I'll kill you after I finish this game!

When Skadi and Ren Fujii were confused, they instinctively reached out and caught each other as the other lunged at them, their shared thought being, 'Mary is like a naughty child.'

"...Mary...are you alright?"

Fujii Ren and Skadi stood side by side, looking at the lively and expressive Mary in front of them. After sizing each other up, they asked hesitantly.

There's no mistake, it can't be their imagination.

At this moment, Mary could no longer find the subtle indifference and ruthlessness she had shown as a weapon. Standing in front of the two, holding their hands, Mary, who was happy and joyful to see them again, was more like a human being than a goddess.

"Well?"

Mary tilted her head, puzzled by Fujii Ren's question and the two's inquiring yet slightly doubtful gazes, and said, "It's nothing, it's not Ren who's in trouble."

"...Senior, Mary, she..."

Fujii Ren had already sensed that strange feeling that couldn't be ignored, and turned to look at Skadi-senpai, who was frowning and slightly deep in thought.

"Lian, hold Mary's hands and don't let go."

After sizing up Mary in silence for a moment, Skadi placed Mary's other hand in Fujii Ren's hand and gestured for her not to let go no matter what happened next.

Mary was puzzled, and so was Fujii Ren, who was also wondering what Skadi-senpai was up to.

But as long as she knew that her senior wouldn't hurt Mary, that was enough; all she had to do for now was follow Skadi's wishes.

After Fujii Ren grabbed Mary's small hands, Skadi stared intently at Mary and began circling around her.

"...Titi?"

After Mary's puzzled and confused gaze, Skadi finally stopped behind Mary in front of Fujii Ren.

Then, Skadi silently underwent a quantum-reconstructive change in her body, amidst the puzzled and surprised gazes of Mary and Ren Fujii.

Under Matilda's intrigued gaze, Skadi was enveloped in a faint glow.

After the light faded, the male personality of Skadi, who was familiar to both Fujii Ren and Mary, appeared—that is, the existence of Roshu.

Of course, the personality was still Skadi. She reached out to Mary in a male posture, slipped her large hands inside Mary's clothes from her neck and shoulders, and then grabbed her rather large, indescribable breasts.

"--well?"

Mary froze for a second. As Fujii Ren's face turned flushed and his lips twitched, Mary's delicate, fair face immediately flushed with embarrassment, followed by a normal female reaction.

"Eee-yaa ...

Mary blushed and screamed instinctively. Whether it was her imagination or not, Fujii Ren felt as if she heard a sound of someone spitting blood from their nose in the depths of her consciousness. It definitely wasn't hers.

Because of this inexplicable influence, while Fujii Ren was in a daze at the situation before him, blood slowly flowed from his nostrils.

"Waaaaah, Titi... no, Xiu! What are you doing?!"

While Fujii Ren was still in a daze, Mary immediately broke free from his hands and the large hands that were groping her from behind. Clutching her chest, her face flushed and teary-eyed, she looked at Skadi, who had transformed into a male form, and cried out, "Outrageous! H! Pervert! Vulgar! Lewd! Perverted slut..."

This sudden action really startled Mary, and also shocked Fujii Ren in front of her.

Skadi's sudden action was absolutely unexpected by everyone.

Seeing Mary blushing and yelling at her like a girl who had been assaulted, Skadi transformed back into her original form, nodded, and said:

"Don't worry, only my body has changed. My personality is still me. We're all girls, so don't mind."

"But, but... that... Titi is bad!!"

Although she knew that her personality was still Skadi, Marie was still furious when Skadi switched genders and molested her. She glared at her bright green eyes and puffed out her delicate, fair cheeks.

As if she was sulking and angry, she hid behind Fujii Ren, peeking out from behind his shoulder and baring her teeth at Skadi.

"Senior, what are you doing..."

Feeling the warmth on her lips, Fujii Ren snapped out of her daze and immediately wiped away the inexplicable nosebleed.

Looking at Mary, who was grinning and clearly angry, and then at Skadi, whose expression seemed to confirm something, Skadi seemed to have sensed something from Mary as well, but still couldn't grasp the key point because of the shock she had just experienced.

"Haven't you noticed yet?"

Skadi moved closer to Mary, pressing herself against her and grabbing her slender, fair wrist. Their cheeks and eyes were close together, staring directly into each other's eyes.

Under Fujii Ren's gaze, Mary blushed and became embarrassed, trying to struggle but unable to break free from Skadi's restraints.

During this process, thanks to Skadi's hints, Fujii Ren finally realized what was wrong with Mary.

“Mary has become shy, and more...human…”

That's right, this was absolutely abnormal for Mary on the guillotine.

After being with Skadi, Mary's mind and personality only became more sensible, and she developed a childlike innocence in her feelings.

And now, less than a few hours after they parted, Mary has skipped the process and suddenly transformed from a girl into a young woman.

The indifference and ruthlessness that once characterized the guillotine were no longer visible on him, nor was there any trace of the cold, bloody mechanical feel he once possessed.

The other party has now completely developed a whole soul.

"Mary, what did Reinhardt do to you!?"

Originally, it was Skadi and Ren Fujii's job to give Mary a healthy and complete mind, but now someone else has completed the final work, which makes Skadi very unhappy.

Let Fujii Ren complete the final piece of Mary's mental puzzle. Because of her relationship with Ren, Mary won't have any objections or resistance, but it's absolutely impossible for anyone else to do it.

Especially that guy Reinhardt.

"What...did you do?"

