.: Tenshi Kinryouku :.

      Tenshi Kinryouku [Angel Sanctuary] :: Yuki Kaori
      VOLUME 7
      :: translated by kamiya shuusai ::
      :: volume 06 :: SC 1 :: SC 2 :: SC 3 :: SC 4 :: SC 5 :: SC 6 :: volume 08 
      ::
      Digital Angel




volume 07 section 01


There are seven levels of the house of heaven, and seven levels to the palace of 
darkness. Above Earth (Assiah) is where the angels of light live, seven heaven 
spheres layered over one another, it's called Heaven -- Shikouten. On the top 
most level is where the creator named God lives, in the giant step shaped tower, 
Etenamenki. The seven levels of heaven are connected to the seven levels of hell 
by hooked strings, maintaining a delicate balance. The seven layers of ground 
below Earth is called Hell, the territory of the angels of darkness. In the 
lowest level Sheol, the ruler of darkness reigns from his throne in that 
gigantic palace. And that is the one whose glory was once above all, the morning 
star (now Lucifer).

(a picture of the world as described above. I have it in the "world" section of 
Digital Angel if you want to take a look)

Angel Sanctuary - Hades
Act IV : Arrival

text (setusna thinking about katan) : the long long path of darkness continues 
forever as if time has stopped. rays of light burns my eyes and disappears. the 
farewell just now reminded me of certain worries.
nydd hogg : messiah, you mustn't be confused. this path is created by your 
consciousness----- we won't reach the destination if you are like that.

(setsuna suddenly realizes...)

setsuna : nydd hogg!? your body...!!
nydd hogg : yes... looks like it's already reached the limit. it's because I've 
been away from the uchuuju's lake for too long. at the same time we enter the 
real world, my body will disintegrate. it's alright, messiah, because this is my 
last assignment. but... I hope you can hear my only wish. this...! (gives 
setsuna a piece of something)
setsuna : [a scale? it's very pretty but... it's in the sorrowful color of 
water... a glass like scale...]
nydd hogg : hold it and close your eyes... adjust the wavelength of your mind 
and synchronize with it. how is it...? do you see it? that woman...
setsuna (eyes closed) : yeah... I see... someone. (image of a quite pretty woman 
with short dark hair, and a little cross scar on her forehead)
text : her name is laila------ yes, it's called laila. ever since she was little 
she's had a reverse crossed scar on her forehead. therefore she really hates for 
people to see her face and always looks down.
setsuna : [her black hair shines a dark green light, skin white as the snow. the 
pure beauty without any makeup... but those red lips and clear eyes.] ------I've 
seen her in a dream before. was it because you sent your consciousness to me 
with the information...
nydd hogg : ------ I hope you can find her.
setsuna : find her? how can I look for her with earth now...
nydd hogg : she's not on earth. the reason is because both she and I use to be 
angels------
sestuna : eh? but this is the spiritual world of humans... didn't you say you 
were a ghoul?
nydd hogg : that's right. I don't know what enra-ou told you but humans don't 
turn into ghouls, they only float around. the ghouls there were all angels...!
setsuna (shock) : ! WHAT!? why aren't you reincarnated, you angels who are much 
more elite than humans!?
nydd hogg : ..........
text : after an angel becomes a ghoul, it will slowly lose all memories and 
rationality, until it turns into a monster that only devours weaker entities to 
calm its deepest desires. with no place to settle down, it is destined to 
continue roaming and never reach peace. this lasted until the guardian of the 
dead, uriel-sama secretly put us to sleep in hades...! but they are getting more 
and more crazy because they can't stand to see themselves rot, ends up eating 
spirits again. ...the deepest desires cannot be healed.
nydd hogg : I too... have lost all my memories of being an angel, but there is 
one thing left in my heart...! because... that woman is the reason for my 
death...! even when my memory is disappearing, I still couldn't stop thinking 
about her. i... loved her from the bottom of my heart. but to angels, love is 
heavily punished. I wasn't even allowed to protect her secretly...
text (some guys beating that girl, her screaming) : but back then, her 
excellence, being a woman brought the jealousy of her colleagues, and finally 
the inevitable happened. she wounded the others when they were hurting her. that 
was a cruel reality to someone who was obsessively neat. that time, from her 
mouth came words I couldn't believe------ she told on me who came to help her 
together with the others. she killed all the people witness to this incident to 
protect herself. I knew would be punished perhaps. but the false accusation same 
as the others...!!
setsuna : ---then why do you want me to do if I find this woman laila...? don't 
tell me you... want me to kill her...?
nydd hogg : no... if she's still alive in heaven, she must be really pained by 
guilt. I want you to tell her "I haven't hated you even in the end". (setsuna 
seems surprised)
text : she's more holy than any angel... I've always been with her, but I never 
knew she was so fragile, so terrified of love. I understand, she's only afraid. 
I don't want her to close herself in that maze forever.
nydd hogg : therefore I hope you can tell laila.
text : she's not tainted one bit. there's no need to be pained, I will always be 
waiting for her...
setsuna (surprise) : b... but...! didn't she kill you!? and who knows how happy 
she could be right now in heaven!?
nydd hogg : no... I'm sure that she does love me... (me : don't be so sure... I 
know who she really loves) she must be very painful right now... I can hear 
it... I alone...! (laila's crying)
setsuna (looks a bit sad, then smiles and hugs nydd hogg gently) : hey... aren't 
you a fool...?
nydd hogg : yes... don't you like fools?
setsuna (smiles gently and bit sadly) : we're really fools...! we are...!! 
(feeling the scale) ...that woman... must be your only important one... [ I 
understand...! every word went into my heart... the glassy sound comes from this 
scale... the emotions directly enters my heart now that I'm a spirit... this 
nydd hogg... is in love like me.] I'll tell her... I'll be sure to tell that 
girl named laila. [and troubled...] the stupid things you just said...!
nydd hogg : thank you, messiah-----
setsuna : [I too------]
nydd hogg : now I can rest in peace-------
setsuna : [I too can feel that very, very important person's heart--------- 
she's no longer here. I thought I could bring her back, but she slipped away 
like the wind. I felt so crushed, but I definitely didn't come for nothing. 
everything I felt here, whether it was fighting, crying or laughing, they're 
all, all very important. I'm sorry, everyone. you've always been by my side, 
helping me. but I couldn't face you and express my gratitude. (he means katou of 
course) everyone, thank you, really. (an image of doll and uriel) those 
supportive words you gave me in that cruel world, I will bring it all back to my 
world. everything... that's right, I want to return. (wings start to grow out on 
his back)] ah... (sees up ahead) the exit...! I can see the end of the path...!!
text : you guys better get ready, you'll be interrogated as to why my body 
suddenly died. because we made a promise, so I'll definitely be back. back to 
these bastards I love------

(nydd hogg flies toward the light up ahead... meanwhile, in hades, uriel's 
talking to enra-ou)

enra-ou : ----- that human... (uriel is holding a orb of light in his hand)
uriel : ~this child? I plan to train him, because I've never seen such a 
spirited soul. anyway, you were a bit violent. just a simple test can show that 
setsuna is truly the messiah... got what you deserved, enra-ou!~
enra-ou : hmph, you see through me, guardian. 
uriel : ~of course. you wouldn't do something that you couldn't control.~
enra-ou : it's interesting to gamble the fate of the world on a few bad kids. we 
have been waiting for the day the "one" who is neither an angel nor human would 
come to save this corrupt land------ (all the souls that katou released are 
being sucked back into the opening) this is our holy ground, we won't allow 
demons or angels to touch it.
uriel : ~and that is the reason why you chose the hard way? but please don't ask 
me to clean up after you, I oppose your methods.~
enra-ou : uriel, we are in charge of billions of souls here. a few sacrifices 
can't be helped.
uriel : ~------I am relieved that your reply is "cannot be helped"~ (starts to 
leave)
enra-ou : you're not wearing that mask any more? uriel.
uriel : ~---yeah, I no longer need it.~ (leaves)
text : setsuna, we will soon meet again, when you have truly became the messiah 
and carried on the future-----

(up in heaven, rociel's having a meeting with the high council, he seems to be 
the leader, the door suddenly opened, and sevi appears)

rociel : you're late, sevotharte.
sevotharte : metatron-sama has been getting over excited lately... for some 
reason he's determined not to come to this meet, I'm terribly sorry... also to 
suddenly call such a meeting is a restricted power of the Great Seraphim, 
therefore I was unprepared...! r o c i e l - s a m a...! (sounded really bad... 
T.T *sigh* more politics)
rociel : really? but don't you think everyone gathered just as well? well enough 
with the excuses... I will forgive your rudeness, but won't you prove yourself 
to be a loyal servant in front of everyone? (smiles slightly) my right hand... 
well.
sevotharte : ...! ...you can't be serious! (silence... everyone's looking at 
him... katan is glaring at him coldly)
rociel : well... sevotharte...
sevotharte (shaking angrily) : [GRR...!] (but he ends up kneeling and kissing 
rociel's hand anyway)
rociel : you are really always bringing me entertainment... I'm glad that it 
hasn't been monotonous...! so very glad... ...well do you... like me...?
sevotharte (angrily) : [rociel!! enjoy your temporary victory now. it's alright 
because in my hands... I still have a trump card!!]

(zephakiel is in his secret chamber, staring blankly at sara's spirit which 
seems to be asleep... inside a bubble)

sevotahrte : [a card that will shake heaven!!]

