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

"Eh?"

But he found himself tied to a tree.

"Subaru, are you awake?"

Emilia hurried over to him.

"Uh-oh, Mr. Greed, are you awake?"

Parker also came out and greeted him.

"Emilia? Why am I…"

Natsuki Subaru twisted his body.

He noticed that Emilia was looking at him strangely.

Parker called him lustful?

Yes, in the last moment of his consciousness, the somewhat handsome Petelgeuse suddenly acted as the first villain to complain and strangled him until he fainted.

So now he's tied up here as a prisoner?

Why would you rather believe that lazy word?

"Emilia, I'm not from the Witch Cult!"

I just wanted to save you, whether it was just wishful thinking or I was just doing something stupid, at least on this point——

"Believe me!"

He was almost hysterical, just like the ugly face he had shown during the previous argument.

"Well, I believe Subaru."

Emilia hugged him gently: "You must have gone through a lot of pain. This is really amazing."

The green-haired Archbishop of Sin left at night without saying much to her, leaving only the words "It's better to forget", which made her care even more.

She could feel that the person must have a very close relationship with her. How could such a thing be good that the person who cared about her was forgotten by her?

"..."

Natsuki Subaru looked at her in confusion.

"Ah, Subaru, are you wondering why you're tied up? This was actually made by Yimi, and the kid even tied a bow to make it look pretty."

In fact, Yimi only knows how to tie bows.

"Yimi? Why?"

He had thought that child might be the only one who could understand him.

Parker replied, "In the words of my niece, 'It's all because of that idiot 486 that made the cat's workload!' Then she tied you up to prevent her rescue efforts from being set on fire again."

When imitating Yimi's speech, he deliberately mixed his voice, but unfortunately he could not imitate the crispness of a child's voice, and instead sounded a bit disgusting.

"If Leah hadn't stopped her, she would have kicked you hard. Kids don't know how to use any force when they kick you."

"She also painted deep dark circles on your face. Leah wanted to help you wash it off, but she found that the paint was difficult to wash off, and it made your face even darker."

"So, to spare his daughter's grief, clever Parker suggested dyeing your face back with a different color since it couldn't be washed out. However, the dim light caused Mr. Parker to choose the wrong pigment and paint your face again with pure white. He underestimated the rendering power of black, and white couldn't be washed out either."

Parker floated to the ruins of the house, brought a mirror, and floated back carefully: "Then, with your face covered in paint, the redness of your lips was covered up, so I borrowed a red crayon from my niece, and now it looks like this."

Natsuki Subaru glanced at the mirror.

Gotham Nightmare.

He let out a long sigh and laughed twice: "I say, you are having fun playing with my face, right?"

Parker scratched his neck with his hind legs and blinked: "Hey hey hey."

However, because of the black paint, Yimi's white crayon is no longer pure white. Now Yimi doesn't want to pay much attention to Parker.

"Don't worry about that. Yimi said the bad cat in the capital was successfully washed off. It should only remain for a week at most. But the paint on the mouth might give you diarrhea. It's all Parker's fault. And..."

Emilia helped Natsuki Subaru untie him: "Subaru said before that I saved you. Can you tell me about this?"

"save……"

Hearing this topic again, Natsuki Subaru looked away dejectedly: "That was just something I made up, an excuse to cause trouble for Emilia without permission."

"Can't I tell you?"

Emilia patted the back of his hand, "Imi told me that Subaru can go back in time."

Natsuki Subaru’s pupils contracted, and he subconsciously wanted to take a step back, but he saw Yimi treating the villagers nearby who were implicated by Capella within the range of his peripheral vision.

It seemed that as long as this child was present, even the person who threatened him would not dare to show up.

"Subaru knew me when I didn't know. Could you please talk to me about what happened?"

She already knew it, Emilia knew it.

He is not mentally prepared yet.

Natsuki Subaru looked at that clear and innocent gaze. At this moment, even if he made up a lie and said that they were in a relationship before, maybe Emilia would believe it? After all, Yimi, the real insider, was not there the whole time.

Natsuki Subaru chuckled, and with the makeup on his face, he looked a little scary: "It's just a day that can be regarded as a new encounter for me."

But how could anyone do such a despicable thing when the pursuit was accomplished through lies?

44

Chapter 44: Heading to the Sanctuary.

Because the structures of the village and the forest were destroyed, it took a lot of time to re-set up the barrier to prevent interference from monsters.

Two Archbishops of Sin were killed in action. No one knew how this incident would develop, because no one knew Regulus, and Subaru Natsuki even directly called himself the Archbishop of Greed.

However, in the eyes of outsiders, Yimi's killing of Capella will also be counted as Emilia's camp. As long as it is explained clearly, the overall direction should still develop in a positive direction.

"Merry, I'm so glad you're okay! I thought you were so timid that you would cry."

Petra, who transformed from a giant caterpillar back into a human, ran over to find Meili.

Mary responded to her hug with a forced smile.

It was this little girl who sold her out with just a few words, and now she comes here and acts hypocritically.

