16. Chapter 16 (1/2)
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when we arrived, lacus quietly explained that yuu was being held in one of the cells on the lower levels. i nodded before heading there; the lower levels of purgatory once held reapers, who
oke the law, but since krul took over there was no need. she threaten to kill anyone who
oke any of the reaper's laws.
i descended the steps as quickly as i could, any powers i used would leave me open to be found by krul. i turned a corner towards the end of the stairwell to arrive at a hallway with iron bars on both sides. not sure whether i was alone down here, i kept quiet and instead walked down, glancing to both sides for any sign of yuu. a human doesn't belong here, if anything living does spend too much time here: they will burn through whatever remaining time they have and die.
muffled noises that almost resembled voices finally entered my ears and i felt my chest leap, i picked up my pace towards the voices. i stopped outside a cell and inside i found asuramaru walking over to someone.
"yuuichiro amane, right? no, you're yuuichiro hyakuya now, aren't you?" he spoke to the other person in the cell and the moment he spoke yuu's name, i spoke up.
"yuu!" both of them whipped around in surprise.
asuramaru was the first to recover from the shock of my arrival, he stepped to the side which allowed me to rush over to yuu's side and wrap my arms around him protectively. his eyes followed me and didn't leave even as i glared up at him, silently threatening him not to harm yuu or else.
"yuuichiro, i want to apologize for the hell i've put you through… i was sure that my little sister wouldn't find out about you," i'm sure my shock was plainly written on my face as i listened to his apology because he laughed before adding: "you two should leave… it's mikaela, right? you need to leave with him…"
i really didn't need him, of all people, to tell me that, but nonetheless i nodded my head in agreement. i stood up, dragging yuu to his feet in the process, but as i went to leave yuu suddenly spoke up: "why didn't you take my soul that day?"
"would you be upset if i said 'i lost a bet'?" he chuckled, stuffing his hands into the pockets of his pants, before adding: "mikaela, let's test your knowledge… what has the ability to
eathe life into the human world?"
"angels," i replied, my mind wondering over to an earlier conversation i had had with yuu.
"exactly, but as many reapers know – we aren't on good terms with those glowing bastards, but of course we have to have some sort of common ground so we can discuss the fate of a human's soul once it has been reaped" it was strange how mature he sounded, it didn't fit with the childish antics i expected every time i saw him, "there is a small number of angels that we, reapers, actually deal with. this group also happens to be quite high among the ranks of the angels, especially one in particular… though i'm sure you've never actually seen or met him in your time spent here. kiseki-o, for a lack of better words, he is the head honcho among the angels. he also happens to be the reason young yuuichiro is still alive… the night you were supposed to die, kiseki-o interrupted my reaping so he could collect on the little bet we had,"
"what was the bet about?" i glanced at yuu in disbelief; that's what he wants to know?! no anger about having the fate of his soul decided on by a likely childish bet.
asuramaru laughed, "i made a bet with kiseki-o that the next time we were both in the human world that i could eat fifty buffalo wings in thirty minutes,"