Volume 1 - CH 36

“Maaaan……, I guess a lot of things change in a little while of not around, huh?”

Julis’ cheeks twitch at the sight of Byrne getting up.

Were his arms this thick when he saw him in the morning, or was his hair and eye color obviously different? And many more.

Julis wondered what had happened while he was gone.

“Eee…… he has suddenly changed since we entered this forest……”

Emilia answered, while she was breathing hard.

Hearing this, Julis was slightly convinced, that “Some strange things have happened”.

“GRRROAARRRRRR!!!”

Byrne roared and came in close to Julis.

Julis was a little surprised at his tremendous momentum, but still waited for Byrne with his hands irreverently shoved into his pockets.

And when Byrne came right in front of Julis, he swung his fist at Julis’ face.

“Acedia.”

Julis’ Acedia bounced off his fist.

Byrne was thrown backward in reaction, but he immediately swung his fist down again.

But Yuris’s Acedia was absolutely invincible sorcery.

No matter how much his attack power had increased, it will never let his fist touch Julis’ skin.

“GRRRRRRAAAAARRRRRR!!!!”

“……What’s fit with you, I wonder?”

Julis weaved his words as he took Byrne’s blows.

“Is it Wrath because of your unforgivable current situation? Or is it Greed of wanting more power? Or is it Envy at the strength of those around you?”

Byrne’s current state was probably the result of losing himself to the sin of greed.

Without self-control, he was consumed by his own greed and drowned in his own power.

That’s probably why he was now waving his fist in a miserable style without any ego.

That was beyond pathetic to Julis.

“IIIIINNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPTTTTTTTT!!!!!”

“My name isn’t Inept,…… okay!”

Julis used the spell of Superbia to move to behind Byrne, and then he just delivered a powerful roundhouse kick to the side of Byrne’s head.

“AGGHH……?!”

Byrne rolled on the ground and before long he was up on his own feet.

Even though Julis attacked him, the damage didn’t seem to be affecting much, and he just looked at Julis with a completely ego-less look on his face.

“……Killing is, a no…… right?”

“Eee…… please don’t kill him if possible.”

Was it out of kindness or because she wanted to extract information from him?

At the very least, there’s no way he’ll be safe after messing with Emilia, the princess────perhaps it would be easier for him to be killed by Julis.

“I’m sure…… he’s just had a minor misunderstanding…… so────.”

“So don’t kill him, huh? Sounds like something Cecilia would say.”

The world is not that generous.

No matter how much others intervene and no matter how much you have nothing to do with your own will, you are still responsible for your own actions.

It was the same with Julis, who had mastered the deadly sins.

He, too, had a lot of responsibility for his actions, even though he was acting according to his own greed.

For example, the responsibility of greed to protect not only Cecilia but also Emilia────that is how he stands in front of Emilia.

“GRRRAAAAGGHHH!!!!”

Byrne did not stop.

Drooling, he tried to thrust his claws and fangs toward Julis, respectively.

“……It is Greed wanting to save all.. The power of one person is limited, and there are not countless hands to reach out to────and if I don’t discard something here, I can’t protect the ones I really want to protect.”

“……”

However, Yuris avoided them with Superbia just in time.

Therefore, Byrne’s hand just cut through the air and Julis attacked again toward the attacker.

“You should have known that…… and, so should I.”

But.

Julis took one look at Byrne, made Emilia move to him, and then moved straight to the top of the tree using Superbia.

“I came to Emilia like this because I wanted to help you. There were many who I really want to help, but I tried to protect many with my tiny hands────that’s greed. I guess I, you, and he are all…… greedy creatures.”

“……”

Emilia looked up at Julis’ sad face.

She saw Julis looking at Byrne, who was desperately searching for Julis and her while being held in his arms.

She didn’t know what was in his heart, but────Somehow Julis looks so fragile.

Byrne kept looking for them.

Without ego or will, he searched for his hated targets by instinct.

