TEN
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Warnings and disclaimer are in the first chapter
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One night we could see Japan walking in the small clearing near his house. The reason why he was in the clearing was because he heard some strange noises in his house when he wanted to go to sleep. When he went to investigate it he spotted a silhouette running towards the clearing from the corner of his eyes.
Armed with his katana, Japan decided to follow the silhouette, hoping it was not an enemy. He continued to walk until he arrived in a small lake and looked around. Because he did not find anything there, Japan decided to investigate another place and hoped he could find some clues.
However, before he could do that, a sound of footsteps made him stopped walking. He did not know why he suddenly felt uneasy as if something bad would happen. He tightened his hold around the katana and slowly turned around to see what had made that sound.
Darkness suddenly took over him before he could see anything.
000
Slowly Russia woke up from his sleep and stared towards the ceiling above him along with making the sleepiness way from his mind. After fully awaken, Russia stood up from the bed and brushed the hair away from his eyes. He looked up when he heard sounds outside of the bedroom, telling him that someone was there. He knew it was Hadrian for there was no one in the mansion beside him and the red-eyed teenager.
He walked out the room and looked to the right where his boyfriend's bedroom was. The sound was not coming from there but from the first floor. With that in his mind, he went down the stairs and to the living room, where the sounds were coming from.
Maybe for some people, his decision to give Hadrian his own bedroom when they were living together and in a relationship was strange. But Russia, even though he looked scary, was a gentleman and would only share his bed with Hadrian when the two of them ready to bond with each other or get married. He did that because he respected his boyfriend and did not want to do something that they would regret.
Well, that not meant he would not let Hadrian stayed in his room if the teen had a nightmare, which was rare. Of course he would lay down on the top of the cover while Hadrian inside the cover. He knew he was an old-fashioned person, but he did not care.
This was his relationship and no one could tell him what he needed to do.
When he was in the living room, he found Hadrian standing near the fireplace. However, what made Russia blinked in surprise was what Hadrian wore. The teen wore a knee-length black imperial coat that cut in half in the middle with red trimming on the chest, sleeve cuffs and neck guard, red epaulets on each shoulders, black trousers, knee-length black military boots and black gloves, and a long red scarf that was his gift for the teen around the neck and shoulder.
"Hadrian?" the teen turned around. "Dorogoy, what are you doing?"
"… I'm going to meet with my siblings…" answered Hadrian. "… For every two months we need to meet and talk about what happens to the world…" he tugged down his right black glove.
Russia looked at the attire that his little one wore and tilted his head to the side. Hadrian, when sensing someone was watching him, turned around, only to find Russia observing him intensely as if he tried to understand the teen's secret.
"What is it, Ivan?" Hadrian brushed the front of his uniform.
"May I go with you?" asked the Eurasian country.
Hadrian blinked at Russia's request. "… Don't you have some paperwork that need to be finished?" he asked his boyfriend.
"Nope~" Russia smiled at Hadrian.
Hadrian did not know how to say to Russia because for the truth he did not know if he could take Russia to Heaven or not. When he was in dilemma if he could take Russia to Heaven or not, a single glowing feather appeared in the air right in front of Hadrian. With his head tilted to the side, Hadrian raised his right hand and let the feather to float on the top of his palm.
"Michael said you could take Russia to Heaven, Hadrian…"the familiar voice of Raphael could be heard from the feather before it disappeared completely in the thin air.
After the feather had disappeared, Hadrian turned to look at Russia and told him that he could come with him. With a smile on his face, Russia went back to his bedroom to prepare himself. While waiting for his boyfriend, Hadrian went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for the two of them; pancakes with melted salted butters and two cups of chamomile tea.
"I'm ready, Dorogoy~" said Russia twenty minutes later, wearing his usual clothes; a long tan coat, dark green trousers, knee-length dark brown boots, dark brown gloves, and a long tan scarf around his neck.
"Eat your breakfast first…" said Hadrian before he took a sip of his chamomile tea.
Russia gave a slight pout but he took his pancakes for he knew Hadrian had cooked them for him. While eating his breakfast, Russia went to observe Hadrian, who was drinking his tea, with his legs crossed. He never Hadrian wearing that kind of outfit before, so to see it now it was a little strange for him.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" asked Hadrian without looking up from his cup of tea.
