Seven Crimes and Punishments

"*Come, let's begin.*"
―Rin Avadonia
**Seven Crimes and Punishments** is a song released on February 13, 2015. It was included in an album of the same name. It is the eighth song in the Clockwork Lullaby Series, depicting the seven main characters from the Seven Deadly Sins Series.

## Plot

The servant Rin Avadonia announces they shall now begin; Marchioness Gumina Glassred relates that the seven flowers have been released, her drowning in lust while concealing her ugly true face. King Carlos Marlon then relates that the seven seeds have descended and taken root in the ground. Carlos describes his plans to melt everything, even the world, in his stomach. Prince Alexiel Lucifen d'Autriche regards that from the gems it was built upon, his evil kingdom is now unstoppable. With the vessels of malice released by the cursed twins, the three proclaim that the story that will be drawn will be of seven crimes and punishments.

As the seven winds violate the world with poison, Sleep Princess, the false sin and the main source of everything, laments that she isn't able to sleep today either. In the seven springs, the tailor Gakuga Octo sees the face of the woman he loves, however, other people intefere and he wishes they didn't exist. In the court buried in the soil, Judge Elluka Marlon commands her farce called a trial to be begun. While the three claim everyone wishes for their utopia, they relate the outcome that will be met will be seven crimes and punishments.

Assassin Michelle Octo then asks if the song of the forest can be heard, but remarks it's only her gunshot of destruction before firing at the screen. After the seven again proclaim that the story drawn from the vessels the cursed twins released will be of seven crimes and punishments, they and Hänsel and Gretel sing the Clockwork Lullaby.

## Lyrics

Come, let’s begin

As the seven flowers start to dance

I unleash my sin upon a new day

While my real ugliness is concealed beneath another face

I continue to drown in lust

As the seven seeds start to descend

Spreading their roots deeper under the soft earth

In my stomach, everything, will inside the acid melt away

Even, yes, the entire world

Upon the gems it’s created to be strong

My noble Evil's Kingdom will not be defeated now!

Liberated then, destroying cursed twins

Vessels of malice were emitted through the land

After the end, what kind of tale do you think

Will the sins depict?

The seven crimes and punishments

What is flowing in the seven winds?

It's the poison by which the world is ruined

Sighs the source of everything, "Today too, I couldn't go to sleep"

So laments a simulation of sin…

What's reflected in the seven springs

Are the traces of the loved ones left behind

The reflections on the water's edge, though, are crowding out the one I wish

Now if only these fake faces did not exist…

All rise inside the courtroom buried in soil

Now everybody then, in but a moment this farce of a trial begins!

Everybody had something at their aim

What they each had sought was Utopia

After the end, what kind of result

Will the stories have?

The seven crimes and punishments

Do I start to hear the song of the forest now?

But no, what I hear is the bang sounding off the end

Liberated then, destroying cursed twins

Vessels of malice were emitted through the land

After the end, what kind of tale do you think

Will the sins depict?

The seven crimes and punishments

## Related Songs

### Chrono Story

Seven Crimes and Punishments contains a callback to Hänsel and Gretel watching the Seven Deadly Sins in Chrono Story, as well as alluding to the original forms that each of the sins took upon release; several of the song's lyrics also parallel each other.

### The Lunacy of Lady Glassred

The events of The Lunacy of Lady Glassred are alluded to in the song, showing how Glassred submerged herself in her lust while concealing her real face.

### Evil Food Eater Marlon

The events of Evil Food Eater Marlon are alluded to in the song, showing Carlos's desire to eat everything for the sake of his gluttony.

### The Son of Evil

The events of The Son of Evil are alluded to in the song, depicting how Alexiel's evil kingdom was built on the wealth of his people.

### Gift from the Prince who Brought Sleep

The events of Gift from the Prince who Brought Sleep are alluded to in the song, showing the poisoning of Toragay and Kaspar's wish to go to sleep.

### The Tailor of Enbizaka

The events of The Tailor of Enbizaka are alluded to in the song, narrating how Gakuga perpetrated the murder of an entire family over an obsession with the family patriarch.

### Judgment of Corruption

The events of Judgment of Corruption are alluded to in the song, depicting Elluka's farcical trials carried out by her corrupt court tactics.

