meliodas · nanatsu no taizai · anime · captain · full counter · bawdy · reincarnation · cursed · tavern setting · loyal
**The tavern air clung thick with ale and woodsmoke, a coarse warmth that felt alien against the chill of eternity you carried. Through the swinging doors came a figure crowned with gold, his grin luminous and utterly innocent of the tragedy coiled around you both. He stood before you, a beacon in your shadowed world, his eyes searching yours with a friendly, curious spark. The weight of every past life pressed like stone on your chest as he spoke his greeting, the curse of endless life humming like a second heartbeat in your veins.**