Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (WN)
Chapter iv 63: empathy of death
The sound of the purple blue pile standing against the meat is chained, and the purple crystals scattered across the impact fill the passage with radiant indiscriminate reflections.
Countless piles should have targeted Elsa's thin body from all directions and tailored it to a beehive.
A sign of a must-win. Breathtaking of Beatrice's overwhelming magical powers, but watching the power of a girl who didn't even teeth a killer in front of her eyes, she couldn't help but kill off a unpleasant feeling of an explosion swelling up in her chest.
- I feel like I'm forgetting something. Don't fall out, something.
All sorts of emotions get in the way by the time I pull it out of my memory of what it is.
For what purpose did Elsa come to the Mansion? On the death of Frederica, whom I doubted, my heart is screwed by my shame for her and the cause of her death. I haven't even digested up about Petra, and the depths of my emotions are screaming to see if Lem is cheap or not that he's supposed to be across the door. What do we do with Beatrice and what do we have to talk to her about?
One thing, the confusion that confuses Subaru's mind has not been able to give an answer.
――――
So Subaru misses the opportunity that should have been avoided and regrets it.
"- Buh, ah?
Breaking through the brilliance, something flew in stood deep on Subaru's right shoulder.
I glanced at the sensation of pain and my thoughts were red fever when I watched the wound bleeding out carefully. A scream bursts like grinding his throat, and Subaru clamps his ass cake in the hallway, holding the wound back.
"Why......!? Could it have been a direct hit!?
Look at the wounded Subaru, and Beatrice screams like that.
Subaru realizes when he hears Beatrice scream as his thoughts are burned by pain. I noticed. It's not. No, I just hit him. That's for sure. But...
"Elsa ah!!
"You don't have to be so enthusiastic to call me, I hear you right."
Inspired by fierce pain, the fury of Hell abounds apart from screaming from Subaru's mouth. Corresponding is across the hallway where the brilliance is rampant - a quiet voice, with a luster that doesn't make you feel like you're exchanging lives or anything.
"It can't be intact."
"If I'd been naked, I'd be dead by now."
Elsa answers Beatrice shaking her head, shaking three long braids. There's no trace of Beatrice's magical direct hit on that figure. Just before, just like that.
No, only one place is different. I took off the black coat that had been woven until just before, and now I'm just looking lightly in the black outfit beneath it.
"Of magic deactivation, coat!
"It must have been the second time you've seen me. Instead, I think I'm a long way behind on teaching that girl."
"Shit......!
Anger boils over the pain at the inadmissibility of the word loss, etc.
Elsa's feather-woven coat helps her magic only once. - That Subaru should have seen and known when he bumped into Elsa in the king's capital.
In view of the unexpected raids and the lack of cooperation with Beatrice, it is a kind of failure that should not have occurred.
"If the seed breaks, it won't surprise you."
"- Fine. Wow, that's great. Strong, pathetic. I think I can enjoy the warmth of the girl who just cries."
Elsa smiles as she turns the Kukli knife in her hand to Beatrice, who boosts her magic again. I see the smile of blood and the word now - whose 'just a crying girl' indicates who it is, and Subaru boils instantly.
"So you must be qualified to disparage Petra -!"
The knife that stood on his right shoulder - a type of thrower whose tip became hooked and inhibited him from pulling it out. eating it into the meat. Bite it in the back teeth and Subaru pulls it out into a breath.
Severe pain that turns bright red in front of you and signs of fatal blows to the function of your entire right arm. But ignore all the damage and unleash the pulled knife on Elsa.
It's a rough throw, but it's a rough throw with no training or anything.
It's half a miracle I flew straight for Elsa. Heavy speed, too. But that doesn't have any effect before a killer with a skill beyond what is known.
"I'll buy it, but not like this."
"I'll squeeze you out! Shamak -!!"
――
Subaru trembled his throat against Elsa, who created the interception posture, for the third time Shamak.
Gather the mana in your body that was dying out the first or second time to unleash magic from the untrained gate.
My eyes run blood, my nose bleeds. And the cry of the soul came to fruition.
Darkness extends into the middle of the aisle, covering the space between Subaru and Elsa. It is the knife thrown by Subaru that jumps abruptly into it. Jumping into an incomprehensible darkness, jumping through its interior for Elsa - and its trajectory, it doesn't look like Elsa.
"Hit me -!"
"I'm a little surprised. But if you can't play it, it's just off the ray."
Leftover, Elsa turns to slip as she lowers herself on the spot.
