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Warning: may contain mild spoilers, I whited out everything that I felt was giving away too much.

First off, let me say that I almost couldn't finish volume 20 because my teary eyes were making the words blurred, second, Kaori Yuki should get some sort of fantastic award for this story, I have never seen a finale done so beautifully.

She filled every plot hole, tied every loose thread, and answered every question with at least an insinuated answer, she even managed to play out almost every canon pairing.

Alexiel-Rosiel: Played out at about 1/4 way into the book.

Rosiel-Katan: Played out until Rosiel's death.

Lucifer-Alexiel: Played out right after Lucifer's supposed death.

Belial-Lucifer: Played out after earth was returned to normal and Sakuya Kira's soul visited his father.

Kurai-Alexiel/Setsuna played out at the end of the book.

Setsuna-Sara: Played out through the book's entirety.

And pretty much every other pairing that you could possibly squint at and see a relationship.

I re-read the end for more clarity, since I had to rush throught he first time so I could bawl my eyes out, and I cried again the second time I read it.

The plot twists were also very well placed, they were substansial and hard to predict, but they weren't so big that you felt the whole series and it's characters were surrounded by lies or something. (Like in a few other series that I have read, such as the trilogy Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn)

The end gave us a set telling of what happened with enough room and mystery to let us figure out what happened next.

All in all, I think it was beyond worth searching and aquiring every volume of the 20 volume series.

Now excuse me as I try and decide weather to cry again, call someone else to rant about it, or just try to get my mind off of it long enough to stop the shivers of exitement and unsurfacing tears.