(in gehanna, setsuna's still lying on the bed, kira, kurai and arakune are by 
his side. kira is holding on the nanatsusaya tightly and looks like he's 
concentrating, it has been restabbed into setsuna...)

kurai : sakuya... it is possible for setsuna to return by stabbing in the 
nanatsusaya one more time!? hey! how long are you going to be like that!? (no 
reply) sakuya!!
kira : be quiet and don't disturb me.
kurai (screaming) : but...!
arakune (holding her back) : kurai! I know you're worried, but right now it's 
better for us to stay on the side.
kira : [setsuna...!! where are you? do you hear my voice, setsuna...! this is 
the link that connects you and me. remember your heart beat, this is where you 
are suppose to return, setsuna...!! setsuna!!!]

(suddenly... he turns around and runs out of the room)

kurai (behind him) : s... sakuya...!?
kira : [he's here!! (runs to this other room) I can feel the beating is near by. 
I can hear his breathing. he has synchronized.]

(the ice and chain breaks to pieces, alexiel's body falls out of the frozen 
crystal and kira catches her.)

kira : [alexiel...!!]

(alexiel's eyes slowly opened... and a sweatdrop appeared on kira's head 
because...)

alexiel : senpai...? i... came back... as we promised... I came back...!
kurai (also there) : WHA... (arakune looked completely shocked in the background 
^^;;) SETSUNA...!?

(but I guess setsuna's not use to be back yet, so he's unconscious now, inside 
alexiel's body, with kira still holding him)

kurai : is this... *sweatdrops* FOR REAL?

(meanwhile... in the darkness of sheol, the mad hatter goes to lucifer's palace, 
her speech half sounds like she's talking to herself, half sounds like she's 
reporting to someone... you'll see why she talks like that later)

mad hatter : in the distant... distant, eternal time, in the underground without 
a single trace of light, (smile) since being chased out of the kingdom of 
light... shikouten with you grace... we have cursed for the coming of this 
day------! I have finally found the goddess who will lead us to victory. only 
she is suitable to be the bride of this hell. now she still seems like a young 
girl not yet blooming, but soon she will grow into a beautiful, mature lady. (a 
grown up version of kurai) if we get her, the power of the natural spirit 
dragons and... the boy called the messiah will be ours...! in addition... I met 
someone unexpectedly...! (remembers kira) now is the time to put an end to the 
ever-lasting war of heaven and hell, time to extract our revenge...! to regain 
the glory that was once ours in heaven...! I am the demon "mad hatter" whose 
name appears in your grace's Gran Grimoire... no... one of the seven Satans of 
hell, Belial, swears eternal loyalty to our king, lucifer-sama!

(kneels in front of the throne... lucifer sits in the shadows, his face barely 
visible)

GAME OVER or CONTINUE

end of Arrival

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volume 07 section 02


Angel Sanctuary - Jahannam
Act I : Angel of the Burning Flame, Part 1

text : the holy one... (a statue holding a cross) the holy one, the holy one, 
the holy one... the one who led us, conquering the armies of darkness from the 
gaps between golden clouds with thy blazing sword. so great like god, the lord 
of light, who led us. thou art certainly the supreme commander of the armies of 
heaven, the glorious son of god.
messenger (kneeling) : this is an order from the Great Seraphim and lord prime 
minister. being one of the four elemental angels, you have repeated ignored the 
summons of the high council, right now is the time that shikouten needs to be 
united.
text : the one like god *michael*. (the words wrote "kami no gotoki mono" while 
the reading on the side was "mikaeru")
messenger : such actions will affect the moral of others. recently the demon 
armies are on the move plus the rumor that the messiah has joined the evils 
(kurai and her people), but I'm sure you know all this! (a bunch of punk looking 
people are on the side, laughing...) as the powers who are the guardians of the 
kingdom of god, there is no reason why you should ignore your missions in a 
situation like this...! we hope you would quickly appear publicly to erase all 
dishonor placed on the angel armies' name. show your loyalty! (this old man just 
made this long speech... and it's directed at this big guy on the throne with 
long blond hair whose face you can't really see...) the Great Powers, 
michael-dono! (no reply... the guy on the throne didn't even move... long 
silence) ............ (sweatdrop... suddenly a flying dagger hits the ground 
right in front of him) WAH!! (and those punk people in the corner all burst out 
laughing) ...please restrict your men! we are messengers officially sent by the 
high council!! michael-dono!! I have responsibilities too. I will get a reply 
today no matter what!!

(he jumps up and grabs a hold of "michael"... actually, he grabbed a hold of 
michael's hair... and it came off ~.~... it was a wig)

messenger (surprise) : you... you are... the powers' second in command... 
kamael-dono...!? (the punks in the corner laugh uncontrollably) w... where is 
the real michael-sama!! are you making a fool out of me...! (still holding the 
wig, to his assistant) I knew this place was weird!! there's not a trace of the 
past glories! the rumor that no messenger sent to the powers were able to return 
again might be true. I heard that michael-sama is not the handsome man with 
bright golden hair as humans say, but really a little boy with red hair...! 
(suddenly someone grabs his shirt from behind)
michael (glaring at his dangerously) : who are you calling a little boy...?

(he really is a little boy ^^ michael has short messy red hair, looks just like 
one of those punks and he's got a tattooed dragon/snake that goes from his face 
to his chest... and he's got a little braid in the back *I just noticed this 
recently ^^*)

michael : I was planing on listening to you quietly, but all you talk about are 
the useless stuff. I'm here, since you really wanted to see me that bad. I am 
the head of the powers, the great michael-sama!! (and he's holding the messenger 
by the neck and lifting him)
assistant : p... please stop! it's a serious crime to kill angels even if you 
are an archangel...!
michael (lets go of the messenger, and looks down at him) : you don't have to be 
so scared, even I can't kill the white angel's (sevotharte) direct messenger. 
(the messenger's catching his breath) but hey, those meeting are so boring, I 
just don't feel like going... so boring... (sit on the side freely) angels were 
a race originally created for war. these young men are going crazy without war. 
(meaning those punks ^^) we might even explode soon------ (suddenly jump up) 
hey, are you listening!?
messenger (sweatdrop) : y... yes!!
michael : anyway, you mentioned... the messiah right? the one with that 
alexiel's spirit...! I heard he joined forces with the evils... is he... (smile 
evilly) strong? (grab the guy's shirt again)
messenger : ...i, I believe so...! because he's of the same level in opposite 
position as the angel lord rociel-sama... and because his human body caused 
partial damage to the earth when he awakened-----
michael (pondering) : but when I broke the barrier and went to earth I only saw 
the dead body of some pathetic kid.
messenger (sweatdrops) : ...huh? [it is forbidden to go to earth...]
michael : who cares about those details. [annoying!] whatever, this seem to be 
interesting. I'll go take his life!
messenger : wha... you can't move on your own...!!
michael : shut up, just take care of the people in our way right? hey, take them 
out. (punks comes over and pulls the two out)
messenger (as he's being pulled out) : even if you are one of the four elements, 
the guardian angel of fire, I will report your rude attitude...!! to the high 
council! disobeying orders is very serious too...!! (the punks just laugh) just 
like the one who has the same blood as the older brother of the abominable 
twins!

(......... he should not have said that... he should NOT have said that... for a 
second, michael glares back with this really frightening look...)

punks (they all have this super scared expression) : ERR...!! (they all turn 
around and runs... even the people holding the messenger quickly pushes him and 
side and runs away)
messenger : ...eh? (start to look scared)
michael : what... did you... JUST SAY!!? (and he just explodes, the whole place 
blows up in his flame)
messenger (cooked alive) : AHHHHHHHHHHHH
michael (more calmed, still mad) : go to hell...!! hey...!! you all still 
alive!? (meaning his men, who are climbing out slowly from the ashes)
punks : still alive...! those idiots... in front of michael-sama, "height" and 
"older brother" are forbidden words...!
michael : you've got something to say? assholes!
punks : nope!!
man (one of his men) : but chief, won't it be troublesome now that you killed 
two of the high council's messengers...!
michael : fool! take a look at this! (kick the dead body over, turns out to be a 
robot) this is proof that sevi never trusted me!!
man : !
michael : hey, sevi!! are you listening! (scream at the robot... sevotharte is 
sitting in front of the computer on the other end) you must be very desperate if 
you actually thought about me, but too bad, I'm not helping you or rociel. I had 
enough of these little conflicts. if you want my help, come to me with war!! 
(and the screen shuts off, sevi looks unmoved, and michael lifts his foot after 
just stepping on the robot) hmph, (to kamael) and you should do something about 
your expressionless, gloomy face. [you're useless, letting other people take 
care all the problems for you.] you couldn't even be my substitute.
kamael : ......
michael : whatever!! things are starting to get interesting! kamael! we're 
going!!
kamael : ...where to?
michael : where else!? that swindler's house! that guy who always says nonsense 
stuff I can't understand, that perverted doctor who loves those stupid women!! 
RAPHAEL'S PLACE!!

