Y/n's pov

I jumped down into the crater and landed down next to Melty, changing my chains into adamantine with a blade on the end. "Melty, what happened here?" Melty looked over at me "Y/n! you're alright" I nodded "That doesn't matter right, tell me what happened" Melty nodded "We were fighting with the spear hero but the pope showed up and attacked us with a large area attack spell." I looked up at the pope who was looking down at us "Ah, it seems the princesses guard has arrived. It is such a shame that you are on the wrong side of things, you showed so much potential to be a devout follower. It's not too late to be on the wrong side of things child, you can join the side of God and help us purge this world of the false heroes and the devil of the shield." "I'm sorry, but the path I have chosen will not change. I will protect Melty with my life. Besides, I can't fight for any God anymore." The pope shook his head "Its such a shame. Very well, you can die with the Devil of the Shield and the fake Spear Hero." The pope stuck out his hand and another person walked up and handed him a golden sword. Melty let out a gasps when she saw it. I looked over at her as the pope continued on with his speech about rightful order or something. Melty looked up at Naofumi and spoke "Watch out, Naofumi! That sword is.. " Melty was cut off as the pope pointed the sword in out direction, a golden beam of light launching out of it. Naofumi ran to the front and lifted his shield to block the attack, clearly being strained by the force of the attack.

Seeing that the attack didn't work, the pope spoke out "For a devil, you are pretty tough. . . That'll be enough trial shots. Now face the real thing." The sword began glowing in his hand and it changed into a spear. Motoyasu ran up and stood next to Naofumi "h-hey! That sword turned into a spear" I sighed "we can see that dumbass." Melty spoke up "There is no mistake, That's a replica of the Cardinal Weapons!" Raphtalia looked over at her. "A .. Replica?" Melty nodded "In the past there was an attempt to duplicate the four weapons of the legendary heroes to make the ultimate weapon, which could change forms and use each weapon's skills. I was taught that is was lost many centuries ago." Motoyasu spoke up "t-that's totally not fair! Say, Myne. Is it true?" Malty looked over at him "H-how would I know?" Melty has a slightly disappointed look on her face "it's so famous, anyone dabbling in Melromarc's and the Church's history would know of it. Finding it should've been huge news." Naofumi spoke "But the Three Heroes Church has kept it hidden." Melty nodded "Maybe its loss was a lie made up by the Church too." Naofumi looked irratated. "Why'd you summon the heroes if you had a weapon like that?" I stared at the weapon in the popes hand "I can hazard a guess but it probably isn't their reason" In my vision was a very ironic message [Cursed weapon detected: Hero weapon replica]

Melty spoke again "That weapon is mighty, but it consumes a massive amount of mana. Just that one swing earlier must've drained dozens of magicians of their mana." The pope spoke, with his creepy plastic like smile "No wonder you're the first in line for the throne, Melty Sama. You have educated yourself well. Completely unlike your sister, who was too busy conspiring to study." Malty glared up at the pope as he continued talking "The mana this legendary weapon requires will be provided by all the believers here. My brethren, this is a battle between our lord and the Devil of the Shield. It is a holy crusade in the name of God. Offer your prayers to the legendary weapon imbued with divine power, and we shall purge this world of the fake Spear Hero and the Devil of the Shield." I stared up at the weapon as it began gathering mana from the people praying behind the pope. If I had that weapon, I would be able to drain the seed of calamity of it's powers and end the waves of catastrophy, I would only need to get rid of the pope and take the weapon from him. Motoyasu started some speech about how evil the pope was and defeating him, however an attack he launched had no effect at all, other than making the pope laugh. Naofumi and Melty figured that they would need to get rid of the popes mana supply in order to defeat him, and Motoyasu attempted to pull the trope of 'now is the time for us to put our differences aside and work together.' Immediatly afterwards he launched a combo attack at the pope, the attacked failed of course.

Motoyasu launched another attack that failed before the pope launched another attack that set fire to the area in front of the group. The pope lifted his weapon to attack, but was stopped by two voices calling out the skills 'hundred arrows' and 'hundred swords' The attack went into the shield and immediately were stopped by the popes magic barrier, but they managed to break it Everyone turned to the other side of the crater and saw Ren and Itsuki were standing up there. They both jumped down into the crater and walked to the front of the group. Motoyasu stupidly spoke up "Ren, Itsuki! you came back to life?!" Ren spoke up "Dont just assume we are dead" He planted his sword into the ground and launched another hundred sword skill at the pope, but was blocked by the barrier. Afterwards Itsuki shot another hundred arrow skill at it, but the barrier blocked it as well. Istuki frowned "that's annoying" Motoyasu spoke up "H-Hey, how are you guys here?" Ren spoke up "We did nearly get killed. But their attempt failed. That's all." Motoyasu seemed upset with that answer " 'That's all' ?" Ren spoke again "Itsuki and I didn't trust the Three Heroes Church. So we began investigating them in secret. One of our party members found a secret file in the Cathedral's archive." Itsuki took over "It Mentioned the existence of a replica of the Cardinal Weapons, so we decided to check out the place where it was hidden. They must not have taken kindly to that. The Three Heroes Church lured us to a fake shrine and tried to assassinate us. We barely escaped with our lives thanks to a squad that called themselves 'shadows' and said they served the Queen." Itsuki spoke to Naofumi "I think the Three Heroes Church were the ones that stole my reward, you were framed, Naofumi-san." Motoyasu pat Naofumi's back roughly "You were framed, huh? You really have zero luck."

