Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (WN)

Chapter iv 20 "test results"

- A gray-haired girl is leaning her little neck as she sits in the middle seat of the classroom.

With that gaze, Subaru is constantly making sure there are no other shadows indoors. I took my half body out of the classroom into the hallway and reiterated it all the way to the poking left and right - again accepting that it wasn't popular at all, then scratched my head and spilled a sigh.

"First of all, I want to tell you something."

"Yeah, let's hear it. What do you think, what do you think, and what do you talk about? I'm very interested in that."

You look great in that uniform.

Subaru points and says so to the witch who shines her eyes in curiosity. and the witch who heard it looked decent for only a moment, and then erupted without overlaughing,

"Ha, thank you. If you think so, I'm worth replicating from your memory, too. It's the clearest outfit in your memory and the one you've seen a lot of times. Is it going to be a favorite or something?

The girl who got up from her seat and picked the edge of the grey skirt - letting Echidna twirl around on the spot. The white hair to the shoulder is shaken by the movement, and the way it's shaken just seems like an age-appropriate girl.

Gray skirt, dark blue blazer. The red ribbon decorating the chest indicates that it is the same grade as Subaru and contrasts bright and dazzling with the white shirt worn below.

However, if you are somewhat dissatisfied,

"I like skirts longer than shorter. Longer turns can stir your imagination."

"I see. Now let's make sure you wear a long skirt to keep up with your expectations, even if you turn it around next time."

"I don't get that chance, though! And nothing. They're not all in uniform because they love me. It's up to me to dress like that here. Maybe with the Kingsguard."

Echidna laughs with her hands on her mouth when she dulls. That attitude is like talking half Subaru's excuses, and asking for more is unlikely to return the answer you wanted.

Shrouding his shoulders, Subaru pulls the chair in his seat from behind the classroom - the second, halfway position behind the window - and slowly lowers his back there.

The feel of a stiff wood chair. Alphabet at the edge of the desk carved by previous users. A desk foot that weighs in to sleep. In a rusty drawer. All of them are everyday shards that Subaru was a long way from.

"I thought you'd be more surprised."

"If you're willing to hide it, you should have put a little hand on the background, too. I can't believe we didn't have one kid on our way to school before we got here."

Even considering the weekday afternoon, there were too many signs of people on Subaru's walking journey. It's as if you've cut anything but the information you need for Subaru from the world.

"It was too convenient for me. It was a world. I can't tell you how much I wanted you to be."

"No, no, that's another joy. Trying to get results is what makes me happy. How it turns out doesn't really matter at this time. Of course, if we take into account whether or not we'll be able to connect afterwards, we'll change the story a little bit."

Echidna, who should have been removed from her thoughts, waved her raised hand from left to right and said so without loss. Seeing no sincere negative emotions there, Subaru indulged in his desire to tongue inside.

"So what is this world? I did go into your grave in the middle of a" trial "and so..."

"You're qualified. You're in. Naturally, I guess the Trial just started against you, too. Didn't you hear? First, he told me to face the past."

Throwing words affirming Subaru's imagination, Echidna slowly walks toward Subaru with her hands behind her back. Beautiful girl's hair shakes in the wind, and in a refreshingly cool breezy classroom, she blends in uncomfortably in her uniform.

I feel that every one of those casual tricks is set up with a trap that intertwines this one's mind, and Subaru consciously distracts from her. and

"Everyone has regrets about the past. If you live your days, there can be no such thing as having no regrets. I regret what happened yesterday, yesterday even more about the past, and tomorrow I'm sure I will regret what happened today. - People have the ability to regret it."

"Don't be pessimistic. It's a human function to change that regret into reflection, to do something about today in yesterday's reflection, and to make today's reflection a breakthrough tomorrow."

"- Exactly!

Subaru unwittingly glances at Echidna, who makes a thirsty noise and slaps his hand, bringing his face closer. but when she looks forward to following Subaru's face, which she doesn't mind, she leans that black eye at a breathtaking distance,

"It's just word play, and what you're reading is a little bit of a difference in thinking. But there are very different ways of giving answers depending on whether you are pessimistic or optimistic about the past. Most things pessimise the past, look back at all the bad memories they remember, and deny the journey they have taken. And I denied it, and I didn't want to see it, and I decided I wasn't wearing a lid."

