Chapter 314 - The Angel's New Resolve

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"There she goes, the weeping angel…"

"Don't get closer to her, she's a failure brought by her own doing."

"She will probably perish in the first fight."

"What an unsightly sight, she never matured enough?"

"Some say that she hit herself in the head in her first day of being born…"

"Poor thing…"

"May the lord bless her."

Disgust, pity, and even hate… the only things Aruliel had her entire life in Heaven was this.

The Angels, for being created to embody the virtues, were very rough and merciless with their words, they were like sharp knives piercing Aruliel's heart, sinking her deeper into an abyss where there was nobody at her side.

There was never anyone she could count on other than herself… but due to her many insecurities, even that was very hard, she couldn't have self-confidence on herself.

She sometimes closed herself in her room, isolated from the glares and looks of everyone, ands he would sit down in the floor, reading the holy books, illuminating her mind with knowledge, seeking enlightenment within the words of ancient angels…

She tried her best to look up into the path she was walking to, bravely… she tried her hardest to interact with others, many times…

Only to be given harsh words, and rejection.

"Please move aside from our sight…"

"We don't want to do anything to do with a failure like you."

"You might be our sister, but that doesn't mean you can stalk us around!"

"I-I just… I just wanted to talk… I-I… A-Aren't we all… siblings? Why…? Why do you treat me so unfairly?" she cried.

"So selfish."

"Does she selfishly think she deserves better treatment just because she is our sister?"

"Only the most sinful of people would believe they deserve good treatment based only in such feeble things."

"If you want respect, you must achieve it through actions."

"What else have you achieved other than weeping?"

Aruliel was always left in the ground while being insulted, tears always flowed out of her eyes, even when she tried her best for them to not come out, even when she tried her best to maintain her composition… even when she tried her best to keep herself calm and composed, expressionless, like her siblings.

She simply couldn't.

Her emotions would always resurface.

She blamed herself all the time, crying in the corner of her room every day and every night.

However, after a few thousands of years, an emergency had happened an invasion from a being from outside the Universe had happened, and God had deployed Archangel Gabriel to lead a large army of Angels against this being threatening the Universe.

Aruliel was called that day, she quickly thought that it was finally time to show her power and be able to gain recognition.

She put her armor on, wore her small sword, and flew towards the plaza where all angels gathered in an army.

The glorious Archangel Gabriel greeted everyone, his beautiful appearance made Aruliel smile, as her big and innocent eyes shone brightly in surprise.

"So beautiful… Archangel Gabriel…!" she muttered.

When she was heard saying such unsightly things, the angels looked at her with scorn.

"Beautiful? Is that the only thing she sees in such a glorious figure?"

"You can't expect much of the weeping angel…"

"Unsightly…"

"I suppose we must begin praying for her, brothers, she might not make it out of this…"

"Ah yes… Poor thing."

The Archangel Gabriel had noticed her, as he glanced at Aruliel amongst the many angels.

"Your eyes are filled with beautiful life, my young sibling. May god be with you." He said.

"Ahhh…!"

Aruliel had felt vey happy. This was… perhaps the first time someone had praised her.

But this only made everyone hate her.

"S-She got praised by the glorious Archangel Gabriel?!"

"H-How?!"

"He obviously pitied her… She's just a pathetic failure after all…"

"She doesn't deserve such love…"

Aruliel ignored these words, as she found on her hear the hope, she needed…

Only for that hope to be shattered at the end.

The Forbidden One was an incredibly powerful entity. He had been devouring entire galaxies as he arrived in the Universe.

Countless innocent lives were dying against him in mere seconds.

The battle against him was filled with loses.

Many angels died, being slain, destroyed, shattered, or worse, eaten…

However, blessed by fortune, Aruliel somehow survived until the last moments, when the Forbidden One was sliced in seven large parts, which were then sliced in even more parts, and so on by the seven archangels led by Gabriel.

However, amongst such a conflict, something happened…

As the many fragments began to fall all around, and Aruliel and the other angels were evading their trajectory, she was suddenly kicked in the back by one of her fellow angels.

"Aghhh! E-Eh? Ah… W-Why?!"

A malicious smirk emerged in the face of the one that did it, while all other angels only looked at her with expressionless faces of scorn and indifference…

"Why?!"

She fell and was impacted by several fragments, which began to parasitize her.

"Uuuaagghh…! It hurts! H-Help! Help me!"

Despite her call for help, her siblings did not helped her… they all watched.

"May god be with you, sister…" they said.

And she was thrown into the lower layers of the Universe, hopelessly falling into the planet of Ginnungagap…

BOOOOMMM!!!

Filled with sorrow and pain, she fell over the trash planet, falling over an enormous hole that left a gigantic crater, in there, the fragments of the Forbidden One were about to devour her and parasitize her completely.

"Ugh… Aaghh… Ungh… It hurts… Siblings… father! Why…? Why?! I… I must seal myself… I don't want to die… Sob, sob…"

She forcefully decided to seal herself, saving herself from dying, but at the same time, she ended trapping herself in place, without being able to escape…

Through such a time, she only had nightmares of everyone looking down at her, of how everyone hated her, of how she was always seen as a failure…

The imperfect angel, Aruliel…

However, when she opened her eyes once more, she suddenly found a handsome young man with white hair, pale skin, and crimson-red eyes…

And since then, she finally learned what was having friends.

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