I, the little cat, am a substitute for others who are starving and thin

"I thought you were an enviable couple, but it turns out you're not even close. I've been trying so hard to suppress the urge to kill you."

"What…what are you talking about?"

Natsuki Subaru was stunned.

Lei grinned maliciously. "You're one of us, aren't you? You've been hiding your name because you know our power, right? That's why you sent that little girl running that way."

"Little girl? Petra..."

Natsuki Subaru looked in the direction where he had just asked Petra to run, and had a bad feeling.

Because the 'strongest' in his eyes was in that mansion, he had Petra run there.

What's there?

He didn't want to know, he didn't want to know at all. But this world was very cruel, and the truth that he didn't want to know was the more it wanted to be revealed to him.

It was a giant wolf-like monster. Even the tigers in the zoo in the previous world were only half its size.

The problem was, it came from the direction of Petra's escape, and its mouth was a bloody mess...

"What? It's done already? We didn't ask you to come over."

Lei looked at the giant wolf, but stretched out his hand towards Natsuki Subaru.

One of the abilities of the Gluttonous Witch Factor is that it can control monsters to attack designated places. This is why the Witch Cult occasionally acts together with monsters. Because the little girl is not considered a "delicious" by it, it doesn't matter if she runs away or dies.

The pieces of meat in the monster's mouth fell to the ground, carrying with them fragments of what looked like bones. This was undoubtedly a huge shock to Natsuki Subaru, whose willpower was not particularly strong.

"Ah-ah!"

Having realized something cruel, Natsuki Subaru collapsed and covered his head with his hands, ugly tears sliding down the corners of his eyes.

He wanted to save the child!

He just wanted to save the child!

Why is this happening?

As his willpower collapsed, the restraints on his body were released again, and the severe pain from being kicked in the abdomen continued to torment him.

The severe pain in his body and the mental shock made him unable to bear it any longer. The last scene he saw before he fell into coma was the giant wolf slowly walking towards him.

The 'ability to not get hurt' wasn't permanent, which was great. At least there was still a chance... This was his last thought before he lost consciousness.

"Hey?"

Only after Natsuki Subaru fell unconscious did Lei realize something was amiss. The wolf had collapsed weakly, and the pieces of flesh that kept falling out weren't from any external objects. Wasn't it just the skin of its mouth that couldn't hold the broken flesh?

Even the broken bones were its own teeth, as if they were hit directly in the mouth by a huge force, making it look pitiful.

Lei looked up toward the end of the forest path.

【ゴゴゴゴゴ——】

There was something there that was hard to describe, and he found it difficult to describe his feelings. The witch factor in his body kept jumping, as if urging him to escape from here.

His brother Roy had already run over there... His brother Roy was probably dead.

Despite such a tragic event, he couldn't find the space to grieve. It was as if every cell in his body, driven by the witch factor, was urging him to flee. This was no longer about his own emotions and feelings. It was like a self-defeating solar eclipse had been cast, and he was overwhelmed by the existence of "escaping from this place at all costs."

"..."

……

"right here!"

When Petra ran over with Imi, who was holding a spear and covered in blood, Lei was no longer there. There were only two people who were in a miserable state and had fallen into coma, and a dying Warcraft wolf.

"Well?"

Yimi looked down at Rem. Having just eaten some "evil food", she could of course see that Rem was now an empty shell that had lost her memory and name.

She bent down and stretched out her claws towards Rem, diverting the misfortune away.

-

At the same time, somewhere, the mind of the Angry Sin Archbishop suddenly went blank, and—

"who are you?"

The girl, who had a tense expression just now, relaxed for a moment and looked blankly at the white-haired young man in front of her.

Of course, she wouldn't remember that this young man was her 'husband' just a second ago, but she... and the dozens of other women who were his wives didn't want to stay with him.

"Huh? Didn't I tell you not to have that expression on your face?"

In anger, Archbishop Regulus of Greed almost threw a handful of sand to kill his wife on the spot, but then he noticed that the other "wives" all looked at him with the same blank expression and a hint of vigilance.

Regulus looked down at the teeth marks on his hand, the word "rage" almost written on his face.

I knew it was that guy who did it, let’s kill him now!

21

Chapter 21 That's all.

"Cough cough!"

He was beaten so badly that he was almost stepped on by the opponent's dirty feet.

"Petra!"

After reading out the name of the little girl whom he only knew as Yichitian, Natsuki Subaru opened his eyes with difficulty, trying to use his fuzzy brain to think about where the save point was this time, but the rooms he saw were not the layout of the one he lived in. His room had been shot through by Yimi.

No return?

Natsuki Subaru's heart sank, but he did not see the bruised and battered face he had expected in the mirror.

When I opened the door of the room, the first thing I saw was naturally the destroyed corridor. Ram was cleaning the garbage on the ground with a broom, most of which were the remains of monsters. The air was filled with a bloody smell.

There were two little girls squatting at her feet, one of them was Petra, who Natsuki Subaru thought was killed, and the other one had her tail shaking behind her butt.

"The village chief said that the meat of many monsters cannot be eaten."

Petra's eyes followed the tail behind Yimi's butt swaying from side to side.

"You can eat it after cooking it. This one needs to be turned over."

Yimi reached out and pushed the rhino-like giant in front of him, but it didn't move.

