In a small town on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the air was steeped in the spirit of Westfall.
Within the town stood a small chapel, not luxurious but exquisitely maintained.
The town's residents came to pray there every few days, and the chapel's sole priest enjoyed considerable prestige within the town.
But today, the chapel was closed to visitors on the grounds that it needed repairs. Its only priest was outside, carrying a ladder up onto the chapel roof to mend something.
Yet inside the chapel, several female knights clad in holy battle armor stood guard outside a room.
Battle Angel Kariel had just entered to prepare for this mission. If nothing unexpected happened, she would be out again soon.
The Supreme Divine Court held considerable prestige and influence on this new continent.
Yet at the same time, irreconcilable conflicts existed between the Supreme Divine Court and certain families and conglomerates of the new continent.
There was cooperation, but there was also competition.
With hardly any reliable allies on the new continent, the safety of Battle Angel Kariel, one of its most important figures there, was naturally of utmost importance.
The location was changed for every mission. No one would ever be allowed to grasp her whereabouts or discover a pattern.
Likewise, thanks to her high legion privileges on the new continent, she was permitted to relocate her Rebirth Chamber as well.
But this time, Kariel did not emerge as quickly as usual. Instead, the Rebirth Chamber next door lit up!
The female knights guarding the place could scarcely believe it.
Lady Kariel had died once?
How was that possible?!
Splash~
Kariel's smooth, mosaic-censored body rose from the Rebirth Pool. She panted continuously, trying to ease the suffocating sensation from before.
After looking around in slight confusion, she quickly