Chapter 50

Lola said "OK", her tone gentle, even with a hint of pampering.

Miel tentatively turned his head to see Leon's reaction, only to see Leon standing one meter away from him and Lola with his arms folded, his eyes lowered, not knowing what he was thinking.

Miel joked about amputation and once said that Leon was not Cthulhu, but he knew in his heart that Leon was also a part of Cthulhu.

I remember Leon once said - whether you like it or not, I exist, you are not important enough for me to amputate your limbs for you.

He is right.

Miel knew his own limitations and he knew that no matter what Cthulhu said, he would never really give up his wings for him.

And this pair of wings is not to the point where they need to be discarded.

Putting aside his condescending arrogance, Leon, like Lola and Anna, actually abided by the contract of lending him power, treating him as an agent, and the oath to protect him from any harm.

Just a moment ago, Leon had put his arm around his waist to prevent him from falling.

So, as long as Leon can control that strong desire to dominate and control...

Perhaps sensing something from Miel's gaze, Leon suddenly raised his eyes, met his blue ones, and sneered, "I admit you're somewhat charming, but you want me to amputate my limbs for you? I can't. If you're hungry, go eat."

Miel snorted and buried his head in Lola's arms: "Cthulhu, your wings are fierce to me."

"I don't have wings." Lola held Miel horizontally, turned her back to Leon, and walked out. "Come on, I'll take you to dinner."

Miel hummed, raising the corners of his lips.

It feels good to have someone protecting you.

...Wait, was I just acting like a spoiled brat?

It turns out that when he has someone to act coquettishly to, he will also act coquettishly.

…

Lola carried Miel to the corridor and put him down, went downstairs with him, and had dinner in the hall.

Back in the room, Lola suggested that Miel take a nap to recover his spirits.

But Miel, eager to know why Rocas, now possessing the power to travel through time, had failed to save Amira, replied, “No, with you by my side, I feel my spirits are better than ever.”

Laura was stunned for a moment after hearing this, then laughed: "So you can also say sweet words."

"Did I say... Oh, it seems so." After a brief moment of surprise, Miel raised the corner of his lips, "Yes, I can not only act coquettishly, but also say sweet words. This is all because of you, my dear. It is your love that has changed me and melted my frozen heart."

Lola reached out and rubbed Miel's head.

Miel took his hand and rubbed his palm with his cheek, with the corner of his lips raised and never lowered.

Leon, who was always there: "..."

Miel could feel Leon's gaze on him, but he didn't care. He was even happy to show him the sweetness between him and Lola.

Because Leon is not someone else, Miel does not feel ashamed of having his privacy intruded upon by others.

Leon is a part of Cthulhu, and Miel knows that sooner or later he will accept him because of his love for Cthulhu, just like he accepted Anna.

So, he wanted to know his reaction.

Will he get angry out of shame, or?

Miel glanced at Leon out of the corner of his eye.

Unfortunately, Leon didn't react in any particular way, just staring at him expressionlessly.

Miel didn't waste any more time. He took out the memory stone from his family ring and held it gently in his palm: "Let's continue with the last memory."

Lola said "hmm" and held his hand holding the memory stone.

Miel closed his eyes peacefully and once again entered Rocas's memory world.

Miel in another timeline concealed his death from Rocas, but he did not deceive Rocas - his sacrifice was successful, and Rocas did gain the power to travel through time and space.

However, unlike the Is people, Rocas can only see the past but not the future, so he can only travel back to the past but not to the future.

He traveled back to before the Earth Mother Cult summoned the Black Goat Kid, and on a dark night, he slaughtered the entire church.

His actions were silent and did not attract anyone's attention. His assassination was quick and decisive, and no one screamed before dying.

——He did what Miel had originally planned to do after arriving in Guangyao City.

"Killed them all? Then why is there still..." Miel realized that his plan needed to be changed.

Before he could finish his words, Lola suddenly bent down and hugged him, covering his eyes with one hand.

However, Miel grabbed his hand and said, "No, it's okay now."

He guessed what would happen next.

Sure enough, not long after, darkness gathered and spread above the church until it covered the entire sky.

The huge hooves of the black goat kid emerged from the darkness, struggled slightly, and then fell from a high altitude, hitting the ground heavily, causing an earthquake.

Miel looked straight at it, examining it as if it were a new and exotic creature.

Four huge sheep's hooves, a body as thick as a thousand-year-old tree, with countless huge mouths distributed in disorder on it.

The huge mouth opened, revealing a circle of sharp fangs and a black hole that swallowed all light.

The whip-like tentacles above were waving wildly, and one of them swung towards Rocas, about to wrap around his waist.