"You're really brave. Other children who encountered this kind of thing cried out of fear after they recovered."

Becoming an ugly monster that cannot communicate and possibly never being able to change back, this kind of fear and despair will probably bring a psychological shadow to people for the rest of their lives.

Beatrice used magic to move the books in the Forbidden Library. Although the Forbidden Library was not considered a room in terms of space, since there was no reason to use it, she decided to take away everything she needed.

Most of them were her favorites, or those that children might be interested in. When she was still with her mother, Qiu Si would also give her books, so these had to be taken away too.

"Because I was so frightened at the time, I passed out. After I woke up, I found that I had recovered."

Petra replied awkwardly.

"But before I passed out, I actually wanted to come over and see Mary. I didn't see her last time, but right after I was attacked, I saw Mary coming out of the stairs."

Petra thought for two seconds, then pointed at Meili in surprise: "Brother Subaru said Meili was locked up before. Could it be that you actually wanted to escape at that time..."

"Boom!"

Meili slammed her forehead against hers.

Ignoring the personal grudges between the two little girls, Beatrice stacked the books together and pulled Yimi up from the ground.

"You're about to realize you're a girl, right? Come to think of it, you never seem to change your clothes."

Beatrice grabbed Yimi's collar and sniffed it, but didn't smell anything strange.

"Well."

Yimi leaned back.

Beatrice bent down and brushed the dust off her skirt. "Betty is moving some books from the forbidden library. Do you want to go and see if there's anything you like?"

Yimi shook her head: "No, your book is boring."

"That's because a kid like you can't understand, huh. You still make a lot of typos in your writing. This is the result of not reading well."

Beatrice looked at what Yimi had just been staring at.

It was nothing serious, just the village chickens, which seemed to have been accidentally stepped on and killed by some confused villager who had transformed into a monster.

Because the Love Train brought the village closer, you can see a lot of things in the village when you go out. Yesterday, the owner of this chicken was still staring at it and sighing after recovering. It was so dead that there was no way to dispose of it harmlessly.

Beatrice suppressed her disgust and gently kicked the dead chicken. She only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there were no teeth marks of Yimi on it.

Because Yimi was playing with the ball of yarn that Ram gave her last night. The cat's habits were even more obvious than Parker's.

Yimi squatted down again and let [World Beyond Heaven] reach out and touch it, wanting to try whether he could revive it with the power of replicating reality.

However, just as she was about to do so, a hand that clearly did not belong to Beatrice patted her head, but the hair on her head that was sticking up because she had just woken up was not pressed down.

Koneko turned around in confusion, but there was no one behind him except Beatrice.

"what happened?"

Beatrice inquired.

Yimi pouted and simply asked [World] to make the chicken less fragmented and put it aside as a backup ingredient.

"You're strangely frugal when it comes to food."

Beatrice held Yimi's butt and helped her sit on the dragon carriage, and handed her a picture book.

"Are you moving away? Is it far from the village?"

Petra asked worriedly, rubbing her forehead.

"This kind of thing should be decided by the real owner of the house."

Natsuki Subaru patted her head.

His expression turned grim again. "Even after being attacked twice by the Witch Church, Roswaal still hasn't returned. It's almost as if he's deliberately avoiding us."

He had already put it very tactfully. He even wanted to be more conspiratorial and say that the Witch Church might have been led here by Roswaal.

It's time to put an end to it, even though he is not much different today than he was yesterday.

The only guy who has killed him once and escaped unscathed so far, Natsuki Subaru ranks this person as the most dangerous.

"Merry, why don't you just sit with Yimi, hello?"

There were too many people and some goods, and one car definitely couldn't carry them all. Originally, Natsuki Subaru wanted to let Meli and Imi, with whom he had a good relationship, ride in a dragon car, but he didn't expect that after hearing this, Meli dived directly into Emilia's car without even looking at Imi.

"Is there a conflict?"

Natsuki Subaru didn't quite understand.

"Sacred territory."

Beatrice sat next to Yimi, looking out of the carriage, thinking about the past.

That place was built by my mother four hundred years ago to resist the pursuit of the Melancholy Demon, and it gathered many mixed-blood demi-humans. This Melancholy Demon is a guy similar to a witch, but he is a man.

The location is not far from here. After all, it is the place managed by generations of Roswaal, so the location is naturally within his territory.

Because she hadn't left her home for four hundred years, she had no idea what the place was like.

"Well."

Yimi lay down flat, with her head resting on her legs, ready to spend the boring time on the journey sleeping. She also deliberately put the green peppers she had asked the villagers for in her pocket.

"Betty."

"what happened?"

"Once I defeat Diego, I'll leave."

If possible, Yimi would say hello first, even though she had not been away for long for them.

"Diego...are you still thinking about this kind of thing?"

Beatrice kneaded her face like dough. "That guy might be a little weird, but he's probably not a bad person. Where are you going next? Seriously, he's just a kid. Has he always traveled alone before?"

"I want to leave this world."

"..."