Chapter 11
The door to the room opened. Sloth was already facing it. Greed spared a glance that way, while Envy was too caught up in their own turn to do anything. It was the other homunculi.
"What are you guys doing back here?" Greed asked.
"We decided to come and see who's going to win," Lust answered. "You're close right?"
Greed nodded. It seemed like everyone had a lot of property and no one had a lot of money. That was a sign the game was nearly over, right?
Pride suddenly made a disgusted face. To be fair, that was his standard face when he wasn't acting. "How is he still playing?" Pride asked, waving his hand at Envy. "He doesn't have any property."
Envy glared, but knew better than to say anything.
"Water tax," Greed said, thumbing at the water property. "And he landed on free parking a while back."
Of course Envy had run low on that money pretty fast, but Greed and Sloth seemed phenomenally good at landing on the water works and giving Envy money. That wouldn't last much longer though. Envy was running low, water property or no. And now, they were landing on Sloth's dark blue monopoly.
"Oh," Sloth said. "That's . . . nice."
It didn't sound like it, from his tone. He didn't say how much Envy owed him, but he didn't need to. That was the most valuable property on the board. Envy was out. Greed waited, tapping his knee impatiently, as Sloth took his turn.
"That's my property!" Greed said when Sloth landed. "Give me three hundred."
"Such . . . a pain. . ." Sloth complained.
At least, unlike Gluttony, he could do math. He handed Greed two hundreds and two fifties. Greed decided not to comment on the odd change. He rolled and moved. He stopped and stared for a moment. So did everyone for that matter. Envy and Pride, who weren't particularly happy with Greed, both took in a collective gasp.
"Yes!" Greed shouted, lifting a fist in the air. "Finally!"
He'd landed on free parking. It had been a while since Envy had. There was a fair amount of money in it again.
Greed dropped down, scooped up the money from free parking, and tossed if over his head own head like confeti. It wasn't like anyone else was going to.
"I'm buying a hotel."
Actually, he was buying multiple hotels, one for all his property.
"Greed, that's a bad plan."
"Prince," Greed said with a laugh, "Do you know how long I've been waiting to buy hotels? I'm Greed. I've wanted hotels since turn one."
"Yes but . . . you know what? Never mind. You're never going to listen to me anyway."