Of all the seven deadly sins, which is the best? If there even is a better sin as some might claim, but there is one, at least to Lucius at least. While they all have their disadvantages, there is one that is infinitely better than all the other sins. One that reigns supreme with the difference compared to other sins not even coming close. With lust there is a constant need for pleasure and without that pleasure one can go insane, bypassing willpower and everything.
With Greed, there is also a threat to your mental health as without the item that you crave, you might become feral, losing all sense of reason just to retrieve that which you consider the greatest thing of all, it could be gold, property or even women. But even though you might be greedy for women there is a clear difference between lust and greed.
With greed, the person does not necessarily care whether or not they receive pleasure from a woman, they only care about whether or not they have that woman in their possession, nothing else matters to them.
Gluttony, so similar to greed yet different, with gluttony the constant want for food is something that can be easily taken advantage of by other people, poisoning or drugging your food which could lead to your death.
Envy is a sin that as some would call, the sin of haters, your entire life will revolve around hating and wanting what is not yours or trying to take something that is not yours
Sloth, while not as destructive on your life as the other sins, leads to a lack of process and utter stagnation. However while everyone may see you as a complete failure and as the enemy of progress, you however are utterly separated from this world, you could care less about other people and how they view you, you only care about how often you can laze around
This is seen as a positive of this sin by some and just like them, Lucius agrees. Because ignoring Wrath, which is really you losing control of your emotions and lashing out at the slightest problem, there is the final sin, the sin that is considered as the 'best' sin to have by far.
Pride.
An extremely self centered person with an overwhelmingly high sense of self, this person does not forge bonds as it is not needed, only yourself is enough to withstand whatever the world throws at you, your belief in your abilities is almost delusional to the point where even if the entire world were to be seen as your enemy, you would still see yourself as superior in every way.
In Lucius's mind, Pride outshines the rest as no matter what nothing can faze you, if you were to even die in the most humiliating way possible your head would still be raised up high.
Lucius himself was now in a similar position, surrounded from all sides by the police with over a hundred guns aimed at him. He didn't listen to the modern world's laws, not because he saw it as beneath him but because he simply couldn't find any reason to care about any of those laws.
And even now, with death staring him down he smiled as while he did feel some fear towards the unknown nature of death and what lies beyond, he believed himself to be able to, in time, withstand whatever came after death.
However while Lucius was extremely prideful, to the point where some would think he considers himself a god, he was also extremely careful. This reality, where he was surrounded from all sides by justice enforcers of the modern world should not have happened.
He had been betrayed.
It wasn't an emotional betrayal by a close friend as Lucius considered no one but himself important, even now after finding out he had been betrayed he didn't care, he only wished to know who it was in his work that betrayed him.
Because it must have been one of his co-workers who did it, most likely someone who was jealous of his success and of his constant S rank completed missions.
There were many who were jealous of his success and constantly tried to bring him down, however, there was one person, one person who was so jealous of him she had tried for an entire decade to bring him down. If any other person was deserving of the sin of envy, it was her.
And just as expected, among the crowd of police there was one 'police' that stood out like a sore thumb, at least to Lucius. Standing at a height of 5 feet 5 inches with pale skin and black hair was Lucius's number 1 hater. Many had lusted after her due to her seductive and curvy body only to die the next day in the most gruesome way possible.
"This is the end of the road for you Assassin, get on the ground now!" a random police officer shouted
Slowly raising his hands in the air and showing his weapons, Lucius dropped his weapons to the ground and did exactly as the officer instructed, lying on his stomach with his hands behind his back.
The random police officer who had told him to get down on the ground looked shocked for a while before a large grin crawled its way onto his face;he had not expected Lucius to comply at all. But before any of the other police officers could move in to finally arrest Lucius, the police who had told him to get on the ground quickly dashed towards Lucius with a smirk on his face.
'If I can be seen arresting this criminal ....surely I could get a pay raise , and if I'm lucky enough, maybe an entire promotion.' he thought as his smirk widened in anticipation and greed.
But he should have known better.
Because in his greed to earn more money he forgot, or more correctly, ignored one crucial information. And that was that Lucius was currently the most wanted man in the world and was also known for preferring to kill people with his hands as his belief was that self improvement should be a core aspect of one's self and as such he only used weapons if he absolutely needed them.
And watching this random officer just charge at him, Lucius couldn't be more happier, because slightly behind the officer was his number one hater and his 'rival' as she would often say.
So as soon as the police reached within grabbing distance, Lucius acted.
In one swift motion, Lucius twisted his body and kicked the officer off his feet. As he fell, Lucius could see the fear in his eyes as the officer desperately reached for his gun. But before he could grab his gun, Lucius was faster and grabbed his gun out of his holster and quickly pointed it at the officer's head.
"Release hi-"
"Stop!" Lucius suddenly shouted with the officer held hostage
"My mind is trained so that at the slightest touch, it will follow the instinctual instructions I've embedded into it."
"What exactly does this mean?" Lucius said as his eyes narrowed as he looked at all the police officers.
"It means that even if you were to shoot me in the head, my body will still perform the final actions I've instructed it to do before I die. And right now, one of those instructions is to pull this trigger."
"See if you get my explanation."
"It would really suck if any one of you were to be the cause of death of this innocent person. So, listen to what I have to say."
The police officers, realizing that they were not going to be able to take him down without the risk of killing an innocent officer ,hesitated and backed off, giving Lucius some space.
"Directly under the whitehouse, lies the location of the meeting place for members of the League Of Assassins, and I-"
Before he could finish, a voice, laced with venom, cut him off. "Kill him!" a certain 'police' officer shouted
"The death of one guy doesnt matter much if it means taking down the most wanted criminal!"
Feeling happy inside, Lucius smiled at the 'officer' that urged the officers to kill him and said, "Why so serious, Felicia?"
All officers now brought some attention to the one Lucius called Felicia, scrutinizing her. "I don't know him I swear! He is trying to buy time, we don't know what he is trying to do!" She shouted
'Shit….SHIT, I spoke too soon, why did I have to say that right when he was revealing such crucial information!? Now everyone here is suspicious of me.' Felicia thought.
Lucius chuckled, enjoying the chaos he had created. "You see, even in this situation, you are nothing but predictable. You can try as much as you want but you'll never succeed. Do you know why? Because you are nothing but a tool."
Lucius raised his voice. "I have known for a long time that you have been planning to kill me, I only didn't know the details" Lucius then paused, "And you are right, one guy doesn't matter, so let's start the party".
"Now" Lucius said softly, an eerie silence following after his word as if waiting for the next words to leave his mouth.
"Die like the pitiful leach that you are, Felicia." As soon as those words left Lucius's mouth he did something shocking, instead of shooting someone among the crowd or shoot his hostage as everyone was on guard against, he directly shot himself in the chest.
This wasn't random however because as soon as Lucius got shot, no sooner did a beeping sound start to echo from Lucius's chest.
As soon as Felicia heard that sound, she didn't hesitate to start running. It was after a couple seconds had passed that the police officers realised what had happened and they too, started to run.
But it was too late.
* BOOM *
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On February 10, 2020, the number one assassin along with 554 police officers died