Seven Deadly Sins

Give Up

Should she go hunting today? Hana's already spent a couple days trying to avoid it, but she knew it was inevitable. She'd just be wasting more time.

Today she decided to wear a long-sleeved shirt tucked under a black skirt with white polka dots that reached her knees, completing the look with wedged brown ankle boots. Not exactly lustful, but she wanted to dress up before choosing more combat-worthy styles of clothes such as ripped jeans and t-shirts.

"I'm off!"

"To go hunting?" Na-ri was currently washing dishes, her rubber gloves all soaked wet with soap.

Teenager Hana nodded enthusiastically, feeling more up to the task than the last few days. She had a feeling today would be different; maybe slightly successful.

"Don't hit the door on your way out!"

Yes, another thing to her personality was the uncanny ability to trip over her own feet and stumble out of thin air. Not very helpful when time is running out before the universe explodes or bursts into smithereens. Whichever comes first, she supposed.

With the box tucked safely inside her bag, she's off.

Gyeonggi was a big place, with a few suburbs and villages, the people close to friendly and shops closing down if business wasn't running smoothly any longer.

So far she'd encountered five of the brothers, but she doesn't have any clue on where to start finding the other two.

If it's Gluttony, should she go to all-you-can-eat buffets to find him? Should she start visiting clubs to try her luck with Lust?

But Wrath said that Lust was shy. How very opposite to the one expected. Then where should she find him? A babycare center? That seemed unlikely. She doesn't know how he looks like, or how he acts. All she knows was that his likely color is pink. Gluttony's must be... red? No, that's Wrath's. Green and blue are out. Maybe orange?

All this thinking was getting her nowhere.

After all, if she does manage to pass by any of the seven, she'll recognize them immediately, even if she had no prior knowledge about it. They just emitted an aura that's something else, not quite human. It oozed of superiority, and reeked of intensity.

With a determination that washed over her face, Hana was off.

She made sure to check nooks and crannies, also stepping inside a quiet bar to make sure that no one of importance was there.

She almost backtracked when she felt it: a strong presence. It's not that noticeable, but it was there, coming in gentle waves.

Taking a closer look at the bar and making sure to scan over everything, her eyes locked on a figure's back, clad in blue with dark pants on the person's legs.

She approached slowly, careful to not wake any slumbering drunk men or stir any trouble than she's already in.

"Sloth?" she said softly, coming to sit next to the Sin on his left as he downed another bottle of beer.

After a gulp of the drink, the bottle separated from his lips with a pop, and Sloth's lazy blue eyes locked with her own dark ones.

"This is an excuse to the wine my servants offer me," was what he said, smashing the bottle on the ground to his right, careful not to hit anyone or anything.