"H-how did that end up in your hands?!"
Gabriel stared blankly at the Trumpet in Sato's hand, then instinctively glanced at her own empty palm.
It had clearly still been in her hand just now!
When exactly had he taken it away?!
Meanwhile, Sato curiously examined the golden trumpet in his hand.
Not only was its appearance ordinary, it even looked completely unremarkable. No one would ever imagine this was a legendary divine artifact!
"So this is the legendary trumpet that signals the apocalypse? It doesn't seem all that special."
Sato muttered while looking at the Trumpet in his hand.
"Hmph!"
Hearing that, Gabriel immediately puffed herself up proudly beside him. Crossing her arms over her chest, she looked at Sato disdainfully and snorted.
"This is a divine artifact of us angels. Only angels can use it!"
"You don't have angel blood, so of course you can't activate it!"
"Angel blood?"
Sato thoughtfully considered Gabriel's words, then silently opened the system panel and loaded a hero module.
"Hero module loaded. Please select a hero!"
"Judicator Kayle!"
"Judicator Kayle template loaded!"
The instant the hero module loaded, a sacred golden light flashed through Sato's eyes.
When he lowered his head to look at the Apocalypse Trumpet again, endless brilliant radiance suddenly erupted from the trumpet in his hand.
Golden holy light gradually illuminated the Apocalypse Trumpet. The previously ordinary-looking trumpet began to appear increasingly majestic.
As dazzling particles drifted through the air like dandelion seeds, the obscure and mysterious patterns sleeping upon the Apocalypse Trumpet gradually awakened. Brilliant and divine markings emitted blazing white light, and faintly, ethereal and distant hymns seemed to echo throughout the room.
Gabriel and the others were completely stunned.
This was... the activated state of the Apocalypse Trumpet?!
N-no, wait!
Gabriel looked at Sato in near panic, her eyes full of disbelief.
Wasn't this guy human?
Then why could he activate the Apocalypse Trumpet?!
Not only was Gabriel confused, even Vignette and Raphiel, who had been watching for fun, were equally stunned.
Far away in Heaven, a blonde girl silently observing everything also changed expression as she stared blankly at the scene.
"What happens if this thing gets blown?"
Sato suddenly turned toward Gabriel and asked.
Still dazed, Gabriel instinctively answered, "The heavens collapse, the earth splits apart, hurricanes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions..."
"So all kinds of natural disasters?"
Sato thoughtfully looked at the trumpet in his hand.
"Wait! Give it back! Don't blow it!"
Gabriel's expression instantly turned panicked. She had only been joking earlier. If this thing were really blown, she had no idea whether the human world would actually be destroyed, but Heaven and the human world would definitely go to war!
At that point, she would become a sinner for all eternity!
Sato rolled his eyes speechlessly.
"Do you think I'm an idiot?"
He was living perfectly well in this world right now. Why would he randomly blow something like this for no reason?!
Sato removed the Judicator Kayle module, and the Apocalypse Trumpet in his hand instantly returned to its plain and ordinary appearance.
He casually tossed the Apocalypse Trumpet back to Gabriel. The world-destroying divine artifact traced a graceful arc through the air.
Vignette and Raphiel stared blankly at the trumpet flying through the sky.
Gabriel hurriedly got up and caught it. Once she had the Apocalypse Trumpet safely in hand, she let out a heavy sigh of relief before glaring at Sato somewhat resentfully.
"Can't you be a little more careful? What if it broke?"
Sato glanced at Gabriel indifferently.
"Is the quality of Heaven's divine artifacts really that poor?"
Gabriel was rendered speechless, though she still felt rather indignant inside.
This was a divine artifact!
Who would treat a divine artifact as casually as you?!
But right now, what bothered her most... no, what bothered everyone most, was something else entirely.
After carefully storing the Apocalypse Trumpet away, Gabriel swore to herself that she would never take this thing out again. Then she fixed her gaze on Sato and asked the question weighing most heavily on her mind.
"How did you activate the Apocalypse Trumpet just now? Could it be that you're actually..."
"No, I'm human. A pure-blooded human."
Sato naturally knew what Gabriel wanted to say. Calmly shaking his head, he answered seriously.
He had only loaded the Judicator Kayle module just now, temporarily transforming into an angel for that instant. If he truly possessed Angel blood, he probably would have known how to activate the Apocalypse Trumpet the moment he touched it.
Besides, he found it hard to imagine that the two elders at home had Angel bloodlines. If anything, he felt they were more likely from some idiot realm instead.
"That's impossible!"
Gabriel was unusually serious now as she spoke with absolute certainty.
Without angel blood, it was absolutely impossible to activate the Apocalypse Trumpet. And it specifically had to be a righteous angel, not a fallen angel.
Of course, this "fallen" did not mean the same thing as her kind of fallen!
Sato shrugged and replied casually with a relaxed smile, "Who knows? Maybe the artifact's authentication system malfunctioned."
Gabriel opened her mouth, but in the end she sat back down gloomily and started biting her nails.
Could a divine artifact make mistakes?
Probably not...
But no matter how she looked at him, Sato definitely did not seem to possess Angel blood!
At the same time, Sato silently observed Gabriel while pondering several questions.
Why would such a terrifying divine artifact be entrusted to Gabriel?
Without the Apocalypse Trumpet, Gabriel's strength would at most only be A-rank. While angels of that level were not exactly common in Heaven, there was still no way someone like that should possess a divine artifact of this caliber.
Gabriel... Gabriel?
Could this girl actually be related to the legendary archangel? Or perhaps she was that archangel's reincarnation?
Sato looked at Gabriel with a strange expression.
If that were really the case...
Then Gabriel's status in Heaven might rank within the top five. With that level of status, possessing the Apocalypse Trumpet would not seem unreasonable at all.