Y/n's Pov

I woke up warm and comfortable but felt an unnatural weight on my chest. I looked down slowly only to find Fitoria laying there, sleeping peacefully. I smiled a bit and pet her gently so I didn't wake her, which caused her to nuzzle into my chest and make a purring noise. It was adorable, but probably not a noise a bird should make. I continued petting her gently for a while until it was time to wake her. I stopped petting and thought about how I was going to wake her until I saw her head turn up to give me a glare "I didn't allow you to stop yet." I stared blankly at her "You're awake, time to get up" Her glare stayed on her face before she turned her head back down to hide her face "No, I'm asleep, keep petting." I chuckled a bit before speaking again "No, we need to get up and get the day started." She let out a very long and exaggerated groan before slowly getting off me and sitting on the edge of the mattress "You're no fun." I shrugged and stood up slowly. I was going to say something but suddenly my vision started getting blurry and I felt like the room was shifting. I turned towards Fitoria as my vision started to darken "Fitoria.." I saw her turn towards me and panic flashed onto her face as I felt like something was pulling on me from behind. As my vision faded completely, I heard her scream out "Master!" Then I couldn't feel or hear anything.

Fitoria's Pov

"No.no. no. t-this can't happen again. this can't be happening again!" I couldn't stop tears from trailing down my face as I knelt on the floor in the spot where Y/n was pulled into a strange rift by a black mist. Again, someone I cared about is being taken away and I couldn't do anything to stop it. I can't even see his name in the status magic anymore. He was no longer in this world. He was supposed to stay with me, we were supposed to travel together and force the heroes to work together. I was happy for the first time in hundreds of years, I finally had someone that was going to stay by my side. I'm not ready for him to be gone. please... please come back.

Y/n's pov

I opened my eyes to find myself staring up at an expanse of darkness, the only color being the stars so far in the distance that it would be impossible to reach them. I was unable to move, stuck in place by black chains. I stared at the status magic, noticing my stats. [Failure Hero. Level: (max) 9999. Status: (Binded) Stats: (Locked)]. If my level had been restored to this, then I was back to the world I was summoned to, what's left of it anyways. The rifts were no longer there to release monsters onto the world, the land that I could see was barren and devoid of all life, even an energy detecting skill couldn't pick up anything besides me and the chains binding me. I struggled to try and break out of the chains, but they didn't budge at all. I continued to struggle for as long as I had the energy to, but still, the chains wouldn't move or loosen. When I had finally given up, a cold and lifeless breeze passed over me, carrying dust and debris without making a single sound. There was no moon or sun to indicate the passage of time, the only reason I could see anything was because of a skill that was unlocked in this world that allowed me to see anything regardless of light levels. Not even the sound of a monster could be heard in this desolate land. Not even the scent of ash or dirt could be picked up by my nose. I could only feel the air and dust brush past me.

Slowly I started hearing the sounds my own body was making. The thumping of my heart, the movement of my blood, the inflating and deflating of my lungs. The sounds became louder and louder as an unknown amount of time passed. The feeling of air dragging dust over my face began feeling heavier, like claws dragging across my face and digging into my skin. No skin was broke, yet it felt like I was being withered away by each passing flake. With no moisture in the air, my eyes and mouth became drier with each passing moment. Until my eyes felt uncomfortable in my skull, until my tongue became like sandpaper in my jaws. Time seemed to be still yet moving quickly at the same time, a slow torture as I was only left with my thoughts and my few senses. Color began to lose all meaning as I was left with nothing but a greyscale world around me. I could see each flake of dust in the air above me, each piece of unknown material that landed on my eyes, yet blinking did nothing but dig it in further.

