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

Meili lay on the ground, looking up at Ram. "Let Petra accompany me sometimes. She is the first friend I made here."

That little girl who betrayed her!

"If she wants to."

Ram took the earth dragon doll away and closed the door.

Let Rem sew it. Although she can do some simple sewing, she is basically not as good as Rem in all aspects of housework.

Ram leaves.

This should be a good opportunity to escape from prison, right?

Mary lay down beside the door and carefully observed the door that she had not looked at properly in the past few days. It was definitely not something that a little girl like her could destroy with brute force.

The mission failed, Elsa is still dead, and after getting out, she will have to face the danger of being killed by her "mother". It seems unnecessary no matter how you look at it.

As an empty shell with no social connections, her personality and way of speaking are deliberately imitating Elsa. In a sense, Elsa is like her sister.

Elsa, who likes to cut open people's stomachs to look at their intestines, is obviously not a good role model. She has also shown through her actions countless times that she does not reject her own death, and even thinks it would be nice to be killed by the person she loves.

Maybe Elsa herself didn't care that she would be killed, but it was impossible for Mary not to care.

She stared at the crack in the door through which Yimi usually sneaked in. Of course, it was impossible for her to get in.

Mary wanted to try to shake the door lock, but she didn't expect that this action would directly swing the door open. The unexpected thing made her slightly stunned.

"Pink-haired sister?"

"Big brother?"

"Hehe, don't think I'll fall for such an obvious sting operation~"

No one responded.

"Did you forget to lock it? You're so careless! If little Merry doesn't seize this opportunity, won't she feel really sorry for her sister Ram?"

Holding a doll that she liked very much, Mary walked out tentatively, but she did not see Ram in the corridor outside.

Mary tiptoed down the stairs out of the basement, and her pupils contracted slightly when she saw the scene in the yard.

The twin girls lying in the middle of the yard had lines on their skin that looked familiar to Mary. They looked like disfigured bodies from severe burns, and also like lines like dragon scales.

In addition to the two of them, there were several abnormally large insects lying at the gate of Roswaal's mansion. With her protection, Meli naturally knew that they were definitely not monsters.

"Ram...sister?"

She called out subconsciously, and looking at the bugs at the gate of the yard, Mary had vaguely realized something, and her hands holding the doll were shaking slightly.

"Oh my? So there's still a piece of minced meat?"

A mean girl's voice sounded from behind Mary.

Meili didn't turn around, just letting the fear spread throughout her body: "Mother, mother?"

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slam-la-

"Come to think of it, Imi can even eliminate fatigue? It's an incredible protection, I have no idea how it works."

Emilia held up an ice umbrella that could block all of them and covered the crystal on her chest.

"If it's a situation like Parker's, can it be eliminated?"

There might be a fierce battle later, and I'll probably need Parker's help.

"Let me try."

Yimi placed her hand on the crystal on Emilia's chest.

A flash of light passed, and Parker appeared. He looked at Yimi helplessly: "Carelessly transferring other people's fatigue will disrupt your sleep and rest schedule! Even magic problems can be solved this way. I don't understand what's wrong with you."

With this power, you little cat is actually a modern-day angry witch, right?

"Ah, resurrected Parker!"

Emilia hugged him in surprise, and the umbrella in her hand fell down.

Because of the big holes created by Yimi, there was nothing they could do about the occasional heavy rain, but this did not hinder their journey. Now, with the structure of Aunt Monster's feet, they didn't have to worry about slipping.

The problem was that the rain washed away the remaining scent of Natsuki Subaru, so that even if Yimi turned back into a kitten, she couldn't track him.

Strictly speaking, the witch's body fragrance is not a smell, and Yimi cannot track it continuously from a very long distance, so what he smells is the scent of Natsuki Subaru himself.

Although the destination is the same, Otto is the merchant who is truly familiar with the route, and strictly speaking, both of them are weaklings. They have to consider avoiding monsters while not arousing Petelgeuse's suspicion, so the route will deviate to some extent.

In addition, Yimi also threw Aunt Warcraft's fatigue onto the earth dragon, which led to them arriving at Roswaal's mansion earlier than Natsuki Subaru and the others, or to be more precise, the village here.

"Just follow this road and you'll be there. Thank you, Miss Monster."

Aunt Monster made a nasal sound, slightly expressing her dissatisfaction with Emilia's address.

"Rem, Ram! Subaru!"

Emilia jumped off Aunt Monster and called out loudly, but received no response.

Subaru set off before them, so he should have arrived early, right?

Emilia had a bad feeling.

On the surface, nothing seemed to have happened in this house. If something unexpected happened, Subaru should have restarted time.

"Woooo..."

Mixed in with the sound of rain were faint sobs, coming from the basement passage.

"Merry?"

Emilia walked towards that direction in confusion, and saw that Mary, who was supposed to be locked up, had walked out at some point and was squatting there crying alone, with a pile of frogs at her feet.

"What happened?"

Meili let go of her hand, still sobbing: "Frogs, so scary..."

"frog?"

But the next second, the blood-stained spear that had clashed head-on with the dragon sword emerged from her side—

He mercilessly pierced Mary's lovely face, sending the smell of blood blasting throughout the corridor.

