I'll kill you after I finish this game!

Her mind was on the verge of chaos, but Red Spider interrupted her.

"Never mind all that. So, Miss Zarathustra, what do you intend to do?"

After shaking her head, Red Spider looked at Fujii Ren and chuckled confidently:

"Now, with just a thought from me, you'll be torn to pieces. Restoration is useless; you'll be eliminated without a single atom remaining! Do you want to die here like those women?"

"No, that's not right, that's impossible. Apart from the Iron Fist, I've never seen anyone who is fearless in the face of death. So, in such a situation, most of one's principles and dignity, not to mention regrets, will vanish into thin air."

The red spider, with a condescending air, grinned at the silent, cold-faced Fujii Ren, and smelled:

"I'll ask you one last time, do you want to join forces with me? If you agree, I might spare your life, and then we'll talk—"

Click-clack—

Fujii Ren frowned slightly, and the steel wire wrapped around her body tightened even more.

It embedded itself deeply into her skin, cutting through flesh and breaking down cells, threatening to slice her into pieces. Red Spider, grinning maliciously, continued:

"You should know what the consequences of refusing are, right? This time I won't let you get away."

"—Uh, ah—"

The restraints around her neck and body tightened again, and the voices Fujii Ren uttered became intermittent and incomplete.

Indeed, as the other party said, if we don't agree to this guy's demands, Fujii Ren will be killed right here.

But now... she...is determined to cast all these negative emotions to the winds...

"Come, what will you choose, Zarathustra? Will you join me in celebrating a meaningful life, or will you choose to die here?"

After a few seconds of silence, Fujii Ren finally let out a breath.

"...Hey, I'm talking to you."

Um, what was that again? This guy in front of me is a bit noisy, always making that annoying dog-like barking noise.

"Just wondering, what do you think of women with large breasts?"

"...What?"

Red Spider was stunned for a moment. Not only him, but also the audience from countless dimensions were surprised that Fujii Ren would say such a crazy thing in this situation, so they were all stunned.

"So, it's about women with big breasts. I personally envy guys with that kind of figure. Most other men are like that, right? It's not that I look down on small breasts, it's just that men are basically big-breasted."

As if ignoring his own perilous situation, Fujii Ren wore a carefree smile, seemingly oblivious to his life-or-death predicament, and chuckled softly to himself:

"Everything is better the bigger it is. As the saying goes, the big can encompass the small. Ah, I don't know how it's said in your country, but this concept should be universal, right?"

"What are you talking about..."

Red Spider's lips twitched slightly as she looked at Fujii Ren in front of her, genuinely not understanding what this woman was spouting.

Shouldn't this be a topic for men to discuss? What are you, a woman, talking to me about the concepts and differences between small and large Omegas?

"Don't you understand? A guy who used to infuriate me said these things to me before, and you and I have pretty much the same expression right now. Thanks to him, I think I've learned the weird skill of judging people by their chests."

That infuriating idiot was her childhood friend, Fujii Ren's, Yuza Shirou, a petty thug. Even now, mentioning him made her sigh, saying:

"Let's thank him for now, otherwise we might have made the wrong choice."

"So what exactly are you talking about?!" Red Spider was getting impatient.

"It's very simple."

A smile played on Fujii Ren's lips as he looked at the human-shaped dumpling bound with Kasumi and whispered:

"We're pretty close, and it's common for us to shower together. I just remembered that idiot's signature 'oppa' look, so there's nothing I can do about it."

Then, looking at the red spider in front of her, she said with a mocking smile:

“My stupid friend is a woman with moles on her chest, so I don’t want to travel with these women I don’t know, nor do I plan to team up with you.”

The answer lies in this unexpected little detail, a funny scene from Fujii Ren's daily life that resolved all her worries.

Damn it, how come I didn't notice this before? I was too anxious, so I didn't try to think about it.

However, no one would think about such things during a battle. Just now, Fujii Ren was only thinking about how to kill Red Spider.

Now that I'm under control, I've calmed down and have to think things through.

"------!"

The revelation of this truth surprised Red Spider slightly, but his face turned completely cold and gloomy.

So, now that you have no worries, show your true value and awareness, Fujii Ren.

"Okay, I didn't expect you to be so stupid."

Having been rejected once again, Red Spider completely lost his patience and said with a sinister smile to Fujii Ren in front of him:

"Since you're so reckless, then get sliced ​​into pieces right here!"

"I already told you, I have no intention of dying~~" Fujii Ren said with a smile and a blink.

