Chapter 37: Plague Maiden of Eternal Life and Rotting Death
The Fauna they were speaking of wasn’t just anyone.
No, she was, Fauna Lumirielle Necrosia, one of the Five Battle Angels, ascended now into the ranks of the divine, worshipped across nations as the, "Plague Maiden of Eternal Life and Rotting Death".
Her SSS-Class blessing was as miraculous as it was horrifying.
With a single touch, she could restore a man on the brink of death, even if his limbs had been severed, even if his body rotted with incurable disease.
To those who saw her radiant light, Fauna’s gift seemed nothing short of saintly, her hands glowing with warmth that could rival the mercy of God Himself.
But in the very same breath, she was also feared.
For that gentle touch could turn cruel in an instant. If she willed it, she could summon pestilence to sweep through entire nations, causing organs to fester, bodies to twist and blacken, and the air itself to choke with rot.
To anger Fauna was to invite genocide, to beg for a slow, agonizing end as plagues consumed all life.
She was a being of contradiction, life and death, blessing and blight, a figure both beautiful and terrifying in equal measure.
But none of that was why Mika trembled now.
No...Mika’s fear came from something entirely different. Something far more personal.
Fauna, for all her divine power, was utterly helpless when it came to her feelings for him.