She held out her hand to him once she was done panicking. “Emotions are like a rock. They drag you down until you are shackled to yourself.” It was almost as if she had sensed the change in him as she took his hand and led him away. “Sometimes they are nice and sometimes they do things like this world… An emotion born from loss remembers way more than an emotion born from happiness.”

She brought them to a cave and looked up at Lewis. “Should we rest before we go in? The last one was bad… and Wrath appears to have her attention elsewhere. Lust might be trying to kick down her door again. Down in these caves are Envy and Greed. They both harbor perhaps the worst of what has happened to us. However, because they covet they don’t gain power and they just prefer to be left alone.”

Simone was shaking softly. “I don’t like it down there. I remember when they were put there for their own protection. I don’t like what they did to it. I know what’s down there.” Still, though she took a torch from the wall and she opened the heavy door to the caves. “Come on.” She was brave, at least there was that much.

For the most part, Lewis stayed silent as he followed the guide to the caves. He was in his own mind, thinking about the different techniques that may be required to kill the rest of the Seven Deadly Simones. The first one was easy enough, but it had almost cost him his life. He would have to be better prepared for the next set. And this wasn’t even taking into consideration that Wrath and Lust were more powerful than the rest. Even just now, the tiniest bit of anger from the Guide Simone was enough to almost completely corrupt her.

This was going to be harder than Lewis had initially envisioned. If he lost the guide, he lost his key out. Was she as fragile as she let on? Or could she hold her own in a fight? No, it was better not to risk it at all. She would need to stay clear of any altercations.

“I don’t need rest,” Lewis stated as they reached the caves. The guide seemed hesitant, though, almost afraid to move forward. Fear. That was an emotion that Lewis had once. It was something that he hated feeling, and thus had trained himself to lock it out. It was a nuisance, but it was also a warning. Whatever was down there, the guide was scared of it.

Lewis grabbed a torch from the opposite side, and started to follow her down into the depths of the caves.

“What do you mean they were put here for their own protection?” Lewis needed as much information as possible.

She looked up at Lewis. “When we become one we are emotionless almost. We are all fighting to be at the surface. Having no emotions isn’t just locking it out. It’s keeping it under control. Envy and Greed fighting among themselves because they want two things we’re never allowed to have for long. It was so bad that one of them took control of Simone and ripped out the heart of our lover. Envy and Greed are most focused on each other because of the mutual need that they have. They fight over his heart. The babies, the weddings, and whatever else is brought. Love was the first thing they killed in us. Love just wanted a peaceful resolution. Maybe we all could get what we wanted just like we had for centuries… but the more times we died the more the negative outpaced the positive emotions.”

The cavern began to shift into gold, gems, and other things from the floor to the ceiling. “Greed and envy cancel each other out and are mostly focused on each other. Should one of the two come down here two fight them they would lose because there are two of them. Lust and Wrath don’t get along enough to fight together to defeat them… but Envy and Greed are along the same vein. They both covet. Both are needed for a healthy mindscape so being put together they are fine and they can survive anything. Simone knew this.”

There were baby screams and the guide stopped as she backed up a bit. “As for why I don’t like it down here… The memories are bad.” She peeked around a pile of gold to see two Simone choking each other trying to get a beating heart. “They are still fighting over it,” the guide whispered up to Lewis.

The screams of a baby were what woke Lewis up from his deeper thoughts. It was time to focus once more. The guide took a step back, the cries of the baby making her uncomfortable. Good. She didn’t need to be involved in this.

Lewis looked upon Greed and Envy fighting over the still beating heart of one of their previous lovers. The assassin cared not for their desires, and took a step forward. Neither seemed to react, to which Lewis smiled at. The cruelty was back. Perhaps it was a side effect of repressing emotions, or perhaps this was his truest self in the fact of it all. But he knew how to get their attention, and how to take their lives.

“I know what you covet…what you seek,” Lewis said with a happy, almost maniacal tone. “And it’s not-” Lewis unsheathed the dagger, and with a flick of the wrist, tossed it straight into the heart, impaling it into the ground. “That.” He took another step forward, this time demanding all of the attention.

“Come now…I’m much more desirable.”

The guide hid and she was watching as he moved. When the heart was stabbed and it stopped beating the women immediately started to get mad. “HOW COULD YOU! HE LOVED US!” They hissed at him softly but when presented himself they were skeptical.

Greed was the first one as she shoved Envy down. “He’s ALL MINE YOU CAN’T HAVE HIM!” Greed ran but Envy grabbed her by the ankle letting Greed hit her face hard on the ground.

