Three beautiful girls were walking together.
One of them had a petite, childlike figure, golden hair, and blue eyes. Her adorable face was somewhat ruined by her annoyed expression.
Another girl wasn't very tall either, with short purple hair, purple eyes, and a soft, beautiful face. She radiated a gentle aura, with a pleasant smile on her lips and a caring gaze toward the blonde girl beside her. Her name—Vignette April Tsukinose.
The last girl had long, straight silver-white hair and amber eyes. She gave off the impression of a kindhearted person, with a well-proportioned, graceful figure. Her angelic face was always adorned with an angelic smile. Anyone meeting her for the first time would easily mistake her for a heaven-sent angel. Her name—Raphiel Ainsworth Shiraha.
"Haah—so annoying. I really don't want to work~"
With a reluctant look on her face, Gabriel sighed. But if she didn't work, she wouldn't have extra money to spend on gacha games.
Hearing her complaint, Vignette showed a helpless expression.
"Raphiel, why are you following us?"
Gabriel shot an annoyed glare at the silver-haired girl with the angelic smile.
"Well, because watching little Gab work is just too cute~"
Raphiel smiled sweetly, eyes narrowing slightly as a strange glint flashed deep within them.
This earned her a deadpan stare from Gabriel.
"Those gods have no idea what they're doing. They keep making us handle all sorts of random problems but won't even raise my pay. Unforgivable! Just the other day, they summoned me back to Heaven over some trivial matter and scolded me like crazy!!!"
Gabriel clenched her tiny fists, her face darkening as if she'd punch the gods themselves if they appeared before her.
"Eh? So that day when you disappeared, you were actually summoned back to Heaven? What happened?"
"Oh, that? I went to Akihabara to buy a new game, but some B-rank hero who had just returned from another world tried to fight me for it. I got annoyed and beat him up, then secretly erased his hero powers."
Raphiel cheerfully revealed the reason behind Gabriel's frustration.
Stripping a hero of their abilities was equivalent to revoking their status as a hero, reducing them to an ordinary human in the mortal world.
"Raphiel, you're one to talk! What you did last week was even worse! You got a B-rank 'Savior' who awakened memories of his past life thrown into a mental hospital!"
Gabriel gave Raphiel a deadpan stare. As a fellow angel, she knew all too well that behind Raphiel's seemingly kind angelic exterior lay a scheming trickster. She was practically a little devil in disguise.
"Oh my, Gab, what nonsense are you talking about? That guy really did have mental issues. I was just being kind and sending him for treatment~"
Raphiel put on an innocent expression, her tone so gentle and convincing that she almost made it sound like Gabriel was falsely accusing her. With her radiant aura of kindness, it was hard for anyone to believe she would do such things.
But that kind of deception might work on gods, it certainly didn't work on Gabriel. She glared at Raphiel with her dead fish eyes. This girl was too good at playing innocent. Raphiel was getting praised while Gabriel was the one getting scolded.
"Raphiel, you—"
"Vignette, you don't actually believe her, do you? Haven't you seen her true colors yet?"
"Ugh—"
Snapping out of it, Vignette twitched slightly at the corner of her eye. This angel was seriously dangerous.
No, wait, what the hell was up with these two angels? They were acting more like devils!
"You two aren't afraid of getting struck by divine punishment, saying things like that?"
More importantly, these two had graduated from Heaven's Angel Academy with the first and second highest scores. It was hard to believe that such elite angels, who might one day attain godhood, would behave like this.
"Vignette, I heard from Satania that you got praised by the Demon King of the Underworld. What happened?"
With a bright smile, Raphiel leaned in closer, her face full of curiosity.
"Uh, it's nothing really..."
Vignette rubbed her cheek, her gaze wandering around as cold sweat formed on her face, looking rather embarrassed.
"Vigne, I heard you almost beat an A-rank Hero to death?"
"Eh~~~? Seriously?"
Gabriel was also quite shocked. After all, Vignette was just too gentle and kind, it was hard to imagine her beating up a hero who had once saved another world to the brink of death.
Although Vignette was a demon from the Demon Realm, this Demon Realm coexisted with the human world (the real world) and was not the same as the Demon Realms from other worlds.
The same went for Heaven. Both Heaven and the Demon Realm were dedicated to maintaining the stability of this real world.
They had long since stopped their violent conflicts and had adapted to modern times. Who would still engage in such barbaric acts of killing? These days, their relationship was more like that of business rivals.
If Heaven leaned more toward the heroes summoned from another world, then the Demon Realm leaned toward those who awakened memories of their past lives from another world. However, there were some differences between these two types of heroes. To distinguish them, those who awakened past-life memories were given the title of "Savior."
"Hurry up and tell us~"
"Yeah, say it~"
"Alright, alright, I'll tell you. That guy's outfit was just too weird! It looked exactly like a... like a cockroach! It scared me!!!"
Cockroach—the very creature that instilled terror in humans, causing them to live in constant unease. Even as a demon, Vignette was absolutely terrified of such creatures. In her panic, she completely lost her rationality and went on a rampage. By the time she came to her senses, the hero who had approached her for a chat was already half-dead.
"Ugh, so Vignette is scared of cockroaches?"
"Raphi, you better not try to mess with me! I'll get really mad!!!"
"We're here. I have to get to work. You two better not cause any trouble—get lost!!!"
Without anyone knowing, an angel and a demon king were about to clash once again?