"Hey, my face is... close... eh"

"It's a matter of no choice. Because yesterday I am absolutely more ignorant than I am today. Because I know less today than I do tomorrow. The past is inferior to the present and the future, even if it is one of the total quantities of knowledge, memories. That's the truth!

Unaware of the subaru under pressure, the heated echidna's tongue continues. When she abruptly let go of her body from it, she slapped her desk full of force with both hands,

"Thus when we confront the past, or when we encounter a past to confront, people get lost, confused, mourn, suffer, mourn, pessimism, and give answers on it. If it's the answer that came out on it, I'll affirm whatever it is. Whether it's the answer I gave with my back turned or the answer I got by reaching for the front, it must be a testament to getting over the past"

"Is that what this' trial 'is all about?"

"Exactly. Confronting one's past and giving the only answer to what is in that past. If you're afraid to give an answer, you don't like it, and you just have a head, you can't cross the 'trials' or anything else permanently. But if I can affirm or deny the past, I'll drop it off with admiration. That's the first" trial. "

He nodded at Subaru at the point, and then Echidna returned to me to the lid, and coughed up small with a slight redness in his cheek,

"Shh, you're just getting a little excited. I'm sorry to show you the ugly part."

"I don't care about anything. If it stinks of breath, it's me, but fortunately it was citrus. than that......"

Gaining the emotion of seeing something rare in Shameful Echidna, Subaru pulls a chair and changes his posture to sit at the front.

"If what you say is a condition for crossing the Trial, can I assume that I have survived the Trial?"

"I let you see the whole thing... but I think we've got enough results"

Hands on his chest, Echidna breathed deeply as if enjoying the aroma of aromatic tea, with a severely satisfied face,

"You gave an answer to both the symbol of trauma in the past and the dependence on guilt in the past. I want to send that out with admiration."

"All in all... so you were also watching me sniffle and cry!?

"Your eyes were moisturized by surprise."

"Let it go!! Don't tell anyone, it's embarrassing!

If I could tell I'd been teething about a breakup with my father, a scene that stripped me of my emotions, that wouldn't be funny. More importantly, it's an insult to Subaru and Sachiichi's emotions at that moment.

You know what that feels like this one or not, only Echidna laughs when she tickles without breaking her amusing attitude,

"I'm just wondering if I could spare you a deeper taste of your annoyance at facing the past"

"Ah?"

"I prefer to get answers, but I think that there is also a tribute to knowledge on the way to giving the answers. I was worried, scratched and looking forward to your answers on top of that..."

Him and her eyes narrowed as they sidelined Subaru and peered into the back of those black eyes.

"Hate and in order to enjoy it, this' trial 'seems to have been a little, late. It seemed like it was after you gave one answer to the negative feelings you had about your past."

"Oh... you mean that. If that's the case, you must have been sad."

Understanding Echidna's unfortunate reasons, Subaru exhales deeply out of his nose.

Apparently, the way she wanted to face the 'trials' was for Subaru to reunite with her parents, who were the origin of past traumas, to come here aware of their weaknesses in the days and hours she spent with them, to be bored, to give answers as to whether to flee or face them, and to settle on them.

But to do that Subaru has already,

"There was a kid who told me I couldn't help but be a hero. Now I don't have to face the past. I was just accepting that I couldn't."

"In a different way than giving up, right? Unless, as far as I'm concerned, my thoughts are off and it's not funny. When I see you outside with those kids, I want you to tell them that the witch was saying grudges."

That's an unsolicited threat complaint, he tries to slap lightly, and Svalbard realizes. To Echidna's mouth, to a statement that doesn't fall on her heart.

"You, you said earlier that you relied on my memory to reproduce it or something... if you peeked into my head, don't you know that's the kid who said it?

Or maybe that was more of a stirring feeling than a notice. Even if it's because I peeked into Subaru's head, I want to know about the Lem lost from that world, because there's something about Lem that can tell the existence of that adorable girl. However,

"It's bad where you're expected. Even I, who am greedy, can draw the line between good and bad. I sucked the information I needed for this" trial, "but I can't handle the rest of it. What's so funny about stealing knowledge out of it? I don't feel like throwing away the pleasure of telling the story myself."