Naofumi glared up at Motoyasu as Itsuki walked up beside Ren "Let's do this, Ren-san" Ren nodded and they charged towards the pope. Itsuki broke through the pope's barrier and Ren used a slash skill to attack the pope directly. The pope blocked the attack but the weapon seemed to have lost power. Ren announced that the Queen's punitive force would arrive soon, and Itsuki commanded that they surrender now. However the pope convinced the followers to continue supporting him since 'a fight against the devil is never easy and they are blessed by God' or something. I wasn't fully listening since I was focused on the weapon the pope was holding. Seeing that they wouldn't back down, Motoyasu spoke up "what is wrong with them? We're the legendary Heroes." Itsuki spoke up "Looks like they need to be taught a lesson." Ren spoke after "If words won't get through to them, we'll have to fight." Motoyasu spoke again "yeah, As much as I hate it, this is an emergency." He looked towards Naofumi and continued "I'll even take your help" Naofumi looked over at Raphtalia and she nodded.

Ren stepped forward "Shall we, the four heroes" Itsuki stepped forward as well and continued "Present a united front?" Motoyasu stepped up next to them, not speaking. Their moment of discovering the power of friendship or whatever was broken by Naofumi beginning his strategizing with his own party "Melty, you provide magic support." The other three heroes looked over at him and Ren spoke up "Naofumi, what are you doing?" Naofumi spoke up "I'm not going to play along with you three idiots." Motoyasu spoke up "Hey! dont be selfish" Naofumi glared at him "I dont want to hear that from the guy who tried to kill me when I refused to fight." Itsuki spoke next "But don't you think it's far too selfish to fight alone in this situation?" Naofumi stood up "Yeah, we can't win if we don't fight together. We can survive without your help." Motoyasu stomped up to him "No, you will die, and you will die framed for a crime you didn't commit! Are you okay with that?" Raphtalia stood up "You, of all people, have no right to say that." Melty nodded and Filo commented "Spear guy is so annoying" Naofumi spoke up "You're the ones who let the Three Heroes Church throw their weight around! Myne who fell for he Church's schemes and did whatever the hell she wanted, is most at fault. But Motoyasu, you're just as guilty for letting her take you for a ride." Malty spoke up "Wait a second! Me, deceive Motoyasu-sama? Quit making baseless accusations!" Melty spoke up "But is seems the Spear Hero had no idea what you were trying to do, Sister." Motoyasu spoke up "y-yeah! all I did was trust in a member of my party! I didn't do anything wrong!" Naofumi spoke "accepting everything someone says blindly without thinking for yourself is completely different from trusting them. If you'd used your brain even a little, things wouldn't have come to this."

Naofumi continued to scold the other heroes, but they didn't seem to learn anything and started arguing each other, which caused Naofumi to scold them again. meanwhile the pope was charging up his weapon. After a while, the pope interrupted the Heroes with a small speech and started activating an attack. The pope pointed the spears head towards the group and shouted out the attack name in anime fashion "Brionac!" A thin beam of energy came towards the group, but Naofumi blocked it with his shield and yelled at the heroes once more, but decided to work with them because of his promise to Fitoria. I could practically hear the anime battle music start as everyone got into stances to fight. I stood in the back waiting for my time to become the protagonist again. The pope let out another speech before activating a high lever spell called cathedral, which formed a large magic spell that covered the entire crater we were in. The pope dubbed it the final destination of the heroes, and I decided it was about time for me to start acting like a fanfic protagonist. "I don't really care about all this bullshit about Heroes and God, but I know one thing. I really want that weapon." the notification system activated once more, displaying a message in front of me [Sin Series: Greed at full synchronization] [WARNING! symbiosis failed, Synchronization broken] My eyes widened at the notifications in front of me, this hadn't happened before, so what was going on now? My questions were answered by a voice in my head 'You may want that Weapon, but my hunger far outweighs your greed!' my vision started to fade as I lost control of my body.

