Greed

**Greed** (グリード, *Gurido*?) is the deuteragonist of the light novel series *Berserk of Gluttony*. Greed is a talking sword who became a companion to Fate.

## Appearance

Greed is an aged sword which appears rusted and greasy. its hilt is shaped almost like a cross.

It commonly presents itself in the story as male, but has mentioned that he has no real gender since he is an inanimate object. His most recent male form is simply his previous wielder, possibly just prior Fate Graphite. His male form has short hair and earrings.

## Personality

Originally a human and a first-generation mortal sin user, he has been with fate since the beginning of Fate's adventure. He is known to be too confident of himself and at the same time acts as a guide for Fate when he fights by giving tips on how to use his different forms. He is a bit too helpful to Fate but at the same time never backs down from making fun of him.

## Background

Greed first appeared when Fate was looking for a weapon to protect himself in the blacksmith with a few coins. Fate found Greed covered in dust and oil in a barrel full of cheap weapons that can break.

## Abilities

Greed is a magical intellectual sword, with the ability to change forms which possess different effects/attributes; said changes requires the consumption of a certain percentage of Status points to unlock further forms, with an ever increasing requirement exponentially to unlock said forms, and use an ultimate attack of said forms.

aside from the magical aspect of greed's change forms, he is an incredibly sharp sword with needing little to no maintenance performed on it.

Greed is able to advise his wielders, given that said wielders possess a skill of Mind Reading or similar to allow communication. Given greed possess an untold length of experiences that at the least puts its age at 4000+ years old, adding to his capabilities as a fighter/support. Said experience also lends itself to his wielders in battle and other affairs, albeit sparingly done so when involving topics that greed considers his past.

* **First Form - Bow -** Shoots energy based arrows when performing the action of drawing the string of the bow. In bow form, adds a homing/never miss capabilities to the arrows shot by greed in aiming at a specific target. Later on, Fate discovers he can fire off magical spells using the bow form to add said homing function on the fired off the spell.
	+ Ultimate technique: **"Bloody Ptarmigan"** - Fires off a larger and stronger version of his regular arrows as a single shot that is reminiscent of a "Laser beam" attack.
* **Second Form - Scythe -** Allows for the interaction of non-physical things with the physical, specifically allows fate to harm/slice magical spells/constructs and disrupt them.
	+ Ultimate Technique: **"Deadly Inferno"** **-** In exchange for 20% of the users stats the blade is infused with a deadly cursed that rots away the targets body and prevents regeneration by striking where the Magic Power is concentrated therefore even capable of killing Immortal beings. Must be used with extreme precision and focus since if the user misses the correct place it will lead to the loss of 20% of the stats used to activate **"Deadly Inferno"**.
* **Third Form - Shield-**
	+ Ultimate Technique: **"Reflection Fortress" -** can be used to reflect back attacks at double the power.

* **Fourth Form - Staff -**
	+ Ultimate Technique: **"Twilight Healing"-** by sacrificing 40% of the user's stats, it can heal any kinds of wounds and disease. However, if the physical damage of the target suffered is too much, the stat cost will be even greater. It also can't be used to resurrect the deceased.

* **Fifth Form - Gauntlets -** Allows user to control up to 10 black threads, one per finger. Can be used for binding and grabbing objects as well as people.
	+ Ultimate Technique: **"Dimension Destruction" -** The threads gain the power to cut through space itself. With an unmatched cutting power, it allows it to shred anything in it's path to dust with precision.

## Trivia

* Greed is the second most powerful ability of the Deadly Sins.