(wah... ok, michael and raphael will be very important in the future, I'm glad 
they're finally out ^^;; meanwhile, let's go c what happened to setsuna)

voice (in setsuna's head, while he's unconscious) : ...please, please open your 
eyes... the child between angel and human... the fated messiah. today is the 
seventh day after the promised day of the earth's end. mudou setsuna... you have 
returned...
setsuna (open eyes) : ah... it's you. well... a lot of happened but I managed... 
(he sees adam kadmon) ...but they're not all bad things... I'm sure. I was glad 
that I experienced all this... but they must be important lessons.
adam kadmon : this kind of thinking is very important... my dear child.
setsuna : ...i have something to ask you...! in the end, sara wasn't in hades... 
someone named zaphkiel took sara somewhere inside the vicinity of shikouten... 
tell me how to go there. (a brilliant flash of light, and a model appears in 
adam kadmon's hand, it's the model of the world)
adam kadmon : watch. this is a view from the point of the spiritual world which 
surpasses your material world's theory of the universe, a map of the universe of 
the positions of heaven, earth and hell. normal humans are not able to see this. 
it's because the channel of existence is different, and without some ability to 
transcend dimensions... and some astral power, it's very hard to detect. right 
now, assiah where the time has stopped, earth has always been surrounded in this 
form. because it exists in the space which it shouldn't be able to, actions are 
impossible and time was stopped... just for an instant...! the seven layers of 
heaven and the seven layers of hell below...! the kingdom of evils anagura is on 
the topmost layer. (anagura is the top layer of the seven layers of hell) and 
the seven layers of ground that surrounds earth------- (switch to heaven) your 
destination is etenamenki where I am imprisoned on the top most layer atziluth 
(of god)... the second level below is briah (of creation)... and the third level 
is yetzirah (of form)...! from the third layer from the top to the bottom are 
all called by that name. each level has their angel prisons and slums, normal 
angels and high level angel's living quarters. yetzirah------- zaphkiel should 
be living there somewhere.
setsuna : [yetzirah-----! sara's spirit is there-------!!] ! (suddenly the image 
of the model has been disrupted)
adam kadmon : a disturbance wave of noise came from heaven. we'll stop here 
today.
setsuna (adam starts to leave) : w... wait! I still haven't asked you...
adam kadmon : someone has been peaking in on us for a while... I'll let you feel 
it too. (setsuna sees these big eyes looking at him from the darkness) those... 
rabbit eyes...! (looks deadly serious) it will be very dangerous for you to stay 
here. leave, you still can't handle him yet if you are caught... because "dream" 
is the territory of children.
setsuna : go... but how!?
adam kadmon : simple. how do you always wake up?
setsuna : [wake up...!? err... wake up at the loud ringing of the alarm 
clock...]
text (he sees the window, the sun...) : the sound is getting louder... the 
morning sun is hurting my eyes... how I miss the touch of that pale hand, and 
the voice that always calls me up. that's right... (eyes open slowly) and... my 
eyes open slowly...!! (he sees an image of sara, calling him)
sara : [you better get up, onii-chan.]
setsuna : [sara...!!]

(sara's image fades... and he begins to see a weird looking diagram in front of 
him, the diagram becomes clearer, looks just like that map of the universe adam 
showed him)

setsuna : [huh...? I'm still dreaming---------? (suddenly sits up, he's on this 
big bed in the middle of a huge room) wh... where am i...!! (look up at the 
ceiling, that diagram he saw was a carving on the ceiling) I saw it in my 
dream... that carving of earth and heaven...!! what is this place...] ! (get up, 
didn't know he was wearing a long dress and trips and falls) WAHHH!! (hit his 
head, and he fell near this pool which is in the room by his bed) ouch...!! 
(rubbing his head... and looks......... into the water T.T he sees alexiel's 
face... and freeze in shock) WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~~~

(everyone in the other parts of the palace heard him... kurai immediate turn 
around with a sweatdrop, kira has this "huh?" look, arakune was just drinking 
coffee or tea and coughed it all out... everyone rushes to setsuna's room)
kurai : se... setsuna...!!
setsuna (back facing them) : ...you guys~~~~~~~~~~~!!
kurai (running up, all teary) : setsuna...!
setsuna (just throws her aside and scream) : what the hell is this-------!! you 
better explain to me what happened------!! how did I suddenly wake up in this 
sexy dynamite body!!? isn't this... alexiel!? what about mine...! mudou 
setsuna's body!! (he's yelling at kira ^^;;)
kurai (on the side, with a X band aid on her head, grabbing on to setsuna) : 
setsuna--------.
kira (calmly and directly) : it died.
arakune (on the side, sweatdrop) : [you don't have to be so direct--.]
setsuna (turns pale and sweating immediately) : d... died... n... no way...! 
what...!? I came back within seven days...!! you guys... what...! what you have 
anything else to say to me!?
kira (smile) : welcome back.
setsuna : NOT THAT~~~!!?

(^_______________^ well, from now on, setsuna will be in alexiel's body... for 
quite a few volumes, so just know that when I write setsuna, he's still in 
alexiel's body, when I write alexiel, then it's really her... meanwhile... up in 
heaven, metatron is lying on his bed in PJs hugging his bunny doll... the eyes 
of the bunny looks really freaky... and exactly like the ones adam showed 
setsuna)

metatron : hey, bunny-san, I had a strange dream again.

end of Angel of the Burning Flame, part 1

translator's note : I have always been calling kurai's race the demons, which is 
kinda what their name means, and I didn't plan to change it, because I thought 
that evils sounded funny... but now that we're approaching the hell arc, there's 
gonna be real demons... to avoid any confusion, I'll start to refer to them as 
evils.

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volume 07 section 03


Angel Sanctuary - Jahannam
Act I : Angel of the Burning Flame, Part 2

---------- Shikouten ----------
---------- Yetzirah's second level Raqia ----------

(in a grand, nice building, which I will tell you right now is a hospital... 
raphael is... well, what do you think that perverted doctor is doing ^^;; 
raphael is the Great Virtue, but... what virtue? ^^)

raphael : take a deep breath, and relax.
ariel : raphael-sama,... what kind of examination is this?
raphael : I'm not raphael-sama, right now I'm a doctor. (kiss the girl) isn't it 
alright if the patient just quietly follow what the doctor says? you're ill... 
the same incurable illness that I have... we must operate immediately. the 
blanket of the night has covered and hid us. I want to make sure in my arms, 
your eyes show my reflections......
ariel : doctor... (they're making love but then... ^^;;;;;;;;;;;)
someone (appears through the window behind them) : stop right there!! you got 
caught right handed! you become a hungry pervert when you see women, raphael!
ariel : AHHHH

(both raphael and ariel freezes... with sweatdrops)

ariel (shocked, with sweatdrop... she's half undressed ^^ on the other hand, 
rapheal seems rather calm) : wwwwww what~~~ w... where do you think this is? 
w... who are you!? (it's michael of course)
michael : me!? make sure you can still stand on your feet, woman!! I am the 
greatest of the four elements, the guardian angel of fire!! (getting all powered 
up) I shake the heavens and scorch the earth!! the super star of the angels, 
strongest of the strong...
raphael (calmly gets up) : don't you ever use the door? mika-chan. 

(michael freezes, and then explodes)

michael : do not call me "mika-chan"--------!! (veins)
ariel (running into raphael's arms, scared) : YAA-------!!
barbiel (raphael's second in command, enters suddenly, smiling ^^) : ah!! I was 
wondering what happened, michael-sama! oh, ariel you too! I've been wondering 
where you went while you were here? (leans over touching ariel's cheeks, still 
smiling, but has this dangerous air about her ^^;;) you~~came for one of 
raphael-sama's secret operations again huh~~~~~~? you just won't listen no 
matter how many times I tell you, girl~~~~~!?
ariel (full of sweatdrops) : barbiel-sama, please forgive me-------
barbiel (leaving and taking ariel with her) : please excuse us, michael-sama! 
raphael-sama! have fun *heart* [ohohohoho----]
ariel (running out) : [eek----- please forgive me---- I won't do it again...]
raphael (sweatdrop) : [don't take her away...] (they leave)
michael : geez...... you haven't changed at all, still the angel who breaks the 
commandments. the pervert doctor raphael-san.
raphael (calming sitting down in a chair) : I was only examining her because she 
said she wasn't feeling well.
michael (glare... he's sitting on raphael's table) : [that's so not convincing.] 
tell me that after you wiped away the lipstick by your neck and fixed your 
shirt. hey you, you'll get caught playing this doctor game before you graduate.
raphael : I don't play these lowly games. (looks up quite coldly) women are just 
cute puppets who lets me forget this boring life for awhile, so there's no need 
for emotional attachments. I can easily toss them away.
michael (pinching raphael's face) : what are you playing at, you perv.
raphael (funny face ^^) : ...... (vein) [stop that.]
michael : anyway!! I don't care about your relationship with women! that's not 
the point, sevi sent his people to my place earlier!
raphael : oh yeah, they came here too. the neat freak "white angel" -sama should 
really dislike me, I didn't think he would come to me.
michael : what did you tell them?
raphael : "I'm currently doing an examination for a pretty girl, we'll talk 
about that boring stuff some other time."
michael (sweatdrop) : ......... [yo...] they came to talk to you about how to 
raise the general moral of angels and stuff, those boring stuff. whatever.
raphael : of the crucial elements, the angel of earth uriel went into hiding 
after the war between heaven and hell. the angel of water jibrille has lost her 
consciousness and is confined in the water garden, under sevi's surveillance. 
sevi would actually protect her, that's something suspicious. jibrille is very 
close to that kid......... I mean the Great Seraphim metatron, and sevi should 
see her as a threat... what is the real reason that she became like that in the 
first place-----------?
michael : I don't know about that crap. and I don't care, I just want to know 
about that messiah guy!
raphael : "messiah"? (thinking) ------oh now that you mentioned it------ barbiel 
told me she heard something in the meeting. something about going to hades after 
earth was destroyed. I think rociel said that he's not dead, just in a false 
death state. [I have no interest in men.]
michael : that's right. sevi-sama wants us so urgently, doesn't it mean that the 
messiah is about to be revived? and also didn't those evils get their hands 
alexiel's body last time? which means the evils plan to revive the organic 
angel. the legendary goddess of war, alexiel!! (getting all excited ^^) how 
about it!! do you feel your blood pumped up!? plus isn't this a "woman", your 
favorite!? so want to play again like before!?
raphael : [oh shut up.] not at all. nothing good ever comes out of working with 
you. [alexiel's three sizes are 87, 58, 85... I don't remember anything else.]
michael (yell) : WHAT WAS THAT--------!?
raphael : [oh no?] it's true that your power of fire and my ability to control 
wind can support each other to raise battle power immeasurably, but...

