Chapter 51 : The trial (3)

The temptation of four sins continue to corrupt Embra's mind and Embra has still not regained his sanity. Half of his mind is already corrupted by the four sins and if leave it be, Embra will be completely consumed by the sins and never become normal again.

But, Embra who is now sleeping on a huge bed with countless women feels empty in his heart. All of the women beside him are unparalleled beauties with their own unique looks. They are also in Embra's strike zone and all the women are to his taste. He has already spent countless days in this paradise and he is not bored yet but, there is a feeling of emptiness in his chest.

Embra who is being served by many gorgeous women on the large bed is lost in his mind thinking about the feeling of emptiness in his heart. But, his thinking did not last long because a woman with chestnut color hair offer Embra a box of jewelry, and two women proceed to wear them on Embra.

Normally, Embra would have just left it be because it is 'normal' and continue to enjoy the pleasure but, this time, a thought enter his mind and so he asks,

"Where are they from? Why are you giving me these?" (Embra)

"Oh, My Lord. You deserve all of this. Please do not think of complex things and enjoy the pleasure. Please enjoy our service. Enjoy our warmth." (A woman)

"My King, Please enjoy the pleasure and leave all the matter aside. Let us serve you, my king... Please do not think and enjoy the pleasure of wearing the Jewelries. You can ask for more if you want. Just says the word. Everything will be as you desire. " (A woman)

"Yes. My King. If you desire it, we can prepare anything for you. Food, Alcohol, women... Let your desire run wild, my King. Don't be so stiff. Let it go. Fully immerse yourself. You never feel full, right? There are still countless food and drinks coming. Please enjoy them to your heart desire. " (A woman)

To Embra's questions, the women reply near his ears and continue to serve him. Embra's mind begins to be clouded with coziness that he feels himself in need of nothing. The temptation of Lust, Greed, and Gluttony further intensify. The temptation of the Sin of Sloth is making Embra unable to think anything else but pleasure however, the emptiness in Embra's heart does not go away. Embra closes his eyes to focus all of his attention on the emptiness.

"...ke p... -ke up.. " (An unknown voice)

Embra hears an unknown voice calling for him. He could not hear it clearly because it is too distant. Embra focuses on the voice again and slowly, the voice becomes clearer as he concentrates more and more.

"...ke up. Up... Up... WAKE UP!! " (An Unknown Voice )

Embra jolted awake because of the loud voice and he found himself in the middle of nowhere with only darkness. Embra gets his focus again along with his thoughts and he looks around.

"Wake up. You should not be feeling those fake feeling. Don't you have a woman you love? Leave these fakes. Let's go back to her." (An Unknown Voice)

"Ah... So, it is my own voice... Haha. It sounds a bit weird to hear. I see. You four have corrupted most of my mind. So, my love for Keinnayi calls out to me as a last-ditch effort, huh?

Having a fog in my head... Ugh. Is that you, Sloth? This is the first time I have felt like this. There are also Lust, Greed, and Gluttony... Whatever, it is fu*king unpleasant you four. I am not very much amused. " (Embra)

Listening to the voice again, Embra found the truth of the unknown voice. It is the voice from his heart. The love he feels for Keinnayi calls out to him before all of his minds become corrupted. Taking a deep breath, Embra stands up. Embra let out his Haki and steel his willpower again. After that, he addresses the four sins that corrupted his minds. The four sins appear in front of Embra. The four different colors, four sins, do not dare to approach Embra again because of his Haki and his indomitable willpower.

They are the Sins of 'Lust', 'Gluttony', 'Sloth', and 'Greed'. Every time each one of them talks, Embra feels their respective emotions become intensified more and more but, this time, he is self-aware and all those intense emotions cannot penetrate his willpower and Haki.

"Ee... Why did you get out? , yes? You can get everything ~ ~ you want in there you know. You can get Everything at all, ladies are left and right, ready to fulfill your every needs ~ ~, Yes? You should just let them serve you. You enjoy them, don't you? You can just sit back and enjoy the heavenly feeling."(Lust)

"Lust is right. You can eat everything there; meat, fruit, dessert, wine, alcohol, and everything edible things you name it and you can get it. You can eat infinitely, you know. You will never feel full. How good is it? Just enjoy the taste. You know you want it, right? Go back. Immerse yourself in the deliciousness of the food and forget everything. "(Gluttony)

"I agree with those two. You have everything in your hands. Jewels, gold, diamonds, every precious thing you can imagine is there. You want it to don't you? Go back and enjoy yourself in the mountains of treasure for eternity. No one is taking anything from you. Everything is yours. Now, go back."(Greed)

Their emotions are overflowing from inside him. He feels sexual desires. He feels the greed to own every precious treasure in the whole world. He wants to eat every cuisine, every dish of the whole world. He wants to immerse himself in the lust, greed, and gluttony and never wants to go out.

But, Embra answers all of those feeling with a powerful Haki. The golden aura surrounding him become to change a little by little with his words to become a mystic golden blue aura.

"I won't deny your claims. Yes, I am a lustful man. I want to enjoy the company of girls I like. I want to spend time with girls I am attracted to. I am also a greedy and gluttonous man. I want to eat every delicious food. I want to have a feast like a King every day with plates and spoons made from precious jewels. I want to sleep on an expensive bed, walk on the golden road, wear a precious robe worth a country.

I want to live my life in luxury but how long will it last? How long do you think I will enjoy those things? A day? 10 days? 100 days? 1000 days? No! If I enjoy it, that will be for a certain period but not forever. Nothing lasts forever. As I had said to them, you all are a part of me. I used you or I may use you but that will be for a moment. I will not let anyone take over my body. This is my body. So, begone from my sight. Begone from my soul."

