As we had dinner, I explained my daughter what had transpired recently…
"So you saved the life of a little angel kid, and killed a mighty demon while we were not even awake?!" My daughter asked in shock.
"Wow… I-I feel like I should be more surprised though." Monica admitted. "But Auntie Elayne is strong…"
"Sorry, can you see him now? His name is Gabriel. He's wounded and just a baby to be honest, so I was thinking on keeping him around until his wing heals so he can go back to heaven." I told my daughter.
"T-That's… So heaven actually exists?" My daughter asked little Gabriel.
"It does!" Gabriel nodded. "It is a nice and fuzzy place, lots of natural sunlight… And floating islands! And more angels! And birds! And… clouds? I think so."
"Are you sure you're not getting scammed? There's no way this is how an angel is…" My daughter told me mercilessly.
"D-Don't be so mean to him!" I cried a bit. "He's baby."
"Baby!" Gabriel said, he was already completely unaware of what we were even talking about. "Huh? Wait, I'm not a baby!" He started pouting.
"Geez, ugh, do we need to live with this baby boy now?" Wondered my daughter.
"I swear he will not bother you. Right Gabriel?" I asked him.
"I won't bother anybody! I'm a nice boy!" Said Gabriel while nodding. "I'm good!"
"Hahh…" My daughter sighed, feeling slightly charmed by his cuteness. "Okay… Fine, as long as he's not mischievous. There's Monica already, so another one shouldn't be too much? Life has changed way too much for me to get so intense over just another big thing happening."
"I don't know if I should laugh or cry at those words… But yes, life has changed too much now." I sighed. "Not only Arcadia is a real world, but also our own world is filled with mythical and fantastical beings living right next to ours, hiding in secret all this time… It is a big pill to swallow, especially when until recently, we believed life had nothing magical about it."
"Huh…" Gabriel didn't understand what we were talking about again. "Wait, I got lost… Anyways who is she, big sis? She's a human too?"
"She's my daughter." I explained Gabriel. "Her name's Elena… And this here is Monica, a girl I've adopted…"
"Oooh! You daughters!" Said Gabriel happily. "I see! I never saw an angel adopt people before! Does this go against our Lord's rules or not? Huh… I can't remember."
"Don't think too hard about it." I answered him.
"Okay but why does he refers you as an angel?" My daughter asked.
"Well I am one now… Or something like half-angel?" I wondered. "Remember Angelina, that friend of me from the game?"
"Yes?" My daughter was beginning to feel confused.
"Well… Long story short, I used some of her feathers and blood for my next Physique Rank Up and well…" I said. "It kind of turned me into a half-angel kind of thing. I received a Halo after helping Gabriel, and even a Title from Heaven!"
"W-What?!" My daughter almost spit the juice she was drinking as we had dinner. "That's a thing?"
"Well I used materials from the game to enhance your Magic Circle too." I said. "So it is possible, though I never thought it would go this far."
"Maybe she was compatible with them too?" Asked Monica. "I don't think it was just as easy… M- Maybe?"
"Hmmm, I dunno what's going on, but I like these noodles." Gabriel said. "Huh? Big sis you said you turned into an angel?"
"I was a magical human sort of thing before…" I said. "Sorry, I didn't specify to you what I was…"
"Ohh… Oooohhh!" Gabriel was surprised. "Cool! I didn't know new sisters and brothers could be made this way!"
He took it surprisingly well!
"He took it well enough…" My daughter said. "Well, I guess that goes to the pile of surprising things that have happened since this year began… Can I have seconds?"
"Sure dear." I nodded.
"Me too! Me too! I'm hungy!" Gabriel said. "Back in Heaven we only had boring salad!"
"Okay, okay~" I giggled.
As we were finishing dinner, I tried to ask Gabriel more about his past. I wanted to know if he was truly the same Gabriel they talked about, or an angel with a similar name.
"My past?" He wondered. "Hmmm…"
"Yeah, like, do you recognize the title of "Heavenly Virtue of Chastity" or something similar?" I asked him. "Do you remember you've been called the right hand of God? Or being a Seraph Archangel before?"
"Guh?!" Gabriel suddenly seemed to react to those titles, his silver eyes shining brightly. "Ugh…!"
Suddenly, he seemed unease, as if remembering those things made him feel pain.
"A-Are you okay?" I asked him.
"I'm fine… B-But when I try to remember, my head hurts…" Gabriel sighed. "I don't know, I don't remember having those titles before… I only remember having recently promoted to a Cherubin! But then… The battle happened."
He has no memories of having those titles yet, when he tries to remember, it hurts his head.
There's something suspicious about this… Could something has happened to his memories and powers?
Perhaps after that battle, he has become so weak he can't even remember who he was before?
I don't really know; we'll have to figure it out eventually.
"Well it's fine, you don't have to remember it now." I said, patting his head. "How about as another good deed, you wash the dishes?"
"Wash the dishes? What's that?" Gabriel didn't really know.
"Ah, well, let me teach you…" I giggled a bit.
After teaching him the ropes, he happily washed them, and even left them quite lustrous with his light magic he naturally imbued into things as he cleaned them.
"Ahh! My Halo is glowing a bit!"
His Halo glowed a tiny bit, the wound on his wing looked fully healed by now, with skin and feathers on top.
Looks like it'll take a while… But the more surprising thing is that doing the dishes somehow helped him.