What came back was his possession as a witch of a kind that Subaru could not understand.

It was a theory that could only be described as echidna's beliefs or as burglar fierce, but if they say so back, Subaru can say nothing. It's just...

"He said he only pulled out the parts necessary for this' trial '... then pull out that uniform for what..."

"Of course, I pulled that out because it was the information I needed to recreate the building called this school. I knew the unknown sight of another world, and I never extracted it in anticipation of what the girls who lived there were dressed to look good on me."

"You, are you a bit of a smart idiot?

Svalbard shakes his head as he hits an echidna sigh that falls to speak.

Well, apparently, I'm not going to be able to hear the answers I'm expecting from her. And there have been times when I have gained certainty. It's

"I don't even have to ask. After all, this world..."

"Oh, yeah. This is a world of fiction that relies on your memory to capture and reproduce reality with unlimited fidelity. So of course - your real parents must be worried about your missing son without knowing where or what you're doing."

――――

"Some information you don't know may have brought... but really, you didn't know that? Can you assure me that you have never seen a letter from a mutual acquaintance between my father and my mother? You've never met an old man who knew his father when he was a child? Have you ever really thought of a different father than you thought?

Echidna that keeps the word going like it's tatami. She went on to say "or" even more,

"Did you really think you could hide it through your mind that you didn't think it was known? Was there some certainty somewhere that I was tightly enclosed without divulging my true desire to make it easier for you to know? Can you affirm to a fictional father that you still don't want his mother to have the selfish sentiment to love him?

Faced by a silent Subaru, Echidna ends up demonizingly tickling her heart with a whispering voice. And at a breathtaking distance, she said,

"Too ideal, too convenient - don't you think?

――――

Echidna smiles as she gently chooses Subaru's heart with her soft fingertips.

Unlike a smile that seemed appropriate until then, it seemed disastrous everywhere and the very way 'witches' are told in the heritage.

Her brain is humiliated by such a sobering word of hers, and Subaru closes his eyes firmly. Behind the meditating lid. In that dark world comes the last image of my father and mother I saw -,

"It didn't work. Don't disparage my parents with a return of interest, witch"

"... what?

"I told you all my answers. My father and mother, they took it. I said everything I couldn't tell you, and they told me to work hard. That's what they said."

I get up from my chair, put my hand on my desk, and poke my forehead at Echidna, who was looking at me this way. Watching the witch's black eyes open to surprise, Subaru said,

"My voice, my smile, everything, it was all smashing my imagination back then. - My parents aren't the kind of vessels that fit into my imagination. Don't lick it."

――――

"I told my father and mother everything. That's how I put it on and came back. - I'm not confused by your words."

Pushing back with his bumped forehead, turning the witch upside down, Subaru falls back into the chair again. I put my foot together in a thoughtful and rambling manner, and looked up at Echidna in a flurry.

Echidna looked distracted by Subaru's attitude,

"Totally...... what a witch crying person you are to not even show yourself worried about the right or wrong answer that came out. Damn, that's great."

"I'll be flattered. Plus, you're a kid who stretches when you're praised, so you'll grow up, me."

"I don't lose my mouth...... oh, but enough. Enough is enough. It's a pleasure to have a firm answer that I won't allow to shake."

Echidna shook her head and smiled, as she gave up, and lowered her hips there as she turned the chair in front of Subaru to this way,

"The 'trial' is over in the true sense of the word. You made fun of the witch's demon. [M] Praise that...... before I go back, I'm going to answer if that's what you want to hear?

"Well, one for now, then"

"Yeah, tell me."

nodding echidna. Subaru stuck his raised finger straight at her,

"You said" trials "had nothing to do with it.... where is it! You're not talking about where you're involved, are you, mastermind? What's not involved, what side was lowered to arrange such a lie?

"I wonder if there's enough defenseless and alert to take the witch's words as they are. I told you when we broke up. I'm a bad witch."

"Oh well. Well, if you don't trust one of those bad witch words, there's nothing I'd like to hear.... Can this unseal the 'sanctuary'?

