.: Tenshi Kinryouku :. Tenshi Kinryouku [Angel Sanctuary] :: Yuki Kaori VOLUME 5 :: translated by kamiya shuusai :: :: volume 04 :: SC 1 :: SC 2 :: SC 3 :: SC 4 :: SC 5 :: SC 6 :: volume 06 :: Digital Angel volume 05 section 01 cover : who's love killed the son of god? Angel Sanctuary - Hades Act II : The Black Angel Uriel, Part 1 (there's a special mark on one of the broken body parts) rociel : that mark... a fallen angel for hire? those criminals from the slums, and the outcasts... even if they failed, they wouldn't give away their employer... how foolish. it's useless... even if their brain is dead, every cell still contains the memory! it's too simple for me to read the information from their minds. (touch a dead man's head) [I can see-- (those people meeting an unknown man) is this the employer? there should be someone else behind him. how pathetic, he didn't even know he was being followed. (the dead guy sees the mysterious man meeting up with dubbiel) these people probably wanted to find out the real employer to black mail him... hn... so it's him? appointed by sevotharte to replace jibrille as the chief cherubim--- his pet dubbiel.] (drop the head) hahah... you'll lose your life if you're too greedy! [he must the one behind this, interesting... he's serious. he has no idea who he's up again...!!] (a little wire reach out from the coffin and touches rociel) you don't have to worry, just rest well. This is all you need right now. if you want to eat, I'll bring you a younger and fresher dish. ...just be a good boy. good night, and have a nice dream, katan... (meanwhile, setsuna and katou are still on their way...) setsuna : --how far are we from the uchuuju anyway? katou : well-- we're probably almost there. setsuna : which day is it today? my body will die if I don't go back after 7 days. katou : eh-- don't worry, don't worry. anyway, after you go back you that stupid body of yours, it's still your problem, none of my concern. (big smile) setsuna (vein) : [t... this guy~~~!!] do you only care about yourself? katou : yep. setsuna (vein) : [really?] text : actually I met him before in school and in kira senpai's house, and I fought with his gang too. he's not only very individualistic, he's also very violent, rude and easily gives up or recover. a worry free guy. katou : ...what [got a problem?] setsuna : no, I just don't know your name yet. (katou has a big reaction to that) text : he's completely different from kira senpai. though they are different--- katou : ... I forgot. setsuna : ... forgot your own name---? katou (walking ahead) : shut up, I can't help it since my brain cells are dead. setsuna (big smile, you know he's up to something) : ah... then I knew it's--- katou (grab his shirt) : it's not CHA [don't get the wrong idea!] setsuna (not buying it) : [of course not, senpai.] katou (look around) : why is it suddenly getting foggy? [those old hags said there wasn't going to be a heavy fog today.] setsuna : yeah. [that earth monster called norm?] katou : [isn't it a demon...] (sweatdrops) setsuna : [all the same...] hey, don't walk too far ahead, we can't see anything here. did you hear me? katou... (some funny sounds...) ...! katou...? [-san...? (sweatdrop) huh?] (no one's there.) (meanwhile, we skip to raziel and zaphkiel's office) raziel : zaphkiel sama! why didn't you go that regular meeting last time? I heard that rociel sama returned and caused a big fuss. zaphkiel : --it's so good that you seem so peaceful, raziel kun. [keep that peaceful feeling] raziel : [uh!] (sweatdrop, evil glare) what does that mean!? I think you look more peaceful drinking tea like that. secretary (suddenly the door open) : zaphkiel sama. (a mysterious guy just walks in, the secretary trying to stop him) um... visitor... but please state your name... ah! sevotharte : leave, woman. zaphkiel (who recognized that voice, since he can't see) : it's alright, he's an old acquaintance. secretary : y... yes... (leave) zaphkiel (sevotharte taking off his cloak) : welcome, prime minister sevotharte dono. raziel (shock) : [chief seraphim's prime minister, the highest commander behind the curtains, sevi-sama!?] t... then please excuse me!! (leave) sevotharte (as raziel walks by) : wait. -- I felt a strange KI. you've raised a very interesting cat, zaphkiel. is he the boy you found by coincidence at the training school? if you want, I can dissect him and let the scientists analyze him. so? (cornering raziel with his staff) zaphkiel : --- please let him go. I knew you liked little boys like metatron-sama, but... sevotharte : ...... (let raziel go) that was not funny, zaphkiel. zaphkiel : you may leave now, raziel kun. raziel : y... yes! (run out, closing the door behind him, still a little shivering) ........... [his eyes were so cold. it's the first time I've seen him so close. he looks so dead, inorganic eyes without any feeling...!!] (meanwhile, zaphkiel and sevi gets down to business, though sevi's sitting down and zaphkiel is standing for respect... I guess) zaphkiel : ---what drove you make this trip... and no security today? sevotharte : I came here alone and no one else knows. zaphkiel : shouldn't this be your busiest time... I'm surprised. sevotharte : of the four archangels who used to control the four natural elements of earth, water, fire and wind with the greatest honor and dignity, only their formal name is left. (four people in the background, mostly shaded so you can't see their face...) the guardian of fire, michael, is heaven's greatest violent trouble-maker. the angel of water jibrille lost her conscious and is only a doll now. the wind angel raphael continues to have affairs with women, and the angel of earth Uriel has disappeared. now what remains of the seven archangels including you are all sneaky bastards. zaphkiel (total denial with a big smile) : me? I didn't do anything! it's not hard to understand why Uriel left, after what happened... (fix his glasses) it's his way of repenting, since he was also partially responsible for the fall of alexiel. and it's understandable, because uriel deeply loves that beautiful fallen angel alexiel... sevotharte (getting up) : love? another pathetic man. zaphkiel : ...... sevotharte : I didn't come here today to talk about such nonsense. zaphkiel... what are you up to wandering all over the place? zaphkiel (smile, scratch his head) : oh that, I'm always getting lost because you know my eyes don't work... so I wander in the garden sometimes. sevotharte (points his staff at zephkiel's neck, tearing his collar, revealing the old scar) : don't betray me! zaphkiel. we were friends before the war, and didn't we fight side by side? text : someone whose face you've never seen is your friend? zaphkiel : [even if I can't see anymore.] sevotharte : I can let you go once, but there won't be a second time!! next time, I'll behead you with my own hands! zaphkiel (bow calmly) : as you wish...! [yes, you can do it. without even blinking. those water blue eyes coldly watching everything. gracefully... cruelly...] sevotharte : ...i said too much, excuse me now. (leaving) zaphkiel : [kill me with your hands---] sevotharte (before walking out) : that's right, are you still in contact with uriel, do you know where he is right now? zaphkiel (fixing his collar) : --no, I don't know. (eyes staring blankly) but he's the guardian of the hell and the green planet. the black angel uriel. therefore, perhaps he's hidden himself somewhere deep underground. (somewhere, a man stares out the window) katou : hey, where did you go? mudou---!! se-chan! fuck---!! (he's pissed off) I told him not to let go of my motherly loving hands---!! damn it! (vein) I'm not gonna go look for you---!! arrow : gee... text (thinking about setsuna) : he doesn't have any weapons, so what if he runs into a ghoul... what am I thinking!! I have to kill him, that's the deal I had with those enra old guys. katou (think, sweatdrop) : and he's such a little bastard... text : then I can go to eden...! yes, I won't do anything to my disadvantage. didn't I live my life like that...? voice : yes, you have no time to be confused. katou (turn around alarmed, raising his cross) : who's there? voice : you can't forget. the pain when his sword penetrated your body, and the hatred when your future and life ended. there's no more time. your spirit has reached its limit. katou (many wires grow from inside his body and wraps him up) : ! voice : the beautiful nightmare is ready to engulf you. katou : ah...! voice : because that mask is on your face. [heheh heheh] katou : s... stop... voice : you'll be finished if you don't do something. [heheheh...] katou (completely absorbed by the wires) : STOP IT!! text : forever trapped in the insane revolutions of this garden. (a girl sort of appears... as the source of the voice) text : punished by your own nightmares. girl : hahah... hah... setsuna (suddenly feel something) : [what was that... just now, that sad wave...!? who was it......] (start walking but a hand grabs him. he turns around as his cloak is ripped) setsuna : WAAA! (sees a face) [that mask again!] damn you ripped the cloak--!! [I'm gonna get bashed. (suddenly as he was running) this smell... so familiar...!! passed on by the wind, this familiar cold scent... there's no doubt!! I see, this fog is a camouflage so we can't see that!! ... then I got it! there's the cliff just as I thought. great... it's all luck now!! the feeling of the wind, it must be!!] (a ghoul rush at him, he dodges but someone else grabs his foot) WAAA! [the smell of water.] (setsuna grabs on to the side of the cliff and the ghoul falls into the water below. there's a tree in the center of the lake.) setsuna : [this is the lake at the heart of hades...!! (thinking) so... so tall... (sweat) magically tree Yggdrasil...!! (the ghoul that fell into the water disappeared)] ! [he disappeared!? was he... dissolved by the power of this water!?] Yo~~~~ you've gotta be kidding, it's so dangerous. gee...! (suddenly someone walks over to the edge of the cliff where setsuna is hanging. it's katou and he somehow looks different.) setsuna : katou!? what the hell, I was worried about you. [just a little.] don't just stand there, pull me ... (realize something's wrong) up... (katou kicks setsuna) ahhhh (now setsuna's hands let go, but katou still caught him) setsuna : ouch...!! are you crazy? or are you serious? katou : of course I'm for real. you'll die when I let go. "absorb mudou setsuna's powers and then kill him" was the deal I had with enra-ou. that was the work I had to do to go to heaven. setsuna : ka... katou...!! katou : don't look so pathetic. didn't I tell you? I only do things for myself, what did you expect? your lectures, love for your sister, and your mission, they're all bullshit! all of it... this is where it ends!! (stab) setsuna : katou------!! (he actually fell back and gave setsuna room to climb back up) katou (kneeling and suffering on the ground) : wrong...i... i...!! setsuna : katou...!? katou!? (look after him) katou : face...!! my face... so hot...!! setsuna : katou...!? what are you... (katou suddenly looks up) girl (appearing from the fog) : ah~~ how foolish.... for resisting the mask. (you finally see the girl's face, and most shocked person is setsuna because she looks just like sara, only with black curly hair, in a maid's dress) setsuna : sa... sara!!? doll : once you are captured by the evil, unless the person dies, there's no way to take off the mask! text : no, sara doesn't have black hair... but that face...!! doll : the more you resist, the mask will absorb more of your power, including your spirit. you'll only cause yourself more pain. even though you are a spirit, it must still be painful to peel your skin. (setsuna looks at katou in shock as his whole face is bleeding.) end of The Black Angel Uriel, part 1 translator's note : have you realized a trend here that I hate all the main female characters so far? yanagi... miaka... usagi... kaoru... inaho... sakura... miki... millenium... melphina... kaori... yukina... relena... what's that princess's name in tenchi muyo?... and the one in el hazard... and the stupid girl in orphen... you must be an anime fanatic like me if you can recognize all of these names... let's see, they are respectively from... recca, fushigi, sailor moon, kenshin, mosquiton, card captor, marmalade boy, lost universe, outlaw star, dna, nadesico and gundam... I think the only girls I liked is lina inverse, evangelion people and akane... T.T top volume 05 section 02 Angel Sanctuary - Hades Act II : The Black Angel Uriel, Part 2 (katou feeling his face bleeding) text : there's no where to run. no matter how I fight, there's no way to win. doll : it'll only be more painful if you resist. your face must really hurt now. (smile) text : no matter how I struggle. doll : after that mask gets on you, unless you die, you'll always be a doll under my control. text : just like before--- setsuna (suddenly sees the girl's hand) : [a red ruby ring!?] sara... are you sara? doll : "sara"? me? I'm doll, just a puppet. the loyal servant of my master. setsuna : then that ring? doll (look at her hand lovingly) : oh this? it was given to me by my favorite person in the world. (and shock setsuna even more by saying) my master, the guardian of hell's gate. he's a wonderful guy. and his name... oh! that's a se-cr-et. setsuna : [what's going on? other than that black hair, she looks so much like sara... and that ring...] sa... sara...? [did the guardian of hell's gate alter her memory...!? (but his hands which tried to grab her passed right through her) I can't touch her...!?] doll : it's useless! my body... is materialized. master gave me this body. therefore you can't touch me. setsuna : you... look so like her... are you really not sara...? doll : do we really look alike? ... and you like that person. then... you... (evil glare) can't touch me because I just might be your sara! (setsuna is suddenly grabbed by katou) I heard some interesting stuff! setsuna : ah! doll : mask-san, finish that guy. because it's almost tea time. setsuna (fall down) : ! hey! don't you recognize me? katou...!! doll : useless. he can't hear anyone else's voice now except for mine. the mask attaches to living things with evil thoughts... he's completely under its control. that is to be expected from a puny human, when he struck down the ghouls with his cross, he took their evils along with their powers. setsuna : ...what are you saying? i... didn't I strike down ghouls too!? doll : you're different, you have positive power enough to relieve the ghouls that their negative influence was overcame. but not him, the more ghouls he killed, the more of their evils he absorbed, soon, he was taken by darkness. his spirit has been hurt by the negative influence up to the point of breaking down. the mask only reflected on the situation. and his coat not only does not cover his energy, it gives off a wave that attracts the ghouls even more. all except screaming come and get me. (setsuna's eyes open wide) I wonder who gave it to him? setsuna : [ENRA-OU!] doll : were you tricked? how pathetic! but I'll end this now! come! evil thoughts!! awaken! (something breaks loose from katou's chest, and all these dark spirit energies come and surround setsuna) setsuna : Ahhhhhh! (completely wrapped in by the spirits) [my... strength... it's being absorbed!] uh... doll (smile and say in katou's ear) : this is a good time to take out your rage! isn't this what you wanted? don't you hate him for killing you? wasn't it painful? setsuna (struggling) : ah... ah... doll : yes!! do it! (katou stabs, but setsuna grabs his hand and hold him back. he has tears in his eyes) setsuna : [haa... haa...] damn...!! that asshole enra-ou...!! he planned to have us fight each other all along...! damn... him!! are we insects!? (touching the spirit energy) yes. you do have the right to hate me, and I won't complain even if you kill me... but this is wrong!! if you would wake up...... and hate me with your own mind, I'll accept that! but... not like this!! it's not like you to just accept this!! don't you always hate to be played around like a fool!? what happened to that stubborn spirit? isn't it your way to make them pay when they make a fool out of you? text (katou's eyes are wide) : it's useless. it's useless not matter how I try. setsuna : don't forget that you are a human!! don't be overcome by this thoughts!! don't give up!! text : ever since when do I not believe in anything anymore? (a little boy shrinking in the corner) yes. I used to love, I believe that they would change, no matter how they kicked me, no matter how they beat me. setsuna : don't run away! fight it!! (katou's eyes suddenly widen as he remembers something kira said) kira : [fight it. if you don't fight now, you'll regret it for the rest of your life! when you don't fight while you live, your soul will rot.] (pills on the floor) you're running away again. don't you want to go to the hospital and see you father? at least a final farewell. text : I'll hurt before I get hurt. I'll betray before I am betrayed. katou (leaning again his bed, half spaced out) : ...... it's so painful. text : I've always lived my life like that. kira : then fight it. text : I'm so pathetically weak. I've protected myself like that. kira : can you run forever? you'll get caught one day, and the punishment then will be much worse than losing a finger. text : kira's words always pierced my heart--- kira : if you don't go now, you'll regret it until your death. (grab katou's shirt) if you want to live, then you have to fight. even if get the crap beaten out of you... you hate to be ignored, so just become even worse. text : I didn't fight. I didn't even go to the mourning night and the funeral. setsuna (flashback) : [so pathetic. even if you alive, you're the same as dead.] katou : heh... text : you were right. katou : [I'm not afraid of death. forget it, it's all in the past.] heheh... text : the people who can't find the meaning of life has no right to die... katou : forget it... the past...? what...... (a sudden explosion of power, the mask shatters) WHAT KIND OF AN EXCUSE IS THAT!!! (setsuna and doll are both shocked) doll : i... impossible...! mater's mask shattered...!? (smile) ...u... useless! if the other half breaks off too, you'll vanish! like I said, that mask won't disappear unless the soul disappears! katou : you don't have to keep on saying that... ugly! ouch~~~ it hurts...!! I didn't think it was going to be as painful as death...!! (half of his face is bleeding, setsuna looking at him, almost helplessly swallowed by the evil spirits) what's with you, mudou...! if you don't kill me, your power will be absorbed... setsuna : [katou...!? he's back to normal......?] katou : and then you'll disappear! [heh!] you can't do it...! you... [or maybe...?] you're just such a person. but I'm different...!! I will fight for myself as I wish!! (stab) (katou grabbed the cross and stabbed himself. as setsuna is still taking in the shock) katou : ... just a little more... now you can have your powers back. if this mask can only be taken off by death... then I'll show them...! setsuna : ...w... why...!! katou : ...idiot, everyone knows that. my death won't change anything. but don't you still have some things to do? you'll become my witness, tell those people...! as long as you try... believe in themselves...! listen, don't over estimate yourself! I didn't do this for you! but at least now you won't forget me anymore... at least remember someone like me use to exist... (he falls back and his spiritual body completely disintegrates) text : yes. I was only picking on you. that's right, mudou. actually (flashback to his death) I was so scared then--- I didn't leave anything, didn't accomplish anything. I vanished meaninglessly, alone. I really was--- so scared... (every part of him begins to disappear, setsuna couldn't touch his hand) only if I realized that when I was live, no matter how pathetic, how embarrassing, I didn't want to regret it when I died... right? se-chan... setsuna (crying) : damn you......!! you're so eccentric! you never thought about my feelings......!! (that last time when sara looked at him) [I don't want --- to have someone die for me again...!!] no... don't go...! DON'T GO----!! (katou's last smiling image fading) doll : ...so strange...! (stunned) I can't understand it--- why? didn't you two always fight, and hate each other? why did he do such a meaningless thing? oh well. there are many more ghouls I can use around here to replace him. and you can't harm me who might be your "important someone". (setsuna looked at his hands, the last remaining speckles of katou) setsuna (looks up, still crying but looks really mad) : don't make me laugh! you are not sara!! (doll looks shocked) replace? you said that many others can replace him? doll : [power......] setsuna : don't make me laugh......!! sara... and katou, they are all individual irreplaceable people in this world...! no one can replace them!! (getting up) doll : [he's completely different...!!] setsuna : you used the ghouls and then abandoned them...!! you never cared about their pains...! yes... katou is an annoying guy. he's violent, rude and eccentric! but... because he was there... it made the journey so pleasant! (wiping his tears) i... ...i didn't really hate him...!! (wings growing out on his back) he didn't fall tot he level that he had to disappear and didn't even deserve a chance of rebirth!! he is so much better than you people who doesn't even understand pain! (blast) give my friend back------ doll : Ahhhh! (but something blocked that attack) setsuna : tree roots? the power of earth is protecting her? doll : ah... (a mask falls) where... my face... where is it...? n... setsuna (sees the doll's face under the mask which is...) : [a robot...!?] doll : nooo...!! (turn around) no------!! d... don't look at me---!! m... master...!! help me... uriel-sama--!! uriel : who dares to hurt my doll, foolish one. hm? so it's an angel? (a man appears riding on a giant dragon.) uriel : I am the master of uchuuju, the hell's gate guardian. I won't allow anyone to invade this holy realm. end of The Black Angel Uriel, part 2 translator's note : do you think my descriptions are deteriorating? oh well, I suppose it's because the story is on vol 17 and I'm on vol 5 T.T but as long as you get the manga... I really want to urge everyone who is reading this to get the manga top volume 05 section 03 text : brought death to countless souls... reminds one of death's hell scythe, gleaming in black light. abandoned all emotions, drawing the aura of darkness. nothing else present, endless darkness!! (a mysterious man covered in cloak stands on a dragon) setsuna : [this guy is the real thing...!! completely different...! this man is the guardian of uchuuju] ! [hell gate guardian!!] Angel Sanctuary - Hades Act II : The Black Angel Uriel, Part 3 setsuna : AAH (the man first attacks setsuna and then picks up the face of doll, and puts it back on) setsuna (holding on to his bleeding arm) : ! [w... when did he...!!] doll (gets her face back) : oh master...! guardian : ~you do understand? foolish intruder.~ setsuna : [such pressure...!!] guardian : ~you disturbed the resting forest of the dead, and humiliated my doll. the punishment for disturbing the peace of uchuuju is very serious.~ setsuna : [but... why do I feel my chest burning...!!] shut up...! that woman killed my companion...!! [rage is over flowing my body...!!] I came a long way to find you. I'm looking for a girl with the same face and ring as her. [it's going out of control...!!] enra-ou said you took sara away! guardian : ~that girl... I see...! enra-ou sent you to the holy land because he wants me to execute you. setsuna : [...that's right.] guardian : ~stay back, doll.~ setsuna (holding his fist tightly) : [I have to thank you, old men, thanks to you, my power is rushing out with my anger. my body is flowing with an unstoppable flame...!!] guardian : ~fine... if you want to know about that girl sara, you have to, (explosion) defeat me first!! setsuna (jump back) : ! no use talking!! (he's using that cross katou left, the guardian's big scythe flying down... cross meets scythe, big explosion... while that's going on, story turns to heaven) label : ---ATZILUTH, slums--- text : ...i... I'm hungry. (a little kid struggling on the streets) kids (running away after hitting her with a rock) : you ate angels!! demon child! get out of here!! idiot! (the girl is bleeding, an old man approaches her) old man : young lady, you look pitiful... want to come with us? it's my job to take care of unfortunate children like you. (point in the other direction) you see, all those children are your companions. (a few kids in rags, looking pathetic and scared) come with us. your stomach will be filled, you won't be hungry ever again. (later, the old man standing outside a bathing room) old man : I've brought those homeless children to that room, rociel-sama. rociel (taking a bath) : good work. you did well with my orders. old man : what do you want to do with those two intruders who came to investigate the coffin? I can sell their bodies on the black market... rociel : no... I have other ideas. rotten things should be disposed of... heheh... keep playing with that little rat...! sounds fun... (the old man just looks at him, meanwhile in the coffin room, all these sobs and moaning...) text : when the stomach is empty, eat the living. voices : ee.... ee.... ee... hee... hee... text : one after another, day after day, devour anything. slaughtering the living everyday. (the same