Bab 535: Faces of Envy

Lucien walks towards the pillar of gray light inside his soul and looks at the two weapons inside it, his usual red katana and an all-black copy of it.

Lust doesn't understand what's going on, but Lucien does. He feels with all his body, mind, and soul that it was thanks to Envy that he opened that soul gate.

"The red one represents me, and everything others envy in me..." He comments. "And the black one is everything I envy in others... the two faces of Envy."

"Are you sure about that?" Lust asks.

"Completely." He answers. "This gate could be opened from the moment Envy accepted me; I just didn't know about it before."

Lust is perplexed as nothing makes sense. All they know about those soul gates is that Aylin opened them by accepting her selfish desire for pride, but Lucien opened one because of her and another because of Envy…