The move to escape the trajectory of the knife was due to the fact that Svalbard's Shamak had not reached Elsa, but allowed the late judgment.
The knife that jumped out of the pitch-black curtain went across the aisle without piercing the owner's flesh. As it were, Subaru's attack would end in vain - I was wondering if
"Bear child!!
"I don't know if that's what you call it!"
If Subaru was the only one on this occasion, the attack would have ended in failure.
But there were two enemies of Elsa on this occasion - and that other girl, in just a short time that Subaru had earned, was completing the next chant.
"I'll show you. - Real, shady magic."
"What?"
Was it Subaru or Elsa who spoke to me?
Even that will not be known in the next Beatrice's behavior.
Beatrice, staring at Elsa, shivers her lips with her little hands in front of her chest. That's just one word, but repaint the world.
"- Urshamak"
- Genuine 'darkness' covered the mansion, different in digits from the shady magic of the dispersion unleashed by Subaru.
When I realized, Subaru was in the dark.
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No, I'm not even sure if you've noticed.
I don't know where I am, whether I'm standing or sitting.
Up, down, left, right, but behind the front is obscure. Are you breathing, vomiting, blood circling, heartbeat going on, alive or dead?
I don't know everything. I can't give an answer to everything. Svalbard's Shamak could feel the feeling coming from the soles of his feet and at least about the changes in his body. It would be impossible to understand external interference, but instead the eye to the inside was so sharp.
But there's not even that in this darkness.
I don't even know where I am, as I have melted in the shadows.
I don't know if I'm still able to shape people. I don't know how to move my hands, so I can't even touch my body to be sure. I can't walk out because I don't know how to move my legs so I can be sure where I am. I'm walking. I want to make sure.
- In the first place, who the hell am I?
The boundaries between myself and others blur.
The boundaries between myself and the world blur.
The power to think dissolves. It's gone. It disappears.
Keep going, keep going, keep going...
It ends.
Finished.
End.
"… come on, will you wake up"
With a dry noise and cheeks up, Subaru was swayed back into consciousness.
Blinking his eyes, he leaks a bitter sound at the glare of his sight, which abruptly returns. Hearing that, the pain that awakened Subaru hit that cheek again. From left to right, twice.
"Oh, don't hit me on top of it!
"I was just trying to keep my consciousness clear. The second time, I don't know, it just came out reflexively."
Staring at Beatrice's sooty face slamming her hatred, Subaru realizes late that she was lying on the floor of the aisle.
Wake up your body and make sure your flesh is on without being overwhelmed. Sharp pain from right shoulder. If I accidentally looked him in the eye, a brand new wound was claiming to be twitchy and bloody.
"Oh, it hurts... can't you shamak this, in part?
"There's nothing you can't do, but doing it doesn't just make you forget about the existence of the wound. Don't even treat him. If he wanders around, he'll lose his blood."
Beatrice tells a frivolous picture of the future. With his palms blocking that wound, Subaru narrowed his eyes as he remembered, "More than that..."
What happened to Elsa? You mean you've been doing this for a long time, have you retreated?
"What are you talking about?
"You don't have any shit. If you're still here, it's not like this. Sure, Shamak couldn't compare to mine earlier, but that's all..."
"It's pathetic to get this far, too."
Subaru frowns with frustration at Beatrice's words as if they were frivolous.
Beatrice seems a lot more optimistic, but that's because she still doesn't know Elsa's depth of obsession and horror. Knowing the anomaly of that killer would also mean knowing Subaru's vigilance.
Beatrice hits a sigh that she can clearly tell is flailing this time to Subaru, who puts such an inside look on her face as it is.
I don't know what her reaction means, Subaru. In front of that Subaru, Beatrice slowly shifted from the spot to the side,
"If you don't know, maybe you should take a clear look with those eyes"
"- Oh."
The sight of Beatrice leaning aside and her body blocked until then enters Subaru's eyes. And Svalbard, who saw it, was groaning unexpectedly.
"What's wrong with a terrible opponent?
I can't respond to Beatrice's winning voice.
Behind her - the walls of the aisle had Elsa's body hanging with her limbs skewered into purple piles and piled to tailor a vampire in the middle of her chest.
Corpse - Yes, definitely, it should be a corpse.
"He's dead... right?
"If you're still alive with a wind hole in your chest and all this scratching... it's not human anymore, it's something else."
Svalbard rises as he shook his head and dragged his tiredness.
