Even though Ray wanted to control his expression, Ray's eyes turned full of scorn and gave a distasteful vibe. He didn't hate his brother per say but seeing his family still left a bad taste in his mouth. When he returned as jobless everyone in his family had disappointed expression painted on their faces. Ray had hope that his family would be understanding and comfort him tell him he was still useful tell him he had some value in him but what met him was disappointed expressions of his parents as if all their investment had come to naught. At that moment Ray knew that he was truly alone in this world.
What made his brother different from his family though was he was already expressionless. He didn't treat Ray any different after his incident. He was even one of the few who greeted Ray normally.
"Hmm.. Ray? What are you doing here?"
Damien asked, he looked surprised. That wasn't surprising though seeing a jobless at the summoning station didn't make sense. He looked into Ray's eyes with an questioning look.
"What am I doing here you say..."
Ray spoke as his expression was turning hesitant. What could he say to his brother? that he had awakened as an angel because a feather fell from sky and fell to his hand?
After organizing his thoughts Ray finally came up with an answer.
"You see, I have awakened a job"
As I saw Damien's expression turned dumbfounded as if he heard the biggest joke, I grinned and added.
"And.. I came for my summoning"
'Not so useless anymore huh'
Even though he knew saying such words wasn't useful but he just wanted to announce this to world that they shouldn't have doubted him.
"No!, that's impossible"
Damien shook his head.
"You know, You cant awaken twice"
Those words made me smile wider only this time the smile looked evil.
"But I am here, am I not?"
Just as I was about to summon myself to the other world to prove myself. Damien interjected.
"Lady Sera, can you have a look at my brother"
As Ray heard those words he felt a shadow fall on him from behind. Coincidentally the entire alter went silent as if even breathing would lead them to die. Ray glanced at the direction of the shadow and his eyes went wide with shock. Infront of him was a girl who looked a bit older then him, she had golden hair and a pair of mesmerizing golden eyes. She was wearing a long flowing dress with an insignia of an angel with sword and a shield.
Their was no doubt, that insignia was from the Raphael family. And those distinct features and her name she had to be none other than Saint Sera Raphael, She was the only saint of this entire generation and also an awakener of Angel job. He could also sense a similar feeling from her, it was just like the divinity he had absorbed. But that also meant that she could sense it in him too. He couldn't believe his cover was blown so easily.
And to prove his point right now she was staring in his eyes with a slight hint of surprise. As if feeling the tension Damien tried to ease the atmosphere.
"Sera? yo-"
But he was soon interrupted by a cold voice.
"You"
She spoke with a cold tone as if she was an emotionless doll. She hesitated for a bit and after a while added.
"Who are you?"
Sera's cold tone made Ray somewhat mad but he couldn't show it now, could he? He slowly arose to meet her eyes and making a seemingly fake smile and tried to speak amiably.
"You can call me Ray, I'm from Ragnarok family"
Small gasps could be heard most likely shocked by Ray's audacity as the one whom he was talking to was a saint after all. But what was more shocking was Sera had her lips curved and a dazzling smile flashed everyone blind.
"So Its Saint Ray"
Her words left everyone shocked, Who was this Saint? Who were these Ragnarok family? Why haven't they ever heard of that name? Even Damien was dumbfound and was constantly shifting gazes between Sera and Ray.
After contemplating for a while she added.
"Do you have some time?"
But the most shocked was Ray because he might just have discovered the secrets behind becoming a saint was perhaps turning into an Angel.
"Isn't Saint Sera's new escort also a Ragnarok, what was it Da..Dam"
"It's Damien Ragnarok, I heard he was an excellent marksman with kind heart"
"No wonder, they must be from some hidden family"
People all over the alter started chattering. Everyone wanted to learn more about this mysterious Saint and his family. Some of them could be seem running away most likely to inform of their family of this matter. Even Damien looked at Ray with anticipation,
'This b*tch is getting all the attention towards me, calm down Ray you just suffered from showing a flaw you cant let go of yourself'
Ray's face got somewhat twisted seemingly half smiling while his eyes seemed crying. He let out a deep sigh and gathered his words.
"Not right now.. I.. have some.. important mission to complete"
This excuse didn't seem to convince anyone as he was receiving a lot of doubtful expressions. he needed to think of a way to salvage this situation.
"How about be meet again after three months, I too need to do some catching up with my brother"
Damien finally spoke with is signature kind smile. He would have killed it with Ray's trait. He was seemingly able to diffuse that awkward atmosphere.
Sera glanced at me as if waiting for some sort of confirmation. As Ray couldn't refuse as his brother already spoke all he could do was nod weakly.
"Alright then, come to the Raphael Estate in three months"
Sera said in a commanding tone.
Before Ray could refute Sera disappeared from the alter.
"We will talk about this after we return"
After uttering a rushed sentence Damien too disappeared.
Ray was looked at the now empty spots dumbfounded. Shaking his head he noticed a lot of people over the alter glancing at him.
'I already hate that b*tch'
After heavily signing again for god know how many times he finally chose to leave this place as fast as possible.
"Summon"