The night study.
　With only the pale light twinkling, I summoned an angel.

　That female angel I was in charge of in my rebirth and with whom I've had a relationship ever since.

It's you again.
I'm sorry. But I need your help.
"Power?
I want to see the color of some people's souls.
You can see it.

　The angel tilted his head.

"You're a godlike person, you can do it.
I can only see the 'now'. I want to go back a while and see the moment of change.
That's right.

　According to what the wise man's sword told me, as a divine being, I cannot do it, but the convenience of seeing and judging souls reborn every day in the field.
　An angel can see a soul's whole life effortlessly.
　I'd say he specializes in that.

Okay, I get it. Whose is it you see?
Well, no, I just need your help.

　The angel was getting more and more tense.

　I need your help, literally.
　I told him about Dorothy's case and how I could borrow her inherent ability if I put her in the shadows.

　The homunculus and Herschel will take care of that for you, but you can still use your ability if you're in the shadows without it.

　I told the angel about it.

"Oh, really?
I won't say free. I'm not saying that for free.　And maybe you can.
I don't think so.
Why?

　Now it's our turn to shake our heads.

I did a little thing a long time ago. I was down on the ground playing with a friend of mine and we were bathing by the spring and we were spied on.
"Oh my God.
I shouldn't have used my powers on the humans to get back the clothes that were taken away from me. I've been tagged, there's nothing more to go on.
I'm sorry.
It's okay, though.

　The angel shrugged.
　It's a look that says, "I don't care about that now.

"It's okay if you want to help. You do a lot of things, and it's fun to watch you do them.
Thank you. Here you go.

　I'll give the angel a different dagger.
　I give the angel a new dagger, different from the one I gave Dorothy.

　She took it and stood up and cut my shadow as I stood in front of the light.
　She slipped into the shadow.

　I stared at the shadow.

　Aside from the angel, there was another person in my shadow.

　I drew on the angel's power.
　Silently I saw Dorothy's soul lurking in the shadow.

　The colors of her soul have flashed before me like a lantern since birth.

　Born a human just barely passing E rank, Dorothy's soul was darker than when she was born, partly because she was picked up by Kersee and used for her own good.

　Gradually, it turned darker and darker, and then one moment it was all white - purified.

That's great.

　An angel came out of the shadows and said with a look of admiration.

Did you see that?
"And by the way. I've never seen a soul cleansed in an instant like this. I've seen millions of souls and I've never seen a pattern like this. It's an amazing story.

　Really.

......
What's going on?

　I notice the angel staring at me.

I noticed an angel staring at me, "Yes, you purged your soul like that, but I was wondering if that would affect your soul itself?　For example, if there's a really bad guy who is a horrible, irredeemable villain, I wondered what would happen if you purified him.
"I see.
It doesn't seem to be affecting you this time, but maybe we shouldn't do it too much.
"......

　It was a quandary.

　Redeeming the bad guys or patronizing the bad guys.

　I guess it's one or the other, and it's open to interpretation.
　If it's the former, I'm going to do it even if I'm stopped: .......

"Good riddance.

　An angel crawled out of my shadow.

Okay, I'll be back.
"Yeah. Thank you.



　The angel opened the gate to the heavenly realm and tried to return--but .

Pfft.

　I held my nose and winced as if I had hit something.

Te Te Te Te Te. ...... Huh?
What's going on?
It's funny, they can't get through.
Impossible to pass?
"Yes.

　The angel touched his open gate sticky.
　It's as if there is an invisible wall, stopping you from touching it.

That's funny. ......

　What's wrong, I ask the wise man's sword.
　With the wise man's answer, I opened a new gate.

　I used my divine magic to open it.

How's that?
Let's see. ...... Oh, I can get through. Why?
"It's just that: ...... look at yourself.
"Yourself ......?　Oh, my soul.
Yeah, we're up a little bit in rank. So the gates I used to be able to get through are now 'too narrow' to get through.
"No. ...... I'm going up?　I thought I'd never be able to do it again. ......

　Amazing Angels .
　Apparently, the increase in soul rank with my cooperation also applies to angels.