"Alright today was a good day girls, but it's time for bed." Meliodas announced to Elizabeth and Diane.

"Captain...send me to bed with a good night kiss!" Diane pouted outside the boar hat.

"Nah...too tired." He watched Elizabeth go to bed, not that he minded but he saw a scratch on her leg. "Hey Elizabeth, when did you get that scratch?"

"Huh? What Scratch?"

"The one on the back of your left leg...Did you not notice?"

"Oh that? Father says that was there even from when I was a baby. It's a strange sort of birthmark." She smiled and looked up at her room and then back at Meliodas, "Good night Sir Meliodas." And she went up to her room and closed the door.

"G-Good Night Elizabeth." Meliodas couldn't get it out of his head. Had that really been there since she was a baby? And if so how could he have missed it. He found her wrapped up in cloth and took her to the castle with Bartrand. He had always watched over her. "Oh well, I guess I'll have to think about it tomorrow." He yawned and went to bed.


"Sir Meliodif!" Meliodas turned around and noticed a small Elizabeth running past him and towards a dream version of himself.

"What is it Elizabeth?" The other Meliodas asked.

"I can't say your name correctly!" The little Elizabeth cried and it broke the spectator Meliodas' hearts and the dream Meliodas.

"It's okay Elizabeth, You will eventually I know it!" Both Meliodas' smiled, and suddenly Meliodas realized he was dreaming so he decided to take the opportunity to take control of his dream. He walked over to the other Meliodas and put a hand on his shoulder and now there was only one Meliodas. "Elizabeth, you will be able to say my name I promise you. Can you promise me one thing?"

"Sure!" She bounced up and down with her long hair rushing against her legs.

"Only cut your hair when it reaches your ankles and only cut it to the middle of you back."

"Why?"

"Because you are clumsy and willful at the same time. I don't know what I would do if I lost you." Meliodas seems to remember saying something like this to her before. Not just what he said just now, but this entire conversation.

"I pwomise!" She ran to hug him.

"Elizabeth...do you happen to have a scratch or something that looks like one on the back of your left leg?" Meliodas didn't know what he would get out of asking her this in a dream but he figures that this Mini Elizabeth is everything he remembered.

"Daddy says I had it when I was an itty bitty baby."

"Did he now...Did he say what it was from?"

"No, just that it was very black and very dark. The black stuff went away after my first time playing with you. That's what daddy said anyway."

"Are you sure about that?" Meliodas suddenly went cold, he felt his hearts stop and couldn't help but cry a little.

"Sir Meliodif, why are you crying?"

"I uh...I thought of something very sad just now."

"What was it?"

He looked up at the innocent Elizabeth, "I can't tell you. Promise not to ask about my past okay? Please?"

"Okay, I pwomise, There there." She patted him on the head.

"Thank you Elizabeth."


He woke up to Elizabeth at the side of his bed, "Elizabeth what are you doing in here? Not that I mind but..." He was interrupted by Elizabeth rushing to hug him.

"I heard you scream and I came in here to find you crying in your sleep."

"Scream...I screamed?"

"Yes, I was so scared that something happened to you! What on earth were you dreaming about?"

He decided to tell her the truth but in a round about way. "I used to watch over this beautiful little girl, I found her when she was a baby and I gave her to a loving mother and father, on the condition I could continuously watch over and protect her. I found out one day that I had hurt her...badly. I don't know who her birth parents were but her adoptive parents loved her to no end. However, I dare say I loved her more. I'm afraid though..."

"Afraid of what?"

"Well...I want to tell you a secret about me Elizabeth...something that I haven't told even the closest members of the seven deadly sins. I will understand if you are frightened, and I will understand even more so if you wish to have me killed but to tell you why I am afraid I must tell you this."

"Alright...Go ahead tell me." She sounded a bit worried but she felt she needed to hear this.

"I'm a demon...I don't age, well to be more precise...I haven't aged for the past three thousand years. I am scared...that I am going to fall in love with her. I find it incredibly awkward that I knew her as a child but at the same time..."

"Well, if you don't age I can't blame you for feeling awkward for falling in love with ANYONE. Especially if it's someone you already knew when they were little...but it still remains that you might love her right?"

"Probably more than anything in this or any other world." He looked up at her and then back at his hands that had tears on them. "However, she has forgotten all about me looking after her, and I don't know which is more painful anymore...the fact that I left a permanent mark on her through my own wrath with her getting caught in the cross fires or the fact she doesn't remember me."

"I'm sure if you give her something or tell her something that she might be able to remember you a little bit more!" She began to cry and hugged him tightly.

"I...might just have to do that." He smiled and sent her off to bed with a kiss to the hand and his thanks for comforting him.