Life 3. The Sin of Envy

Part 1

The next morning, Mint was preparing for the battle with his brother. Ginger told me that Lavender has "the spear", but I don't know what it means.

"[King's Spear]."

"[King's Spear]?"

I asked Ham to know what spear she was talking about, and that was the answer I got from him.

"The Sacred Spear of the Fairy King, [King's Spear] is a spear wielded by the Fairy King. It is a weapon that can change its form, so it's considered an unpredictable factor in a battle."

"Well, Mint is our Bishop, 2 Bishops to be exact; he should be able to win with his magic alone."

"But only if he uses Fairy magic, since if he uses only demonic power, [King's Spear] will simply block it."

Ginger explained that too. Fairy magic is the most powerful type of magic according to her, but I don't think so. The light from the Angels and Fallen Angels seems to be way more powerful, and it is even worse to me now that I'm a Devil.

"Mint truly has complicated family problems…"

"Like you."

"I don't have family problems, my family is dead."

"Baraqiel is alive."

"He isn't my family!"

"See, that's your problem."

I'm tired of having this conversation with everyone!

"Guys, the preparations for the battle are about to begin."

Ram says that to us, so we follow her to where we were instructed.

Part 2

We were taken to a VIP site in the castle so we could have the best view of the battle. Looking at the floor, Mint and his brother are looking one to another.

"According to the laws written by the First Fairy King, anyone who bears the Royal Crest can challenge the current King to a battle. If the challenger wins, he will become the new Fairy King, but if he loses, he will be exiled of the Faerie forever."

After the announcer says that, I turn to Ham to ask him a question.

"What does he mean by "Faerie"?"

"It is word that roughly means Fairy Kingdom. Since Mint didn't want to be here in the first place, exile is not really a punishment."

Yeah, not being able to come back here isn't going to affect Mint.

"However, he doesn't want to lose. After all, if he were to lose, his bother would stay as the king."

Hmmm, it makes sense, I guess. Ginger also said that her greatest fear isn't to lose Mint, but that Lavender would be the king for live. After all, only the three brothers bear the crest right now, and Ginger isn't allowed to make a challenge since she is a woman.

I really don't get the laws of the Fairies…

We just wait on our spots untill the announcer proceeds with the preparations.

Part 3

"Now that all preparations are over, it is time for the battle to begin!"

Finally! I have been sitting here for 3 hours!

Just as the clock shows it is midnight, Mint and his brother start to fly.

"And someone like you, who doesn't possess our wings, wants to become the king?"

"Maybe my wings are no longer Fairy wings, but my Devil wings serve the same propose!"

Mint sends dozens of demonic energy balls towards his brother! However, he takes out a weapon… a spear!

"Second Form, Protection."

The spear turns into a shield that blocks Mint's attacks! So this is [King's Spear] I heard about!

"A Devil becoming the Fairy King? Doesn't that sound contradictory?"

A huge explosion covers the sky! What the hell was that?

"Lavender's magic has increased since the last time I saw him."

So that was Fairy magic? It does look more intimidating seeing it this close.

"First Form, Spear."

The shield turns into a spear and goes right through Mint's body!

"Just because you have the spear doesn't mean you're invincible!"

Mint takes the spear out of his body, so the spear goes back to Lavender on its own.

Mint creates a huge demonic energy ball and throws it, but…

"Fifth Form, Death Thorn."

The spear turns into a giant thorn which just destroys the ball!

"Being a Devil became your biggest weakness. Fourth Form, Light Flower."

The thorn now turns into a sunflower and shoots light to Mint! Light is deadly to Devils!

"Agh!"

Mint has a big hole on his torso!

"Time out…"

Mint says that before falling to the ground. Both I and Ham go to where he is.

"According to the laws written by the First Fairy King, both the challenger and king have right to one time out each."

I take the card [Number X: Wheel of Fortune], which has healing abilities. Soon after, Mint is healed from his damages.

"Rito, give me your cards."

