"So heavy!!" Rei continues to hold back Belial's attack with his sword.
However, the attack is stronger than he anticipated, and Rei can feel his body slowly being pushed back by the pressure of the pink laser.
"Hey hey! What's wrong, 'Rei'? If you don't use your power properly, you'll never be able to parry my attack!" Belial shouts loudly.
"Rei!!" Lyria tries to use her Primal Beast powers, but Belial notices and immediately uses his other hand to attack them all.
From his right hand, dozens of lasers shoot toward them. "Watch out!" Lyria² after seeing that uses her power to create a barrier.
*Boooom!* The lasers fired by Belial hit the blue barrier, causing several explosions.
"Lyria! Everyone!" Rei shouts in worry as he watches the scene unfold.
"Belial!!" Rei starts to use his power fully, pushing back against Belial's attack.
"The wings—!!" Sandalphon, who is standing behind Rei, notices that his wings are starting to flicker from pure white to dark.
"Supreme Primarch, your wings are changing! Stop using your power!" Michael shouts to warn Rei before it's too late.
"Like hell I can do that! This attack is too powerful for me not to use my power!!"
"Damn..." Michael doesn't know what she's supposed to do now. Maybe if she still had her wings, she could help him by transferring her power. But since Sandalphon still hasn't returned her power, she can't do anything at all.
But she knows that if he uses those dark wings, everything will become even more chaotic because she can feel how dangerous they are!
Suddenly, Michael sees Sandalphon freeing herself from Rei's wings that are enveloping them both.
She suddenly tries to move closer to Rei, making sure not to disturb his concentration.
Once she's right behind him, Sandalphon raises her hands and begins to observe it.
Sandalphon seems to be contemplating something before finally showing an expression of resolve and stares at Rei's back with his 12 wings.
Before long, four colorful wings start to emerge from Sandalphon's back and she quickly hugs Rei's back tightly.
"Sandalphon!?" Michael becomes confused by what she's doing, but then Sandalphon's four wings begin to shine.
Seeing this, Michael understands what's happening and decides to remain silent, allowing them both to concentrate.
"I give you the power I stole from the Tetra Primarchs!" Sandalphon shouts, transferring the power of her wings into Rei's body.
Her four wings gradually begin to fade until they vanish completely, transferring all their energy to Rei.
Rei suddenly feels his body fill with an energy unlike anything he's felt before, and that energy starts to aid the light energy in suppressing the dark energy within him.
"This feeling—!!" Rei has never felt like this before—he suddenly can sense everything more clearly: the wind, the heat, the earth.
Everything is so clear that his eyes begin to glow with a blue light.
Rei's 12 wings stop flickering and return to being pure white, but three of them start changing colors to red, green, and brown.
With this newfound power, Rei easily pushes back against Belial's attack, advancing steadily forward.
Belial, who's suddenly forced backward, clicks his tongue in annoyance. "Tch, Sandy is ruining my fun."
But he doesn't have much time to grumble because, suddenly, he can hears Rei shouting.
"This power—!" Instantly, a massive magic circle appears above Rei, surrounded by hundreds of smaller ones.
"I will use it! Paradise Lost!"
Thousands of rays of light shoot out from the magic circle, rapidly moving toward Belial.
"Hehehe, at least I get to see your power like this!" Belial says with a satisfied smile before a massive explosion echoes through the area.
After being bombarded by countless rays of light from Rei, Rei effortlessly uses his sword to deflect Belial attacks from before and redirecting it elsewhere.
The sound of the explosion continues for a while until finally, the magic circle stops releasing its rays of light and disappears from above Rei.
"Hahhh... hahhh... hahhhh..." Rei pants heavily, exhausted from using Paradise Lost like that. Then his 12 wings immediately vanish from his back.
Not long after, Rei's body starts to weaken, and he loses consciousness. However, thanks to Sandalphon, who is embracing him from behind, his body doesn't fall to the ground.
"Supreme Primarch!!" Michael, now free from Rei's wings, immediately rushes to check on him when she sees that Rei has lost consciousness.
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A few days have passed since Belial's attack. When the smoke from Rei's Paradise Lost explosion cleared, they couldn't find Belial at all.
Because of this, they agreed to assume that Belial is still alive. Given how his previous attack pushed Rei back, it's unlikely that Belial could be defeated so easily.
