Chapter 366 - The Light And Darkness Of An Angels Heart (1/2)

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Within Aruliel's consciousness, there were two voices speaking to her, the light, and… the darkness.

There was the light, which sounded like her voice, but more mature, and  more adult, more correct as well, it felt as if this light part of her was the correct one, the one that never cried, that always kept her emotions inside of her heart, the perfect Aruliel.

And then, there was another, malefic voice, a voice that came from the darkness of her own heart, the infected part that was her dark emotions had been devoured and assimilated by the fragments of the Forbidden One, which had also become part of her own body and soul.

Therefore, even if this dark side of her had foreign elements, such foreign elements were already part of her body anyways. The fragments had been fused with her long ago, if they wanted to get out of her body, she would die, and the fragments would even end up very weakened, and because they lacked much will of their own, they had completely fused with her to the point they might die if she dies.

The forbidden one's ego knew this, and that's why it tried to control Aruliel instead of just forcing the fragments out of her body in a grotesque and blood scene… at the end, his actions only made the fragments awaken sentience for Aruliel to overpower them and even be able to draw dark power from them.

But now, both the dark side and the light side of Aruliel had been divided into two halves of the same heart… had this ever happened before?

Aruliel, a being originally composed of light, a being born from the very origin of light in the entire universe itself… now had darkness, a deep darkness she would need to fight against.

But was this light side a good thing as well?

She didn't knew.

But it told her to fight and to be brave, it cheered for her with a strong and domineering voice that seemed to be sure that she would triumph at the end, no matter what, as long as she tried.

”Fight… Aruliel, you must fight.”

”You're my light? Why are you telling me to fight?” she asked.

”Because that's what an angel must do. We must fight darkness, evil, and chaos. We are made for the purpose.”

”So that's it… You're not all that good at the end.” Said Aruliel.

”Not… all that good? I am good. I am light.”

Aruliel ignored her light self, as she looked at the dark self.

”Fear! Tremble! Cry! Why are you fighting? Everything is pointless in this Universe…”

”So you're my darkness? Are you not the parts of the forbidden one?” asked Aruliel.

”Yes… And no… I am your darkness, whichever darkness I once was, I am the same, darkness is darkness wherever you see it, if it all converges together, it becomes the same darkness… and everyone has darkness within them. Nobody can escape it.”

Both light and darkness spoke simplistically, but there was some strange logic behind them and also, a certain philosophical meaning to them.

One part wanted her to fight all things that were considered evil.