98 – The Sin of Gluttony, Gluttony (2)
Dian thought.
Wouldn’t it feel like this if the intestines were pulled out?
Dian was exhausted enough to think such a ridiculous idea.
I almost suffered mana exhaustion. The battle just now was just as intense.
No, to be precise, it would be correct to say that it was a battle in which everything was poured out in a short period of time without thinking about the future.
For Dian, it was inevitable. This is because the being who fought Dian was one of the seven sins, the Seven Deadly Sins, called the plagues of mankind.
Dian’s legs were shaking and he felt like he was going to collapse at any moment, but he was still able to smile.
Because it was the first time. He encounters the Seven Deadly Sins, and he sees the Seven Deadly Sins retreating in front of him, not his group.
On the one hand, he felt vain.
Obviously, the existence of the Seven Deadly Sins was like an insurmountable wall for the warrior party, but today, just the two of us achieved ‘victory’.
The past years of wandering around the demon world as part of a warrior party, and the experiences and emotions I shared with them, felt like they had been completely denied.
Nevertheless.
“Ha, ha ha!”
Dian was able to laugh heartily. His joy at proving that he could defeat the Seven Deadly Sins was greater than his frustration at being wronged.
“It was easier than I thought. “As expected, you are a senior!”
Even as Dian gasped for breath, he joked at the skeleton that joined him.
“Because this is not the devil’s paradise. “It wasn’t even the main body.”
On the other hand, unlike Dian, Malik maintained a calm attitude.
“Even taking that into consideration, it was too weak for one of the Seven Deadly Sins. “Like knights on the battlefield who did not receive the weapons they deserved.”
“What do you mean…?”
“It’s one of two things. Either he was a bastard who had just ascended to the position of one of the Seven Deadly Sins, or his powers had been taken away by another being. Junior Dian, do you know when this guy became corrupted?”
Malik asked with a very serious expression, and Dian answered by tilting his head.
“···I understand it’s been a little over 10 years.”
“Then I guess it’s the latter.”
Malik muttered that and had a serious expression on his face.
“First, I will go to Camel junior. Such a clever guy. How dare you deceive this heavenly senior?”
“Senior, wouldn’t it be better to just wait here? Anyway, the Camel cadets will come back here with the presumed victims… So wait, what are you saying that I was deceived…?”
“Yes. I think my junior knew. “The guy in this cave is an alter ego, and the main body is where the girls are heading.”
“You were planning to deal with the main body alone. “You arrogant bastard… Senior, let’s go together.”
“No. Junior, please wait here.”
Malik shook his skull and rejected Dian’s offer.
“But…”
“Junior Dian, please take care of the people who will evacuate here. These people must have been trembling with fear, but if I, this ugly person, had tried to take care of them… Ugh, my life.
Malik continued speaking while deeply pressing the hood attached to his robe.
“And junior, your mana is depleted anyway, right?”
“···.”
“It just so happens to be over there.”
Dian followed Malik’s gaze and looked at the entrance of the cave. About ten scared girls were coming in.
“I’ll be back soon.”
After saying that, Malik approached the girls with her face covered, motioned for Dian, and then walked out.
“···.”
Dian, who was staring blankly at her appearance, noticed that the girls were trembling and began to move.
He lit a fire using magic and heated the cave.
After introducing herself to them, she said she would get them home safely.
“I have no home to return to…”
“···My family is all dead.”
Unfortunately, most of the girls were orphans.
Dian felt sorry for this and made a suggestion to the girls.
I will send you to a monastery in the Holy Kingdom, so how about you live there until you become independent?
It may be inconvenient, but we can definitely solve the problem of food, clothing, and shelter.
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Then, contrary to Dian’s thoughts, the girls reacted strongly and refused.
“Oh, no!”
“Please save me…”
Only after Dian, who was embarrassed, calmed down the girls, was he able to ask them.
Why are you so afraid of going to the monastery of the Holy Kingdom?
“We are all from Seongguk…”
As one girl opened her mouth, the other girls also began to open their lips.
Dian’s expression suddenly darkened as he heard about what was happening in the Holy Kingdom.
“I was wondering if someone was here…”
In the meantime, a fascinating voice suddenly sounded in Dian’s ears.
“Dian, it was you.”
