Sorry for taking so long to update, I keep getting distracted.

Chapter 4: Torture (Part 1)

~Kuroyuri~

Finally, it's dinner time. I never would have thought that Castor-san could be so good at torturing people... it's only been two hours since tea break and I'm already starving. Carrying random stuff up and down the stairs, running random errands, normal training, even playing with Lassette is a chore... I barely even have any rest time.

"Oi Kuroyuri, you like eyefish, right? Good news for you, I snuck into the kitchen just now and they were preparing eyefish!" Frau whispered to me while we were queueing to enter the dining hall.

"Umm... I just like the texture. Like how it's so chewy but easy to bite..." I said shyly.

"What? You don't like the taste? Don't you find it nice? The Church cooks spend hours preparing the fish! Just to make it have a perfect balance of salt without ruining the taste! Do you have any idea how hard that is?" He started reprimanding me. Salt? I don't remember anything about taste anymore... Just that it was something nice, something that made me look forward to dinner everyday...

"I just... can't taste anything..." I whispered to myself. I could hear Frau's gasp of surprise the moment those words escaped my mouth.

"Oh... so you can't taste it, huh. I wonder why..." Frau muttered.

"Who knows, there are probably a million different reasons that someone could lose their sense of taste." I answered coldly. Why did he have to remind me of food tastes? This is like torture...to do physical training the entire day only to walk into the dining hall 12 hours later and remember that you can't taste the food that smells so delicious...

"Well, I'm sure Lab can do something, right?" Frau glared at Labrador-oniisan uncertainly.

"Unfortunately, I don't know the exact reason, so it's not possible..."Labrador shook his head and began to eat.

I wish I can taste, though... I'm sure it will be much more rewarding to eat then...

After dinner, everybody was supposed to go to sleep but I didn't... it's not like anybody really cares, anyway. In this church, you are free to do whatever you want, so long as it doesn't affect anybody else. That's what Frau said, anyway. What Castor said never really made any sense to me...

How is someone suppose to just lose all her memories? That's not possible, is it?

I wish I had my memories back. Then I'll know why I can't taste anything... and maybe Labrador-oniisan can heal me... I thought as I sat down at the where Lassette lives.

What was that you wish for, young one?

What was that... "Who's there?"

Come on, tell me your wish. I'll grant it for you.

Someone who can grant wishes? A god? Or a Genie, maybe... maybe it's a fairy!

"I wish my memories would return." I told the 'fairy' my wish without any hesitation.

How unfortunate... your memories have been sealed by Fest. Too bad. That's one wish. Tell me another one...

Fest?! Isn't that one of the legendary 07 Ghost! Is that even possible?

"Then tell me my name. My real name."

Heheh... even more unfortunate for you, my girl. After the Church makes a new identity for you, that will be your official identity. All files related to your previous identity will be deleted. In other words, 'Kuroyuri' is your real name. No surname, nothing. Just Kuroyuri. Family - unknown. Date of birth - unknown. I have fulfilled your second wish. Now for the third one...

What... they can just do that? This must be what Labrador mentioned...a kor. Oh no... I left my baculus in my room...

Come on, just one wish... one more... before I get my reward...

Reward? So evil beings get rewards for doing evil deeds, huh. This world... must be repaired...

Ahh... it's been awhile since I had this freedom to move about without anybody around... That Profe... he's smart enough to do add a little flower essence on the string of this eye patch so it will break if there is too much darkness... I must thank him... but for now...

"You... what were you attempting to do? Why is there a mark on my chest? I shall hereby assume that you were the one that placed it here as there doesn't seem to be any other kor in a 100 kilometre radius." I lifted my left hand up and pointed at the kor. Ah... how unfortunate for it. I happened to be in a bad mood today...

"Level 200 release." a pity... with my lag of practice, it'll probably take about 5 minutes... that matters not... a spineless kor like this one will not dare to move in this circumstances.

~Frau~

What the hell was that aura... enough to make me jump out of my bed...

I immediately rushed out of my room, towards the fountain... damn, it's so bright here, how come nobody else notices it?

Wait... isn't that Kuroyuri? Then where does that light come from? I'm almost 200 meters away and I'm almost blinded by the light... don't tell me... Archangel Raphael? Has she already awakened without us noticing?

I can't let her Release, not even a Level 1! Not in the Church, anyway... if it's Raphael, she won't die when I attack her.

I swung my right arm out and Verloren's Scythe flew out, striking the source of the light. The light dimmed a little, so I could see Kuroyuri standing in the middle, her left hand stretched out, shining. She turned around to face me before I could make out what she was doing. Yes, it's definitely Raphael...

Her eye patch had been removed. Both her eyes were bright blue, and she was glaring suspiciously at me. Her wings, which rarely open, were large, spread out and probably being used as something like swords. After what seemed like hours of waiting to be killed, she raised her right hand and waved me over. Having no choice, I slowly walked towards her. Finally, I could make out what she was doing. There was a kor in front of her, where her left hand was pointing. The light was still too bright, and the scythe was still right beside the kor. Lucky I missed her target... was my first thought.

She was obviously already furious before someone interrupted her and almost killed her target. I tried killing her target once before, several hundred years ago, and I'm definitely not interested in tasting living hell again. It's even worse than Castor's specialized torture.

"Zehel, were you trying to kill me?!" How insolent. He's a Ghost, for God's sake. A Ghost trying to kill an Archangel? What has the world become in my absence? I guess the people at the Palace are not much better, doing experiments on us and all, but at least they call me Raphael-sama, or Archangel. This Ghost just calls me by my name, I shall have to discipline him again. How unpleasant...

Well, after many hundreds of years, it's finally time...

Time for me to torture him... I already forgot how much fun torturing could be...

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