"Talking about benefits now is all too vague."
The black cat swished its tail. It was not taken in by the grand promises the Sin Eater had painted, and instead looked somewhat worried. "You only talk about the benefits of making me reflect seven times a day. You have not mentioned what will happen to me if the Seven Deadly Sins does something that violates school rules."
The masked wizard reassured the black cat, "Relax. I have been in the Seven Deadly Sins for so long, and I have always been perfectly safe."
"Easy for you to say."
The black cat sniffed disdainfully. "Some people spend four years at university without so much as a scratch, while others have been enrolled for less than a year and have already died more than once..."
"Who died more than once?" The wizard seemed very interested in the black cat's example.
"That is not the point!"
The black cat bristled its whiskers and raised its voice slightly, cutting him off. "The point is that after you leave, I will be the one punished, not you... Just thinking about some day in the future, when I have to sit in an empty office, gnawing on the end of a quill pen and desperately describing how some freak wearing a White Mask forced me to do things harmful to the school..."
"Freak?" The Sin Eater spread his arms and retorted in an exceedingly exaggerated tone, "Merlin above, must you use that word?"
"I can change it to Dark Wizard." The black cat readily accepted the suggestion.
"If you insist on putting it that way," the Sin Eater said, tilting his head, "as the saying goes, if your brain is a lump of shit, then everything you see looks like a lump of shit. Your opinion