Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (WN)

In an unintentional shock-stepping position, Subaru had his eyes open to the blonde girl staring at this one.

It's Minerva, a witch who fills her eyes with uninterrupted anger and gives Zhu a beautiful face.

After she shot through the stiff Subaru with a strong gaze, she saw, in the front of that Subaru, an echidna standing undisturbed,

"I repeat, I will wait. I don't approve of that contract."

"... Hmm. I guess this is an unexpected development for me."

Hostility, when it comes to familiarity, and anger, it's too much of a killing emotion. Hitting it wholeheartedly into Echidna, Minerva put his arms together in a fist crater created by himself, chewing his lips as he bounced his rich breasts.

"The witch's covenant - I don't understand what that means, it shouldn't be you. Still, interrupting means... hey, do you want to make a deal with him too? So, I think I baked it."

"As much as it's not such a peaceful reason, don't you see how angry I am? Because I'm furious. I'm outraged. It's a momentum to poke at the fury of your hair."

Minerva's response increasingly darkens the red hue of her face to the kind of echidna words she tries to blush lightly. The height of emotion becomes a tearful Shizuku that floats in your eyes, making you feel even like a toddler's stubbornness on the side you want.

The abundant flesh and the young side are imbalanced everywhere - and its very existence must be accepted together with surprise for Subaru today.

Because,

"Why are you here?

"What. Are you saying I shouldn't have done this here?

"That's not true. I'm not... because even though Echidna is there"

Pointing to Echidna, Subaru tells Minerva to swell his cheeks uncomfortably. Minerva still tilts his neck in such a way as incomprehensible, but Echidna seems to have understood what Subaru was trying to say, and he nods when he taps his hand gently,

"Oh, I see what your problem is. - No wonder other witches are showing up when I'm here."

"Oh, yeah. 'Cause I've always been one-on-one with other witches... instead of Echidna, you promised to show up on this scene. Take that..."

"Nothing, you didn't say you couldn't get out with me. It's this vicious witch's way of playing games for no reason."

Slap Subaru's objections off lightly with Minerva pissing off his shoulders. Subaru shrugs in his mouth alone "No way" to the answer and sees Echidna. but Echidna showed no special, negative attitude to Subaru's gaze, nor to Minerva's words.

"I hope you don't get me wrong. Calling a witch other than me here is a big burden and a big risk to me. In some cases, other witches can take the lead, and even if they don't, it takes a lot of effort to shape a powerful being like them."

"So... no, but you..."

"You've never lied to me. That's all, I assure you."

Hang on. Echidna singles out Svalbard's words with a sharp word.

FACT. Looking back at the memories, Echidna had never made a statement about the current phenomenon that would stop her from lying on this occasion.

Just assumed Subaru was "so" before the phenomena and facts presented.

So polar theory, though Echidna would have cheated Subaru for nothing.

"I didn't really want you to be taken by another witch when I found out that Pompon and the other witches could manifest themselves."

"Ha, huh?

"You've been a really long time for me. As much as I talked about it, it wasn't like that in my lifetime or after I died. Are you cursing me for being so shallow that I want to monopolize you at least on this occasion?

――――

"I'll give it back, but I prefer you. So I wanted to avoid the interest of being you shifting to other witches by bringing out more attractive or more cooperative witches than I do. - You can laugh at that."

Because it's a terrible, ugly appetite for exclusivity - and that's how Echidna explains how things are hidden.

Without words, listening to something like Echidna's excuse, Subaru is obsessed with being directed from her - I wonder what is enough for me to be directed at it.

The same goes for The Witch of Jealousy. Echidna, too, why Subaru until then...

"What are you so easily rounded up about, you?"

"- So!?

A soft fist was poking a small fist from behind Subaru's head trying to think about it.

Hold your head and look back, it's Minerva right behind you. She takes Svalbard's hand against her head and pulls her joints down to the ground extremely in a flowing motion.

"Oh, ah! Hey, it hurts, it hurts... not good?

"If I touch an organism directly, it will replace a therapeutic act. Beating him with all your strength will block his wound, bringing him to sleep with the intention of strangling him will cure his illness, and if he keeps doing his arthroplasty, his shoulder tightness will be relieved!

