Villainess X Villain: They are obsessed with each other!

The next day, Julius and Rosalina stood in the middle of the Purple tree forest.

They had just killed the 99th time-rewinding purple wolf. Only one remained.

Around them lay about ten or twelve dead purple wolves. Their bodies were still warm.

"Want to feed these to your pets?" Julius asked with a grin as he walked over to Rosalina.

Rosalina stood with her hand under her chin, staring at the dead time-rewinding purple wolves.

She looked deep in thought, her eyes focused and far away.

"Babe?" Julius called softly as he stepped closer.

She didn’t answer right away.

"Hey, babe?" he said again, a little louder.

"Uh..." Rosalina blinked and snapped out of her thoughts.

She turned to him with wide eyes. "Did you say something?"

"Yeah," Julius nodded with a small smile.

He didn’t ask why she looked so lost in her head. Instead, he pointed at the dead wolves on the ground.

"Are you going to feed these to your pets?"

Rosalina immediately shook her head slowly. She glanced down at the beautiful purple star tattoo on the back of her left hand.

"The normal time-rewinding purple wolves already went into their metamorphosis after eating those big wolves," she explained.

"And the big leader wolf has entered the concentration stage. I think once he finishes, he’ll be ready to enter metamorphosis too."

She had already fed the fresh kills to her wolf pack.

Every beast had a small life rune inside them that held their life energy.

When her wolves ate those runes, they fell into a deep sleep called metamorphosis.

When they woke up, they would be much stronger, just like the big leader wolf.

Rosalina’s gaze moved back to Julius.

Her brows pulled together in a little frown as she asked, "I was wondering... can our bodies be eaten here without us dying?"

"Huh?" Julius tilted his head, looking a bit confused. "How would they even be able to eat us?"

He remembered what he had read in the novel about this tower.

When someone died inside, they didn’t really die for good.

Their body would disappear and they would wake up safely outside, fully conscious again.

So it shouldn’t be possible for anything to eat them.

But then he noticed Rosalina’s deep frown.

She looked like she was thinking about something very serious.

"Why do you ask?" he said gently.

Rosalina’s frown grew deeper.

"Well... when I killed one of those time-rewinding purple wolves earlier, something weird happened."

"A finger came out of its stomach. It looked like it had been melted. That’s why I was wondering if these wolves could actually eat a dead body..."

She paused, then shook her head. "But now that you mentioned the bodies get sent outside... then what could that finger have been?"

Julius found it strange too. A human finger inside a wolf’s stomach?

There were no other humans around except the ones who had entered the tower from outside.

And if people from outside couldn’t really be eaten because their bodies got transported out...

He rubbed his chin thoughtfully. Something felt off.

First, there was the mention of the "Invincible Path" that wasn’t in the book at all. Now this weird finger?

"Hmm..." Julius hummed.

He turned to Rosalina with a serious look. "Do one thing. Call Uriel and ask him to divine this."

Rosalina nodded. She lifted her left hand. On her ring finger sat a small, pretty blue gem ring.

She raised her right hand and sent a little mana into the ring. A soft blue glow appeared around it.

"Uriel... this is your mom speaking," she said clearly. "Can you hear me?"

The moment Rosalina said "this is your mom speaking," Julius’s eyes widened in total shock.

This surprise hit him even harder than when he first learned that Nickel was a transmigrator.

The mention of the Invincible Path, and now Rosalina seeing a human finger inside a wolf, everything felt wrong.

"Mom?" he muttered under his breath, completely stunned.

"Grr... grr... grr..."

Strange growling sounds came from the blue gem ring as it started to connect.

Then a young voice crackled through:

["...M... mo... mom? Can you... hear me? Hello? Hello... Mom? Can you hear me?"]

Uriel’s voice echoed clearly from the ring.

Julius’s eyes grew even wider in disbelief.

His own avatar was calling Rosalina "mom"?

"But why... how and when?" Julius whispered softly, his jaw practically touching the ground.

"Yeah, I can hear you," Rosalina answered in a clear, steady voice.

"Listen carefully! Your father wants you to divine if something is wrong with this tower. Something isn’t adding up!"

"Me... father?" Julius’s eyes went even wider. His mind went completely blank.

His avatar was calling Rosalina mom... and now she was calling him father?

It actually made sense, though.

When Julius had gone out to hunt for meat, Rosalina had secretly contacted Uriel.

She convinced him that she was his mother.

After all, Uriel was created from Julius, and she was Julius’s wife.

So in a way, they were mother and son.

At first Uriel seemed reluctant, but Rosalina started scolding him like a real mom. In the end, he agreed.

Now the two of them were happily calling each other mom and son... and Julius was the father.

["Yeah, you’re right,"] Uriel’s voice came back through the ring.

["I actually divined it just a little while ago and was about to call you when you called. So... the death ability isn’t working properly.]

[Seventy out of the three hundred students who entered the tower have already died on the first seven floors.]

[Also, you guys can go straight to the eighth floor, the 7th floor has already been cleared. And be careful... something definitely seems wrong here...."]

With that the blue gem ring went quiet. Uriel’s voice stopped echoing, and everything fell silent.

Julius stood there for a moment, still trying to recover from the shock. What hit him hardest was the last part.

"Seventy deaths?" he muttered. His face showed clear worry, eyes wide and brows pulled together.

Rosalina looked at him and asked softly, "What do you think?"

She stepped a little closer. "I think we shouldn’t rely on Nickel’s knowledge of the book anymore."..

"It’s all over the place now. Ever since we entered the tower, so many things have changed. First that Invincible Path, and now this death thing..."

She had no idea that all that knowledge actually came from Julius, not Nickel.

So right now, Julius felt even more confused.

In the story he remembered, there were no deaths during this arc at all. But here... seventy students had already died.

Rosalina stepped forward and placed a gentle hand on his arm.

"I think we should be more cautious from now on."