There were so many monsters, and Yimi, who wanted to eat cooked food, couldn't eat them all, so she cut off a piece of each that she thought would be delicious.

She summoned the World and realized that it was relatively small compared to this thing. While the World wasn't a giant, its strength was enough to lift the rhino in front of it without using leverage.

Petra gave her some advice: "Take that stone and put it here, then use a stick and you should be able to pry it up."

"Ah."

Yimi controlled the stand-in to do as she said, and successfully turned the rhino over.

so amazing!

"Congratulations to the host for unlocking the achievement [Hakimed], rewarded with 5% portal energy."

The ninth achievement!

Yimi looked at the clever Petra and patted her on the shoulder: "From now on, you will be Green Bug No. 2."

"I always feel that this is such a disgusting name..."

Natsuki Subaru ran out, leaned his back against the pillar, rubbed his back and slowly slid down and sat on the ground.

"you're awake."

"Rem? Are you okay?"

Natsuki Subaru turned around and saw Rem wiping her hair.

"What happened?"

"Hair? It was just a sacrifice I made while bathing Imi-sama. I thought you didn't need to get yourself wet when bathing a child. Rem didn't consider that."

As soon as Yimi was put into the water, even at a very low water level, she would start floundering around like she was drowning, splashing everywhere. Because the bathtub was too big, she might even run around. If Beatrice hadn't come to help her catch her, she wouldn't have been able to wash properly.

"Has that witch cult member been killed?"

Not counting the time of reincarnation, he has been in this world for less than a week, but he has already experienced so many life and death. Is this world actually dangerous and bad?

Rem shook her head. "Master Yimi said he escaped. Master Yimi is truly more powerful than he looks."

She looked at Natsuki Subaru's face again and paused. "I have to thank Lady Emilia very much. 486's injuries are extremely difficult to treat. She has fallen asleep from exhaustion."

Because she noticed something abnormal about Natsuki Subaru, Yimi did not help him transfer his injuries.

"hurt?"

Subaru Natsuki only remembered that he was beaten up by that weirdo. Although his face was bruised and his abdomen was in pain, it should not be a serious injury. It was probably because of the strange state that seemed to be fixed that Emilia's magic could not work properly.

He turned away awkwardly: "I'm sorry."

"Why apologize?"

Rem paused in sweeping the floor.

Natsuki Subaru turned his head and whispered, "I just embarrassed myself by trying to be cool in front of a girl. I thought I finally had a chance to become a hero..."

In fact, the real reason was even more difficult to explain. If he hadn't been mentally shocked by the "bad news" about Petra, he would have almost given up to save himself and Rem. It was not worth it to be beaten for unknown reasons.

"Weird idea."

Rem stopped sweeping the floor and walked in a certain direction. "Thank you."

Although it still exudes that disgusting stench, it may be a self-torture tactic to get close to Lord Roswaal. After all, it was not seriously injured after being beaten, but it is worth waiting and observing for a longer period of time.

"..."

Natsuki Subaru tilted his eyes to the side and thought for a while.

He was recalling what Lei had said before, 'I've been trying to hold back the urge to kill you'.

It really is nonsense. Why would someone who doesn't seem to know Rem at all talk nonsense like this?

Roswaal had just flown away before this. Could it be that he had known that this place would be invaded?

"Buzzing..."

"Xiaobai, please wait a moment."

While thinking, Natsuki Subaru saw Rem pouring the broken garbage she had just cleaned up in front of a sweeping machine to feed it.

"Wait, what is this?!"

"Master Yimi's pet, a child who is not picky about food and is always looking for food."

Rem answered.

"I've known you for two days and you suddenly took out this 'pet'?"

Noticing that Natsuki Subaru had woken up, Yimi ran over with her legs moving, then put on the faulty stethoscope she had borrowed from Eirin and put it against Natsuki Subaru's belly and pretended to listen.

Natsuki Subaru looked down at her ear and said, "I don't know where to start complaining about these weird things you keep bringing out. Why don't you just take out a pistol?"

Yimi put down the stethoscope, looked up at Natsuki Subaru with a stern face and said, "You are sick."

"?"

She did not have any special sensitivity to Kaguya's Eternal Power. If she was sensitive, so many geniuses would not have discovered it. However, when Natsuki Subaru was moved here, he looked like he was frozen. It was only after Beatrice reminded Imi that she remembered that there was such a thing as a tail.

After all, Beatrice can also use some magic to freeze objects in time, so she can still see the condition of Natsuki Subaru.

Kaguya's Eternal Power can immobilize an object, rendering it indestructible from that point on. It's a powerful force in all of Gensokyo. However, when applied to Imi, and then transferred to her tail by the Love Train, the effect felt intermittent.

She raised her hand and explained to Natsuki Subaru: "Before, the tail was stiff, then it moved away, and it became you who was stiff."

"..."

It was a very simple explanation, and I couldn't understand the details at all, but combined with the abnormality in his own body, Natsuki Subaru could roughly figure out that this ability that was beyond his control was caused by this little cat?

Yimi's eyes drifted guiltily: "I'll help you move out."

After all, he is a companion who was persecuted by Diego together, so we should be nicer to him.

"Does transfer mean helping me get well?"

Natsuki Subaru looked down at the palm of his hand.