"It's just strange to see you wearing that kind of clothes…" answered Russia.
Hadrian put down his tea and put his clasped hands on top of his crossed legs. "… I always wear this kind of clothes whenever I go to meet my colleagues, Ivan…" he told his boyfriend. "You can say this is my uniform…"
Russia nodded in understanding and finished his breakfast. After he had done that, he took out a flask from inside his pocket and took a sip from it. Hadrian only arched his eyebrow for he knew inside that flask was Russia's favourite beverage which was vodka.
"You want some?" asked Russia while giving the flask to Hadrian.
Hadrian shook his head. "I don't like alcohol, Ivan…" he told the Russian.
"Why?" Russia asked with a slight frown.
Hadrian looked towards the ceiling and said, "My siblings told me that I was a lightweight drinker and would do something stupid if drunk." He tilted his head. "That's why I don't drink any alcohol. I don't want something bad happens…"
Russia put the flask back inside his pocket and tilted his head curiously. "Was that ever happened in the past?" he really wanted to know if Hadrian had ever drunk before.
A grimace appeared briefly across Hadrian's face at Russia's question. "Yes," he told him truthfully. "Gabriel said I was a very affectionate drunk if not provoke, but when provoke…" he shook his head. "Come, we need to go now."
Russia looked at Hadrian; he felt intrigued with the reason why his boyfriend did not finish his sentence. For the truth, Hadrian felt intrigued and wanted to see the teen drunk to see what would he do in that condition.
"… No…"
"What?" the Russian gave Hadrian an innocent smile.
Hadrian narrowed his eyes. "No, Ivan, I'll never drink alcohol and nothing you say can make me do it," he said in a firm voice.
"Aaaww…" whined Russia at Hadrian's words, he really intrigued what would his boyfriend do when he was intoxicated, but a glare from the teen made him realized it would be a very bad idea to do it.
Hadrian shook his head and took a hold Russia's right arm. "Are you ready?" he asked the Russian.
Russia nodded his head to let Hadrian knew that he was ready. He watched with a slight fascination when a glowing circle appeared on the floor under their feet. He could see the circle was blue in colour and had images of closed gates with chains around them as if to make sure no one could open it and three pairs of angel wings on each side of the Gates.
He looked up to ask Hadrian the meaning of the images but it stopped when he saw something unexpected from his boyfriend, even though only briefly before the two of them disappeared completely from the room.
Russia had seen a pair of angel wings sprouted from his boyfriend's back.
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When Russia opened his eyes after the bright light disappeared, he could not utter any words when he saw how beautiful the place they had one. The room where they appeared was huge and decorated with rich ornaments that could be said never had been seen in the human world. They were gold and silver along with many beautiful scenery paintings on the wall.
Hadrian did not say anything at the astonishment on his boyfriend's face when he looked around the arrival room, a place where Heaven's residents or chosen agents appeared when they wanted to go to this place. He knew Russia's feeling for he too was like Russia when he first came to the agency and could not help but looked around in awe.
With a small smile Hadrian took Russia's hand and pulled the Russian to follow him. "… Welcome to Heaven, Ivan…"
Russia looked at Hadrian with wide disbelief eyes. "T-this is… Heaven?" he asked in disbelief at Hadrian. "A place where people go after they died?"
Hadrian shook his head. "Misconception… a place where people go after they died is Eden, while Heaven is the home where God and His celestial children live…" he explained.
Russia really did not know what to say after Hadrian explained that right now he was in Heaven, a place where God and his celestial children live. He just let Hadrian pulled him to wherever he wanted to go, but when they were in a garden, they were stopped by a group of children.
"Big brother Hadrian, you come~" a boy with black hair hugged the teen's waist. "Do you want to play with us?" he looked at Hadrian with wide eyes.
"Yeah, big brother Hadrian, play with us~" a boy with blond hair looked at Hadrian with wide eyes like his friend.
"Who is he, big brother Hadrian?" a girl with brown hair looked at Russia.
Hadrian gently patted the boys' heads and answered the girl's question, "This is my boyfriend, his name is Russia…" he gave the children Russia's country name for he knew his human name was exclusive only for him.