However, since Rei lost consciousness and Lyria's healing abilities aren't strong enough to determine what's wrong with him, Michael informed them that the Primarch of Water in the Auguste Isles is currently assisting the inhabitants there.
As a result, Michael suggested they go there to check on Rei's condition. Gran and the others agreed to help transport Rei to the Auguste Isles.
Along with Sandalphon, who is accompanying them—or more accurately, Rei, who is still unconscious—and Michael, who is keeping an eye on Sandalphon to prevent her from escaping.
But during the journey on the borrowed airship, Sandalphon never left Rei's side, constantly checking on his condition alongside Lyria and Orchid.
Even though Sandalphon has stopped attacking them, the monsters she brought to attack many islands are still present.
These monsters were previously controlled by Sandalphon. But now there's no one to control them, as only someone with the power of the Supreme Primarch can command them.
The monsters are lower-class archangels without any personality, used only to guard something or serve as soldiers.
Since Sandalphon has lost her power, she can no longer control them, and now these monsters are rampaging uncontrollably.
So even though their issues with Sandalphon are resolved, the monsters are still attacking many islands.
And the only Primarch who still has her wings is Gabriel, the Primarch of Water.
But when they arrived at the Auguste Isles, they were surprised to hear that Eugen is heavily injured.
So they brought Rei to the same hospital where Eugen is being treated. "Hey, nurse! Is there an old guy named Eugen in this hospital? He got hurt protecting a bunch of people!!" Vyrn quickly asks one of the nurses when they arrive at the hospital.
But then Gran instantly covers Vyrn's mouth. "Vyrn, don't be too loud; this is a hospital."
"Sorry about my friend, nurse... But like my friend said, is there someone named Eugen in this hospital?" Lyria² asks the nurse.
"Oh sure. Let me show you the room." the nurse smiles and leads them to where Eugen is.
Meanwhile, Lyria, Orchid, Sandalphon, and Michael are carrying Rei to an unused room.
"We can't really call a normal doctor for him because his body is not like normal people's. So we should find Gabriel and ask her to check on him." Michael says after they placed Rei on the bed.
"But how do we find her? Can you describe her appearance to us?" Orchid asks Michael.
"Oh, you don't need to worry because Gabriel is easy to spot with her striking pink hair and blue eyes."
But soon after, they heard the door open, followed by a woman's voice, "Fufufu. Sorry if my appearance is too noticeable then."
Michael, Lyria, and Orchid immediately turns toward the door and sees a woman with pink hair and blue eyes, dressed in a nurse's outfit, entering the room.
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"Huh!? Is that...?" Lyria said when she saw the woman's appearance
"Hello everyone and Michael. It has been a long time since we last met. It seems you are with mortals now? Were those others your friends too?" Gabriel approachs them with a gentle smile.
"Gabriel, you arrived just in time! Please check on this man." Michael immediately asks Gabriel to examine Rei.
"My, I've never seen you in such a hurry, Michael~ Is he really that important to you?" Gabriel, as usual, teases Michael before walking over to Rei.
She then touched Rei's body and begins to examine his condition, but Michael and the others had forgotten to mention something quite important to Gabriel.
So the moment Gabriel started examining Rei's body, everyone there could see her face change to shock, her eyes widening as she senses almost everyone's energy inside him—including the Supreme Primarch's energy and another energy that feels dark.
And the last thing that makes her even more confused is that there are so many different energies inside him, like multiple Primal Beasts.
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with him?" Sandalphon, noticing Gabriel's expression change, immediately asks her with concern.
"Michael... I really need an explanation right now." Gabriel turns to Michael with a serious expression, unlike before.
"I can feel your power, Raphael's, and Uriel's inside this man, along with the power of the Supreme Primarch. But none of that confuses me as much as the various energy I sense within him."
Michael doesn't quite know how to answer Gabriel's question because she herself isn't sure what Gabriel means.
Michael knows that Sandalphon has transferred the power she stole to Rei, but regarding the various energy Gabriel mentioned, she's as clueless as the other archangel was.
"Oh, I can explain that." Lyria suddenly says as she opens the cloak she's wearing.
During their journey to the Auguste Isles, Michael had suggested Lyria wear a cloak to hide her appearance because having two Girl's in Blue would be too confusing.
The moment Lyria does that, Gabriel turns even more shocked as she has already met with the Girl in Blue before, but now there is another one right here!
"Now I need more explanation about this..."