Against All Odds || Ryeji FF

Chapter 1

When we're all still a child, the thought of angels living up above the clouds once crossed our minds. But as we grow older, our brains are becoming more mature as we discover the truth behind the skies scientifically.

But what if what we believed as a child turns out to be true?

That there are entities with wings walking in the clouds, that the promised land is hidden within it, that there's a totally different realm up there?

It may sound so impossible yet it is indeed real.

Above the skies where it cannot be seen by the naked eye, the holy kingdom of Heaven is located.

However, it's not like what we originally thought. There's more than just clouds here as the inside contains what seemed to be a humongous paradise.

Numerous trees standing tall and firm, flowing rivers running continuously towards the lakes, doves freely flying high.

Various metropolises built in bricks and stones, each city designed to capture conservatism of how the earth originally looked back then when God made it on the first week.

There are also picturesque sceneries here as the whole kingdom was almost wrapped in nature, each being preserved by the angels.

Every guilty pleasure that a mortal would want to see is here within the Promised Land.

In a town square inside one of the cities, three angels decided to take a break from all the work they've been constantly doing one after another.

"Ahh! Again?" Yeji, a high ranked angel, complained as she once again lost to her opponent.

Instead of actually resting from her job, she decided to use her free time playing a game of Go with her fellow angel.

"I'm so good at playing this game!" Lia, her opponent, who's also her friend, celebrated by punching the air in happiness.

Yeji then sighed and laid flat on the stone floors of the open plaza as they were playing on the ground, spreading her arms wide open as she looked in the blue skies.

A sky in a sky? Why not?

"You always have a predictable pattern, Yeji. That's why you always lose." Chaeryeong, the angel sitting beside Lia said to her.

The cat-eyed angel then had a frown plastered in her face. But being the competitive angel she is, she then sat up once again and demanded another round for she can't accept losing to her friend many times in a row.

As they were gathering their own stones, someone quickly passed by them at the speed of light, making their hair fly and their clothes slightly billow because of the wind it brought.

That someone who's wearing an all-white full suit then stopped behind Yeji and knelt on one knee with his head held down, wings halted from flapping as he stayed in one place.

Using his voice as deep as an ocean, he spoke. "Angel 915: Lee Yongbok. I've been sent to you to deliver a message." He reported, still in his position earlier.

Hearing this made the three of them avert their gaze to the angel who addressed himself as "Lee Yongbok".

"Yongbok! Hey! Long time no see!" Lia asked as she waved her hand to the angel who just came from who knows where.

Yongbok suddenly was taken aback because of Lia's greeting. He then stood up and spoke. "Hey! I thought we already had an agreement to use our English names, Jisu?" He said with his brows furrowed, making the three other angels chuckle at his statement.

"Right, right. Sorry, Felix." His friend apologized, still giggling.

Felix is actually Lia's close friend because of that one mission where they've partnered up and were sent to an English-speaking country to look over someone. Hence, having their own English names, Felix and Julia.