Why is my anime art style so weird?

As Natsuki Subaru walked, he nervously scanned his surroundings.

He was terrified that something would suddenly emerge from the darkness and snatch him away.

Fortunately, the terrible scenes he had imagined did not occur along the way.

Ten minutes later, Natsuki Subaru arrived at the kitchen safely.

He slowly reached for the doorknob.

Just as his fingers touched the doorknob, a strange noise suddenly came from the kitchen.

"!"

There's someone inside!?

Natsuki Subaru was startled. He looked around, picked up a vase from the nearby cabinet, and carefully grasped the doorknob, opening the kitchen door a crack to peek inside...

The kitchen door was suddenly pulled open, and a blue-haired maid stood behind it, looking at him coldly.

"Subaru, what are you doing?"

Natsuki Subaru answered somewhat guiltily:

"N-nothing..."

He quickly noticed that Rem's gaze was off.

Natsuki Subaru followed Rem's gaze to his palm, where he held an expensive ceramic vase as a weapon.

'Teeth white!'

Staying up in the middle of the night and taking someone else's vase—he looks like a thief no matter how you look at it.

Natsuki Subaru had a sudden inspiration and quickly grabbed the vase with one hand and swung it up and down as if he were playing with a dumbbell, all the while wearing an awkward smile.

"I couldn't sleep, so I got up to exercise."

Exercising late at night?

Rem couldn't help but frown.

"I like to exercise in the evening, is that a problem?"

"..."

Seemingly noticing that Rem's gaze towards him was becoming increasingly suspicious, Natsuki Subaru suddenly panicked and frantically swung the vase in his arm.

"Look! I love exercising!"

The amplitude and speed of the vase's swing increased significantly.

However, a vase is no match for a professionally designed dumbbell, as it lacks any anti-slip features.

Before I knew it, the vase slipped from my hand and flew away.

Bah!

It smashed to pieces on the ground.

Subaru Natsuki froze instantly.

The scene became extremely awkward.

"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to!"

Subaru Natsuki immediately knelt down in front of Rem with a standard dogeza (a deep, prostration gesture).

Rem sighed, a helpless expression on her face.

"Since it's broken, there's nothing we can do. Get up."

Then come in with me.

"What?"

"You can't sleep, right? I'll pour you a glass of milk."

Rem turned and walked into the kitchen.

"Okay! Alright."

Natsuki Subaru gritted his teeth and followed her inside.

He secretly observed Rem's expression and found that she didn't seem very angry; in fact, she seemed quite calm.

So, while rubbing his hands together, he asked cautiously:

"Miss Rem, by the way... how much is that vase... worth...?"

Rem glanced at him indifferently.

"It's not expensive, only a thousand..."

Natsuki Subaru immediately patted his chest and let out a long breath.

"That scared me to death! I thought..."

Rem casually finished what she was saying.

"...Just Fukuzawa Yukichi."

Natsuki Subaru collapsed to the ground with a thud, stammering as he said:

"One, ten million yen!?"

Natsuki Subaru didn't dare to breathe loudly. He quietly drank the milk that Rem handed him, then put down the cup and prepared to go back to his room.

Meow~!

A cat's meow completely woke him up.

Subaru Natsuki's forehead instantly broke out in a cold sweat.

Right now, who cares about money? We're about to lose our lives!

He immediately looked in the direction from which the meowing was coming.

Parker the gray cat sat on the windowsill outside the window, silently watching him.

It seemed to blend into the night behind it, its petite body stretching infinitely.

After a while, Parker slowly stood up and jumped off the windowsill.

Natsuki Subaru rushed to the window and looked outside.

Parker had long since disappeared into the night...

"Hey, Rem, did you see that just now...?"

Natsuki Subaru spoke shakily, turning around at the same time.

His pupils contracted instantly.

The kitchen was empty except for him.

Chapter 493 Death Cycle (Part 4)

"Rem!"

Come out quickly! Stop hiding!

Subaru Natsuki couldn't help but shout, but he didn't even realize that his voice was involuntarily trembling.

His voice echoed in the kitchen, but received no response for a long time.

Like Ram, Rem suddenly disappeared from Subaru's sight.

Ta-da!

Natsuki Subaru's teeth involuntarily started to chatter.

The mansion grew increasingly eerie.

We can't stay here any longer!

Natsuki Subaru nervously pulled a pointed kitchen knife from the knife rack and carefully left the kitchen.

Back in the courtyard of the mansion.

One side leads to Emilia's guest room, and the other side leads to the main gate.

"hateful!"

Natsuki Subaru hesitated for a while, stomped his foot hard, and then walked resolutely toward Emilia's room.

He still couldn't let go of the kind-hearted silver-haired girl.

Just then, Natsuki Subaru suddenly heard a series of messy footsteps.

Natsuki Subaru turned his head to look in the direction from which the footsteps came and immediately saw a blonde figure running frantically from the second-floor atrium. As she ran, she kept looking back, as if something terrifying was chasing her.

"Frandelka!"

Natsuki Subaru immediately shouted loudly and waved to her at the same time.

To everyone's surprise, Frederica didn't even glance at him and ran ahead on her own.

"what the hell?"

Natsuki Subaru suddenly felt somewhat confused.

Meow~!

Suddenly, another eerie cat meow rang out.

Natsuki Subaru's expression changed drastically at that moment, just as Frederica stepped into the area on the left side of the second floor of the mansion.

"what!"

A scream was heard, then silence.

A sense of foreboding immediately rose in Natsuki Subaru's heart.

"Oh no! Something's happened!"

He rushed to the left side of the second floor in three quick steps.

As soon as you step through the door to the left area, you can see a white Katyusha lying there all alone on the smooth floor.