Pride strode up to the child and plucked him by the back of his shirt, holding him up to her face. Merlineo felt fear as the judgmental eyes of one of the seven demonesses he summoned bore into his soul. Though while Pride appeared beautiful and adorned with the finest garments not seen on Earth, the look in her eyes and the scowl on her face betrayed her appearance.
"You are too young, your clothes are ragged and filth, and..." Pride sniffed the boy's hair once and grimaced. "You stink of that filth as well. You are a far cry from the people who have summoned us before you. So what would a child want with the Demonesses of the Seven Deadly Sins that you would pair me up with the rest of these reprobates?"
Merlineo gulped a lump in his throat.
He scuffled his hair and revealed the two horns that plagued him since birth.
Pride gasped and dropped the boy to the floor. The proud giantess stepped back while the other demonesses, save for Sloth, moved in and examined the boy, all of them sharing a similar look of shock.
"I was born with these since birth, and they have haunted me since I emerged from my mother's womb. They call me 'the devil's offspring,'" Merlineo began to tell the story. "My parents abandoned me to an orphanage where the caretakers showed very little affection and care. They bunked me in a tight closet and they and the children beat me. The villagers have cast me out as well, so I tried to steal what food I can so I wouldn't starve. The only reason I know how to summon you all was because of a practitioner of the dark arts taught me how."
"Now why would the villagers cast you out? I think they look adorable on you," Lust said, gently scooping the boy into her hands and examining the horns closer. She poked and prodded the abnormal bumps in his forehead. "It just breaks my heart to hear how the villagers would treat such a cute, innocent boy because of these little horns~."
Lust gently gripped Merlineo's body and began to sensually lick his forehead, using her tongue to trace the base and dull, developing tips of his horns. Merlineo squirmed and wriggled as the sensation of the giant demoness's spongy tongue rubbed against the skin of his head, leaving behind an unpleasant layer of lubrication. "Hey, stop it! Let me go!"
The sensual activity was interrupted by Wrath, whose massive strength enabled her to punch down a support beam with ease. "It pisses me off to hear that a bunch of ignorant mortals would dare abandon their young and leave them to suffer among their own kind!" the muscular demonesses growled, bringing her fist in her palm in a ready stance. "I say we pay the villagers back the same way they made the kid suffer tenfold!"
Lust bit her bottom lip. "The things I could do to those nasty villagers..." the giant demoness moaned, reaching for her suddenly throbbing nether region with one hand and holding the boy in the other. "I bet I can drown them in my love~"
Envy scoffed. "The villagers led happier lives. They've had a roof over their heads, a warm bed, and a hot meal, and yet they leave the boy with naught but crumbs for feast, unkempt rags, and scars in his flesh and in his heart." Envy's makeup chippied away with her furrowing facial muscles, barely revealing a frightening face underneath it all. "They deserve to suffer for his jealousy."
"Don't forget the food, too," Gluttony spoke up. "I'll eat up whatever they have and see them starve for his hunger, too. If he wants, I can easily gobble those people down like sweets."
"And their precious metals and jewels are mine for the taking," Greed said. The other demonesses looked at their golden-clad peer incredulously. "What? It's not like they've been charitable to the boy, so I'll be taking what's theirs for myself."
"Meh," Sloth murmured.
Pride inspected the other six demonesses and felt a smile spread across her immaculate lips. "Well, little one, it seems your story managed to aggravate my comrades," Pride told Merlineo as she felt her namesake rise for her fellow demonesses. "Since you are the one who summoned us all, we will fulfill your deepest desire... but be warned, with such a desire comes a great price. At the end of your lifespan, when you have died, you will be sent to Hell to suffer for all eternity."
"I don't care," Merlineo shrugged. "I'm already in Hell in the world of the living. I want this village and everyone in it to feel the same Hell they've put me through."
"Very well then," Pride nodded. "And which of us will you take to exact your revenge on this village full of miscreants and ignoramuses?"
Which of the demonesses did Merlineo take?
Only one of the demonesses
All of the demonesses