⊱Il est un monstre⊰

He's a monster

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"Him? No..." A voice that seemed to belong to the Sin of Envy gasped in a low tone. "But you couldn't go meet him because it'd resurface your past pain, right?"

As soon as my eyes landed on blonde hair, my feet tangled with each other before I quickly hid behind the wall I was passing. The two men were sitting in one of the meeting rooms. I could simply walk past them but after the incident with Jimin, I unknowingly started hiding myself every time I saw him.

Scolding myself for being a coward every time, I was about to teleport when the mention of my name made me flinch and freeze in place.

"I wonder how Charity got to heaven and even became a Heavenly Virtue," the deeper voice scoffed and I clutched the material of my dress. "These Virtues... Were they even good people? It seems unfair that they get to be esteemed so, don't you agree?"

I knew Envy was referring to Kindness because of their past and even if I wanted to barge in and defend her, I didn't want to aggravate him. As for me... I knew I did wrong things and I wouldn't defend myself.

After a sigh, Jimin said, "I don't care now. Decades passed after we all became like this... thinking about that will get us nowhere. We'll just have to do what we want... About Jung Hawoon, I couldn't keep avoiding him because of my pain. That's why I'm punishing him and the other sinners more than before. It was... satisfying to say the least."

A sharp gasp left me and I slapped my hand over my mouth before teleporting. As soon as the view over the snowy valley stretching into the horizon appeared before me through the window, I let go of my breaths. Leaning against the windowpane, I held my head.

'That's why I'm punishing him and the other sinners more than before.'

'It was... satisfying...'

He said that. He really said that.

Not only that, his tone... the obvious hint of a smile in his tone with no regret, no wavering, only content and pride... It was shocking.

"How cruel," I mumbled under my breath and gripped my hair. Just because I provoked him like that? Just because I lied?

He had a past with my father, I knew that. I understood that. It wasn't my place to interfere.

Still, I didn't care about any of that. All I heard was that my father was hurting too much. A feeling akin to rage flared up within me, burning every nerve, and the guilt I was caught up in quickly faded after tormenting me for years. Greed told me he misjudged me, but I, too, had done the same.

I forgot that he was a monster.

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Grinning from ear to ear, Greed watched the humans become blinded with hallucinations as his eyes glowed bright yellow. There were many of them whose eyes glimmered a dimmer shade of yellow, succumbing to the dark fantasies. No matter how much I wanted to avoid him, I couldn't keep letting him do what he wanted. No more.

With each day that passed, the times I spent with him slipped further and further away from my mind as he became more and more difficult from the way he used to be. It was better if I treated those times as a long, long dream, or rather... a hallucination...

So I did just that.

Letting my power reach those who were affected, I fought against the golden glow of Greed and the Deadly Sin turned to me with sharp, cold eyes that never looked so sinister.

"After hiding like a coward for years, you're finally showing up?" His eyes flashed brighter and my power momentarily slipped from control over the humans. "You thought you could stop me, right? Let's see if you can do that, Charity."

I shuddered when the air turned heavier, making my breathing stutter, and golden blaze emanated from his narrow eyes and surrounded his whole body. Cries of thrill echoed beside us and I knew he overpowered me.

Gritting my teeth, I let my energy flow out of me in waves and broke his control. His eyes dulled to their usual brown color and I breathed out a sigh when he backed off.

But to my surprise, Greed smiled and a smile never looked so unsettling.

"Do you know your energy level is related to how much you act as the being you are?" He chuckled, taking a step forward to me but I stood firmly. "A Virtue who lies and manipulates others will obviously have less power than a Sin who tortures humans like your father."

My breath hitched and my legs started trembling. Amused by my reaction, he took a strand of my hair, twirling it in his forefinger, and bent down to whisper, "When your power dwindles, can you really stop me?"

Suffocating in his presence, I furrowed my eyebrows and shoved him. "Go to hell."

"That's my home," he stated monotonously, gaze murderous. "And as I said, you can't stop me now after using up your power just now. Don't get in my way."

He suddenly disappeared before I could curse him, leaving me shaking in fear and fury. My power was depleted for now as he said, but that didn't mean I should stop. I had to do whatever I could to oppose him.

I was his enemy.

Searching him to wherever he went, I intervened by acting as a human among the people there.

I was blessed. I was entrusted with the heavenly duty of guiding those who lost their ways and saving those who needed me. Acting close with a Deadly Sin wasn't for me.

We were enemies.

It was apparent in the cold gazes we exchanged whenever I intervened and stopped him from misguiding humans.

Still, it was somehow missing in my heart that wasn't supposed to beat...

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