The girl's eyes shined in excitement after Hadrian told her who the man was. "Oh! He's the personification of Russia?" she looked at the platinum blond haired man. "Nice to meet you, big brother Russia~" she exclaimed happily.
Russia did not know what to say when he met someone beside Hadrian who was happy to meet him. This girl had done the same thing that Hadrian had done when they first met, looking at him without any fear in her eyes.
"You know about me?" asked Russia to the girl.
The girl giggled childishly. "Of course, silly, everyone in Heaven know about all the personifications~" she told the Russian.
Inwardly Hadrian was happy to see the astonishment on Russia's face when he realized the girl did not feel scared towards him. Nearly everyone in Heaven knew about the personifications or Gaia's Children and some of them favoured the countries so they decided to keep them under their wings for protections or happiness.
So it was not strange if some of the countries had rich resources or good military powers, depended on what kind of angels had become their guardians. Unfortunately Russia… rarely had the fondness of the angels.
So it was not strange they were surprised when they found out that him, the Keeper of Eden, in a relationship with Russia. When some of the Russia's haters asked him if Russia had blackmailed him to be with the Russian, he only answered them with cold voice that the relationship between him and Russia was pure and not based from blackmailing.
He knew Father would never let that happened. Heck, his older siblings would never let that happened in the first place and they would do something to Russia first before their Father.
A tugging on his hand made Hadrian snapped out from his musings and looked down, only to find the blond haired boy looking at him with a slight concern in his eyes. The teen just smiled and patted the boy's head once more.
"I need to go to the meeting with the Archangels, so I don't have a time to play with you…" he explained to the children. When he saw the sadness in their eyes, he felt slightly guilty. "… I promise I'll pay with you when I have free time."
"Pinkie promise?" asked the blond-haired boy.
Russia watched Hadrian slowly crouched in front of the blond one and gave him his pinkie so they could do a pinkie promise. After the teen did that, he stood back to his feet and gently patted the boy's head once more.
"Come, Ivan…" he beckoned the Russian to follow him.
While walking towards the right wing hall where the meeting room was, Russia looked at Hadrian and said, "You're a nice person, Dorogoy…"
Hadrian blinked at Russia's words and asked, "Why do you think like that?" he put his right hand into his pocket.
Russia gave Hadrian a gentle smile. "Because you're good towards those children…" he told the teen.
The teen only pulled his scarf across his mouth and mumbled, "… You're too, Ivan…" he did not understand why sometimes Russia always said that he was nice when he never showed any emotions to the others, not even Russia himself.
Hadrian's breath hitched when a big warm arm pulled him against a hard chest. He looked up, only to find Russia looking down at him with gentle eyes. That gesture made something in Hadrian's chest warmed up more than in previous events.
"You are not heartless, you know that, Dorogoy?" red eyes widened up at Russia's words. "You are not heartless… you just hide it more than anyone…" a kiss was landed on Hadrian's forehead. "Under this emotionless façade, I can see a soft-hearted person that always takes care of the people that he loves…"
Hadrian did not know what to say at Russia's words. It was only had been six months since their first day of their relationship and Russia slowly but surely started to see the 'real' him under the emotionless façade. He did not know how to act with this information. Did he need to feel scared or did he need to feel happy that someone saw the 'true' him?
"Hey, lover boys!" called a familiar voice from behind Hadrian and Russia.
Hadrian moved away from Russia's arm only to find it was Gabriel. "… Good morning, Gabriel…" he greeted the Messenger.
Gabriel smiled at Hadrian before turned his attention towards Russia. "So… he is the one who in a relationship with you…" he tilted his head. "You are very lucky, you know that?"
"Ye—"
"I'm the one who is lucky to be in a relationship with Hadrian," said Russia in serious voice.
Gabriel smiled at Russia and crossed his arms. "Oh, why is that?" he wanted to know what the personification of Russia would say to him.
Hadrian looked at Russia with slight widened eyes. He never thought that Russia always thought that he was the lucky on in this relationship, when in truth it was Hadrian who was lucky to find Russia and be in relationship with him.