“We can really have you?” Envy was quick as she was around him and nuzzling him softly. Greed huffed as her face healed and soon she was trying to pull Envy off.

“He wants me. NOT YOU!”

“No. No. He wants me! He would never want you! I WON’T STAND FOR IT!” They were hanging onto him now with Envy rubbing her head against his neck watching Greed who was getting more pissed by the second.

“GO ON TELL HER SHE IS WRONG! I am the superior Simone!” Green pulled at her dress to reveal her bust to Lewis. Envy was blushing but she took Lewis's hands and made him grope her back. "CHEATER!"

"You started the cheating! EXPOSING YOURSELF LIKE A WHORE!"

Lewis cackled like a mad man, reveling in the fact that the two were fighting among themselves for something so useless as flesh. He was barely fazed as each of the Simones tried to one up each other. Greed revealed her chest to Lewis, whilst Envy tried to have Lewis grope her.

“Now, now, ladies,” Lewis said with his eyes wide. “It seems like you don’t think there’s enough of me to go around…” He placed both of his hands around both Greed and Envy’s necks, tightening his grip. “I have more than enough experience to satisfy both of you…” He pushed them both down hard, pinning each of them to the ground, choking harder and harder.

“Tell me..is this not what you desire? Do you not wish for this pleasurable end!?” Perhaps there had been a negative effect from his encounter with Lust after all. Or maybe, Lewis was twisted from the start.

The guide was horrified by the lengths of which the Simones were willing to go for Lewis’s attention. Still, she sat quietly waiting for something anything. That was when she witnessed Lewis choking them. They were willingly going with it as moans left their mouths. “Choke me harder please,” Envy cried.

“No, choke me harder first. I want the pleasure first!” It had a red blush going across the guide’s face as Greed was yelling.

That was when the guide came from her hiding place and she took the knife out of the heart. Her feet were quick and one would have thought she would have handed the knife to Lewis but instead she started to start Greed over and over again with her blood going everywhere. Greed was the stronger of the two and she knew that. She didn’t care as the blood went all over Lewis and herself.

“GREED!” Envy cried out.

Lewis’ wicked smile grew as he tightened his grip on Ency, the blood splattering across his face. “Please now,” he said as he leaned over the Sin. “You’ll be next…I promise…” The assassin leaned down farther, kissing Envy, biting her lip before pulling back.

“See now?” he said as he took the dagger from the guide. “Wasn’t that worth it, in the end?” He pushed the knife against Envy’s chest. “It’s all so bittersweet in the end, isn’t it? This desire…was it worth it?” He shoved the knife deep into her chest, all the way to the hilt.

“Sleep now,” Lewis said. He looked up to the guide, the madness still in his eyes. “And what of you, little one?” He reached out with a blood soaked hand. “What do you desire…is it the useless flesh that they do? Or is it more…?”

Envy was in a panic over knowing what was to happen but he had weakened her and the kiss. The kiss was everything to her that she had wanted. She let out a breath as he pushed the dagger in. “Yes,” Envy answered now that she had everything she wanted.

The guide took his hand and she was shaking slightly from the kill. “What I want?” She took his hand and kissed him deeply. “I just want to be set free by you.” It came out in a whisper as she hugged bloody self to him. “Whatever comes during I’ll embrace and bare it. So long as I’m free in the end.” Her words were barely a whisper but her eyes were a tad sad as she looked into his madness.

The little guide waited to see how he would take what she had to offer. Though she wasn't sure what she was offering to be exact.

Lewis pulled the guide Simone down, kissing her roughly, tasting the blood that had splattered across her lips during the whole exchange. Then, he rolled over, forcing the small guide onto her back. Lewis placed the dagger against her throat, panting as though he had run a mile.

It was obvious he was getting off on this.

“I can set you free…” He had never felt so aroused in his life. The thrill of ending it all here. Kill. He pressed the dagger harder against her. Do it. He would be trapped here forever. Was he okay with that? But the pleasure. He wanted it. Would anything else even come closer to satisfying him? The blood. He leaned down, licking a drop of blood from the guide Simone’s face. The taste was intoxicating.

“I need it…I want it…” He smiled. He released the pressure from the poor girl’s neck. “But I can’t take it…not yet…not now…” Lewis fell back, still panting. It was obvious that he was still highly aroused, but he was doing his best pushing the desires down.

“This is greed…” He had never felt such a thing. Not in his entire lifetime. “No…I can wait. Are…are you okay to move?” He wasn’t sure if he was asking because he cared, or if it was because he needed her to keep moving forward. Everything in his mind was a jumbled mess, including the repressed emotions that he barely could control and understand.

“”We need…we need to get out of here…”