-= fallen =- (Book 0.5 Of Angel Devourers)[WangXian FF]

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Wei Wuxian walked through the tunnel that led outside-right near the place where the last disappearance was detected by Ajax-and he surfaced to see a woman was crouching down and touching the ground with her finger before she licked the same finger.

"Interesting." The woman mumbled the word, before she suddenly turned around to face Wei Wuxian and threw something at him.

Wei Wuxian easily dodged the wind knife and laughed.

"What are you doing, licking stuff and almost killing me?" Wei Wuxian walked toward her and followed her suit-crouching down and examining the ground.

The woman was actually his long time friend and-as unlikely as it seemed-a goddess of love, prosperity, and everything that's flowing, Benzaiten-or Tenten. And he asked for her help to track down the missing angels because she was the best tracker-although her methods were sometimes... unconventional.

"See this?" She ignored him and pointed at a tiny fleck of something glimmering on the ground. "This is Angel's essence. Their grace. What makes them angels." She touched the essence and licked it again. "Mm... taste good."

"That's... disturbing." Wei Wuxian frowned as he stood up again. "So, anything else I should know?" He asked for her help, since their kind was not exactly Angel's best friends, and he didn't know shit about their species except that they thought they were doing justice, by doing... whatever it was they were doing. Including kidnapping and killing the supernaturals-guilty or not-in the name of God.

Benzaiten was quite vocal in her disagreement toward those angels, and she did so by helping the Devourers to keep the peace. She was an influential figure too, and her other friends-Ebisu, Daikokuten, Bishamonten, Jurojin, Hotei, Fukurokuju-the Seven Lucky Gods from Japanese folklore, were also on her side.

She then stood up and cleaned her knees and fixed her red dress, before she pointed her long red nails at Wei Wuxian.

"Yeah, I think you should stay away from this one, because the one who took the angel is also an angel." She suddenly became serious. "I mean it, Xianxian, this looks like their own internal problem and we should not interfere with it. You know how petty and stubborn those angels are, like beautiful marble statues." She chuckled at her own joke.

"That's what I thought, and probably what Dottore thought as well, since he sicced me on the entourage." Wei Wuxian frowned. "By the way, is there any chance you could track whoever did this? Or maybe finding out if it's really their internal problem, or something more sinister? I got quite a few angels staying at my place and I really want to solve this before they start to poke their nose to somewhere they didn't belong."

"Like your basement?" Tenten chuckled since she knew exactly what's in Purgatory's basement. And it's not just their out of this world alcohol barrels.

"Like our basement." Wei Wuxian smiled. "But anyway, I understand why Dottore asked them to stay at our place, you know, with keeping your friends close and enemies closer philosophy. Didn't help that one of them is freaking hot, hot, and I almost got my pants melted by his gaze alone."

"Hmm, you? Got charmed by an angel of all beings?" She laughed and slapped his back. "That's a reason to celebrate."

This woman was a heavy drinker and she always cleaned out Purgatory's alcohol reserve by the time she finished drinking. But Wei Wuxian didn't mind, because she was also one of the families, although her words irritated him for some reason.

"By the way, is your angel a very handsome gentleman with long dark hair and golden eyes, very tall and built like Adonis, wearing all white?" Benzaiten suddenly spoke with a teasing lilt in her voice and it caused him to raise his brow in question.