Sin of Gluttony's Pov

I began chuckling as I finally managed to gain control of this body, which caused someone to notice. A girl with white hair and weasel ears looked at me "Master Y/n? are you okay" I looked up at her and smirked, causing her to jump back and grip her weapon. I started laughing as my powers started to leak out around me in the form of a dark fog. The attention of the four heroes turned to me as my fog continued to grow. The spear hero spoke first "What is going on!" The shield hero spoke next "Y/n, what's gotten into you" I laughed more and forced the dark fog to spread all over inside of the magical barrier surrounding this area. "I am not your stupid friend Y/n." the old man above looked down at me and attempted to launch an attack at me, but my fog absorbed it quickly "It's RUDE to interrupt someone who is speaking! NOW KNEEL" my fog got denser around the people and forced them down to their knees. I began walking passed the people around me, heading up the hill towards the old man. Everyone seemed to be hopelessly struggling against the power of my fog, but I simply kept high pressure on them to keep them down. Once I got up to the old man I smirked and applied more force to him, causing him to fall down, laying on the ground. I put my foot on top of his head and laughed "You're way too old and frail to be holding onto a weapon full of so much delicious power! So I'm gonna take that off your hands" the old man attempted to struggle but was no match for me. Instead he hollered at me "You insolent fool! Release me this instance! Do you have any idea who I am!" I chuckled "Shut up scum, I've heard f tier villians use that cliche line better than your old ass" He continued to struggle "You wouldn't even be able to use it! only someone backed by the followers of the lord can!" "I don't want to use it, things like this are only good for one thing"

Rifana's pov

I struggled against the pressure holding me down, but it was no use, I could only watch as the thing in master Y/n's body leaned down and grabbed onto the weapon that the pope held in his hand. despite the thing holding him down, the pope kept a tight grip on the weapon. However it didn't seem to detour that thing. I felt myself gag as I watched it tear off the popes arm and laugh at his screams of agony. The things voice rang out as it spoke "Shut up already, Its hard to enjoy a meal while rude bastards are making noises" It stomped down on the pope's head, crushing his head under master's shoes. The crunching noise was sickening to hear, but I couldn't cover my ears, I couldn't even look away as the pope's head was crushed, eyes popping out before his head gave under the pressure and went flat. I felt tears run down my face as I shook from fear and pain, The thing used masters body, lifted the weapon and arm above his head, and ate it. Both the weapon and arm were gone, Master's clothes, hands, and face covered in blood. but that thing kept smiling demonically. The thing looked down at the pope and kicked the body aside, soon after the Cathedral spell started to disappear from the top down, soon the followers of the church looked and saw what was left of their pope, but no one could move, everyone was frozen in fear or shock. I felt the pressure let up a bit, but it was still too much for me to stand. However, Filo was able to escape from what held her down and ran towards the thing in masters body. I heard her yell out "Get out of Y/n's Body!" The thing turned its attention to her and reeled its fist back. I screamed out "FILO GET OUT OF THERE!" but it was too late. The thing had punched Filo away, sending her back down into the crater next to Naofumi. She crashed into the ground, and struggled to try to get up. that thing spoke up again "I'm not letting that little birdy brat Kiss me again. i won't lose my control"

The thing started to move towards Filo, it's glare not hiding the murderous intent it had. I felt more power build in my body from adrenaline as I managed to break free of the pressure holding me down and charge at the thing. It stopped it's advance towards Filo and turned towards me. Before I could react, I felt a pressure on my head as I was lifted off the ground. I looked down and saw the thing staring at me with master's face. It held me off the ground with one hand, it's grip felt like it would crush my head but i could only focus on masters face. In the corner of my eye I saw him reel back his other arm, and suddenly I felt something go into my side. A warm yet cold feeling went over the area as a sharp pain rang through my body. I felt more tears going down my face as I stared into master's eyes. "p-please master. I know you are in there... come back. please, you have to beat this" His eyes softened and his grip weakened. The dark fog in the area seemed to disappear from the area. Master's lips started moving, and his voice came out "R-Rifana.. oh shit. . no. no .no" His hand let go of me and I felt myself fall to the ground. Master immediately knelt down and grabbed onto me, lifting me up. Tears ran down his face as he held onto me tightly. "d-don't cry master." He shook his head, but didn't stop crying. "I'm sorry Rifana. I didn't mean to. I didn't want this to happen." I didn't know what he was talking about so I lifted my hand and tried to pat his head like he always did to me, but I felt tired and could only put my hand against his cheek "I-its fine master, Whatever you did. I don't blame you. I- I love you. And I'm really tired right now.." he grabbed onto my hand tightly "Don't fall asleep! I-I need to heal you first-" the rest of his words faded into static noise as I felt my eyes closing. I'm only taking a small nap, there is no reason for master to be worrying so much.

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A/n:

Another lovely chapter out today. I was getting stuck on my other story and I was getting some ideas for this chapter so I decided to spend my time on this instead of sleeping. Stereotypical anime villain Gluttony has appeared once again, but this time he had complete control. It's such a shame that such an overpowered weapon was eaten by the bastard like that.

Also, just for a little tidbit of info. I originally wanted the sins in this to follow a strange rendition of the seven deadly sins that I had thought up of. Sloth would represent the feelings of self loathing you get when you are too slow, Greed would the feeling of needing to collect something essential that you've been deprived of for long periods, Lust would be a lust for blood (as lazy as that seems), Envy would be the feeling over never being good enough for someone or something, Pride was going to be the wholesome feeling of being proud of someone no matter how menial a task they did, Wrath would the overprotective feeling that could end up just being yandere, and Gluttony would be power hungry.

I decided to make gluttony up to that idea i had before, Power hungry in a literal sense. It wants to become stronger, and to do that it eats power, and it has a power complex.

Thank you for reading this, and as always,

until next time.