My upper body flutters as soon as I get up, attacked by a dizziness of momentum that wanders. Gently, I was supported by a hand stretched out from the side.
"Wow, evil no..."
"Nothing..."
Turn away and don't look at this one, Beatrice. Put some strain on her palm and drag her legs under Elsa.
Elsa, who dropped her neck disappointingly down and cut three long braids of one of the piles in the middle. The limbs are pierced through the elbows and knees, making me want to turn away from the harshness of doing the painful. Still get close enough to breathe and make sure the faceless killer isn't really breathing.
Breathe, none. Reach out and touch the immobile flesh. It's still warm, but it doesn't return a creature-specific reaction. When you touch the neck muscle, you have no pulse.
Above all, even if Subaru behaves so defenselessly, he doesn't accidentally strike me.
"Ho, are you really dead..."
"So I guess I've said that many times."
"If it's the side that knows this guy's local power, it wasn't that easy to snort at.... I can't believe I can, really..."
Before Elsa's body, Subaru becomes stunned by an unachievable victory.
I thought it was someone I had to defeat sooner or later, but I didn't expect Beatrice alone to destroy this one lightly either. Without Garfield, I didn't expect to see a picture of victory either.
"Even Pack and Emilia missed it, this guy."
"... if you were serious, you wouldn't have been dealing with him like this. For Betty, now that she's in full swing, I wonder if she could lose like Ningen."
The seriousness of the pack - that's probably what it should be called that giant lion. If that state of frozen the world just because it does exist, I don't think even a servant Elsa could have fathomed it. You mean Beatrice, too, the spirits with the equivalent power?
Four hundred years - the years I've lived are too different.
"Yes, it is. Rem!"
For one thing, I just finished confirming Elsa's death and look back at the room as if it had been bounced. Still, the tragic state of Frederica's remains leaning against the door.
With her body somehow stiffened out of the door, Subaru laid his hands on the door wet by the frightening blood. Breathe in, be prepared and peek inside.
And
"-Rem."
To the call, there is no answer girl's voice.
But Lem, lying on the bed and sleeping with regular breath, did not see any shards in the aftermath of the tragedy that arose outside.
Elsa hasn't stepped inside this room.
That is a testament to the left that Frederica's diligence in keeping the room dead in front of the door surpassed the ugliness of the killer.
"... doubt it, it was really bad, Frederica"
Hand stroking the forehead of a sleeping sweet girl, Subaru apologizes again to the woman who put her to sleep in the aisle.
Her soul is nowhere else in this world. So Subaru's current words will never reach her.
"So, what are we going to do?"
"I can't leave Rem here like this. Frederica and Petra... so I'm going to leave them with the people of Aram Village to take care of them."
"I wish you would. I wonder if that daughter would be happier."
"That's what I always want to do, even in an environment where I can only take care of Rem. But it doesn't work either. I... have to take you to the Sanctuary."
Looking back as he touched Rem, Subaru faces Beatrice looking at this one at the entrance to the room. The girl tinkled her nose,
"You're going to say it on your own. In the first place, I just interrupted the conversation because I got in the way, and the problem is ongoing."
"Nah, I know. So that's my answer to that. - I would never kill you or anything, and I would pull you out of the mansion and take you to the 'sanctuary'. It's a decision."
"You're too selfish. Ignore Betty's arguments and try to get your point through. - I wonder what kind of bullshit you mean by lowering it."
"If what you say is true, you don't have to think about it."
- What does that mean?
Beatrice hits me with a low voice and a sense of intimidation close to intimidation. Subaru shook his neck slightly to the side, savoring the feeling of poppy on his skin.
"I don't know the details clearly, either. I just think there's still something missing to pull out your real roots."
- No, I don't think so.
"The relationship between you and the Sanctuary is still a tease. The laboratory Echidna built and your relationship.... Honestly, I don't have a very good feeling about this."
"Don't pry."
"I say no.... not me, who's going to step in on you with earthfoot. You've been stuck in a place like that forever."
Beatrice loses her word, like she clogged her throat.
Looking at it, Subaru held up Rem as he turned back to his bedroom. He brings Lem's figure to the village of Aram, and leaves her for Beatrice and the 'Sanctuary'.
It would be quick to talk if you could help me through the door, but I can't help it. You'll be riding Patrash and taking half a day to get back.
"Even if you don't want to come to the Sanctuary, I'll ask Rosewar and Mr. Ryus about you. If you can, talk to the guy with the bigger book."