"—You're just being stubborn and making things up!!"

The red spider let out a sharp roar and then unleashed the strangulation rope at its maximum power.

Pfft——!

Her neck was about to break; the tethered wire was cutting through her bones, and it wouldn't take a second to completely sever her into nothingness.

Even being torn to pieces or shattered into pieces became a luxurious way to end one's life.

Time is so short it's despairing—it seems that no matter how you resist, you'll be powerless and die in that brief moment.

Generally speaking, you will die, you will definitely die, you can't do anything in just one second.

If that's the case, we can simply divide a second into countless moments.

The audience also entered Fujii Ren's accelerated thinking perspective, a perspective they were familiar with. Under Skadi's training, Fujii Ren was able to accelerate his thinking by hundreds or thousands of times.

The thought process that can take place during battle, even if it's just for a second, is no different for these demons than an hour or a day.

Fujii Ren is also very used to manipulating the speed of his own sense of time in this way.

Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions—as long as you reach that void rift that is essentially stagnant, you should be able to calmly explore ways to resist.

Then, through the "formation" of the relic, materialize it and equip it on your body, severing the wires that bind you.

Then, the audience heard Fujii Ren's inner thoughts in accelerated thinking mode.

"[I wish every moment of time could last forever, so I could think about these silly, immature things all the time.]"

"If only time could stop—an impossible thought, like that of a mischievous child."

"[Is this...a form? Although I hate knives, this ending is probably retribution.]"

"[On the night Xiangchun was used as a puppet, I should have been prepared to 'go all out,' as my senior mentioned. So, the fact that I still can't use that power is entirely my own fault, and there's only one problem.]"

"That's Mary... I'm still hesitant to involve her in this bloody war."

"I don't want her to see others die, and I can't bring myself to take her to the battlefield."

"[This is probably the reason why I can't fully synchronize with my artifacts, Skadi-senpai...you knew that all along, didn't you?]"

Seeing this scene, countless viewers from different dimensions understood Fujii Ren's thoughts. Although Mary had killed countless people due to the curse.

However, she herself appears to be like a pure-hearted child, with no intention of harming others.

Although she is a goddess, she is also a lonely yet warm goddess who cherishes the friends who can be close to her.

Viewers could clearly see that kindness and appreciation for others, which extended to the point of liking them. As someone whom Mary liked, Fujii Ren was also very able to feel it.

Fujii Ren didn't want to taint her; this desire to maintain purity is normal and rare, and most people have it.

She should have understood, and she already realized it.

Don't they realize how many times she's cut off their heads? I heard from Mary that Skadi-senpai has experienced it too, and is used to it.

"[Mary's reality is the guillotine, an instrument of torture...]"

"[Since its purpose is decapitation and murder, it goes without saying that decapitation is the only and most efficient means of communication.]"

In this case...

In this space where time seems to stand still, Fujii Ren plunges his consciousness into the very bottom of the universe, attempting to actively communicate with the relic (Mary).

"Can I use you?"

"I want to carry you up from there, do you agree?"

"I'm not like Skadi-senpai, who gives people a sense of reliable security. I'm also quite aloof and unromantic, so you must sometimes find me boring, right?"

"[Even now, they want to use your attributes and power to taint your pure and innocent heart with blood.]"

"Even so, will you forgive me? And will you let me be your partner?"

"[Mary—please, answer me.]"

Fujii Ren sincerely opened his heart, taking the initiative to tell Mary everything he thought and felt, and reaffirming his beliefs and will.

"To be honest, I still don't want you to see any killing."

"But the reality is, I need your strength."

"I need something to crush their tangible killing intent."

"[To return, to protect, please grant me a blade, so that I may sever the laws that forced us to make this choice.]"

"I swear I have absolutely no intention of abusing you—and this is our pact."

"Since I'm forcing you to see blood against your will, I will reveal everything. Judge for yourself based on that."

"[Am I truly destined to be someone who stands beside you, someone you can embrace?]"

"How... exactly do you see me?"

Countless viewers watched as Fujii Ren laid bare all his thoughts and feelings to Mary without reservation, and they were all waiting for Mary's answer, some even slightly anticipating her response.

A response came from the lower level of Fujii Ren's consciousness—the realm of the collective unconscious, which is even deeper than the complete subconscious.

The words were not too complicated; they were simply a phrase from Mary's hometown.

She had told Skadi that she was giving the same gift to Fujii Ren at this moment.

"[Moncherie (my beloved)...]"