GRIM REAPER'S GIRLFRIEND

TWENTY-ONE

"One thing you can't do while you're in heaven. Can't stare! Don't stare at anyone, you look into the eyes of the angels it's considered humiliation especially you're not from heaven."

Jonathan, Jonathan's friend Andrea and Aya manage to get inside the gate in exchange for the huge creature.

"I didn't think it could be useful, thankfully you forced me that time." Nodding friend Jonathan.

Jonathan replied with a grin.

"But it's terrible if you look at it - it's already big, it looks also spooky." Aya hugged her own body recalling the sprawled creature.

"Say he can live." Jonathan's friend spoke to Jonathan. "How is it?"

"Their strengths are different from our strengths, the way they work is different. So no need to be surprised anymore" replied Jonathan.

Aya and Andrea looked at each other. I don't understand what Jonathan and his friend mean.

"Where are we, by the way? How to get through the gate even look like this forest." Aya opened her hood to look around her.

"Don't open your hood, Aya." Reproach friend Jonathan.

"But this is the angel area, is that okay?" ask Aya to Jonathan to find a defense.

Jonathan smiled and shook his head. "Well to wear, the angel is very sensitive to humans, you wear the robe alone is enough to disguise your human smell."

"Are angels that bad?" ask Aya while wearing her hood.

"No, they're just good. But they've been a little upset lately because their favorite place was vandalized by humans" said Jonathan's friend.

"You know where we're headed?" ask Andrea to Jonathan.

Jonathan nodded. "I got reliable information."

Andrea smiled. He was too tired to hear the grunts of Aya and the words of Jonathan's friend. "Faster is better."

Jonathan patted Andrea on the back gently. He knows how Andrea is doing now. "If you're tired, you can tell me."

Andrea nodded slowly.

"Ah, look."

Andrea, Aya and Jonathan turned their heads in the direction Jonathan's friend pointed. In front there is a hill that is no longer a view of the forest but a large and spacious palace below. Andrea walked over and saw the scenery below.

"We have to walk down?" ask Andrea.

"Descending down the hill will not make you tired. Especially in a world like this." Answer Jonathan's friend.

Andrea overran Jonathan, demanding an explanation.

"What he said is indeed true.the proof is that you two go that far not tired, right?"

Andrea and Aya looked at each other. It is true what the two men said.

"Who are you?"

Andrea, Aya, Jonathan and his friend are back. The four of them saw a beautiful woman wearing a kemben with her hair unraveling to her waist looking at them suspiciously. "Angels take away lives and people?"

Jonathan takes a step forward to protect Andrea. "He's my fiance."

"Tuna... ah! I've heard of someone doing a ritual.I didn't expect to come here." Laugh at that beautiful woman.

"Isn't it part of the ritual to meet an angel?" aya asked curiously, her head lowered by the hood.

"Well, but most did not survive before meeting the auxiliary angel." That beautiful woman.

Aya and Andrea gulped.

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Seroja frowned looking at the pool water.

"Is there something you see, Your Majesty?" tanya Seruni while carrying a tray containing the glass to Seroja.

"Andrea is in the sky."

Seruni was shocked. "But how?"

"Muse-cheek. They brought humans."

"Man?"

"How do they bring humans? In the ritual, Miss Andrea can't be said to be human, can she?" ask Seruni.

"Jonathan's friend who took him, it seems that the unstable angels did not know that bringing humans brought benefits to them." Seroja takes tea in the tray. "I have to get ready for the worst."

"You should have taken care of Miss Andrea. Those angels are really unbelievable."

"Save your anger later, the most important thing is we have to get ready, prepare the room as well." Seroja drank the tea in one gulp, returned the glass to the tray and stood up.

"You're gonna catch up with them?" ask Seruni.

"Of course."

"But-"

"I can't let Andrea be in a dangerous situation." Cut Seroja.

Seruni fell silent and only saw the back of her master walking away. "May you succeed." His whispers in his heart.

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Andrea and Aya sat at a circular table while watching the beautiful woman who was serving snacks to the two of them.

"Angels don't need food here, but you both need it very much" said the beautiful woman, pushing the two small plates in dean Andrea and Aya.

"Before coming we had eaten anyway-" Aya stroked her stomach, and only realized that she was rumbling.

"You'd better take off that black robe, it's annoying, '" the beautiful woman scolded. "Nobody's gonna touch a human here."

Aya opened the hood of the robe hesitantly. "really?"

"The heaven is not very fond of humans but also can not touch them," replied the beautiful woman.

"Are you an angel?" jonathan asked suddenly.

"How do you think?" the beautiful woman smiled and asked Jonathan. "I know your purpose here but I didn't expect you to bring humans here."

"Inadvertently." Jonathan glanced at his grumpy friend in front of the window. "Do you know of any angels who helped me?"

Both the pretty woman's eyes blinked. "How do I know that you didn't tell me his name."

"His own?" ask Andrea to Jonathan.

Jonathan shook his head. "It's been a long time, don't remember."

Andrea and Aya sniffed.

"I think it's coming and done, besides it's so desperate to come here without anyone knowing the angel." Complain Aya in a soft voice.

"The two of you should go out and help the gatekeeper to research our magical beasts" the beautiful woman drove to Jonathan and his friend.

Jonathan pulled his friend out of the house made of whole wood. "Come on!"

Jonathan's friend could only be pulled away.

The beautiful woman followed Jonathan and his friend from behind and made sure they had walked away and closed the door quietly. "Well, ladies. There must be a lot of questions on your mind."

Aya took off her robe. "A lot of questions but we're confused where to start."

"Surely I can't answer regarding rituals or should we talk about the problems of women in the world? I haven't played in the human world in a long time." The beautiful woman sat in front of Andrea and Aya.

Aya scratched her non-itchy head.

"It's wise that your future husband says it all." The beautiful woman had her chin up with both hands on the table. "Aren't you scared, Andrea?"

Andrea looked at the beautiful woman with a look 'how do you know my name?'

"All the angels have heard the name of you and Jonathan, the angel who is now named."

"I-I want to ask-is there another angel like Jonathan? half-human?" asked Aya curiously.

The beautiful woman looked at Aya with a smile. "Why indeed? envious of your friend?"

Aya shook her head. "No, thank you. Although there is such a wish but no-"

"When you wait for your fiancee and her friend to come, you should eat the cake while talking a little about the human world."