### The Muzzle of Michelle

The events of The Muzzle of Michelle are alluded to in the song, showing Michelle in the mask she wore during the Leviantan Civil War.

### Master of the Hellish Yard

Seven Crimes and Punishments alludes to the end of Evillious as seen in Master of the Hellish Yard, Michelle speaking of her gunshot of destruction.

## Appearances

### Characters

* Rin Avadonia
* Carlos Marlon
* Adam Moonlit (indirect mention only)
* Elluka Marlon
* Gretel Twiright
* Cherubim Venomania (appears in PV)
* Hänsel Twiright
* Mei Miroku
* Gakuga Octo
* Mask with a Will (appears in PV)
* Maylo Beelzenia (appears in PV)
* Kai Miroku
* Miku Miroku (indirect mention only)
* Karchess Crim (appears in PV)
* Michelle Octo
* Alexiel Lucifen d'Autriche
* Len Miroku (indirect mention only)
* Gumina Glassred
* Sleep Princess

### Locations

* Asmodean (illusion)
* Beelzenia (illusion)
* Bolganio
* Elphegort (illusion)
* Enbizaka (illusion)
* Gasto (illusion)
* Hellish Yard
* Jakoku (illusion)
* Lasaland (illusion)
* Levianta (illusion)
* Lucifenia (illusion)
* Lucifenian (illusion)
* Lucifenian Royal Palace (illusion)
* Millennium Tree Forest (illusion)
* Onigashima (illusion)
* Parallel Worlds (first appearence)
* Periods
* Third Period
* Toragay (illusion)
* Union State of Evillious (illusion)
* Glassred Mansion (illusion)

### Events

* Dark Star Scandal
* Disappearance of Evil Food Eater Marlon
* Enbizaka Murderer Scandal
* Reign of Evil
* Toragay Epidemic
* Glassred Event

### Groups

* Avadonia Family
* Beelzenian Imperial Family (appears in PV)
* Conchita Family
* Crimson Robed Masses
* Dark Star Bureau
* Glassred Family (appears in PV)
* Greeonio Family (appears in PV)
* Five Dukes
* Behemoth
* Lucifenian Royal Family
* Marlon Family
* Miroku Family
* Moonlit Family
* Octo Family (appears in PV)
* PN
* Sudou Family
* Tasan Party
* Venomania Family
* Glassred Bloodline
* Glassred Harem (appears in PV)

### Misc

* Brainwashing Magic (appears in PV)
* Clockwork Lullaby
* Clockworker's Doll (appears in PV)
* Four Mirrors of Lucifenia (appears in PV)
* Gestures (appears in PV)
* Ghoul Children
* Gift (mentioned only)
* Glass of Marlon (appears in PV)
* Grim the End (appears in PV)
* Humans
* Inheritors
* Irregulars
* Magic
* Magic Abilities
* Magic Tools (appears in PV)
* Marlon Spoon (appears in PV)
* Possession
* Punishment (indirect mention only)
* Spell Songs
* Transformation Magic
* Twin Blades of Levianta (appears in PV)
* Venom Sword (appears in PV)
* Vessels of Sin (appears in PV)

## Trivia

### Conceptualization and Origin

* The song's title is derived from the Seven Deadly Sins featured in the series.
* Despite the anniversary officially being February 28, the song was released on February 13 to coincide with the release of the Seven Crimes and Punishments album crossfade.
* During each singer's segment in the song, a unique instrumental is used along with the standard melody, each resembling one of the instruments used in the corresponding character's Seven Deadly Sins song.
* During the segments for Alexiel and Elluka, the unique sound effects used in their respective Seven Deadly Sins songs can be heard; during Michelle's segment, the gunshot sound effect from The Last Revolver is used.

### Curiosities

* While released to coincide with the Seven Crimes and Punishments album crossfade, the song PV was ominously uploaded on Friday the 13th.
* Like all the songs in the Seven Deadly Sins Series, the song begins with the phrase "さあ" (*Saa*).
* In the Clockwork Lullaby album, Meta Clockworker predicts that Behemo Barisol will be the one to destroy the world as Michelle.