I try to focus on something else, my memories. Yet each time they play through my head something else is lost in them. Color, scents, textures, emotions, features, names, details. Slowly everything in my mind became a muddy blend of the unknown, I couldn't focus anymore on them so I snapped my attention to something else. I'm thirsty, even the feeling of water was lost to me. I'm hungry, and the feeling of anything in my stomach became unknown as my stomach started hurting. Pain. Agony. hunger. so hunger. empty. feeling so empty. I need something. Anything, but I don't know what it is. I can't hear anything. I can't smell anything, I can't taste anything. Grey. Everything is grey. But what even is grey? I can't remember. Remember. Can I remember anything? Remember something, remember. remember. rememberremember. please. something. everything is empty. EmptyEmptyEmptyEmptyEmpty. It hurts, but I don't know why. Why is it hurting? What is it that's hurting? nothing should be hurting, I can't move or feel anything. Stop hurting. Stop hurting! STOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOP.

A memory? A feeling of familiarity as something lands on my face. What is that? It's soft, it brings a feeling of warmth with it. A feeling! something long with little soft pieces sticking out of it. What are you? A feather? yes. A feather, that's what you are. What would you look like with some light on you? What's light? I don't remember but it's important. Just like you are little feather. Feathers are important. Someone I know has many feathers. Who are they? Can you tell me little feather? You are a feather and they had feathers on them, so you might have known them right? Wind? what are you doing? Where are you taking feather? Why are you taking feather? Come back. Bring it back. Bring me back feather! Bring me back Feather. Bring her back. Her? yes. Bring her back. Give me Fi back. Fi? Who's Fi? Fi-chan? Filo? Fito? Feather. Give it back! Come back. Let me remember you. I need to remember you. Because if I can't remember you than what do I have to remember? Where are you? Where did you go? Fitori? Where are you? Wherewherewherewhere. Why did you go? Why can't I remember? Feather. that's what I was trying to remember.

Why? Why is feather important. Fi. Fil? Filo? no.. Fi. Fito. Fitori... Fitoria. Fitoria.. Fitoria. That's right.... I was with someone before this. Fitoria... She was right there. Her feathers were soft and warm. Thank you feather. I remember now. She was right next to me, she was worried. She was scared? No. no. I need to get back to her. I need to remember her. Her feathers, they were important. What were they like? Soft, the softest thing I ever felt. How did they look? They were long, and neatly arrayed. Why were they important? They were pretty, they were cute, they were soft, they were Fitoria's. [Sin Series: Lust Unlocked]. Sin series? Lust? Why would that show up? I don't feel lust. I just want feathers. Fitoria's feathers. [Sin series: Lust is at full synchronization, drawback removed. personality will begin permanent symbiosis] [Sin of Lust unlocked] [Lust: Imagination creation unlocked] [Lust: Happy Memories unlocked] [Lust: Love search] [Lust: Appearance is everything] [Spirit of lust: Autopilot activated]

Lust's Pov

I look around to find myself in a very empty place, which most certainly won't do. I attempt to move only to find that I am chained up. I may be lust, but I'm not that type of lust, so this will have to go away. I use my [Imagination creation] to make an anvil that falls onto the chains and breaks them apart. Once they broke they seemed to dissipate into a black fog, which is odd since the only person I know that can use black fog is gluttony, and he hasn't been able to find a suitable host in a few centries.

After standing up I take a look around, seeing nothing but old ruins and large monster skeletons. I look down at the anvil that I had created, seeing that it was fading away. It's a shame, but holding onto their skills any longer wouldn't be right now that they are gone. That doesn't matter right now, I need to figure out the situation this body is in. It is currently at max level, so none of my skills would be too difficult for it to use here, however, there are many unusual conditions placed on it. [Warped Perception] [Mind Decay] [Forced Panic] [Mind Acceleration] [Prgressive Amnesia] [Self Critical] [Sensory Deprevation] [Induced Insanity]. These status effects are an effective torture method. Without any help, a person would feel as if they were all alone for years, then they would start losing their memories of everything close to them, they would panic and try to hold onto any feelings they had but [self-critical] would distract them from those feelings to latch onto something else. [Induced Insanity] would start making the person start spiraling into loops of negative emotions, tearing apart the person's mind even further until they didn't even recognize themselves. Most damages could be reversed by giving the victim something that reminds them of the past, but that leads to an unhealthy obsession or a dependency. Since I was awakened, I'm guessing something here reminded this body of someone they cared about. I don't know whether they are lucky or unlucky.

