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Berserk of Gluttony (LN) - Volume 3 - Chapter 30




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Chapter 30:

The Truth Approaches 

I STARED AT NORTHERN’S severed corpse as a familiar metallic voice announced my victory. 

Gluttony Skill activated. Stats increased: Vitality +2.00e8, Strength +1.80e8, Magic +2.10e8, Spirit +2.40e8, Agility +1.40e8. 

Huh, I thought. This is what stats in the Domain of E look like. But…Northern doesn’t have any skills? 

The world went hazy as Gluttony erupted into ecstasy. As I fell into the familiar black, I couldn’t help but feel there was something strange about Northern Alistair, even in his death. 

When I came to, I stood in a space of pure white. I recollected only that I had been here once before. I tried to remember when, but I couldn’t seem to grasp it. The world was just white as far as I could see. 

As I tried to sort through my memories, a girl suddenly appeared before me. The girl was also white, dressed in white, with white hair—identically white to the world around her. It was as though she were part of it. 

She looked at me, and she sighed. “I told you not to be so reckless… I’m about to hit my limit.” 

The girl pointed to the ground at her feet, and underneath, I faintly made out a darkness. In that darkness lay a countless number of creatures—deformed, wounded, groaning in malice and hatred. I knew instinctively that this darkness was a place of overwhelming fear, and in that moment, I remembered. I had seen this place in my dream. I remembered the girl too. 

“You’re…the girl in the core of Haniel…” 

“That’s right,” she said, breaking into a smile. “I’m glad we finally have a chance to properly talk. I’m Luna, and I have to thank you.” 

I tilted my head, confused. “Thank me?” 

“I want to thank you,” Luna said, looking at me with sincerity, “for killing me.” 

I had no words. I didn’t have any idea how to reply. Our battle had haunted me ever since I left it. I had been uncertain whether I had really done the right thing by ending her life, monstrous as it had become. I wasn’t sure of anything anymore—only that I wanted to protect Lady Roxy. Was it okay to be glad that I’d killed someone? 

“Don’t look like that,” Luna said. “I’m happy, honestly. I’m happy things ended as they did.” 

“But I…I just…I can’t say I’m happy that it happened.” 

“A bit stubborn, aren’t you? Even having heard what I think. Although, given what I’ve witnessed of you and your actions from in here, I can’t say I didn’t see that coming.” 

Luna said this with a slight smile, as though she knew all about me already. As though we were friends of some sort. I felt a bit like she’d invaded my privacy. Her speaking so openly about my innermost emotions, and her straightforward manner…more than anything, she reminded me of Myne. Her face, too, looked somehow similar to Myne’s. 

“But really,” Luna continued, “I’m happy. Satisfied, too. Thanks to you, I also got to see my big sister again.” 

“Big sister?! Wait—you and Myne are sisters?” Well, that explains the similarities . 

Luna giggled at the startled look on my face. “It’s not what you’re thinking.” 

“Huh? What do you mean?” I tilted my head. 

I couldn’t work it out. If she hadn’t meant they were sisters, then what in the world did she mean? But it didn’t look like Luna was about to tell me any more than she had. Mysteriousness seemed to be a Galian trait all around. 

“Anyway, aren’t there more important things you want to ask me about?” Luna said, gesturing to the world of white that surrounded us. 

“Oh. Yeah. What is this place?” 

“Well, I suppose you can think of it as a spiritual plane where Gluttony deposits the souls of those it devours. I used my power to create this quiet part.” 

“Hm…” 

“You don’t get it, do you? I can see confusion written all over your face! You’re going to hurt yourself thinking so hard. Well, just so you know, the whole reason your Gluttony has had a harder time breaking free and running wild lately is because I created this space for you. Now do you get it?” 

Whoa… 

When I thought back, it was true that ever since I had devoured Haniel’s soul, Gluttony had been oddly quiet. Even though I’d worked diligently to control the hunger through training, something about the suddenness of the change had struck me as strange. Now, I finally had an explanation. 

In all my wondering, I never could have imagined that a soul I devoured would protect me. 

“But why have you done all this?” I asked. 

“I already told you,” Luna said. “I’m grateful you killed me. This is my way of saying thanks. However…I can’t hold on much longer. It looks like I can’t be your bastion.” 

Luna stared sadly at the world she had created, her clear white eyes turning a bright red, just as they had been stained when I’d first seen her. As that crimson leaked in, her world began tearing apart at its edges. 