“You have become a beast. In the name of greed────I will take your right to keep your consciousness.”

The moment Julis announced this, Byrne crumbled to the ground.

♦️♦️♦️

“…… First, we need to find Cecilia and get her healed you. Then I have to meet up with everyone────as I came here on my own and they’re probably looking for me.”

Julis suggested to Emilia in his carry, who looked across at Byrne, who was lying on the ground

“M, mm…… could you please drop me off before you do that?”

“Ah, sorry.”

He slowly lowered Emilia, who was slightly red in the face.

With her feet on the ground, Emilia was a little woobly, but she could manage to walk if he lend her a shoulder.

But Julis couldn’t understand why she had a reddish blush on her cheeks.

“Before that, what are we going to do about this guy? Leave him as this────I think it’s best to leave him alone…….”

“Julis-sama…… does that mean you want to neglect him?”

Exactly, Julis nodded his head.

Julis did not have a favorable impression of Byrne. He was not inclined to care for Byrne, including the fact that he had tried to harm him.

“But if we do that, there’s a chance he’ll be attacked by monsters……. Please, can you not do that?”

Emilia feebly asked Julis with upturned eyes.

Emilia is a princess. On top of that, she is as beautiful as Cecilia and Mirabelle.

If such a person asked you for a favor────

“Isn’t that unfair?”

“Fufu, it’s a lady’s prerogative.”

If such a cunning move becomes common sense, Julis thought, it will finally be the end of the world.

Julis shrugged his shoulders and grabbed Byrne by the scruff of the neck and turned to leave.

“C’mon. Hurry up and join up with the others.”

[Uh-hooohhhh!!! I’ve lost my factor so quickly! I didn’t realize he was so garbage that he couldn’t even become a suitable candidate!!!]

Then, unexpectedly, a voice directed at Julis and the others was heard.

There was a man with a tattered robe, no hair, several daggers hanging from his waist, and a disastrous emblem on his arm.

Such a man.

In his arms, a petite girl with silky blonde hair was held limp.

“You can’t be a sacrifice, you can’t kill the princess, what were you born for!?

That’s why I’m here to bring salvation! Nooow, nooow, here comes the excitemeeennnnnnttt!!!”

The man approached Julis and the others with a maniacal smile on his face.

Byrne was deprived of his rights and lost consciousness, Emilia was stunned, unable to comprehend the current situation, and Julis was…….

(……Eh?)

Julis was shaking his fist.

Who was that guy standing right in front of me? No, it doesn’t matter, why is Cecilia over there?

……such thoughts swirled in his head.

“Though the sacrifice candidate failed to be manifested! Two tributes for our salvation are here! The saintess and the princess here! Aah…… AAAAAAAHHHHHHH! Salvation! We’re almost THEEEERREEE!”

The man shouted.

The man’s maniacal words engulfed the place and made Emilia choke on her own words.

“All this for the sake of the resurrection of the evil dragooooOOOOOONNN!!! I am the salvatiooOOOOOONNN!!!”

Now Cecilia did not have that usual innocent, adorable smile she had for Julis.

But she was still alive, looking at her chest slowly rising and falling.

But, but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but.

There was no way that Julis could have known about her current condition.

All he knew was that someone he cared about had been hurt and was in the hands of the man in front of him.

Therefore, so…… therefore────

“IIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”

He won’t forgive the man in front of him who would have hurt his loved one.

Screaming those words, scattering a negative aura more ominous than the crest of the man in front of him, Julis transformed his shape.

Bouncing off Emilia and dropping Burn to the ground, Julis’ body was covered in pitch darkness.

Then his figure changed drastically and turned into……a huge beast. The figure stands up on all four legs in a calamitous stance, with the darkness covering it.

“GRRRRRRAAAAAAWWWWRRRRRRRR!!!!”

The huge beast’s roar echoed through the forest.

The price of such greed──── was paid by the hurt of your loved ones.

Julis exercised his Ira.

Everything was done according to the Wrath.