Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (WN)

Chapter IV.76: “ Satella ”

- Thus, it was Subaru's first experience to face the 'witch' himself.

I've heard the name Jealous Witch, many times, and I've confronted that witch threat itself in a loop that originated in this' sanctuary '.

Disobeying the rules pressed at will also makes it harder to say that you had a good impression of a witch who took over Emilia's flesh and destroyed the 'sanctuary', not once or twice, having experienced the pain of being crushed by her heart.

This is all the more so now that the word 'witch' itself has given rise to a sense of abhorrence in our earlier interaction with Echidna. But...

"I knew this guy was... different from the other witches"

Subaru squeals in a plundered voice before the pressure emanating from the witch sitting in front of him.

A skinny woman.

I feel like I'm looking at this one with my hands down without force and in a standing position that I can't even feel. Its body was a pitch-black dress - literally, it wore a dress knitted with shadows rising from beneath its feet, and I found it waving my skin as if to match the heartbeat.

Long-sleeved dress, but unusually white fingertips could be seen from the wrist to the tip, and it could be predicted that 'Jealous Witch', like any other witch, would also have more beauty than it deserved.

However, to determine that, the most necessary information is missing.

"I've seen it several times... but what's the principle?"

From the neck of the witch, the top, covered in pitch-black shadows, cannot be seen.

Unlike the pitch-black dress that I have worn, its shadows cover up the face of "The Jealous Witch" from Subaru as if it were fog.

There has been no response from the witch to Subaru's questioning.

Subaru, sweating on his forehead as his chest was burned by a growing sense of agony inside him, glistened around - piercing silence, wandering through the appearance of the other four witches.

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Seeing the change in their expression, Subaru feels something unexpected.

To the best of Svalbard's knowledge, 'Jealous Witch' and their relationship are the perpetrators and victims of murder. The person who killed herself - what kind of mental load does face-to-face with someone like that involve, at least Subaru is going to know that.

But all the witches' expressions were different from Subaru's imagination.

One with a soft smile, one with a pitiful gaze of pity, one with paleness such as indifference itself, and the last one -.

"Have you broken the boundaries of the eagle into this far? I can't believe you're stepping into the castle of your dreams... everywhere."

Only one person, Echidna, who stares at The Witch of Jealousy, is hostile to his eyes.

hatred, and likened it to no one else, it was surprising to Subaru that Echidna floated. Earlier, I had just spoken of my decision thinking that she didn't have those emotions. I doubt Svalbard would have misunderstood the way she exposed her emotions.

However, as a realistic issue, the situation in which they are listed has already passed.

Now, the question is how to deal with the witch in front of you who is still motionless.

"In the first place, what do you mean, he's here..."

"Didn't I piss you off because I talked to Pepper about something you shouldn't talk about? I wonder if I'm a man with a light mouth like that. I know a little bit about that kid's indignation."

"I don't know if you say anything. You mean, you have that witch's shoulder? You and the other witches, he's not your enemy."

"My revenge sounds like such an idiot. … we'll see if you're sure."

I narrow my eyes to Subaru's words, rock my wavy blonde hair and Minerva moves.

She looks at Subaru indifferently, as she interrupts between her gaze with 'The Jealous Witch', her rich breasts stretched out to confront the witch with dignity. And

"Can you hear me? It's me, Minerva. Minerva in" Angry Witch ". If you remember, or if you hear your voice properly, reply."

"-! No, wait! As far as I know, you can't talk to him! If you stimulate it with more strange action..."

"I hope you don't shut up, huh?"

Minerva mouthed his mouth that only seemed reckless to Subaru's eyes. But the words of Subaru, who tried to stop it, are blocked behind them by Sekhmet, who is still hairy balls on the ground.

To Subaru, who turns around with just one glance, Sekhmet changes the size of his thighs and red-purple hairballs.

"Many times the short time you've been in contact, huh? We spent a lot of time together, huh? It's natural to be anxious, huh? I'll leave it to Minerva for a little while, huh? Even that kid doesn't think about it... sometimes it moves, duh. Well, not that I don't think so this time, I guess. Huh?"

"I hear you, Sekhmet! If I fail to discuss and we don't all want to be swallowed, don't say anything to make me angry! You're gonna poke your furious hair in the air!

"People are just breathing in front of me, Phew. It's like finding a reason to be angry at you and dealing with you, huh. Let's talk about what to do, huh?"

