"??RECOVERED!!"


    <"?finally!">


    (??yay!!)


    (??congratulations!!)


    (??yeah!!)


    ("??mom!!")


    ??Hello everyone!!


    ??After hours immobile on the floor, I''m back!!


    During the time I spent lying there unable to move, a few things happened, like Echidna returning to her usual snake form due to lack of power, or the discovery that as long as there''s something left of the straw doll, it can regenerate.


    ??That was a relief!!


    I was really worried that everyone had sacrificed themselves at that moment.


    Although, because of the black flames, it seems that the vast majority are incapacitated for now, leaving only a small group available.


    But the biggest change occurred in the black armor, which spent almost as much time (while I was lying there) agonizing from Echidna''s attack in that pillar of light, only for a small, almost cartoonish silver armor to be lying motionless on the floor when it vanished...


    At first, I thought it had died, but it got up and, as if it were a newborn baby, began to transmit its will.


    ("??mom!!")


    Calling me "mom"...


    ??But I''m a man!!


    ???Why does this keep happening?!!


    ??I''M NOT A WOMAN!!


    The worst part was that I couldn''t even move it away due to my lack of mobility, and neither the straw dolls nor Echidna tried to do anything.


    In Echidna''s case, her reason was that she had already punished it by cleansing all its "impurities." Sёar?h the n??el Fire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.


    <"besides, it looks fun">


    "??I heard that!!"


    While the straw dolls'' reason was that they had become friends... haa... well...


    I couldn''t blame the straw dolls, and with Echidna having an excuse (I think?), I had no choice but to accept my fate...


    ??But I will not accept that the straw dolls now call me mom!!


    ???Shouldn''t they know I''m a man already?!!


    ??I''M NOT MOM!!


    But sadly, they didn''t seem to understand my cries (pleas), and well, that''s all that happened during this time. Now, all that''s left is to obtain the king''s "precious treasure" to get out of this place once and for all.