I used [Happy Memories] to clear all of the status debuffs and get an idea of who this body was reminded of. I don't have any skills that can restore memories, but I can create something to help. using the happy memories I could view, I got a mental image of the girl that was the trigger of his remembering. I then used [Imagination Creation] to make a replica of one of her feathers. I made sure all the colors were correct and placed the feather under the shackle on this body's arm. As soon as I did that, I felt a presence behind me. I turned around and looked to see the shadow form of Gluttony. "Lust. what are you doing?" I frowned and crossed my arms "what are you doing Gluttony? why are you torturing this body." "How are you even in that body, you are a female. You shouldn't be able to posses a male" I huffed "Shut up, you don't even have a gender." "Don't make this about me. You are interfering in my plans, in a body you shouldn't even be able to possess." I stuck my tongue out at him "You're just pissy cause you can't find a proper host." Gluttony started spreading his black mist around the area, shouting out from all directions "I AM NOT. I DON'T NEED A HOST TO BE POWERFUL!"

I sighed and shook my head "You are still on about that, you're nothing but a power-hungry fool. Greed will be very disappointed." He seemed to get angrier "Shut up. Greed is just a pest, I can get rid of him any time." I frowned "I can't believe you, after everything the 8 of us did, you became like this" the fog seemed to disipate a bit "You dont know anything, you died first so you don't get to bring up our group." "Gluttony, I may not know what happened after my death, but you are the only one lashing out and acting like this" "I'm not lashing out. I'm the only one of us that is still trying to accomplish our goal." "The rest of us are still trying. you're just being impatient" His anger seemed to return and he yelled "I'm not being impatient! I'm doing whatever it takes to end this curse!" I yelled back at him "You're doing things the wrong way! What you're doing isn't right!" The ground began to crack and crumble as he yelled "WE AREN'T HEROES ANYMORE! WE CAN'T AFFORD TO 'DO THE RIGHT THING'. GIVE UP ON YOUR CHILDISH FANTASIES!" I felt a tear go down the face of this body. My voice became shakey "I... I can't believe you... we don't have to be heroes to do the right thing. You've just become a monster. I can't believe I used to like you" I felt my vision begin fading. "Lust.... I'll become a monster if that's what it takes. Whatever it takes, I'll break the curse." My vision finally faded completely, and I returned to the void.

Y/n's Pov

I opened my eyes to find myself standing in front of a creature made of darkness. It stood in silence before speaking up "Not yet... it seems I need to wait longer." it faded away, leaving me all by myself. Since I could move around now, I decided to walk around and figure out where exactly I was. I walked in a straight line, looking over the large skeletons that I passed by. For some reason, I knew exactly what the skeletons belonged to. Dark Leviathan Shark, Guardian Feline, Great Aligator, Emperor Dragon, Bone-Armored Centipede, Large Canine of the Abyss, Giant Killer Hawk. Collasal-sized boss monsters, each died fighting something that appeared to be preserved in stone. I approached the large formation and looked over it, It was a large animal. I reached out and touched it carefully. A notification appeared in the corner of my vision.

A health bar appeared just below mine. [Filina Nekora, Hp: 0/58000, Sp: 0/99000, Title: Hero's Apprentice. Race: Divine Beast, Status: Deceased]. I stared up at the head of the creature, Filina, and did not see any fear despite all the creatures she had to face off against. The only emotion on her face was regret. I closed my eyes and held my hand against the cold surface of the stone as memories came into my mind. A divine beast left alone after the rest of its kind perished in a wave, A promise to fight to protect the world, traveling through the world on the back of a big 2 tailed cat, fighting monsters, taking care of her when she was sick, training her to fight properly, reading bedtime stories, singing lullaby to help her sleep. I felt tears roll down my face as I spoke in a soft voice. "Fi. I'm sorry for leaving all this to you. I shouldn't have dumped everything onto you just so I could try to end the calamity on my own." I felt a drop of water fall down onto me, then another. I opened my eyes and looked up to see what looked like tears falling down from the eyes of the petrified Filina. However, the illusion was shattered as the rain started to pick up. I frowned and started to walk away as heavy rain poured down onto me. As I walked, a breeze came through, and a faint voice could be heard from behind me "Master.. I'm sorry" I turned back and watched as the stone that made up the form of Filina began to crumble away into ash, which was carried away by the wind. I clenched my fists as the health bar disappeared from my vision. "Fi. I promise you, I'll do everything I can to make up for what I've done. No matter what it takes from me." [$!|/ s3r1es; Gl#**0ny at 50% Pvr!r!

