Pain of Wrath | Hoseok fanfiction [Completed]

⚜️6⚜️ - Bound by Rules

⊱Puis-je être libre?⊰

Can I be free?

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"Report," Humility ordered as he sat down in front of me after calling me into one of the thousands of rooms where we had meetings.

I sighed internally. "Fifty murders, hundred and fifteen violence cases, thirty-"

"How many did you save? Not directly of course."

"Nine people," I briefly said and waited. I honestly didn't think much of it.

He raised an eyebrow. "From what?"

I wracked my brain. "Mostly car accident. One was murder."

"Anhye," he sighed and covered his forehead with his palm. "Your stats are so low..."

"Well, what am I supposed to do? We can only do so much. My powers work only temporarily. I can't change someone's thoughts!"

"Anhye!"

I flinched. My heart leapt to my throat. His voice sounded scary when he yelled my name and I couldn't move a muscle. It was absurd, really. He didn't even yell that loudly or angrily.

I hadn't recovered after coming to Heaven after all.

"That still doesn't excuse what a bad job you're doing. Have you ever dealt with extreme cases?"

I stared at him to assess whether he was mad at me or not. He sat still, staring back at me with his narrow eyes.

"What do you mean by 'extreme'?"

"Horrible cases. Uncommon ones that would make people uneasy. You know?"

I shifted my gaze to the ground.

"Judging by your reaction, I see you haven't. Means you're not doing a very good job being Patience." His voice dropped lower, making me clench my fists.

"I'm not an employee. Why should I be judged by my performance?"

"No, you're not an employee." He stood up and leaned down to whisper, "It might've been better if you were just an employee, but you're a Virtue. You're bound by rules and tormented by your Sin for eternity."

He brushed past me and disappeared. For a while, I stood there, letting his words replay in my mind. When I became a Virtue, I honestly thought that I would be at peace. I never signed up for a shackled life like this, always powerless at what I must do every moment.

Defeated, I closed my eyes for a moment. Just for a moment. I hushed my mind and rested in complete silence. I was nearly going back to how it used to be - not a moment of silence in my head, always chaos and worry.

No, I just wanted a moment of peace.

When the comfort of silence became too unsettling and got overpowered by the need to go on to my duties, I teleported to wander among humans until I noticed intense feelings in someone. Unless they were at home, people were very good at hiding their anger. To save face, perhaps. I had to tune into my intuition.