Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (WN)
Chapter IV.73: The Place of Weakness
- How long has it been since I've heard that voice?
In real time, it hasn't been that long since she fell asleep.
A week at best, even with acquaintances and family, can be a normal time not to meet face to face. - Yet it didn't seem that way to Subaru.
Over and over again, for Subaru, who repeats his time by throwing his life at him, it doesn't mean real time or anything. Speaking of the somatic time of the soul, it was after much more time that Subaru gave the voice a tympanic membrane and shook his heart.
"- Wake up, Subaru. I'd love to see your face."
Words descend directly from the top as you lie low on the ground.
The sentiment of mercy in that voice, dear enthusiasm, rapidly filled Subaru's heart with warmth. Empty, in a vessel of thirsty mind, the heat stains.
Just one word, just a gentle voice.
- How much power will she give herself?
"... lying"
"No, I'm not lying"
"He can't be here."
"If Subaru wants me, I'll always be there for you"
"Only when you think I want you to do something the most... I can't believe you're here all the time... that's convenient..."
"For Subaru, I always want to be the most convenient woman."
A squeaking voice is spilling a dull weak sound.
Yet the voices that touch never look down on Subaru or miss it.
I know. She is.
That Subaru is weak, that he can't help it, that he's so brittle that he has to live with something, that he's never confident, and he keeps getting lost.
Because he's the kid who tells me he still likes Subaru, who's not strong enough to be that way.
"-Rem."
"Yes, it's Subaru's, it's Rem"
Face up.
Blue colors emerge in the blurred vision with tears.
Rubbing his eyes rampantly with dirty sleeves, evaporating his tears, Subaru saw.
Standing in front of you, look at the girl.
Lovely, look at Rem.
"Lamu..."
"Yes, it's Rem. When you want Subaru to be around, he's a helpful maid in a position to reach you."
"Oh man..."
Leaning his little neck, Rem flirts Subaru with a light-hearted attitude.
To her attitude like that, Subaru felt the air coming out of her lungs in peace before saying anything. Shit, the heavy stuff that was in my chest falls off.
It makes it easier to breathe, and the little self that was arousing in my skull disappears somewhere.
Subaru is stunned that he has been saved too, too lightly.
Nothing I could do so much about it, my heart, which I just thought was stuck, just put one girl in front of me, so easily, it was solved.
"Rem is amazing..."
"Thank you. Subaru is lovely, too."
The smiling words are not engaging as usual as they seem to be engaging.
I even feel happy for such an exchange, and Subaru is about to cry without being overwhelmed with what he was enjoying.
Rem knelt down in front of Subaru, laying his eyes down,
"Are you all right? Are you tired, are you?
"Well... I guess I'm tired... but I haven't done anything yet"
that Subaru in this redo world has not arrived at any correct answer just because it has been overthrown. I'm tired, I don't think I'm in a good position to say it.
We all suffer more. Everyone is feeling harder. I don't know why we all have to suffer - that's decided.
"Because I'm weak."
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"Because I'm not strong enough."
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"If I were a stronger, smarter, more doable man... we all didn't have to suffer, grieve, or feel hard like that..."
If Subaru had been strong enough to do everything and everything alone, Emilia would have been able to be heartbroken in the face of the past, to comfort Beatrice, who had been rubbed off by four hundred years of loneliness, to save Petra and Frederica, who were exposed to the murder blade of the murderer, to defend the people of the "sanctuary", who were threatened with their lives by the threat of the Great Rabbit, and to share with Garfiel, who would wander away from their outer enemies.
All, all, everything, subaru is bad.
So the weakness of the book requires Subaru to cut off his own soul.
- Yes, I thought so.
"I can't believe nobody... wasn't there?
"Subaru-kun"
"If the world was going on even after I died, how many times, how many people have I... I've been watching everyone die?
"Subaru-kun"
"How many times have I let you die? How many times do I have to kill you?
- Subaru-kun.
Subaru confesses his sins quickly to the fear of his body trembling from the depths.
I wanted to spit it out, right now, and get shaken up. I wanted someone beside me to plead guilty to it before my own heart was broken.
If I'm not mistaken anymore, while I made that decision, I wanted you to beat the crap out of me like a big idiot going the wrong way from the first step in my run, that I was an idiot I couldn't save.
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- Yet what Subaru demanded punishment for was a gentle wrapping embrace.
"La, mu"
"It's okay. It's okay, Subaru."
"What, but... nothing, it's not okay... you know..."
Nothing, nothing, Subaru hasn't accomplished.
If Subaru doesn't do it, there are plenty of people who can't be saved. There are a lot of people who get to a terrible end. Even Rem is one of those people that Subaru has to save.
It is she who deserves to blame Natsuki Subaru for not reaching, not being enough and just being weak.
"You... take me... Huh!
"- I love you"
Foreheaded, just whispered love.
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They seal the words.
Nothing, I can't tell you.