I give him [Number XV: The Devil], [Number V: The Hierophant] and [Number IV: The Emperor]. This way, he will increase his demonic power, magic power and the power of his long ranged attacks.

"Why only three?"

"A person can only use three cards at the same time."

"Sure… Ham, use [Dimension Change] on me."

"Human sized?"

"Yes, I'll win in no time that way."

Mint placed himself in front of his brother, meaning their battle would resume.

"How are you planning to win, Devil?"

"This way. Ham, do it!"

Ham takes his eye patch off, and uses [Dimension Change] to turn Mint into a giant! Or rather, a human, since we're small.

"That isn't allowed!"

"Seriously? Judge, is this allowed?"

The judge reads the rules again and declares his verdict.

"There is no rule against size shifting, so I will allow it."

After hearing that, Lavender started flying to attack his brother.

"Third Form, Raining Explosive Blades."

The spear turns into many daggers that are sent to Mint, but with just lifting his arm he blocks all of them.

"Those splinters aren't going to hurt me."

"Sixth Form, Octopus' Power."

The daggers turn into tentacles, but they aren't able to go around Mint's arm.

"This has been really sad Lavender. I wanted a longer fight with you, but if the future of the Fairies is on the line, then I have to win as fast as possible."

"I won't let you!"

Lavender creates another Fairy magic explosion, but it only created scratches all over Mint's arm.

"Fairy is truly the strongest magic; otherwise Fairies won't be able to hurt humans with it. However, I'm a Devil; my body is way stronger than a human's."

Mint takes his brother with his fingers and puts him inside his armpit! That should be horrible!

"I haven't taken a bath in days, so good luck being there, Lavender."

Everyone cheers since the winner of the battle has been decided, even if it was a kinda rushed fight by the end.

Part 4

"How does it feel to have defeated your brother?"

"He's still fighting in my armpit, so it feels really good."

I and Ham are sitting on Mint's shoulder while the long ceremony to make him the king takes place. Apparently, there is no problem if he talks during the ceremony. Or maybe they just fear that he can stomp on them whenever he wants?

"And thus, the title of Fairy King has been passed down from Lavender Borrow to Mint Borrow."

These Fairies has really long ceremonies… reminder that I will never go here on a holiday.

"Sigh, and I thought that I would never bear that title when I became a Devil…"

Mint doesn't sound happy of becoming the king. Is there anything wrong?

"Well, it looks like we won't have your support any longer."

An unknown voice says that. It came from the wall that separates the kingdom from the forest.

The wall soon starts freeze! A woman comes through the wall. So the frozen wall has no magical protection, or rather, its magical protection was deactivated by the cold.

Nosebleed! I must confess it: I have giantess fetish, and I'm obsessed with zettai ryouki; this woman is huge (to my perspective) and wears really high tights. She is my perfect waifu!

"I'm Envy from the Seven Sins, I made a pact with the Fairy King Lavender, but now that he's not the king, I have no reason to not destroy this place."

The Seven Deadly Sins! So they're targeting the Fairy Kingdom now, huh.

Envy gets close to Mint with an immense speed and lifts the arm where Ham and Lavender are. With her other hand, she holds Lavender and goes back to her original position.

Once Mint notices all of this, he turns around to hold the falling Ham. However, his movement makes me start to fall, so I hold to his collar with all my strengths!

However, Ham uses [Dimension Change] on himself to return to his normal size, so the fall wasn't much to him.

Now we need to find a way to fight with her.

Mint charges an energy ball on his hand. However, this isn't demonic power, it is Fairy magic! I use my trump card, [Number XVII: The Star] on him. I haven't used this card in a while.

The ball hits her, but only some scratches appear.

"Ara, so this is most powerful type of magic. I'll give it merits since it managed to scratch me."

Then a weird magic circle appears in front of her.

"[Absolute Zero]."

After saying that, Mint's body gets frozen! My hands are stuck on his collar, so I cannot move.

"Mint!"

