Chapter 62 - 062: Echidna

"Oh and here I want to make you meet with the other witch"

"I will reject it, especially with Typhon. Well if it was Sekhmet it still fine but seeing her like in pain just to take a breath will make me uncomfortable"

"So you really know them... it makes me feel wondering who you're, there must be no human who can live for four hundred years, and there is a very little record about the remaining witch"

"You must correct your sentence, there is someone who still alive after four hundred years, well he lives in different meaning though"

"Oh, there is someone who still lives?"

"Yes, your students, Roswaal A Mathers. Or Roswaal L Mathers is his current identity"

Echidna's eyebrows twitch and quiver as she mutters, "Roswaal?"

"Is the Roswaal you mean someone with long, dark-grey hair? His eye color... I think it might've been yellow?"

"No, that's Roswaal appearance from 400 hundred years ago"

"You mean?"

"Roswaal A Mathers, your students, in order to revive you or release you from the binding of the dragon sacrifice his family to achieving it. He possesses his own descendants and it's already four hundred years, the same Roswaal you know but with the different body"

"The character I know as Roswaal had just a tiny bit of an excessively focused disposition. He'd be well prone to offering up his everything for a given goal. So then, if he hadn't changed at all after my death..."

"Unsatisfied with using only his own life, he offers up his whole family"

Echidna: "That'd be it. Ah, gracious, just thinking it makes for something horrifying."

A smile rises on Echidna's face, which looks like one of a parent watching over a child who is bad at the things they do.

"Right... you getting a chance to talk with the Witch of Greed really isn't something anyone but you could get so easily, even if it's their dėsɨrė"

"You want me to ask you questions? Well, there is something I want to ask you"

Echidna gives her kukukuku laugh, her smile this time notably more cheerful than before. A pressure was even more intense than what she was radiating before hits Arthur but he still fine with it.

The atmosphere warps, and the atmosphere of blue skies and green fields instantly starts collapsing. The sky shatters, the field catches flame, the world beyond the horizon progressively collapses.

Arthur rose up from his seat and standing not too far from Echidna.

Echidna: "You really are an interesting being."

The scenery around Echidna morphs, terrifying patterns embracing the world. The darkness expands, coiling around Arthur's legs and proceeding to his whole body. Arthur eyes shining and change to golden color, the world's collapse has already expanded to the area near the couple. There's nowhere to run to. And the world's still disappearing.

"If we're just trading questions and answers, this space is plenty. Knowing the things you want to know. A thirst for such a thing—greed for such a thing, is something I approve."

All that remains is the two chairs that Arthur and Echidna are seated in. Within arm's range of the other, a world of two chairs dedicated for a conversation. There's no visible end to the darkness beneath them. Probably not a joke, if they fell they'd never return.

Echidna's in good spirits.

She claps her hands, and while staring at Arthur, her eyes glimmering.

"So, what do you want to ask? If you're doing it to acquire knowledge, I'll answer any question. Is it about the Witch of Gluttony Daphne, who created godforsaken beasts to save the world from hunger? About the Witch of Lust Camilla, who sought to fill the world with love and gave emotion to those without others? About the Witch of Wrath Minerva, who punched all people into health while lamenting the strife-filled world? About the Witch of Sloth Sekhmet, who drove the Dragon beyond the Great Cascades just for some peace and quiet? About the Witch of Pride Typhon, who brought judgment upon criminals with the innocence and ruthlessness of a child?" Echidna listing all of the witches enthusiastically with a cheerful tone

"Is it about the Witch of Greed Echidna, thirst for knowledge incarnate, whose vestiges even now linger posthumously in this world, desiring all wisdom there is? Or, The one who destroyed all the witches, making enemies of the world she marked as her feed, the Witch of Envy —is it about her?"

But her tone turns to cold when she mentioned Satella, The Witch of Envy.

"As I said, I have basic knowledge about all of you, what I want to know is different things"

"Ohh... what is it?"

"By an unknown power, the Elior forest, the home of elf is being frozen one hundred years ago, and the elf in there turn to ice statue. The ice is very special even your artificial spirit Puck who is the current great spirit of fire can't do anything about it. What I want to know if there is a way to restore the elf from their freezing state?"

"Well you really know about us, you even know about Puck"

"I know about Beatrice and Lewes Mayer, and your other artificial spirit in the shape of a fox who called itself Echidna, well but she didn't have a memory of yours"

"Well, how I answer it, I didn't see the ice with my own eyes so I can't be sure about it, but if it was very special and hard as you said then I need to see it myself before I can find the answer"

"So it's still dead end..."

"Well you can say it like that"

"Except you see it yourself...ugh"

^detecting abnormalities in host body^

^system determines it will benefit host and recommends host to allocating an appropriate amount of system point^

'there is no side effect?'

^system didn't find any side effects if host allocating an appropriate amount of system point^

'Then do it'

When Arthur feel the pain spreading through his body, Echidna looks at him enthusiastically.

"You didn't leave this space after you feel it?"

"I didn't feel there is poison inside the tea"

Arthur grit his teeth and want to know what Echidna doing to him, in the past he just read about this world major information so he didn't know what happened to Subaru when he meets with Echidna, Especially when he didn't have the interest to learn about Subaru experience even if he is a main character of the story.

"There is no such thing as poison, but the tea is made from a part of my body, well if you want to know I have an intention to use my sweat or saliva but after seeing your body condition it will not enough, so I use my own blood and other fluid to make the tea, and because you consume a part of witch body, the slumber witch factor inside your body is awakened" Echidna makes a castle appear and push Arthur who is currently enduring the pain from inside his body easily to the bed and put his head on top off her ŀȧp.

"It's very interesting to see what will happen when two different witch factor awakening at the same time, so you deserve this treatment because you make me see a new thing. Ahh... seeing and learning something new is very fascinating"

True to her title, the Witch of Greed who is thirst for knowledge Echidna will use everything for her to learn and acquire new knowledge.

"But I want you didn't ask me about the other fluid because that's is women secret" Echidna drop her head and whisper to Arthur's ear with a charming smile and bashful expression.

But Arthur didn't have the luxury to enjoy it, two different things are fighting inside his body and make the pain nearly unbearable for him.

"So this is what will happen if two different witch factor awakening in the same time, even if your body is highly compatible and your will is very strong you're nearly lost your consciousness...now now, what will you awaken... I'm very excited to know the answer"