Right around the corner, thin blue eyes staring straight at Subaru.
I'm going to drown in the depths of the emotions of mercy that dwell in those eyes.
"I love you, Subaru. - So, it's all, it's okay."
"Oh, even... I didn't..."
"It is. Why, Lem is here. How can Lem forgive Subaru? Why Lem hugs Subaru - all of it, that's all."
At a breathtaking distance, Rem's smile tangled Subaru's heart with an invisible palm.
I can't move. I can't move. Turned on his back, his little hand grabs the hem of his clothes, strong and strong, strong enough that he's going to be one, hugging Subaru.
"That was tough, Subaru"
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"Alone, so scratched... it was hard, wasn't it, Subaru?"
"- Eh."
"I don't feel so sad anymore, I'm fine"
Desperate for an overwhelming task, Rem continues with a sweet voice to Subaru, who cannot return the answer.
To melt the emotions that were stubborn so as to gently unravel Subaru's heart.
"Subaru-kun's hard spot, bitter spot, weak spot, all, Lem takes his place"
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"Subaru-kun wants to protect you, fight you, fight you out... leave everything you thought to Rem"
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"Everything, there's nowhere Subaru needs to bear it. - I'll leave everything to Lem, and now you can rest and fall asleep."
"... oh, my goodness"
"Let me see Rem's favorite Subaru again."
Lem looking at this one from the front with his hand on his cheek and his face raised by Subaru.
Two, his lips blurred with hesitation, and then slowly, Lem's face approached.
Even a slow consciousness could understand what he was trying to do and what he was going to do.
In the immediate vicinity, at a breathtaking distance, the lips of a loving girl loom.
Can I lay it, tangle it, drown it, and then, melt it, sink it?
- Good or bad, you're forgiving me.
How gently Rem's words would have penetrated Subaru's heart.
Sacramento. The emotion that stood is now saved again by her, whose disputed soul wants me to reach out to her, knowing everything about Subaru.
To the helpless Subaru, Rem lends a hand.
The back of the brittle Subaru is firmly supported by Rem.
Rem leads me down the path of the foolish Subaru.
Sweet, shy, depend on it - so, if you can get to the right answer.
How much does it mean to keep scratching by yourself?
I rubbed it off, and I don't even know my scaffolding, and I don't know which way to walk, so, everything, give up, delegate -.
'It's easy to give up'
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"But"
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"- Subaru doesn't look good."
I heard voices.
"- Subaru?
I can hear the suspicious Rem coming from right in front of me.
That should be it too, her face blocked by the hands that Subaru sandwiched between each other's lips, which were close to touching each other.
Sweet, distracted from the feel of the tip of the tongue that was supposed to intertwine, Lem's eyes sway with the slightly scratched light.
staring at the swinging light from the gap between his fingers, Subaru said.
- Who are you?
"Huh -?"
"Whoever you are, yes, I'm listening."
"Subaru, what... who, no..."
On the low Subaru inquiry, the lem mumbles with a throat-crushing sound.
The pale heartache floating in his eyes darkens in color, and the expression is deeply engraved with a trail of sorrow. That feels too much like scratching Subaru's chest from the inside out ing.
To delude the feeling, Svalbard peeled his fangs, holding his chest from the top.
"I... can't help it. I'm stuck, and I really want someone to do something about it, and I'm about to give up that maybe I can't do it anymore... and then I really thought if you were here, I would"
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"I'm sure you'd be stuck this way, holding your knees, leaning against me and continuing to worry about what's past, being nice," he said.
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"So you hear my weakness, let me cry out, let me squeeze out my tears and everything until it clears up..."
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"- Come on, stand up. That's what I'm saying."
Natsuki Subaru remembers the fineness of the fingers touched, the warmth of the leaning skin, the magnitude of the love given, in the whole body.
So, clearly, I'm going to tell you the lem in front of you - the stuff.
"I won't tell you to rest."
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"I won't tell you to give up and leave it all to Rem"
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"You like me, you like me, you're nice to me, you love me - because the woman in the world, who's tougher on me and not sweeter on me, is a lem!
Standing up to jump, the barking Subaru takes a distance looking at the front lem.
Rem, standing on his knees, looking up at Subaru from a low position, is silent. However, the expression is still about to drown with sadness for Subaru's rejection.
"No. Listen, Subaru! Rem, Rem is different. However, Rem can't watch Subaru suffer... so now he just wants you to forget about the hard stuff and rest, that's all!
"Show also weak spots. Shows even the brittle spot. There's nothing I can do, I'll show you that he's a little bastard. - But I'm not just gonna show you where I give up."
That's what Rem once said Subaru was a hero.
Whether he was a Lem hero or not, Natsuki Subaru decided so.
Since that promise was exchanged, Subaru has already made up his mind.
- He said that in this world, only in front of Lem can Natsuki Subaru show us where he is weak in hope.
