"What about the rent?"
"I'll... I'll work hard and pay it back later!"
Shirou: "Can you work in your current state? If you worked in the service industry, you'd get complained about to death by the customers!"
Metatron (Sloth): "O-Online part-time work... or something? Oh, right, stocks and foreign exchange! I heard those make a lot of money!
"There must be some kind of job even I can do... right?"
Shirou ignored the girl's nonsense and yanked her to her feet.
"You're an archangel who presides over 'Sloth,' yet you can't do anything at all.
"So, as a completely hopeless member of society like you, why not just give up resisting—fall with me?"
The girl bit her lip. "Mmph... Even if you stare at me with those eyes, no means no..."
"What if I said you could use the Kotatsu in my house whenever you wanted from now on?"
"Deal."
Shirou nodded. "Yeah, deal."
The red-haired boy and the angel girl clasped hands in silent understanding.
"..."
The archangel's lightning-fast change of attitude was astonishing. Jeanne d'Arc and Lady Avalon were both left speechless. Does that count as conquering Sloth?
Actually... were those two unusually compatible?
Come to think of it, Shirou might be the person in the world most capable of tolerating someone like her.
Metatron (Sloth) suddenly realized: rather than letting him continue being slothful, a diligent Shirou would be much more useful to her, wouldn't he?
The thought gave her a tiny bit of motivation, but it soon vanished without a trace.
Ah—I'm exhausted... I'll reward myself by going back to my room and lying down for a while~
Metatron tiptoed away, preparing to make her escape, but someone grabbed her wrist.
"The war council is about to begin, Miss Metatron. Where are you going?"
"T-To the