This fight was really something else! Cyra and Camille caused such a ruckus!
They started fighting from the east all the way to the west. Then they went from south to north, crashing into buildings along the way. No surprise, they wrecked quite a few buildings again.
Watching from the sidelines, I could finally see clearly that Camille had gotten much stronger than before! Her whip skills were on par with Cyra's sharp weapon. She was way above 6th level now.
But even so, she was probably only mid-6th level at best for now. Not counting her crazy healing powers, I wasn't scared of her.
The weirder thing was that Cyra had also gotten way stronger! It was mind-blowing!
I never thought she could go toe-to-toe with this new Camille. She was using all kinds of high-level magic and sword skills. Her battle tactics were really clever too! This fight totally changed how I saw things. I had to admit she was better than me!
I don't know where she got it, but Cyra's sword seemed to be made of pure light magic. It was super effective against dark creatures like succubi! Even though Cyra only had 6 wings instead of 8 like me, she was actually winning after a few rounds because of her awesome weapon!
Wait a minute, this wasn't how I remembered things at all!
"When did Cyra get so good? And she's got way more fighting experience now too!" Adrian said in disbelief.
Even though Cyra learned Source Magic and could overpower opponents for a bit, she was still a newbie when it came to actual fighting skills. She definitely wasn't an expert at combining magic and sword techniques before.
The only explanation was that Cyra must have had some kind of special adventure during that month she was on Earth. Maybe something like what happened to Camille?
As the fight got more and more intense, Camille was clearly losing. She had more and more injuries. I guess getting beaten up by me so many times earlier took its toll. Plus fighting Cyra so hard probably wore her out even more. The light magic was probably clearing her head too.
Realizing she was in trouble, Camille tried to escape. But Cyra chased after her like crazy. Soon they both disappeared from sight.
"Hey, where are you guys going?" I yelled.
They just ran off and left me and Adrian standing there totally confused. The big problem was Adrian couldn't fly. Those two were going so fast, I probably couldn't catch up even if I carried Adrian!
"Aren't those angels? They must be angels fighting that devil thing! So angels were protecting us!" someone in the crowd suddenly shouted. A bunch of other people agreed.
I guess my wings were pretty eye catching. I expected people to talk, but I was surprised my old parents joined in too.
"Were you the one talking outside my window earlier? So angels really came down from heaven! Did you come to save our family because you knew my son died?" my mom asked, pulling on my clothes and looking at me pitifully. I guess she recognized my voice from when I was talking to Adrian by the window earlier.
"I thought you didn't believe in God..." I turned around with a bitter smile. Of course they couldn't recognize me now, but it was still awkward facing them.
"Well..." my dad hesitated, then quickly explained, "We saw you appear with our own eyes! From now on we'll definitely change and believe in the True Church!"
"Don't worry about them, let's go," Adrian said, glancing at my parents. He could tell I didn't want to deal with this.
"Wait a sec," I said, stopping. I was going to ignore it, but then I had an idea. I took out a bunch of gold coins and jewels from my storage ring and gave them to my mom.
"Take all of this," I said. It was treasure I got from my adventures. It should be worth a lot on Earth too. Consider it repayment for raising me and for the damage to the house.
With that done, Adrian and I turned invisible and flew away from that sad place. We left behind my super excited parents and the crowd of onlookers.
This night's events were sure to cause a stir online. But I wasn't too worried. With disguise magic, we could handle things for a while at least.
But things don't always go according to plan...
Even though Adrian and I chased after them as fast as we could, we still lost sight of Cyra and Camille!
"Damn it, that dummy Cyra! Couldn't she pay a little attention to what's going on around her while fighting?" I complained. Now we'd have to figure out where to go next on our own.
Staying in Shine Metropolitan without an H-country ID card was going to be a real pain. No ID meant no hotels, even if we had money! And those sketchy internet cafes I used to know about when I was a student were mostly gone now that everyone had smartphones.
But hey, where there's a will there's a way. We're angels who can fly! No way we're sleeping on the streets!
...
"Good morning!" I said, stretching as I walked out to the balcony the next day at noon. Adrian was already up, sitting there enjoying the view.
We were in a fancy penthouse apartment in a tall building downtown. You could see all of Shine Metropolitan from up here. It was empty because it was so expensive, so we snuck in to crash for the night.
Normal people couldn't get in here of course. The guards outside and the thick security doors would stop them. But that was no problem for us!
"Sleep well? First time I've seen you get up so late," Adrian asked, putting down his phone.
"Eh... it was okay I guess," I said with a big yawn, rubbing my eyes. That was the truth! I went to bed super late, so I didn't get much sleep.
Using high-level magic twice against Camille took a lot out of me! And there's not much light magic on Earth during the day to recharge quickly. So I had to recover by sleeping like a normal human.
To be fair, there was a tiny bit of light magic. The noon sun was shining bright, and I could sense a trace of light magic separating from the hot sunlight before quickly fading away.
It wasn't much, but it gave me some hope of restoring my energy! A little is better than nothing, right? So I spread out all my wings to soak up as much of that precious Earth-grown light magic as I could.
"Do you know how long it takes for the sunlight we see to reach us after it's created?" Adrian asked with a smile, holding up his phone.
"Huh?" I wasn't expecting that question, but it seemed easy enough! I opened my eyes and answered confidently.
"That's easy! Eight minutes, definitely eight minutes!"
"Wrong! It takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the sun's surface to Earth. But from when the light is first created, it actually takes tens or hundreds of thousands of years!" Adrian said proudly, showing me his phone.
"Hundreds of thousands of years? No way!" I grabbed the phone to look closer. Turns out his question was a big trick!
The science info on the phone was talking about how long it takes for energy from hydrogen fusion to reach Earth as high-energy photons! The photons can't travel straight from the sun's core to space. They keep getting absorbed and re-emitted inside the sun. This random process takes a really long time - at least tens of thousands of years! That's why Adrian's answer was way longer than I thought.