them! he nodded at Damiel.

– How is that possible?»»

Ah, my dear Keijigen, it all happened so fast

,so fast… Three days ago, rumors began to spread through Hell that

everything would soon end, that the X-hour was coming, and if anyone

wanted to continue their existence, they had to pass the ora-

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and bow down to a certain black messenger.

It was all very strange. I do not know if

any of our people bowed down, but I was whispered in time to get out-

I thought there would be a big massacre… and I did… you know,

I’m already old, I’ve served Hell a hundred times, and I want

to live a little for myself, see the world…

Keijigen was perplexed, he was very surprised and

charmed.

«Brother, what about your fellows? I don’t believe you could

leave like this…

– And I didn’t believe until the last

moment that something serious could happen. You didn’t believe me then, either! I thought

I’d run away just in case, hang out here

on Earth for a couple of days, and then come back. He buried his face in his hands

and sobbed. «We can’t go back now,»

he wailed. «There’s nowhere to go back… And not to anyone…

– Do you know what happened there?» You can feel

everyone, right? Keijigen asked.

Arfimaino looked up.

«I’m a mortal, Keiji, I’m a human now…» He patted

his chest. – I can’t even light a cigar with my finger!

I didn’t think this would happen on my bike.

Now I don’t know how I feel. Almost nothing, I’m afraid,

just the remnants of the old power floating around. I couldn’t get in touch with any of

our people here, but I saw you this morning…

He took a drag on his cigarette and continued,

«Some third force that lives by completely different

laws, spitting on both Hell and Heaven. Keiji, they, they-

but, caught us off guard, but we didn’t last an hour!

And it looks like Paradise also fell pretty quickly. I’m afraid it

’s something that was written in the Crimson Book…»

– I studied hidden knowledge a long time ago and read

a book. There were a lot of things written there, about different things. I tried

,I remembered, but the human body leaves its

mark. I do not remember. Almost nothing.

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– I did not pass the electives. Keijigen took a sip

from his glass, he turned his head. «Damiel, do you have something in there

was it about this?

He shook his head.

«There are some torn pages in the Book of Light,»

he said. – They were always kept separate, and it was

about the last days of divine energy. This scared a

lot of people, so they were taken out and forgotten. We are not familiar with their content.