⊱Pétale par pétale⊰

Petal by petal

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A blooming flower with soft red petals reveled in the morning glory. The gentle wind caressed its petals and leaves and the sun extended its warmth.

This day, the lovely red petals withered and fell. Petal by petal. Until an empty, colorless remain was left.

The core inside my chest that had been sustaining me faded away, and the blood coursing through me turned dull. Just like a flower that wilted and died, my life was gone in a blink. My hair that cascaded down my shoulders were dipped in wine when I cast my eyes down. I had changed and the world turned cold.

"Sloth?"

I lifted my gaze up and met a brown haired man with an unreadable expression and sharp eyes. A commanding aura surrounded him and he was taller than everyone there.

"I'm Pride," he introduced himself with a deep but kind tone. "I believe you have met Gluttony."

The pink haired man simply stared at me with a pitying expression further away from where he was still standing. I nodded at him.

"Pleased to make your acquaintance," I replied to Pride and grew confused when he introduced no one else. "That's all? Only you two?"

His expression faltered as he blinked a few times, looking around the place before clearing his throat. "Yes. It's us three now."

"Are you satisfied with what you did?"

Startled, I turned my head to Jaesung as he took slow steps towards me with a dejected look.

"How does it feel to betray your virtue? You became your own enemy now. Standing against the Virtue you used to be. Do you think you did the right thing?" He reproached in front of everyone. "Even if you saved one from sloth, there will be many others in the future. You can't save every one of them."

Pride stepped in front of me. "Diligence-"

"At least I saved one," I said, just above a whisper to be heard. "I'm happy that I could save one..."

And I saved the one I used to love the most.

Diligence, Pride, Gluttony and Temperance, everyone stood speechless, unsure of what to make of the situation. I owed them nothing and they owed me nothing.

"Let's carry on," I said and teleported to my new home.

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"Hey, petal!"

I groaned, walking fast. "My name is Bloom!"

"Blossom!" Gluttony shouted.

"Bloom!"

"Hey!" He appeared right in front of me and I crashed into him, my face slamming against his chest. "Blue, you need to entice people, you know? Pride is worried that you're slacking off, too."

Day and night came by and went, and time was passing by quickly while I stood numb. I had already lost grasp of reality, frozen in time while flowers were blooming and dying and the sky was changing colors before my eyes.

Lost and aimless, except for dragging people to hell.

The sole reason that I was existing.

Whispering sweet lies into people's ears and messing up their minds were punishing. Hearing their miserable thoughts always made me stop and clench my fists whenever I willed myself to use my powers. I was unable to have feelings. Yet something kept rejecting my actions within me and I always struggled to get through with my duties.

Seeing people work hard, sweating, crying and bleeding, I could not force myself to push them to hell just to keep on existing.

"I'm working on it," I muttered and pushed Gluttony away before passing him.

"You know that Yoongi was reborn already?"

I halted in my steps, and turned around. "And why are you telling me this?"

"In case you needed incentive." His eyes fell on my bracelet.

"That only sounds like a reward."

I held the cherry blossoms on my bracelet and walked off.

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Girlie being a real sloth, oop-

We're nearing the end now~ 🫰