Because Fang Mo had been far too enthusiastic.
Natsuki Subaru ultimately accepted this weighty token of thanks.
But the moment he nodded in agreement, Fang Mo actually got up and left, saying the two of them should get to know each other first. Then he decisively abandoned him here alone.
"I really..."
Natsuki Subaru could not help but sigh at that.
He turned his head and looked at the "gentle, affectionate" little pet Xie Dongwen had mentioned.
Under the dim yellow light, its outline became increasingly indistinct. Its pitch-black, glossy body, like asphalt, constantly writhed as though it were continuously dissolving into the surrounding shadows before regenerating. Countless tentacles twisted unconsciously like worms.
Inside its translucent body, dense pale-green eyeballs flickered erratically like countless sticky insect eggs.
Ordinarily speaking.
Just witnessing this scene would have been enough to drive an ordinary person insane.
Yet for some reason... this thing also kept making horrifyingly strange noises without pause.
Shoggoth sprawled across the floor, its nightmare-like amorphous mass slowly writhing. Its body occasionally split open, sprouting fangs, tongues, and throats. As it gnawed on the wooden floor, it let out sharp, terrifying sounds at Natsuki Subaru.
"Pssh..."
"Pssh... love..."
"Kindness... Natsu..."
"Natsu..."
"Natsu..."
"Natsu... b..."
Lying in bed and watching Shoggoth continuously make those monotonous sounds nearby, Natsuki Subaru felt a complicated mix of emotions.
It had been less than a few minutes since Xie Dongwen left, yet Shoggoth had already called him "Natsu" over a hundred times, occasionally adding a "b." Natsuki Subaru admitted that he really was useless in a fight... but this was way too noisy. He could not calm down and think at all.
After all.
This was already the fifth loop.
That meant he had experienced death four times in this mansion before.
In Natsuki Subaru's eyes,