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Hyunseong was silent for a moment at Liris’s fierce declaration. He knew. Liris wasn’t just talking nonsense. Her eyes were filled with blind sincerity, like those of a beast that didn’t know lies.

“Release, just a moment.” Hyunseong spoke carefully.

“War… Really… Is there no other way?”

He mustered up the courage to speak his mind.

“Can’t the Demons and the Celestials coexist? Can’t they acknowledge each other, respect each other’s territories, and live in peace?”

Hyunseong made a suggestion with a trembling voice, holding onto his last hope.

“How about setting up a zone where I exist between the Demon World and Heaven?”

He carefully laid out his ideas.

“Both the Demons and the Celestials… create a neutral zone where they can’t cross over… and maintain peace without interfering with each other.”

Hyunsung looked at Liris with anxious eyes. He thought she might laugh at his suggestion. But he wanted to try every possibility.

“That’s stupid.”

Lilith dismissed it coldly. Her voice was laced with contempt and disgust.

“Coexisting with angels? Don’t even imagine such disgusting things.”

At her firm rejection, Hyunseong felt a suffocating sense of despair. After all… it can’t be done. He smiled bitterly.

“We hate angels. Their filthy and disgusting light, their disgusting hypocrisy, their disgusting existence itself.”

Lilith’s voice grew increasingly agitated. Her red eyes burned with fierce hatred.

“We cannot coexist with them. We must destroy them. That is…the fate of the Demons.”

Then Angela intervened with a cold voice.

“Release, you’ve gone off topic.”

Angela stood close to Hyunseong, glaring at Lilith. Her gray eyes were as cold as ice, and her lips twisted sharply.

“Stop spitting out blasphemous words to the Savior immediately.”

Angela gave a sharp warning to Lilith.

“And… the Savior is not someone who can be ‘shared’ with you.”

“What did you say…?”

Lilith snarled at Angela with a fierce voice, like a snarling beast. Black magic began to emanate from around her.

“Know your place, angel woman. How dare you… look down on… my… mia!”

Lilith’s anger exploded uncontrollably, and she lunged at Angela with a fierce momentum.

Angela did not back down from Lilith’s anger, but instead fought back even more strongly. Her gray eyes did not lose their cool, and the divine power surrounding her shone even more intensely.

“You really don’t know what you’re talking about, Liris.”

Angela spoke in a calm but firm voice.

“The Savior is not someone that a corrupt demon like you can desire.”

She laughed coldly, as if she was despising Lilith.

“The Savior is the light and hope of our angels. You are… noble and divine beings who dare not be surpassed.”

Angela hugged Hyunseong even tighter, emphasizing how precious he was to her. Her actions only added fuel to Liris’ anger.

“Shut up, angel bitch!”

Lilith, unable to contain her anger, rushed at Angela. Her sharp claws aimed at Angela’s neck.

“How dare you… insult my… mia…! Starting from your… year… I’ll tear you apart…!”

At that moment, the conference room door swung open with a loud noise. The door, which had been tightly shut, flew out and hit the wall, and a loud noise shook the conference room.

“What’s the fuss!”

Michael burst through the door with a stern expression. Her golden armor was solid and imposing, as if she was ready for battle. In her hand, she held a red-hot ‘Sword of Fire’.

“Release!” As soon as Michael discovered Lilith, he called her name in an enraged voice.

“How dare you make a fuss in heaven, you little brat…!”

Michael’s blue eyes were blazing with fierce anger, and her face was distorted. She aimed her sword at Lilith, warning her fiercely.

“Have you forgotten that you came as an envoy? If you do not stop your rude behavior immediately, I will punish you according to the laws of heaven!”

At Michael’s shout, Angela flinched and backed away from Lilith. She felt relieved by Michael’s appearance, but she couldn’t hide a strange sense of anxiety.

Michael glanced at Angela and said coldly.

“Angela, why did you just stay still! What are you doing instead of properly protecting the Savior!”

At Michael’s shout, Angela shrugged her shoulders and lowered her head. She tried to make excuses, but Michael’s fierce gaze forced her to keep her mouth shut.

Lilith paid no attention to Michael’s appearance, and instead burst into laughter. Her red eyes were filled with mockery and contempt.