"Duh, there's stiffness all over my body in the street... not like that"

Subaru looks up to Minerva, who is desperately twisting his neck and extremes his joint moves, savoring the true summit of The Witch of Wrath with his body.

Even though the bones are raised and bent in the direction of complaining of pain, it is even more uncomfortable because the warmth spreads over the body rather than the pain. A witch who exercises a mysterious power over the human body where all her actions are restored to positive elements - although she has never had a negative impression before.

"What the hell is this all about..."

"If you don't do this, you're going to get put in an Echidna truck and sign a contract. That frivolous judgment and thoughtless attitude, I'm so frustrated!

"You don't sound very good when it comes to cars. As far as I'm concerned, I intend to explain the advantages of a firm contract with me and try to reach an agreement with each other..."

"You know, I've done my accountability-- I'm saying I don't like the attitude. The advantages were well explained. I did... but you didn't say anything about the inconveniences that arise from signing a contract!

Minerva leaving it to anger to wave her legs down. In the heel position is the buttocks of the subaru to be pulled down, where the body experiences the sensation of the heel being screwed into the glutes and the incredible phenomenon of the ground falling over the buttocks where the impact was transmitted.

Remembering the signs that the blow to his ass made him feel better, Subaru is stunned, guessing the meaning of Minerva's words.

- The fact that in my conversation with Echidna, I hadn't touched on the disadvantages. Because I understood my breadth, which I hadn't even noticed.

"No, but... I said it was a downside... for a lot of things like that"

"You think it shouldn't be? You're looking at the contract a lot sweeter. Not to mention the witch - among the seven witches who bear the name of the great sin, who made the most covenants, who came into contact with the most human beings, who interfered most strongly in history, even though he was the 'Witch of Greed'."

"It's all a lifetime crown too...... it's true that it's not all about honor. It's a fact that not all existence has been saved by a pact with me."

Minerva pokes at facts Svalbard didn't know about. Echidna insists that there is only no harm done to Subaru while continuing to supplement that word further.

Listening to both of those claims, Subaru's head sandwiched between them was at the extreme of confusion.

I don't know which statement to believe.

Echidna is the other person who had the impression of being a kind of comrade of war who, after many face-to-face encounters since he was thus to be detained in the cemetery, also bothered his head with the troubles Subaru had in him.

That is why Subaru even tried to remember and respond to her words, which suggested that we enter into a system of cooperation in the form of a contract.

Minerva, on the other hand, has dealt with Echidona a short number of times, time and even words exchanged. But they are all charitable figures who treated Subaru, who was in a critical situation, with the healing power released from his auspicious arms, and went too far like a typhoon without even asking for words of gratitude.

Minerva has no reason to fall into Subaru, and it should be considered that her mouth has been pinched until she has thus deliberately manifested herself.

No, in the first place, before worrying like this, there was something to ask.

That's...

"Echidna. If we get a contract, we should need consideration"

"... yeah, you are. That's what the contract needs. You must offer consideration for what I ask, just as I offer knowledge."

"Right. That's right. - So what do you want from me? If I sign with you, what do I have to offer you?

Ahead, when Subaru gets stuck, when he gets stuck with nothing he can do, what can he pay for the presence of Echidna to help him?

In that subaru inquiry, Echidna loosened her cheeks all the time.

"I wouldn't be so vigilant. It's not that hard for me to ask you. Instead, you can even say conscience for not doing anything that brings shapeless objects or shapeless important things to consideration"

- What do you want?

"It's easy. - I want you to taste what you feel, what is in your heart, what you know, what you exchange, what comes from you, the fruit of the 'unknown' deriving from your being."

Echidna blushed her cheeks and said with a look like a maiden in love.

The fruit called 'Unknown' - to its poetic rhetoric, Subaru frowns.

"Oh, my God, that. Is that what you mean by pulling emotions, memories, memories from me and stuff like that? If so..."

"I told you. It has to be such a noise. I just want to see the view you see, the melody you hear, the story you spin, in the privileged seat. I just want to feel that. I want to be in a position to know the 'unknown' that comes from you. That's all it takes to be satisfied."

To dispel Subaru's concerns, Echidna clarifies what she wants.