Mary thought about it carefully for a moment, then a troubled and puzzled look appeared on her face. Seeing the tense and worried expressions on Skadi and Fujii Ren's faces, she answered somewhat embarrassedly:

"I...I don't remember."

A surge of thoughts and feelings representing her own transformation welled up in her chest. At this moment, Mary could no longer recall the root cause of how she had become the way she was now.

Mary noticed that Skadi and Ren Fujii's expressions were gradually darkening because of her answer. It was clear that the other party believed Mary, but the fact that Mary had lost her memory made the two of them unhappy.

Who knows what the other person did to Mary, or what they affected her memory?

This is what caused both Fujii Ren and Skadi to feel a shared sense of displeasure and worry.

"It's okay, don't think about it if you can't remember. We'll just punch his balls in the scrotum sooner or later!"

Skadi reached out and patted Mary's head with a forced smile, but said some terrifying things.

He pushed the somewhat frightened Mary to the expressionless Fujii Ren and led the two to their respective seats at the banquet.

If there's anything, just ask Reinhard directly later. If he can't give you a satisfactory answer, Skadi will risk her Touch Self-Destruction to destroy his Golden Castle.

Walking towards the dining table, Skadi, to Ren Fujii's puzzled look, unusually sat down next to Matilda, her enemy.

Instead, they had Fujii Ren and Mary sit side by side.

Although he didn't understand why Skadi wanted to be by Matilda's side, Fujii Ren wasn't a fool who knew nothing and only asked questions.

Before she took her seat, she saw the exquisite chairs placed in front of the banquet table, and strange symbols seemed to be engraved on the backs and fronts of them.

Skadi's seat had engravings that looked like runes, as well as symbols that were intertwined and linked together to form a Möbius strip.

Matilda's seat also features different runes, as well as a symbol of a sword suddenly wreathed in flames.

Turning his head to look at his and Mary's seats, he saw that Mary's seat had flower-like runes and a symbol of a woman's head entwined with thorny vines, her head bowed as if a loving mother was watching over something.

The seat she was to take was decorated with a lotus flower, the same flower as her name, a lotus flower pattern that looked like it was surrounded by blades.

Although this is enemy territory, it doesn't prevent Fujii Ren from feeling a sense of resonance and familiarity with the patterns and runes on this seat.

"Zi la——!"

As if a blurry phantom, like the static on a television screen, appeared in his mind and vision, Fujii Ren seemed to see another version of himself, dressed differently, with an understated yet serene demeanor, sitting in his seat.

On the other side, Mary seemed to have changed into a gorgeous floral dress, looking beautiful and warm, and her temperament seemed to have become like a loving and warm, dazzling mother.

Even Matilda and Skadi, the senior students in front of her, have undergone subtle changes that are blurry and difficult to see.

Speaking of vagueness, in the two seats near the main seat, in Fujii Ren's hazy consciousness, there were also people sitting there, but he could only see dark figures without any face or clothing.

Reinhardt, sitting in the main seat, saw it quite clearly, just like she had seen it before.

"Uh......"

The phantom, which was only a fleeting momentary illusion with a strong sense of déjà vu, gave Fujii Ren a strange feeling of nostalgia, which was very odd and perplexing to her.

Even though... even though this is my first time here.

Before us, each seat here has three seats on either side: Skadi and Matilda, and Ren Fujii and Mary, each sitting on opposite sides.

The two seats near the head of the table were empty, and everyone present knew who was to be seated there.

Apart from Matilda and Skadi, Mary and Fujii Ren subconsciously avoided getting close to the two seats closest to the main seat.

There were no seats at the other black round tables; after all, they were Reinhardt's squires and knights, how could they possibly dine at the same table as their master?

Judging from the arrangement of the tables and chairs here and the time elapsed, the two seats closest to the main seat have always been there.

The seats for Mary and Ren Fujii, as well as Skadi and Matilda, seem to have been added at intervals.

It was definitely not something added on the spur of the moment when they arrived; it was added years ago, years ago that even Fujii Ren himself feels is a long time ago.

These patterns all seem to be connected to the individuals themselves. Could it be that someone knew they would be invited here in advance and arranged the decorations beforehand?

Moreover, those two seats also had special patterns. The one that resonated most with Fujii Ren was the double serpent staff pattern on the right seat, which was closer to the head seat in her and Mary's row.

The scepter of the god of commerce was chosen to distinguish it from the staff of Asclepius; it is also known as the staff of two serpents.

It consists of a golden staff carved with a pair of wings and two snakes wrapped around it, and is regarded as a symbol of commerce and international trade. It is the staff held by Hermes, the messenger of the gods in Greek mythology.

Subconsciously and without much doubt, Fujii Ren roughly knew the identity of the person who occupied that seat; it was probably the deputy leader that the Black Round Table often mentioned.

That mysterious being with whom he had a significant connection and relationship, and who also had ambiguous feelings for both Reinhardt and Mary.

The fact that Mary and I ended up sitting in this row was probably either fate or something that had been planned long ago.

What about the seats related to Skadi and Matilda?

On the back of that seat were two intertwined snakes trying to bite each other into an infinite loop, forming a strange pattern resembling the Wheel of Fortune.

It resembles an ouroboros, but the resulting wheel represents something else entirely.

The main element is snakes; the patterns on both sides of the main element are snakes.

The staff of two snakes intertwined and fighting, and the ouroboros intertwined and biting each other.

Could the other person have a close connection with Skadi and another Matilda?