"We'll leave the matter of the Sin Archbishop of Wrath to Priscilla's team. According to Reinhard, Liliana possesses a Divine Protection that could counter the Authority of Wrath." Subaru stated, but Reinhard seemed a tiny bit unsure.

"An unfamiliar blessing may not sound very reassuring. But certainly, if it is Liliana-sama's song, I believe it may be an effective countermeasure for what we've heard about Wrath."

"That, and her Bard's Domain. I'm confident that this plan would work." I added.

We all looked to Liliana, who was playing with her braids. Noticing our looks, she nodded in confirmation that she's also ready to face the danger. "Ee-yeh, please leave it to me. This Liliana, once she gets a request, she definitely gets the work done. Rest assured, I only sing. In a place where my singing is desired. And if wanted I trill! Isn't this such a happy thing! If I could even get some tips, then that's time to throw up my arms and celebrate!"

"Something like a tip won't be coming out of this, so first quit with the capitalist pig talk."

Subaru immediately deflated Liliana's excitement, and Priscilla joined into the conversation.

"Seeing two boys gossiping in whispers, I looked into what they were plotting, but it seems they are merely wasting their energy on a useless consultation. That singer's worth by mine own self has already been confirmed. I will deign to crush this mere fanatic fool."

Priscilla, who was definitely not listening to the plan, was ready to take on Wrath all by herself. In my opinion, she could probably win in a 1v1, but the problem is the mob crowd that has been influenced. In order to lift their curse, we need Liliana. If somehow the crowd overwhelms Priscilla during her 1v1 showdown, she's a goner. However, I did not take my time to explain it to her, seeing that she probably won't listen to me anyways. Al, being a guy who caught my eye, convinced Priscilla to temporarily go along with the suggestion.

"Okay, then we'll leave Wrath to Priscilla and co. Anyways, our next target is Lust. Wilhelm-dono has volunteered, so it seems only rightful to allow him to go." I said, and Wilhelm nodded.

"As you all well know, my mistress Crusch-sama is suffering still under the effects of the witch Lust's cruel power, although it is temporarily sustained thanks to Felix and Y/N-dono's efforts. I am under obligation to fight for my mistress as Crusch-sama's servant. This is also a wish of mine that goes beyond my sense of duty."

Nobody seemed to reject the words of the old swordsman, except for his own family. "In truth, I am opposed to it." Reinhard spoke up. "Currently grandfather has lost his composure. Of course, to feel hostility towards the Sin Archbishop who harmed Crusch-sama is understandable. However, I do not believe that you will be able to achieve the objective with that feeling."

"Losing your calm, is a distraction from achieving the objective? Is that what you are saying to me?" Wilhelm flared in frustration, but Reinhard kept his composure.

"Considering Crusch-sama, the failure to capture Lust is not forgivable. Therefore, I will take on that task. At least, I will be able to face that side with a better mental state."

"Losing calmness here is a given, Reinhardt."

Reinhard tried to argue back, but Wilhelm launched a full-on speech at him.

"Just who, are you thinking your grandfather is? I am the Sword Demon Wilhelm. Giving my effort all to live as just a sword, but unable to stop myself from coming to love a woman too, only half. Though in my method of existence I only came halfway, in the end, for what needed to be done, I have never let it stay unfinished! When I decide to wield the sword, my heart is uplifted. Even not being calm, on the battlefield it is all the same to me. That is how I have lived on to this age. This time also, I have no intention of rotting away without repaying my obligation to my mistress in full. Your pointless worry is not necessary."

"However..."

"Reinhard." I stepped in. "Please listen to your grandfather. Besides, the fight against Lust is not your stage. Subaru requires you in order to defeat Greed."

"That's true." Subaru affirmed. "Regulus of Greed is an invincible monstrosity that is a natural anomaly to this world. To defeat someone like that, I definitely need you, Reinhard."

"I can see why I'm needed. However, are you guys absolutely sure-"

"Reinhard, trust me. After all, it's [Pure Truth]."

Anastasia, Subaru, and Reinhard all went on alert at the time the moment I mentioned Pure Truth. They knew of the ability, and therefore had no objection against what I suggested, since the future is on our side right now.

"I understand. I shall join Subaru in the Crusade against Greed, then." Reinhard said.

"Then. Wilhelm gramps will just be goin' with my amazin' self." Garfiel declared.

Garfiel explained how he's not needed against Greed, and Subaru tried to make him feel a bit better. However, Garfiel did not need comforting. He realized where his strength could be used and he's putting it to use in the best places possible.

"It's true that we can't forgive that damn woman, but it's not jus' that. When we fought against that second one, it was where Lust was last time. Cause of my amazin' self's mistake, there's an idiot that got injured without needin' to there. So my amazin' self, I have to give as good as they got fer that one. An' so, my amazin' self will be followin' gramps over there."