For what felt like days, I traveled across the wasteland this world had become, remembering events of my life here. Fights that occurred over years, training to become a worthy hero, Struggling to find someone to help me, finding and losing friends, trials of varying difficulties left for heroes by previous heroes, discovering the truth about the waves. Everything I had done here, everything I lost, everything I abandoned. Eventually, I found myself at the center of a ruined city. barely anything left of buildings, however the town square I stood in seemed barely affected. The tiles on the ground created a mural, chains that bound together the kingdoms of the world. A weathered statue of a man with chains wrapped around his arm that lead to a spade in the opposite hand. A plaque bellow it had words engraved in it {The Chain hero: Protector of the weak, uniter of the kingdoms, savior of our world}. Bellow the statue, there was a dry spring, with coins and trinkets of many kins scattered on the ground. This is where I had been originally summoned, the land I vowed to protect. Now it only served to pour salt onto my wounds. [S!n S3r13s Glu**0ny at 80% Pur!f!

I fell onto the stone tile ground and stared up at the dark clouds that poured water down onto my body. Water kept pouring onto me, slowly building up a layer of water on the ground. I closed my eyes and allowed the water to continue building up around me. My memories of this world finally all returned to me, but I only felt more empty. There was no sadness or guilt, just pure emptiness. [S!n Ser!es Gluttony at 90% Pur!f!cat!on]. I opened my eyes to find myself completely submerged in the water, but I didn't feel any panic. I knew I had [Under-Water Breathing] so this wouldn't kill me. I stared up at where the sky would be, seeing the water level get further and further away, yet I only floated barely off the ground since my chain was wrapped around my arm. the water around me seemed to darken as the surface of the water got further away. It was like I was being swallowed by an ever-expanding abyss. I felt an itching at my wrist and looked down, seeing something shimmering under the cuff connected to my chain. I slowly reached towards it and pulled it out, seeing a brilliantly colored feather. In the ever-darkening abyss, it was the only thing that shined. I stared at it for a while before holding onto it tightly. More memories started coming to me, about Fitoria, about our travels. My promise to help her save the world, even if it meant killing the heroes, whatever it takes. [Sin Series Gluttony at 100% Purifications. drawbacks removed] [Title: Spirit of Gluttony, Inherited] [Old Spirit of Gluttony has been Released] [Sin Series Gluttony has become Spirit Series Gluttony]

The Darkness around me started to concentrate in a single spot, then a large blast of energy evaporated all the water around me. I landed on the ground, somehow on my feet. I looked up at the concentrated darkness to see a figure forming out of it. A cloak that looked like it was woven of abyss, deathly pale skin on an androgynous body, long black hair that nearly touched the ground, dull grey eyes that lacked any life. A black, metal face mask hung loosely around their neck, with etching that formed a sharp toothy grin. The figure looked down at themself before a smile formed on their face, one that stretched inhumanly from ear to ear. They looked at me and spoke in a raspy voice that echoed through the empty land "After thousands of years eating sinners from the inside, finally I have my own body back. I can finally go where I want to, feel my own emotions, eat my own food, and kill with my own hands! Useless sinner, since I'm in a good mood, I'll let you live for now. But next time we meet, I will kill you and devour your powers." with a snap of their finger, a rift appeared behind them and they stepped back through it "if you're lucky, you'll find your own way out of this dump" the rift closed after those words, leaving me alone once more.