(the following is my reason for delaying the translation of volume 7 for so long 
^^;; this huge speech by raphael, pointing to michael's nose, is squashed in one 
panel about a quarter of a page in miniscule font ^^;;;;;;; the arrow outside of 
the box pointing to the panel said "editor-san, sorry about this", a note from 
yuki-sensei ^^;;)

raphael (the ... are the places cut off, but you get the idea) : I hope you 
remember what happened during the first war of heaven and hell ...... when you 
disobeyed order and what you consider was outstanding performance resulted in 
...... the amount of damage my soldiers had to deal with ...... when casualties 
could be minimized by just a little effort you ...... and all because of you... 
and in the end I had to clean up after you ...... because I was held responsible 
for not stopping you ...... now why? why do I have to clean up after you violent 
...... why? doesn't mean that when it's with women, I ...... is not the point, 
that's not what I am trying to say ...... and argue, in a war, there is 
something called strategy and a complete victory depends solely on ...... not 
exaggerated at all? you hate to lead your army like that ...... the point really 
is to steadily destroy the enemy one by one ...... is necessary. well, really, I 
too hate this monotonous ...... the orders from above are all crap, but you 
...... don't know if you are smart or stupid, to completely mess up the order 
with your momentary outburst, the chaos ...... you are really unsuitable to be 
the leader of an army when ...... and so. plus, mika-chan, you would suddenly 
burst out and kill for no reason that .............................. (the rest 
is cut off ^^;;)

(michael is holding his head in pain @.@, the words on top of his head say 
"cannot process")

michael (getting really irritated) : grr... grr (sweatdrops)
raphael (still going) : in the end the winner ...... of the astr ...... world 
didn't get anything ...... and a few thousand people are left ...... because the 
pulse was cut by wind, blood ...... ska, and mika-chan ...... not satisfying at 
all ...... even I can't help it .........
michael : [there's more---?] GRRR...!! (explode) SHUT UUUUUUUUPPPPP~~~~~ (the 
whole place blew up) shut up~~ ARGH~~~ just shut up! you just go on and on and 
on and on, you pervert!! war is just blowing stuff up, just like that-------!!
raphael (still in his chair, but he's got a really dark look on his face) : 
mika-chan... isn't it nasty to pull such a bad joke in someone's office?
michael (powered up) : alright, so you want a fight!? this'll be interesting!! 
let's duel right here right now and see who's the last remaining sovereign 
angel! who's the strongest angel...!! (raphael's emitting a scary aura too... 
but ......)

(flip of page... BANG, kamael comes up behind michael and knocks him on the head 
with his machine gun... raphael looks on with a sweatdrop as kamael carries the 
KO michael on his shoulder and leaves)

kamael : sorry to trouble you. (walk out)
raphael (sweatdrop) : [...uh kamael... isn't he still your superior? i... is 
this alright?] (looks at his totally destroyed office) oh well, a little 
circulation's not bad either... (smile) then... things won't be so boring......

(alexiel *setsuna's* hand touching his own dead body)

setsuna : it's cold...! it's really dead.

(meanwhile, the guards bring in voice, who's screaming and kicking)

voice : ouch!! let go of me, asshole!
kurai : setsuna, this is the guy who pulled out nanatsusaya from your body... 
voice. [hmph! and he's still so rebellious.]
voice : I'm not going to apologize!! you use to be an angel and now human, 
either ways you are us evil's enemy! and you want to be our ally, I don't trust 
you! go to hell!! (blast an energy ball)
setsuna (blocks with his hand) : !
voice : you should've been dead!! you don't know anything about the pain of 
losing your family and friends! (suddenly setsuna grabs his shirt) wah...
setsuna (glare at him darkly) : hey...! you said I don't know about the pain...? 
did you really think... I went to the land of the dead...! for sightseeing...!? 
hmm?
voice : [w... what is this, he...!! the aura...! mixed with hatred------!! he 
seems like an entirely different person from before...]
setsuna : I understand your hatred... the level of your pain. it's natural that 
you hate humans so you don't need to apologize.
voice : [it's a man's... a man's expression...!!] (the expression on that 
alexiel face, voice can see it perfectly on setsuna)
setsuna : you... don't have to forgive me...! (explode) but then you should 
understand my anger too!?

(missed voice by inches, the wall behind voice cracks)

kurai : setsuna...!!
setsuna : i... have been surpressing too...! my anger to tear you apart...!! I 
went through so much to be able to make it back from the kingdom of the dead... 
and what? my original body was "killed" pointlessly by some kid...! therefore... 
I too will not forgive you for killing me...!! (grabs voice's hand)
voice : wha...!?

(setsuna took his hand and put it on alexiel's breast... voice looks 
traumatized... kurai and kira who were watching got huge sweatdrops too)

setsuna : so, know what horrible thing you did now!! it's so disgusting for a 16 
year old high school boy to end up inside the body of a full breast beautiful 
woman! (voice is sweating and looking VERY pale... ^^ and setsuna grabs him and 
hugs him with big cute smile)
voice : stop it!! stop-------
setsuna : come on~~~~ *heart*
voice : stop it------- you hentai hermaphrodite----!! [stop~~~]

(kurai just watches with wide eyes and sweatdrop... setsuna smiles at her, still 
hugging voice)

setsuna : oh well, it can't be helped now. we can only think of some way to 
return me to normal.
voice : [EEK~~~]
setsuna : sara'll be so jealous of this body when we meet again!
kurai (smiles slightly, thinking) : oh... that's definitely setsuna... [saying 
this with that beautiful face, feels so strange...]
kira (sweatdrop, on the side) : [setsuna's that... level of speed his expression 
changes... seems like someone... (sweatdrops) it...] (... look at the people in 
the background, setsuna's still playing with voice...)
arakune : geez (sweatdrop)
setsuna : [come on--- come on--- chu *heart*]
voice (struggling) : [stop----- please let go of me.] (sweating)
kurai (sweatdrop) : [setsuna... that's alexiel-sama's body...]
kira (sweatdrop) : [... shouldn't be.]
kurai (suddenly remembered) : oh right! setsuna, take out your hand.
setsuna : hm?
kurai : here. (take out a seed from her pocket) when you came back, 
alexiel-sama's hand was tightly holding this. did you bring it back from hades? 
is it... some kind of plant?
setsuna : [plant...!! (holding it and remembers) that's right...! I've been 
holding nydd hogg's scale till the very end... his body was a semi life form 
created by uriel from plants, so when I returned to the real world, it turned 
back into a seed...!!]
text : laila... please find laila...!!
setsuna (stick the seed into a slot on alexiel's earring) : [guess I'll put it 
in the earring. so that... when I go to heaven, I won't forget...!] (kurai seems 
surprised)
kurai : how did you... know to put the seed on the earring... that it can be 
used this way. so you do have a little bit of alexiel-sama's memory...?
setsuna : ............! (looks on and sees the carving of the universe on the 
ground) [! this is... what adam kadmon said in my dream...! that's right... the 
same thing was on the bed's ceiling...!]
kurai : oh, that is the oldest, oldest position diagram of the position of the 
world. come this way, there's something better!

(meanwhile... a woman, an evil, walked by in the hall and saw noise kneeling on 
the ground, supporting herself on the wall)

woman : hm? noise!? what's wrong?
noise : I'm alright, just a little dizzy. it's nothing...! just go away.
woman : but... you're looking really pale?
noise (getting nasty) : didn't I say I was fine!? (the woman backs off a little) 
...i, I'm sorry... I haven't... been myself lately...! I'm alright, the color on 
my face must be due to the shadows...... the shadows...
woman : really...?
noise (suddenly cover her mouth) : shadow...?
woman : ...noise? ...! uh... uhhhhh (a hand crawls out of noise's mouth) uhhh... 
(a whole arm comes out, and black wings, and roses... it's really nasty, the 
woman looks really scared) EEK
noise : uh...
woman : AHHHHHHHH (sees something really terrifying) YAHHHHHHHHH (her blood 
splashes on the wall, and the "someone" just walks away, leaving noise there)
noise : ... me, help me... voice... voice...! ......