"I might be repeating myself here, but Lust's power is Variation and Change. She alters herself and can also force mutations onto others. And, her blood. No matter what, do not let her blood touch you. It's what caused Crusch-san's injuries." Subaru added.

"Now, there are the two Gluttonies left." I said as Subaru gave me a surprised look, before suddenly remembering what I told him a long time ago. "To everyone's surprise or not, there exists three Sin Archbishops of Gluttony."

"THREE?" Everyone freaked out suddenly, astonished at the large number of enemies we still have to deal with.

"Calm down... anyways, fortunately, only two of them is here in the city. I believe Julius and Ricardo here still have a score to settle with them?"

"Yes. I will be leading the charge against the one named Roy Alphard." Julius said.

"Good. By the way, I might also be repeating myself, but Gluttony's ability is to eat someone's names and memories. If they touch you with their left hand, and they lick it while saying your name, your existence will be erased. If they touch you with their right hand, your memories will be gone. So, in conclusion, don't get touched by them. Ever."

"I see... this is quite the difficult task indeed."

"Wait, Y/N, then where would you be going?" Subaru asked.

"Ah, me? I will go subjugate Lye Baitenkaitos, Gourmet of the Gluttonies. Otto and Felt should also be there when I arrive. My Battalion will go help you guys with anything if you need as well. The rest of the Battalion will provide support to anyone needed, or to clean up the demi-beast spawns of Capella."

"Then, let's begin the Crusade Against Sins."

Otto POV

"Is your purpose... perhaps the Artificial Spirits?" Otto asked to the vicious looking child who stood before him, another Sin Archbishop of Gluttony.

"Hah? Our purpose? We only seek to find the two heroes... the ones who made the broadcast. We hear one of them is that maid's beloved hero -tsu! How long have we waited, to be able to meet him!"

"Does he perhaps mean... Y/N nii-chan and Subaru nii-san?" Felt asked, realizing the danger that the two is in. Kiritaka Muse, who stood nearby, also gulped.

"Oho? Did we just hear the name of... the Nameless? Unfortunately... for that annoying and pesky boy... he needs to die. Since we can't taste him psychologically... might as well do it... physically, tsu."

"Grk!" Felt snarled, anger brimming in her eyes. "Don't think you can ever harm nii-chan!"

"Anyways..." Otto began. "There is no need for you to care so much. Rather than that, what will you do. Killing every one of us at this place, or guaranteeing the lives of everyone here and encountering the hero in return. ーーWhat do you choose to do?"

"What a nasty way of talking, you are a dealer, aren't you? Such kinds of things in which you have to use your brains, neither we nor us are good at it." Lye replied, a little bit disgusted at Otto's words.

"If that's the case, then choosing what is recommended and seeing it for yourself isn't so bad either. That is a saying among the merchants though."

"...Hmm.?"

"Just now, you pitied us, didn't you?" Lye snarled, his expression suddenly changing from calm to agitated. "Those eyes, we remember them. Those are eyes which look down upon. Those are eyes which are scornful. With those eyes, thinking that we are some product... A~h, is that so. We were getting a nasty feeling since earlier. You, are a merchant, right? Putting price tags on things, they are people who sell them to line their own pockets. Human values and opinions too, everything, everything! They are dead people who put them on a scale and calculate, aren't they? Who the hell will listen to what you guys are saying ~tsu! After all, this world is gluttonous drinking ~tsu! Gluttony ~tsu! Until we have eaten it, licked it, swallowed it, we will not trust it!"

Lye stomped his bare feet in anger, and Otto unleashed the first card in play. Through the canal next to them, the Water Dragons, now influenced by Otto's Divine Protection and made more vicious through the Authority of Wrath, charged towards Lye with immense speed.

Taking this moment, Otto told Kiritaka to flee and contact Y/N, who is at the main shelter. "Find Y/N and bring him here! He could aid us in this battle!"

Kiritaka nodded and said some inspiring words to his White Dragon's Scale, before leaving. Lye, who just finished killing the water dragons, smirked as he licked his dagger clean of blood. "Water dragons are dull, they're not worth to be our meal. However, Louis will definitely be satisfied with you three!"

Lye rushed forwards and brought his daggers down towards Felt, but her bodyguard, Gaston, stood in the way as a sound of metal breaking was heard.

"Eh?"

Lye jumped back as he realized his Witch Cult daggers, the primary source of his attack, has just been broken by a fat man's bare arm due to sheer impact of it colliding with it.

"My giant is pretty tough. Enough to be my guard." Felt smirked, thinking that she scared the Archbishop off. However, Lye evaded Gaston's kicks after, and somersaulted back. The White Dragon's Scale quickly got into formation, and blocked off the route to Kiritaka.