When Subaru genuinely thirsted to 'know', the 'greedy' witch said she would respond.
Now. even more information than before and the hypothesis with it. And now with the newly created mystery, I felt like I could be invited back to that castle of dreams.
And then, I feel that everyone involved can reveal the secrets of the 'sanctuary' and the insights of the people involved.
"It's just the difference between early or late. I know how you feel about not wanting to hurry up with your own hands."
"I wonder how far you make fun of people like that......!
"Fool? I didn't mean to..."
"Which mouth would want that to happen to you as you easily step into a place where people don't want you to step in, scatter rough and scratch. Don't be ridiculous. You can leave the dead two behind lightly."
"- Huh"
At the end of Beatrice's words, Subaru flashed his face, savoring the painful pain.
Seeing that, Beatrice also thought she had said too much herself, hesitation only comes to her expression for a moment. but it also quickly hides beneath the attitude of pretending to be cold.
"Petra and Frederica... if we leave Rem in the village, we'll mourn him properly. You can't keep your mouth shut about Petra."
Noticing herself mouthing excuses, Subaru walks out with that face unseen by Beatrice.
Beatrice's words pierced Subaru's chest sharply.
While being shocked by Petra and Frederica's 'death', Subaru has already cemented his readiness to redo this world. Elsa's defeat, even though one goal has been achieved, the sacrifice paid for it is too great. This world had too much to go on.
With a mouthful of "don't die" on Beatrice, there are definitely emotions like which side to lower. You can't, I'm good - selfish, it was superb reason here.
"Apart from what we're going to do with the 'sanctuary', it's not until we get rid of the mansion problem anyway. I'll talk to you later."
Through the side of Beatrice standing at the entrance and straight into the hallway. Silent Beatrice, but apparently in an attitude of following Subaru in silence.
Beatrice has no choice but to use the hands of others to achieve an 'end' than self-immolation is not allowed. I can't work for it myself, so whatever the statement of intent is, I just have to stay within Subaru's reach.
I knew that, and there was such a backward emotion that self-derision frightened me that I was what made me a much worse man to behave like this.
"-Oh?"
And Subaru, who was disgusted by the thinness of his thoughts, raises his voice to the pretense.
The cause is a mild impact. From behind, I feel like I can push it away with my hand, and Subaru, holding the lem, unwittingly relaxes in front.
If you step on it and look back, it was Beatrice who did it. In return for his earlier remarks, Subaru wrinkled between his eyebrows and tried to complain -,
"-"
I noticed a fine girl's voice and a dull glow sticking out of her chest.
"Huh?"
A blade penetrating from his back protrudes from his chest and slowly pulls that wound from top to bottom - down from the top of his chest towards his lower abdomen.
Following the blade movement, Beatrice's little body trembles.
Subaru just stares at it.
"... now"
Pompous, Beatrice's lips shrugged about something on the lid.
Beatrice looks up and looks at this one in front of Subaru, who stands by the sight in front of him.
That look, those eyes, tells the story of the very size of her emotions,
"Finally..."
"To be...... ugh"
"- Ugh."
I don't even know what Subaru himself tried to say.
However, Beatrice's plundering breath leaked before that unclear emotion took shape.
And finally, the sound, the flesh of Beatrice becomes a collection of pale light, and after the blink, it becomes a grain of yellow light, and it is misty.
Small bodies, cream-colored vertical rolls, small hateful but adorable faces, luxurious and seemingly immovable dresses, everything, disappeared and gone -.
"- Oh, too bad. The Spirit's stomach has never been cut open before, but you disappear."
The standing position of Beatrice, who had vanished. Behind that half-step stands a woman holding a murder weapon that pierces Beatrice.
As soon as Svalbard heard her prey and voice, he knew who she was. I figured it out right away, but I couldn't figure it out right away because my brain refused to understand that it couldn't possibly be. But the consciousness that was turning its attention to the shock also recovers in seconds, and Subaru bites his back teeth off.
Make a noise, your teeth crack. Feeling the taste of blood, I glanced in front of him and screamed.
"- Elsa ah!!
"You can't do anything anymore, can you?
He is beaten to the screaming side, thoughtfully, by the peak of the Kukli knife.
The stiff impact cracked his head instantly and Subaru's body was pounded against the wall with momentum without being able to resist the power. The only resistance I could subaru was not to throw a lem in my arm.
A large amount of blood runs out of the cracked head, and the fighting spirit is not transmitted to the hands and feet with such a shock that it darkens in front of them. Still, Subaru captures Elsa with only her bright vision and spits hatred at Elsa, who juggles Kuklinife cleverly with both hands.
