I, the Rock King Emperor with 21 billion in power, have joined the chat group.

A chorus of sounds, like the chirping of silk and bamboo instruments, gradually drifted from the surrounding area.

The originally exquisite tea table has been transformed into a bluestone table.

At some point, the melodious sound of tinkling jade pendants began to rise and permeate everyone's hearts.

In this setting, Zhongli gestured for the witch of strong desire, who had suppressed her smile and was now expressionless, to enter.

“Miss Echidna, perhaps you could try our most satisfying Glass Lily Pastry from Liyue, as well as... the Heart-Cleansing Tea, which has a very good calming effect on one’s desires.”

......

"Ha~~~!"

Suddenly straightening up, Natsuki Subaru looked around wearily.

He coughed twice to clear his chest, then propped himself up on his arms to stand up.

Then, his gaze fell upon Accelerator and Sexy Prisoner, who were standing to the side with very serious expressions.

He waved his arm and greeted Accelerator: "Hey, villain, we're fighting side by side again this time."

"Tch! You clueless idiot." Accelerator ignored him, his gaze fixed on the open space outside the Sanctuary. "Don't you sense anything's amiss?"

"Huh??" Natsuki Subaru turned his head and looked around in confusion.

Then he shouted loudly.

"Where's Emilia? Why wasn't it her lap pillow that woke me up?"

Where did she go???

Chapter 45 A Real Man - Natsuki Subaru: Failure?

"No way, could it be that she couldn't handle the temple trial and went insane, running outside?"

Upon realizing this, Natsuki Subaru's previously strained spirits suddenly burst forth.

He ran quickly toward the door, shouting back as he turned, "Hurry, I have to find Emilia quickly, or it will be too late."

"Tch! I never thought this world could be so annoying."

Accelerator spat on the ground and cursed in frustration.

The sexy prisoner next to him shook his head: "Because this is a world with a chaos level of over 60%, I've already thought of all sorts of possibilities."

"You know, even in my world, the chaos level is only 65%."

"In my world, as long as you have a certain strong emotion, you can instantly become an extraordinary monster. And even in such a illogical world, it is only 5% more chaotic than Natsuki Subaru's world."

"Tch~~!" Accelerator yelled again in annoyance, tapping the ground with his toes and quickly catching up with Subaru Natsuki.

Natsuki Subaru was running ahead, so he naturally didn't hear the conversation between the two.

His heart was filled with longing for Emilia, and he ran without regard for anything else.

In less than a minute, he left the interior of the temple and came to the outside world.

Then he saw this surging, all-encompassing black tide.

A chill ran down his spine.

"This...!"

His body trembled, his eyes trembled, and he looked helplessly into the distance, where all the villages had been covered.

There was no sign of life.

Following closely behind him, Accelerator and Sexy Prisoner also cautiously arrived outside the temple.

Then they saw a malevolent body emerge from the endless black ocean.

It was the figure of a graceful woman, with an ominous black veil covering her head and her body shrouded in black mist.

She gently rose from the black ocean and slowly stepped onto the temple grounds.

She walked towards Natsuki Subaru.

Subaru Natsuki's body trembled uncontrollably, unable to move an inch, as if the being before him was his "natural enemy," and his body was completely devoid of any desire to resist.

He didn't even have a way to escape.

"I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you..."

"I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you..."

"I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you..."

"I love you, I love you, I love you..."

The girl in the dark veil kept repeating this sentence.

"Tch~~!" Just as the girl was about to approach Subaru Natsuki, Accelerator's voice suddenly entered his ears.

"Don't stand there like an idiot, not moving an inch. Useless NEET, I thought you were strong enough to be a protagonist, but I didn't expect you to be so pathetic. You're just a useless NEET who can only talk the talk."

As soon as he finished speaking, a dazzling white light suddenly appeared.

The plasma beam that illuminated all darkness evaporated everything in front of it in an instant, not only evaporating the girl with the dark veil, but also creating a huge chasm in the black ocean that was about to engulf everything.

"It's time to go."

The sexy prisoner remained calm and composed, uttering not a single unnecessary word.

He wrapped one arm around Subaru Natsuki's body, then suddenly stomped on the ground and jumped towards the forest in the distance that was not yet covered by the black ocean.

Accelerator followed closely behind, transforming into the child of the storm and soaring into the sky.

"There's another...orc over there!!!"

The sexy prisoner had excellent eyesight; during the jump, he quickly spotted a figure, then abruptly changed his body mid-air and leaped towards the other person.

In less than a minute, the three of them stood in front of the orc—on the roof of a building that was half-submerged.

"Subaru Natsuki?? You're still alive??" The half-orc Jiafeier narrowed her tiger-like eyes.

"I'm still alive??" Natsuki Subaru instantly sensed something was wrong. "What happened? Where are the others? Could it be that the others...?"

"Hmph!" Jiafei snorted coldly, saying expressionlessly, "They were all swallowed by that black thing. Who knew where that black thing appeared out of nowhere and suddenly swallowed the old woman, Roswaal, and your half-elf."

"Lam didn't escape either. As long as I was crouching on the roof at the time, I escaped unharmed."

"Hey, Subaru Natsuki, what are you planning?" The half-orc Garfield narrowed his eyes as he watched the giant girl moving toward the edge of the forest.

Upon hearing his words, Natsuki Subaru knelt down listlessly.

---Dead?? Emilia and Ram are both dead??

---How is that possible?? How is that possible??

--I have made so many preparations, I have made so many preparations, I have even taken everything into consideration.

Why? Why?

Why? Why?

---Think quickly! Think quickly! Think quickly! Think quickly! Think quickly! Think quickly! Think quickly! ......

--A witch? The witch of jealousy, the witch who granted me the blessing of [Return from Death], why has she appeared? Could it be...?

---Could it be...?

Is it because of the "return from death" I mentioned in my dream?

---The jealous witch couldn't enter the greedy witch's tea party, so she couldn't stop me from uttering "Return by Death." However, she could sense that I had uttered "Return by Death," so she appeared outside and kept wandering around?

---this....

Therefore, the greedy witch changed the terms of the contract to: "Secondly, the cycle of reincarnation agreed upon in our contract will become a single cycle."

---Is she waiting for me here? ??

---Echidna!!! !!! !!!

---You can definitely hear me now, right?!

......

Oh dear, oh dear.

[Subaru, what a pity.]

Regardless, the path you hoped for has vanished.

An ethereal voice, carrying a faint, mocking smile, suddenly appeared in Subaru Natsuki's mind.

Emilia is dead. Rem, Roswaal, and all life within the Sanctuary—only Garfield before us has survived.

Unless you use your death reincarnation, none of this can ever be restored to its original state.

The right path you were hoping for has disappeared.

You failed, Subaru Natsuki...

Chapter 46 The Witch's Sophistry (Please subscribe!)

[Should we give up?]

[Should we give up?]

[Should we give up?]

The witch's voice, with its alluring and seductive quality, quietly seeped into Natsuki Subaru's heart.

There's no need to struggle anymore; from now on, leave everything to me.

I will move forward for the world you desire, a world where no one dies and no one is injured.

Subaru, you're tired too.

You can take a short rest now, even if you're just barely holding on.

I will always be there for you in the sunny garden, listening to your troubles and helping you through your difficulties.

You can fall asleep peacefully in the shade of a tree in the afternoon, with your head on my lap.