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Chapter 39 Is it Qiu Si?

"Merry!"

"It hurts……"

Under Emilia's confused gaze, 'Merry' in front of her covered her almost necrotic face and twitched twice, then tore her head in half. The whole person squirmed into another shape, and the abandoned piece of flesh emitted white smoke and degraded itself.

"Hahahaha, you were kidding. It doesn't hurt at all! What's wrong with you, you little piece of meat? Do you have a pig nose? Can you smell my extraordinary and charming fragrance?"

A slender girl with short orange hair, wearing bikini-like revealing clothing, and emitting a nasty and shrill laugh, appeared before the two of them, looking like no more than a little girl.

"Bua~ I am the Archbishop of the Witch Cult, Lady Capella Emerada Lugnica!"

"Lugnica..."

Emilia murmured these four words.

This is the surname of a royal family that has died suddenly.

Yimi's hand paused, and he looked up at her in surprise.

I don’t know why, it clearly didn’t sound very similar, but when I heard this woman’s voice, for a moment Yimi thought Xiaoyuan was crazy.

"Is that you? You turned everyone into that? What did you do to the real Mary?!"

Emilia stretched out her hands towards Capella, and the ice cone, which had not had a very good record so far, was ready to be launched, but it seemed that it had no deterrent effect.

In the entire Roswaal mansion, apart from Roswaal himself who never came back, the person who spent the least time with Meli was actually Emilia. However, when Imi expressed her desire to finish off the enemy, she also voted against it along with Subaru.

"Hmm, do you think it's ugly? Creepy, disgusting and repulsive."

She stepped on one of the scattered frogs with her shoeless foot, causing the others to scatter.

Her power is very simple, the transformation of the body is not just for herself.

Different from the transformation in some magical fantasies, her transformation is a truly permanent change, even the gate of life will be changed. If it is not for the fate-related ability like Yimi, normal magic means will probably be ineffective no matter how much you try to heal her.

She can also use this power to heal physical injuries. Whether it is a severed head or a pierced heart, it is not a big problem for her, and the excess part will automatically dissolve.

"Right, right. It's an instinctive disgust at first sight. No one could possibly love such a creature. If something disgusting on the outside can't be 'loved' regardless of its inner qualities, can anyone really say they like someone because they're attracted to their inner being?"

"You bullshit!"

Without understanding what was going on, Yimi interrupted her and produced concrete evidence: "I have never disliked Parker!"

Parker: "?"

"Parker is very handsome."

Emilia retorted, looking solemnly at Capetta's feet: "Could there be Merry among those frogs?"

The frog could not give an answer and could only croak by moving its cheeks.

"It's too much..."

"Oh, it's so embarrassing to stare at people's cute little feet like this. Look at these ugly toads, is there anyone who is willing to place love on them? Do you love them? Can't you love them?"

She kicked the frog away: "Because it's disgusting. Don't you think this disgusting creature is defiled by my feet? But this disgusting toad is your good friend, right? It's a friend..."

boom--

As Yimi raised her sword, the violent magic power surged upward from the passage in the basement, shattering the mansion and forming a pillar of light that reached the sky and headed straight for the clouds.

Emilia covered her face and subconsciously condensed an ice shield to cover the frogs on the ground to prevent them from being affected.

"Listen to me, you piece of shit! Has my voice broadcast made you lose your basic manners?"

Heavy rain poured down on Emilia's face. When she looked up, she saw dark clouds that were impossible to see clearly in the night. The black dragon that the villagers had mentioned before was sitting above the other half of the mansion, winking at her like the little female ghost.

"dragon……"

"You are dead!"

Yimi pointed the gun at Capella, and the blood on the gun body flowed from bottom to top.

"Hmm?"

Capella, transformed into a black dragon, glanced up at the hole in the sky. “The Gospels don’t say that. Never mind. I had a lot of fun today. Bye, you scumbags. Try to place your ‘love’ on flies and toads. Hahahahahaha—”

Without even revealing her purpose, and unlike other bishops who were stubborn, she realized that something was wrong and decisively spread her wings and flew into the sky.

puff-

There was a sound of something exploding. Yimi used his magic power to hit the ground, pulling himself up to a certain height, and then adjusted his posture in the air.

"This is?"

"Noble Phantasm—the Lord's Spear!"

The red color attached to the spear shaft dissipated in an instant, and it floated in the air around the spear shaft in the form of a blood bead. It was thrown out together with the spear shaft under the drive of magic, and pierced straight into the black dragon's chest.

"what!!"

……

……

"Otto."

"What's wrong, Subaru-san?"

"Just stop here. For your own safety, don't get any closer. Also, you should have a weapon for self-defense, right? Lend it to me."

“That’s right.”

Otto took out a small dagger and handed it to Natsuki Subaru.

Natsuki Subaru took the dagger and his heart sank.

Although he didn't know whether the save point had been refreshed this time, he couldn't really let Petelgeuse reunite with the Archbishop of Lust who was suspected to be in the mansion.

He hadn't done it himself in the previous act of lust. The psychological acceptance of killing someone with a gun and stabbing someone with a knife was different, not to mention that what he was about to do could strictly be considered a betrayal.