Elaine, the Fox's Sin of Greed

Prolouge

Opening her eyes, a small young blond-haired girl with orange eyes clad in simple jail clothes awoke in her cell, heavily guarded by knights and soldiers of the kingdom with few items in her possession. As she helped herself up, the girl rubbed her temple after experiencing severe headaches to ease the pain.

"Oww my head really hurts" as she still rubbed her head "Never thought being an immortal can feel that headache. Ugh." the girl commented.

Then she noticed a tray of food and water being given to her daily by a routine shift on the floor and her stomach growled.

"I'm kinda feeling hungry anyway" as she picked up the tray and began to eat. While chewing and drinking, the girl began to recall everything what she knew within her mind: she is no ordinary girl or even a human at all, she is a fairy or to be exact an immortal fairy.

Her name is Elaine, the Guardian Saint of the Fountain of Youth and sister of the Fairy King Harlequin. Currently she is in prison for the crime of greed, accused of destroying her own country and taking the Fountain of Youth for herself by the kingdom of Liones who was in alliance with the fairy nation.

Having recalled who she was, Elaine also remembered that yesterday was her 33rd execution lately which involves being dismembered brutally and flayed alive but it failed to kill her once again like all other executions due to her immortality. Although her race, the fairies are immortal who can never age or feel sick but can be killed by physical means like murder, Elaine was a special case: she drank the waters of the Fountain of Youth, her country's national treasure and the source of life for the sustainability of the Fairy King's Forest and became truly immortal, never to die from murder or disease at all, the aging is another thing since she already lived 700 years before drinking the cup.

"Those humans didn't get, how they call it, the memo that I can't be killed by any means of execution and yet they still continue to do so 33 times lately!" as Elaine sighed of the human stubbornness.

But it wasn't her entire fault to drink the whole cup. Elaine did this because a man who was famously known for his constant thievery in Britannia told her to in order to save her life during a Demon's attack. That man's name is Ban, the one who destroyed her depression for 700 years in just seven days of interacting with each other.

Looking out in a small window of her cell, Elaine began to recall that moment like if it was yesterday...

"Oh Ban why did you leave me alone in this world?" she said as tears in her eyes began to flow.

700 Years ago

In the Fairy King's Forest, Elaine watched with tears in her eyes as her brother Harlequin about to leave when she and her fellow fairies watch as their Fairy King leave.

"Big brother, please don't leave me! Don't leave alone to guard the Fountain without you!" as she tried to plead Harlequin not to go.

"But I can't! Helbram and the others are in danger. I can't leave them like this!", Harlequin justified his reason to leave as he flew in full speed to rescue his best friend Helbram.

"Brotheeerr!" Elaine cried in grief.

As a result, Elaine had guarded the Fountain of Youth for 700 years in solitude, having thwarted all attempts mostly by humans: a aging king desiring immortality sent an army to invade her home, a merchant who dreamt of endless riches and attempted to steal the Fountain of Youth from her; and finally a savage tribe attempted to burn the Fairy King's Forest down with her to take the national treasure for themselves.

All that changed when she met Bandit Ban...

20 Years later

At the Sacred Tree, a young man climbed up the tree of humongous size by hopping from branch to branch with a merry look on his face and a sing-song tune in his voice.