"...I brought the souls of some soldiers from the Soviet Union to Hell." Lucifer tilted his head slightly back and said in a low voice, "I swear I didn't torture them. I just... I just wanted Anatoly to..."
Greed stared at him blankly, then shoved him hard against the wall and said without looking back, "You're hopeless. Get lost."
"Wait!" Lucifer hurriedly grabbed him. "You know what I'm like. Back then, he kept saying the Soviet Union was gone, so I..."
Greed turned back to look at him and said, "Do you know how those soldiers died? Leningrad? Kursk? Or Stalingrad?"
"Of course. It's just that I didn't understand at the time. You have to understand, I'm God's son, but I don't even believe in God. Do you really expect me to understand human faith?"
Greed was speechless for a moment, because he realized that did actually seem to be the case. The reason Lucifer's Pride was the heaviest of the original sins was precisely because that Pride meant "not believing in God."
He was God's biological son, and the First Light God had created. Aside from wanting to control his destiny, God had truly treated him beyond reproach. If even like that, he still did not believe in God, then it really was unreasonable to expect him to understand that some people believed in things.
"Then you understood later?"
"I didn't plan to understand." Lucifer touched his face. "But those Soviets were too good at fighting."
Greed could not help laughing, because he suddenly realized that there was no way Lucifer would have seized only one or two soldiers' souls. If he was going to take them, he would definitely take them by whole units. And Anatoly just so happened to be an officer. He had already been angry