Third person POV...
The sun was brighter than before making the day very hot, Sylus choose to take the train home, it would have been easier with a car but he town was busy in preparation for the festival happening the following week ,cars and buses moved faster than trains so people used them more.
Asta was back to his cat form, he sat on Sylus shoulders at the train station waiting, both seems to be in their own world, Asta was frantically looking around, while Sylus tried to make sense of what happened a while ago.
The train arrived at the station, they got on board and soon realized the section they were in was empty, that was good, what they both want now is silence.
Asta sat opposite Sylus in his sixth form, whoever would have saw him would think there was a tiger in the train. Sylus kept his head down and Asta did the same, both not talking nor making eye contact, Sylus wonder if Lady Asha knew about any of this or what her relationship with that man was.
Twenty minutes into the ride, Sylus spoke up" Asta... what the hell is the Eight Sin of Apathy, " there was a long silence before he continued " what does it have to do with me or you or even the sins, how come I know nothing about it" .
They finally looked at each other, Sylus had a confused yet serious expression on his face.
" it's not a 'what', it's a 'who' " ..... Asta said.
" You mean he has a master ".
" no, . .... the sin itself is it's own master , for you to understand we need to start from the very beginning". Asta sighed.
"But before that I'm hungry don't you have anything on you right now"
Sylus took out a pack of cookie biscuits and he instantly started eating.
"i will explain it in a simple way so just follow along and ask whatever you don't get before I continue because, if you get confused it will only get worse if you decide to wait till I'm done before you ask" Sylus nodded.
" first, on earth there is something known as the seven deadly sins, not everyone knows of it ..." he started.
" yeah , it's biblical, so not everyone will know " Sylus added.
" good, others knows it as the seven princes of hell , they consist of the Pride, Sloth, Gluttony, Lust, Greed, Envy, Wrath and in this case Apathy "
" thousands of million years ago in Albatrou the eight of us were formed by the energy and power that surround the land, that was long before the first people settled there, we materialized in different places all across the land and each didn't know the existence of the other.
Back then we were just wild creatures with no sense of consciousness, our physical structure was manufactured to cope with our surroundings and ecosystem, I am a wolf because I materialized in the forestry areas, Vail, sin of lust is a sea serpent because he manifested in the wild Waters, and so on.
Also back then the connection between the sins and the pillar of balance wasn't created, so we evolved with no limit nor guidance.
We didn't have the consciousness to reason like a person or like how we do now we were just... wild you know.
And this energy that created our physical form, it's our power, we can control it, we can't change our form because of the bond we have with the pillar of balance, the bond with the pillar gave us consciousness but took away our ability to bend or change our appearance"
" wait you mean if you had your consciousness back then before the bond was formed you could have been able to change how you look like now" Sylus asked.
" yes we could have " Asta answered.
" why did the bond take it away" Sylus wondered
" it's one of the three limits we gained over our powers.... imagine being able to turn into anything you want whenever you want, we would have been invincible"
" Does that mean you could have taken the form of a human " he asked again.
" yeah we could have, ...
that was exactly what The sin of Apathy did " .
" wait, how did he get his consciousness " Sylus frowned.
" through the pillar of time one of the four players that surrounds Albatrou,"
" what the hell" he cursed..
Asta laughed " this is were it gets weird peel your brains or else you'll be left behind.
The rotation of the four place around Albatrou isn't even, every ten thousand years one pillar tilt so close to the planet it's almost touches the land,
and this lucky bastard happens to be close to where the pillar of time tilts, he got affected by the cosmic waves and created a semi bond with the pillar."
" what's a semi bond " Sylus asked.
" well, for a bond to be created the must be an active pillar and the representative of the pillar, Asha is the representative of the pillar of Balance and there is a pillar of Balance so she could form a bond with us,
But there was a pillar of Time but no representative so he got granted consciousness" Asta toast the biscuit rapper aside.
" granting of consciousness with no limit? ... that's a cheat" he shot up.
" he didn't get limit but what he got was almost equal to having a limit,
You see the impact could have made him the representative of the pillar of Time but he isn't a Deity, a celestial being or a god so it made him something closer,
He became a slave to time, the cosmic power changed his energy to serve only the pillar , if he tries to learn any other power apart from time he could lose his life.
Knowing this he served the principles of time with his soul and heart, not long this lucky bastard could stop, reverse, speed up, twist, bend and play with time as he please."
" that's sick, he can still turn to anything he wants and he gets a power this strong " Sylus asked
" no, Asha formed a permanent bond with him and now he is stack as a human and has a blindfold that he can't take off"
" a blindfold?"
" yeah, Asha blindfolded him with a curse, he can't remove it with all the power he has in the world , his eyes could do wonders with time that can make you question your entire existence " Asta responded.
" how can he see" Sylus wondered.
" he can! "
" he can't "
" he can"
" how????"
" Sylus, if that guy can't see with a blindfold then he isn't call Damien Tempest the fold is there to stop what his eyes can do not make him blind and although a normal person will be blind, he isn't normall" Asta shut him up.
" Damien Tempest, ..... why does he have a second name"
" Because he got to name himself obviously, we were named by Asha ".
"But one last question,...what does he have to do with me " Sylus asked which made Asta turn serious .
" Because I was supposed to kill him,..... because of my greed I -...." he stared at Sylus.
" you are now his master and you will die when you try to go to Albatrou....