(meanwhile, kurai took setsuna to a room where a huge gigantic model of the 
world is... it's about the size of a building)

setsuna : ......... [wah.] so ... big!!
kurai : look at this, what you see below the planet earth are the seven layers 
of gehenna earth. gehanna means hell. on the topmost is where we are, anagura, 
the kingdom of evils called gehenna imperial family. and underneath are in the 
order of "stomach", "silence", "gate of death", "shadow of gate of death" and 
"destruction". the conditions get worse the further you go down. which means the 
lower the level, the stronger the demons who live there are.
someone (a hand reach out of the model's anagura level, holding an umbrella) : 
that's right, and I am the messenger from the gehenna earth's seventh and lowest 
level-----
kurai : !
mad hatter (rest of the body slowly appears) : our demon army's heart "sheol" is 
the base of our armies of darkness, the place where the famous, renowned demons 
feast. and the empire ruled by the greatness of his majesty lucifer. messiah. 
(setsuna seems surprised) I know a way to revive your body. and there is only 
one----- (close her umbrella and smile) pleased to meet you for the first time. 
or should I say----- it's been a long time? alexiel.

end of Angel of the Burning Flame, part 2

translator's note : the author has noted that on the hana to yume magazine, this 
jahannam arc was called shikouten... I guess she couldn't even predict the path 
of the story, because michael and raphael appeared, she named it shikouten, but 
it ended up being about hell ^^;; she also thought that michael won't be too 
popular cuz she thought he wasn't that cute, but the fans' reactions surprised 
her.

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volume 07 section 04


Angel Sanctuary - Jahannam
Act I : Angel of the Burning Flame, Part 3

text (scene of sara dying) : no. don't kill me. don't kill me! I don't want to 
die.
raziel : ! (like he suddenly woke up from a daydream, and realized he broke 
another vase) ah...
woman (another assistant in zaphkiel's office) : are you alright? candidate 
raziel, you seem to be staring into space a lot recently?
raziel : I'm sorry... [I've been daydreaming recently.]
woman : it's alright, I'll clean up.
raziel : [...but I'm beginning to understand lately... that's not a dream, I 
remember that feeling... the image of water and the fear and sadness at the 
instant of death...! it must be... that human girl's memory...! the dream of 
that girl I saw in the basement...!!]

(meanwhile...)

mad hatter : excuse me, please forgive me for my sudden visit. I am a clown from 
hell, named "mad hatter". pleased to meet you... the beautiful (smile) messiah.

(setsuna looks really surprised to see her... suddenly he's getting random 
flashes of his old memory)

text : ------- fall into darkness------
------- flesh and soul, slowly decaying away -------
yes, blood and flesh, not a single strand of hair remains.
to fall and dye in the color of sin together with him... 
that is my only wish-------
everything I have belongs to him.
"I don't need myself-------!!"

(in setsuna's flash of memory, he saw a woman... her face is covered by her 
curly hair, and she turned around and smiled... but I think you should guess who 
this is)

setsuna : AH (zoom out of the flashback)
kurai : setsuna...!
setsuna : [that was...!?]
mad hatter : ...seems like your body still has some memory... alexiel...! your 
beauty has not decreased at all since that time...! no, you have become even 
more beautiful... it is my honor to meet you once again. (lean down to kiss 
setsuna/alexiel's hand)
kurai : [wah. that bastard~~~!! he said these mushy things to me last time 
too----- that smooth talking swindler~~~!! (vein)]
setsuna (he sees that the mad hatter has a really cold looks in his/her eyes and 
slaps his hand away) : s... stop that!! how disgusting! I know...! I don't know 
how, but I know!! there's demonic power in a demon's kiss...! and it'll be 
carved into the things they touch... and then they can control them with a 
curse...!
kurai : [what... demon's kiss...!? a curse...? but... he kissed my hand back 
then...!!]
mad hatter : I see... of course alexiel would know that. but didn't you betray 
god just like us dark angels and so became allies? did you forget the mark on 
your left breast? (there's a demon mark on alexiel's left breast) so? fallen 
angel alexiel, we have the same enemy, I came here as a friendly ambassador.
setsuna : friendly ambassador--------? [dressed like that?]
kurai (yelling in the background, really pissed) : bastard!! did you forget that 
I'm still here------?
mad hatter : that's right. as I told you before, I came here to tell you how you 
can revive your body.
setsuna : [why... do I feel fear for this man. this damn bastard...! (he thinks 
the mad hatter is a man too ^^)] ...really?
mad hatter : the power to revive... in short, resurrection is a forbidden skill 
since ancient times and can only be taught secretly... but to perform that 
skill, one must have the power to control nature... or to have the power to warp 
nature...! even in heaven the only one who is allowed to do it is an angel of 
the four elements. "the guardian of tree of sephiroth", "the splendid healer" 
one of the sovereign angels with heaven's highest glory... he's the elemental 
angel of wind, the Great Virtues, raphael. he is currently at Shikouten 
Yetzirah's second level Raqia performing "healing".
setsuna : [yetzirah!!] that's right...! now to mention it, uriel also said 
so...! raphael is the angel of healing who can use the resurrection spell.
kurai : what are you trying to say, mad hatter! even if that raphael can perform 
resurrection, how can we say this to an archangel!? plus yetzirah is shikouten's 
second level...! how can we go there when it's the enemy's home base! it's too 
dangerous.
mad hatter : it is quite dangerous. but there are many ways to bribe him. and 
wouldn't that depend on the organic angel alexiel-dono's strategy? it's alright, 
he usually takes requests from beautiful woman. (shuffling cards) or are you 
scared? please pick one. (setsuna took one and it was joker)
setsuna : ...let's get this straight first, mad clown. I and not alexiel, even 
now. no matter how amazing of a angel alexiel was, it has nothing to do with me. 
my name is mudou setsuna!! remember that! (mad hatter snaps her fingers and the 
card burns up in setsuna's hand) !
mad hatter : ...marvelous... ... however, do you think all the people around you 
think the same way? you are only valuable because you are the organic angel 
alexiel's reincarnation... no matter how you resist, you can't change your 
destiny. we can even bet... the warm friendships "mudou setsuna" built over the 
years are none existent in front of alexiel. everyone only sees alexiel and not 
you. don't you think so...? (setsuna looks shocked, then remembers the times 
when he met kurai, and found out kira was immortal)
setsuna : ...i don't think so. I don't think so!! (sounds like denial to me)
mad hatter (smiles) : ......
setsuna : ...kurai... you said keeping my body inside the magic barrier will 
keep it from decaying right?
kurai : that's right but..! don't tell me you're really going to yetzirah!? it's 
the enemy's base...
setsuna (seriously) : sara's spirit is also in yetzirah! (kurai looks spiked) 
I'll first capture that raphael who plays around with woman in yetzirah and 
bring him here to revive my body. then I'll go hang that zaphkiel guy and bring 
back sara! (in his normal mindless manner ^^) great!! perfect plan!
kurai (thinking T.T) : this guy... really is still setsuna~~~~ [bus please don't 
say that stuff with that beautiful face and body----- don't ruin my dream-----]
setsuna (big smile) : I'm going!! to yetzirah! (mad hatter smiles) I said I'm 
going and I'm going!

(meanwhile in heaven...)

raziel : zaphkiel-sama, please. please let me enter the basement once again. 
please... let me wake the spirit of that girl. I think... I can speak with her. 
(zaphkiel doesn't say anything) i... have been seeing daydreams every day ever 
since then... with the image of water... and the scene of death...! as if she 
was thinking of someone when she died... such a tragic separation... I even wake 
up with tears in my eyes...! but... now I know very well what it was... it's the 
heart of the girl in that basement... why can I feel it, why do I know... it 
must be my power that allows my heart to synchronize with hers! i... have 
hated... this "unusual" special power until now. when I was still a student 
candidate... I tried very hard to hide it until that time when it went out 
control... since that day that they knew I was different from them...! my close 
friends and instructors all gaze at me with strange looks... since that incident 
was publicized I was forcefully sent to the high council's lab for my 
unusualness. it was white hell to me.
text : everyday, the repeated injections, so many humiliating examinations...
raziel (I think he's still getting goose bumps) : in that place, angels are not 
living beings, they're just "flesh". taking brain cells, going into my brain and 
continue examining until I mentally break down. until I lost the strength to 
resist. I was shattered like all the other samples... back then... if it wasn't 
for zaphkiel-sama... I would've become the same as the others, drowned in 
hormaline...

(flashback... raziel was drugged, wearing lab clothing and sitting on a chair in 
the lab, zaphkiel enters)

zaphkiel : listen. it's my job to investigate these inhumane acts, but I can't 
save you if you don't want to be helped. ...that's the law. I know that you 
cannot move due to drugs... but because this is your first and last chance, I 
hope you will answer. do you... want to live?
text : I used all my strength to answer... or tried to answer. but I couldn't 
even move my eyes, only sweat came out... after so many minutes... finally...!
raziel : [I...] I want... to live...! (he was crying) I wanted to live so badly 
back then... that I never realized before. ever since I was young, when I felt 
that I was different from others... I've always been rejecting it.
zaphkiel (in the flashback was holding raziel) : [good... you're a strong 
child...!]
raziel : but didn't you tell me... after you saved me then?
zaphkiel : your unknown power has some sort of great light... that power is 
there for you to do something.
raziel : ...and so I think now is the time to use that power! zaphkiel-sama...! 
my dream is to become an excellent candidate and be of use. i want to help 
zaphkiel-sama find the adam kadmon-sama that you've always been searching for. 
no... it's for myself too... please let me test the degree of my power! 
(zaphkiel suddenly hugs him) za...
zaphkiel : my dream is... to see your face... with my eyes... (for a moment, he 
looked really sad)
raziel (shock) : WHA... (pushing zaphkiel away) wwwwwhat are you saying. i... if 
you want to heal those eyes, you can just go to raphael-sama and ask him, 
what...!
zaphkiel (with his funny face ^^) : I was kidding, just kidding!
raziel (looks pissed off) : [of course!]
zaphkiel : ... alright. you can take care of this. just don't say anything to 
anyone else. just please try to hurry to wake that girl.
raziel (excited) : y... yes!! (bows his exit) then excuse me!!
text : good child...
zaphkiel (standing along in his office) : these eyes can't be healed... by 
anyone...!

