Half the Fallen Angels
Episode 24: Morgan & Julian Fight Ireena

Early morning, on the lips of the Sei Roja Valley….

Ireena had just returned to her group after being alone she entered the valley of Sei Roja.

The two fallen angels who happened to be standing at the front instantly tensed up his body and the look on his face when Ireena came behind him. They immediately jumped backwards keeping their distance while turning around and realizing that the one who came was Ireena.

Ireena took a few steps forward, but the several fallen angels in front of her moved backwards. Ireena immediately regained consciousness and immediately stopped her steps and took a step back.

Ireena looked at her group who looked at her with a look of dislike for her arrival. Except for Reydan who stood up and looked at him flatly, but actually Reydan tried as if he was fine.

“Did you find something out front there, Ireena?”, asked Reydan.

“I didn't find anything related to our destination.”

“Oh, you mean you found something else.”

“Something you don't want to know.”

“Ooh..We saw the black clouds suddenly calm down. What really happened?”

Ireena was silent. A moment later he spoke again.

“How about you?, isn't it time you told us what you saw. I hope I'm not late.”

Reydan was silent for a moment, and he realized Ireena had switched the conversation. He closed his eyes for a moment trying to control his fear. Then continue talking.

“No. I was waiting for you.”

“Oh yes?, good be.”, Ireena just thought it was cold.

Reydan also told everything he saw with his magus to all the fallen angels who were with him.

A few moments later…..

“Morgan, Julian. So Devan went there with them.”, said Ireena.

“Ireena. You haven't answered my question before.”, Reydan changed the subject.

“What?”

“There was a sudden calm weather. What really happened?”

“You sure you want to know?”

Reydan just kept quiet, Ireena also understood he was waiting for an answer from her.

“There I faced an angel.”

“What??”, Reydan was surprised to hear Ireena's reply.

“So, black clouds..as well as the weather here..”, he continued stammering.

“Hmm, true. It was the angel.”

Reydan and the other fallen angels looked disappointed to hear that.

“Reydan, then we can not go forward anymore.” said another fallen angel who was nearby.

“We'd better go back first, Reydan.”, another fallen angel suggestion.

Reydan lowered his head, thinking.

“You didn't lie, did you, Ireena?”

“Freely lying in front of your magus.”

Reydan silently pondered for a moment. Brow shriveling.

(“I don't think he can lie. Besides I'm pretty tired of using my magus.”, Reydan bathin.)

“Good. There's no choice. We have to go back Next so Istan thinks of the way out.”, said Reydan.

All the fallen angels got ready and took out their wings to return to Delbora.

“I'll stay.”, said Ireena suddenly.

Instantly all the fallen angels looked at him suspiciously, including Reydan. Ireena who noticed it tried to explain it.

“Send the rest to me. After that I will report to Istan myself. If you don't believe it, then you can use your magus to check the truth.”

“Why don't we all just stay?”

“Sorry, you will only burden me.”

Some fallen angels seemed annoyed by Ireena's statement.

(“It is precisely because of your existence that we are all burdened.”, Reydan bathin.)

Reydan also felt he could not stay with Ireena while holding back his depressed feelings. And so do the others. He and the others decided to go back and leave Ireena alone in the valley.

“As far as you are!.”, Reydan's last words before they finally fly away from Ireena.

They flew to Delbora. After some distance, they breathed a sigh of relief from the pressure of fear that Ireena brought.

“Hey, Reydan. Why do you want to let Ireena follow our journey?.”, lamented another fallen angel who flew with Reydan.

“Actually I'm heavy too. However, since Istan requested, there is no way I could refuse.”

“Actually, I don't like Ireena joining our team.”, another fallen angel complained to Reydan.

Reydan could only hear it, without any response.

While Ireena, looking at them from below, slowly disappeared from her sight.

“Huh!, if you don't like me.”, Ireena said with a sharp tone. He walked back, no longer looking up at the sky after Reydan and the others had gone out of sight.

Then Ireena walked down the street. He seemed to know where he was going. Shortly after, he found a parked car pulled over at the end of the road to the valley.

“My guess is right.”, said Ireena.

