Last One Standing (On Hold)

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Elizabeth stood in Seraphina's room looking out the window. "Hey, Elizabeth!" Meliodas calls from the doorway. "Uh, yes?" The princess replies. "Could you come downstairs for a minute?" He asks and turns to leave. "Of course." Elizabeth agrees, watching the blonde leave. 'This isn't just some dream. It's real. I actually did it. I found Sir Meliodas, one of the legendary Seven Deadly Sins! I think.' She thinks.

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"So, what's this new outfit for?" Elizabeth asks now dressed in the tavern uniform. "It's the tavern uniform!" Meliodas gives her a thumbs up. "Way to put your pervy thoughts on display here, dude. I don't even know how Sera agreed to wear this." Hawk looks at the white-haired girl who fixed Elizabeth's uniform. "Hmm... Mm-hmm." Meliodas walks around the females while Seraphina tied the ribbon around Elizabeth's neck. "While we're waiting on tables, you want Lady Seraphina and I to keep track of rumors and collect information about the possible whereabouts of the Seven Deadly Sins, right?" Elizabeth asks and Seraphina takes a step back admiring the outfit. "Some intel on the Holy Knights would be okay, too." Meliodas tells the princess and lifts the back of her skirt. "Meliodas!" Seraphina shouts. "Oh, don't worry. I just need to conduct a size check." He tells her and Hawk pulls him away. "You moron! You're scaring away the only other person who could bring people in!" Hawk chastises him.

"Excuse me... Sir Meliodas?" Elizabeth calls. "There's something I've been wanting to ask you." She tells him. "The Seven Deadly Sins... Are you really that wicked? Are you all terrible criminals like the rest of the world says? And if you are, what awful crime did you commit?" She inquires. "My crime, huh?" Meliodas looks up in thought. "Well..." He trails off. "Seems to me, they just don't understand what kind of person you are. After all, you made the effort to save me even though you had no idea who I was! And someone as kind as Lady Seraphina is with you!" Elizabeth says. "The truth is...ten years ago, I traveled through Liones, stealing every pair of panties I could get my hands on." Meliodas tells her. "You're joking, right?" Seraphina asks, flustered along with Elizabeth. "That's right." Meliodas replies and they fall dramatically to the side and sigh. "Okay, what I actually did was stalk a thousand pretty girls with perfect boobs and groped them all." Meliodas tells them.

"Boob groping? That's just a joke, right?" Elizabeth asks. "It is." Meliodas replies and Elizabeth and Seraphina fall dramatically to the side again. "Please stop messing around! Or it's the truth, you committed a crime so terrible you can't put it into words?" Elizabeth questions. "Maybe." Meliodas simply says. Mama Hawk stops walking and throws Elizabeth off balance causing her to stumble into Seraphina knocking her off balance. "Be careful!" Meliodas grabs both their waists and stuffs his face between their breasts. "Knock it off." Hawk tells him. Mama Hawk snorts alerting Meliodas that they were at the destination. "Hey, we're here?" He says. "This is our next wellspring of information, Vanya Village!" He tells Elizabeth.

They get out and watch Mama Hawk bury herself in the ground before making their way down to the village. "I usually buy all my liquor wherever I can find it, but Vanya's stuff is special. Best water you can find is here in this village and with the gruit growing down by the river, it's used to brew Vanya Ale. It's got fans far and wide." Meliodas explains. "Or well, maybe not now." Seraphina says, looking at the river. "Now those famous waters of theirs are bone-dry." Hawk points out. "Look, those herbs along the bank are dead." Elizabeth also points out. "What's going on?" Meliodas wonders. They hear chatting in the distance and decide to have a look. "Just look at all the people out here in the square!" Elizabeth beams. "Do you think it's some kind of festival?" She asks. "Hey, what's up you guys?" Meliodas greets the villagers, walking over to them. "Huh? Oh, it's the barkeep and his woman." A villager notes. "What's this festival for today?" Meliodas asks, angering the villagers.