"The opponent is just one child! Surround him and don't let him escape! Bring him down!" The White Dragon Scale's soldiers launched a coordinated attack, only to be completely evaded by Baitenkaitos. Lye sidestepped and launched a soldier into the wall, while also breaking the swords of the other soldiers.

"O-O~h! Such desperation, huh, yo~u!" Gaston, who has stolen one of Lye's daggers using his secret technique, rushed towards the Archbishop as he tried to slam into him. Lye responded by jumping up into the air gracefully, before kicking Gaston in the face. Although the attack didn't do any damage, Gaston gave Lye a hateful look.

"It seems you're doing well, uncle. Not so bad!" Lye remarked.

Gaston charged towards Lye once again, and the two grabbed each other as Gaston smirked. "I've still not reached the age to he called an uncle... bo~y!?"

Although they were both on an even playing field at this point, Lye gently rested his hand on the torso of the man, and muttered five words. "Palm of the Fist King."

The blow had no velocity nor strength, yet it sent Gaston, who has been defending against every single one of Lye's attacks flying into the wall, making him vomit.

At this moment, the leader of the White Dragon's Scale, Dynas, returned after making sure that Kiritaka's escape was successful. "I see, it seems like it's just as how I had heard. As expected of the internal affairs official of Emilia-sama's place, who had sent one of the Witch Cult's higher-ups to its death. It seems I can expect you to have your own dish for this Sin Archbishop to taste as well."

"Thank you for such an inflated evaluation. Um, I'm sorry, by the way everyone, do you happen to know what kind of work the internal affairs official is supposed to do? I believe it is somewhat different from what I am doing...?" Otto replied.

"Such politeness too, huh. Also, our internal affairs officials are going around visiting shelters and taking care of the victims. Isn't that kind of work internal affairs officials are supposed to do?"

The damage he had done to the image of internal affairs officials was immense.

In the past one year, he had decided to give up on the post of internal affairs official, but he never came to terms with the changes that will result due to that.

Whose fault was it. Was it perhaps because such situations, like natural disasters, kept repeating? It was Subaru's fault. Once everything was back to normal, he would do it right away. That's what he had decided.

"Well thenーー"

Let's put things of post battle for later, and focus on the current situation.

Ahead of Otto's sight, Batenkaitos repeatedly intermingled with the 『White Dragon's Scales』 and Gaston, and making clear his extraordinary combat strength, he swept his feet.

However, what was utmost perplexing was him not even trying to swing his right arm's dagger.

"Even though such nice adults are all ganging up, you ca~n't even catch a single brat!? That won't do, that wouldn't do, will that do, can that do, that could never do!"

Unraveling his fangs, Batenkaitos dodged the men with just the handling of his feet. His free paced movements, with strikingly swaying movements of the upper body, and the swords eventually cut through the sky.

The movements of his upper and lower body were totally different, as if two separate systems entirely. As that eccentricity reflected in Otto's eyes, Dynas unintentionally gulped down his threat.

"Dynas-san?"

"Ah, no... sorry. His movements are just a bit... O~h!?"

"Don't you get scared with such a huge figure!" Felt said, unimpressed.

With his mouth shut, Dynas tried to deny the thoughts that were coming up in his mind. Standing behind him, Felt gave a kick to his back. Dynas turned back, and Felt, who puffed up and reddened her cheeks, raised up her eyes at him.

"Once you put your hands in pocket, all that's left to do is to choose what to take and what to leave. If you'll be chased after either way, then it's better to just use whatever you got. You get it?"

"Why are you using the point of view of a thief?"

Otto tilted his head at Felt's advice, while Dynas, who was right next to him, shook his head. He initiated his words by saying "I guess so", and looked back at Felt.

"It's just how miss said. You just have to say whatever comes up in your mind, and find a lead out of it. For the moment, what I feel is just that all this is just odd but..."

Miss, which is how Dynas referred to Felt as, it seemed as if he had not noticed her being a Royal Candidate. But, though he judged the mistake here, Otto decided not to mention it. Subsequently, he carefully listened to Dynas' words.

"That Sin Archbishop... he may just look like a brat, but his fighting is good, his movements are good, he has too much expertise, frankly. Leaving it to just our physical abilities... would, again, still not be the correct answer." Dynas analyzed.

"ーー? Isn't that like being born with good fighting skills? Like how Reinhardt was?"

"I would like to simply give up if he is comparable to Reinhardt-san."

Felt's knight, the kingdom's strongest sword, Reinhardt.

Currently, he had accompanied Subaru and was supposed to have had been clashing against Greed, but his power was something Otto, who was only on the level of being capable of self-defence, had only felt upon his skin. Just being beside him could make one feel a sense of absolute safety, and amazement at the same time. Kingdom's strongest was no understatement. In fact, it would not be wrong to call him the world's strongest.

On the other hand, a strong sense of revulsion and an unnerving feeling boiled up by simply coming in contact with Batenkaitos. It was unlike from what could be sensed by Reinhardt.

