Hello there, Skylinemaster here with another installment of the King of Purgatory. I hope that you enjoy this.

"Speech."

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"Where am I?" I, Issei Hyoudou, asked myself as I opened my eyes.

Huh? This isn't Kuoh.

I blinked my eyes to adjust them to the surroundings.

Trees. Lots of trees.

I get up off the ground, and stand up. I'm still wearing the clothes that I wore when I had my date with Yuuma-chan.

Yuuma-chan…

Wait, didn't she try to kill me?!

Am I dead now?

Am I in hell?!

I've been a bit of a pervert, but that doesn't mean I should go to hell!

Alright, Issei, calm down.

First, where are you?

I appear to be in some type of woods. There are no woods anywhere near Kuoh, or anywhere near my area of Japan for that matter.

The temperature feels warm, so I must be in a tropical area.

Yeah, that's it. I'm in some type of tropical area, and not hell.

Okay, I'll try to find my way out of here, get some help and go back to Japan.

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Alright, let's see if I can see the sun.

Nope. The trees obscure the sky from my view. The sky appears a faint purple?!

What?!

Alright, since I don't have that benchmark guiding me, I'll just start walking.

I started walking in a straight line, over the bumpy dirty road in front of me.

There are many plants lying near the ground, low hanging berries of numerous colors hanging from the trees overhead.

I could reach for berries, but I'm not that hungry right now, and I know better than to eat something that is unknown to me.

Alright, I think I've been walking in a circle right now.

This looks just like the place that I awoke from.

I checked my watch.

5:42PM

GROWLLLLLL

I turned around as I heard a low pitch growling sound.

That doesn't sound good.

I scanned the wooded environment, looking for the origin of the sound.

I could hear something running towards me, given the sounds of crushed leaves and cracked branches.

A black animal soon popped out from the woods in front of me.

A black boar.

A very large black boar.

It is growling at me.

Alright Issei, slowly back up. No sudden movements or else it will charge at me and make it its dinner.

I slowly backed up, staring at the boar as I moved backwards.

Crap!

I tripped backwards and the thing started charging at me.

I'm dead!

I closed my eyes, and waited for the end. I don't want my last sight to be a charging boar spearing me with its tusk.

….

What? Am I still alive?

I heard a squeal in front of me.

I first felt my entire body, looking for any cuts or stabs from the boar.

None, alright, good. Time to open my eyes.

I see a figure with his back turned to me.

I see the pig, a spear stuck into its head. The pig is bleeding a lot from its head. I turned my head away as I don't like to see any death.

I turned back to see the figure turn around to me, carrying the boar on his shoulder and a spear in his left hand.

I can see that the man is a foreigner, an old one at that. He looks to be about sixty or so years old. He has a full white beard, white hair bangs covering his eyes, and his face shows the signs of his age. His eyes, such powerful blue eyes that are staring right at me.

He is wearing a torn up white toga and sandals.

"Um, where am I?" I asked the man. He looked confused for a second, but then started to move his mouth.

"Y-you are here son." The man replied in Japanese.

!

Where exactly is here?

"Um, where is here?" I asked the old man as I heard thunder in the sky.

"No time to say. Come, follow me if you want shelter." The old man said as he turned around and sprinted into the forest.

!

How is such an old man so fast?

I ran after him, keeping him in my sights.

I think we ran about four hundred meters or so, as we reached the base of a mountain. Rain started to come down, heavy, soaking me from head to toe. The old man went into an opening in the mountain that has a boulder lying near the entrance.

"Come son, help me move this boulder." The old man said, reemerging from inside the cave without the spear or the boar.

I nodded and help push the boulder in front of the entrance, leaving a little room so that the old man and I could go inside.

It is very dark inside the cave as the old man guided me through the dark cave.

I see nothing as the man forced me to sit down. I then hear objects being grinded together, creating sparks that let me briefly see in the darkness, before a fire was started in front of us.

"Who are you?" I asked the old man.

The old man started down at the ground for a long time before looking up at me.

"It has been a long time since someone asked me that. My name is Cain."

He said. Cain, what an interesting name.

"Who are you, my son?"

He questioned me.

"My name is Issei Hyoudou."

I said back to him.

"Nice to meet you Issei."

He said as he got up and went to get the boar to put over the fire.

"Say, where are we?"

I asked the old man as his face became visible again in the darkness.

"We are in Purgatory."

Wait, what?!

"What?! This is Purgatory?!"

I shouted back at the old man.

"Indeed, young one. The power you possessed in life prevented you from going to hell."

He said back kindly as I stared at him.

"What are you talking about?! Hell doesn't exist!"

He just stared at me as I looked at him.

"Son, do you believe in God?"

He asked me.

Why would he want to know that?

"Um, not really. I'm sure there is one out there, but I don't believe in him."

I said back.

"Heh, son, he is real. He created everything. You, me, this place. This, prison."

The old man said as his voice trailed off. Did I say something bad?

"So tell me son. How did you die?"

The old man asked as he stared intently at me.

"I-I was killed by my girlfriend. She had black wings and killed me with a spear that appeared out of nowhere."

I said this as the man became interested.

"Ho. Tell me, did the spear look like it was made out of pure light?"

How did he know?!

"Y-yes. Now that you mention it, it was made out of light."