Just to see Subaru on his way. Seeing the scenery along the way. Knowing what Subaru felt, knowing what he had learned, and the consequences of doing it.

A witch who is the righteousness of knowledge and crowns' greed ', that's all she wants.

"You're not lying, are you?

"In a contract, I don't know how to lie. I swear I would never do anything against this word to be me. You can risk your life."

Echidna puts her hand on her chest and concludes with a light-hearted attitude, "You're already dead."

The attitude and words felt Subaru had no lies. Or maybe that's just what you want to believe.

"Minerva. Echidna, oh, he's telling me. I'll take him then..."

"Why, it's all... it's just true, duh... it's all not what I said, is it?

Another voice is now called out to Subaru, who intends to demand the liberation of Minerva, who is to be detained. That was just heard a dozen minutes ago - and it was also with a voice that was never pleasant to Subaru.

"Carmilla......" The Witch of Lust "!

"Oh, what... with horrible eyes, don't look, so. I'm saying... I didn't do anything... but I'm terrible..."

"Bad eyesight is born. I don't have a special, tight face."

Subaru to be pulled down to the ground and Echidna standing in its front. A red-haired girl sitting on the meadow a little further away as the three lined up in a straight line with Minerva behind her - Carmilla.

She wants to know what's going on here, mostly as she hides her face from Subaru's gaze. As always, a frustrating attitude, but consciously distracting from her presence, avoids' being so distracted that her life is in danger '.

On top of that, I repeated the question.

"Besides, what did you just say? Now, there's nothing to complain about another witch showing her face, but what happened..."

"Echidna is... hiding it, there's so much to it...? Lies, I didn't say... a lot, hide, ru..."

"I'm hiding, things...?

Subaru sees Echidna as he shrugs, contemplating the meaning of Carmilla's words. Echidna, on the other hand, glanced at Carmilla as she suddenly appeared.

"If you think it came out of nowhere, you're going to line up the dishonor. In the first place, why would you draw attention to him? Unlike Minerva, you must have no reason to shoulder him. I thought you hated him."

"Mi, Minerva, like, to... ri, why? The proper thing is, um... no, no. But, Echidna, you tricked me... didn't you?

To Echidna's neat narrative, the relative Carmilla responds with an uninterruptedly weak voice, laying her eyes down. But on the weakness and back of the voice, I never see a weak compromise in its content.

Carmilla stared at Echidna many times as she wandered her restless gaze,

"Wow, I'm this kid... su, I don't like him, but he cheated on me and... eh, Echidna's, my side, don't, won't you? You trick me, you dislike me, you dislike me, you disgust me, you never forgive me."

- Only the last word was heard quickly and clearly.

So Subaru takes a moment to swallow the fact that it was spoken of by the girl beside him for a moment.

So much so that only one word now diverged from the girl's previous atmosphere.

It's just...

――――

Silently, but without ever turning a blind eye, Carmilla stares at Echidna.

A vortex of unspoken emotions that dwell in those eyes - resentful darkness that never forgives those who turn their enemies to themselves, to similar emotions.

A chunk of self-love - and such a sentence blurred the back of my brain.

"You're saying that even though it was a necessary means, it was a failure to do what Carmilla intended? When I turn you against my enemy, it's no trouble."

"Mi, na, on my side... oh, la, when I hate you, it's terrible... huh? Oh, I apologize, I won't forgive you, because..."

Weakness and belligerency are not things tied together in equals.

Carmilla is a pull-in idea, such a weak character that she can't even satisfy herself with communicating words to others - because that has nothing to do with the high level of resistance to hostility.

"Just now...... just now, what are you guys talking about!

And Subaru, previously sealed with freedom of speech, speaks up, sandwiched in the sinister air of such witches.

Subaru turned his neck diligently as he felt the witch's three pairs of gazes pour down on him,

"You can talk to me like that. Come on! I'll choose! Talk to me so I can understand! What's Echidna hiding? You two, what do you know and try to stop me!

"Even though my heart is weak, it's too sweet to stop thinking and grab it right in your stretched hand... I guess that's where you've been guiding me to let it be!

"People don't listen well. It could mislead him. If I make a deal, I'll work with him and I'll make sure he gets to the best place he wants. All I want is for him to know what he sees, what he hears, what he knows. One thing, you don't say the wrong thing."