“What a funny sight, Michael.”

Lilith said with a cold smile like a snake.

“Do you think you can stop me with just this much strength?”

She spread her wings wide as if mockingly. Her pitch-black wings were so large that they filled the ceiling of the conference room, and the black magic emanating from the tips of her wings became darker and more ferocious.

Michael was further enraged by Lilith’s provocation. She raised the ‘Sword of Fire’ high and shouted with fierce momentum.

“Your arrogance of four years, today… I will break it with the pride of heaven!”

With Michael’s shout, the air in the conference room began to shake violently. The tension between the angels and demons reached its peak, and a sense of imminent crisis spread.

At that moment, Liris suddenly turned her head and looked at Hyunseong. Her red eyes, even in the midst of intense anger, did not lose their blind affection and obsession for Mya, no, Kim Hyunseong.

“I’ll come get it back soon.”

Liris whispered softly to Hyunseong. Her voice was calm, but there was a firm determination in it.

“Wait, my dear.”

Liris smiled deeply at Hyunseong for the last time. It was a smile that was like an oath, a declaration of war. And without looking back, she walked quickly toward the conference room door. Her black wings whipped around fiercely, creating wind, and her back seemed to disappear into the pitch-black darkness.

Just before Lilith left the conference room door, Michael shouted in a voice full of rage.

“Release! Four years…!”

But Lilith didn’t listen to Michael. She had already left the conference room, and her back was no longer visible.

Michael was gripped with rage, clutching the Sword of Fire. Her blue eyes burned with fierce hatred, and her lips trembled.

“No way.”

Michael gritted his teeth and muttered. Her voice was a low growl, but it held an unwavering, unyielding will.

“I will hang your neck on the walls of heaven.”

Michael’s final warning echoed throughout the empty conference room. And that warning was like the prelude to the inevitable war between the demon world and the heavenly world.

Michael slowly withdrew his ‘Sword of Fire’ as if suppressing the blue flames that were burning fiercely, immediately after letting out a roar of rage.

Her agitated emotions subsided in an instant, and her tightly closed lips slowly opened.

“Savior.”

Michael slowly turned his body away from the door where Lilith had disappeared and looked at Hyunseong. The fierce anger that had been radiating from her just a moment ago was nowhere to be found, and now her face was filled only with worry and regret. Her blue eyes were shaking violently, and her lips were trembling thinly.

Michael slowly approached Hyunseong. Her movements were much more cautious and gentle than before, unlike the fierceness she had shown just now. She approached Hyunseong delicately and cautiously, as if she was handling a fragile piece of glass.

Michael, who had come close to Hyunseong’s eyes, knelt down without hesitation. The sound of her golden armor hitting the marble floor echoed throughout the quiet conference room. She bowed her head and looked up at Hyunseong with sincere respect and adoration.

“Savior… Are you okay?”

Michael’s voice was completely different from the one that had just yelled at Lilith. Her voice was extremely gentle and soft, and felt as warm as the sun. She asked about Hyunseong’s well-being with affection and concern, like a mother worrying about a sick child.

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

Michael looked at Hyunseong’s body with worried eyes. Her gaze carefully examined his face, shoulders, arms, legs… every nook and cranny of his body. She checked his condition meticulously, as if she didn’t want to miss even a single wound.

“I… Because of me… You’re putting me in danger again… I’m really… ashamed.”

Michael lowered his head even deeper, as if he was overcome with guilt. Her voice was filled with sorrow and remorse. She felt an unbearable guilt over not being able to keep Hyunseong safe.

“Because of my carelessness… the Savior… must have smelled the stench of that dirty demon… Really… please forgive me.”

Michael apologized with a trembling voice. To her, the demons were nothing more than a ‘filthy, disgusting stench’. The very fact that the demons and the Savior were together was an unbearable pain to her. She was truly afraid that Hyunseong had been infected by the demons’ dirty aura.

Michael bowed his head once more. Her golden hair almost touched the floor, and she bowed deeply, as if she was sincerely asking for Hyunseong’s forgiveness. In her blue eyes, there was a complex mixture of deep love and devotion toward Hyunseong, and… guilt and sadness for putting him in danger.