"With my dark and bloody past, I've always been feared and hated by some of my colleagues…" explained Russia. "I thought I would always be alone, but it soon changed at the day I met your brother for the first time…" he looked at Hadrian. "He gives me something that I never thought will be given to me… an honest and loving relationship…"
Gabriel looked hard at Russia and found the Eurasia country was telling the truth. He really loved Hadrian with everything he had and Gabriel and knew he would always cherished the red-eyed teen as long as he lived, which would be a very long time with his status as the personification of a country.
The blond Archangel nodded in agreement and went into the meeting room. This gesture made Russia slightly confused and looked at his boyfriend to ask what really happened. But what he found when he looked at his boyfriend made his breath hitched slightly.
Hadrian was looking at him with gentle red eyes, something that never happened before.
"You are a silly one, do you know that, Ivan?" asked Hadrian with a warm tone in his voice for the first time. After the teen said those words, he decided to steal a kiss from Russia.
Before Russia could retaliate or deepen the kiss, Hadrian already moved away from the Russian and went into the meeting room. Slowly Russia touched his lips and a small smile appeared on his face. He was with his relationship with Hadrian and wished for it to never break apart. With that in his mind, Russia went to follow the teen.
Inside the room Russia could see three men and a boy sitting in the medium-sized round table. He recognized the two men were Azrael and Gabriel but he did not recognize the rest. Still with his attention to the man and the boy, Russia went towards where Hadrian was and took a seat beside the teen.
"So, this is the man who has successfully captured Hadrian's heart?" asked the blond man that Russia now realized was the same man in the painting when he first came to Hadrian's home before it was burned down.
"Yes, Michael…" Azrael said without looking away from the book in his hand.
"I see…" Michael stood up from his seat and went to Russia to give his hand for a handshake. "Nice to meet you, I'm Michael, I'm his older brother…" he pointed to Hadrian who was looking at the paperwork that he had gotten from one of the lesser angels.
"I know you," Michael tilted his head to the side. "I had seen your portrait in Hadrian's art/music room before his house was burned down…"
The boy looked at Russia. "So… you're one of Gaia's Children?" he tilted his head to the side a little.
"I'm sorry?" Russia looked at the boy with confusion.
The boy giggled at Russia's confusion. "Sorry, I forgot that no personifications remember about their status as Gaia's children…" he explained to Russia.
The Russian looked at Hadrian to see if what the boy said was true or not. When he saw his little one nodded in affirmation, the Russian decided to accept what the boy said was true about him and the personifications were the children of an entity called Gaia.
The boy then looked straight into Russia's violet eyes. "So… why should we let you be in a relationship with our younger brother, Russland?" the boy asked 'innocently'. "All of us in the room know about your bloody and dark past, so why should we let you be in a relationship with Hadrian?"
Hadrian stopped reading his paperwork. "Raphael?" he was shocked to hear those words came from the most compassionate angel in Heaven.
"Hush, Hadrian…" Raphael looked at Hadrian. "I need to know if this man will give you what you deserve after what happened in your past…"
Russia straightened himself and looked into Raphael's green eyes without flinching. "I know that I'm not worthy of Hadrian's affection… he never wants anything from me and continues to always be there for me even when my dark times come…" he closed his eyes and remembered the first time he had laid a hand on Hadrian.
He remembered that time like it only happened yesterday. That day was the day where his favourite and beloved human family died, the Romanov. The pain of what he had done, specially to little Anastasia, along with General Winter's harsh action to his country, it made him decided to bury the pain with vodka.
He did not remember how much vodka he had drank that time, maybe twenty bottles or more, but when he woke up from his hangover, he found himself on his own bed. However he did not care about that fact for when images of what happened when he was drank came back to him. He then ran to the living room where he knew his little one was.
What he found there would always stay in his mind, did not matter if he wanted to forget about it or not. The living room was destroyed and there was blood on the floor and some on the wall, but what made him wanted to puke was the condition of his little one.
The teen had bandages around his forehead, hands, and feet as if he had fought against something… or more specifically someone.
However, what made Russia felt he did not deserve Hadrian was the way the teen acted towards him when he spotted Russia in the doorway. The teen went towards Russia and looked over his body as if he tried to find any wounds when in truth the teen was the one who had been hurt.
Hadrian did not blame him for what happened when he was drinking down his sorrow and guilt along with General Winter's torment on him. The teen only looked at him straight in the eyes and told him in a strong voice that he would never leave him, not until Russia told him in the face and with clarity in his heart (that meant no influences, magical or not).
