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Ayush, born in India, lost his parents at a very young age and was left alone, always suffering from hunger.

Now, all a four or five year old child can do is hang on to the trouser legs of passersby and beg for a few pennies.

Even that is mostly taken away by the street thugs, and all that is left is a coin or two.

To survive with the small amount of money that I couldn’t buy anything with, I always had to dig through the trash.

But how many of them are worth putting in your mouth?

As expected, he was always hungry, to the point where it was a miracle that he was still alive.

Days so painful that I feel like I’d be better off dead.

But the only reason I survived so desperately was because of one wish.

‘I wish I could eat until I’m full just once.’

A dream so simple, yet so distant to him.

Always hungry and unable to eat, he always sought efficient movement.

So that the small amount of energy you have stays in your body for as long as possible.

Such tendencies eventually developed into obsessions.

I felt at ease only when I had something in my hand.

He would put food in his mouth as soon as it was available and hide the small amount of money he had in a place that no one knew about.

One day, when I was barely surviving.

One of the thugs who had been terribly persecuting street orphans like himself followed him and took all the money he had hidden away.

Naturally, Ayush, who tried to get the money back, was beaten to the point of death.

No, originally it would have been normal if he had stopped breathing at that time.

-“What a pity.”

Until that voice was heard.

-“I will grant you the right.”

qualifications?

What qualifications are you talking about?

-“I am giving you strength, so you must never disappoint me.”

At the same time, he was born again.

Chosen humans, the Awakened.

Among them, as a special human chosen by God.

* * *

stinginess.

This refers to a person who is extremely stingy with their money or is extremely stingy in their actions.

This is the exact opposite of greed.

If greed is wanting to have what belongs to someone else rather than to you, stinginess is extremely reluctant to have what belongs to you taken away or consumed by someone else.

But despite such polar opposites, the origins of stinginess and greed are surprisingly similar.

In order to not have what is mine taken away, don’t I first have to have what is mine?

Because the means to achieve this begin with greed.

In some ways, stinginess can seem like a less compatible version of greed.

In reality, the combination of stinginess and greed was close to the worst.

When opposing forces collide, greed always wins.

Stinginess is defense, greed is offense.

Because it is a given that no matter how strong a shield is, it will become dull after thousands or tens of thousands of attacks.

Thanks to this, stinginess has had much more experience with greed, which is one of the seven deadly sins, than with the Seven Deadly Sins.

But you can’t just keep suffering like this forever.

Stinginess found another way to protect itself from greed, and succeeded in transforming it into power.

That power is none other than reserves.

It’s just piling up.

If you look at it this way, what meaning does simple stockpiling have?

What if that reserve were infinite?

And what if you could unleash all that stored-up power in one go?

This would be the best blow the shield could deliver.

“Sniff, sniff sniff… , oh, it smells delicious… !”

Ayush, who landed in Rome under the guidance of the hexagram, was immediately and instinctively drawn to the delicious smell.

The store that captivated him with its strong smell was none other than a bakery displaying freshly baked bread.

He approached me, dripping transparent, sticky saliva, grabbed a piece of still-warm bread, and stuffed it into his mouth.

“Heh, hehehe, heee… !”

Ayush smiles at the perfect harmony of the fragrant aroma of butter and the nutty taste of flour.

As he was licking his lips after devouring dozens of loaves of bread in one gulp, the store owner approached him.

“Hey, hey, you! If you eat bread like that without even calculating…!”

Ayush’s gaze was focused on the hand of the master who was pointing at me.

It smelled there too.

The strong smell of the bread I ate a little while ago!

“Oh, it looks delicious…!”

Kwajik!

“Kaaaah!”

So I ate it.

The smell of blood and the scent of butter mixed together made it another delicacy.

“Gyaaaah!”

“Hey, call the police!”

“Sa, eating a person’s arm, what is that…!”

The chaos began.

It was natural.

No matter how hideously fat he is, he is still human, so he ate another person’s arm, so it can’t be helped.

“Uh, uh, I ate something halfway, and now I’m hungry… ?”

As he finished eating all the remaining bread, the police soon approached him and pointed their guns at him.

“Don’t move!”

“Hands up, now!”

Even with a gun loaded with live ammunition in front of him, Ayush did not stop.

No, instead, he ran towards them.

“seconds, it’s a gun… !”

Because bullets loaded with gunpowder were also a delicacy to him.

“Wow, ewaaaah!”

One of the police officers, startled by the sight of Ayush suddenly rushing towards him, pulled the trigger.

Taang!

A loud explosion of noise.

At the same time, the bullet extended out and hit Ayush’s chest straight in, but it was useless.

“Heh, heh, first, bullet.”

Ayush grabs the bullet embedded in his flesh and pushes it into his mouth.

