"Miss Angel, how old are you?!"

"Miss Angel, can you play games in Heaven?!"

"Miss Angel, can you teach me how to fight with that katana?!"

The small group of children kept asking questions as I tried to calm them all down, but they were too energetic.

They literally pulled me places they wanted to go and whenever I would sense danger would be there, I would point out something interesting, so they could forget a certain direction.

Glancing back at the others, who were having the conversation without me and some chuckling at the children and me, I noticed Yu smiling at me a little bit.

I quickly looked away and sighed, 'It's been four years since I saw him smile like that...'

"Miss Angel, why are you blushing?" One of the children asked.

I put my left hand on my left cheek and felt heat rising, "Wh-what?"

"Miss Angel is blushing!"

"Hahahaha! Is it because of the nice boy you were looking at?!" A girl with blonde hair asked me.

I stepped back a little, surprised that these group of kids noticed my flustered state, "N-no! I...I didn't even notice I was expressing feeling."

"Ehhh? You never showed emotion before, Miss Angel?!" They all asked in surprised unison.

A pair of hands clapped beside me, "Alright, that's enough, you all. Miss Angel has to come speak with us," the unknown boy from before told them.

They whined, but were eventually pried away by the person, who I guessed was in charge of them...kinda like our Instructor back at Hyakuya Orphanage.

Smiling at their pouting, but excited faces, a flashback enclosed my vision as I saw the younger version of me, Yuichiro and Mikaela...laughing when we were in the normal world.

A sunset was layed halfway behind the ocean as its sparkling blue glittered from the orange-ish pink rays of the the setting sun.

'Is it possible...I can have this again?'

"Um, Sayomi, right?"

My eyes blinked and that paradise I saw was gone, I looked to my left and nodded for the boy to go ahead and speak.

He smiled sheepishly, "Heh, didn't know if that was your name or not, but you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine."

We turned around and began walking back to the group, "I'm Makoto Narumi, a somewhat friend of Yu's."

(That sounds so weird because I think of Makoto Tachibana when I hear his first name. )

I smiled at him, "I'm Sayomi Seraphina Lumina Kiiro, soon to be progenitor or queen of the vampires in Japan when I get in control."

His eyes widened, "P-progenitor?! S-so, y-you're a bloodsucker?!"

I slightly frowned, "Your reaction tells me that my friends have not informed you about my background history," I said and narrowed my eyes to them.

Yu chuckled, "We thought it was irrelevant."

"Idiot is speaking for himself," Kimizuki mumbled.

"Sayomi, you're technically a progenitor...It's just that Krul had overthrown your mother's rule and you're heir to the throne," Mika explained.

I lifted an eyebrow, "So, she told you? Heh...the First Second Female Progenitor...*sighs, giggle* That's such a big title. I don't know how I'll pull through once everything's official," I said and raised my left hand to my forehead.

"You're a strong one, I can tell that much just by looking at you. You give off a sense of...hope? I don't know, but what do you plan on doing," Narumi complimented, then demanded from me with narrowed eyes.

That's when realization struck me.

What am I going to do after this is over?

'Am I going to immediately take throne? Yes, I have to...I need to make the vampires see some of the wrongs of their ways. What about high school?...What about it? I never attended it until I came here for Yu, so that's clear...I just won't be able to attend with him.'

I sighed, "I'll build negotiations with humans, my top priority. I would contact the outside to see if there are still any of Japan's allies, but...my wings won't allow me to go that far. I have to become stronger."

"Welllll, if you'd just take this pill..." Shinoa obviously suggested and held up that odd pill from before.

I frowned, "No. I won't rely on pills or magic the Imperial Demon Army has given you. That's one of the reasons why I didn't take it last time...and you saw what happened."

Shinoa understood and nodded, "And about Guren, were you really going to kill him? The man who saved Yu?"

I glanced to Yu, who focused on me intently, "..At the time, yes. If it weren't for Major General Hiragi...I think I would have killed him and seeing that Yu is fine, I might just not get my revenge. Plus, he would be very angry and I don't need that. Right, Yu?"

He didn't say anything and only nodded. His reaction concerned me, but I hid it well...a trait that was given to me by my father.

"Wait, you tried to kill the Lieutenant Colonel?!" Narumi exclaimed again in shock.

"Yes. Why so shocked?"

He seemed angry, "For one, I didn't even see that happen and two, he's the leader of the Ichinose Clan. You got some nerve pulling that on him."

"Oh? I'm assuming you're a follower of his clan. Hn...do you know a woman by the name of Sayoko?"

"Sayoko?" He went into thought, "Yeah. She was a student helping our clan out when the Lt. Colonel went to First Shibuya high."

I looked up to the sky, "You could've told me that, mother," I said aloud. I looked back down to see them staring at me strangely, but I ignored it, "What did she help with exactly?"

"I wouldn't say she physically helped, but she was more of a disguised transporter, sending magic materials the scientists could study. Her name was not known at the time. She and Mahiru Hiragi were friends, and planned to betray the Hiragi Clan for an organization called the Brotherhood of One Thousand Nights. In that way, Mahiru could get what she wanted. As for Sayoko Kuribayashi, I'm unsure of what she wanted. Do you know her?"

"Sayoko Kuribayashi is my mother, Estelle, First Female Progenitor of the vampires. She wanted peace to come to both races, as do I and what she wanted...was a chimaera, my father. He was a snake chimaera. You would know him as Ryou Ishikawa."

Narumi seemed surprised, "No way. That guy? But the Ishikawa Clan dispersed, then suddenly reappeared."