(raziel's in the basement talking to sara's spirit)

raziel : [who... are you? where do you come from? why are you so sad? hey... 
please wake up. please listen to my voice. please answer me, girl with the long 
hair...]

(meanwhile in gehenna, they found the dead body of the woman who was killed 
earlier)

evils : who... could have done this...! but eishera isn't the type to be killed 
so easily!

(kira picks up a flower peddle near the dead body)

kira : [... blue rose...]

(meanwhile kurai's thinking of setsuna...)

setsuna (flashback) : [sara... save sara. I'm going to yetzirah!!]
kurai : [setsuna...!! he's always like this. for sara's sake... he would do 
anything... no matter how dangerous. (looks kinda sad, sigh, then suddenly 
yell)] AH, why can't I just let go!! cheer up!!
mad hatter (suddenly appear next to her) : this is your good side. a pure heart 
that doesn't hide anything... (offer her a blue rose) making it irresistible for 
someone to destroy...!
kurai (looks up and sees the mad hatter, but rather unexcited) : [it suits 
better on your own head.] ...you're still here, mad hatter. (looks the other 
way) weren't you purposely ignoring me before, I'm just a kid when there's such 
a glamorous beauty there!
mad hatter : I'm so glad, are you jealous?
kurai (looks shocked at first *like she got caught ^^*, then explodes) : MORON!! 
NO WAY!! (sweating, veins) [of course not!!] I won't be fooled by you again! 
what do you really want? what is the real purpose for you coming here 
today--------!?
mad hatter (stand up, smile and poses) : of course it's to show you this new hat 
and my skirt *heart*
kurai (on the side, helplessly) : t... this guy~~~~~ (sweatdrops) ...... I... 
didn't you kiss my hand last time...? did you... put some weird curse on me... 
did you...?
mad hatter (smile) : I didn't... do anything to you...
kurai (scream) : liar! you kissed me last time pretending to be noise...!
mad hatter : I like you...
kurai (shock) : EH? (gets really pissed off and looks like she's gonna punch the 
mad hatter, who just smiles, and kurai's shaking with anger but helplessly ^^)
mad hatter (smiling) : want a kiss? [such a cute girl.] (suddenly whip out a 
lollypop) don't worry. I won't do anything to taint the princess's body before 
the ceremony. [here, it's not poisoned.]
kurai (licking the lollypop) : ceremony?
text : a little worried, but took it anyway.
mad hatter : that's right. I'll tell you something. do you know there are other 
ways to revive his body without having him to go through all that danger? (kurai 
looks shocked)
kurai : but...!! you just said yourself there's only one way...
mad hatter : there is only one way. but there are people who can perform it in 
hell also. didn't I say that resurrection... is a forbidden art...! in the holy 
books, it's written that "resurrection is the act of a demon". (take off her 
hat, there's a skull on her head) we can let your important messiah be 
revived... but there is a condition.
kurai : what... condition...!
mad hatter (playing with the skull, and a snake came out) : if angels are the 
race between god and humans... then evils are the children in the gap between 
demons and humans...! those with demon's blood but worships the dragon god and 
wishes to co-exist with nature... the holy race who lives in the topmost level 
closest to earth...! we want... that untainted blood. the evil's last princess. 
(toying with the snake) if you... would come to sheol to become our bride.

(at the same time, kira is looking for setsuna)

kira (opening door) : setsuna! are you there? (surprised) !
setsuna (cutting alexiel's hair in front of a mirror) : hey, I'm here. (turn 
around smiling) senpai, I'm gonna go to heaven!

end of Angel of the Burning Flame, part 3

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volume 07 section 05


evils : eishera was killed!? who could it be? how cruel, not to mention the 
face, the head and the entire upper body has no resemblance to her usual 
look...! who's the killer!? would it be an invasion from heaven...? (the corpse 
is holding a rose in one hand...) shouldn't be... angels shouldn't be able to 
get into anagura...!
noise (suddenly appears) : everyone... did you forget...? there is... an angel 
here with us...!
evils (she looks strange) : noise...?

Angel Sanctuary - Jahannam
Act I : Angel of the Burning Flame, Part 4

text : hey, nanatsusaya, what is your wish? when this ever-lasting war ends, and 
the world begins to take its own steps... ...when everything has ended, what 
exactly do you want?
setsuna (cutting hair) : you came just in time to help me, senpai. (kira looked 
shocked ^^)

(meanwhile...)

evils : what are you saying, noise! you...!! ...you don't mean... impossible! 
the people that princess brought back? it can't be! alexiel was exiled to the 
earth because she was with us during the war of heaven and hell.

(switch scenes)

setsuna : it's way to inconvenient to go to yetzirah with this hair. senpai, can 
you get the hair in the back? come on.
text : I can't look at you, I can't touch you. I don't have eyes, I don't have 
hands nor feet, nothing.

(switch again, gee, aren't we busy)

noise : that mudou setsuna...? I don't care if he's alexiel's reincarnation, but 
he must've been exiled to for hundreds of years? during those many rebirths, is 
it possible that she's already been brain washed by shikouten?

(switch, switch)

text : I fought without ever leaving your side. but your eyes are always looking 
past me into the distance, the far distance...

(switch yet again)

evils : that's...!! impossible...! but...! if there are spies in anagura... they 
are the most likely...! that's right...!! it must be them! that black-haired man 
is a human, and alexiel used to be an angel!!

(back to kira and setsuna)

text : at some place that's not here, at someone who's not me------!
setsuna : argh, it's hard to cut... damn..!
kira : st... [your... hair...]

(meanwhile)

noise (have this really evil look) : that messiah is a fake!! they came here to 
destroy us. (a rose...)

(and at the same time, kira grabbed setsuna's hand)

kira : stop it, alexiel... (setsuna drops the knife and looks at kira in shock)
setsuna : alex...iel...?
mad hatter (flashback, smiling) : [we can bet on it...!! no one will see you as 
you. all they want is the great alexiel.] (he turns away very hurt from kira)
kira : ...... setsu...
setsuna (face covered in shadow) : ...you don't want me to cut it? because... 
this is alexiel's hair...? (kira didn't answer) but I really hate this hair. 
it's heavy, annoying and beautiful...! I think about alexiel every time I see 
it. is it the same for you? what happened in the past that don't know? you... 
loved alexiel?

(silence... scene fades out...)

kurai : you want me to become the bride of hell...?
mad hatter : the one who rules the heart of the seven levels of hell "sheol", 
the great lord of darkness, to become lucifer-sama's bride. when we defeat the 
army of angels, you will become the queen of the world. and then lucifer-sama's 
blood together with your pure blood from the genealogical tree of evils... will 
continue to flourish the earth forever. isn't it magnificent? don't you think 
it's such an honor?
kurai : not at all!
mad hatter : at least consider it first.
kurai : [the commander of the army of darkness, their emperor lucifer...!! you 
want me to have a political marriage... with such a scary guy...!?] that's... 
that's ridiculous, and you suddenly mentioned something so big...! I...! your 
joking... you must be joking...! I can't even think about this!! (looks 
depressed again, licking the lollypop) [plus... how can i... marry anyone 
feeling like this...!!]
mad hatter (as if seeing through kurai) : ......
kurai : are there no other ways! mad hatter!! don't act so nonchalantly! it all 
because you tease me so much, that I almost thought you were going to propose to 
me.
mad hatter : that's impossible. I'm not a man-------

(... the lollypop falls out of kurai's hand as she just from with a huge 
sweatdrop)

mad hatter : eh?
kurai (looks really shocked, sweatdrops) : what... did you... just say... 
(screaming, grabbing mad hatter's shirt) you're... not a man... eh? 
EEEEEEHHHHHHHHH-------!?
mad hatter (laughing) : so you really thought I was a man?
kurai : i... it's because of your voice, and you're tall, either ways you're 
like a guy...! [wait. (glare at the mad hatter, the words on top of her head 
says "currently analyzing", the mad hatter is just sitting there, smiling, 
letting kurai examine her) now looking at it, the chest is flat and the 
shoulders are narrow... seems very fragile...! (but the chest is still very 
flat?) and voice is a man? that's what I thought, but now that he mentioned it, 
I don't really sound like it anymore...!?] (thinking) oh... oh no, I can't tell 
what's his gender anymore...!! (sweatdrops, yell at mad hatter) doesn't matter 
what it is!! it's all your fault for not dressing by your gender!
mad hatter (glare at kurai) : [look who's talking...] (smile slightly... but 
these words came from her heart) do you hate me if you can't tell whether I'm a 
man or woman? are you also so limited by the boundaries set by god? (kiss the 
snake that she's playing with) can't it not matter? man or woman, race or class, 
laws and morals... what fun could there be to be bounded by those things? a 
long, long time ago, on a certain street by the dead sea... as for whether these 
are meaningless things, I once did an experiment there.
text : -------break the commandments-----
a sweet liquor named "the original sin" forbidden by god
leading them to the door of pleasure in the wild feast.
mad hatter : pushing those weak, seduced humans, leading them to wickedness, 
living by their desired. when those people were freed from their rigid chains, 
do you know what happened------
kurai (looks shocked) : [the fallen cities of sodom and gomorra...!?]
text : woman and woman, man and man. parents with children, sister with brother. 
man and their neighbor's wife, people with beasts. they mate, rob and kill. to 
reach their desires, they greedily feed on each other's flesh until they turn 
into white bones. look, the truth of your children on your beloved earth. and 
such prosperous capitals.
mad hatter : and the furious god rained sulfur and flames on the streets, 
burning and destroying everything. and so I wicked name was known throughout the 
world, for I successfully created a despicable stain on that assiah under god's 
protection. (smile)
kurai (jump up) : [it must be that...! I know it too, the famous legend of 
darkness...!] then that means... you are... one of the seven generals of the 
demons, the demon lord's right hand...! belial... (she looks shocked ^^)
mad hatter (puts a finger on kurai's lips) : I am only the "mad hatter". only he 
is allowed to call me by my real name.
kurai : [the elegance, and the beautiful face which proves that she was once an 
angel, with her genius art of speech, the great demon who deceive the people she 
sees, luring them into corruption...!!]
mad hatter : are you... afraid of me?
kurai : [I didn't think she was someone this big...!!]
mad hatter (a fly buzz by) : before... what I said about marriage... I was 
serious. ...you are going accept it, but please remember that if you tell this 
to anyone else, then this contract will be voided. please decide on an answer 
with your own will. ...or else, something irreparable will happen. (she catches 
the fly and squash it) you don't want to lose your important ones, do you?
kurai : damn you...! you are up to something after all!
mad hatter (a blinding light appears in her hand) : I will be waiting for your 
reply, our bride...!
kurai (cover eyes) : ! (when she opens her eyes again, the mad hatter has 
disappeared into many butterflies)
text : very soon... you will be mine. my beloved princess...!