“It turns out this can still escape Reydan.” view, continued Ireena.

Ireena was sitting on the bumper of the car, waiting for the driver to come.

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In the morning, at the entrance of the Sei Roja Valley…

…..

Ireena stepped closer to Devan and Julian, and held her head between their heads in a whisper.

“You guys..tadi With Devan, right?”

As Morgan pulled back Julian's collar and jumped back, they were relieved. Ireena was frozen in time by magus Morgan.

“Why were we?”, asked Morgan.

“It must have been the female magus. After we retreat it feels relieved. We have to keep our distance, Morgan.”, Julian said.

“What does the magus element look like?”

“Entahlah, therefore our kind of strength should not be revealed first.”

Their wings also expanded.

Time then returned to normal…

While from Ireena's point of view, suddenly Morgan and Julian were already far ahead of him. Ireena was quite surprised to see their move which she thought was very quick and sudden.

Ireena's gaze seriously looked at them.

(“They….How do they do it?”, asked Ireena inwardly.)

Ireena looked at Julian and Morgan taking turns.

(“And whose magus is it?”, continued inner Ireena.)

“Great also you guys.”, praise Ireena.

“Ooh...so from now on you underestimate us?”, Morgan replied with a ketus intonation.

“Yes. Now I underestimate you.”

As fast as the wind Ireena moved towards them, then directed her left fist from below towards Julian's chin which happened to be in front of Morgan.

Julian's reflex avoids turning his head back. And then immediately after that…

“Dump!!”, Ireena's right fist hit Julian's stomach making him bounce back. Yet…

Julian activated his magus, he rewinded two seconds back, the incident repeated….

Ireena pointed her left fist towards Julian's chin, then, “Tas!!”, Julian's right hand precisely caught it while striking the fist towards his right.

Shortly after that…

“Bump!!”, Ireena's right knee just went up against Julian's stomach. Julian's left palm that he had prepared to dispel Ireena's right hand was broken, unable to stem the attack.

(“The attack pattern..change.”, bathin Julian.).

Julian was also knocked back.

A moment later Ireena turned straight for Morgan, her right hand rapidly eyeing Morgan's neck. The eyes of Morgan Ireena were like being in a state of doom, making the look on her face tense with fear.

He could not think, just relying on his reflexes made him just do simple movements. It leapt backwards and further thanks to the wind thrust made by its wings.

Ireena's not out of ways. His right hand which was not up to his grip to Morgan he held, then he pulled his right hand to the back of himself.

“Wuuuss...”, the wind that previously pushed Morgan backwards instantly turned to push him closer towards Ireena.

Ireena catches Morgan's neck with her left hand and “Bumb!.”, is thrown to the ground, Ireena's grip is not off, and Ireena's left knee hit Morgan's chest.

“Checkmate!”, said Ireena, after locking Morgan Movement.

Morgan panicked, he tried to resist breaking away from Ireena. Morgan pulled out Ireena's right hand and tried to push Ireena's knee, but his efforts were futile.

“Do not fight!, free.”

Morgan finally stopped, unable to withstand the mental pressure brought by Ireena and the pain of her grip.

While Julian could only see, his eyes widened. He was surprised to see Morgan being cornered motionless.

“I don't care about anything else, I just want to know what Devan is doing here?. What's the goal?”, asked Ireena while looking at Morgan intently.

“Dia...sedang..”, Morgan who was under mental pressure was encouraged to answer.

“Morgan!”, shouts Julian.

Morgan was surprised, to make him quiet.

“Cih!”, misuh Ireena. He stared at Julian, but because of the wind, Julian was not afraid of Ireena.

Ireena raised her right hand, then she clenched. And instantaneous…

“PUM!!”, Ireena's fist hit Morgan's face.

“If you don't answer, I'll hit you every two seconds. Take it easy, you will continue to regenerate, so it is impossible to die easily.”

Julian who saw that started to unsettle, he looked left-right looking for something.

(“What can I do?”, Julian thought.)

“Do not think your friend there can help, even if he will not dare to approach me.”

“PUM!!”, Ireena's punch landed again on Morgan's face.

While Julian, he was furious, his hands clasped, unable to do anything.