If among the Seven Deadly Sins, the Apostle of Patience served as a shield, then among the Seven Deadly Sins, stinginess was the shield.

Stinginess is a personality trait that extremely hates having what one has taken away.

Isn’t losing blood and flesh to others’ attacks also a form of having something of mine taken away?

“Wow.”

Kwajik!

A large mouth swallows the gun and the arm holding it all at once.

“Kkaaah!”

A police officer collapses, screaming in excruciating pain.

“Hey, hey, are you okay?!”

“That freaking bastard!”

“All fire!”

bang!

Taang!

Taang, taang, taang!

The police, enraged at seeing their fallen comrades, fired bullets, but as expected, it was useless.

After taking out the bullets that had lost their strength in his rippling skin and stuffing them into his mouth one by one, Ayush took back all the remaining guns and bullets the police had.

Crunch!

Snap!

It tasted divine.

The pungent taste of gunpowder, the sharp yet refreshing taste of iron, and even the strong smell of blood.

For a Korean, it would be like putting kimchi on freshly grilled pork belly and drinking a glass of soju.

“Hehe, hehe.”

The situation became more serious as the police officers’ arms were all cut off.

“What the heck, that crazy monster bastard.”

“Don’t think of them as people. Just think of them as monsters.”

“… You can tell just by looking at the appearance.”

The hunters have been dispatched.

At first, three B-class hunters came.

But no one could even bring him relief, and instead, they only provoked his anger.

“Monster, monster, oh, no!!!”

He tore apart and ate every part of the guy who said the words he hated the most.

Fingers, wrists, elbows, shoulders, feet, shins, thighs.

After chewing them up and killing them in agony, he showed mercy to the two who agreed with him and ate them by dividing them into upper and lower parts.

“Ma, that’s ridiculous… .”

“Huh, you’re eating the hunter.”

“That’s just weird… , sigh!”

“Be quiet! Didn’t you see what the Hunter said just now?!”

“Mi, Mi, Sorry…!”

People murmuring in hushed tones.

It was because they had lost the will to even raise a voice in the face of overwhelming violence.

They didn’t dare to move.

For fear that I might catch his eye and be eaten like them just a little while ago.

“Intercept it right away!”

“Don’t look at my circumstances and just keep pushing!”

After the deaths of the B-class hunters, the A-class hunters arrived in front of him as he was eating patties from a nearby hamburger shop.

The skill level of B-class and A-class is worlds apart.

The onlookers were convinced that the monster would finally die, but the sight that unfolded before their eyes was even more shocking.

“Bar, bar, don’t bother me!!”

Whoosh! Whoosh!

“Kkiyaaak!”

“Ugh… , Ah, no, turn off the lights… !”

“Keuh-eok… !”

“Kuaaak! Aah! Keuuuu… !”

Ayush, who was angry because he kept being interrupted while eating, opened his mouth wide and screamed, and hot flames poured out from there, burning the A-class hunters who rushed towards him.

Everyone was speechless.

Four A-class hunters were burned to death in one fell swoop.

“Ah, ahh… .”

“What the hell is going on?”

“Where did that monster suddenly come from… .”

Everyone was in despair.

This is Rome, the capital of Italy.

Their city, their pride and joy, is being destroyed by a monster that appears out of nowhere.

Crunch, crunch!

Phew!

“Heh, heh, what, what should I eat next…?”

He had just emptied out a huge franchise burger joint and was looking around, patting his stomach, trying to decide where to go next.

“Ppueeeng!”

“What, I’m scared!”

“Wow, Mommy!”

The children, unable to bear their fear, began to cry loudly.

“Oh, don’t cry, baby!”

“Are you okay? Stop! Please stop crying…!”

“Oh my god.”

The parents tried to calm the child down somehow, but the tears did not stop easily.

And the children’s cries stimulated Ayush.

“Churup.”

He looks at the children and his mouth waters.

“Uh, when was the, last…?”

I tried it a few times with my fingers and then gave up.

It was that long ago.

“Oh, it looks delicious.”

The incident of eating a child.

thud!

Kuung!

Ayush approaches with his heavy body, shaking the earth’s axis.

Parents yelled at their crying children, hiding them behind their backs.

“Oh, don’t come!”

“Please, I beg you! Only our children…!”

“Go away, go away…, sob!”

It was a time when they lowered their heads and despaired in helplessness.

“Stop, monster.”

A sweet voice calling from the sky stopped him in his tracks.

Citizens all looked up at the sky at the same time without saying who would go first.

Finally they saw.

A warm ray of hope coming down from the sky.

“Seo, it’s the saint!”

“The saint herself came to save us!”

“Oh my god…!”

“Long live the saint!”

Viva-!

The cheers of those praising her rang out loud.