"Petelgeuseee!!!"
Without giving him a chance to speak, Natsuki Subaru lunged at him almost immediately.
The moment he recalled the tragedy of the previous loop, the people he cared about dying one after another, and saw the culprit standing right before him, Natsuki Subaru vaguely found that feeling from when he had climbed the stairs again.
His expression became dazed, crazed.
His heart filled with endless fury. He wanted nothing more than to grind the man's bones to dust.
"Uooohhh!"
Petelgeuse seemed to grow excited as well. "You came charging straight at me? Good, good! What a diligent posture!"
Of course, that was only what he said.
The speed at which he activated his Authority was not slow at all.
Petelgeuse spread his arms, and a huge mass of shadowy black things suddenly burst out from behind him. Those shadows transformed into arms and swept toward Natsuki Subaru from all directions.
That was right. This was the Authority of the Archbishop of Sloth.
The thing known as the Invisible Hand.
Though these shadow-like arms made for an intense visual spectacle, they were actually something ordinary people could not see.
Petelgeuse could extend dozens of Invisible Hands at once.
The arms moved at a fairly average speed, but their strength was shockingly immense. Against enemies facing them for the first time, they could easily produce a first-encounter kill.
In one of the loops from the original story,
Petelgeuse had effortlessly twisted Rem into a pretzel with them.
Unfortunately, Natsuki Subaru was no longer an ordinary person.
His current strength absolutely placed him among the top tier of this world.
Facing those ever-extending arms, Natsuki Subaru immediately swung the Coin Whip, severing every Invisible Hand rushing toward him in an instant.
"Th-This... what is Sir Natsuki Subaru attacking?"
To the people around