little girl that old man picked up is sitting in the corner of the room looking blankly at the monster *katan* who's eating all her companions.) children : AAAHHH~~~~~ NOOOO (another kid is pulled in by the wires) text : day after day, the bodies piled up. let the world be buried in corpses. eat the corpse, blooming beautiful flowers. the hands, the feet, and the eyes of the living are grown from the flesh of the dead. old man (flashback) : [your stomach will be filled.] text : we're the ones being eaten? (the last child dies.) teiaiel (the little girl) : ... is it my turn? you have to eat me neatly. (looks up blankly at katan) I don't like being left over. ...hn, I'm not scared. because I'm the same as onii-chan. I eat angels too. that's right. I can easily read people's thoughts. everyone hates and loath me. they locked me in a filthy dark underground grave for many days. the dead angels began to talk to me, they're so noisy. ...and then a new corpse said to me, "you'll die from hunger, you can eat me." I ate him. soon after, the grown ups saved me, but I was marked as a fallen angel and thrown into the slums. everyone throws stones at me because I "ate angels", I am "the devil's child." do you think god really exists? I am an angel but I've never seen him, he never came no matter how I screamed. maybe I'll see him after I die. if I can actually be of help to anyone... it's alright if you eat me. katan : ......... (teiaiel touch a wire that is on her shoulder gently) teiaiel : you're really very nice... ...onii-chan. you're scared... very much... you are confused why you're like this... you want to protect that important person, there's still kind and gentleness left in you... but your body is starving for flesh... you're always in such pain. you must... want to return to that time... (an image of the boy katan smiling by rociel's side... in the morning, dubbiel's room) dubbiel (in bed) : ...hn? it's morning? (pick up his glasses) what? why hasn't anyone came to wake me up...? (about to jump out of bed, flipping his bed sheet and... ) EEEEEEEH!! (apparently, under his bed sheet, sleeping with him through the night was a headless corpse ^.^ he rushes out the door) w... who is... AHHHH!! (well, he found the head... on a plate nicely decorated with other fruits, a little note is pinned to the head) note : Happy Birthday. Make a wish? (you must all know who's head this is...) dubbiel (shock and fear) : t... the assassin sent to rociel...!? they failed! ...w... why does he know it's me...!? (a deeply troubled face) [this is no time to get scared!! I underestimated him. if this continues, I'll be destroyed by him!! this time, I'll definitely... and completely eliminate rociel!!] (meanwhile... back to setsuna, he just got wounded slightly by the hellgate's guardian in the last exchange, we pick up where they left off) setsuna : [even a slight contact caused a great repelling force...!! I'm feeling numb!] d...! DAMN YOU!! (attack) guardian : ~it's useless!~ (block again) setsuna : [shit, the roots again...! they're the roots of the magic tree!!] (he's suddenly tied up in a lot of roots) ! [damn! (even though he's caught, he's still using his brain, thinking a way out) I have the disadvantage fighting here. the land is under his control, the wood, the earth, everything is guarding him. this earth is his holy ground!! the problem is that big scythe. it's size and length puts me at a disadvantage. I have to get close up!! only an instant is enough, when he is careless, I'll get my chance...!!] guardian (walk up to setsuna) : ~hmph... was that all, human boy angel. I'll tear your foolish soul into pieces! how can human insects defy us. such thoughts... I will make you pay with the death of your soul! (raise his scythe, setsuna glares at him... suddenly a roar from the dragon, the guardian turns around) nydd hogg!?~ setsuna : [now!!] (he suddenly broke loose from all the plant roots) guardian ~! eh...! (covering his face from the light of setsuna's energy) fool!!~ (but in an instant of contact, the scythe is soooooo close, just made a little scratch on setsuna's forehead, but something that setsuna's holding has already stabbed the guardian. the scythe is being blocked at exactly where is it by the cross) guardian (sees what's stabbing him) : ~that's... the one who just vanished, that boy's mask... 's... broken piece...?~ (and in that moment, setsuna has pushed him, along with himself off the cliff) setsuna : this is from what you assholes call the pathetic human soul... the blade of the human soul!! [away from the protection of the earth, in this moment, I risk everything!!] (he stabs the guardian with the cross and they both fall into the waters below) doll : AHHHHHHHHH (cover her face) guardian (climb out of the water) : ~uh...!~ (setsuna stabs the scythe just inches away from his face) doll : uriel-sama----!! setsuna : I won. from our deal, tell me where sara is. ------don't mess with me, I don't even know what I might do right now...! doll (run up) : stop...!! (stand between uriel and setsuna) I understand! I can understand the fear of losing someone I love...!! I apologize...!! please, just stop!! (uriel is holding his face and pieces begins to fall off, suddenly the surface of his face, a mask, falls down in pieces) uriel : ~aah... I was... just now controlled by the mask I created myself...? (looks up and sees setsuna) ah...! alexiel...!? end of The Black Angel Uriel, part 3 translator's note : don't know if you noticed, but the ~ ~ around the worlds uriel is saying meant that there's something special with the way he talks (ie his voice) top volume 05 section 04 Angel Sanctuary - Hades Act II : The Black Angel Uriel, Part 4 text : the angel of penitence, black angel uriel. he is the one who punishes the ghouls who affronted god and sends them to hell, the cold executor. he hangs the criminals by their tongue, and unemotionally throw them into the "eternal flame". the name uriel which holds the meaning of "god's flame", the flame that is also known as "the flame of hell." (the place suddenly looks like a jungle) setsuna (looks around shocked) : the trees... and grass...!! [no... this place used to be barren rock land... it's turning into a forest!] uriel : ~I'm so sorry, my beloved ones... to have made you suffer. I was... humiliated to have been controlled by the evils of my own mask...!~ setsuna : your... voice! your voice doesn't come out...!? uriel (smile slightly) : ~voice...? that's right... I sent my words directly to your head... so you are... mudou setsuna. just as he said...~ setsuna : [this is... the same frightening guy from before...?] uriel : ~my friend nydd hogg... seems to like you. the roar before was meant to save you. come, I'll take you to my quarters in uchuujyu. don't forget your friend's cross. is that why you came here?~ setsuna : I'm not trusting you so easily! were you really controlled by that mask!? and this water can melt any spirits, you'll be fine with a body but what am I suppose to do! uriel : ~I knew it... you are afraid of me?~ (suddenly wings flap out on his back) setsuna : what!? uriel : [the lovely world under my guard, please open your arms, give me a path. my name is uriel, from hell, the guardian angel of earth.] setsuna (looking curiously at his wings) : [black wings...!? no. the one that cultivates all life, the color of eath...? strength like the great trees, the warm brown colored hair and feathers, tanned skin. eyes like the sunlight through the trees, a gentle natural green...! (looks around) ! in the water, the roots of the tree...!? it's surfacing...!!] (the roots forms a path to the tree in the center of the lake) uriel : ~come, the path has formed. (setsuna looks very confused) the plants has given us some of their power. aren't your wounds healed?~ setsuna (touch his face) : ah...! uriel : ~hurry, doll... (sees doll fallen on the grass) doll!! setsuna : what's wrong!? uriel : ~... (examine) I see, a lot happened so she's low on energy... oh yes, I have good news for you. if you come to uchuujyu, perhaps you can still save your dead friend.~ setsuna (surprised) : katou!? uriel (carrying doll) : ~and... if you want to meet that girl you care for, I want you to trust me again... so... trust me......