Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (WN)

Chapter III.9, "Protecting, Reuniting and Promising"

Approximately five minutes after he rushed out of the evil road - with his connected arm pulled, Subaru was diligently stepping forward with his breath constantly fluttering footsteps as well.

"Hurry up or they'll catch up. What if we're playing?

"Oh, you say that... Tamma, seriously, hey..."

Although Subaru was running forward initially when he ran out, that position has already been reversed due to physical problems.

The girl running in front is breathless and in a spare position. Subaru, on the other hand, could not withstand a prolonged all-powerful walk and was in a state of Gudagda as soon as possible.

If you're just making excuses for Subaru's honor, I can mention that his exhaustion hasn't completely demobilized him yet. Even though Svalbard's flesh, which is also in the middle of rehab, has a low health value since normal times, the current situation is even further underneath it - and so on.

"He's pathetic. Don't you think it's a disgrace, like falling behind a poor maiden like a concubine?

"I'll try to exonerate you of all the hardships because you're sick, me.... but honestly, the flag color sucks pretty bad"

Behind the back, the threat of Subaru and the chimps chasing the girl is still ongoing. Fortunately, the distance between the two who controlled the starting dash and the group is quite open. but basically the alley was the main road, so it is obvious that any time you slow down, you will be caught up.

It's ideal to get out on the boulevard before then.

"For some reason, we're moving on to less and less popular darkness... any thoughts or something?

Slowly, that's what I ask of my orange hair, which goes forward in its unmistakable footsteps. but the girl said to the inquiry, "Ha ha, I don't know!" and refreshingly,

"Everything that a concubine does becomes convenient for a concubine. Therefore, it has never been and will not be necessary to think deeply. Believe in what a concubine does."

"I'm losing my mind... really, something...?

So far, it's definitely her credit that she hasn't hit the end of the line. Instead of going out onto the boulevard, if you look at the possibility of becoming a bag of rats, it is also premature to see the current situation as deteriorating, going deeper. Nevertheless,

"To not see the bright conditions...... physically cumbersome"

"- Hmm, this is trouble."

Subaru chewed the second half of the comment with a rough breath. In front of him, a girl stopped on the fence. Subaru, who was being held back, also stops,

"Come on, I don't have time to stop, they'll catch up with me if I don't earn a little distance"

Speak up to move the girl who stops while jogging on the spot. But the girl twisted her neck to Subaru's words, and then turned her boring eyes to Subaru,

"- I'm tired."

"I'm tired...... ha!?

"I'm tired, I told you. In the first place, why should a concubine run? Concubine's behavior is determined by concubine. By no means does it depend on the words and deeds of the coarse man behind it"

"Oh, I say so!? In fact, that's the way it goes..."

Subaru is in a hurry for the young lady's selfish explosion. Honestly, it's a waste of time to be asking these questions. If you want to save yourself, it's best to put her down and get away with it. but that's why we lose sight of our first purpose in the first place.

Subaru holds his head in a pinch of ideals, reality and escape. and when the girl sees Subaru, who is so faceted, she lets those lips loose in a mean way,

"Hmm, I've decided. - I will honor you with a concubine."

"Norsencue!!

Cross your hands and express your rejection to someone who will come up with a proposal that is not even busy. The girl glanced at Subaru like she was significantly offended by that instant,

"Not everyone gets the honor of holding up a concubine, etc. You're not a fearless man to pretend to be."

"Don't you look like a macho man who can run with each person in his arms, me? Even in perfect condition, I had a child with a lower style value than you, and I had enough! Not to mention now you're already a fresh-born deer with both legs in a state of physical exhaustion, Olah!

He points at both legs trembling in small pieces and barks at the majestic and disgraceful.

looking down at the ugliness of that Subaru, then the girl leaked a frightened exhale, "You have no choice,"

"- Accra"

And I groaned.

"Ah?"

As soon as her whining reached the tympanic membrane, a pale light occurred around the subaru on the fence. Surprisingly enveloping his whole body, the golden glow creates a veil over his skin.

that golden light that softly covers his body, Subaru lifted his hands in front of his face,

"Hey, what the heck!? Oh, Aura looks materialized...... Ora, I'm getting excited......!?