While scattered assessments have been made, Minerva is not unconscious from the threat in front of him.

The "Witch of Jealousy" should have been able to take as much action during the current exchange, but just stand around doing nothing and keep staring at Subaru over "Witch of Anger".

Indeed, it may be said that it draws a line from previous instant witch responses.

but that just doesn't mean you're in an immediate hostility, which again seems separate from whether or not you're in a position to have a conversation.

Minerva entrusts dialogue, and Secumeto entrusts such Minerva with full powers. So, speaking of the two remaining...

"Beh... me, Minerva, good luck... ku, if you can, yes, fine... right? Minerva, if you get hit, I'll kill you."

"It's a dependable statement, but you've said many times that it's too incompatible with you. Sekhmet is the only one on this scene who can fight me. - You know what I mean?

Keeping a gripping statement but belligerent Carmilla, Echidna tries to calm her voice. Then when the white-haired witch sees Sekhmet on the side, Hairy Ball shivers that whole thing just saying it's even a hundred million robberies to reply,

"Even for me, it's impossible to continuously seal the motion, ha. You know it's a capability relationship, and it's not for that, huh?"

"Even if I know. So you just have to smash your limbs and screw your neck off. If you physically seal the movement and stop the roots of your breath, you can bury them out of this space with the hands of the eagle."

The cuter Carmilla's remarks look, the more intense hostility Echidna is pronouncing. It's a floating narrative, but it doesn't make you think it's a joke because there's an unhidden aversion seeping through every part of the word.

Anyway, only against the 'Jealous Witch' is enough to make you believe for no reason that you don't have to doubt Echidna's negative thoughts.

The confrontation between Minerva and The Witch of Jealousy continues while such a one-touch conversation continues behind us. On the contrary, Minerva packed a step, a distance, as if to let the 'jealous witches' hear the conversations of the other witches.

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Without a voice, Subaru breathes as he looks ahead to Minerva.

Minerva's actions only seem reckless to Subaru, but I haven't even seen what The Jealous Witch showed up to do on this occasion in the first place.

If it is consistent with the previous situation, the reason the witch showed up is because Subaru broke the contraindication. But when it came to the tricks witches had done so far to Subaru, who broke that contraindication, it was the mountain of Sekiyama who appeared only his arms and hurt his heart, and when he had appeared in reality and interfered, he was just swallowing what appeared in his eyes from one end to the shadows.

Friendly contact, of course, but on the contrary, the 'Witch of Jealousy' has never even properly expressed her will. I don't know the witch's prospect, or any shards, now or before.

So what action the witch takes against Minerva, it was unknown to Subaru itself.

- If Minerva was swallowed up by the shadows, the three people behind him would move immediately.

If the expectations placed on Sekhmet are certain, "The Lazy Witch" can crush "The Jealous Witch" with power, and Echidna can get rid of it if it is the "Jealous Witch" that weakened her.

However, if...

It was no wonder Subaru why, right now, he wouldn't do it.

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Speaking of strange, there's already something wrong with the status quo, which leaves Minerva with the first contact with the 'Witch of Jealousy'.

Carmilla won't quit fighting back if she gets her hands on it. Still, Sekhmet doesn't want aggressive hostility, and even Echidna, full of hostility, hasn't hastened to launch a pre-emptive attack until she defies Minerva's will.

What the hell are they after...

"You look like you can't see the witches' thoughts and are being flirted with."

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"Most of all, the eagles... whoa, it's also a witch's name break that seems to easily see the inside of us. Around there, it's hard to be cheap."

"You're not doing this to me like you did to me. - If you really want to keep 'The Jealous Witch' away, I'm just wondering if defenseless now is the best time to go for it."

"I see. Does the situation look that way to you now? That's... yeah, I guess so. As far as I'm concerned, of course, I agree with you by putting my hands up. I'd like to tap myself into all the power I can have and wipe it out without leaving any shards..."

So cut the words, and Echidna narrows her eyes.

I don't know yet how much I knew about her, but I feel something so unfamiliar about her, and Subaru waits for words.

After a slight silence, then Echidna said.

"It's a real fall if you do everything you can to get rid of the array and then the other witches will target you. Anyway, Minerva turns Sekhmet and Tefon on his enemies until he puts up a bet, which means he doesn't have a good minute."

"I can't see the story. Why, if you're trying to get rid of the" Jealous Witch, "how dare they turn to the enemy? My vengeance means the same for everyone..."

