"So then, what I've gathered from this..." I reckoned, "Is that you and I need to get married."
"Stop!" She blushed.
"As God is my witness, so it shall be!" I yelled, grabbing her hand before kneeling down on one knee, "Madame, we've gone through so much together! Verily, I see, you and I are destined to be, Vastoria!"
"M-Migu, tone it down a bit-!"
Pinch.
"Eep!" She yelped the moment I made contact with her wings, the feathers rustling crazily as she struggled to regain her composure.
Well, I can certainly see the appeal of teasing Vastoria. My past self definitely had a great vision, this is exactly as I imagined it to be! But though I call it teasing, I'm also not saying I would dislike the notion of us dating. She's just my type, I'd wager!
"Great, you two lovebirds can just continue on with whatever you're doing." Throne got up from the sofa, "Meanwhile I'll be getting out of the nest. Wouldn't wanna, encroach on your honeymoon."
"Hey, wait!" Vastoria flew in front of him, blocking the exit as she did, "Seriously now, no more jokes!"
"Hm, divorced already?" He plainly replied, "Guess that's to be expected with shotgun weddings."
"I said no more wisecracking!" She shouted, "We need to figure out what exactly happened last cycle after Migu and Sab left my island."
"You said this happened quite late into the cycle, right?" Throne sighed, realizing he still had involvement in this, "Depending on how few hours they had left, we can assume they couldn't have gone far."
"Wait, if our goal is to retrace my steps, then shouldn't we go and look for this Sab guy?" I asked.
Soon after that, the two looked at me with a troubled gaze before muttering something to themselves. Right, both of them share the rank of seraphim. In other words, even if something went amiss and I happened to lose all my memories, I can rest assured in knowing they'll both rush to get me back on track. Though it'd probably get annoying, so if possible, I should look for a way to make it easier for them to give me the gist.
"Then, let's think things through first before just continuing in a random direction." Vastoria explained, "What would be the most likely direction she and Sab would have gone to...?"
"If it's late into the night, then I assume we'd have gone straight home, no?" I shrugged, "Even now, all I wanna do is get this over with so I can go back to sleep."
"Seriously? We could be on the verge of a very important breakthrough, and your only thought is of your bed?" Vastoria asked.
"You're free to join me if you want." I merely suggested, "It's a really comfy bed."
Ah, I just realized how that sounded. Vastoria, I hope she doesn't get the wrong idea-Aaand she's blushing. This girl is quite perverted in her own way, no? I genuinely didn't mean anything bad when I said that, but she just assumed I did. Hmph, how rude, I wonder where in the world she would ever get that image of me?
"You're both extremely stupid." Throne interjected.
"What now?" I groaned.
Before me, he held up the map we used to get here. Using his finger, he pointed to a small doodle of a house near the island we were at.
"How could you have known to draw the Gods' Abode if you've never visited it before?" He impatiently tapped on it, "After hearing Vastoria's retelling of last cycle's events, I'm certain—You live in between my house and hers, and the Gods live a few blocks after this island. In other words...?"
"They MUST have gone to the Gods, then!" Vastoria continued the sentence.
"Good, you've successfully grasped basic cognitive sense!" He praised her with an underhanded compliment.
"Hey!"
"Right, now that we have an end destination established, we ought to focus on one last pickle left in the jar." He paced around the room, "Why exactly were you at the Gods' Abode, and furthermore, what could you have found out that made you so adamant about not wanting to forget it?"
That's... Whoa, he's really given this whole thing a ton of thought. Honestly, I couldn't care less, since right now I just wanna have peace of mind when I go back to sleep. Hm? Back to sleep? Now that I think about it, by the time I wake up, won't it already be the next cycle? I'll have lost all my memories, and I've already washed off the ink on my chest. If I just told these guys to not bug me after the fact, won't I be free to enjoy an eternal life in Heaven, day after day? Yeah, I already sent them off on their mission, so they don't really need me holding them back.
"You two, I got a question." I raised my hand as a dutiful student would, "Can I go home now?"
"Migu?" Vastoria's gaze pierced my heart.
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"Hm..." Even Throne seemed disgruntled before accepting it, "Well, we're not forcing you to participate. It's a very natural thing to expect from an angel, just throwing away your responsibilities and basking in what little time you have left."
"You make everything sound so pessimistic..." I chuckled.
"No, but... We can't just leave you now!" Vastoria had a completely different opinion on this, however, "You're crucial!"
"How come?" I asked truthfully, "I can't fly, I can't retain my memories... Honestly, you'd have so much extra time on your hands if you just forgot about me and continued investigating on your own. Or quit if it's a hassle, I don't really care."
"Migu..." Vastoria turned her back towards me, and in the next moment.
"Couldn't have said it better myself." Throne glared at me with an incredibly suppressed rage, "Have fun on your own. As per usual, we seraphim will be the only ones actually making a difference in this damned place."
Without even giving me time to reply, time to think for that matter, he flapped his wings to send me flying out of the front doors. The force propelled me back so far I even flew clean off the island. Guess he must not have accepted my decision so easily after all, but at this point it's too late to go back. I've made my choice.