An unusually confusing Subaru that is happening to my body. hidden in the shadow of his agitation, the girl turned behind Subaru in a slow motion,

"If you don't like to hold it, here's the deal"

"Ugh... duh!

Out of words, a girl flies lightly on Subaru's back.

Subaru stomped on both legs at the sign that his arms would be turned around his neck and the girl's entire weight, albeit small - but his impatience disappeared with concern. Because

"What, you. Light on the wings...... you mean my body is in unusual condition!?

Even though I have the girl on my back, I don't feel the weight of that weight. On the contrary, the bags of linga in my hands also disappeared in weight, and the lightness as if both legs where I was jogging had been replaced with new ones.

"With the blessing of a concubine, everyone works like a carriage horse. And so are you."

"Wow, that's so sweet! Natsuki Subaru, I'm going-!"

Run out with one hand on the girl's hips you put on, keeping her from shaking off.

Light light, light feet. Light as if the whole body had taken off its shell called flesh, so much a sense of walking that one leg is comparable to the five legs up to a few minutes ago.

The distance, which should have been jammed during the stagnation, opens again, this time with no sign of shrinking.

Signs of the men going away - even that sharpened feeling picked up sharply, Subaru was filled with an all-powerful feeling of full-body function being enhanced to the extreme.

"What's this, wow! My body's light! I'm not afraid of anything anymore!

Lower yourself to reduce the resistance of the wind, and Subaru's body gaining momentum becomes the wind. His vision narrowed, and he drove along the narrow evil road in the alley at a superb high speed, in the middle of which Subaru turned only to the girl at the neck,

"I ask because I can afford to stay away from you so much... why were you tangled up in the first place?

I find it hard to get my hands on the other hand that this girl looks as flashy as they seem to be on authority. It doesn't matter what you think. It doesn't look like a person from the city well there.

Although it is possible that Tongchinkan was too Tongchinkan to think that far.

To Subaru's inquiry the girl whispered its shapely nose, foreshadowing, "It's no big deal,"

"If you're free to take a look at things, take them away. I just ran into them when I looked in a dirty alley I didn't normally see."

"But that's all it involves..."

"So, if you laugh at their unusual temperament with your nose, it's like that."

"It's your fault!?

"I can't do this to people who aren't comfortable with me."

"You too. Let your mouth slip!?

Girl like a typhoon, I feel sympathy for the Tontinkan caught up in that disaster. Most importantly, in this case, it was subaru that ate the most.

While continuing to say so, Subaru at the front comes across a path that breaks right at right angles. Kill the speed with the momentum to kick the wall, break right with recoil - and I just thought of that flow, a name that flashes behind the fudge brain. It's

"We can't just go down the road and poke them away forever. Then I don't get run down the road, I make the way -"

"Too effective for you to get to your head?

"Don't be awful! And scratch what you suspected of me and regret it!

Saying it off, Subaru puts the gear up even further and rides the speed.

The girl on her back shares the same vision. So you must have found that Subaru's momentum is nothing more than an act of clash against the wall directly in front of him.

She's spinning it around Subaru's neck. Tighten her arms tightly,

"Hey, you. What are you thinking, we'll bump into each other like this..."

"Look at it without saying four or five. Fire! Coming up, the poorly handled little girl in the Glades - up the felt direct wall!!

Feet the grey-brown wall as it moves, ignoring gravity and taking a second step. Make a sound and Subaru's body rises, and Newton Half Cry Walkwalk is achieved -.

"Horseshoe!

I didn't.

In the fourth step, my legs slide free, spinning one turn behind me and falling to the ground to lie down. He punched him hard in the face without even being able to take his passive, Subaru stuffing and rolling on the spot.

"Hihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihi...

"What are you doing?"

Svalbard, complaining of pain with abrasive paint, is looking down at the unusual beast as the girl jumped at the critical. In its hands is a bag of linga that spared the disaster of falling.

Horrified to make sure that he was safe, Subaru woke up his sleeping body,

"Shit, that's just a failure... Felt guy, you're giving me weird hopes..."

It offends a blonde girl who's not here, but wet clothes are a good place for her too. It's true that she broke through the wall in the first place, but she doesn't have the memories of teaching it to Subaru. Of course, I don't even remember being told directly by Subaru.

