#and Tailor of Enbizaka (Envy) is a close second

[gophergal]

ok so a doodle with a target audience of one before I go to bed

Just some team fort characters cast as characters in the Seven Deadly Sins vocaloid series by MOTHY. Here we have the Administrator in Judgement of Corruption (Greed), Demoman in The Muzzle Of Nemesis (Wrath), and Medic in Gift From the Princess Who Brings Sleep (Sloth)

ok night

[thetailorofenbizaka]

Chapter 1–The Tale of the Scissors, Act 7: Fate; Scene 4

The Tailor of Enbizaka, pages 168-174

Kayo had gone missing—

But then, that was only to the world at large.

Naturally, I had known where she was the entire time.

Because the scissors in which I dwell were always with her.

There was an abandoned temple around halfway up Mount Inasa.

Kayo had been lurking inside this unmanned temple.

I had thought that perhaps Kayo’s leaving Enbizaka had been because Kiji and his people had begun to suspect her—but then, why would she have picked this place to hide in?

I couldn’t read Kayo’s mind. So at that time, I as yet didn’t know the reason for her actions.

But now I am able to understand quite clearly.

Kayo knew from a dream.

That on that day, in that place—he would arrive.

.

A man climbed up the mountain.

The man was skin and bones, coming alone without anyone companions beside him.

Gradually growing out of breath.

.

The sight of this desolate mountain temple entered this man’s line of sight as he grew exhausted.

He couldn’t sense anyone there.

He likely thought that he’d rest a little while.

And so he entered the mountain temple grounds.

.

“You look exhausted.”

.

When a voice suddenly came at him from behind, the man gave a start and turned around towards it.

Standing there was a beautiful woman.

“Excuse me…I seem to have surprised you,” the woman said, smiling.

“A—Ah…No, I should be apologizing…I honestly didn’t think there would be anyone here,” the man replied, staggering a little.

“…”

The woman kept smiling.

But didn’t say a word.

“It’s nice to meet you, good day,” the man greeted.

“—Yes, good day.”

The woman was still smiling.

It was an expression that looked like a smile.

“Why are you in a place like this?” the man asked.

“…I am Sudou Kayo. I am the one who works—worked—as a tailor in Enbizaka.”

“Ah, you’re Kayo-san, are you? I heard you helped out my wife quite a bit, when she was alive.”

The man lightly bowed his head.

“I’d heard that you went missing; why have you been living in a place like th—“ The man’s mouth suddenly stopped as he was about to continue the conversation. “A—ah…”

He seemed to have finally noticed something, looking at Kayo’s appearance a second time.

“What is the matter?” Kayo asked.

“That red kimono you’re wearing…I recognize it.”

“…I suppose you would.”

“Th…that’s—Mei’s kimono! I’m certain of it! That’s the one I made for my wife!” That man cried, pointing to Kayo’s red kimono.

“That’s exactly right, Kai-san.”

“And that’s not all! That…obi. That green obi—“

“Yes. This is the one that your daughter Miku wore on her body. And,” Kayo took out the yellow tortoiseshell hairpin and put it in her hair. “This is the hairpin that you bought for Rin-chan.”

“That and the kimono and obi were items stolen from their dead bodies…It can’t be…that means you’re—“

“Correct. I killed all of them,” Kayo replied, still smiling.

Kai collapsed to his hindquarters and asked Kayo, shrinking away from her, “How could you?...Why…would you do such a—“

“—You see, for some time now I have begun to have regularly this strange dream.”

“A—a dream?”

“In the dream, I met you—and was convinced that you were my own husband.”

Kayo slowly drew closer to Kai.

“And I witnessed you together with another woman, and as a result of my envy I killed her—she who wore the red kimono.”

Kai, trembling, continued to back away from her.

“And further still the woman in the green obi, the girl with the yellow hairpin—one by one I killed those close to you. Because I was convinced that all of them were extramarital affairs.”

Kayo drew closer, and Kai backed away.

“And in the end, I lay in wait at this mountain temple to see you. And here, you said ‘Nice to meet you, good day’.”