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"Baaaaaaahhhh~!" I yelled, screeched for my life until the moment of impact, "Oomph!"
Ah. Ah? Ah, alive. And surprisingly enough, I can stand up just fine. I just can't get used to feeling zero pain, it's kind of scary in its own way. Throne and Vastoria, will they be fine on their own...?
"Tch, what am I thinking?" I looked up at the island, "They can only be better off now that they don't have to lug deadweight like me around anymore. Huh?"
From the island flew off 2 angelic beings. A female and a male seraphim spread their wings with pride as they soared through the skies above. No one around me seemed to notice or even care for them, it was just me that was staring up at the sky in shock. They were fast, I can only assume whatever they were doing, they had to get it done quick.
"Y-Yeah, thank God I didn't go with..." I gulped anxiously, "When Throne was carrying me, he wasn't even half as fast, but now look at 'em go! Ha-ha, so cool..."
Ugh, what's wrong with you, Migu!? It was your idea to go away, so what's with this overwhelming tightness in your chest!? Dammit, I thought we weren't allowed to feel pain anywhere other than our golden parts! Hrm, gotta clear my mind a bit...
"Elegy, wait up!" A voice called someone's name out from behind me.
"You!" A guy crashed into me full force, sending both of us tumbling to the ground in a jiff.
"Augh, what the-!?" I darted my gaze between the two people looming over me.
What's this? Am I already getting jumped? I don't remember doing anything bad to anyone, though then again they shouldn't either. Do I have something they want? No, the only thing I have on me are my shoddily made shorts. Regardless of what they want, I won't be going down without a fight!
"Elegy, get off her now-!" The guy that was previously calling for him begged.
"Back the fuck off!" I shouted, violently scratching up his forearms.
"Yeowch!" He immediately jumped back, "Owowow! Oof, heheh, I deserved that."
You deserved a lot more, jackass! Gods, that was scary! A man had me pinned to the ground, I was sure he was gonna start tearing my spine off! Thankfully his own gilded parts were somewhere easily accessible, otherwise I might've had a lot more trouble with him!
"Sorry, I was just excited to see you." The guy smiled confidently, "I recognized those shorts of yours while you were falling from that sky island, so I just knew I had to say hi! Ah, but what happened to your top?"
"...I-"
"You damned moron!" The guy with him smacked the crap out of him for being a creep, "If you knew each other, you should've just told me beforehand! A-Ah, but even still, what made you think lunging at a frail girl the way you did was the right choice!?"
Glad someone's making sense here. His friend here sounds kind of rough, and those pure gold arms from the shoulders down aren't making him look any less threatening, but when it comes to treating women, he at least has more sense than this moron.
"By the way, I never said I knew this guy." I pointed out to his friend.
"Eh?! Oh come on, don't you remember!?" He weakly asked, "We saw each other this morning!"
"...Mn."
"Our houses are next to each other."
"Not ringing any bells."
The troubled look on his face suggested he was desperately looking for a way to clear his name with his buddy. The guy next to him was getting more and more suspicious, which only gave me more reasons to play dumb. Hm? What, of course I remember the guy, he's literally one of the three people I've talked to today!
"...Y-You called me a... a pervert." He whispered the final part.
"Hm? A what now?" I teased, "Go on, I can't hear you if you're mumbling to yourself."
"Elegy, so help me if you just assaulted a random girl...!" The other guy cracked his golden knuckles, which made quite the satisfying sound.
"A... A perv!" Elegy finally raised his tone, albeit slightly, "B-But look, she was mistaken! I only asked her where she got her clothes from!"
"Is that so?" The other guy turned to me to make sure he wasn't lying, "Little lady?"
"Yep, now I remember." I smirked at Elegy, "Back then, I didn't think everyone was naked, so I called him a perverted scumbag."
"Ah, wrong, just a pervert." Elegy corrected me.
"...Missy, sorry for my friend here." The golden armed guy put his hand out for a gentlemanly handshake, "As you've already heard, he goes by Elegy."
Ooh, a charmer! I'll admit, what with only having listened to Throne's incessant ramblings about how dumb and useless I am, it does feel rather nice to be treated like a proper lady sometimes! Shame he referred to that aggresive pervert as his friend, though.
"Humu, I'm Migu." I returned the question with a giggle, eager to find out this kind man's name, "And you?"
"Hate." He proudly announced.
"Come again?"
"Hate, that's my name. 'Cause I hate it here." He explained, "I guess the best way to put it is... I wanna find out what my real name was before I bit the dust, but until then, feel free to call me Hate."
"Is that really the name you chose?" I still found it kind of hard to believe.
"No, it's the name 'I' chose." Elegy interjected, "We beat the crap out of each other just a few minutes ago when we first met, so since he seemed to Hate everyone and everything around him, I gave him such a cooly apt name."
"She doesn't need to know that..." Hate seemed regretful of what he did.
"Heh, can you believe this guy?" Elegy kept clowning on him, "He actually thought everyone around him was some sort of White Monster, and he was the only normal human left!"
"Dude, shut up!" Hate was Red with embarrassment.
I kind of wish Hate finished the job during their fight. Seriously, how do you NOT beat the crap out of an annoying guy like Elegy?