“Tch!, I'm running out of ide”, complains Julian in small voice.

Even so Julian still thought, his eyes glanced back and forth looking for ideas. Until he suddenly remembered…

(“Cooldown magus Morgan..”), Julian focused on Morgan.

Morgan seemed to be silently closing his eyes, his arms stretched out, while enduring the mental and physical weight of Ireena's attack, his mind counting…

(“Seven...”)

“What's Devan's goal here?”, ask Ireena again.

(“Eight...”)

“PUM!!”, Ireena's powerful fist hit Morgan's face.

(“Nine...”)

“Hey Morgan, maybe you're really going to die.”, threatened Ireena.

Ireena pulled her right hand back again, preparing to punch Morgan as hard as she could. Then he quickly slammed into Morgan's face, until when Morgan's bathin began to count to ten, at once….

“PUMP!!”, Morgan's hand reached out and gripped Ireena's neck, she instantly woke up and easily slipped out of the Ireena Lockout.

At the time, nothing moved except Morgan himself. The pressure of fear that Morgan felt suddenly disappeared. He stood up while lifting Ireena by clutching her neck.

Morgan's bruised face looked sinisterly shrouded in anger.

“Maybe you're the one who's really going to die..”, Morgan's backlash. At that moment Morgan completely strangled Ireena with all his might.

Until two seconds later...

Time went back but slowed down. The pressure of fear slowly enveloped Morgan.

Unknowingly making Morgan's grip weaken, even Morgan felt like there was a wind weakening his grip around Ireena's neck.

With a feeling of fear Morgan's grip was released, but because mental pressure is not as strong as before Morgan can still fight his feelings.

Ireena's right hand was still attached to Morgan's cheek and Ireena's left hand was still attached to Morgan's neck, by Morgan's grasp, then she did something to him. Ireena's leg, her left knee, was still stuck in Morgan's chest. Morgan did something to him.

In the slowing down time, Ireena seemed to float in the air, then Morgan threw a punch to Ireena's face in the remaining time that slowed it, until it reached the fifth second…

“Krek!!!, PPUMP!!”, Ireena crashed backwards with just two strokes that Morgan had time to release.

But suddenly there was a wind so cold and rushing around Ireena's body, that it carried dust and was clearly visible in Morgan and Julian's vision.

(“That,,, that female magus element is the wind, which strikes us mentally.”, bathin Julian)

The wind prevented Ireena from crashing to the ground, and rebalanced Ireena in the air.

“Aarhgmm!..”, the sickly Ireena immediately lowered her head and bit her lip to the point of being injured so as not to incubate.

Ireena stood floating low in the air with a rushing cold wind around her. Both his hands and left leg were twisted, and his face was bruised by Morgan's blow.

“You...!”, said Ireena as she held her head staring intently at Morgan.

Morgan was staring as he stepped towards her with an angry and sinister face.

Seeing that, Ireena's gaze immediately broke, while the look on her face seemed doubtful and frightened to see Morgan. Ireena immediately extended her wind range, and as Morgan's anger was defeated by her fear, Morgan jumped back.

(“Sial...I mistook.”, Ireena bathin. “I think the magus is related to the speed of space, therefore I locked the movement.")

Suddenly Ireena lowered her head while strongly biting her lips, her left leg and left hand spinning slowly regenerated, but it made Ireena feel an immense pain.

("Mistakably, Morgan.the magus has the time element.", Ireena bathes when she is in pain.").

“Hey woman is very fast self-healing.”, said Julian who was still sitting while hugging his stomach.

“This regeneration speed..almost equivalent to Devan.”, said Morgan who still stands lethargic. He still felt pain around his veins from Ireena's knee pressure.

“We'd better get away, leave the car. We also can not approach it.”, said Julian who began to stand.

Morgan just nodded.

They also glide flying a bit high past Ireena which is in between. Ireena could only look on without being able to do anything.

Until a moment later, when his left hand and left leg had slightly healed, he immediately moved towards flying the two of them, he said, then he accidentally saw a shallow and small river flowing from the valley.

“If you can stop the time, then I will freeze that time.”, said Ireena who still intends to pursue it.

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