Miko Yotsuya never imagined that she, who had no intention of studying medicine, would suddenly one day witness various human organs, viscera, and even skeletons.
At the thought of those bloody and brutal images, she couldn't help but dry heave.
Only after the sounds of fighting vanished did Miko Yotsuya dare to open her eyes and look toward a corner of the warehouse with the corner of her eye.
The severed limbs and broken arms covering the floor were encased in a layer of golden light, melting rapidly like ice and snow under a scorching sun.
Countless light particles rose from the corpse of the Evil Spirit into mid-air, then became transparent like a phantom bubble until they vanished completely.
In the narrow open space.
Mika Misono, whose body was gradually becoming transparent, turned around and gave Miko Yotsuya a slight smile. After waving her hand in farewell, she transformed into a cluster of dense Light Element and disappeared.
The Light Element diffused rapidly in ripples. The Little Old Men hiding in the shadow corners immediately showed terrified expressions; they had just intended to flee the warehouse when they were Purify by the spreading Light Element!
A few seconds later.
Inside the warehouse, the persistent smell of mold in the air suddenly vanished, and the air became incomparably fresh.
"It's over..."
Miko Yotsuya snapped back to her senses, her racing heart finally settling.
As soon as she looked up, she discovered that Yuria from Class 2 had approached her at some point, looking at her with an expression of both fear and concern.
Seeing Miko Yotsuya look over, a flash of panic crossed Yuria's face, but she still mustered her courage and asked with concern:
"Are you... alright? Do you want to go to the Health Office to rest? If it's difficult for you to move, I can carry you there."
"No, no need, thank you!"
Miko Yotsuya felt the dampness below, and her originally pale cheeks rapidly heated up. Enduring the sense of shame, she hurriedly shook her head in refusal.
She then scrambled tremblingly to her feet. Although her legs were still a bit weak, it didn't hinder her normal walking.
Yuria hesitated for a while beside her before asking cautiously: "Um... what you shouted just now, did it have some deep meaning? Or was it just purely... Chuunibyou?"
Miko Yotsuya's shout from just now, which was overflowing with Chuunibyou, had left her completely bewildered.
It was entirely incoherent and nonsensical.
If she didn't know about Miko Yotsuya's special nature, she would have thought Miko Yotsuya had mental issues.
"...Ahem, just consider it as me performing some kind of Spell."
Hearing this, Miko Yotsuya knew that Yuria couldn't see that Pink-haired Angel.
At the thought of how she appeared from an outsider's perspective—suddenly shouting and screaming neurotically at the air—she was so ashamed that her toes instinctively began to curl against the soles of her shoes.
"Eh?! But I didn't see any other Evil Spirits appear just now..."
"Niguredou-san! There are some things that neither you nor I can see. Just now, you were almost bitten in the head by a terrifying Evil Spirit! Whether or not you believe what I say, please remember: in the future, do not easily expose the fact that you can see like you did today, do you understand!"
"What!"
Yuria's eyes instantly widened, her face full of disbelief.
Do Filthy things that even she can't see really exist?
This news almost overturned Yuria's understanding.
She gritted her teeth unwillingly and looked up to re-examine Miko Yotsuya, attempting to expose the other's lie.
But seeing the other's incomparably solemn and serious appearance, she felt as if she were looking at her former self.
If she didn't believe Miko Yotsuya's words, wouldn't she be just like those people who didn't believe she could see ghosts?
Yuria hesitated for a moment and finally chose to believe for now.
After imagining the scene of her head almost being bitten off by an Evil Spirit, she suddenly shuddered.
"I... I understand. Although I don't know what happened just now, I can still tell that you saved me... Um, thank you, Yotsuya-san."
Just then, a gust of wind blew by. Yuria suddenly felt a chill on her neck, making her scalp go numb.
She looked back behind her.
There was clearly just a pile of haphazardly placed sports equipment in front of her, but she constantly felt like something she couldn't see was lingering there.
Thinking of how she had just narrowly escaped death, Yuria shifted her steps, wanting to get closer to Miko Yotsuya to find a sense of security.
However, Miko Yotsuya took a few steps back, her expression becoming very unnatural.
"It's great that you can believe me. Anyway, Niguredou-san, if there's nothing else urgent, we should head back. Looking at the time, School is almost over."
Miko Yotsuya reminded her with an awkward expression.
She was surprised and shocked that Yuria would directly believe her words.
But that wasn't the issue she should be most concerned about.
At this moment, Miko Yotsuya only wanted to flee this place of gossip and quickly get out of her drenched underwear.
If this matter were exposed, she would suffer a social death and wouldn't be able to stay in this School any longer.
"Please wait a moment, I still have one very important thing to ask you!"
"What is it?"
"I met that Tenma-kun. She said she once invited you to witness The End of the World together. May I ask, is that true? Did she really almost destroy this world?"
Yuria stared tensely at Miko Yotsuya.
If Miko Yotsuya's Yin-Yang Eyes (Spirit Vision) were higher grade than her own, then she must be able to see the secrets on Gabriel!
"She actually told you even that..."
Miko Yotsuya was surprised, but in order to keep Yuria from being afraid, she comforted her: "How should I put it, there was such a thing. But don't worry, Gabriel is a very good person; she wouldn't do something like destroying the world."
"In other words, Gabriel White Tenma really has the ability to destroy the world! Who is she, an Archdemon or some terrifying Evil God? She's definitely not human!"
Yuria instantly imagined various terrifying identities for Gabriel, her expression becoming more and more frightened, but then another question arose: "If she's an Evil God or something, why can she release such incomparably holy light?"
"Because Gabriel is an Angel."
"I see, that explains it... Wait! What did you just say she was?!"
"You didn't hear wrong, Gabriel is indeed an Angel."
"Ha?"
Yuria could hardly believe her ears.
She had visited many Shrines over the years and had also been to churches, but she had never once seen a trace of the Deities.
In the end, she had thought that so-called Deities simply didn't exist in this world.
But now you're telling me that the new Transfer Student is an Angel!
"The angel next to me?!"
Yuria felt like her heart was about to jump out, and then she followed up with another question: "Yotsuya-san, you said Tenma-kun won't destroy the world. Is that guaranteed?"
"Ah, this... if she doesn't go through Falling from Grace."
Miko Yotsuya wasn't sure herself.
"Falling from grace... I understand. As long as we prevent Tenma-kun from falling from grace, we can protect this world, right!"
"...Maybe, but in any case, whether from a friend's perspective or the world's perspective, I don't want to see Gabriel Falling from Grace."
"Please let me get involved too. Let's work together to stop Tenma-kun from falling from grace."
"I don't mind... Um, can I go now? It's getting late, and I want to change my clothes. It's quite cold right now..."