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Therapy of angels.
Session 602/2.
Leaders of the session: angel judges Frelzer and Heligel.
Number of summoneds: four.
Done?
Done. Shall I call the first one?
Heligel?
I'm ready.
Of course you're ready.
You shouldn't quit anyway.
I've decided, Frelzer.
And you know the reasons why.
But you do understand that this time...
I know what's my job.
Strange world.
It's so different from ours.
Maskine, you can call the first one.
Name?
Uventa.
Rank?
Helper.
Can we be less formal?
When did you arrive to Earth?
Four days ago.
Only four days...
Have you started to work yet?
Can we be less formal?
These conversations have to be formal.
We can be less formal.
Is this just a conversation?
Isn't it a court?
Let's make this clear. Tell us what your job is.
They've sent me down here to help.
My human is a child with cancer.
He needs strength not to give up.
Not to give up hope.
A diseased human.
And he's so young.
What is your role while helping him?
I'm a friend of his mother's.
What have you done so far?
Nothing.
I haven't started yet.
Why not?
You know that, don't you? That's why I'm here.
Please tell us.
Every detail.
We need it for the report.
The night I arrived to Earth...
You have to know, it was my first job...
I woke up in a dark alley.
At night, in a dark alley.
It was a small street, I don't remember where.
I started walking, but then a male human adressed me.
He started touching me, I believe that's the right word for it.
He wanted to have sex.
I tried to escape, but I didn't know my human body well enough.
We scuffled.
He had a knife.
What happened next?
Everything happened so suddenly...
He took his knife out and attacked me...
I just wanted to defend myself.
I somehow took his knife from him.
Everything... - Everything happened so suddenly, you already said that.
Frelzer.
I'm sorry, go on.
Please.
I killed him.
I killed that man.
I'm ready for punishment.
Punishment?
Why do you think you're here?
I'm a fallen angel.
I'm here because you want to punish me.
You turn me into a human being, and I have to live until...
...until you die. But you're wrong.
We are here to see if you're capable of carrying on with your work.
Carrying on?
I'm a murderer.
Our laws are different from humans'.
We won't fire you until you can't do your job emotionally or physically.
What do you think?
Honestly?
You can tell anything to Heligel.
In fact, the main problem with her is her strong empathy with everyone.
I'm a different person, and my job is different too.
I am the one who decides.
We decide together.
I AM the one who decides, so the summoned angels often lie to me.
Lie to you?
Aren't you judge angels?
But we can't read anyone's mind.
The only way to help a human is being absolutely strong with your emotions.
I learned all this.
But you don't have as much experience as we do.
How can I go on, how can I help someone after I killed a man?
He was an evil person.
But he was a person! Humans are all imperfect.
You can't forgive him just because he was human.
What he wanted to do is unexceptable.
Don't be offended... I don't really know, but...
you can't forgive me just beacuse he was an evil person.
It sounds like you think he deserved to die for what he wanted to do...
but I shouldn't be punished for ***.
Like I said, our laws are different from the humans'.
So an angel cannot be guilty?
Yes we can.
But only if we betray our work, our superior or the human race.
Killing a man was not a betrayal?
No.
You regret it, don't you?
I still don't understand.
Why am I here then?
All right - I take all your power and your rank now, and I exile you to the human world.
Don't!
Why?
Our job is to help them. Theirs is to live.
Even some primitive human tribes use what we use to 'punish' their sinners.
What is that?
Forgiveness.
Was that a trial?
The whole judgement thing?
Conversation. - Conversation.
They wanted you to come here so that we can hear what you think.
The moment you stepped in the room we knew we can let you carry on.
I won't forget what you've done for me.
This is not a human court, Uventa.
Self-defense is not a mitigating, but an exonerating circumstance here.
If an angel has the strength to carry on, than it's all right.
We haven't done anything. We have our job, like you have yours.
You're welcome.
We haven't done anything.
Is this your own decision?
This is our job.
But have YOU decided now?
Crime of the summoned: ***.
The judges decided to let the helper continue her work.
The spiritual salvation of the killed human is now an object of the registration's decision.
The helper is not guilty.
Always the same. You are cruel.
Always the same. You are acting like a human.
We didn't say goodbye to her.
Now say that you don't enjoy this.
Three more, and I'm done.
Not every case has a happy end.
And sometimes it's good that way.
Three more. Let's do it.
Maskine, you can call the next one.
Yes?
It's Forande. Heligel, we need to talk.
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