Showing the failure of a full solitary opening, Subaru tries to stand up to regain his mind when he scratches his head. but

"That, that, leg twist...... you mean, that, that hurts!? Yabe, hey, super painful, super painful!? It just twisted, but it hurts like it's broken!

"You're leaving your whole body in an overfunctional state. Not only do your hands and feet move as you please, but you also feel the pain more hypersensitive than usual."

"Naturally, no!?

Girl talking about the magnitude of the buff effect on Subaru as a matter of course. Is she unwilling to sympathize with Subaru groaning at the pain, "Sa, stand up," she ruthlessly urges. but Subaru dabbles like a child and refuses to "cry painfully" about it.

I can see that the time and distance I earned from it is again consumed for no reason, and that even once again the rough signs of the men are approaching.

And that was the time.

"If you think I've seen you in a while, what are you gonna do?"

Slowly, the Lord of that voice was letting a large body peek from the path to the right that was supposed to break.

Raise your gaze. The normal human head position, but for the person, is still only the chest. Further up the gaze from there, there was a bald head that had grown a beard,

"Oh, you..."

A familiar muscle-running jizzy looked down at Subaru and the girl.

"Oh, my God! Now I win -!!"

"It's been a long time since you were an early angry kid, you. I'll leave you."

"Help me, Seriously Help! It's a crisis of chastity and a crisis of gut!

The former is the girl and the latter is the crisis in Subaru.

The bad guys must be selling their guts, the assumption comes from prejudice, but the old man who heard about it - Grandpa Rom sees the girl's identity and Subaru,

"Why do you just stick your neck in trouble? When you make a scene with a woman, you can't put it in the corner."

"I don't need that kind of colorful jizzy kind of comment! Help!"

Stand up in pain and worship down Grandpa Rom with a one-legged jump. He stroked that hairless head like he was in trouble, a gaze worthy of a decent girl. The girl exposed to it clearly put an unpleasant look on her face,

"Don't turn your unclean eyes on your concubine, you dirty little jizz."

"Me too, but you're pretty nasty too!? I found it in hell. How dare you say that to a raw, dead bastard! Don't feel bad for me, Grandpa Rom. Me and this guy, the roots are just a little honest!

"It's as good as ever to cut people's motives, you are! Hide away!

He blocks the mouth of the girl who still said he didn't spit enough poison, and jumps in the direction indicated by Grandpa Rom turning his neck. There's stuffed waste material on the wall there, and if you succumb well, there's going to be room to just hide the two bodies.

Push the girl into the place first, and Subaru also pushes in like a plug with his ass. The girl complained about the dusty place, but Subaru managed to block that mouth to death and push her dissatisfaction to death.

"Grandpa Rom, ok"

"Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa! If they find us, it's the same thing with Noon."

Though evil in his mouth, Grandpa Rom covers his two bodies further out of sight with that giant. That's how they keep their backs on the wall and kill their breath behind Grandpa Rom, who arms them together.

Just a few seconds after hiding, multiple footsteps arrived in an alley just around the corner -,

"Holy shit! I thought you were a kid. You're so jizzy!

The man who was running the lead cursed in front of Grandpa Rom's giant, even though he could barely fly right to people's signs. and when Grandpa Rom sends his silent gaze, that's all the man takes a step back, "Oh, oh," as he frustrated the prestige,

"What's all the noise? I can't impress you with an old man's imitation."

It wouldn't have been particularly intimidating, but that's just one intimidation if a giant like Grandpa Rom said in a low voice and in a bad mood.

It has the effect of aiming correctly and runs upset at the men who have caught up with the man as a start. But...

"Who do you think you are, Cromwell's Jizzy?"

Out of that group, one man called it that, pointing to Grandpa Rom.

Subaru raised his eyebrows at the unfamiliar name, but it was Grandpa Rom himself, the called side, who reacted more prominently than that.

And he carved upon his wrinkled face a deep wrinkle, which should be even more bitter,

"I hate being called by that name."

"Is that how you're in a position to order people? I hear you didn't get a good look from the guys in the Glades when you smashed up the burglary?

"It's where years of dirt have accumulated. It's not as clean or refreshing as it sounds.... I'll let you do whatever you want now."