With nowhere to escape, Rocas could only use the power of traveling through time and space to go back to an earlier time.

Since massacring the church doesn't work, then prevent Amira from getting involved with the church - Miel's idea coincides with Rocas's.

In order to stop Amira, Rocas did not hesitate to expose his identity and used his identity as a time traveler to tell Amira directly how dangerous the church is.

But just as Amira was beginning to waver and was about to be persuaded, the Hound of Tindalos appeared.

Faced with the Hound of Tindalos, Amira fainted on the spot.

Rocas was forced to travel back in time again, to an even earlier time—and every time he messed up, he had to go back in time. The timeline kept going back as he traveled, like a piece of string being cut shorter and shorter with scissors.

He didn't dare to appear in front of Amira again. He hinted to Amira in various ways that the church was dangerous and she should not go to church.

But he got one thing wrong - it wasn't that Amira wanted to go to church, but that the church was targeting Amira.

Perhaps it was because her bloodline was noble enough, or perhaps it was because her magical talent was outstanding enough.

In short, no matter what Rocas does, in the end, Amira will become a sacrifice to summon the black goat kid under the arrangement of the church.

As the number of time he traveled through time increased, the time the Hound of Tindalos gave Rocas to act became shorter and shorter, and Rocas's own body became weaker and weaker.

Finally, feeling death approaching, he decided to go find Miel.

[If it were Miel, he would definitely be able to find a solution.]

[After all, he is Miel...]

Miel: “…”

Miel felt that Rocas misunderstood him... because of that pre-planned sacrifice?

In short, in order to give Miel in this timeline more time to investigate, and at the same time, to allow himself in this timeline to meet Miel earlier, Rocas traveled back in one breath to before he was sold to Guangyao City, that is, when he was still in the sewers of Snow City.

It was this time travel that triggered an earthquake in Snow City, causing an abyss to appear near Akunela's mansion.

This earthquake did not exist in Rocas's memory and seemed to be caused by time travel. This made Rocas very uneasy and he had to put his original plan on hold and spent two days investigating the cause.

Then he saw from afar that Miel was kicked into the abyss by three tree elves.

"Miel!" Rocas ran towards the abyss in disbelief, and the three tree elves fled in a hurry.

Rocas stood at the edge of the abyss and looked down, seeing only black, unsettling water.

He forced himself to travel through time and space again with his shaky body and collapsing spirit, trying to change Miel's fate, but it was useless.

No matter which point in time he traveled to, the abyss would appear, as if it suddenly appeared on the entire timeline.

And Miel's fate began to be shrouded by a huge, black shadow that no time traveler could touch or change.

In the penultimate crossing, Rocas hid in a tree near the abyss and watched the three tree elves kick Miel, who was shrouded in shadow, into the abyss for the umpteenth time.

The black shadow had an octopus-like body, bat-like wings, and countless tentacles swaying around Miyer, each of which seemed to have its own consciousness.

Miel: “It really looks like an octopus.”

Lola: "...Miel, I get angry too."

"Okay, sorry." Miel gave in immediately and decided to add wings next time he drew a little octopus praising Cthulhu.

In short, Miel, Lola, and Leon, who insisted on following to the memory world for some reason, watched from Rocas's perspective as Miel was repeatedly kicked into the abyss, and then after disappearing for several days, he returned to the surface of the abyss with a black-haired, red-eyed elf.

In Rocas's vision, Miel was always shrouded in a black shadow, as if he was swallowed up, but also as if he was protected.

Rocas observed Miel from a distance for a few days. After making sure that the shadow would not harm Miel, he decided to go to the sewer to save himself in this timeline. Unexpectedly, just before he touched the cage where he was locked, before he could pry open the cage lock, he almost ran into Miel, who came at the speed of light through the portal and massacred Miel at the underground trading point of the Zhentarim.

Then, he went to the tavern called "Elf Veil" and wanted to meet Miel, but because he sensed the breath of the Hound of Tindalos, he had to go back to the past again and beg Miel in the past to go to the curved room to see him.

Rocas knelt on the ground and waited for Miel to leave.

The Hounds of Tindalos appeared near him again, but he did not want to cross over again, nor did he have the strength to do so.

Before he was killed by the Hounds of Tindalos, he escaped into the Curved Room, and then used the sacrificial ritual recorded on page 127 of the Book of Sacrifice to store all his memories after his first encounter with Amiraisyana into the gem that had been prepared long ago.

The memory ends here.

Miel returned to reality and looked down at the stone in his palm with mixed feelings.

Most of the memories stored in this stone come from other timelines.