Minerva releases a trembling voice with loss and anger to Subaru, who rises in anger. To those two awkward words, Echidna, who remains only calm.

Subaru was starting to feel uncomfortable again with the sound of such echidna's, thorough coolness. Beyond the kind of situation that was floating in the heat earlier, once again indulge in Echidna's words. attitude, and why the two witches stop.

What's wrong with it? I didn't say anything strange. The two witches also admit they are not being lied to. So where's the problem...

"Let's repeat, Natsuki Subaru. If you're going to pick me and make a deal with me - I'm going to get you where you want me."

"- At the end of the day, that's a promise that the pillow will always follow, huh?"

Reach out to me, a sloppy voice overlapping Echidna's words.

Look, now opposite Carmilla, there's a haunting of red-purple hair - a 'lazy witch' appearing so that she can sit on the ground and bury herself in her own long hair.

Subaru is no longer surprised that there will be more witches. It's just that Subaru picked up the

"Finally, to...?

"Echidna, huh. You're bound to honor your contract, huh. Just the fact that I fulfilled my contract, duh. If you keep it tight, the process is, ha. You can do whatever you want, duh."

"Whatever you do..."

The words to which Secumeto was connected around exhaling, linked to their earlier discomfort, make one hypothesis come to mind in Subaru.

But the hypothesis was, in the end, difficult to accept, and Subaru saw Echidna meditating on the attitude of the three witches, stunned and stretched his face, he said.

"Echidna, if you sign a contract... you said you'd take me to the best future possible."

"Oh, even I told you. Truth is, I'm sure I'll live up to that contract. Knowledge of me and your attributes will make it possible."

Yeah, I'm sure that's the right way to go about a contract.

That's the only lie in Echidna's words. If Subaru works with her, she can always save everything and make it to the future. However,

"With your help, I can make it to the best future - through the best path?

――――

"Are you really going to do everything in your power to get where I want you?

――――

"Why, silent. Answer me, Echidna... No, 'The Witch of Greed'!

Bringing his neck up, Subaru raises his voice in a throat-crushing momentum.

Still, he remains pulled down to the ground and his joints remain extremely tight. But without passing it by his will, Subaru stares indifferently at Echidna.

And the echidna, whose sharp gaze can be pointed, exhales small into the fudge,

"- If we can reach the best possible future, we will tolerate the sacrifices that will be made on that journey. I wonder if that wasn't your readiness, Natsuki Subaru"

"- Eh."

It was a reply that neither directly affirmed nor denied Subaru's inquiry.

But Subaru understands.

That Echidna's words now are in no way an attempt to clear up earlier suspicions.