Grandpa Rom replied with little change of expression to the man on the burning surface.

You thought you couldn't want any more reaction from poking him, when the man shrugged his shoulder,

"Ha, well, do whatever you want. However, if you don't bow your head to Mr. Russell, come and say hello soon. The worse you get, the worse you get."

When the man throws up all that much, he walks out the alley again with the men behind him. and look back before disappearing from view that way,

"And yes. Cromwell's Jizzy...... Two kids, didn't they come this way?

"Take a look. Don't you guys know the blonde daughter that Noon knows?

"I don't know. Ha, is it that important that the kid just picked it up? I don't want to get too busy with each other."

I waved and the men walked away this time.

Jizzed off that back, Grandpa Rom was biting his lips so he could indulge in anger.

Looking at its side from the gaps in the waste material, Subaru can't help but feel uncomfortable. It's a pleasant fact that Grandpa Rom, who hasn't seen each other in a long time, is friendly here. But how he is now is a little out of line with Subaru's known figure,

"Until hifu..."

"Hmm?"

When he heard a whispering voice, Subaru interrupted his thought and looked next door.

Immediately beside, a beautiful girl is succumbing to a breathtaking distance, whose mouth still remains blocked by the palms pressed for the purpose of sealing the words.

She did so, moving her blocked mouth with her toes,

"Block the fluffy fluffy fluffy... come on!

Blink, and the intense pain of canine teeth eating into your palms with relentless force...

"- Ahin!!

and the screaming of a tall subaru like a puppy sounded quietly in the corner of the alley.

"Thanks for teasing me, Grandpa Rom. I suspected it was a mess because I was hitting him hard in the head, but it seemed to be okay more than anything."

"You... you can change your mind if they're still there."

"Don't tell me it's a small piece of diagram! I'm the only one with enough midgets, yay!

Grandpa Rom sighed with a tired face at Subaru as he thumbed up and glowed his teeth.

The place has been moved out of an earlier narrow alley and into a slightly opened street. It was this place that led the Subaru out of the gaps in the waste material as a place that Grandpa Rom would not see.

Subaru and the girl were finally able to get comfortable when the threat of the men coming after them was removed. Out of that sense of emancipation comes the opening word, which means.

"Hey, you. I'll be friendly, but who is this jizzy? Explain to the concubine."

And the girl, who has kept her silence so far, finally pulls Subaru's sleeve in frustration. Subaru nodded "Oh," to the girl who showed Grandpa Rom with her jaw in a dignified manner,

"This grandfather was the face behind Wangdu Glades, the seller and giant Grandpa Rom, who did the ex-clothes of the bad guys, is an asshole. Stunts are holes and grandchildren adorable, and biting dogs"

"I know I'm glad to see you again with Jizzy, but you're a little too ridiculous, aren't you, kid?

Put your hands over Subaru's hands pointing to yourself, and Grandpa Rom puts up with Subaru so. Subaru responded with a less reflective attitude of "bad bad,"

"Though, it's too much of a joke, but it's not like it's full of lies,"

"Some of it is true, is that it? I mean, you're a bad habit living in a favela, you chewy, hole-saving biting dog. I've lived to that age, and I feel sorry for you."

"I'm quite angry with you, too!

Subaru and the girl swap shoulder shrugging motions in front of Grandpa Rom, who steps on the group too much.

Then Subaru turns to his depressing grandfather Rom,

"Either way, it's really good to see you, Grandpa Rom. I was dying myself when I blew it, so I didn't have the means to check the situation."

"... I don't know if you're switching fast, you're a crazy kid. I heard you got hungry too, but you look fine."

Grandpa Rom smiles bitterly, then looks lightly at Subaru's entire body from top to bottom. He looked painfully at the scars on Subaru's exposed skin,

"I can't even tell you about people, but I think I got hit pretty badly with that knife."

"No, the spot where Motoko hit me is the basic belly, so it's all the scratches after that one around here,"

"It's only been a little over a week since then. What happened!?

"It's fine because it's long and hard to talk to. I can talk like this because I have life. So I'm satisfied. So I'll get back to it."

Hiding scars from Grandpa Rom's astonishing gaze, Subaru points to those in the Glades (supposedly) and brings up the story of the backdrop of things again.

