Suddenly, Caesar stops his movement when he hears the sound of laughter. He looks under his foot to see Y/N laughing. She opens her eyes, staring up at him.

"What this?! Reaper is laughing?!" Love Helm shouts.

"What's so funny!" Caesar asks, only for his foot to be grabbed by Y/N and he loses balance, stumbling back. Y/N gets up, still laughing.

"Reaper is getting up as if nothing happened! What is going on!" Love Helm announces, causing the crows to cheer.

"Told ya," Meliodas says, crossed arms and smiling.

"W-What's going on?" King asks.

"Y/N has a good sense of smell and can smell anything wrong from miles away. Especially something like wolfsbane." Meliodas says. "But, he's just like everyone else. He believes in that folklore."

"What folklore?" Diane asks.

Y/N wipes away the tears from her eyes, her laughter coming to an end. Caesar gets up, feeling mocked.

"W-What's going on?!" He asks.

"Do you think Wolfsbane affects me?" She asks. "I don't know who told you that but it's just an old myth. Wolfsbane effecting werewolves. Sheesh, if you were gonna go to the lengths of obtaining wolfsbane then you should have at least found out if it even does affect me."

"So why did you let me punch you around so much?!" Caesar asks, getting into a fighting position. "You seemed weak and slow every time I attacked!"

"Well, I guess Wolfsbane does affect me just a tad bit. But not harmfully. Think of it like a cat and catnip. It feels sorta like a drug I guess." (I don't think the drug was even a term in those days, but just go with it). "Now, where were we. Oh, right." She rushes forward and Caesar goes to punch her, only for her to slide her body to the side and right hook him onto the ground.

"Reaper has knocked Caesar to the ground! It seems she doesn't give up so easily!!" The crowd goes wild and begin cheering for the turned tables. Y/N walks over to him and bends down, smiling.

"I would like to thank you for the useful information though." She says. "Glad to know someone has a plan for us and that they want me kept out of it." She stands up and kicks him, causing him to roll towards the edge of the ring. He manages to get up and his foot lands on the very edge of the ring, trying to keep his balance by moving his arm. Y/N walks over to him. "Oh, and thanks for the lolly." She flicks his forehead and he goes flying off the ring and down off the giant rock that the entire ring was on and onto the grassy field below. The crowd stayed in silence for a second before they began cheering for the victor.

"It seems in a surprise turn of events, that Reaper is the winner!" Love Helm announces, causing Y/N to slam her fists together with a smirk. She then wobblily makes her way to the sins, still slightly dizzy.

"Well that was fun-" Y/N's cut off by Diane jumping forwards and hugging Y/N close.

"You can be so stupid sometimes Y/N! Why did you let him kick you around for so long! It was so hard to watch!" Diane says, tears welling up in his eyes.

"I'm fine Diane, honestly. He didn't do that much damage. And besides, I had to find out why he tried to poison me." She says, pushing Diane away gently. Y/N looks to Meliodas. "It seems like there's a plan that they want me out of, or at least weak for."

"Do you know who they are?" He asks. She shakes her head. "Well, you got what you could. Good job." Y/N smiles.

"Wait, you mean you knew her plan the entire time?" King asks, slightly angry. Meliodas nods. "And you never told us?"

"Kinda slipped my mind."

"Slipped your mind!" King shouts. Ban wraps his arm around Y/N, smirking.

"You know, you should have seen King's face when you were getting kicked around. I swear he was about to jump in any second to help you." Y/N nods tiredly, smiling weakly.

"That's nice to know..." She says before her legs fall out and she falls to the floor, only to be caught by King's pillow. She snuggles into the pillow and smiles before she seemingly goes to sleep.

"Poor thing tired herself out," Meliodas says, patting her head.

"Hey King, you better hope she doesn't start drooling." Ban jokes. King glares at him.

"She doesn't drool! And besides, if she did I'll just clean it!"

"What a spectacular fight! Let's blow some steam and head to our fourth match. Cain vs Old Fart!" Love Helm announces.

"My turn, huh?" King says.

"Who in their right mind would come up with a tasteless name like that?" Diane asks. Ban laughs, turning his head to face her.

"It was me." He says, amused.

"Why am I not surprised?" Diane says.

"Hey come on, you have yourself a pretty weird name too," Ban says. "Where did Matrona come from?"

"It's somebody that I used to know."  King begins to make his way up the stairs.

"Go Old Fart, get him," Meliodas says.

"Ki- Old fart go!" Diane says, correcting herself. King stops walking up the stairs and turns around, only to show his fat form face with a thumbs up.

"If that's his game face, guess it makes sense," Ban says. Y/N lets out a snore, causing the Sins to side glance at her with sweat drops.

"Standing 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighing 5 pounds. Old Fart!" Love Helm shouts.

"He's a kid!" A man shouts, causing some others to laugh.

"Stupid Ban, writing all that stuff. But I have to win this. I have to show Y/N I'm strong!"  King thinks as he stares at Cain, who is wobbling and is seemingly still drunk.

"Standing 5 feet, 1 inch tall and weighing 108 pounds. Cain!" Cain hiccups and stumbles around.

"You sure you not drunk their gramps?" Someone shouts.

"Can we even call this a fight?!" Love Helm questions. "All right, let the fight begin!"