On the contrary, she spread her arms so that she could understand her thoughts,

"The trait you possess, 'Back to Death', is a faint power. You don't really understand the usefulness of this. I won't tolerate an end I don't want, I can do it again and again, I can reach out to the future again and again - it's an ideal that is ultimately close to being an explorer. 'Cause, right? Originally, the consequences for a thing can't be moved from there if one result comes out. If it is the process leading up to the outcome, various hypotheses can be made as to what the outcome will be. With these approaches, or with these conditions, various hypotheses and validations are possible. However, if we were to come to an experiment to actually produce that result, the results, the hypotheses and validations that can be tested, have to be aggregated into one. It's impossible to create exactly the same conditions in the true sense of the word. No matter how well we put the conditions in place, we can never create the exact same conditions as at that point. At that time, what would have happened if we had done it another way - it was only a dream ahead of the ideal that would never have been within reach of us explorers. I do have the means to' know 'the answer, even if I have the' memory of the world '. Although I do, I don't want to use it. I want to know, not know. It's a very contradictory object for me. I'm going to get back to the point because that's what I'm talking about... but yes, I can only accept the results I need to have as one thing, and I only have one means of observation, and you are the power I want so much that I can get my hands on it from my throat. The ultimate power, with" the same conditions, "to be able to" verify differently "and to see" a different result "from" the original result "- can this be left without greed? Can we keep this in front of us and not try everything? Of course, I'm never going to force that on you, even if I am. Only, you should make great use of that' Back to Death 'for your purposes. I will also do my best to get to the future you seek. And if I can do that in the process, I want you to contribute a lot to satisfying my own curiosity. You can't be punished for wanting this much. You can see the answer. I can satisfy my curiosity. Mutual interests are in agreement. Even I don't know the answer, so there's no way I can deliberately direct you to the wrong choice and imitate it to a disastrous end on top of it. Me and you are only reciprocal in the sense that we don't have the right answers to the problems we face from the beginning. Together, we should be rightly comrades in the sense that we are troubled by the same problems, scratching our feet and trying to come up with answers. I can assure you clearly and without shame about that. I swear I will never imitate anything that would hinder you, because I am very fond of you in the sense that you have more means to verify. Of course, in the face of problems for which there is no answer, there can naturally be situations that even with my cooperation will not be easily overcome. Even if I can help in terms of knowledge, I can never interfere with reality. If the obstacle to standing was a physical, physical need, I can't help you. Many, many times, or hundreds, thousands and you may be broken in heart and body. Even if that happens, I really want to take care of your heart. I can't say for sure that there won't be a single mix of emotions consisting of an exploratory mind that doesn't want to lose its useful being you. But it's also true that I prefer the presence of you, and that I want to help you. So I don't want you to feel bad. I repeat, I can stretch my chest that I am useful for your purpose. Yes, just as I would like to use your presence in a way to satisfy my greed, such as my curiosity, you should also use my presence for your" best future "purpose. As a convenient woman like that, I'm looking forward to being treated by you. So if you're willing, I'd be happy to offer my presence. Except you want this body, which is already dead in a poor body. [M] Whoa, I guess it's bad for your thinkers to say this. Your thinker - a silver half elf, and a blue-haired ghost girl. Yes, and when you do, let them protect you, the girls you're showing in your vows with your heart. I assure you that my thoughts on the likeness of your heart with such strong emotions will not be expressed on this occasion, but the height of the wall that stands before you is unimaginable. At present, how disturbed is the only obstacle you already know that is beyond your control? Your readiness to get over them alone is expensive and far too sad. There is no falsehood in my desire to be such a force in your path, nor in my wish to be. And you should use my feelings. You have to use everything you can have, everything you can to help people who have bonded by doing all that. That's the oath you swore to yourself, the belief that you broke it off on your painful journey that it was necessary. So I ask you, I'll lay it on you, I'll think of you. The journey you have taken with your life and with it, ironically, has now been proven in the form of a second' trial '. Or that' trial 'even seems so necessary that it even gives you the illusion that it was meant to make you understand the journey you've been on. It is true that it was a sight that was unnecessary, a sight that would soften the mind by becoming aware. But if I didn't know it and I knew it, I want to honor the latter no matter what tragic fact it was. You have been, and will continue to be, offering your life as a consideration for" Back to Death, "and you need to attract the future. It was necessary for the world to keep in mind that what was sacrificed for it might be in this way. Sooner or later, I stopped feeling any sentiment about paying for my own life, my human emotions became rare, I stopped even moving my heart into the' death 'of my loved ones, I sank into a day of no emotion, no emotion, no apathy, and even if I reached the best future, I would arrive there with my presence missing - something that was necessary in order not to reach a future where only a sense of imprisonment would remain. Yes, there's nothing wasted on everything in the world, everything is a necessary road trip, a piece of a necessary puzzle. There were' trials' to understand that. If you need to break the cause with the most apparent meaning for the reason that you're stopping your leg like this right now, think about it this way. And I affirm your idea. Speak any word I can give you the strength you need to move forward. [M] Whether it's comfort, breakthrough, whispering love, or stirring up hatred, if it helps you, I can exercise it without hesitation. You may hate it, but your next steps will always require the power of being like me. If you're going to walk the inevitable path of loneliness, you must have a presence that you can walk with without turning away. And if I play that role, I can walk with no one else, and if I do, I can walk with you without any problems. I repeat, I'll overlap, I'll tell him to reach you again and again. - You need me. And I need you. I need your presence. My curiosity will no longer be satisfied without the presence of you. Only you fill me up. [M] It will surely satisfy me with my 'greed', which will never be satisfied. Your presence is no longer essential for me to live in this closed world. If you want to be someone's hope and exercise your power to open up the world, could you give that spill to a pathetic being named me? I have no hesitation in dedicating this body, my knowledge, my soul, if you will incline that warmth to me. So please. I want you to believe me. It's not like I've ever tried to convey my true intentions in any way to fool you or to hide it. I was just anticipating the time. Now, if you were about to complain about shards of your heart at this moment, I'm sure you'd have left me. That's an unbearable loss for me. Of course, that should rightly be a loss for you in the sense of distancing the future you seek. Soon, because of your 'return to death' trait, you will surely reach the future you seek. But the price you pay for that traceable future is better. [M] I can mitigate that if I do. I hope you don't misunderstand me to think that I would disdain a small purpose on the grounds that I can finally get to the result I seek, etc. I have not been able to contain my desires so much that I can assure you that I will never do something like this, driven by temptation and wanting to see the consequences in these cases, but I realize the elements necessary for the best way to go, but I don't put them into words - Let's admit it. But I won't delude you. If there is anything to dye your hands at such a breach of trust, you will never just do something to hide it. Be sure to reveal it. And I'll do everything I can for you as many times as I can to meet the trust you've lost. Whatever happens, I will send you to the best future you can hope for. Absolutely, absolutely. So why don't you cut it off as a necessary means to do that and pick me up? What I want from you and what I want from you is exactly what I said in my contract. And then you talk about how far you can cut yourself against the desire you want. My readiness is as I have just said. And then I want to hear your readiness. I want you to prove to me that you have the temper to make a deal with me, to get my help, and to make sure that we get to the future. For the first time, I can tell you've beaten the second Trial. [M] Proceed to the third 'trial' and overcome it to fulfill the liberation of the 'sanctuary'. In the future, if you think of the 'sanctuary' and the catastrophe that will befall your thinkers and your loved ones, this is the right 'trial' that needs to be crossed. I want you to tell me that you have the power to get over it. And on top of that, let's take me and use my knowledge to get what lies ahead. That's all I want from you, I want from you, and I can offer you instead. I intend to reveal everything sincerely, honestly. On top of that, I want you to tell me what kind of judgment you're going to make. To satisfy one end of my curiosity."