"After the noise of the stolen goods collection, what happened? Blah, we're out of work, but are you eating something decent? You're done with all the vegetables again."

"I don't know what you came up with in the second half, but I'll do whatever it takes. It wasn't just my job to swallow anything in a stolen goods store. If you lived behind the king's capital until this age, you'd have a lot of it."

Grandpa Rom answers Subaru, who worries like a mother in the country, laughing at Kaka and saying so.

In fact, if you haven't earned that much credit in the Glades, you can't possibly get into the role of putting together stolen goods, etc. Tute, because I guess it's not a hatchet.

Either way, if you don't have the after-effects of an injury in that one or worry about your life afterwards, it's a story of relief for Subaru. Of course it was a low percentage of heart-breaking stories compared to the faces of Emilia and the Roswar mansion and their women.

"That's right, so I wasn't worried about Grandpa Rom."

"I hate to say this, but I wanted to ask you something from Non."

And that's what Grandpa Rom tells Subaru, who dropped the tone of his voice on the pretend, to show meaningless tunderation. Seeing a mix of seriousness in his face, Subaru also rebuilds his previously disintegrating attitude. Then the sleeve of that Subaru was pulled from behind the lid.

Looking back. A girl stands closer than necessary and Subaru is surprised by her nearest beauty. to that Subaru. She

"Concubine, bored"

"Don't be selfish with this flow"

"It's not selfish, it's the world's choice."

"That's weird. Then let's give it a quiz. Which is the most uphill or downhill in this world? Lets Thinkin"

Throw the girl into the sea of thought, and Subaru turns to Grandpa Rom. Then he gets his nose screwed and dissatisfied, "Go ahead," he shows his hand with intent.

He exhaled at that attitude of Subaru, and then shook his head like he had regained his mind,

"Kid. Do you know where Felt went?

"... you haven't heard? I'm talking about the guy from Reinhardt."

"Reinhardt...... you mean 'Sword Saint'? How did" The Knight in the Knight "come to talk about taking Felt?

Grandpa Rom tilting his neck all the time if he doesn't know for real. Subaru pitied the old man's misfortune "after all, the effect of a hard blow to the head" in his attitude, but I think back to one incident in the stolen goods store and convince him of the story.

In the middle of that one, if I recall, it was before Reinhardt's intrusion that Grandpa Rom lost consciousness. Later, I don't remember Grandpa Rom having contact with Reinhardt in conscious condition until Subaru lost consciousness. In other words:

"Poor old Rom, left on the site of the stolen goods, woke up and no one could tell him the upside down, and he had to groan in front of his abandoned home"

"I'm not going to be in such a cutthroat situation. It was the guard's jam that woke Noon up. It was helpful to have been treated, but I was given some free time soon."

"Oh, sure. I see. That's a little uncomfortable."

It's a living, uncomfortable story that someone with a bad feeling wakes up in a police hospital. I can't afford to hear more about it and it's no wonder I get away with it early.

This seems to mean that Grandpa Rom could not even come into contact with Reinhardt for protecting the felt because he left the jar without asking about the details and was forced to hang around until now.

"Does that make the conversation different? Ok, let's just talk about the part before I lose consciousness and the part after I lose consciousness."

Forward, Subaru gestures and lets VTR reproduce the sword saint vs bowel hunt, one of the biggest showdown of that stolen goods collection by himself.

Grandpa Rom admired Subaru for his senselessly compelling acting skills, and the girl who seemed bored was enough to shine her eyes and stay ahead.

"And I was surprised to say this to her. - Tell me your name."

"Ka! I said it, I said it!

"Ho, isn't that quite a graceful rhetoric? I don't hate concubines either."

I finish talking about martial arts while feeling slightly derailed.

We were all excited and chilled by the slightly feverish explanation, but the first of them, Grandpa Rom, returned to me,

"This is not the time to do something. Uh, I mean, the kid doesn't know anything other than that Felt was taken by 'Kensei' either, does he?

"Oh, I will..."

"Both uphill and downhill would be set at the same number!

"Bhahhh!

Suddenly he eats a body blow at the girl who arrives at the right answer, and Subaru squeezes into the spot with stuffiness. Waving the fist that punched Subaru, the girl declared satisfied with it or "Do whatever you want with the rest".

