Heaven – Sevy thinks “Rosiel, don’t get too full of yourself…I still have my trump card that will shake the Heavens!” He is referring to Sara.
Gehenna – Setsuna’s soul returns – to Alexiel’s still-living body, since his is dead. Cut to the Mad Hatter, who is planning to make Kurai his bride: “Once we…gain control over Gehenna the power of the Shinryu Nature Spirits…and the Savior…will be ours! As demons whose name is part of the Grand Grimoire, I…one of the seven Satans, Belial, swear eternal loyalty to my king, lord Lucifer!”
Book of Gehenna, Act I: The Angel of Fire opens
Heaven – The angel of fire himself is introduced: Michael. He has a twin brother. Sevy sends droids to fetch him for the council but he destroys them. “I am the leader of the Powers!” He also says, “Setsuna’s life is mine. [Sevy], if you want me to move, then bring me a war!” He and his aide Kamael go to Raphael’s house, in Raqia. Michael – or “Mika” as Raphael calls him – crashes into “Raphy’s” office. He is always hitting on all the females he meets. In this scene he is making out with Ariel, who was won over with Raphy’s brilliant line: “You have the same unknown disease I do. You’ll need surgery” so he had to “exam” her. She is lead away by “Lady” Barbiel. Michael is trying to get Raphy to help him hunt the Savior and gets really mad at Raphy’s “whimsical” attitude. He gets so riled up Kamael knocks him out with a gun butt to the head and takes him away. “Sorry for the trouble,” he tells the surprised Raphael.
Sometime later, Kamael returns to Raphy’s, looking for Mika. Raphy surmises he’s on Assiah and goes back to his women. Of course, he is actually concerned about Michael being on his own, so he leaves his lady with a THUD to the ground and is determined to go after Mika on “Assiah: Tokyo.”
Raziel is beginning to share Sara’s dreams. He begs Zaphikel to let him speak to Sara as he has been waiting to use his powers (telepathy) his whole life – he wants to help Zaphikel find Adam Kadmon for whom he “has been searching for all these years.” Zaphikel says, “My dream is to see your face with my own eyes,” but thinks no one can cure them, “Even Raphael.” Zaphikel is trying to find the guardian angel for Alexiel’s current form and cannot find any; he suspects Sevy is to blame. He is thinking, “I haven’t changed in all these years, Anael.”
Gehenna – Adam Kadmon appears in a dream to Setsuna. “It has been seven days since the end of the world.” He shows Setsuna the 7 layers of Heaven and Hell. The Tower Etenamenki, “where I am being kept…is in the highest level, Atziluth.” Next, Briah, and Yetzirah… “That’s what the final four levels of Heaven are called.” Sara is somewhere in Yetzirah; the 2nd level is Raqia. The dreams must end so they don’t get “caught” for “dreams of the territory of children.” A panel shows Setsuna seeing… “Those are…rabbit eyes!” -- Cut to Heaven, where Metatron is waking up, says to a plushie, “Good morning, Rabbit. I had a weird dream again…” –Back to Setsuna…he realizes he is in Alexiel’s body. He is in enough of his right mind to store Nedhig’s scale – now a seed – in Alexiel’s locket earring. Boyz is brought to Alexiel/Setsuna. She/he says to him, “Do you understand that gravity of what you’ve done? Do you understand how creepy it is to have a 16-year-old male high school student in the body of a voluptuous babe?” (Raphy: “Alexiel’s measurements were 34-22-33…why is that all I remember?”) Kira is amused.
In a section of the hall away from the others, Arachne comes upon Noyz who is vomiting blood and demons. Belial appears and confronts Alexiel and Kurai, saying if they want to revive Setsuna’s proper body, they must go to Raqia, Yetzirah to get the anti-soul resurrection spell from Raphael. It is implied Alexiel and Belial had sexual relations after her (Alexiel’s) fall. “You [Alexiel] are in a situation similar to we archons, dark angels who disobeyed God.”
So, Setsuna’s “totally perfect plan!!” is “I’ll go to Yetzirah and nab this playboy Raphael and bring him here to revive my body! Then, I’ll hang this Zaphikel and get back Sara!”
Suddenly the demon Eishera is found murdered. Belial, on behalf of Lord Lucifer, proposes to Princess Kurai. If she marries him, “someone” in Hell can perform Setsuna’s resurrection. Of course Kurai is not allowed to tell anyone. Kira tells Setsuna he actually hated Alexiel for using him and he raped and killed her last incarnation, but he only said it because Belial was eavesdropping. Hatter even says “He doesn’t really need to know your identity, does he?...keep things as they are. Then you still have a reason to stay…” Noyz, possibly still possessed/in a spell, is rallying demons/evils against the Savior. The Evils try to remove Nanatsusaya from Setsuna’s body but it won’t allow it; it only travels to Alexiel’s grasp. Because Setsuna’s soul is in control, he manages to keep Kira/Nanatsusaya’s blood-rage under control. “I just want to crush those guys in heaven and return my home…the way it was,” Setsuna tells the Evils. The Evils do not listen and Boyz and Setsuna flee to Assiah.
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