"I can't believe King's fighting without a weapon," Diane says. "I've never seen him do that."

"Guess it's twice for me now, It's something to see," Meliodas says. King gets into a fighting stance with his hands up in the air.

"Y/N, this is for you. My victory in this festival"

"It's that mind-blowing?" Diane asks.

"It sure is," Y/N says from behind them. King's pillow is under her arm.

"Your awake," Diane says, smiling. Y/N nods.

"Sure, just a little nap is enough to fix me right up." She says, all the bruises and cuts on her body and now gone. "Anyway, it is something to see cause without his weapons..." King goes running towards Cain and raises his fist, only for his foot to get caught on a rock sticking out of the ground and he goes tumbling past Cain and onto the floor.

"King's super weak." Meliodas finishes. Ban and Diane sweatdrop at the new information.

"I wouldn't say weak, just more...clumsy," Y/N says, smiling sheepishly. The crows begin laughing as King gets flustered in embarrassment. He looks up to Cain, who is standing staring down at him. Cain then lifts his face and begins making a weird noise and bringing his fist down, King puts his hands up to deflect it only for the punch to bonk him on the head. The crows are still laughing as King holds his head with small tears in the corners of his eyes.

"Man, he's t-tough," King mutters. "I'm glad Y/N isn't seeing this right no-" He's snapped out of his thoughts when he sees Y/N awake and her eyes are on him. "Nononono, she's awake!! She's just seen me fall! I'm so stupid!!"

"What a letdown after the last fight!" Love Helm shouts. "This battle is the opposite of epic!"

"I and Y/N saw him fight a cat that swiped a snack from him once, and he lost," Meliodas says. King jumps back as Cain laughs.

"Well, give up?" Cain asks.

"This is bad. I can't afford to lose, not this early. If Y/N can get up from being beaten over and over again, then I'm sure I can beat this old man."  King holds out his hand to Cain. "This might not be playing fair, but I'm going to use my power" Cain's eyes widen and he jumps forward to push King in the face, sending him tumbling across the ring and out of the ring.

"Old farts out of the ring! Cain wins!!" Love Helm announces and the crowd cheers.

"Sorry, you kinda caught me by surprise for a second," Cain says. The dust clears to show Y/N holding King's pillow in front of her, having caught King with the pillow before he fell to the ground.

"T-That was so mean," King says, tears in the corner of his eyes and a red mark on his cheek. "All I was trying to do was use my disaster power to make his rheumatism a little worse." He explains, his voice sounding upset. Ban looks down at King with laughter and a smirk.

"Next up is the last match in this round of the finals! It's Baaan Vs. Melinda!" Ban and Meliodas smirk at each other.

Out in the field at the bottom of the giant rock stands Griamore, Veronica and Howzer. Griamore and Veronica have explained everything that Howzer deemed was wrong for him.

"Hold on!" Howzer says, pointing up to the giant rock. "That shrimp with the Eight Deadly Sins! He's Meliodas?! And that woman was Y/N! That means those others were."

"That's right. Ban. And King." Griamore says.

"Wait, are you serious?! I can't just stay here like this!" Howzer says before running off.

"Hold on, don't go causing a commotion until we find Elizabeth!" Veronica shouts. However, Howzer doesn't stop running.

"Right back at you! If all hell breaks loose, and you ruin the festival, your gonna be sorry!" Howzer shouts. However, takes off running towards the giant rock.

"Why did you tell me that the wolfsbane wouldn't affect her?" A voice says. Griamore and Veronica turn to see a bruised up Caesar, making his way to them.

"We just wanted to test some things out and rule it out," Veronica says.

"Was that all I was? A Test!?" Caesar yells. "I could have lost my life!"

"No, you wouldn't have. She merely just punched you in her power. You're lucky she held back." Veronica says as she and Griamore begin walking away.

"Hey! What about my money, huh!" Caesar shouts. "You said I would get paid as soon as" He's cut off my Griamore throwing a bag of coins at him.

"Now beat it. And don't tell anyone what happened today." Griamore says, glaring at Caesar. He glares at the large man before nodding.

"Pleasure doing business with you," Caesar says before walking away.

Back up on the giant rock, Ban and Meliodas begin their way up onto the ring. Meliodas handing Y/N back her axe. Diane stands up watching the two while Y/N stays crouched down beside King.

"You feeling okay?" She asks. He shakes his head.

"I made a fool of myself. I lost an old man!" King says, frowning before rubbing his red cheek. "And now my cheek hurts."

"You fought, uhm, the best you could!" Y/N says, smiling at him. "As long as you tried your hardest, that's all that matters. Right, Diane?" She looks up to Diane to see her eyes trained on Meliodas.

"I can't wait to see Meliodas fight~," She says, smiling dreamily. Y/N shakes her head before looking back at King.

"She'll agree with me." She pats King on the head, smiling at him. "We all have a role in this team, and we're all good at certain things that another might not be." King blushes slightly, nodding.

"T-Thank you." He says. Y/N smiles at him, holding back a blush.

"That's what being a lieutenant is all about. Helping my comrades." She says before she stands up, King following her. The three sins now watch the fight between Ban and Meliodas, all in anticipation to see who will come out as the victor.

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27/02/2021

Last Updated: 29/09/2023