Raphael looked at Russia. "… All of us in this room know what you had done to Hadrian when you drunk, Russia…" the boy swung his legs. "If not for Hadrian who told us that it wasn't your fault that time, we would already come and kill you for what you had done to him."
Russia closed his eyes. "I know…" they had rights to feel angry towards him for what he had done to Hadrian when he was drunk. Hell, he too wanted to go back in time so he could punch himself for laying a hand on Hadrian when he was drunk.
"Knock it off…" Hadrian said while looking at the others. "He was drunk so he didn't have any control over his actions at that time."
Raphael looked at Hadrian. "You're too soft, Hadrian…" he told the teen.
Hadrian put his chin on his fist and looked at the others with half-closed eyes. "If Russia did all of that when he was in his right mind, I would already hurt him back…" he looked at the Russian. "Sorry Ivan, I love you but that doesn't mean I'll let you hurt me…"
Russia nodded in agreement. "Good, I more prefer that you fight me if that happened…" he told the red-eyed teen.
"Laid it down, guys…" said Azrael to his siblings. "We know Russia didn't realize that he had hurt Hadrian that time…" he looked at the Russian. "You learned a lot from that event, right?" his icy blue eyes were glowing with power.
"Da," Russia looked at Azrael's icy blue eyes without flinching.
The hard look on Azrael's face changed to a gentle look after Russia said those words. "Good…" he then looked at Hadrian. "He's a good catch, brother…" he told the teen.
Hadrian looked at Russia and took his hand on his. This gesture made the Russian turned his attention towards the teen. "Sorry…" whispered Hadrian to Russia. "… They are protective of me when in truth I don't need it."
Russia smiled at Hadrian. "It's good that you have someone to protect you when I cannot do it…" he tightened his grip around Hadrian's hand. "You need it…"
Hadrian only looked at Russia for a minute or two before he tightened his hold on Russia's hand and turned his attention to the Archangels.
000
Meanwhile at the human world, seven countries were having an emergency meeting regarding the disappearance of one of them, which was Japan. The Japanese had disappeared from his home for three days and no one, not even China, had seen him. That fact made China feared Japan's safety and asked the others to come so they could talk about this.
"So, you want to tell us that Japan has disappeared for three days now?" asked Germany to China.
China nodded. "Yes, when I went to his house, he wasn't there and it wasn't like Japan to suddenly disappear like that…" he closed his eyes. "His government too didn't know where his whereabouts."
"That's unsettling to hear…" said Germany.
"Maybe there is someone out there that decided to kidnap Japan?" asked Italy.
Britain looked at Italy. "For what reason, Italy?" he asked the Italian.
Italy shrugged his shoulders. "That I don't know… maybe they want to control Japan?"
America looked at the empty chair that belonged to Russia and said what was in his mind. "Where's Russia?" he looked at China.
"Don't look at me," said China with a glare towards America. "Russia doesn't want to see me after what I had done because of your plan, America." he leaned against his chair. "It's a suicide and I don't want to kill myself."
Canada raised his hand, making the others turned their attentions to America's brother. "I too had called him but it looked like he was busy for he didn't pick up his phone."
America scoffed. "The commie must be lovey-dovey with his plaything…" said the American.
Kumajiro growled at America for talking bad about Hadrian. Canada hastily tugged the bear close to his chest to make sure he did not jump and attack America.
"What the hell your bear's problem, Canada?" America asked his brother.
Canada looked at America as if he was crazy. "America, you badmouthing Hadrian and Kumajiro doesn't like it…" he then mumbled under his breath, "I too don't like it."
"Stop fighting," commanded Britain towards America and Canada. "We need to find Japan."
"It must be Russia with the help of his plaything…" America told everyone.
Canada smacked his hands against the table. "America, Hadrian isn't a type of a person that will kidnap someone to make Russia happy!" he exclaimed. "After Russia in a relationship with Hadrian he had stopped asking the other countries to become one with him!"
The others nodded in agreement at Canada's words.
"Canada is right… now Russia too has become less creepy, making me and my brother can approach him to have some conversations…" Italy told the others.