“You shouldn’t devour the Divine Dragon,” she said. “If you do, my power can no longer help you. You will become something other than what you are now. It’s inevitable.” 

No matter what it cost me, I knew that I couldn’t stop. I had to ask Luna how to get out of this plane, back into the world. But as I began to do so, the white ground split around my feet, and holes opened into the darkness below. 

“Whoa!” 

Just as I was about to fall into the dark pit, crowded with the howling souls of the damned, a hand reached out and grabbed me. It belonged to a man I’d never seen before. He was tall, a bit handsome, and he looked older than me. He sported a striking head of red hair and a set of Galian tattoos. 

“Jeez,” the man said with an arrogant air as he hoisted me back up. “I wondered why you weren’t replying. You’ve just been hanging out in here, huh? You know there’s only so much I can do on my own, right? The Divine Dragon’s about to break loose.” 

“Wait,” I said, still disoriented from meeting Luna, from the fall, from everything . “I know that voice. You’re not—Greed?!” 

“The one and only! This is my temporal form. But don’t go thanking me as your savior just yet—thank Luna. She’s the one who called me here.” 

Greed gestured to Luna, and a flash of annoyance crossed his face. I wondered whether he and Luna knew each other; he didn’t look like he wanted to be here much longer. 

Still, I’d only ever known Greed as a weapon. It was refreshing to see him in a form with visible expressions, and I took a moment to study him. 

 

“Hey,” Greed said, crossing his arms. “Didn’t anyone ever tell you it’s rude to stare?” 

“Wait, Greed, did you…did you used to be human…?” 

“Does that even matter right now? C’mon. Let’s go, Fate. We’re running out of time.” 

He was right. And it looked like Greed knew how to get me out of here. 

“Greed, I need your help.” 

“Of course you do,” he snorted. “That’s the whole reason I’m down here.” 

I turned to Luna. “I have to defeat it. The Divine Dragon. Now that it’s lost its master, I can’t just let it go.” 

Luna remained silent, but after a moment, she nodded. 

Greed reached out a hand, and I grasped it with my own. The two of us were wrapped in light, and… 

When I came to, I was back on the battlefield in Galia. In my right hand, I clasped the black sword. 

“We’re back…” I muttered. 

“Of course we are,” Greed said dismissively. His voice had returned to the imperious echo I accessed through Telepathy. “And look at all the trouble I had to go to just to get you!” 

“I’m sorry.” 

The light crosses still trapped the Divine Dragon in the air, but the bindings were growing thin, and they looked near the breaking point. It was just a matter of time before they failed. 

I looked down at Northern’s corpse. Even though I’d devoured his soul, I’d gained nothing but his stats. Why hadn’t I received any skills? It shouldn’t have mattered that he bore a Skill of Mortal Sin, should it? 

“He was just a puppet,” said Greed, reading my thoughts. “The real culprit was Envy. I never would have imagined Envy was equipped with that kind of ability. The ability to control people… But I guess it comes with the territory, when I think about it.” 

“If that’s the case, we can’t just leave Envy like this.” I raised the black sword high, preparing to shatter the black gunblade. 

“It’s useless,” Greed said, stopping me before I struck. “Don’t bother. Weapons of Mortal Sin are indestructible. We can’t be broken, even by our kin.” 

“But it’s only going to be a nuisance if we leave it here.” 

Instead of trying to break Envy, I swung the black sword like a club and sent the gunblade flying deep into the depths of the Galian region. I figured Envy would have a hard time finding another human puppet out that far in the wilderness, and any monsters it tried to control would be killed on sight in Seifort. 

The gunblade quickly disappeared from view. 

“That, uh, that went much farther than I expected,” I said. 

Greed cackled. “Oh man, I can just picture it! Envy flying through the air all vexed. Completely humiliated! Marvelous work, Fate. Splendid!” 

As if cued by his glee, the cross binding overhead broke. The light flared, then snapped as the dragon launched itself back into the sky. It was time to deal with the Divine Dragon. 

Now that it had lost its master, the monster was crazed with rage. It lashed out at anything around it. If I left it as it was, there was every chance that, in its madness, it would turn toward Babylon and attack at full force. 

“Let’s do this, Greed!” I shouted. 

It was time to go wild one last time. I would use all the power I had to take this ruler of the skies and bring it down to earth. 

In that moment, I felt an odd sensation, like I could achieve anything I wanted. 



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