Sinner's Strings

"What a disgusting weapon"

- Xenovia Sinner's Strings also known as Web of Transgression and Blade of Yarn is a mid-tier weapon-type sacred gear. A very unique demonic-sword sacred gear with the power to feed off of the sins of others. Due to it's wicked nature and the evil nature hidden in the sword, the sacred gear is seen as a direct heresy to the church. Ironically it's wielder is revealed to be one of the descendants of Jesus's apostles, Astra, the descendant of Apostle Peter.

Summary
The exact history regarding this sacred gear is a complete mystery. Not even Michael knew what God was thinking when he created such a evil sacred gear. Due to the evil nature of the sacred gear it has notably infected the minds of many of it's wielders forcing them to go into a blind rage and inevitably feel the urge to kill any supernatural creature in it's way. Because of this desire to kill supernatural creatures Ajuka spectulates that God simply created this sacred gear as a way to remove supernatural creatures from Earth during the Great War.

Because of the unpredictable and chaotic nature of this sacred gear, the church expels anyone who holds this sacred gear, not wanting to take responsibility for any of their actions.

Appearance
Almost like a wolf in sheep's clothing despite the demonic nature of this sacred gear it is revealed to be very beautiful. Taking the form of a jeweled blue handle adorning gold and red gems at the ends. It possesses a very long blade, almost a entire three feet tall that is shown to be sparkling silver. Anytime blood or dirt lands on the blade it immediately dissolves causing the blade to always maintain a clean appearance.

Abilities
The main ability of Sinner's Strings is to eat the sins of anyone the wielder desires. Causing them to completely ignore all the negative desires and ill feelings they may harbor. The wielder can then take all these sins and construct them into strings, strings strong enough to latch onto any opponent forcing them to act as dolls that the wielder can control. The string is shown to be very strong as Rias's power of destruction was only able to push the strings back but not completely destroy them. When the strings latch onto a person the wielder then gains knowledge of the person's abilities and memories. The strings were also shown capable of eating away at Issei's scale mail. Because of the String's durability they can also be used for defensive uses.

Being a demonic sword, Sinner's Strings can also make a very powerful weapon that is capable of harming angels and fallen angels with incredible ease.

Weakness
One of the weaknesses of Sinner's Strings is that the power to eat sins is only as strong as its wielder. For example, if the wielder is weaker than Rizevim, they would be unable to eat away at his sin. Also the strings can be negated with a strong power, for example Ichiro being able to use his soul flames to temporarily negate the strings from taking control of him.

Trivia

 * The Image of Sin Eating is from the character Sin Eater from Marvel Comics.
 * Souji Okita fought against the past wielder with the battle ending in a mutual tie.
 * I was originally going to go with a gauntlet but changed it to a demonic sword.