"Roswaal, your days of scheming against us are over!"
After Fang Mo's guidance, Natsuki Subaru finally understood how to deal with this guy. He lifted his foot and kicked open the Metal Vault's door. "...Hand over the Book of Wisdom!"
However, Natsuki Subaru had not expected this.
When the door opened, he saw Roswaal inside, wearing a vacant, shattered expression.
"...Huh?"
Natsuki Subaru seemed to freeze when he saw that.
Yes, the scene the Witch of Greed, Echidna, had deliberately acted out earlier had instantly crushed Roswaal's psychological defenses. Especially when the portal slowly closed—he had no idea what Echidna would do with Fang Mo next.
This fear of the unknown.
Made Roswaal suffer torment unlike anything he had ever known.
He was slumped hopelessly amid the piles of books, his hair disheveled, his eyes vacant as he called the Witch of Greed's name. "E-Echidna-sensei..."
It was worth mentioning, however, that Roswaal had just undergone "conservative treatment." In other words, he still had no clothing whatsoever to cover himself. He lay sprawled naked on the floor, staring blankly ahead, with a faint trail of tears at the corner of his eyes.
So Natsuki Subaru's thoughts involuntarily went in the wrong direction.
"Uh..."
Looking at Roswaal in the distance, who seemed to have suffered endless humiliation, Natsuki Subaru genuinely did not know what to do. At that moment, he suddenly remembered the word "training" that Brother Dongwen had mentioned, and goosebumps rose all over his body.
"Natsuki... Subaru?"
At the crucial moment, Roswaal barely managed to react.
"Huh?"
Natsuki Subaru responded instinctively.
"You said you wanted my Book of Wisdom, didn't you?" Roswaal weakly raised a hand and barely pointed toward the headless corpse nearby. "To follow the prophecy's guidance, I always carried it on me. If you want it, go