~ [alexiel...] (meanwhile... since setsuna's gone...) label : anakura *gehenna* kurai : so slow!! how long does he need to find one sara, it's been five days!! voice : it's just like that, princess! I always said you can't trust them. he must have been really scared and ran away. or maybe he got eaten by the ghouls of hell! (laugh) don't worry about that little boy, let's start the war already! hm!? kurai (PUNCH) : shut the hell up!! you can never understand the level of setsuna's stupid justice!! (totally knocked voice out the door, turns around and walks away) I'm so pissed! voice (sweatdrops) : princess~~~~ (sweatdrop, clinging on to the wall from falling) noice (his twin sister is reading a book peacefully next to him) : you really should study girls' hearts more. [this'll only get you negative results.] (as kurai is walking away angry and sad...) kurai : [setsuna was so hurt himself back then... but he still smiled at me and gently made the deal.] setsuna (smile, flashback) : [you are... a nice and good girl. a good girl... so I'll definitely be back...!!] (she walks past a certain room) text : hundreds and thousands of times falling asleep embracing the crazy nights. that's the only beautiful place where this pain can return. the love that has torn me into one thousand pieces... (she peeks into the room, kira is standing there quietly staring at alexiel's frozen body... still beautiful in her sleep) text : the longing... alexiel (flashback) : nanatsusaya, what desires do you have? when I make this into a world of light, what do you want? text : I only have one wish, alexiel. I want to touch... your hair. if I have arms that can touch you, a body that can embrace you, eyes that can see you... you... even so, you would... still choose that man...? kira : but... now I still can't touch you with my hands, alexiel, even if I do have them. text : the unbearable pain with no way out... the overflowing thoughts... kira (looks down) : and the one that I could touch... has become ever so far away from you and me... text : the suffering... (kurai at the door looking at those two sadly) just when can we... stop missing the times and love each other. hn... setsuna...! (back to setsuna's story, he's followed uriel into the tree) uriel : ~I wish you can forgive doll's rudeness. she's like a new born child. she doesn't know anything about the sadness and pain of human hearts. but she has learned her lesson about playing with human lives.~ text : doll was only a human puppet without a soul. I created her so serve me so I can live here peacefully without interference from anyone. uriel : ~she seems to be metal but in reality, the material is the same as the masks - hard plant tissue. so rather than a robot, it's really closer to a life form. when the formation stabilizes, the face won't fall off anymore. it was the time when time stopped on earth...~ text : why was the soul of an angel girl lost in the human underworld? full of suffering and sadness from her love... uriel : [my feelings synchronized with her, that look and voice made me pity her. I took that soul and transferred it on to doll.] ~ever since she has called me the master, acting like I was god, and grown loyalty on her own.~ [the rashness was from her own personality.] (opening doll's shirt on the back) setsuna (@.@) : GEE (sweatdrop) [what!? (sees uriel taking a key and winding it through an opening on the back) t... this delicate, complicated robot look a like is... powered by a spring!?] (many sweatdrops, think) I was wondering why he was taking off her cloth... (the doll's eyes open and immediately jumps up.) doll : YAAAAA!! did I stop---!? I'm so sorry------- I'll go get the tea... uriel : ~before that, doll, give me the key to that room.~ doll : oh, yes, uriel-sama. key to the green room? (digging for the key) uriel : ~yes, the key to mudou sara's room.~ setsuna : ! (doll opens the door for them and on the other end, in a darkly lit room, a girl is sitting motionlessly on a chair) setsuna (run to grab her) : SARA...!? (the girl falls off the chair promptly, not moving, setsuna looks up) this... what is this!? uriel. uriel : ~this is a puppet made to seal the souls of the captured criminals. (a doll looking like sara lying on the ground) once inside it, they can never get out of this room. however, right now it's empty. that girl's soul was taken by that man. he was the one who asked me to search out sara's soul from enra-ou's rutubo. the girl has been taken to atziluth. heaven. setsuna (looks shocked) : [atziluth!? that would be heaven...? taken away... not here...!? she's not here!? that's... that's impossible!!!] uriel : ~...come, we'll talk over tea. doll : then, I'll go prepare it now. setsuna (still clinging on to the puppet) : [oh... this is... sara's scent...] (he looks up and sees that on one arm of the chair the puppet was in, a word was carved into the wood with nails) text : SETSUNA setsuna (touch the letters) : [sara...!!! she was here...!! she really was here... she called my name, you were in this place...!] uriel (just looks at him) : ...... doll (pouring tea) : don't you want some? this was earth tea from a distant guest. (I have to ask you... tea... distant... guess who?) setsuna (sweatdrop) : you---... doll : well, how about some strawberry pie? setsuna (very pissed off) : I'm a spirit so I can't eat or drink! don't you know that? you're so annoying! uriel (sweatdrop) : ~...... I'll tell you the man who took away the one you want. atziluth's chief of thrones *great throne* zaphkiel. during the long war between heaven and earth, he used to be the most courageous and cruel fighter, and a frightening man. (a very... evil/scary picture of zaphkiel) however since he lost his vision after the war, he seems to have suddenly changed to support pacifism and co-existing with humans and demons. he told me that he's been you once.~ setsuna : [he's met me...!? blind...? could it be... that priest!? (remembers the guy who poured hot water on him...) it's him!?] (jump up) why!? why did that zaphkiel have to take away sara... (with his jumping up, he broke the pot of tea and it all spilled on doll) doll : ahhhh! uriel : ~he probably wants your power. the one with alexiel's soul, under the protection of adam kadmon, the one and only angel in the world "mudou setsuna"... as long as he has "mudou sara", you'll go see him.~ setsuna : then... i... I have to go to heaven? walk right into the enemy territory? uriel : ~heaven isn't all human enemies, he would be closer to a friend. setsuna (stare at him) : and you...? uriel : ~that is for you to decide.~ setsuna : [---just like what that priest said...!] uriel : ~everything has it's way, just like the light on that cross.~ (setsuna looks at the cross) text : when your friend died, you unconsciously used time magic on him...! his soul has been frozen in the state moments before he would disappear. uriel : ~his soul is attached to that cross... therefore, he hasn't vanished. [I use to think that only one could use the ancient time magic...] now all you have to do is give him life and awaken him from that frozen time...~ setsuna : spirits... can be revived!? but how do I give him life... uriel : ~it'll be fine if you give him one of your feathers. if he takes in your twin brother rociel's feather, then that person will have a completely new "negative" life. so I think your feather can possibly give them an opposite life force. (leading the way) come.~ setsuna : the same room...? uriel : ~no, if it's opened with the "blue room" key, it will lead to the dimension of the blue room.~ setsuna (think, sweatdrop) : that's really cool... uriel : ~that is the encounter tree. *kaikou no ki*(there's a weird looking plant with light in the center of the room, setsuna's cross is glowing again) put that light on the tree. --this is cruel. he's currently dreaming the worst times of his life. he wouldn't recover so easily. looks like you have to go into his spiritual world and bringhim out. human dark side is very dangerous, you will meet a complete stranger there. your strength is useless in his territory. you can possibly be devoured.~ setsuna : that's enough...! [for someone he has just met...] I made a deal with him. no matter how small the chance... I have to prove that as long as there is light, nothing is impossible...!! [he even gave up his life... where else can you find such a moron...!?] uriel : ~good... the dor has closed...! now peacefully concentrate your mind toward the light. one advice, although your strength is "positive", to accept your feather means that he will be carrying your "debt" too.~ setsuna : "debt"...!? uriel : ~yes... that cursed fate of yours. like the age rings of a tree, the wheels of fate will carve hundreds and thousands of rings... no matter how many times, you'll forever die in pain and suffering...!