(voice walking in the hallway alone, looking at his hand)

voice : ...... (suddenly freeze) WAHHH-----!! OH NO! what am I thinking!! 
stop~~~ stop, it's disgusting!! (^_______^ the hand that touched alexiel's 
breast) [but anyway... that messiah's image is completely different from what I 
thought. (sweatdrop) I'd go crazy to be with that strange guy any longer.] 
...... (an arrow pointing to him saying "simple minded guy") [now that I think 
about it, I feel like I've been saved]
evils : where is the messiah!? where is that traitor, that spy?
another evil : wait! we can't enter the inner palace without the princess's 
permission...
noise (leading the other evils) : the princess has decided to protect them! 
let's find the messiah first!!
voice (surprised) : [noise!?] hey!! why's everyone so murderous! noise!! you've 
been acting strangely!
noise (slap away voice's hand) : go away! I'm busy now.
voice : [the way she spoke...!?]
noise : le'ts go!
evils : right.
voice (yell after them) : w... wait!
evils : this way!!
voice: no! you can't go in there...!!

(meanwhile... raziel is in the basement facing sara's spirit... zaphkiel is 
standing by a computer as his assistant is working on it)

assistant : I know it...! it's completely locked.
zaphkiel : I see...
text : alexeil who was exiled to the human world on earth by the highest 
punishment in heaven... the data on her past reincarnations...! they're rather 
hard to obtain... no matter in what era, so that her life would be in accordance 
to the programmed path, there is always a guardian angel assigned to watch over 
alexiel. always reporting the actions of her spirit.
zaphkiel : please try it again.
assistant : yes.
text : but her unscheduled death in the past life has begun to somewhat alter 
the program. it's not entirely clear, but first the currently life... in short 
"mudou setsuna" doesn't not feel the presence of a guardian angel at all. and 
then no matter how many times I tried to access this type of information, the 
answer is top secret. the only thing that comes to mind...! that man... 
(sevotharte) the white demon who covers his face and heart under a mask. what is 
he planing this time...!?
zaphkiel : ......
raziel (flashback) : [I want to help zaphkiel-sama.]
text (zaphkiel puts a hand on his face) : I'm such a sly man. that time, I 
couldn't even kill him with my own hands. (think about the statue of the 
beautiful woman that raziel saw) anael...!! I still haven't changed at all.
assistant : zaphkiel.sama...! the chef from the kitchen contacted us... "the 
party has been prepared, I want to put it on the table sooner"...!
zaphkiel : our chef is so impatient. the guests haven't arrived yet. tell him, 
"just warm the oven now and wait."
assistant (typing) : yes... as you say...!

(switch to setsuna and kira)

setsuna : I don't know what happened between alexiel, kurai and you, but all of 
that has nothing to do with me now. but... after being in this body, memories 
and feelings come without being under my control. sometimes I don't even know if 
that's mine or alexiel's memory. I know things I'm not suppose to, and I can 
feel it...! ...something strange is happening to me.
mad hatter (flashback) : [everyone only sees the alexiel inside you.]
setsuna : that's why I hate it...!! this face and body... and this hair... it's 
so heavy to me... I want to cut everything away! I know...! no matter how short 
I cut the hair... how I change the face... this is still her body! (yell) why! I 
am myself! I can never be the great alexiel!
kira : ...great? that woman?
text : yes... in the almost forgotten past... I was thought of as a wild wicked 
sword that summons death, and sealed. until that angel fearlessly released me, 
in order to control me. blooming on the battlefield, dyed in blood, that 
beautiful vain flower. she's a berserker who piles the dead corpses mountain 
high. that frightening woman, even when it's covered in blood, her beautiful 
long hair still flows gloriously in the wind. shining in divinely under the 
reflection of light.
kira : i... I always thought... that when I have a body someday... (touch 
"alexiel" 's face) I would try to touch her. (lean closer)
setsuna : ...?
kira : even though she completely throws herself into the battlefield, she still 
can't abandon a woman's most important hair. I always thought that I would cut 
it one day. do you want to know the truth? setsuna... (grabs "alexiel" 's hair)
text : that man is the soul of the demon sword which feeds on its own blood. 
this time, it will surely bring disaster.
kira : i... hate alexiel. (has this really dark look on his face)
text : the demonic sword, nanatsusaya mitamanotsurugi.
kira : she holds my weakness, she uses the fact that she knows my secret to 
force me to fight with her.
alexiel (flashback) : then come, nanatsusaya... you are going to come, aren't 
you?
kira : but she broke the contract and fell into heaven's hands, I won't forgive 
her. I continue to chase after your soul after so many years, because I want you 
to fulfill your contract with me. I even approached you in your past life.

(meanwhile... in the room where setsuna's body is kept)

one evil : stop!! everyone calm down!
another evil : look!! the messiah's body! let's chop it into pieces.
a third : hey!! that's just pointless.
a fourth : we will avenge eishera! kill him!!

(back to kira and setsuna... setsuna looks shocked)

kira : in order to disturb your destiny, I killed the guardian angel floating 
around you... and then... raped alexiel, (pulled out the katana) and killed her 
with this.

(setsuna stares at him with wide eyes, while around his body... the evils are 
shouting)

evils : kill him!!

end of Angel of the Burning Flame, part 4

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volume 07 section 06


text (with a sketch of beliel) : yes, you were able to beautifully see through 
my lies, you were not fooled by my false appearance. I think you've done 
splendidly. but because I know those were all one-sided lies to DECEIVE the high 
powers in heaven, it DOESN'T MATTER at all. it doesn't hurt or bother me at all. 
yes, it doesn't even lay a finger on me, REALLY. why? among the angels FALLEN to 
hell who love EVIL, who live for evil, none is MORE INDECENT than myself. 
doesn't the ALL-POWERFUL one admit it? he MUST have known from the very 
beginning. the proof is that since the time he gave birth to me, hasn't he been 
calling me "Belial (treacherous)"?

Angel Sanctuary - Jahannam
Act I : Angel of the Burning Flame, Part 5

text : I've been called the forbidden one since a long time ago. (a picture of 
nanatsusaya being sealed in some lonely cave)so that I don't fall into people's 
eyes again, and create more conflicts, I was sealed inside the crystal mountain 
bound by divine lock. there has been no visitors for many centuries, just me 
living there. until that woman appeared.
alexiel (appears one day) : you look so pitiful, hm? nanatsusaya. if you want to 
be mine, then I'll help you too.
text : to me, was she the savior angel, or the messenger from hell?
nanatsusaya : [------I don't know-----------]
alexiel : nanatsusaya mitamanotsurugi.
nanatsusaya : [where do you come from, who are you?]
alexiel (smiles) : if you want to know, then let me become your master. I know. 
your soul is sealed inside here, you can't defy the one who holds the blood 
crystal.
kira : [that was the first time I saw such a woman.]
text : all those past masters who held me could not stand my evil mind and went 
crazy taking their own life. only that woman could endure it.
alexiel : [when will I free you? you want me to tell you your secret...? no, I 
still have no intention of letting you go.]
kira : yes. because of hatred, I killed that prostitute in your past life."
text : you will be with me forever, nanatsusaya------
kira : -----yes. I killed her because of hate. (note that there's been a snake 
on a wall since before)
setsuna : liar... because of hatred... you've been following alexiel...? because 
of anger, you killed my past life...?
kira (holding the katana) : I wasn't lying. I haven't changed at all. taking the 
lives of harmless things doesn't mean anything to me. (slash) just like this!
setsuna : [senpai!!]

