basically it's just some nagging about how he should not do such a risky thing, especially when he is not with him. The second part is similar to the first part, just that the nagging target is Ben.
The third part is the main point, Chris said that he would be back to Kapis Dimension soonest possible as he is out of the medicine ingredients to treat Byako's injury /sickness, the ingredients needed are commonly found in Kapis Dimension...
"So he would want us to find those ingredients for him before he comes back... Hmm... Yup, very Chris-like." said Sky as he closed the message.
Ben stared at Sky, a bit troubled.
"Ben, anything wrong?" Sky asked.
"Yes. No matter how many times it happened, it still feels weird for getting nagged by someone who uses their prosthetic arm as a shield." said Ben.
"Ah... Indeed."
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."
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