- Echidna smiled so cutely.

He wants to see this one up front, shaking his white, snowy hair, blushing his cheeks with enthusiasm and waiting for Subaru's answer.

My trembling eyelashes are frightened by the reaction, and my fingertips on my chest are moving so busily that I can't help but be anxious. Many times, his lips hesitated to spin the words, only to dampen it at the tip of his tongue.

Look up. I'm holding Subaru, I got eyes on Minerva.

Minerva exhales small as he meets Subaru in the face. And release Subaru's arm, which he did not attempt to free until then. He is removed from the shoulder restraint and set free, turning his arms and Subaru rises.

As Minerva put it, the stiffness of the shoulders is eliminated. On the contrary, I had the feeling that I was falling out to the tiredness of my hips and other areas that were gently strung up. The power of The Angry Witch, the terrible healing effect, etc.?

――――

Subaru organizes his head as he turns all parts of his body and ascertains his senses.

Now the true meaning of Echidna's true meaning, which has just been heard, unsealed.

"Echidna"

"What?

"You... you're gonna use me?

be utilized. It is a word that has been repeated many times in Echidna's current words. Take it, Echidna nods without hesitation.

"I will. You should do the same to me. The contract is a precautionary line to make no difference from each other. If you want to blame me for my idea of using whatever you can to avoid letting go of your existence, I'll take it spoilt."

"I won't think about it, it wasn't. Speaking of extremes, I know that's what interests are all about. You're a hundred percent, and the good will alone helps me... even if I expect it, I'm ready to accept a reality that isn't. But"

In front of Echidna, Subaru turned up, covering his face with his palms.

"Whatever it takes, it's not..."

"What's that?

"Everything you've done so far looks faded to me right now. I feel like I'm starting to trust you so much that I'm not the bad guy you've been treating me so favorably... all of it, fade away"

From the first time we met, what has now built up to this moment makes a noise and collapses.

The Tea Party of Encounters, the occasions that came to the 'Trial', and the time that was held back by reality, to her wisdom many times, to the Word. Time I thought I wouldn't regret doing that, trying to get a contract.

- They all mock, ruthlessly, the stupidity of Natsuki Subaru.

