The Angel Wing is a 1 use item in many Shining games. Its typical purpose is to cause a retreat from battle back to a camp. Any experience gained through the battle is not lost and retrying the battle typically restores all fallen enemy units, allowing them to be beaten again for more experience. Although enemies carrying items that were collected typically do not return the item.

Shining Soul

In Shining Soul, using the Angel Wing allows you to escape from a dungeon but allows a return to the same location you left with all enemies cleared staying dead but all items on the ground remaining where they were left. Turning off the game results in this return to the dungeon being lost and the player will have to start over from the beginning of the level. It does allow you to collect items, retreat, sell them, then return with open slots in the inventory. It can also allow you to heal or buy new items before facing a boss. Also it can save you before being killed so you don't deal with the penalty of losing all on hand cash when slain.