"Chi, ha... hey...?

It was Carmilla who had kept her silence so far that interrupted Subaru's question. She didn't see Subaru with a slight face and kept staring at Minerva and the 'Jealous Witch', lightly interrupting the words.

"Mi, to you, 'jealousy' is a vendetta, is... well, it fits, but, you know, with that kid... it's different, a story, right?

"... I don't know what you're talking about. What are you..."

"It's more than I know which one you are on this occasion. Phew. I don't feel comfortable getting my hands out of here. I'm not talking about being out of line before, huh?"

"Which...?

Sekhmet's answer for taking over the word. But even that only means fuelling confusion for Subaru. That understanding of what they were saying came from a different angle.

One step, plus Minerva shrinks his distance from The Jealous Witch.

And she spread those two hands to create an irresistible posture and told The Jealous Witch.

"- Are you" The Jealous Witch "? Or Satella? Which one?"

Subaru felt that previous perceptions had given rise to statements that would cover them from the ground up.

The content of Minerva's mouth is very different from the facts known to Subaru. But that it was neither Minerva's paranoia nor his kind of joke was affirmed by the silence of the witches around him who had lived in the same era.

For the first time, the shoulders of the 'Witch of Jealousy' faintly tremble on Minerva's call. A black claw covered his head and his body direction seemed to point Minerva.

- The witch put Minerva in that consciousness for the first time at this moment.

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Subaru was not given a gap to raise the question as to what the current statement meant. More than that, you're faster than thirsty for strained tension.

With the witches' affirmation, it betrayed Subaru's idea from far above.

Minerva's statement, that is -,

- "Jealous Witch" Satella. It is possible that someone called that is someone else.

No, that's too much thinking on too few terms right now.

Judging by the information on the top alone, how many times has it been painful to have stereotypes? Even if the possibilities are always taken into account, they should not be so adamant.

Above all, we should not distract consciousness even for a second from the sight in front of us right now.

"To the first question, all of a sudden you don't set me up... you still have a chance"

Saying, Minerva packs more distance.

The distance between The Angry Witch and the Witch is only five steps away.

"If you're a 'jealous witch', it's not weird that you suddenly came at 'jealousy' when you stood between her, and I wasn't too worried about that,"

Four more steps.

"Still, then I wish you'd say something, speak up first. Well, I know it's hard for me to look at you. I didn't forget my last face when I swallowed it."

Three steps.

"I think I'm much better than the other five. Whatever Tefon is, otherwise I'm the best... and I thought we were friends."

Two steps. Down.

"Yes, I thought... I thought it was... Eh!

succumbed. Two more steps away, Minerva bends forward and builds strength in his hind legs.

And

"In this long time situation, I know what it's like to be ignored - eh!?

The ground explodes and only two steps away disappears in one step.

Minerva, who swept up the dust and advanced, twisted himself wide and fired his fist full of spirits from his shoulder mouth. It penetrates the atmosphere, breaks through the walls of speed, and makes a roar all the way to the head of the witch. Pushing into the face covered in darkness -,

"- Look, just like I thought"

Minerva's fist was miraculously stopping him on the verge of striking that witch's face directly.

It's not like the shadow of a witch stretched out, tangled her arms, etc. Minerva's arms stopped on the verge of stretching out.

Remaining in a fist-wielding position, Minerva rocked her own blonde hair with her torso back,

"Look, look. It's Satella, not The Witch of Jealousy, who knows you don't have to turn my fist. Echidna, I don't need your vigilance."

"... I wonder. I honestly admire your willingness to prove it with that self, but that's not what I'm talking about. Purely, if the existential threat of you had just been estimated low, of course, but I wouldn't move. So, Secumeto."

"Don't try to move me for a reason, huh? You're the same bad guy at forever, Echidna, huh. Admit it, I'm a satire, huh?"

To the closing echidna, Secumeto hits only a sigh.

Continues to be hairy balls unchanged, the witches' final weapon has no sign of movement. And at a distance where his hands and hands touch each other, the witch - Minerva, confronted by Satella, looked back at Subaru.

Svalbard is stunned, stared at by the blue eye, yet still unable to successfully recognize the reality right next to the threat.

When he snorted at such a Subaru attitude, Minerva looked unhappy.

"What are you bluffing about? Come on, come here."