Because I know that these timelines have been rewritten and overwritten, when I watch it, no matter what happens, there is a sense of emptiness and disconnection from reality.

But what Miel is about to face is a reality that cannot be more real.

——If the Earth Mother Cult really plans to summon the black goat kid in ten years, then not only Guangyao City, but the entire Liye Continent may suffer, including Snow City.

So, he had to stop the summoning no matter what.

"Cthulhu, do you know how to stop the summoning ceremony of the Black Goat Young?" Miyer asked tentatively.

"If we can't kill those believers, then use 'Mind Shock' to turn them all into idiots." Lola responded.

Hmm... this really sounds like the answer Leon would give.

Miel was not surprised, after all, half of Leon was now in Lola's body.

Moreover, this is indeed a solution, but it is only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution.

"I want to go into that church and take a look," Miel said. "I want to talk to the priest there and find out why he summoned the Black Young. Or does he not know what he's summoning at all?"

I remember that when the priest of the Earth Mother Church led his believers to summon the black goat kid, he shouted "Earth Mother Samantha".

Is this some obscure alias for Shub-Niggurath? Or do the followers of the Cult of the Earth Mother truly believe they are summoning a deity named "Samantha" who has no connection to Shub-Niggurath?

"No rush," Lola responded, "You have ten years to investigate."

"Well, there's really no rush," Miel said. "Amira shouldn't have been targeted by the Church at this point."

Lola: "So, no matter what you plan to do tomorrow, get a good night's sleep tonight."

Miel: "I want to meet up with Rocas and Inai first, and then go to Guangyao City together."

Lola: "Have you made plans? Are you leaving tomorrow?"

"Well..." Miel originally wanted to say "yes", but he could tell that Lola seemed to have other plans.

The original Lola couldn't have that, but after integrating with Anna, Lola not only had emotions, but also had some ideas other than studying him.

Miel asked tentatively: "Cthulhu, do you want to stay in Hope Town for a few more days?"

"No, I can stay anywhere, as long as I'm by your side." Lola responded, "But before I go to Guangyao City, I want to fulfill our promise to you again, is that okay?"

Miel was stunned for a moment before realizing what he meant, a slight blush on her face: "Ah... of course... this time, will you... um... will you?"

His words were fragmented, but even so, Lola understood: "Yes, I will. I promised you that next time I will feel my own desires and touch in the process, and I will definitely do better than last time - you know why."

"Yes I know."

The reason is the fusion of Anna.

Miel lowered his eyes, hiding the expectation and anxiety in them.

He looked forward to Lola's touch again, but he was afraid that something unexpected would happen this time too.

As if sensing his uneasiness, Lola put her arm around his waist and assured him, "Don't worry, I don't have wings now."

Leon: “…”

Miel: “Pfft, okay.”

…

Syracuse, Church.

The healthy Rocas lay on a snow-white bed, with Inai and Father Dindle standing beside him.

"I'm surprised." Inai suddenly spoke, his eyes fixed on Rocas lying on the bed, but he was speaking to the priest beside him. "The soul summoning ritual requires a huge amount of magic power, but I'm not surprised that you possess such a huge amount of magic power. What surprises me is that even with sufficient magic power, there are so few people who can summon the right soul. How did you do it?"

Dingdel raised his hand and made the sign of the cross on his chest: "Praise you, great Lord of Dreams."

Ina: "...Okay, let me change the question. Was this your own decision, or was it the idea of ​​the person behind you?"

Tyndall: "A soul from a foreign land cannot go to the dreamland. May he rest in peace in the dreamland after his death."

Ina: "It seems that's what the person behind you meant."

Tyndall remained silent.

At this moment, Rocas' chestnut eyelashes trembled and he opened his eyes.

He stared at the ceiling of the church room for a while, then turned his head and let the figures of Ina and the priest be reflected in his gentle light brown eyes.

"Miss Inai, Father Tyndall? Strange, when did I fall asleep? I seem to have had a very long dream..."

He sat up in bed and looked around in confusion: "Huh? Why are we here? We should have gone to Hope Town...Where is the master?"

Inai stared at him for a moment with a smile, then suddenly said, "Locas, give me a black candle."

"Okay, but what do you want the black candle for?" Rocas asked curiously, subconsciously looking at his right hand.

There, where the citrine ring should have been, there was nothing.

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The author has something to say: Yes, the souls of the two Rocas merged, similar to Lola and Anna.

However, from the way he addressed Miel, it could be seen that he in this world was the one in control.

This volume ends here. I will do one chapter in the next volume, and then a new incarnation will appear [dog head holding a rose]