Chapter 247: Love Game - Set
One month ago, Rainier Eros participated and lost in a race to determine the Prime for the entirety of the Choir of Love.
His team leader, Cassiel Eros, had made the call, deciding to try to save the life of an angel who had fallen out of the sky, while their third teammate, an orcish Elevated named Ozzy was sent for help. They’d succeeded but at a cost.
A fully vested Executioner had arrived on the scene, charging Rain and Cassie with keeping the cause of the angel’s near-death a secret. Neither of them mentioned the fact that Cassie had been able to take the "footage" from the angel’s halocam - a device Rainier understood as recording images and sounds for illusions, though what that had to do with feet was beyond him...
"You fucking tried to kill me! What the fuck I ever do to you?" the little illusion of the demon shouted as for the dozenth-time Rain and Cassie watched from the point of view of the angel. The illusion remained on her until something happened and the halocam wound up on the ground. A grey demoness with four arms, grey skin, and pink hair. One of her upper arms had been wounded by the civilian angel’s clumsy attempt to fire on her with a weapon that Rain was unfamiliar with.
"I’m from Norneau, asshole!" the demoness said off camera, before a wet sound signaled the moment she slashed his throat.
"It was self-defense," Rain said, watching Ozzy’s face. The orcish Elevated - one who had been transubstantiated to as near-angelic as they could be - remained impassive. It was the first time Rain and Cassie were showing their teammate the truth of what had happened, since they’d only discovered the truth after Ozzy had been sent off.
"I’m more worried about how a demon got into the mycelium layer," Cassie said.
"The answer is obviously a perdition gate," Ozzy said. Perdition gates formed between Heaven, Hell, and Ayther when the Eye of Hell, a massive volcano on the Hell-moon, grew active enough to cast away great clouds of ash. Heaven didn’t know why the gates formed then, and the worlds below were even more ignorant, but they had the ability to direct the openings of gates into and out of Heaven thanks to their use of portal rings.
"Yeah, we came up with that too, but as a demon, she shouldn’t be able to survive down there long."