"Come... yes, even if you say so"

"What, you don't look like a boy. I let you prove to yourself that I'm okay with this, so shouldn't you come over here with dignity, too? Isn't that what it is? Or is this all you have to eat and it's still not enough? If someone knocks on a stone bridge and says you can't cross it, how can you cross it!

"Don't heat it up on your own! It's not like you can't freak out and go that way! I can't go that way because I don't know why I would!

Equally absurd to Minerva's indignation, Subaru makes a difference to the situation of abandonment.

footsteps, pointing at Satella, who seems to be out of the immediate threat meaning, Subaru looks around at the witches who are unraveling their combat posture,

"In the first place, what does it mean that 'Jealous Witch' and Satella are different! You guys were talking as a matter of course, but I've already been different as a knowledge since then!

"Nothing like this. Forced, such harm also comes if an unsuitable being takes in the witch factor. The part that should also be called witch personality arising from the influence of factors and the stigmatization with the original self…. From me, they're the same, so I'm not convinced what it means to distinguish them like they are."

"No, personality......!? So, what is it? I swallowed you guys up or did evil deeds like they are in history because one of them is personable and the other is harmless..."

"That's not true."

Echidna stops Subaru from attempting to deal with the information asked, even though he is surprised. She shook her head sideways, as she corrected Subaru's theory,

"I drank half the world, I drank six other Big Sin Witches, it was all a 'Satella' act, not a 'Jealous Witch'"

"Nah -!? No, then Tsuji doesn't fit! If it's Satella that swallowed you guys and Satella that's over there... we need to talk."

"It meshes, so, ha. We don't tolerate 'Jealous Witches', huh? But I don't resent Satella, ha. That's all, huh?"

"Wow, I'm... well, Satella, but... well, I just don't like it, you know... better than a witch, you know..."

Sekhmet and Carmilla agree in such a way as to further deepen Subaru's doubts.

It seems to be a unified view of the witches, but that's what Subaru doesn't understand. The person who destroyed us is dual personality, and we forgive the personality who destroyed us, but we don't forgive the personality who doesn't - what does that mean?

"Without the point of that distinction, I've always insisted... it's a parallel line. That's why I can't ignore that will and get rid of you. In my weak mental body, I can't fathom them if they flip an anti-flag after I get rid of them. No matter how I am, I won't go back if my soul is scattered."

"But... isn't that a big risk story for the other five? You keep the other five souls, right? If you disappear, the other witches will..."

"They are convinced of their 'death'. So there is no untrained to be able to last as a soul alone in this way. - As long as you bend yourself over and stay, you'd much rather die martyring at your faith. That's what I think. I'm a witch."

Neither Sekhmet nor Carmilla throw a word of denial at Echidna's utterance.

Clean, to a judgment that is too discerning, Subaru is too harsh and speechless for the witches to live.

If that's the case, everyone will have something to yearn for and want to be.

But I can't say for sure to anyone that he's dead and that even after he dies he puts it through.

"Minerva too......"

I guess it's the same.

Or at the hands of The Jealous Witch, she could have been destroyed before anyone else. Still, Minerva believed in a witch who had done nothing until he reached a distance within his reach and made him try to prove it as a result.

Subaru doesn't know how they relate.

If there is such a bond as to believe in each other, how could 'The Jealous Witch' have destroyed the other six witches? And how do the witches forgive it?

The idea of echidna is still more understandable to Subaru.

Just still...

"I know you guys are. That's convincing...... hard, but understandable. But I haven't heard what he's been up to yet."

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"No questions asked, I knew it wouldn't hit me. I'll convince you of that.... but that doesn't make him talk about safety. If what I've seen so far is a Jealous Witch, what does Satella want from me?" The Jealous Witch "is just an abomination to me. Suddenly they say it's different, but I don't understand it."

Not to mention the whole story of the witches, who must have been the satyra in front of them who drank them off. Doesn't it mean, then, that even if it was the "Jealous Witch" who swallowed the "Sanctuary," Satella could do it and nothing less?

Remember the sense of crisis, be vigilant and turn away, and who can blame you for that?

"What do you want to do and what are you here for? Unless you know that......!

"If you want to know that, you can come this far."

Minerva blocked Subaru from trying to preach his voice.

With his hands on his hips, Minerva stares at Subaru without hiding his frustration on his adorable face.

"Enough with the excuses and the lines of prevention. There's nothing happening to me next to this girl. And this kid came here to see you. If that's all you're saying, you can't even get close enough to this kid, then you're just gonna have to decide that it was just a mismatch for us."

