The white Feather Pen danced across the rough parchment without making a sound.
To prevent anyone from guessing what was written by watching the Feather Pen's faint movements, it switched languages after every phrase. It might use ordinary Han Script, Latin Script, or Arabic Script; ancient Runic Script, Theban Script, or Mayan Script; rarer forms such as Theban Witch Script or Ogham Script; or even Binary Code made up of zeros and ones.
Friedman did not need to understand everything recorded on the parchment. He only had to think of his "opinion," and the Feather Pen would take care of the rest.
With such effective secrecy measures and the Seven Deadly Sins' considerable reach, Sir Friedman had considered more than once whether to write down his desire to wrest Augustus away from his rival.
But the pride of an Under the Moon Aristocrat and the caution bred in a vampire's castle ultimately made him abandon the idea.
Whatever method the Seven Deadly Sins used—assassinating Sephrano, interfering with the Blood Fellowship's vote, or something else—Friedman would be the ultimate beneficiary. One day, it would come back to haunt him.
As these thoughts crossed his mind, the Feather Pen stopped writing and hopped aside, revealing a short sentence on the parchment:
—6/7. This opinion will continue to accumulate.
The six meant Friedman had accumulated six unredeemed opinions.
The seven was the maximum number of opinions one could accumulate with the Seven Deadly Sins.
Although the Sin Eater was obliged to fulfill the requests put forward by the devils, those requests had limits. The most demanding task the society could take on could involve no more than one Grand Wizard. That applied both to tasks the Sin Eater brought in from outside and to those completed by the Seven Deadly Sins.
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