Kayo drew two pairs of scissors from the folds of her kimono, and carried them in both hands.

“There I grew indignant, and cut your body to pieces.”  

“Aa—aaah---"

Already exhausted, Kai had no energy left to fight back.

“--Just before your death, you informed me of something. And so now I…know the truth. Including why you came up to this mountain shrine today.”

“Y…you know? What’ll happen to Enbizaka if I’m killed and it all goes public…Or rather, what’ll happen to Onigashima as a whole—"

“Of course. I saw that in the dream as well. Even so, though I try…I cannot forgive you!”

Kayo brought the western scissors in her right hand down on Kai’s throat.

“Guuugh!”

Kai gave out a croaking scream.

Blood gushed from his neck.

“Come then, let’s begin tailoring—let’s begin my final work.”

She then stabbed the eastern scissors in her left hand into Kai’s stomach.

Then his right arm.

His left arm.

His right leg.

His left leg.

In succession.

Neatly.

And very rapidly.

She cut Kai’s body apart.

The area around them became progressively changed into a sea of blood.

.

Several hours later.

Standing there.

Was a lump of flesh floating in that sea of blood, no longer discernible as having been a human being.

And, stained in that blood all over.

Was a single oni.

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[thesevencrimesandpunishments]

Chapter 5-Envy; Scene 4

Seven Crimes and Punishments, pages 104-108

Before I knew it, I had reached the summit of the hill.

I looked downhill at what lay behind me. It appeared that I had managed to escape the time and space distortion for now, but I had already long passed the tailor shop.

When I reexamined my surroundings, I couldn’t see the demon of Greed anywhere.

Hadn’t he come with me?

“…That is…it couldn’t be.”

Instead, I found a figure in the right of my vision.

It was a woman in a red kimono, with a green obi. She had a yellow hairpin in her pink hair--

I could tell that she had noticed me too. She leisurely made her way towards me.

“Ren…You’ve come home.”

“Yeah…”

Without a doubt, that was Kayo-san.

“Are you well? Are you not with your friends today?”

“Yeah. What about you, Kayo-san?”

“Like I do everyday, I sew kimono, fix obi, and wait for my husband’s return—such as my days have been.”

“Yes—”

Hänsel had told me that she was still a madwoman. It seemed that this was apt.

Her expression, her bearing, the way she spoke…There was nothing unusual about it in the least.

And yet, despite that she was not a usual person.

Nothing had changed about her from when I first met Kayo-san.

But from that time she had already gone insane.

“Well then, I think I shall head home and make preparations for dinner—But, what shall I do. I do have to leave on some business later.”

“Business?”

“Yes. You see, I…have to go receive punishment now.”

When she said that, she shifted her gaze to behind me.

I followed her glance and turned around.

“This is…”

Right then, for the first time I realized that there was a building there.

It was clearly constructed with artificial stone, an obviously different style than the other buildings in Enbizaka.

A building like this wouldn’t have been in Enbizaka at the time.

“I must…I must receive punishment.” Kayo-san pressed onward inside the building while continuing to murmur that to herself, as though rambling deliriously.

“Wait a second! Hey, Kayo-san!”

Something was off. What in the world was this building?

I ran inside after her.

The building’s interior had red carpeting spread over the floor. With this solemn atmosphere—Yes, rather than Jakoku it felt close to a style that I had seen often in my home country.

Kayo-san progressed steadily forward. I followed her. Finally, we reached a large open room.

Many souls were inside. They were all sitting in seats arranged throughout the room, and gazing at Kayo-san as she stood in the center. And they were all whispering something to each other.

“Silence!”

Someone’s loud voice resounded through, and all the souls gathered in the room grew quiet at once.

A man entered from further inside. He was the one who had spoken.

The moment I saw him, I understood everything.

Here…this place I’m in right now…isn’t Jakoku.

Yes, this place—

And the man who was standing there at the head platform--

“Now then, the judgment of the defendant Kayo Sudou is now in session!”

There was no doubt about it.

The judge of the USE Dark Star Bureau.

And the man who had contracted with the “Demon of Greed”.

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Gallerian Marlon.

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