"I don't know if there's any misprospects or shit! Take it easy on yourselves, don't guess me! Don't push yourself on me! What do you guys know about me!

Forgive me for being pushed into a casual image and following its path.

Once, when I shouted the same thing, there was a voice that responded to Subaru. I remember the words then. At that time, it supports the words spoken.

- That time, if you can't betray yourself saved by that word,

"Oh, shit... I'm thinking stupid, me..."

It's an unreasonable, motivational decision.

So far, I have no reflection on how painful my eyes have been because of what I've done. Pay more attention to the trivial parts of things, kill emotions and be ruthless, move according to certain facts, not the movement of the mind - never waver, keep the heart of steel.

Yeah, that one, and I'm supposed to keep wishing.

It's too late to make a decision.

"The fear of approaching each other to the brink of life and death... damn, you guys knew. Keep doing it."

"It's not like we don't have anything to think about. Unlike me, Sekumet and Carmilla are just adults all the time. I have a reason to put my shoulder in."

That's what I said to Subaru, who walked over and punched his tongue, and Minerva let him shrug his shoulders. Without giving time to hear why and do it, Minerva gives way to Subaru.

When "The Witch of Wrath" goes sideways, nature and Subaru are in the form of witches at close range - facing Satella.

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Unexpectedly, he swallows his spit and Subaru loses his words to the differences in the existence before his eyes.

Looking at it from a distance, and looking even closer as I walked over, I should have known, but I still can't wipe away the pressure that can be emitted and the discomfort that can be inflicted from my sight.

The shadow dress sticking to the body paints terribly fancy with its limbs and curves, and the fact that you can't see the top from the neck even creates an inverse gloss.

All those impressions are scratched away by unrecognizable head discord.

――――

Take a look right around the corner and Subaru realizes that its perception inhibition is not a physical one.

The fact that darkness appears to be covering the area of your face is not actually blocking your sight so that the shadow cannot cover the place and be seen.

The inability to see the witch's face is due to something more rooted in the spirit.

I'm not blind to my face because of physical interference. It's an instinctive thing, and I try not to let you see it.

"Nobody wants to turn away from their own ugliest delusions"

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"If you can't see that look, it's a matter of your heart."

From behind, difficult advice flies in support of Svalbard's reasoning now.

While somehow indulging in the inner mind he wants to tongue, Subaru ignores Echidna - rather than continue to face Satella with no room to divide his consciousness there.

Still no active action from Satella.

Speaking of what Satella did, now she just showed up on this spot. That the surroundings were making a fuss of their own accord and were just making a leap to prevent the damage from spreading against her actions.

Though it is not an exaggeration to say that mere existence, and being so feared, in itself, is already a true representation of the dangers of her existence.

And Subaru was in a hurry for a motionless situation, at that moment.

"-"

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To the lid, I saw both hands stretched out in front of me, and Subaru's throat froze.

One moment, and that's what spared even a moment of blinking, Subaru was concentrating his consciousness on Satella's behavior. After the moment, I don't know what would happen - that sense of urgency flirted with the movement of my hands as if it had emerged from the outside of my consciousness.

I'm not surprised I didn't see any movement. Subaru clearly watched Satella's arms move. Nonetheless, I was surprised at my consciousness when that arm was offered and I quietly saw the situation until I finished acting.

"You really... what is it? What do you want from me?

The fact that no effective action could be taken against the hand extended. And Subaru, who had half unconsciously understood what it meant, makes words out of the blue.

To squeeze it out so you don't have to face it so you don't have to admit that fact.

"If you're giving me the power to start over... how come..."

Satella's thoughts, I don't know.

And even though I face Satella, stand at a distance I can touch her like this, and consciously scream over and over again that it's dangerous, I don't know the body that won't listen to me.

- There's a point in the body's reaction to trying to 'appease' her unconsciously, in front of her.

"- Ugh."

"- Ah?"

Subaru, unable to accept his body against his will, delays his response to the sound of a beating on his tympanic membrane. That was definitely now the right reaction to an event that came from outside of intent.

Breathtaking, Subaru waits for the words to follow.

Front, Satella took the time to say, eventually, to Subaru, who swallowed solitude and waited for another word, with his still invisible expression pointed towards Subaru.

"- I will."

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"All the time. I've always loved you alone."