That was the primary reason Schwarze had relied on Shuntarou during the attack on the cultural festival.
Due to the lack of hard evidence, they had only had suspicions before, but now there was no doubting that Micha was connected to Kurosaki and Lilith.
“Micha…why?”
Only Ange had trouble believing it even with the truth displayed so clearly before her.
Whatever her thoughts of this partner who had never at all doubted her, Micha smiled a little.
“How did you like the human world, Ange? Fun, wasn’t it? I bet your time with Mutsuki-kun was so much fun that life in heaven seems downright boring in comparison.”
She spread her arms.
“This is the same.”
Three golden arrows were launched at once.
At the same time, the red flames surrounding Micha and Lilith swirled around and twisted vertically.
The air current produced a whirlwind that easily redirected the arrows into the sky.
The 13 members of Dante were clearly shocked.
And FeTUS Witches Misses B, C, and D leaped over their heads. At the same time, Alice and Machina sent out golden threads.
But those strings snapped with the sound of melting steel.
Black Cat was known as FeTUS’s fastest, but her claws sliced through empty air and clashed with Ren’s sword.
They briefly lost sight of Micha, but she soon reappeared standing atop the crossed claws and sword. The two attackers’ eyes widened just before they were kicked away.
Miss D threw a punch with a muscular arm that stretched and swelled to 3m long, but Micha blocked it with a single arm.
She blocked the five human Witches’ strongest attacks with speed surpassing their greatest.
Her high heel caught Miss D on the jaw and she staggered back.
“Michaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
That was when Ange attacked.
She launched herself forward with Metatron’s flames erupting from her back and made a slash with her giant sword.
There was no intent to kill here, but she did not hold back. It was partially due to the blood rushing to her head, but she also trusted Micha to be able to escape.
That blade contained enough power to bisect her if she tried to block it. Ange’s intent was to get Micha to dodge so she could slice through Lilith behind her.
But the blood really had rushed to her head.
The FeTUS Witches had spent centuries working out methods of opposing angels. Even Ange, the strongest modern angel, had been caught off guard back in April.
Micha had once been the strongest, but she was past her prime. She should have been no match for those Witches, yet she had treated them and Dante like mere children. Ange should have considered why that was.
She should have noticed something was odd about Micha’s strength.
“No way.”
She only realized her mistake once Micha caught her sword in a single hand.
“You’re an incredible kid, Ange. I never expected someone to control Metatron at your age.”
“Kh! Gh!”
Her sword would not budge.
But that should not have been surprising when her charge had been stopped with pure arm strength. That should have told her that Micha’s arm was stronger than her entire body.
“Micha…no.”
Ange was the last to realize something was off, but she was also the first to realize why.
“Is this how strong you were in your prime?”
“I thought I wasn’t so young anymore, but that’s Adam for you, I guess.”
She laughed and looked over at Lilith and Mutsuki who had almost entirely fused into something like a golden cocoon.
When a woman worked to protect Adam, they could draw out 100% of their power.
Ange had experienced it twice herself.
Michael had once been the strongest angel in heaven’s history, but had she ever actually drawn out all of her power?
This explained why her power was on another level entirely from Ange, who was only the strongest in the modern age.
“And you know what this means, don’t you? Adam is taking my side. Mutsuki-kun wants this. He wants to become one with Lilith.”
“Don’t be ridiculous, Micha! What about your duty to protect Mutsuki!?”
“I am protecting him. I am protecting his decision as Adam.”
Micha raised her left hand with a smile.
She actually raised it before Miss A threw the knife. She easily caught the knife between her fingers and tossed it to the ground.
Alice and Machina stared in shock.
She had blocked Alice’s surprise attack and then used the knife to slice through the golden thread Machina had been secretly sending her way through the ground.
She had more than strength and speed. She had even predicted the actions of Alice Arc who used her human knowledge to create a supposedly unbeatable foresight.
Micha did not seem to care as she cheerfully viewed the glowing cocoon.
“Mutsuki-kun wants to become ‘perfect’. This world is too cruel a place for an adolescent boy. Because it forces you to throw out everything you want in order to become an adult. Although…”
Her smile contained the hint of innocence that it always did.
“I will admit this was a fairly convenient turn of events for me.”
Adolescent Adam 8: Chapter 9 – Changing World
When the golden cocoon split open and that floated to the ground, the people there had difficulty defining what it was.
“Mutsuki-kun.”
Lucia called it Mutsuki.
That had indeed been the boy named Fujita Mutsuki a moment before.
“Princess Lilith.”
Raphael called it Lilith. That too was correct.
However, the lifeform that set foot on the ground resembled neither of them.
It was a manly and fit young man. There was some slight resemblance to Mutsuki in the face, but this man was masculine and mature with no boyishness.
“Avalon,” Micha called him.
He did not respond because he did not think of himself as Avalon.
But what she said must have reached Mutsuki since she was right next to him. That young man was Avalon. He was the ancestor of the modern human race.
And he was the man Lilith idealized.
“What is that?”
Before making a decision about him, Ange first focused on the change to the ground.
She had burned down the golf course earlier using enough heat to melt the layers of dirt.
But as soon as he landed, life returned to the dirt and it was dyed faintly red.
The redness spread out in a circle around the young man and, once it reached the unburnt grass, it exploded with life. A green carpet spread back toward the center to cover the ground below his feet.
Plants and life automatically welcomed him.
“…”
Ange did not know what this was, but she could tell this was the birth of something she had never before seen.
“!”
Nevertheless, she preserved her fighting spirit as a combat angel.
Micha had lowered her defenses as she wept and ran toward him.
Now was her only chance. She raised her large sword again.
Whoever that young man was, her angel flames should work on Lilith who had gone into creating him. She cloaked herself in blue flames as she attacked with her giant sword.
Micha did not notice her. Lilith’s strongest bodyguard was not doing her job.
Ange could kill Lilith!
Or so Ange thought until she felt a powerful blow to her gut.
“Khah…what?”
She had been stopped by a hand reaching in from an unexpected place. She looked back to see this was apparently Miss D’s fist. It hurt. She realized she had never fought that woman, so this attack power came as a surprise.
But more than that…
“What are you doing!?” she shouted. “Stop interfering! I need to kill Lilith!”
“Kill?”
“What are you talking about, Jiyuuni?”
She received only cold responses.
There were three icy voices in all.
“Why are you trying to kill him?”