America groaned at how naïve his brother and the others were. "He is just playing with us! He is just waiting for the right time to force us to become one of him!" he told the others.
"And you start to become paranoid, Amerique…" France told the young country. "You're just jealous towards Russia for having something that all of us, the countries, want to have…"
"… Wow, so blunt…" whispered Canada.
America glared at France. "Why should I feel jealous towards the Ruskie?" he asked the Frenchman.
Canada looked at his brother with a deadpanned expression. 'Say what you will, America, but with how you act towards Russia about Hadrian, we know you're jealous of him for having someone that doesn't want anything in return…' thought Canada. 'In your mind, Russia doesn't deserve happiness especially after what we had done when he was the USSR…'
Britain put his chin on his fist and snorted. "Do you think we're stupid, America?" he asked his former colony. "We know how you act whenever Russia act loving towards Hadrian and vice-versa… you're jealous of Russia for having Hadrian in his life after he had done back in Cold War era…"
"I don't feel jealous of that commie!" America said harshly at Britain. "Why should I feel jealous of that stupid commie? I know he, now or later, will destroy his own relationship with that human!"
"ENOUGH!" yelled Germany. "We're here isn't to talk about Russia's relationship with Hadrian! We come here to talk about Japan's disappearance and the reason why that happened!" he glared at the other countries in the room.
Canada raised his hand. "I'm going to Russia once more," he told Germany. "And if he still cannot be contacted, I will try to call Azrael."
America looked at Canada. "Who the hell is Azrael?" he asked the Canadian.
A blush appeared across Canada's cheeks when America asked who Azrael was. "He's my friend, that's all you need to know, America…" he nodded to Germany and then walked out the meeting room.
France laughed in amusement when he saw the blush. "Ma petite Canada (my little Canada) has found someone who he fancy…" he said to the others.
"What do you mean by that, France?" asked Britain to the Frenchman.
"He could say this Azrael fellow was his friend, but I know he sees him more than a friend…" said France to Britain. "Ma petite Canada will get the same thing like Russia with Hadrian…" he was happy to the Canadian.
When America heard those words, a dark look appeared across his face.
000
Hadrian rested his chin on top of his entwined fingers while listening to the reports that the others had. However, a report from Azrael caught his attention for it was the same thing that Serena had told him back then.
"You want to tell us that the wall between the spirit world and the human world start to become weak?" asked Raphael to Azrael.
"Yes," Azrael looked at the others with a calm expression. "Serena told me this strange activity has started from some months ago…"
Hadrian leaned against his chair. "... Do you find a clue what creatures that have decided to make the wall between worlds becomes weak?" he asked Azrael.
Russia looked at Hadrian when the teen used his serious voice. He did not understand why Hadrian looked so serious when Azrael told everyone in the meeting room about the wall between the spirit world and the human world had become weak. He decided to ask about that after the meeting finished.
Azrael's face became hard at Hadrian's question. "… The Abyssian…" he answered bluntly.
Everyone, except Russia, straightened up when Azrael told Hadrian what kind of creatures that had decided to make the wall between two worlds weak. They knew how serious the situation was if the Abyssian was involved.
"Are you sure about that, Azrael?" asked Michael, his eyes were narrowed seriously.
"At first I didn't believe what Serena told me… but after I investigated it myself, I found out that the seal that we had put for that race started to become weak…" Azrael explained. "… I really don't want that race comes back… they had created a lot of destruction the last time they came here…"
"How many of them those have successfully escaped the wall?" Gabriel asked Azrael.
Azrael looked at the report in his hands. "… Until today, not too much and only low-level ones…" he told the others.
Michael became silent when he heard that information. "Good, as long as the high-level ones still in the Abyss, we can contaminate them once more without a need to go a war like in the past…" he told the others.
"… Or that's only their way to camouflage what they real want to do, breaking the seal so the high-level Abyssian can walk on earth like in the past…" added Hadrian.
"What you told us made sense, Hadrian…" Raphael told the teen. "We need to tell the agents to keep an eye on the Abyssian to make sure they cannot do any damages…"
Michael nodded and tidied his paperwork. "Then the meeting is over, we will meet again three months from today or when something huge happens…" he told the others before when out the meeting room with Raphael and Gabriel.