~ (the light glows ever brighter, at that moment setsuna gets sucked into the ball of light) uriel (looks crazier and crazier) : ~the curse placed with my voice... you'll die endless times in your own blood...!! alexiel! AHAHAHAHAHAH hah... haa.. haha... (the light dies, uriel is holding the ball of light in his hands) I finally have you... you'll be mine forever, alexiel...! now, you're in my hands...!! hahah... end of The Black Angel Uriel, part 4 top volume 05 section 05 Angel Sanctuary - Hades Act II : The Black Angel Uriel, Part 5 uriel : ~"mudou setsuna"... no, alexiel. in this light... once you enter the spiritual world of that boy, you'll be trapped in his darkness and unless you give him your feather, there's no way out. ...and now, you are in my hands...! (forms the big scythe in his hand) I'll make you mind forever...!! no one else can have you...!! (stab, but uriel leans down sweating and breathing heavily, the scythe missed the ball of light by a centimeter. the doll rush in) doll : uriel-sama!? uriel : ~what's wrong...... the evils of the mask are still left in me...!? I was going to kill alexiel... my ugly and hateful heart... I'm sick to this level!!~ doll (step back a little) : uriel-sama... uriel : ~how... I am afraid of myself...! compared to me, alexiel is so much stronger...! no matter what dangers she faced, she would always step forward without looking back. I hope... she can successfully save her friend from the spiritual world...~ (setsuna is wandering all over the place) text : the cocoon that closed off the boy, known as the dark side... setsuna : [! a fetus...!! (sees a gigantic image before him) this is the entrance to katou's spiritual world!? (suddenly) I'm getting sucked in!!? (he's suddenly in a movie theater) this is inside katou's spirit...!? man : you bitch!! I know, I know you never forgot that man! (grabbing the arms of a woman) setsuna : [it looks like a movie theater...] woman : stop saying that in front of the kids...! man : ha! what does this kid know! look at yue! he just glares at me with those eys!! (pointing downward) setsuna : [this is... from the child's view? this screen is someone's thoughts...? man : how long are you going to stare at me! (a fist coming down) woman : stop!! yue is only a child! he'll die! (suddenly) setsuna : ! [it diesappeared...! (the screen went out) how past is this anyway? katou : yue... (setsuna looks around and katou is sitting in the row of seats next to him) katou : yue is my name. my father has only left me in his whole life, that strange name and bruises from beatings... setsuna : [katou!!] so you're here! I came looking for you. text : then... that's it, he didn't want to tell his name because it sounded like a girl's? setsuna : well! stop watching and let's go already. katou : I don't know you... never seen you... setsuna : wh...!! uriel (flashback) : [you are a stranger there.] setsuna : f... fine, I got it! who care, let's get out of here first! come on! stand up. katou : how? (his whole body is bounded to the chair by many nasty wires) I can't move at all. setsuna : ! katou : do I seem very much like a lost dog? (the screen comes on again) here, the second scene is starting. a tear jerking soap opera. setsuna (watching) : ah! katou (a girl comes on screen) : she's my five years older sister... sae. the woman that I hate the most in the world. (a picture of the family) text : the one in the corner is a younger me. sae : what's wrong? yuu-kun, father's back from the trip. (opening a present) wow, so nice! it's a made in france antique box!? I'm so happy! father, I love it. was it expensive? oh yes, father, what did you get for yuu-kun? man : yue...? ...i forgot. sae : that was so mean! that's so pitiful! you forgot! katou : stop!! (throwing something at his sister) it's none of your business, bitch!! sae : ah! man : yue!! you...! sae : wait! don't hit him, father! (but...) text (the little boy is burying the box that night behind the house) : that night, I stole the box from sister's room and buried it in the garden. katou : that felt good...! (rubbing the bruise on his face from the beating after he's done...) katou (the grown up one) : I use to try hard, I really sucked up to him just wanting him to be a little nicer to me. woman (showing the little boy a photo album) : look, that's a picture from when you were just born. your father named you yue. just one letter difference from your sister... (handing the boy a picture of a happy looking family) katou : [father...? the name... that father gave me...!] text : such an insignificant thing became support for my heart... (the man running into the hospital) man : hey! I heard something happened to the kids... woman : dear! you came over from the company...? katou (in the hospital bed) : [father...!he came...!?] man (outside the room) : what!? it was yue? ...i'm glad it wasn't sae...! the reason I named him yue... was because I wanted him to die easily. seems like things wouldn't go so well... setsuna : [wha...!?] katou : until that day, I finally knew--- I saw my mother's well hidden picture in her secret draw. then, I understood the reason why father beats me... [why he wants me dead. in that picture, the man who is pleasantly hugging mother's shoulders is so like me until I'm sick. yes! I am sick! (looking at a picture of a man and a woman) those inconsiderate eyes, pale skin, shape of his lips... everything is saying that we came from the same genes. this man that I've never met...!! the same face and same life, I am like his clone! so that I would never increase his grotesque look, I will never have children!! why didn't father tell me. from the beginning, "you're the child of my wife and another man's affair"---!! (scratching that happy family picture) hell with the happy family portrait. it was only an illusion built on thin ice. you can all continue your acts with your masks!! (the boy's crying) I won't cry!! for such a thing. if I cry, I lose! I will not lose...!!] setsuna (stunned) : [katou...!!] (katou's running out of the house, now this is the high school version of him) man : yue!! why did you dye your hair blond!? where did you go all these nights!! katou (leaving) : shut up!! sae : [yuu-kun, please come home, father's not feeling well. why won't you listen to me!? why do you hate me so much...!?] text (kira looking at katou who's just lying on the bed) : "you should go home some times." "...be quiet." (then in a bar, a woman approached him) woman : I have some good pills that can relieve you. it'll make you feel really good. bring money next time. ...or else you help me sell. just this one shot and you can forget everything. yes... run away from everything you hate. it'll be fun, won't it. text : probably deep inside, I knew I couldn't live on like this. another woman (probably his mother) : [...yue, your sister sae is getting married next moth. you should at least tell her "congratulations"...] text : i... I dug out the box I buried many years ago. ...because I've always regretted... katou : sis... (climbing her window one night) sae (surprised) : yuu-kun!? why didn't you come in through the front!? katou : shh! you want dad to find me!? (hand her a nicely wrapped present) sae : this is...? for me? no, I can't take it. katou : why? this is... sae : because... this... isn't this stolen? it's... just strange, you haven't come home, but you have money... katou : ...i've got a job. (think) actually, selling pills... (stuff the box in her hand) just take it! sae : don't be so loud, father will hear you! he's gotten very sensitive...!! he'll mistake this if he sees you in my room! he's always said stupid things like "he has bad blood flowing in his veins so watch out." a long time ago. (and then she immediately puts a hand on her mouth... but too late, katou just smirks... and glares at her) katou : so... long ago... you've... known... you've pretended you didn't know... and looked like a good sister... pitying this hated kid. but you never understood my suffering! ...yes, I'm a bastard from mother's past...! so no matter what I do, it wouldn't be unbelievable, right! (grab her hand) sae : yuu-kun...!? katou : out family has fallen apart, but all I can do is pretend that I didn't see anything!! enough is enough! I will completely destroy what still remains!! (hm... he plans to rape his sister...) sae : NOOO----!! (the door is immediately opened) man : yue!! you bastard...!! (slam him onto the wall, just as they bumped into the table, the present box fell off, the wrappings ripped and the box fell