"I really don't mind mumbling around flipping opinions in the second half. Unfortunately, this will not be as easy as the end of the Trial. There are three Trials in total. I don't think it's that hard if you survived this first 'trial'."

Receiving the momentum of the exasperating Subaru, Echidna answers firmly when she stands three fingers. With that in mind Subaru groaned in his mouth alone, "Three or..."

"Either way, we have to unseal the 'sanctuary'. Nothing. You can solve it if I complete the" trials. "We'll cover that place, won't we?

"That's why I qualified you. Naturally. Whether it's you or any other qualified half, if I survive the Trial, I will bless it with the liberation of the Sanctuary. How do we get past the two remaining 'trials' instead? I'm going to look forward to your answers."

Seeing Echidna's snort of affirmation, Subaru rises when he responds "Yes".

That's all I want to ask her. There is nothing more to gain in this place, which is a world of fiction, where we have stayed for a long time. My grieving emotions were pulling my hair back, but I didn't break up with what was most heartbreaking.

Even if, as the witch said, it was only the first one provisionally.

"Hey, Echidna"

"What. Hey, you want me to give you one last shot? Well, I have a sense that I've done what I deserve. If you want it, I'm not willing to spoil it for you. It's just that I'm still a girl. I'd like you to avoid your face if you can..."

"Thanks."

――――

Absolutely. Echidna, who had put in a long and useless explanation, loses her voice to Subaru's words.

To her attitude like that, Subaru felt something petty for the first time.

"Even if it wasn't real, even if it wasn't passed on to the real two, it's because of you that I could tell them what I wanted to tell them. Even as a result of your curiosity about being careless like shit, I was able to say goodbye when I met people I wasn't supposed to see anymore."

There was nothing I could do, I could look a little upward, a little decent, a little chesty, to the two of them who should have kept letting me down with all their little, pitiful looks.

"That's all, I appreciate it. So thank you."

"... it's very interesting that a human being named you doesn't understand. I'm afraid so."

It's not a joke or a lie, it's an echidna with eyes that are serious and even feel threatened. to that girlfriend. Subaru turned to a grin holding up the edge of his mouth,

"I caught a little guy like me, and the witch was a lot weaker. Well, fine. Where's the exit?"

"There's nothing hard about it. Already, the disappearance of this world has begun. Except for this building, it's not even properly built. - If you leave the building, you'll be back inside the old cemetery."

"That's a lot more convenient. - See you after the next trial."

Waving, Subaru took his seat and went to the exit of the classroom. Feeling Echidna's gaze on its back, he walked out without looking back any more.

The world outside the window, the sight that should have been spreading in the blue sky, the distance is starting to blur. The world of fiction ends its role and disappears where it is.

Both my father, who pushed Subaru's back, and my mother, who sent Subaru away, disappear with the disappearance of this world. Everywhere, they're gone.

"... I've already been taught everything that matters"

Emotions that stick up in your chest. Svalbard rubs his lid with his sleeve once harder for the feeling of the back of his eyes getting hot. And the raised face, no more tear aftertaste anywhere in those eyes.

Just straight forward, Subaru's legs continue to the exit of the ending world.

On our way, gradually the world will turn white, far away, and -.

"- It's gone, huh? Oh man, you're so tough on your thoughts, he is."

- Classroom after Subaru's departure.

In the room, where all the deserted desks and chairs lined up, the leftover Echidna plugged her hand into her forehead and kept her weight at her desk for fun.

The collapse of the world is beginning.

A world that relies on memories returns to the dust of fiction by losing the person it relies on. While I feel that lost world on my skin, Echidna's consciousness is not directed at any footing or atmosphere that is likely to disappear now.

Her consciousness was on one point - in front of the blackboard, directed to the position of the teaching table. There,

"I wonder if that's who you're supposed to be leaning on."

"-To me, to me, to me, to me, to me, to me, to me."

"I'm stuck in my castle and frightened to forget even if I see him once in a while. Such a body, how well can you claim it so much. You don't understand me."

"Extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra, extra.

Even words are uttered out of the ordinary track, and Echidna frowns at disgust.