"Ryou Ishikawa, hm? I remember him, he and Guren didn't get along with each other too much from what info I collected," Shinoa recalled.

"It's coming together now," I mumbled to myself.

Gently grasping Himezuru-sa, I smiled at her and sighed, then closed my eyes as the breeze carried my hair.

My eyes quickly opened and revealed my sharp pupils to which meant that I sensed danger coming our way.

"Does anyone hear that?" Yu asked and Mika and I quickly nodded.

"Yoichi, come with me, I'll get you on high ground to spot who's coming." I told him and he nodded.

I leaned down and held my hands behind my back, so he could climb on. Though a little overwhelmed, he got on and I jumped on a roof.

With sharp senses, I took a look at where the running engine was coming from and saw a car heading our way.

"Yoichi, it's a car coming from the left side of the road. There's two people in it, aim to see who it is."

Yoichi did as I said, "Do you think it's Kureto Hiragi?"

"No..." I said and narrowed my eyes, trying to focus them on the moving vehicle.

Noticing Yoichi stiffen in my peripheral vision, I glanced to him, "What's wrong-"

"It isn't the Demon Imperial Army! It's the vampires!"

Once I heard that, I looked back to the moving vehicle and noticed silver hair and red hair flowing in the breeze.

"Yoichi, tell the others to go without me. I'll be fine." I told him and he hesitated, but jumped from the roof, telling the others.

I could only hear my critical breathing at the moment as the yells and shouts became distant.

My eyes were wide and I stared at nothing in particular, 'Why...why are they here? They're the last I expected to see...I don't have the strength to fight as of now due to transforming into a Seraph two months ago. Damn it...how will I protect them?'

Attempting to spread my wings, I grunted in slight pain since I was weak and couldn't use them.

'Please, just work for now. I have to protect my friends and family. Huh...I guess I have no choice...'

"Mitsuba!"

Hearing my friends shout, I looked up to see Mitsuba's body in the air. She was attacked.

Adrenaline rushed throughout my blood and veins as I resulted to the last option I could choose.

"Dan-!"

A hand wrapped around my neck, "Sorry, I can't let you do that, Angel."

Feeling air cut through my hair and the wind being knocked out of my lungs, I struggled against Crowley's grip against my neck.

He slammed me against the ground, making it harder for me to breathe. Still clawing at his hand, he smirked at me.

He looked up to the others, who stood still, shocked, "Okay. Until Ferid arrives...let's have some fun."

"Leave them be!" I yelled at him.

He looked back down at me, "Aw, when you struggle like that, Angel. It makes me want to kill them."

My eyes were filled with wrath as rage as I stopped struggling and growled at him...it was an actual one.

"Being obedient, hn?" Crowley questioned and I looked away from him in resentment.

Mikaela was about to approach until I yelled, "Don't come any closer!"

'They don't stand a chance right now. Crowley is very fast for a thirteenth progenitor and could 'have fun' with them and come back to hold me down in 2.5 milliseconds. Can the others handle it on their own? Even if I could fight, I wouldn't be of much help. Dante drained most of my energy in the previous battle...'

While these thoughts came to my mind, I was right about Crowley fighting the others and they were doing pretty well holding up a fight, but he kept watch on my stiff body.

I attempted to get up, but I was pulled up and held by my right hand and left side, "Well, quite a situation the Angel of Salvation is in."

I glanced behind me and saw Bathory smirking down at me, moving his lips over to my neck.

"Ah, you look as defenseless as the Queen. How cute..." He spoke, then sunk his teeth in my skin.

Gritting my teeth and refusing to whimper in pain to give him pleasure, I heard quick footsteps coming at us.

Glancing up, I saw familiar green irises that were outraged and I jerked to the left, so Yu wouldn't cut me, but Bathory instead.

Bathory let go of me and I pulled away from him. Pulling out Himezuru-sa, I attacked from behind.

"Too slow, Angel~," Bathory mused.

He was behind me.

I transformed Himezuru-sa into Ohimesama-tachi and Chimei-tekina...

Before I knew it, a swift of wind could be heard behind me.

My body stiffened again as my eyes widened from fear and surprise. Slowly looking behind me, there were two fiery rose and gray colored fuzzes behind me.

They disappeared.

"What just...happened...Dante?" I questioned no one in particular and looked at Ohimesama-tachi and Chimei-tekina.

"Sayomi!" Yu yelled as he ran to me, "Are you alright? You didn't get hurt, did you?"

I looked up at Yu, almost not recognizing, "What?...Oh, I'm...fine."

'I didn't create that move and surely, no else performed it. That would be impossible. Unless...' I looked to Mika, 'No, that's impossible.'

The fighting stopped and Crowley quickly stood at Bathory's side once more, who was a little bloodied by that unknown attack.

"Well, even if the First Female Progenitor is dead, she still protects her daughter through that weapon of yours."

I turned around and growled, "Why are you two here. There is absolutely nothing you can gain from us."

Bathory smirked, "If you want to know, come with us." He said and made his way to the trunk.

"Are you kidding us? We'll think twice before we-" I cut Yu off.

"...Akane?" I questioned in a raspy and hoarse tone.

Though I said her name...I wasn't staring at her...No...

I was staring at her head.

Memories of my failure and memories I don't even recall came to me and I almost faltered, but I kept up a strong mental state.

'No, Sayomi. It wasn't your fault. You couldn't help her or the other kids at the orphanage that day...'

Before any words could be exchanged, I fainted.