Small Body, Astonishing Blood Loss

At Chiba Makoto's words, he moved his feet and instantly crossed the abyssal crater Gadis had left behind, appearing before Minina and Liltotto.

"I'm not especially strong. Just a tiny bit stronger than you."

In an instant, Minina and Liltotto sensed an unknown terror from Chiba Makoto, who had seemed harmless while being chased and intercepted all along. They instinctively took another step back.

"Hm? Miss Minina, Miss Liltotto, weren't you having such fun chasing me all this way? Why are you backing away now that I've taken the initiative to approach you?"

As Chiba Makoto questioned them with apparent puzzlement, his relatively tall figure continued advancing toward Minina and Liltotto, neither hurried nor slow. The shadow cast behind him by the sun seemed as if it were gradually swallowing them whole.

"Gulp!"

Compared to Gadis's bold and irritable personality, Minina and Liltotto were undoubtedly the timid sort!

As the invisible pressure radiating from Chiba Makoto steadily drew closer, Minina and Liltotto retreated while swallowing hard.

"Soul Reaper, if you come any closer, don't blame me for getting rough with you."

Chiba Makoto asked, "And how exactly will you get rough with me?"

After a pause, Chiba Makoto continued.

"Since you're done chasing me, how about we switch positions? Now it's your turn to run. If I catch you, hehehe~"

As Chiba Makoto's teasing laughter rang out, blades of green grass behind him rapidly swelled and grew, transforming into massive trees resembling tentacles. Like giant cobras, they aimed at Minina and Liltotto in pursuit stances.

Suddenly, a voice rang out above Chiba Makoto's head.

"Liltotto, Minina, I'm coming to save you!"

Chiba Makoto looked toward the voice and saw Giselle, who had not attacked him until now and had merely watched from afar, with two conspicuous cockroach-like ahoge sticking up