One shadow had arisen in front of her, in front of the table - the shadow of a woman. Dressed in a pitch-black dress, it's a shadow with long silver hair. From its chest, however, is covered by a disastrous black shadow, which should also be called a curse, and you cannot see its face.

Most of all, from the words spoken and the madness that emanates, it's not even easy to imagine.

After Subaru's departure, Echidna naturally accepts that presence, which abruptly descended and sprang up. As if you knew it would show up here.

"Naturally, I guess. I let him step into his heart with my earthly feet. I was going to keep you from touching your realm... but still, can't we just be inviolable to each other?

"One fingertip, one skin, one nail sweet skin, a muscle of hair, a grain of sweat, a drop of saliva, one word, a breath of breath, a fragment of emotion, everything, everything..."

"Own, you mean? No, in front of you, the eagle will want to return the name 'Greed'. I can't even think about it."

"I love you, I love you, I love you"

Therefore, 'jealousy' never tolerates echidna touching contraindications.

The shadow took a step forward. That's all, her space until then is swallowed up in the shadows and disappears. The front of the classroom, the walls where the blackboard was installed and up to the third row of seats are dragged into the shadow of the witch at the top and chewed.

Echidna, who barely flew behind him, spared the damage, but aiming at his neck so that the shadow could form and stretch up his arms as he followed her. Before the tumbling pink black serpent fangs, Echidna leaks one exhale,

"Because it remains too untrained to be erased here. Let me take some cowardly hands..."

Shortly after Echidna faintly sank herself saying so, a shadow that should have been aimed at Echidna's throat was struck by a shock and bounced off.

Shadowy footsteps stall on that sight. Nestled in the place where Echidna was supposed to have stood, in front of the shadows that were sluggishly lowering their hands,

"I get summoned so often, ha. You can't even go to bed, huh?"

A red-purple haired woman sitting neatly on the ground, breathing carelessly - the manifestation of "The Lazy Witch" Sekhmet.

The shadow that confirms it tries to move forward if it doesn't change what it does. but

"Ha, that's no use."

The upper body of the shadow turned back so that it could be bounced into a slight impact.

A shadow recedes into the power of the blow, and his body sinks into the darkness he has created. With a loose neck to the result, the shadow lifted its right arm to Sekhmet.

As soon as possible, a black demon hand is released from the shadow swallowed up half of the classroom, enough to cover his sight. from all directions, the black shadow of death blocking all directions - but even that,

"No use, I'm telling you, Phew."

All of the swirling black demons disappear in an instant, and the aftermath that never lingers is continuously struck across the body of the shadow. Sekumeto, who sews the flesh of the shadow vibrating into the shock onto the wall and looks up at it with an unwilling face, has not left it slightly vibrating while sitting in the gym.

Still, however, Sekhmet's attacks continue to be slammed into the whole body of the shadow, gradually beginning to shatter its flesh, which had become barren.

shock sounds and the stuffy shadow. Sekhmet watched as he brutally scratched his hair,

"With all the power sealed, huh. Besides, in the castle made by Echidna the Sexual Evil, Phew. You can't beat me with a loss in local power, huh?"

Sekumeto bites the stretch to death. The blow stopped and the beaten shadow collapsed on its knees on the spot - and the shock from directly above crushed it relentlessly to the ground.

Sinking in the black shadow, disappearing 'Jealousy' looks up to Sekhmet.

"Why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why

"Ha. - Answering also stinks of trouble"

Beating him spicy, Sekhmet waves his lifted hand down small.

At that moment, half of the school building collapses in shock and the collapse of dust and earth swallows the shadow of 'jealousy' to the bottom of the earth.

In a world that has already begun to disappear, there is nowhere to come back if you fall that far apart.

"How come until you die, huh? Do I have to go out with that again, huh?"

A world of faster collapse with its own deeds. 'Lazy Witch' slips her ass in the corner to the slightest better as she collapses in a corner of a lost classroom.

She finally looked up at the sun outside the broken window, keeping her back on the wall and feeling the feeling of being pulled in with the ending world and the end of her role.

"It's boring, huh? Witches, too - those attracted to witches, huh?"

Shortly after such a worrying exhalation leaked, the world disappeared with the light.