The sins don't have time to say anything back and they disappear along with the sound of a glass shattering. Now, the only ones left in the darkness are Embra and a dull-looking color floating in front of him. The feeling of wanting to do nothing, the affectedness, a lack of any feeling about self or others, boredom, rancor, apathy, and a passive inert or sluggish feelings begin to influence his mind.

But, rather than losing focus, and letting his guard down, Embra laugh.

"Ahaha .. HAHAHA." (Embra)

He laughs not because he won over the sins or he becomes mentally strong. He laughs because,

"So, now it is only you huh? Sloth? What a useless sins. I can't believe I get caught off guard by you first among those four. Was it because I have never felt before? Hmm..." (Embra)

That's right. He laughs because he knows himself better than anyone else and knows that sloth is useless to him. In his previous life, Embra was born poor. He was by no means rich. He was at the bottom of the food chain. But, because of his dream of changing the world, he started to try. He started to struggle, makes effort, and trained.

He trained his already abnormal superior calculating ability and starting from finance, he learns about ways to realize his dream. That was the start of his life. He uses everything in his arsenal and uses every means to gain power, money, authority, weapons, and technology. Since the start of his dream, not once did he slacked off. Not once did he think about stopped doing.

Every obstacle, every challenge, and every block are destroyed or overcome by himself. If he has sloth, he would have never reached the place he reached on Earth. So, for Embra, Sin of Sloth was the last sin he would ever commit.

"Oi, Buddy. You know yourself, right? You do not have a place in me from the start. So, get the fu*k out of my body." (Embra)

The last sin of the seven sins shatters effortlessly with just the use of Embra's Haoshouku Haki. Embra looks around but, he found nothing. It is still dark.

"Huh? What the? Is it not over yet? What else is there? Hm. First I met Envy. Then, Pride, Wrath, Sloth, Lust, Greed, and Gluttony. Those are all seven sins, right? So..., After Seven sins... Ten commandments? Oi.Oi. I am an atheist. I am a person who doesn't deny or accept any kind of religion. What else do you want from me? Trial? " (Embra)

No one answers him. Embra shouts and shouts but, no one else answers him even after a minute passed. Embra is still surrounded by the darkness.

Embra, who was not explained by anyone about the trial did not know how to proceed further. He didn't know himself but, he is already passed the second part of the trial and now, he is in the third part of the trial of true-self. Unlike the previous two, the last part is a little special in that most of the people who knows how to proceed could not even pass and was consumed by the emotions in the middle of darkness where one can't hear, see or feel anything.

On the outside, all the four goddesses and Sethar are glaring daggers at the old man. They were elated a moment ago when Embra magnificently passed the second part of the trial but, as soon as the Embra enter the third part of the trial, they all glared at the old man at the same time. The old man could not even move much less looks up at the goddesses and could only cower in fear at the corner of the separate dimension.

Finally, the one who could not suppress her anger, Valkyrie Sethar, goes near the old man and lift him up by the neck with one hand. Her face is already twisted from anger and she is releasing an astonishing amount of killing intent concentrated solely on the old man.

"Oh... Should I just kill you right now? It is true that you are not responsible in case Embra did fail but, you are so going to take responsibility for my anger. There is no rule stating that I cannot kill a god but, you happened to be a god who rules a world... *smile* Fortunate isn't it?" (Sethar)

"...*Tremble* *Tremble* " (The old man)

The one who stops Sethar is the Goddess of reincarnation, Lashili. Sethar's hands are itching and her face is twisting from wanting to kill the old man right there but, because Goddess Lashili comes forth, she took a step back. Goddess Lashili approaches the old man and holds his head with her fingers. No, 'clutch' would be the proper word here because her fingers are grabbing the old man's head like an eagle. With a sweet smile on her face, she whispers into the old man's ear.

"The rule states that you are not responsible. It is true. But, *whisper* How are you going to compensate me for the loss of my enjoyment, huh? *Whisper* Oh right. There is also Goddess Gaia. Clean your neck. You are not going to have that for a long time." (Goddess Lashili)

It is not only these two who want to kill the old man right here but, the old man happened to be a god responsible for a world. So, as the outsiders, the four goddesses and Sethar have no right to kill the old man without a solid reason.

'I killed him because he makes my niece sad.'

'I killed him because he makes my friend/ sister sad.'

'I killed him because he makes me lose my enjoyment.'

Yep. These excuses are so not going to work in the heaven court. Moreover, if they did neglect the rules and killed him, they are going to be questioned by Heaven and held in prison, or in the worst case, they may even be stripped of their title. Only because of this rule that the old man is still alive.

And, while the tension is intensifying in the separate dimension, Embra's patience is running thin. At first, he was waiting for some kind of voice or movement in the darkness but, it has been half an hour and nothing is happening in the darkness. So, Embra snapped that he is even shouting out programming language.

"OI.OI.OI. Are you going to keep me here forever? Quit. Exit. Back. Input command: Exit... Shit. Nothing is working. What do you want me to do? Ugh... *takes a deep breath* Wait. Embra. There is still one way left. If there are seven sins, there should be seven virtues. I destroyed the sins. So, Let's try creating the virtues." (Embra)

After taking out his anger, Embra begins to try one method he comes up with when he was waiting half an hour. With nothing to lose, Embra started to try his method.

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Again and Again, I give credit to all who may concern. This is just my amateurish thoughts. Hope you can understand me. Please read the last part too. This is just my, poor little amateurish thought of mine. No offense. No defense.

Seriously, no offense. This is for plot progress. No religious offense. It is for the story only and it is ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSE.

#Peace

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