all corners of his lands, he felt everything,
every being, every blade of grass, every good and evil, and he,
of course, with all his being, wanted every evil
to go out of this world, wanted people to be happy and quiet
life. But sometimes they themselves cause trouble to themselves and others
,create so many problems that
no one can cope with all this. He was already doing everything he could,
and more. And the angel was indulging in pleasant memories
of today’s good deeds that he had done, when
suddenly it was as if boiling water was thrown over him, as if an invisible siren
screamed in his ears, and a red flashing light, deafening
howling, sparkled before his eyes. The spirit leapt up and flew
out of the window.
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chapter 4. TRAPPED
Lina’s heart sank with fright, and her breath caught in her throat.
This strange man in a black suit was standing in front of her
,shining a flashlight in her face.
«Well, hello,» he said in a pleasant, almost too
pleasant voice. «Who do we have here?»
Lina began to shield herself from the glare with her hands, and he
dimmed the lantern.
– So what am I supposed to do with you?»»
What is it?» the stranger asked her, his face breaking into a smile or
a grin.
Lina looked up at him. The first
thing she noticed were the eyes. Brown
eyes, the irises of which glowed with yellow-red sparks at the edges
.
Those aren’t lenses, Lina thought.»
Blah, I got it.»
When suddenly everything rang and then froze,
and it became difficult to breathe, difficult to move, difficult to speak…
A voice was heard from Sleep – ruzhi, and the man in black
came down like lightning and disappeared from sight. Li-
na exhaled, the feeling of suffocation and helplessness
gone. She scooped up her backpack and went down the
stairs. And finally, with just one glance over his shoulder
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At what was happening nearby, I ran
home as fast as I could.
She saw something even more incredible. It was as if an-
gel was descending from the sky, shining with divine light, holding
a silver sword, but she couldn
’t see it anymore. Fear took over her completely, the instinct of self —
preservation took up all the space that was in her head. Other capes-
Lina had no choice but to run far and fast, and in a
few moments there
were only two people left at the hunter’s cabin.
Damiel appeared in all his glory, in
all his beauty – blinding light and snow-white wings. He rarely took the form of a spirit and appeared in the human world in the form of an angel
only in exceptional cases, when the instructions required
it, and this was just such a case.
«Let the horned one tremble, he will know who will be disturbed-
he lived. They came up with me here again – on my land to play
their dirty games. Unheard of!
There hasn’t been such a blatant lack of balance
in decades. That’s why we need to scare the devil’s spawn as
it should, «the angel thought as he descended to the ground. «It’s a good thing I
brought a sword, I look great.»
The demon was really impressed.
He bent over, shielding his arms from the glare,
wobbling like a blade of grass in the wind before a helicopter came down
.
Damiel touched the ground, retracted his wings, and began his
edifying speech.
And Keijigen stood there thinking, «Arfimaino, the son of a bitch,
set me up, got out without proper permission
,and left.» The angel’s words were jarring,
and his proximity was searing, but Keijigen didn’t budge
.He was sorry – his peaceful life on Earth began
to flash before his eyes. «I’m about to be sent away
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Down to the trial before the council, then the soul mines, the guardians…
Or maybe run away? You can’t get away from this… it’s a pain
,but they sent a tough guy to pick me up… In general, it’s strange that
the archangel came to deal with such trifles…
Wait a minute… I’m wrong… this is not an archangel. I’m an idiot!
No, it’s definitely not an archangel, but where does the supreme
glow come from…?»
Keijigen’s thoughts stopped racing
and he calmed down a bit. I even came up with something.
He straightened up, straightened his jacket, and said,
«Don’t panic, you just misunderstood, I
’ll explain everything in a moment. The charming smile was back
on his face, and his eyes glittered with devilish fire.
Suddenly-a second later-he’s flying… or falling. Opening
his eyes, Keijigen couldn’t understand what had happened. He thought
he was caught in a tornado. A hellish pain shot through his right
thigh. «Pain? What? Still not sure which
is heaven and which is earth, the demon tried to put his hand to his leg,
to the source of the pain, and felt something hard there. Gradually
,he began to distinguish objects around him. He looked down
at his hand, which was feeling his leg, and it was
covered in blood. «How? Gathering his strength, he tilted
his head and saw that his thigh was pierced
through by a black stick that looked like a piece of rebar.
Panic seized him, and he reached for the stick to pull
it out quickly, but as soon as he touched it, he screamed – the burn on his arm
burned unbearably, causing even more
pain than the injured leg. Keijigen cupped his burned
palm with