Even if he knows Subaru is weak, only in front of Rem, who believes he will turn it upside down and try to be strong, can Subaru not hide that he is weak.
I can't show it to Emilia, to Beatrice, or in front of anyone else.
The only weak spot in Subaru that needs to be strong is Lem.
"So my weakness belongs to Rem. Lem's gonna root for my weakness, so I'm just gonna give up instead, and I'm not gonna let you out."
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"Get out, mister. - In my lem face, with my voice, don't spoil me!
Said it all, Subaru is a lem - fist in the contradiction.
Subaru's declaration, the person who hears it is losing sight of the word. The opponent lay down his face as he stood, slowly and quietly, on the spot,
"Hey, listen... I told you, it's different... right?
"Ah...?
Tilt her little neck, the blue-haired mistletoe spins a grasping word.
When you hear that, and Subaru raises a voice of doubt...
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In front of me, as if the statue were blurry, Rem's appearance becomes obscure.
A sandstorm-like vision on late-night television filled his sight, and after a moment of world jacking, another figure appeared on the spot.
- It was the first person I met.
I stretched my thin red hair to about the middle of my back, warm - not so much a girl in a mood who looked weak. Each noticeable nose stands out neat, but it doesn't mean a face that jumps through and attracts beauty. Something about a mediocre, people-adorable look?
He is wearing white clothes with long sleeves and gently pinches his cheeks from both with a hand where the tip is not outside from his wrist, watching Subaru as he hangs still.
"You... who?
"And 'The Witch of Lust'... Carmilla, right? Nice to meet you..."
The girl who responded to the question - Subaru breathes unexpectedly in Carmilla's answer.
The girl named herself "The Witch of Sex." In other words:
"This unknown space... in Echidna's dreams?"
"It fits, but it's not... maybe. Echidna sees" Trial, "so..." Trial, "whenever, dreams, like, yeah..."
"I don't get a bad idea. When, no, before..."
Subaru gets frustrated with the way Carmilla talks. Naturally, when she sees Subaru, which becomes a tough thing to look at, Carmilla holds her head in once she trembles her body loudly.
"Stop, bu... don't bump, so..."
"I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't do that... but what were you going to do earlier?"
"Just now... of?
"That's what you stood in front of me, imitating Rem's outfit! That's what you do!
If the witches bear the name of the great sin, they should all have unusual powers.
If "The Witch of Lust" is no exception, it should still be powerful. Assuming that the earlier transformation is -
"Transformation was a lot of orthodox power compared to other witches."
"Heh, I didn't... transform, did I? Wow, if I looked like someone else... well, that's... because you wanted to see it, right?
"What?"
"Well, I didn't want to see you. Echidna's gone and she says so... she's lying, she's lying..."
When I bump, I get irritated inside Subaru by Carmilla's words that squeal.
Everything is affected by eclampsia: the way you talk, the way you feed your gaze, the weakness to look down at this gaze. What are you talking about in a feminine way or in a stubborn way?
I don't know exactly what I'm trying to say, and I don't know how important I am to Subaru.
It's irritating. I'm angry. I want to yell at you and make you understand.
"You... you know what you did...?
"Echidna, but... oh, I said I should spoil it, and... and then I said it would work... and yet this is how... no, I said it"
"Listen......!!
"Mi, all of us... so, wow, bully me... yes, what. Echidna, too, oh, yeah. That way, it's terrible...... duh, I"
"I'm telling you to listen, don't you see -!!"
Trying to scream, Subaru realizes he squeezed air out of his lungs and raised a plundered voice. I noticed, but the anger that burns me is more important than that, and it disappears right out of my head.
The breathlessness is also an endless problem before the frustration that makes you want to scratch your chest.
Block that mouth that repeats bullying, rumbling, and crying, tapping into all the emotions like Subaru's anger and suffering, and making him understand what he did -.
- More than that, it's life.
"- Huh!?
Moments later, Subaru regained his sanity when he heard a voice whispered in his ear.
As soon as possible, what struck me was the pain on the verge of suffocation caused by the continued anoxia and the thirst of the eyes, which had remained open.
"Ahh, ahh?
"It's a rough cure, but more importantly, it's coming back. - When facing Carmilla and the 'goddess of impotence' of lust, people forget to breathe. Ultimately, even the heartbeat"
"Ha-ha-ha... ha-ha"
Spitting on his breathlessness, Subaru, who crawls on all fours on the ground, brightens his thoughts.
But the voices I hear did go through my ears, telling my brain what it meant.
Subaru therefore wipes his mouth with his sleeve, looks up at the person who should have dined on everything in this situation and strips his fangs again.
"What are you up to? - Echidna."
With even Subaru's hateful gaze pointed at her, the gray-haired witch stroked her own hair, cheeksticking to the table with a natural trick,
"It's settled, isn't it? - I'm a witch. It's a masterpiece."
And so he smiled.