into pieces) text : that was never what I really wanted... but just as I wished, everything fell apart. katou : I understood... sis never knew that what she did has hurt me. (the movie screen showing a big "FIN") she was only a simple... nice girl. she knew that I hated people calling me yue... so she called me yuu-kun. [yes... father's name worked very well. I died when I was 17.] I was a cowardly person... living my life never facing up to reality...! if I didn't run... I would've been devoured. and... that's why I'm here like a lost dog... can't ever get out. (struggling in the wires) forever... setsuna : you're very strong. though you had such a past, you've still found your own way of living. you're not weak. do you remember? when you died, didn't you use your own strength to enter the underworld? I've only lit the way. someone truly weak couldn't have done that. therefore you can break these bondage you made yourself. text (setsuna embraces katou, the wires break away) : you're not weak. you've always been fighting. setsuna : see... you can do it. let's go... time has stopped on earth... someone's waiting for you now... katou : [earth...? now...] (they enter a house, everything's frozen stiff) katou : this is...? (sees a woman in her chair, in the process of knitting) [sis!? then... this is really earth... sister's new house!?] text (katou standing before sae) : ... time has stopped... she can't see me. she's become pretty... her life must be good with her husband. even if she sees me, the things I did... (suddenly, katou looks so shocked to see a box in the corner of his eye, that broken box is taped together and now holds some random old pictures and things from their childhood) text : the box from that time!! katou (sees a picture of a little boy smiling with his sister) : [ah...] text : even knowing everything is only a sand castle... even so, she still wish they would hold together... what made me alone... katou (reach out a hand to touch her) : sis... even if everyone in the world has forgotten me... as long as you would remember. text : is that self pitying that has blinded me from the truth... katou : when you're living your happy life... only if you would remember from time to time your stupid brother who died when he was 17. (touch her hair) just feel a little sadness... ...that is all I want. I truly wish you a happy life...! that is all... I can die peacefully...!! setsuna (lay a hand gently on his shoulder) : well... let's go... to the outside world. I'm here to guide you... (setsuna => alexiel with a gentle smile and open wings) katou : [angel...!! oh yes, you are... the angel who guided me gently the time when I died...] setsuna (hand him a feather which promptly turned into a little fruit) : here... take this. now you can continue to fight without remorse...! text : it's like baptism of the newborn. oh yes. I've never seen such a beautiful woman. she's a goddess. (and then... everything blanks out and when he opens his eyes again, he back in the normal world, lying comfiely on a bed) uriel : ~looks like he succeeded. how do you feel? I am the angel of earth, uriel. hellgate's guardian. he... seemed to really want to save you... (setsuna is sleeping next to the bed) setsuna has spent too much power entering someone else's spiritual world. it's fine, he's a strong guy. he'll wake up soon.~ katou (feeling his chest) : [the wound when I was killed...! it's gone...] this guy's a idiot, he'll always be the same until he dies... moron...!! you nosy kid...! you won't live long like this... (uriel just looks at the two... meanwhile... up in heaven) maid (came looking for rociel) : rociel-sama!! found you. (and then...) rociel (walk into the coffin room) : why did you let the living baits escape today, katan...? (sees someone's in the room) ! teiaiel : katan doesn't want to kill anymore. rociel : ... what? you are? teiaiel (sitting peacefully on top of katan's coffin) : my name is "teiaiel". they call me teiara. katan and I, the two of us are leaving this place. end of The Black Angel Uriel, part 5 top volume 05 section 06 Angel Sanctuary - Hades Act II : The Black Angel Uriel, Part 6 rociel : how did you get in here? teiaiel : I am leaving this place together with katan. it's the only way for him to return to normal. katan is really a very gentle guy. that's why he's like this right now. in his heart, he can't decide between the right thing and loyalty to you, he can't choose between becoming the "positive" or the "negative". he can return to normal as long as he's not confused anymore. there are two ways. leave his feelings behind and walks on the devil's road with you. or leave you behind and begin his penitence for his crimes. and he chose me. we will go live together, so we can be a little close to the land of light... rociel : katan, let me see you. teiaiel : no! he'll lose his determination if he sees you. he still can't oppose you. rociel : katan!! let me see you! teiaiel : no! rociel : I want you to look at me! teiaiel : he doesn't want to see you! rociel : you... who do you think you are talking to...! (a blast of energy, guess rociel is really mad at teiaiel, but at that moment, the coffin open and wires wrap around teiaiel, protecting her.) rociel (surprised... and then mad) : so that's your answer...! go wherever you like!! fine!! I don't care! you don't mean anything to me anymore!! you're useless! don't appear in front of me again!! go to hell and see if I care! (walk out) teiaiel : is it really alright? this... katan... that person didn't mean what he said. are you really leaving him? I have never seen anyone who's heart was so unreadable before. that person... he's very strong... he's very pretty. so he is your most important person in this world... but I can understand his heart even without my power to see... a new land and a new wind... I want to find our true path there. (gently close her eyes) [when our sins are cleaned... that beautiful day... it'll come...] (back to setsuna again...) uriel : ~before setsuna's here... I definitely have to tell you one thing. after eating alex's feather, you're not a normal human anymore. if you would try, you might possibly have astral powers. and your life belongs to him. however, you have the right to choose your fate. whether you want to become setsuna's guardian spirit and enter the endless war between heaven and earth, or become a normal human again, to be reborn going to heaven, I can make enra-ou do this either way. katou : ...sounds good, thanks! rather than die in a war that has nothing to do with me, heaven sounds much better. just as you said, I'd make the choice. you in the black, listen closely. (laterz... setsuna is about to wake up...) setsuna : [...huh? i... how did I call asleep...] ...hn... (waking up, then immediate jump up) that's right!! katou... (before he finishes, katou's stamped his foot on him already) katou : add a "-san" after it. [you nosy kid] setsuna (grrrr) : eh, damn~~~~ you... hey you!! (grab his collar) you haven't changed~~~!! [even the clothing taste's the same] I saved you and you haven't thanked me!!! katou (laugh) : yeah, yeah, it's all in the past, uri!! he's awake--- doll (vein) : who are you calling "uri"!! uriel : ~good work, alexiel. ~ setsuna (headache) : oh... really... [I'm beginning to feel a little uncertain...] (and in the background...) doll : do you know who uriel-sama is!? he's one of the great angels of heaven. katou : shut up. uri's uri. how about I call him urie? doll : at least uriuri sounds cuter. (just ignore them...) uriel : ~...i'm certain, alex. you're definitely the messiah.~ setsuna : uriel...! I've been thinking... I just can't see you as the scary guy from fell... or stuff like that... [though you were kinda scary before...] you seem so gentle and peaceful after the mask broke off... I think... you were really a very kind person. (and in the background...) katou : [how could you have pasted that yucky mask on my handsome face--- you haven't apologized yet, you hear me?] doll : [I don't know what you're talking about (play dumb).] setsuna (think) : shut up---... (sweatdrop) uriel : ~wrong. alex... no, setsuna...! I am not the man you think I am......