"From the beginning, were you going to do that"

"I'm not sure what your problem is. If it turns out to be the best we can get there, we'll split the journey - yes, didn't we decide? You yourself affirmed it and I should have pushed my back..."

"That's how I break it off... I haven't broken it off, but I was wondering if that's how you see it... yes, I'm telling you"

"I hope you don't get me wrong, but that conclusion of yours was only made by you. What I did was just a small stimulus to the conclusions you draw. I'm just not impressed with asking others where their responsibility lies for the conclusion of the words that they put in that way. I'm not impressed, and I'm not as fond of you as I am of taking it on."

Echidna pointing her lips and defending herself with a face as if she were obstinate. Subaru feels even more strongly the discomfort he has felt before due to its young emotional expression or out of place.

I don't know what that should be - emotional, chiseling.

Echidna's emotional expression is not incorrect. Outrage if suspected, smile if happy, and sadly peek at the sad face. That's right, it's not wrong.

It's supposed to be, but the discomfort you feel, the distrust you create. This answer is...

"All your attitudes, they're not serious, they're on top of you."

――――

"To rejoice, even when angry, your emotional expression is childish and thin. Even now, instead of being exaggerated, he just looked stubborn. It's not a big nostalgia or anything like that. Your attitude is... weird so far. I thought you were so easy to get along with, so light and accepting..."

――――

"Actually, no. You're... you're a guy who doesn't understand other people's emotions."

Echidna's previous behavior is remembered and everything becomes sepia.

If I felt that way that each attitude I had thought was a gift of a thin emotional expression, all my previous touches seemed faded.

And even though you're being showered with such spicy words, Echidna's expression remains unchanged from the earlier obstinate. Don't know any more, offensive emotional expressions.

"This is a good place to get mad, too."

"... well, should I be absurd and cursed here? I see, I've learned. If I had the next chance, would you let me do that?"

To Subaru's words, the expression disappeared from Echidna.

Expressionless - it was the first look of "The Witch of Greed" I've ever seen of Subaru knowing Echidna.

Ring the fingers raised by Echidna in front of the silent Subaru. Then the hill, which should have been destroyed, is restored, and the shattered table, the blown chair, is reshaped.

Echidna sat down on one of those chairs, pointing her hand at the chair opposite her,

"Why don't you sit down? I want to make a fine arrangement about the contract."

"... you think in this situation I'm still coming to a positive contract with you?

"No way, you say you reject eagles because of a slight disagreement? What the hell's the point of doing that? You can't say it's smart to be pushed away by temporary emotions and lose sight of the right choice. I suggest you look at reality and choose a rational idea."

To the frozen echidna words of his emotions, Subaru meditates and kills his breath.

Echidna's words, right. I can't help but say that Subaru has more eclampsia. The muscles are through. No lies, no follow.

Echidna was only hiding her sincerity from Subaru. I was just keeping my silence about Subaru's journey, his own interests gained in the process.

With the contract, Subaru can probably get to the right path. It must also be true that Echidna spares no effort in that cooperation.

"There's only one thing I wanted to ask you if I could see you."

"- Hmm, what is it?"

"If I could get that answer, I'd feel like I could choose."

Echidna awaits Subaru's inquiry.

To her like that, Subaru brings up the inquiry as a litmus stone. That is one of the answers that Subaru still finds no shards of in this' sanctuary 'originating loop, in a questioning that is never related to her either.

- You know Beatrice, Echidna.

"... oh, I know. The eagle is deeply involved in the process of his birth. What's wrong with her?

Echidna's innocent response. It contains nothing, an answer that conceived the question.

Subaru glances and thinks of a young girl with a vertical roll behind her brain.

For Subaru, the girl's last appearance is the moment she disappears pierced from behind.

On the brink of it, the long and lonely time she had, when she was hit with the darkness that came from it, also left a heavy lump in her heart all the time.

The look that popped Subaru, protected him from the fierce blade, and floated at the last moment - that's still it, burning in his eyes and not leaving. So,

"Beatrice is on a contract, and he's been waiting for 'the person' to come. Is that a contract with you? You're tying him to the mansion?

