A/N

Credit 1: Nanatsu no taizai belongs to Nakaba Suzuki

Credit 2: this AU is made by Studioellin on Tumblr, she's also the one that made the artwork for the cover image of this book.

She's amazing you should really check her out!

My version of the story will obviously differ a big from Studioellin's exact version.

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Third person POV—

A battle between blood.

Father and son.

Crown prince and king.

Had just been decided.

Meliodas, the crown prince of the demons had fulfilled his promise.

A promise to cut down the demon king, his own father, and take his place as demon king, so that he could make up for the mistakes that his father had made, and then turn demon realm into a peaceful realm.

That promise is what had drawn his younger brother Zeldris to join forces with him, along with the majority of all other demons.

As Elizabeth had once said, no one really wanted this war...

But the only people who had been on top of this mountain this fateful day was Meliodas, the demon king, and Meliodas's lover, Elizabeth...

Of the three...only one was left alive...

That being Meliodas...

He could barely remember the last stretch of the battle, the moment Elizabeth hit the ground, bloodied and broken, he had completely lost it.

Now his father laid on the ground, unmoving. Dead.

Meliodas had won.

But no wonder he didn't feel like a winner.

"Please...not like this..." Meliodas whispered softly had he held onto Elizabeth's body for dear life, as if she'd disappear if he loosened his grip on her.

"Elizabeth ...please..." he begged hopelessly.

He already knew...she had been dead before she even hit the ground.

Elizabeth has been the one who had encouraged all of this.

Asking him to not betray his family and his entire clan just for her.

"You know once the demon king is dead they'll need a new leader"

"I am 0% interested"

That is how part of their conversation had went.

And truly, Meliodas did not wish to be king.

All he wanted was to live out his life somewhere with Elizabeth.

But with Elizabeth gone...that dream was now no longer a possibility.

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—1 month later—

Meliodas's POV-

I stood on my balcony high above the ground, looking down at the land below me.

So high up...

It would be so easy to just end it all right here.

Just to see her smiling face again...

"..." I let that dwell in my minx for a while.

Then I let out a broken and fake laugh.

No...she wouldn't smile at me if I did that...

"She would probably smack me with an ark and proceed to call me an idiot" I whispered to myself.

"I have a responsibility" I said lifting my head to look out onto the kingdom I was now in charge of, as their new king.

I'm suppose to stand tall and face the hardship when they're not able to.

The smallest of smiles came upon my face at that time.

"I'll see you again...someday" I whispered, hoping my voice could reach her..."

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(This is only the prologue which is why it's so short.

I swear the actual chapters will be longer)