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[gforceinmyfaaaace]

Is it wrong to want to live a normal life here when you're a fighter back at home?

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[rewindtime]

I feel the same way.

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

What did you do back at home?

I'm an angel. I guess that makes this not-so-anonymous.

[rewindtime]

I fought monsters. Monsters that were born from people just like me who'd had enough of their terrible lives.

Like from Heaven?

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

You could say that. My world doesn't have a Heaven or a Hell; just an Underworld where all souls go to rest. The monsters in your world...they kind of sound like what happened in ours... Hades, the god who ruled the underworld, would turn the souls there into monsters to help build his army. It was horrible.

[rewindtime]

I thought a lot about whether Heaven existed back at my home. I kind of felt like things were too horrible for their to possibly be a God, yet at the same time I wanted him to exist so that maybe if it all failed I would actually find someplace happy. It's kind of dumb I guess.
Yes, it does sound a bit like what happened to us. It sounds kind of cliche when I explain it this way, but we had another alien race secretly invade us in the shape of cute, innocent creatures. They would promise young girls what they wanted most in the world in exchange for them to fight monsters with powers they would be granted. But agreeing to work with them was a death sentence and ensured that, for all the good that might come out of your wish, an equal amount of bad would happen in return. Once their whole lives were ruined, they would turn into monsters that other little girls would fight. No one was ever told what would really happen, and the aliens would collect the energy that came from their transformations.
It was a horrible place.

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

There's nothing wrong with having faith, especially if it gives you hope. Even if you don't know for sure, anything's better than nothing. It's what keeps you going, right? I think that's good enough.

About those aliens, though--I bet you they're more powerful than humans, aren't they? Beings like that are always pulling that stuff with humans. They think humans are so fragile that they treat them like toys! It's wrong and they shouldn't do it. Humans are stronger than that! Humans always find a way to fight back and win!

[rewindtime]

I suppose you're right. Hope is very important, I've come to realize.

Significantly. You'd think they would be a little wary of us, considering the power they can grant to us has to be equal to the potential dormant within us, but no. What they find interesting about us are our emotions, and manipulate us into falling into despair to increase their energy quota. To them, emotions are equivalent to a mental disorder.
It's sickening. They prey on us like lesser beings.

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

That really is sick. Where I'm from, gods do that, too. There are some gods that protect humans, but there are so many others that think just because humans are so much weaker than gods, they can do whatever they want. It's cruel, especially when you thin about how much faith people put in the gods.