"I don't remember specifying the location... but it's certainly the eagle who kept the forbidden library and promised to wait until they picked me up"

"If so, who is' the person '? How can we let him go?

In the solitude of four hundred years, Beatrice has been waiting for the presence of 'someone'.

Beatrice herself doesn't know who that 'who' was. I can't even find the thread in Subaru.

But I attached that promise to "someone," if Echidna herself asks for the answer...

"Who the hell is that?

"- Ha, huh?

"No, it's not a joke or anything, I really do. Who do you think Beatrice is waiting for?

Echidna responds that way to Subaru, as if he had been brought up with a question that he did not know the answer to. Subaru shuddered at that attitude, then shook his head,

"You, too, don't know who that Beatrice waiter is?

"Yeah, I don't know. Beatrice waits, I don't know who 'the person' is."

"What, so? You're the one who told Beatrice to wait in the forbidden library, right? You don't know that... no way"

Do you mean Echidna, who instructed Beatrice to wait in the forbidden library, and someone else who set a deadline for 'the person' to visit?

If so, the person who knows the answer will be somewhere else...

"No, that's a mistake"

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"It was the eagle who instructed Beatrice to wait for 'the person'. That's not wrong. What's wrong is more fundamental."

"Fundamental, huh?

"What the hell is with the eagle, for what reason did you make such a deal with Beatrice? I'm confused about that. Is that what you think the eagle is doing to make Beatrice protect the contents of the forbidden library to 'the person'?

I don't know what Echidna means by words.

It would be a natural way of thinking. Give someone instructions to give them something. Naturally, it is decided that the handover will take place in the sincerity of that instruction.

But to Subaru, who takes such natural thought, Echidna shook her head and said.

"The eagle's instructions to Beatrice are not. The eagle made a pact with the child to wait for 'the person'... he is waiting for the result of who he chooses to be 'the person'"

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- What?

"He's a child created for a certain purpose. But you need to let it live in a different way than its original purpose... and that's why I was kept away from here, but I needed to give it purpose in doing so. You need it, even in the sense of giving that empty kid nothing to live for. So the eagle made a pact with him."

"-That, but"

"Maintaining the forbidden library and transferring everything to the 'person' who will come any minute. No restrictions were set. Originally, it's a condition that doesn't have the right answer. That kid will be brought to life as planned, and the eagle can see an answer to an exploration different from that. Isn't that very, very sensible?

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"Of course, it's one result that we've spent four hundred years without choosing. The same goes for not choosing 'the person' cheaply among the people I met in my days. Or even wanting your 'death', worried about breaking a contract or not, is one result."

"What do you think of that?

"-? You think that's great?

As if, being asked the obvious, Echidna leans her neck without being evil.

The answer, the attitude and the look of the girl floating behind Subaru's brain gave the answer.

I made up my mind. Okay. Clearly, I understand.

- A mistake could be made as to where this place is and who the relative was.

"Echidna... you're a witch"

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"Beyond the people, incomprehensible, a monster"

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Tell them. Inside your chest, give them the answers that came out.

It is now up to you to pull in the hand you have taken and decide to whom to extend that hand.

"I... I can't take your hand. I've already made up my mind."

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"There is a child whom you have innocently, without malice, deprived of time for four hundred years by the words you have bound. - I made up my mind. I'll take that kid's hand. I can't go with you."

Say goodbye.

For once, I shake off the other person's hand that I thought I could walk away with.

I looked up. I saw it before.

Behind Subaru's lid was the expression of the girl at the last moment.

- Girl who lived with relief in her eyes for being able to protect Subaru, for fear of disappearing, for crying and distorting her face.

Subaru decided to take the hand of the girl who mourned Subaru's 'death'.

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Echidna narrows her eyes.

Something, I'm going to throw words at Subaru's decision, and my thoughts run through my eyes.

But before that, change came.

- There he is.

"Oh no, no more... but it doesn't matter... or Ra"

"A troublesome place, a troublesome guy, you've come to take care of me, ha"

Three witches watching each other speak of their emotions.

And the pressure behind it.

From the front, Echidna's eyes, which were looking behind Subaru, are gently opened. Subaru followed that her surprise, looked back, and saw it.

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There stood the 'Witch of Jealousy', which covered the top from the neck with a pitch-black darkness.