Grandpa Rom often looked down at the groaning Subaru with dismay,

"I don't know what you're saying, but I think you should choose your partner."

"I'm choosing! And then there's the other one. Wait for me! In the middle of an indelible effort out of sight DAZE!

Bouncing up, Subaru poses pointing out Grandpa Rom's misunderstanding. Then Subaru coughs up and returns to the topic,

"It's been a tough one for years, and I can't ask you directly to Reinhardt's house or something?

"If it's so versatile, do you want to live in an abandoned house and drink? But then it becomes a troublesome story. - More so, the Astreas."

In the second half, the whining is made only in Grandpa Rom's mouth to reach Subaru's ears. I looked up at Grandpa Rom, who looked serious, and Subaru acted to shrug his shoulders if he had no choice.

"Well, maybe you can talk to Reinhardt on my side, so I'll tell Grandpa Rom if I find out anything. I originally thought I'd have to see what Felt was up to."

"That's a helpful story... you're the one with the weird twat. What's that got to do with the lady over there?

You remember who Subaru was when we met before, and it seems that Grandpa Rom decided that Subaru's source of confidence was not Subaru's own but his surroundings.

The decision itself is not wrong, but it is wrong to assume that it is on that girl's side.

"No, not at all. I don't even know her name in the first place."

"What kind of training ground do you take with someone whose name you don't even know?!?

"Looking back, Emilia, I was so desperate to know you didn't even know your name, and I was wondering if that's even funny as far as my behavior was concerned."

You even felt tired of Subaru answering the obvious, Grandpa Rom meditates and throws out his thoughts, "It's not just futile to think" when he puts his finger between his eyebrows.

Then Grandpa Rom looked straight at Subaru,

"If you're not that lady, there's a chance you could make a chance to talk to 'Kensei', right?

"Nothing. It would be higher than Grandpa Rom, I think. Leave me the peace of mind of crossing an aging bridge!

"The bridge is a clamping and crossing doctrine, but how did this happen..."

Proudly slapping Subaru on the chest, Grandpa Rom nodded like he was ready to stroke his bald head.

"Aye, okay. Let's ask you. If I find out about Felt, I want Non to tell me too. I'll thank you if I can."

"Don't get excited. Is it like grandson cuteness or something?

"- Right. She's like a grandson to Nong. So please."

"Well, he asked me to."

Straightforward, if they say it out without a coward, then there is no objection from Subaru. To all the pleasant affirmations, my mouth was unwittingly loose.

What would that blonde daughter think if she knew she was loved so much too? It's about that kid, so I think he might make me look red and try to strengthen him.

"If I do, how can I contact Grandpa Rom?

"Right.... There is a store called 'Cadmon' on the commercial street. If you give me the name of Nong on the strong side there, I will be able to take the connection. So please."

"Orai Orai, Cadmon...... Cadmon?

Hi. I feel like the most recent, engraved word in my memory, and Subaru tilts his neck.

In the meantime, if you know the commercial street and location, it won't be a problem. The more you hit the smudges, the more you will find the store.

Nodding and showing understanding, Subaru and Grandpa Rom exchanged firm promises.

From Subaru, it's a waste of money to go, and there's no reason to say no. Just do what you were originally trying to do and make money if you think you can free up some of the limited lives of old, short old men.

"Or if Emilia Tan is an excuse. This is for me, too."

"Did I say something?

"No, nothing. Oh, my God, Grandpa Rom. All of a sudden, I'm gonna need your help."

Raising his fingers and turning back to Grandpa Rom, Subaru rocks his hips and calls his gaze.

Grandpa Rom looked blatantly disgusted by his earlier offer, but there are promises he had just exchanged. The look remains bitter but the stance to hear "what the hell".

Subaru foretold him, "It's not a big deal,"

"Actually, me and that woman are totally lost. Before I fulfilled my promise, my adventure ended here! So please show us to the street."

"... what, you know what? Okay, I'll take care of it. On which street?

"In the meantime, please get to the front of the jar"

"Did you hear about Noon escaping the jar?!?

Grandpa Rom's turned scream sucks into the alley sky.

After Emilia and I fell apart, it was time for a small hour to pass empty.