Russia turned to look at Hadrian. "Hadrian," the teen looked at him. "What is an Abyssian?" he asked his boyfriend.
Hadrian looked at Russia when he asked that question and decided to answer it, "Abyssian is a race that comes from corrupted humans' souls," he tilted his head. "… They hate human race for having what had been denied from them…"
"… Why we never heard about them?" asked Russia to Hadrian. "If they're dangerous for human race, why we never heard about them?"
Hadrian leaned against his chair. "Because Heaven in the name of agency and the government around the world has made sure humans not realize about any supernatural existence…" the teen explained. "The reason why we have done that is to make sure there will be no chaos among humans…"
Russia never thought that the government around the world knew about the supernatural world and kept it hidden not only from their people but from the personifications too. The first thing he needed to do after he came back from this place was seeing his boss to ask him about the supernatural world.
"How you hide it from humans if you need to fight them?" asked Russia. He knew with the way Hadrian talked, Heaven in the name of agency continuously fought against rogue supernatural creatures to make sure they could not hurt human. However, how they could hide it from humans when he knew the fighting would be devastating.
Hadrian tilted his head to the side. "Before we fight the rogue supernatural creatures, we create a barrier to make sure no humans can see the fight along to make sure the real world cannot be affected by the result of the fight…" he crossed his legs. "Not only that, if there are some humans that see us, then that is why Erasers are created…"
"Erasers?" now Russia was confused.
"Special people that have power to manipulate memories…" explained Azrael when he approached the two of them. "… They will be there to erase and manipulate the memories of supernatural things from humans' minds…"
"Why they are needed?" asked Russia.
"Because if there were no Erasers, chaos would happen among humans because of the existence of supernatural creatures…" explained Azrael. "Hey, Hadrian, may I stay with you?" he looked at Hadrian.
Hadrian blinked in confusion. "What do you mean by that, Azrael?" he asked the icy-blue eyed man.
Azrael smirked at Hadrian. "Well, from now on, I'll stay in the human world like you~" he told the younger brother happily.
Hadrian looked at Azrael when he said those words. He knew Azrael, as the Archangel of Death, rarely wanted to stay too long in the human world. So to hear he wanted to live in the human world there must be something that made him wanted to stay there. A sudden thought then came to Hadrian and he looked at the icy-blue eyed man with a slight narrowed eyes.
"… Don't you dare to hurt him…" he warned Azrael.
The Archangel of Death knew who Hadrian tried to say, he only looked straight into Hadrian's red eyes and nodded. "Don't worry, I'll never hurt him if I can help it…" he told the teen.
Trusting Azrael would do everything he could to make sure he did not break his promise; Hadrian looked at Russia and asked him, "Ivan, may he stay with us?"
A gentle smile appeared across Russia's face at Hadrian's question. "Of course, Dorogoy, he can live with us…" he told the teen.
It was true, he was happy to hear other than Hadrian would live in his mansion. For the truth even thought Hadrian lived with him in his mansion, it still felt empty and needed another residents there. So to hear Azrael would live in the human world like Hadrian and asked the teen if he could live with them, he was happy.
Azrael smiled at the Russian. "Thank you, Russia…" he looked at his pocket watch and told the others that it was time for them to go back.
Hadrian agreed with Azrael and took Russia's hand so he could teleport the two of us back to the human world.
000
When they reappeared in Russia's living room, the Russian realized that his cell phone was vibrating. With a slight frown on his face the Russian unlocked his cell phone and found there were some messages from Canada and from he could see it was very urgent.
With that in his mind, Russia opened one of the messages and read it. What he found there made his violet eyes widened up in surprise. That expression made Azrael and Hadrian looked at him with arched eyebrows.
"Ivan, what is it?" asked Hadrian to the Russian.
Russia stopped reading the message and told his boyfriend. "Comrade Canada had sent a message to me…" he looked back at his cell phone. "He informed me that Japan had disappeared for three days and without any traces…"
Without saying anything Hadrian approached Russia and took his right wrist in his hand. "Come on, Ivan, we need to see the others to find out what has really happened…" he told the Russian
Russia nodded in agreement and let Hadrian to teleport the two of them to where the other countries were. Of course when they did this, Azrael decided to follow them for he had a feeling that his help would be needed.
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Tbc…
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