(blood splash on the floor, meanwhile, a little cliffhanger here... go up to 
heaven)

raphael : did mika-chan come here? nope, just as you see, he didn't come.
kamael (talking to raphael through a communication screen) : sorry to have 
disturbed your fun... raphael-sama... (in his usual plain, monotonous manner)
raphael (with another woman... T.T who is kissing him as he's talking) : it 
always happens ------kamael. mika-chan hates woman, so I don't think he'd come 
to my house which smells like women's perfume. rather than here, he'd be more 
likely going to my work place full of the stinky smell of sterilizer. ------so? 
do you know where else he could've gone? -------kamael.
kamael (very slowly) : ------probably... --------he could have gone to earth...
raphael (thinking, sweatdrops) : I know you don't talk much, but this slowly... 
[can't you change it at all?] I see, in the cities where humans gather, it's 
natural that spiritual energy would gather there. it's a good place to store 
astral power. you can also say that he went down to investigate the messiah, but 
I wonder why he's so interested...... ------plus...
kamael : there's no way for him not to do anything. that guy... the demon army 
has been moving suspiciously plus the rumors of the messiah too... but he care 
about his brother the most.
raphael (goes back to kissing the girl) : ah... well. those troublesome stuff is 
none of my business, kamael.
kamael (signing off) : please excuse me...
girl : come on, raphael-sama...!
raphael : didn't I tell you to call me doctor...? [do you want to meet the 
messiah? mika-chan.]
girl : doctor... it's so painful. cure me... (moaning etc.)
raphael : [but that's just looking for trouble. even if reluctantly, there will 
be a war. because he is alexiel's reincarnation, of course he would be carrying 
that damned sword...]

(suddenly freeze... and he throws the girl back on the bed)

girl : ah!
raphael (sitting up, the "grrrr" look) : [that's right! that moron doesn't 
know...!]
girl (very surprised) : raphael-sama~~~~~!?
raphael (grabbing his shirt and leaving) : ...damn! you're such a pain, 
mika-chan!

(meanwhile, in anagura, kira slashed off a snake's head from the wall...)

a voice : heheh... eve was exiled from the garden of eden for eating the 
forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. the one who seduced her was a demon in 
the form of a snake...!
setsuna (surprised) : that bastard clown! (black feathers flying at him) 
...waah! what do you want, bastard!!
mad hatter (appears in the mirror) : this is not the time to fight amongst 
yourselves, messiah. I'll show you something good. (the scene of many evils 
surrounding setsuna's body appears in the mirror)
setsuna : [!? the reflection through the mirror...]
evils : kill him. kill the messiah's body!
setsuna : [my... real body!?] what the hell!! what are they thinking!! (running 
out) damn it! they can't!
kira (yelling after him) : setsuna, just you alone...

(he tried to grab setsuna's hand, but setsuna struggled free with a really hurt 
expression on his face, kira looked surprised... before setsuna left, he didn't 
notice that a black feather has attached itself to his shirt... now kira is the 
only one left in the room)

mad hatter (reaching out of the mirror) : you were only acting before because 
you noticed my presence, weren't you? (wrap her arms around kira's neck from 
behind) you don't really want to you know your true identity, do you? if your 
weakness is controlled, you can have a reason to stay by alexiel's side...! (she 
has a rather strange expression in her eyes... more like... wow, there's 
actually emotion... and whispers next to his ear) isn't that so...?

(meanwhile, setsuna rushed into the room where his body is kept, screaming...)

setsuna : STOP...!! (leaning against the door way, out of breath) what do you 
plan... to do to my body...? (sees all the broken stones on the ground) [the 
magic circle is broken! that means my body is...!]
evils : the messiah...!! it's the messiah! it's your fault, give us back our 
friend eishera!! kill her!! that female fox!
setsuna : [hatred in waves...! the painful murderous thoughts. yes... there was 
something like this before...!?]
evils : kill her!!
noise : wait! all of us together still can't defeat her.
voice (surprised) : [noise!?]
noise (evil smile) : use... the sword stabbed on that boy's chest! the one who 
holds that crimson crystal is the master of the sword...!
evils (all grabbing for it) : alright!! it's mine! it's mine! give it to me!

(just as noise's hand is about to touch the crystal/sword handle, kira could 
feel it, well, it is HIS body after all)

kira : stop it...!

(the nanatsusaya suddenly radiates in a brilliant light. and creates a huge 
explosion in the room)

evils : WAHHHHHH!
kira (as nanatsusaya) : ~DON'T TOUCH ME!!~
kurai (in another part of the palace, the explosion caught her attention) : !?

(the real form of the nanatsusaya mitamanotsurugi appears in front of setsuna)

kira (as if in a trance) : ~do not even touch my body...! only the one who I 
acknowledge can be my master...!! setsuna, only you are my master.~ (mad hatter 
backs off, seems a bit surprised)

(setsuna grabs the sword and he immediately looks different, like angered and 
dark...)

evils : that is... the real form of the legendary holy sword...!? but why does 
the holy sword emit such an evil aura...!! that woman...! that's an angel...? 
she's giving off a really frightening battle aura!! (they all look scared)
setsuna : [oh no... I can't control it!! that excitement I felt when I see blood 
back then...! like I'm going to lose myself and be out of control...!! so 
hot...!! is this the real meaning of what adam kadmon said, the demon sword that 
cries for blood...!?]
kira (flashback) : [yes, other than alexiel, all my other masters were 
controlled by it and became blood thirsty killers. if you can't defeat my 
negative side, then you can't realize the true meaning of wielding me. 
setsuna!!]
setsuna (seems to be under a lot of pressure) : grrr...! [no good. I'm going 
crazy...!]
evils : watch out...!! this guy's gleaming with a murderous aura.
noise : yeah... it's alright, if she hurts any one of us, it proves that she is 
the traitor! (runs up to setsuna) come, kill me!! messiah! in front of 
everyone!!
kurai (runs in) : what foolish things are you saying!! noise! setsuna!! calm 
down! if you're provoked by her... (noise still has that evil smile)
setsuna (suddenly) : NO WAY!! (the nanatsusaya glows again, and now returns to 
the blood crystal which setsuna hangs back on his neck) you guys... 
misunderstood... me. (the evils look surprised, he go takes his setsuna body) 
it's true that I was, in the past, the master of this body... the angel 
alexiel... but now I'm just a normal human who can't say or do anything great. 
it's not easy to make your guys of a different race believe me. but I just want 
to beat the crap out of those bastards in heaven and return to my homeland, 
earth. I just want those people important to me to return. so even to have one 
more person's strength and knowledge is necessary for me. but... I just want to 
have your trust now! the hatred that you feel... and the memory that you have of 
your comrades... we're probably all the same...! (all the evils are more calm 
now... kurai seems surprised by his speech... and meanwhile in the other room 
monitoring all this...)
mad hatter (back inside the mirror, talking to kira) : I see... the messiah does 
have an unimaginable charm. but... there are people who can't be communicated by 
words.
an evil (grabs setsuna's shirt) : you think you can get away with it! then why 
did eishera die!?
mad hatter : suspicion's seed will bloom with the most trivial matters.
evil : my sister......!
mad hatter : eins...
evil : ouch! (touched the feather)
setsuna : what happened!?
mad hatter : twei...
evil : the black feather on you poked me. (his hand starts to look messed up)
mad hatter (smile) : drei.
evil : wah...? WHAT...!?

(his whole upper body explodes, and blood splashes on setsuna's face... setsuna 
looks really shocked)

text : -------it blooms--------
evils (also shocked, then angered) : she killed him... the messiah... she killed 
our friend!! we saw her killing him! so she is the spy! [kill the messiah!!]

(kurai blocked them with a huge blast and yells back at setsuna)

kurai : setsuna!! there's no more use talking to these guys! take your body and 
run away!!
voice (opens up a secret passage) : this way!
setsuna (surprise) : voice!!
kurai : setsuna, take care! I'm counting on you, voice!! (looks like she's about 
to cry)
mad hatter (flashback) : [if you would become our bride, we can let the messiah 
come back to life.]
kurai : [if... I would quietly go to lucifer, then setsuna wouldn't be in danger 
anymore. but... I can't tell anyone about this... but... what... am I should I 
do!?

(in the other room, the mad hatter is laughing, like she's really enjoying 
this... but then kira slashes the mirror into pieces... mad hatter has a slight 
smile, but it's a rather sad smile. you can't see kira's face, the mad hatter's 
image falls apart in pieces)

mad hatter : you are such a heartless man... now... and back then...

(meanwhile... setsuna and voice, carrying setsuna's body flew away on a dragon)

setsuna : ...you know, this all started from you pulling the sword out of my 
body...! and noise is your twin sister too...!
voice (troubled) : she's been acting strange lately...!! like she's being 
controlled by something!! damn it...!!
text : my existence...
voice (yell back) : ah, but this doesn't mean that I accepted you! (setsuna 
smiles) anyway, we'll have to find a place to make a barrier to keep your body 
first.
text : maybe really summons disaster...
voice : oh yeah! my power is weak so that spiritual gathering may be of help. 
but... be careful because that place is a city built inside a magic dimension.

(at the same time, standing on top of a tall building, michael is looking down 
on the city of tokyo)

michae : damn these humans, are they just slow or strong... they can actually 
live in a place with such a gathering of spiritual energy. this is... assiah, 
tokyo?

end of Angel of the Burning Flame, part 5

translator's note : wah... I know I haven't done AS in a while ^^ gomen nee... 
but well, at least another volume is out... I will be away for the next week 
doing RG Veda's volume 8, but I promise I'm spending the rest of my time 
translating AS... at least up to where lucifer comes out *heart* as I said 
before, the story has entered my favorite part ^^ the jigoku arc, which ends 
somewhere around vol 11-12... then we'll be going to the shikoten arc. anyway... 
enough ranting for now, jaa...

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