Dian’s thoughts stopped immediately as he turned his gaze upon hearing the voice.
****
The top of a mountain in the northern forest of Adenia.
After sending the scared girls back to the cave, I was humming a song and drawing a large magic circle on the floor.
‘I was lucky in many ways.’
One of the seven deadly sins was found sooner than expected.
Gluttony, the sin of gluttony.
This guy was a crazy guy who preyed on girls once a month under the bizarre excuse of making friends for his younger sisters. Fortunately, he was able to find and save the girls just before that.
Is that all? Thanks to discovering a girl who had been coming here, he was able to find the true identity of the bastard and even prepare to attack it as before.
“Our pig.”
With my eyes tightly closed, I smiled bitterly as I looked at the boy, who was as fat as a pig, lying on a large rock.
At first glance, he looks like an innocent child, but surprisingly, the boy’s true identity is Gluttony.
“You thought I wouldn’t find it, right?”
When I raise my head, I see a crack in the air that was cut and then being repaired.
As soon as I arrived here, I sensed the subtly distorted flow of magical energy, and swung my sword to cut into space. And from there, the main body of Gluttony was brought out.
I had the option of sticking my sword straight into this body, but I didn’t.
Because right now, this body was no different from an empty shell. Even if this body is destroyed or burned, as long as the Gluttony’s soul is somewhere else, the Gluttony will not disappear.
“When you open your eyes, you will be very surprised.”
I lost my alter ego to Malik and Dian, and was waiting for Gluttony’s spirit to return to this body.
Gluttony is the sin of gluttony that maintains life and strength through gluttony. If you eat something and do not take something, you will not be able to survive and will gradually lose your strength.
That was the reason Gluttony gathered the girls here where his main body was located. He preys on innocent girls to maintain his meager life and strength.
“Instead of eating anything, you will just struggle and die.”
I thought it was natural for Gluttony, who was exhausted and hungry from dealing with Dian and Malik, to eat and not even allow him to rebel.
“It’s done.”
After completing the magic circle, I smiled happily and waited for Gluttony.
****
From the time I was human until now,
Gluttony has never been full.
Gluttony was always hungry.
But because he was born as the eldest son of a poor beggar, he skipped more days than he ate.
Gluttony had a strong appetite.
But he had eleven younger sisters. On days when food happened to be available, his parents divided it into exactly twelve portions.
Gluttony was greedy.
So, without his parents’ knowledge, he started eating his younger sisters. Thanks to this, he was able to satisfy his hunger at every moment. Also, as the number of his younger sisters decreased, his share increased.
Gluttony was stupid.
Therefore, he even ate his parents who brought him food. Thanks to a foolish choice, Gluttony was forced to wander the continent to find his sustenance.
Gluttony was strong.
Thanks to this, Gluttony was able to avoid starving to death. He always ate whoever he wanted to eat, and he also ate those who loathed him and tried to harm him.
Gluttony was very angry right now.
Some skeletons and humans had their food taken away before their eyes. So he tried to make food for those bad guys, but he was defeated by them instead.
Gluttony was furious.
If they had feasted on the girls full of nutrients, they would never have lost, but the skeletons and humans attacked Gluttony when he was weak, and they happened to attack Gluttony’s clone.
Gluttony wanted to kill him.
He harmed the skeletons and humans who harmed him and even took away his food.
Gluttony was very hungry.
So he planned to eat everything. The sisters who prepared for the meal, the skeletons and humans who interrupted the meal, everything.
“I’m hungry…!”
Gluttony mumbled, opened his eyes, and opened his mouth. His hunger was so great that he felt like the skin of his stomach was sticking to his back, and he couldn’t wait to devour his sister.
But.
Gluttony couldn’t eat anything.
No, to be precise, he was unable to move because his entire body was tied up by something.
“It’s a pig. Hi?”
Gluttony looked away when he heard the word he hated most in the world.
“Ugh!”
However, Gluttony was unable to properly identify the source of the sound. To be precise, he couldn’t open his eyes properly.
Because, dazzling white light was bursting out from all over Gluttony.
Gluttony was struggling in pain, and Carmel asked Gluttony.
“This is the pig pen I prepared. How about it? Do you like it?”
Gluttony shook his head violently, feeling indescribable pain, anger, and fear.