~ (and in the background...) katou : I'll really fuck you, bitch---. (vein) doll (offended) : yaaa--!! I don't believe this. how can you when you don't even have a body!? (sweatdrop) katou : ahhh!! that's right! damn it------- uriel (endure... endure...) : ~my heart is filled with many desires, but I can't face them... that's why I escaped to this place. I have... what everyone fears and hates, the cursed black wings. the black angel uriel...!! (and then can't take the noise anymore) shut up!! what do you think this place is! (totally explodes) how dare you disturb the holy grounds of my quarters. like the ghouls of hell, I'll hang you by your tongues and dig out your insides with my scythe! and then I'll hang you on uchuujyu until you rot!! I'll let you know the consequences of angering me...! the guardian of hell, uriel!!~ doll : uriel-sama!! (too late... you should see this, the results of his exploding temper is a half ruined house... and setsuna's plasted to the wall...) uriel (realizing) : oh... what happened!! the evils of the mask is still with me...! to forget myself just like that... I'm frightened of myself...!! setsuna (sweatdrops) : [I'm the one who's frightened...] doll : uriel-sama, try to think about me who's doing the cleaning. this is the nth time you wrecked the place. arrow (to doll who's cleaning again) : got used to it. uriel : well, this place is the same as me, made from organisms from uchuujyu. I can order it to return to normal anytime. (many sweatdrops) ...sorry katou (on the floor shaking) : [what's with this guy----] n... noooo------------------------- (sweat) come on, bro!! the thing about uri was only a joker, a joker!! (big sucking up smile, wiping uriel's shirt... everyone else sweatdrops) look, you're all wet. let me help you wipe it? nii-san------ (author's note on the side, "he sounds like a typical comedian") uriel : ~I was never a strong man. I hated fighting in blood and just liked to live with animals and green plants. but being the guardian of hell, I am responsible for being the executor, and there are things I must do. that's why I created that mask for my own use. with that mask, I can recklessly push the ghouls into the burning flames, etc.~ (walking ahead of them) setsuna (think, sweatdrop) : this tall body and a shy personality...? katou : where are we going-- uriel : ~but the power of the mask was too strong. I have often lost control just like that in heaven. not to mention the rooms that were wrecked, many people in the city were injured... all the other angels stayed further away from me. even the one responsible for treating everyone, the healer angel raphael began to get annoyed. only heaven's most violent guy, michael accepted me...~ (sweatdrop) (a guy who's face is half covered laughs and pats uriel's shoulder) michael : [well, well. now interesting, yo!! I'm really beginning to like you.] uriel (sweatdrop, covering his face) : [but I don't like it at all...] setsuna : michael... the healer raphael...? uriel : the angel of wind, raphael's job is like a doctor, knowing all the spells from awakening to healing any illness.~ setsuna : ...then can't you ask him to heal your voice? (uriel looks away for a second) uriel : ~that might be possible... but would he want to... if I was a beautiful girl with a nice body, he'd come heal me voluntarily. [and then have to sleep with him in return]~ setsuna : so this guy's a pervert. katou : [sounds interesting---] doll (blushing) : ? uriel : ~including myself, there are four angels in charge of guarding the four great elements of earth, water, fire and wind. no matter how you don't want to, you'll have to run into them. ...especially... watch out for the guardian angel of fire, michael. never mention to him about his "height" or his "brother". if he gets crazy, the result will be a devastated land.~ setsuna (sweatdrop, think) : don't wanna meet him... (then counting his fingers) four great elements... earth is you, fire is michael, wind is raphael... who's the angel of water? uriel : ~the angel of water, jibrille... on earth known as the messager gabriel. the only woman of the four great angels. a intelligent and respectable girl. right now, she seems to be locked away in the water garden. zaphkiel said that she's like an unconscious doll, staring blankly at the sky everyday...~ setsuna : [the angel of water, jibrille...!] uriel : ~I was able to hide here with zaphkiel's help, so I owe him. that's why I accepted his request of "guarding sara's soul". [...but I really didn't want to. doing so would mean that I have to face the one who carries alexiel's soul.]~ setsuna : ... you didn't want to see me...? why? what happened in the past? katou : he must have done something perverted to alexiel. doll (vein) : don't think uriel-sama is the same pervert like you!! katou : none of your business. (those two at it again) setsuna (feeling his forehead) : [oh forget it--] text : I was afraid... afraid to see your eyes again... yes... so I put on the mask again, knowing I would be controlled...!! if it's the reckless man sleep inside me, then I can face alex with the usual calm... uriel : ~this is our destination... heart of uchuujyu. I'll show you what's inside. yes... my biggest mistake was putting on that mask. I shouldn't have ran... but I made the same mistake twice. (opening the door, a bright light...) to the one I loved...~ setsuna (covering his face) : [eh...?] uriel : ~with my own hands...!~ (they enter a room with a big endless pit underneath) setsuna : ! t... this is...!? uriel : ~this is the gate of uchuujyu that I guard. the entrance to the bottomless hell. this flame is purgatory's jahannam. I listen to the confessions of sinners here, if they have no remorse, then I cut off their heads and drop them into the burning flame. and today, the sinner to be punished is me. (give his scythe to setsuna) alex... this time, you will be the judge of me. please listen to my confession... and with those hands, I want you to cut off my head and throw me into the flames.~ katou : wha...!? uriel : ~and you two will be witness to this.~ doll : uriel-sama!? what... what are you saying!? setsuna : I will be... judging you...!? ...why... why do I have to kill you!? uriel (rip open his collar) : ~my voice... I cut my throat with my own hands...! so I will never again say those cursed words...!!~ setsuna (shock) : [your own hands!?] uriel : ~human and angels reincarnations are like the age rings of a tree. it will cycle forever. I, being the black angel, when born onto this world, was given the hated power. that was called "kotodama jyuhou" *word curse*. when I say the words with this spell, it's curse will be marked on the reincarnation cycle of that person. the cycle cursed by the spell will be twisted, for countless times, they cannot escape their fate. this is the highest punishment used on fallen angels... and part of my job. ...this spell used by an angel would be called "white magic"... but used by demons, it's called "curse" in "black magic". the last subject of my curse was alexiel... that's you. therefore everyone of your reincarnations, you cannot escape the fate of a horrible death... until... sara gave up her life and broke the curse...~ setsuna : b... but... but really...! that was your "job"... you couldn't help it!? uriel : ~true... back then, I couldn't do something that defy the number one power in heaven, sevotharte...! but that wasn't all of my sin. alexiel...! no one else other than you... (gently touch setsuna's face) only looking at you, I knew that...! the one who you really sought...! so when you refused me... that deep desperation... it turned into rage. because I can never defeat the one you were thinking...!! [yes... I began to go crazy. that's why I followed sevi's order and used the punishment of kotodama jyuhou. if you... will not be mine... then I'll seal you in a eternal hell of a bloody cycle...! no one else can embrace you...!!] HAHAHAHAH yes!! kill me now!! punish me with your hands and let me disappear from this world!! this ugly man!! forever... alexiel!! please... release me...!!~ (falls on his knees) setsuna (just looks at him...) : before that... I want to hear it. the man that alexiel loved... who is he? uriel : ~... you're so cruel even until the end... you want me to say his name...! the one you want... is the one an angel can never love...!~ text : someone an angel cannot love...! (in heaven...) label : ---atziluth--- (dubbiel runs into sevotharte in the hall, he tries to pass by unnoticed but...) dubbiel : ! (sevi already hit him, breaking his glasses) sevotharte : I hate people who breaks a deal, and those who are useless. I want to dispose of all those trash. so remember, there's no second failures. dubbiel (struggling) : ...y ...yes...!! this time... I must... with my own hands...!! kill rociel...!! end of The Black Angel Uriel, part 6 top :: volume 04 :: volume 06 ::