"Now, tell me," Gluttony said, and took a pause. This pause increased the tension among the demons and demi-demons alike, keeping them on their toes, to the point that if someone were to throw a stone, nearly half of them would fall down from just getting excited. "What is the difference between the deadly sin Gluttony, and the deadly sin Greed?" Gluttony laid back a little and gave off a sly smile as if he knew none of them would even get close to the answer in a hundred years. And that was exactly what happened.
All the demons and demi-demons never thought of this, all they ever knew was that the spirit of the deadly sins chose them, and they were once the sole warriors of Hell, and fought off the angels from Heaven single-handedly. They never thought of why they were named after sins, or how they gained their power. They never thought too much into brainy stuff like this. So, when a question like this one was dropped onto them, they were completely blank, like a piece of paper. But of course, there was someone who knew the answer.
"I know the answer," An unexpected person whispered these 4 words into my ear. It was Orsino! "You do?" I whispered back skeptically. "Yeah, this was the exact question the spirit of Gluttony asked my brother back when he was being possessed by the spirit," Orsino whispered. "Whoa, no wonder you know about it," I whispered.
"Oh? You! The tall and thin one with shabby black hair! Since you've been whispering so much, why don't you answer?" Gluttony called, pointing over to me. "M-me?" I stuttered. I had no clue what the answer is, even though I watched that one anime about the Seven Deadly Sins, I never asked myself this question. "Yes! Go on now, tell us what you think is the answer?" Gluttony teased. Suddenly, I felt a jolt in my head, and different scenes from the anime 'Seven Deadly Sins' and the Bible poured into my head. I went through all of these recollections in an instant, and I got the difference. The difference was so obvious, that I had to hold back the urge of slapping myself.
"Greed deals with hoarding stuff simply to have things and many of them. Gluttony, on the other hand, is when you want something, but you want to consume it. All of it! Gluttony is about the desire to consume things, to the point that one's hunger is never truly satisfied," I said out loud. Even if it was obvious to me, it wasn't still possible for it to be 100% correct, unless I have an abnormal amount of luck.
"Kid, what's your name?" Gluttony asked, turning back to his cheerful self. "Jay! My name is Jay," I said. "Now, was my answer right?" I asked sternly. Gluttony suddenly began laughing, almost to the point of making his stomach hurt, but quickly recovered. "You remind me a lot of how I was when I was younger," Gluttony said, and chuckled a little. "Yes, your answer was absolutely correct! Here you go, as promised," Gluttony handed the golden cage/incubator, containing the pitch-black that everyone was drooling over. Some looked at me with hatred, some with jealousy, and some with awe.
Gluttony took out the egg with care and placed it in my hands. I held the egg and felt it vibrate slightly and radiate some weird feeling. It was some sort of fusion between a warm feeling in my heart and a cold feeling in my arms simultaneously. "It's probably just my imagination. It's just a familiar egg, right?" I thought to myself as I walked back to Orsino, with the slightly vibrating egg in my arms. As I saw the others laying different feelings onto me with their eyes, I gave them an airy look. "The egg is mine, b*itches!" I exclaimed!
"Brother Jay, you really are a genius," Orsino grinned. "What are you talking about? Didn't you have the answer?" I inquired. "Yeah, my answer was that Greed has 5 letters in it, whereas Gluttony has 8 letters," Orsino joked. "And I was wondering why you didn't raise your hand," I slapped my forehead in cringe. Both of us were giggling, while the others stared at us with hostility.
"Now how long does it take for eggs to hatch?" I asked. "It usually lies around 5-6 days," Orsino stated, bringing my hopes down again. There's no way in Hell am I going to wait for that long. "...Or you could let it absorb anomalous amounts of magic to nourish it with, and it could bring down the hatching time, but it depends on how much magic you provide it with," Orsino winked at me. "But I don't think you can muster up that much energy unless you bring Lord Lucifer himself to insert energy into it," Orsino added, hoping to break my spirits, but what he did was the exact opposite.
"Lucifer's Magic eh?" I murmured to myself, thinking of all the ways I could trick Lucifer into inserting his magic into the egg. "Wait, you aren't seriously considering this, are you?" Orsino doubted. "You know what? I might have a plan," I replied. Before Orsino could reply, Gluttony cleared his throat. "Now then, let's start with the actual training. We're going to start by concentrating magic inside you, the magic you were born with or received, and compress it into a certain part of your body. This will help you increase your control and your power output but choose the body part carefully, and never reveal it to anyone, because your greatest power, can also turn into your greatest weakness, just like Achilles and his heel," Gluttony explained. "So basically Magic Control? Exactly what I've been missing," I thought to myself and looked at the egg, sparkling in the sunlight.
"First, begin by focusing inside your body, and try to feel every part of your body," Gluttony stated. I began looking inside my own body, focused on every rib moving as I breathe, my heart as it pumped, my stomach as it churned the food I ate in the recess, which is still getting churned for some reason. I felt every fiber of muscle in my body as they itched to move around. After looking through every part of my body, a sudden chill passed through my body, slightly making me shiver. When I looked again, I felt a new presence, something that was getting pumped around every second, it was in my blood. I could feel my magic now!
"Most of you should be able to feel your magic by now, if you can't, then go deeper! Second, start by feeling the flow of that magic in your body, and once you catch on, start moving the magic flow and concentrate it towards the body part you want to concentrate it in," Gluttony added. Looking through my veins, I memorized every twist and turn the magic flow took and began thinking where I needed to focus all of it. This place would be my fatal flaw, so I needed to think of some part that is hard to hit. A part that is hard to hit... oh no, two ideas yet again. Looks like we're going to follow tradition as always...