Ham uses [Dimension Change] to return Mint to his original size and soon after Ram and Rina use their fire magic on him to unfreeze him.

However, I was shrunk with Mint, so I'm a tenth of a millimetre tall now!?

Looking at the others, they are only the huge size I have seen them multiple over this day, but words cannot express how gargantuan Ham looks to me right now. I should be less than a speck of dust to him now.

After Mint is unfroze, Ham returns him to human size, so I'm Fairy size now.

"Ham, return me to normal!"

I say that before I end up becoming a speck of dust for life!

With the three of us in human size, we're ready to fight!

Ham charges a red ball of demonic energy, I charge a white ball of Fairy magic, and Mint is charging a weird white ball… what is he doing?

"This is the combination of Devil and Fairy magic, a new power only I have access to."

"Fufufufu, I have been waiting for your second attack for a while."

She totally underestimates us! Let's do this!

"Shoot!"

The three energy balls hit her! Yes! We totally are a strong trio!

"Ara, so you were able to deal this damage to me. Even a little bit blood is coming out of my body. However, I won't be patient any longer."

She didn't even move! Truly the power of an ultimate class!

"[Water World]."

An immensurable amount of water appears! The Fairies seem to be worried. Oh sure, they have big-like wings, if they get wet they won't be able to fly.

The water gets to my feet, and I soon feel it is boiling!

"The Fairies will drown on hot water, what a sad destiny is to die like a bug fufufu."

Mint's face is filled with pure anger. He creates a huge, dozens if not even a hundred metres, energy ball made with Devil and Fairy magic.

"I won't allow you to kill my people!"

Mint throws the ball, which hits Envy and creates a huge flash! Ahhhh, I can feel an immense strength pushing me! So this is Mint's full power!

When the flash disperses, I can see there's no water! So Mint's attack was strong enough to evaporate the water, huh!

And Envy, part of her clothes is destroyed and I can see some blood in her! So Mint was able considerably injure her, truly someone worth 2 [Evil Pieces]!

"Wrath was right; the group chosen by Lucifer truly are special."

A magic circle appears below her. So she's running away!

"Take my words: this isn't the last time you'll see the Seven Sins."

And so, Envy disappeared. Maybe she is waifu material, but her personality is horrible.

Part 5

Everyone is doing a big celebration to Mint, since he saved them from Envy. The guy on the stage has been speaking for hours; I think it is like 5:00 AM right now.

"And so, our hero and king, Mint Borrow, has the deed to say some works to the Faerie."

Mint takes the stage to give his speech. I just hope it can last less than 1 hour.

"So, yeah, I saved you from Envy; however, it wasn't only me, the people that helped me are as responsible as I am. Ham, Rito, Ginger-nee, Ram and Rina; thank you very much."

We all feel honoured as the Fairies applause; on her hand, Xie Xie feels bad since she didn't do anything. Now that I think about, I don't remember having heard a word from her while all of this happened.

"However, I was also responsible for the death of many Fairies, and this isn't something I can share with my friends, it is all my fault. For this reason, I, the 108th Fairy King, must abdicate."

What?! Mint, do you realise how much effort we put into turning you into a king?! I didn't wasted hours of my life in ceremonies for this!

"The one who will take my title will be my sister, Ginger Borrow, the actual first born of our father Gloxinia Borrow."

"Are you sure, Mint?"

"Off course, if someone has to become the first Fairy Queen has to be you nee-san. Also, I'm a Devil, so I actually wouldn't be the Fairy King, I'm Ram Phenex's Bishop now."

And thus, Mint gave Ginger [King's Spear], proclaiming her Fairy Queen.

"All hail Ginger Borrow, the 1st Fairy Queen!"

"Long live to the queen!"

As everyone responds to Mint's words, we use the magic circle to go back home.

When we appear on home, we are 1.5 centimetres tall and on the carpet.

"Ham, fix this now!"

"Sure, my King."

And so, the sunshine put an end to this really weird early morning.