Of course, his unnatural fighting strength was unquestionably undeniable.

"It's not like that either. I've lived enough, and faced enough battles to say... that brat's fighting technique can't be explained by just talent. His movements are that of someone who's stacked them up for years and years."

At Dynas' words, Otto and Felt glanced at Batenkaitos once again. At just that moment, Batenkaitos had received a short sword's attack with his arm. Gripping the wrist of the one holding the sword, Batenkaitos gyrated his body, and turning him upside down, he threw his body to the ground. Furthermore, as the men commenced their pursuit, Gluttony's feet glided on the cobblestone drawing a circle, and freely using his limbs, he destroyed their balance and made them fall.

Unquestionably, that fluent and elegant movement had the power to draw a line between being refreshing and the violent ambience Batenkaitos wore. His undeniable art of having a system of a variety of martial arts, had been cultivated into himself. The young boy, who looked fourteen, had perfected such techniques which would take years and years to masterーー?

"I suppose, someone called a martial arts genius may be able to do this but... I don't want to think that such a brat was blessed with that talent." Dynas said, shocked.

Batenkaitos' mastery was such that Dynas had to say that much. At that moment, Otto realised what the jealousy in the leaked words of one of the white robed men, who were fighting Gluttony, meant. They, who were fighting the battle, had realised this truth before Otto and the rest. That is why, they wereーー.

Otto: "Dagger handling, unarmed fighting skills, perfect martial arts techniques...?"

Saying that, Otto resumed to doubt the reason behind it once again. "Is that even possible?" was the only thought that came up in his mind.

He had heard of people being sent to colosseum at a very young age, and the ones who become swordsmen are taught and trained fighting techniques in the southern empire of Vollachia. If Batenkaitos was to be in such an environment, it may not have had been impossible for him to acquire such skills at this age, but those skills in fighting techniques would again, be different.

The only way for him to learn and cultivate those would be to train under an equally and appropriately apt trainer. Otherwiseーー

"To steal it away... No, to eat it like food?" Otto had already heard Subaru mention that Gluttony was an existence who ate the Name and Memories of its opponents. The truth is, Otto had the knowledge of the form of a young girl who had both of those eaten, and had gone into a state of not being present in anyone's memories. Hard to believe, but he surely did not eat something which was visible to the eyes. However, till now, what happens to that which gets eaten, was a thought that did not dawn upon him.

"El Huma." Lye muttered, and Otto took notice of the child's attack.

"He's using magic!"

Thanks to Otto's warning, most of the members got away from the attack. However, the three that were still injured was approached by Lye.

As he went over to touch the shoulders of the fallen soldiers, a sudden beam of light shone, and Lye jumped back in surprise.

"Sorry to interrupt your meal... but the gastronomy ends here, Lye."

Y/N L/N and Omega have arrived.

Y/N POV

"Y/N-san!" Otto exclaimed at my arrival, surprised that I came so quick. I met Kiritaka on the way here, and directed him towards the shelters.

"Y/N nii-chan!" Felt said as well, relieved at my apperance.

"Hi there, Otto. And Felt, I presume you guys are holding up, somewhat?"

"We are indeed. However, it seems that you have stopped whatever the Sin Archbishop was going to do to my men." A white cloaked man approached us, who I recognized as Dynas.

"You must be Dynas." I said as I shook his hand. "You should get your fallen men away from there right now. The moment that child over there touches them with his left hand, their existence will be erased from this world."

As he stiffened, Otto looked at me with a sudden realization. "Is that, perhaps, how he eats the 'Names' of someone?"

"Yes. So in short, don't ever get touched, or you're a goner."

"Now..." I cackled slightly, and activated the strongest buff spell in my arsenal: Al Akra.

"Imitation: Leaper."

I shot forwards and appeared right in front of Lye, and his eyes widened at my immense speed, before I smashed his head into the concrete. I hoisted him up into the air, before enhancing my hand with the Yang Magic even further, and thrust it towards his stomach.

"Imitation: Palm of the Fist King."

Lye was sent flying into a building behind him, and when he came out, he was shocked that I had just copied the techniques that he ate from other people. In truth, they were just modified versions using Akra, so they're a bit far off from the original.

"Nameless... you showed up! Glorious! SUBARASHI! Now, we shall begin the feast!" He dashed towards me, but I activated the card that trapped him last time.

"Absolute Zero."

A field of stopped time spread from my gravitational center, freezing everything within a 10-meter radius. Lye was stopped midair, and I lifted an Imperceptible Extension to swat him down into the floor.

After deactivating the domain, Lye slammed into the street, baffled that I just got him again.

"You forced us to do this, onii-san." Lye said as I suddenly sensed an unknown aura from him, and the winds shifted as I raised my guard.

"It's time... to begin Eclipsing."