Chapter 27

Lucifer pushes Seven in front of him. He's brought the prisoner into the catacombs, and down there the marble floor is shiny and slippery. The walls of the long corridor are decorated with mosaics, deep cracks run through the colorful tiles. The message that was once clearly written in beautiful images along the walls are now worn and almost impossible to decipher. It smells stagnant and rank, like decomposed soil. He repeats the mosaics message quietly to himself.

For if you confess with your mouth that Lucifer is your master, and in your heart believe that he is your salvation— then you shall be saved.

"Keep walking," Lucifer sneers.

"You won't hurt them. I will never forgive you if you hurt my family," Seven says in a threating but sincere tone.

"Do you think I care about your lame threats?" Lucifer hisses, pushing him harder in the back.

Seven stumbles but manages to stay on his feet. He turns around and tackles his father, who f