I said to him.

"Ah, you were killed by a Fallen Angel."

Fallen what?!

"A-a Fallen Angel?!"

I stuttered out.

"Yes, a Fallen Angel. You know the story of Lucifer and Satan right?"

He asked me as I nodded.

"Good. So you know that Lucifer fell from Heaven with a third of Heaven's followers. These followers became Devils." He said.

Devils?! There isn't just one?

"Devils? There's more than just one?"

I asked him.

"Yes. Devil isn't the name of one being. It is the name of a species, just like human or dog."

He said before continuing on with his interesting story.

" Shortly afterward, another Angel named Azazel fell with some more Angels, and they became known as Fallen Angels. They fell due to their lust, greed, or other human vice, but still retained their Light based abilities given to them by God." He said as I nodded.

"So, you have been killed by one of these Fallen Angels. The question is why?"

He said to me with questioning eyes.

"I don't know why she would kill me! I'm just an average person!"

I shouted at him.

"Or so you think. The Fallen Angels wouldn't just go around killing people for the fun of it otherwise they'd provoke Michael into action."

He said as I heard the name Michael.

"Michael? Whose that?"

I asked him. He stared back at me with a puzzled look.

"Ah, so you don't know. Tell me, can you keep a secret?"

He said to me.

"Of course."

I replied.

"Okay then, I'll tell you what happened. There are a war, a big war, between the Devils, the Fallen Angels, and the Angels, many years ago. God and the four Original Satans, yes there are four Satans, died in the war. Of course, no one except for Michael and a select few know of this." He said to me.

"Why?"

I asked him.

"Imagine a world without God. Can you imagine what would happen? The lawlessness, the chaos. Religion is what keeps people from killing each other on the streets every day. It was in Heaven's best interest to keep God's death a secret."

He said as I thought about something.

"How do you know all of this?"

I asked as he looked me in the eyes.

"Do you know who I am? I am Cain, son of Adam and Eve."

!

He's a murderer!

"Calm down young one. I do not wish to harm you. All the time in this place has given me time to reflect on what I did to my brother Abel. I was rash and arrogant back then. I've had time to reflect."

He said looking back at me.

"But still how do you know of such things?"

I asked him.

"God and the Satans are here, young Issei. They are in Purgatory with us."

He said to me as I recoiled in shock.

"Don't people, just die and you know, never return?"

I asked as he chuckled.

"Heh, no young one. Everyone, no matter what they are goes somewhere in their afterlife. The righteous go to Heaven, the damned go to Hell. Everyone else comes here."

He said as I became confused.

"Everyone else?"

I asked him.

"I should have put it better. Good people and beings go to Heaven, bad people and beings go to Hell. But there are many that simply can't go to Hell or Heaven. They are just too powerful. Monsters and Gods don't go to Heaven, they go here. God's storage closet."

He said.

"Gods? There is more than one God?"

I asked.

"Yes, of course. Mythological gods are real. Zeus, Hades….. All are real as you and me. Now imagine a Greek god going to Heaven. Isn't that a bit of a problem?"

He said as I pondered his words. It is indeed a problem.

"Indeed. So why are you here?"

I asked him as he shook his head.

"That's the thing. I was around since the being, so I expected to go to Hell, which was originally a second world that God had made, just in case if he was displeased with Earth. Anyway, I roamed the Earth before coming here all of these millennia ago. I guess Heaven didn't want me and Heaven couldn't take me."

He said with a chuckle.

"So, what exactly do you do here?"

I asked him, thinking about what could possibly be used to pass the time in this place.

"Survive by hunting animals and avoiding them."

He said as I raised my eyebrows.

"Them?"

I questioned him.

"Ah yes, I forgot to tell you. God and the Satans are both in Purgatory, so naturally there would be conflict. The battle lines here are much more fractured though. Everyone is carving up Purgatory's territory. There is Fallen Angel territory, Angel territory, Devil territory, Greek territory, Aztec territory. You name it, they're here. The place we are in though, it is a no-man's land. No one wants it less they risk provoking the other factions into a full-scale war."

He said as I nodded.

"Whose side are you on?"

I asked him as I stared up at me with an amused expression.

"No one's. Slave under them and risk letting them take your soul? No thanks."

He spoke out as the boar started to char.

"Take your soul?"

I asked.

"There are many things you will learn young one. You need not know of this right now. Come, let us eat." He said to me as he took the boar off the fire with a sharpened stick.

"Issei!"

I heard a male voice shout out to me. I looked at Cain, who looks just as confused as me.

"Issei, your time is not now. Come back to the world."

The voice said as I felt lighter. I looked down at my body, which was glowing and disappearing!

Cain stood up and stared at me. A little help here!

"It looks like your time is not yet, young Issei. I believe we will meet each other again in the near future." Cain said as light overcame my eyes.

"Issei, wake up." The male voice said to me as I felt a nudge on my shoulder. I opened my eyes to a white room.

I'm in a completely white room with, surrounding by many people with white wings…

Wait, wings?! Angels?!

I'm sitting in a chair at the long end of a table, and there is someone sitting opposite of me.

A foreign man with blonde hair and green eyes and wearing an impressive shoulder plate.

"My name is Michael, and we have much to discuss, Issei."


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