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Episode 45: Half Blood

"There are six more Seven Star Angels. No matter how powerful you are, it will take time to defeat all six. If you work with us, you'll be able to reduce that time considerably."

"... the annihilation of the Seven Stars Angel should be carried out at the hands of humans, etc., so you put the rest of your power into account."

"It's only a story from your point of view. You wouldn't be the kind of balls that would back off if I told you that, either. It doesn't change my mind that it should be wiped out with human hands."

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"But it is true that my purpose and yours coincide. I don't think it would hurt to be one of them."

I think a little. Surely the soul disappearance case doesn't always stop where we defeated the main culprit Seal. Perhaps Seal has granted a [soul-absorbing] spell to non-Gabriel seven-star angels as well. Then you won't be able to say this case is over unless you bury all the Seven Star Angels. Riding this guy's invitation is one hand if you want to solve the case first...?

"Ma, I know you have a lot to think about, and I'm not telling you to respond right now. But as soon as possible...

Then suddenly, a dazzling light emanated from Sasha's body. I cover my eyes with my right arm. [M] What the hell happened?

"... what?

The next time I opened my eyes, I was flabbergasted. For there was no sign of Sasha, who should have been there earlier, and instead stood a little girl who looked five or six years old.

What's going on? What in the moment...!?

"Shit. What I did was distracted by the negotiations and forgot the [fast-growing] time limit"

"... are you kidding me, Sasha?

"No, you're not. I am the sister of an earlier woman... Yasha."

"You're Sasha, aren't you?

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After a while the girl sighed as she had noticed.

"I can't help but find out what I found out. Shall I introduce myself again?"

Girl coughs small with cohon.

"My name is Sasha. Six."

What the heck!? I screamed in my heart. Am I ever talking to a six-year-old girl?

"Until just now I was temporarily an adult by the spell [rapid growth]. This is who I am."

"... why were you purposefully imitating that?

I ask, keeping the upset off the table. [M]

"Such a thing, if you come to the bargain as a child, it will be decided because you can lick it"

"... I see"

I look seriously at Sasha as a child.

"Here, don't look so unusual"

Sasha becomes a mucky face. or... cute...!!

Cuteness that makes me want to cuddle up unexpectedly. I suppress my impulse because when I actually hold it tight, it becomes a matter of business. And when I realized that I had activated the spell [Creation] and produced a single candy ball.

"Candy, you there?

"... you, are you making fun of me? Let's have it."

Do you want it? You're a solid kid for these parts.

Sasha offered me a piece of paper after she received the candy balls. Apparently, it's a map around here. A red round mark is written at a certain point.

"The circle marks indicate the location of our Azit. If you want to be one of me, I want you to come to Ajito."

"... oh"

I got the map from Sasha.

"Please reply as soon as possible. Sometimes I want to wipe out the Seven Star Angels as soon as possible, but I don't have much time left..."

No time left? What does that mean?

"Okay, I'll let you excuse me with this"

"Wait."

Calling Sasha, who tried to walk away from the spot.

"Who are you? Possession spells are too diverse for just humans, and obviously intelligence is not something of a six-year-old. Are you really a normal person?

I got a weird pill from a suspicious tissue, and it looks like my child brain has become an adult famous detective, and it won't be like that.

In response to my question, Sasha smiled powerlessly.

"I didn't really want to talk about this... Well, let's talk about it."

After I said that, Sasha turned her back on me.

!!

The next moment I saw something amazing. [M] What a little white wing grew on Sasha's back.

"You were an angel...!?"

No, wait, that's crazy. Every angel I've ever seen had two wings on his back. But Sasha's wings grew only on the right side, that is, only one.

"You're half right. I am a child born between angels and humans."

"What...!?"

The fact of further shock struck me.

"My body is half full of angel and human blood. My mother is an angel, and my father is a human being. My mother died when I was born, and I was raised as a human by my father on this earth. So I think I'm human."

"... are there many cases where angels and humans are united?

"You can say there are few. It's actually forbidden by all national laws. But my parents' love could not be tied to the law. It's a romantic story, don't you think?

"... right"

In fact, my chest got a little hot.

"But life on earth was never easy. Born between angels and humans, I have been treated as a heretic by people and have been subjected to all kinds of discrimination"

"... discrimination, or"

I thought back to when I took Lina, my slave. Does discrimination still exist in any world? And to such a small child......

Sasha's appearance before me as an adult may have meant a kind of self-defense.

"My father raised me very dearly, desperately sheltering me like that. How many times have you been apologized for 'it's my fault'? But I respected and sincerely appreciated my father."

"... were you?

"Oh. My father was deprived of his soul by one of the Seven Star Angels the other day"

!!

Sasha grips her fist hard with a seeping look of remorse.

"I don't even know which seven-star angel did it to me. If you don't know, there's no one left to wipe out. They need to be reminded of the human pain that deprived them of their loved ones...!!"

Clear anger was felt from the words. I felt I could see why Sasha was obsessed with wiping out seven-star angels with human hands.

"... you talked too much. Forget what we're talking about."

Sasha smiles powerless again and walks out quietly.

"What an irony that I am about to annihilate an angel born from the belly of an angel..."

Sasha disappeared from before me.

It is subjected to all forms of discrimination from man and deprives him of his precious father from an angel. It was like even fate was turning Sasha against the enemy, and I was heartbroken.