"What, so... you're alive. Sure, I made sure he was dead...!
"Yeah, right. He was dead. I wouldn't have done this if I'd been burned like that and ashed."
Subaru was at war with Elsa.
Elsa, who had become obtuse, had indeed ceased life activities. He's dead. That's for sure. Then what is Elsa in front of you? Or like Ryuz, no way Elsa also sees it in her nightmare of having a replica.
But Elsa, who beat Subaru to death, still drips blood from his limbs, and the pierced and torn chest part is reinforced by a cloth made by tearing apart his coat, which no longer serves.
If you look at her, whose remnants of the battle remain colorful, there is no doubt that it is the same person as before. The only problem is life and death.
"You're not... you're immortal or something, are you..."
"That's the way it is. It's a little bit more than people, it's just living and dirty. Besides, that kid's gonna be a lot more impotent. Even though I can only count as much as destroying my body to this point."
"... that's an odd encounter. I've only counted as many times as you've hurt me and died."
The truly imminent words of Subaru are ironic and not a joke. but Elsa seems to have received it as a joke, deepening her smile and twirling around on the spot. Holding the three knitted knits turned down in the middle with a lonely finger, Elsa quietly looked down at Subaru,
"You didn't hear that girl."
"... so why don't you just decide not to look at it and miss it"
While understanding that it is a non-listenable statement, Subaru suggests so to Elsa. I don't think you can take it, but it'll take a little longer for your hands and feet to start listening to Subaru. It's a stupid conversation, and we need to buy some time.
"It's an unplanned thing for me too, so I don't mind that...... spiritual girl and a big maid. Little maid of honor."
The target is three. Does it mean Beatrice, Frederica, and Petra add?
Incandescent your consciousness, but pointing your ears at parts you can't hear off. Lem is probably not in the target because Elsa's employer has forgotten Lem's existence. I just thought Frederica was, but her death also wielded that reasoning.
"No, you lied to me, too."
"Shh?"
"It's Frederica. - It sounds like you killed only Petra in the forbidden library.
Showing Frederica sleeping at the end of the aisle with her gaze, Elsa nodded as she was convinced she saw you. Then she looked at Subaru,
"It's not beautiful. It's how it ends."
Only, pounded and spilled.
You can't possibly understand the aesthetics of a killer. Save your life, and what is that boring way of saying it? The outrage rises, but it also spreads mist before Elsa, who restarted the Kukli knife in his palm.
I want to reward you with one arrow, but I don't recover enough for my body to attempt a counterattack on Elsa.
Falling in front of Elsa's fierce blade like this is half-planned harmony.
- This time, will that be it?
Conscious of the impending 'death', it is the numerous pieces of information obtained in this loop and the new puzzling mystery that float behind Subaru's brain. And the interaction with Beatrice and the last look on Beatrice's face I saw.
"I want to die," "kill me," she repeatedly said. The last time, why did she poke Subaru? What was the point of that action that noticed Elsa's survival as soon as possible and thrust Subaru? I don't want to be so stupid that I don't know that.
"I don't like your eyes."
"Oh? - Ha ha!?
Discarded, he was punched in the face again shortly afterwards at the peak.
The left cheekbone is crushed and several broken teeth fall to the floor. When it collapses, one more shot from the other side. Severe pain ran on the right fundus and the left ear was obliquely missing with a flash of blade.
Elsa then alternates blades and peaks to carve, crush and hurt Subaru's body. I thought it would come soon. I was not given 'death', I was given only pain repeatedly and repeatedly. Subaru crawled and continued to leak blood and bitterness.
"Give it up to the last moment of its raw life. Why does it make sense to live?"
"... I don't want you talking about death."
A blow. He collapses with a cracked forehead directly from the top, savoring the illusion of spilling the contents of his skull.
Consciousness distanced itself from the hard shock, and Subaru found his flesh drawing into a colder and colder world.
As it is, you will die.
Even if you just lost consciousness, there's no way you don't know what it's like to lose consciousness in front of 'Bowel Hunting'.
Here, over. This time, that's it.
Next time, don't screw it up. Next time, absolutely.
The last time I saw that look, I couldn't forget it, so I must.
- Beatrice.
That the girl who was supposed to say 'Kill me' was at the end of the day, in tears.
With that sight burning, Subaru's consciousness slowly, swallowed by darkness, disappeared.