"You..."

I've seen shameless people before, but never someone this shameless! But you hit a sore spot.

"Are you even a man? Look down there first before saying that!"

"Although my body is no longer that of a man, my spirit remains!"

Cyra stood with her hands on her hips, righteously looking at me as she spoke. She even brought up the god she believed in to help her argument.

"Besides, what man isn't a playboy? It would be a problem if they weren't! I'm sure the Lord thinks so too!"

"Sweetheart, I'm afraid I have to leave first. Don't miss me too much."

After getting dressed, she didn't even look at me. She bid farewell to the two light sprites still sitting on the bed, then walked out the door.

"Um... Lady Feliciana, please don't be angry!"

Seeing how I reacted earlier, the two light sprites squeezed together and clarified in a cowering voice.

"We were the ones who asked to do those things with Lady Cyra, so please don't blame her too much."

"You two... sigh!"

I glanced at them, hesitating to say more. Oh well, they're all girls anyway... I could only sigh and hurry after her.

But I had barely reached the door when it was pushed open again, almost hitting me in the head.

"Um..."

Cyra stood at the door, scratching her head awkwardly.

"I just remembered my wings are broken so I can't fly. I'll have to trouble you to be my transportation again."

"Damn transportation service!"

I grabbed Cyra by the collar without another word and rushed out of the room. All that followed were her continuous screams and shrieks.

"Whoa! Hold on tight or I'll be finished if my clothes rip!"

"Finished is fine, you can go accompany Norma!"

Although I said that, I still reached out with my other hand to grab her arm.

"From your attitude earlier, could it be you were still a virgin before crossing over?"

As soon as she felt secure, this jerk's mouth started spewing nonsense again. I even heard sighing from below.

"Tsk tsk, so you changed without any real experience. How pitiful..."

"Hey! What makes you say that? Just because I don't approve of your messing around means I'm a virgin?"

I couldn't hold back anymore. I was shocked she hit the mark, damaging my ego.

"At least I had a girlfriend in high school! You were just jealous back then!"

"Hmph, so what about high school? I know how gutless you are, not even daring to hold hands. How could you possibly book a hotel room?"

Cyra snorted disdainfully and then her voice turned smug.

"Let me tell you, I got together with a real beauty right after graduating high school! Haha, so I became an adult a long time ago!"

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"What! You had a girlfriend in college?"

I looked at her in surprise. Suddenly something felt off.

"But didn't you become a priest later? Priests can't get married, right? Doesn't that mean you broke up?"

"We didn't break up..."

Her voice now sounded melancholy, but she added:

"She died. About one year after we started dating, she died."

"Oh, sorry to hear that."

I didn't expect this. From her tone, it was obvious she had much stronger feelings for this girlfriend than Norma. I suddenly felt some sympathy for her.

Could joining the Church later have something to do with this?

"It's nothing. After all, it was a long time ago."

Although she said that, I could still sense the sadness in Cyra's tone.

After years without contact, everyone has their own unknown stories.

I couldn't help feeling emotional. As I looked ahead at the land, I realized we had entered the neuclear blast radius.

"Look at the mess you caused. It'll probably take years to recover."

Gazing at the collapsing trees below, I couldn't help but speak up.

"Luckily Edenmere has low population density and hydrogen bombs have little radiation. Otherwise, Elara would kill you if she knew."

"I had no choice at the time! I was desperate and couldn't win in a direct fight. I could only throw it out to test the power. Who knew..."

Cyra's voice also sounded uncertain. After a long pause, she suddenly spoke again.

"What if I told you I received a prophecy to do this? Would you believe it?"

"Prophecy? You mean from your Lord?"

I didn't understand what she meant by suddenly bringing this up.

"When I first saw Michelle burn down the trees, my first reaction was to run away. But suddenly, it was as if a voice rang out in my mind telling me: you can throw the hydrogen bomb now, this is the time, do it now! Only then did I remember I still had the gas collector ball from Reed in my pocket, so I threw it out."

As Cyra spoke, her voice also seemed uncertain.

"Perhaps this nuclear explosion was also the will of the Lord... maybe."

"Ha? Are you sure your Lord isn't just a scapegoat?"

I was speechless. She made it sound so fantastical and brought up her Lord again.

Her Lord ordained the crossing, approved fooling around with elf girls, and now even sanctioned throwing nukes...

This Lord is so versatile! No wonder she follows so devoutly! It makes me want a Lord like that too!

"Hmph! I knew an obstinate person like you would never accept the Lord's gospel!"

Cyra huffed, seemingly unsurprised.

"But in any case, Lady Elara also acknowledged Michelle as the biggest threat. The damage is great, but at least Edenmere should be safe now, right?"

"I guess the spatial swaps did stop..."

I had to admit that point. Although we were still far away, the city was still standing there clearly. I didn't see any signs of magic use either, so could the battle be over?

"Spatial swaps?"

Cyra cried out in surprise, realizing it suddenly.

"So when the light suddenly darkened earlier, it was because we got swapped to the Dark Continent? In other words, this incident was caused by the Gadra's Eye thing you got hit by before?"

"It's Galadra's Eye!"

I couldn't help but correct her and explain again:

"It's something Michelle created that can do large-scale spatial swaps. The sudden blackout like a power failure happened because the entire city of Edenmere got swapped to the Dark Continent. Then for some reason we swapped back again, though I don't know why."

"I see, no wonder when I was with the angel guards killing monsters, even the angels didn't know what was going on.

Cyra immediately understood and then thought of something else.

"Speaking of which, does that mean Nicola and Reed were left behind when we escaped the Dark Continent? But we didn't see them when we came back!"

"Maybe the directions were off? The path we took to escape back then seemed to be eastward, while the arena was in the south. Not running into each other makes sense..."

I didn't mention another possibility. To be honest, I was very worried. That is, they may have entered the lake area on the other side when the city swapped back. In that case, they likely got swapped to the Dark Continent as well! That would bode ill.

"Let's just go see the situation first."

The rest of the way we traveled in silence. When we finally arrived, the entire city was quiet with monster corpses piled everywhere. Of course, even if angels had died, they wouldn't leave any traces behind.

As for the buildings, they were a complete mess. Not only were many destroyed in the initial monster invasion, but the nuclear shockwave also caused massive damage. Even many of the shorter rooftops were blown off.

Looking around, the once elegant and luxurious angel city now looked like a massive garbage dump, with few intact buildings in sight.

"Look, an angel is flying over there!"

Cyra pointed ahead and shouted at me.

"Since there are still angels around, things should be under control."

I also noticed and quickly headed toward the target.

"You are... Feliciana?"

Seeing us approach, the angel was surprised at first but recognized me immediately and flew over as well.

"What is the situation now? We just got back and don't know about the invading monsters."

"Of course, they were annihilated! Not long after the sky returned to normal, our comrades who went to the arena outside the city quickly rushed back to assist. We then clear out all the monsters in the city with absolute advantage. We're now searching everywhere by Lady Elara's orders, looking for any stragglers."

Hearing the reply, we both breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed likely Nicola and Reed were among the angels who came to reinforce.