Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (WN)

- The awakening came from the feeling that something rough stroked my cheek.

When he became aware of the surfacing of consciousness, what Subaru felt was tiredness invading his whole body. Your whole body is so weak that you think you might have poured lead into the blood vessels in your body instead of blood.

If you open your mouth to breathe, the lips that were dry and tense will tear and swell through your mouth the taste of blood with sharp pain. Even saliva dried up in my mouth, and I could see my tingling tongue crawling around for moisture called blood.

The limbs and feet move dull and the head doesn't work as well as when you have heat.

Not even enough force to push the lid open, try to roll the heavy eyeballs and somehow open the eyes.

and

"... you"

The moment his vision fades, Subaru sees in front of him a lacquered black of a different colour than behind his eyelids.

Moving It exhaled animal-specific beastly breath, but it kept licking this cheek with its tongue as it labored the sleeping Subaru.

A thin, refined shape on a glossy, pitch-black body. Sharp, but somewhere in the eyes of a loving reptile, a knife-like fang that, if bitten, was likely to become a Buddha in one shot - it was Patrash, a love dragon, who had put a red tongue out of its fang peeping mouth and licked Subaru's cheek.

Patrash, when he realizes that the awakened Subaru has perceived himself, stops licking the trick and sits back waiting for the word. Surprisingly clever ground dragons can sit on their knees.

Seeing Patrash in the front, Subaru realizes that he was in a position to bring himself to something stiff and throw his feet out onto the ground. If you tilt your neck and look behind you, behind you is a mossy stone wall, which looks familiar. That would be considered near the cemetery entrance.

"I'm definitely inside... how could I be outside...?

As always, when you wake up from the castle of your dreams, it's customary for you to come from within the cemetery.

Of course, apart from the story if someone pulled the unconscious Subaru out, there are only two people who put him in the graveyard in the 'sanctuary' right now: Emilia and Garfiel.

It was impractical that either of them took Subaru outside.

"I don't even think I crawled out on my own, what the hell..."

And whosoever keepeth the word, it shall be blocked by another voice that hath sounded upon the lid.

Far away, there was a shadow coming up and running from beyond Patrash, out of breath, as it approached, about to bring its feet together.

"Hey! Pa, Patrash, hey... wait...! Hii, hii...... Also, if there's anything I can get away with, I'm in big trouble... is that it?

It was the young man with the gray hair - Otto - who found Patrash and stopped at the bottom of his heart, with a reassuring face. When he took a whopping breath at Patrash's condition, he noticed Subaru right beside him and tilted his neck.

"Isn't that Mr. Natsuki? What are you doing here?

"You'll see, it's a moonlight bath. You're the one who was doing this late at night. In any case, I'm gonna stick it out to Garfield."

"I don't know why it's a premise that I did something, but it's not irrelevant that I'm sweating on my forehead at this hour, either."

Subaru turns a light mouth when he manages to fix his usual figure on Otto's figure. Otto shrugged his shoulder at the Subaru's words and let him shake his neck beside him when he told him to do it.

"Isn't that irrelevant to me?

"It's so noisy, Patrash made a scene when I went to see the ground dragon stables. I wondered if there was anything about this. I couldn't believe I was stressed out because I left it locked up for a few days. I tried to unfasten it and let you take a light walk..."

Put in the action with his hands slapped, Otto stares at Patrash's noble side. but Patrash is unresponsive to Otto and just stares at Subaru.

"Does it feel completely out of your mind, no, I don't mind. So, he popped me and jumped out of the stables. I've been turning my eyes for a while now, but I was in a real hurry to say that I was in a bad position if I could just run away like this."

"You're relieved you came to me."

"Yeah, that's right. Mr. Natsuki, did you tell Patrash something?

"I don't have time for that. Besides going to dinner, I couldn't even show my face..."

"Otherwise, you were worried. I left in a hurry."

――――

Worried, Subaru objected to Otto's grunt and his throat was blocked.

No way, the thought springs up, and Subaru ascertains how his body is looking for proof of it. and soon found traces of it.

right shoulder part of the jacket, with faint tooth shapes there and dented marks and traces of saliva. And on the back of Subaru's body, the earth and dust were majestically polluted as dragged.

"Patrash......"

――――

A crushed eye is directed towards Subaru.

To the dragon waiting in silence for his master's words, Subaru breathed unexpectedly before

"You pulled me out of the cemetery?

Of course, there's no way Patrash can respond to Subaru's inquiry in words. Subaru, however, was aware of the dirt on his body before seeing the ground dragon and realizing that his lacquered black skin had something like multiple lacerations.

It is not easy to use tools to scratch the skin of a ground dragon covered in hard scales. Above all, the wound appeared to Subaru's eyes to have originated from the inside of his body.

Second, I remember.

- The graveyard says the power to jump something that doesn't qualify for 'trials' works.

Roswar's injuries, which are treated in his bedroom, also begin there, if not there. If something unqualified steps in, the graveyard strips its fangs into the unreachable - that is,

"You even got hurt like that to get me out..."

――――

"Why, such a silly imitation... I'm nothing, when I wake up, I usually come out of the inside, and so... that's all. That's how you didn't have to pull it out in a hurry until it got scratched..."

The lacerations carved into Patrash's skin are so sharp that the red meat beneath his black skin looks nagging, twitching and bleeding seeping. That's painful enough to want to flaunt his face just watching.

And the fact that Patrash took Subaru out until he was so wounded - it's a waste of time, to be clear.

I don't know what Patrash did to me, and Grounddragon leans his nose against Subaru, who lays his eyes down. The stiff and rough feeling rubbed over and over again on Subaru's neck muscles, which still threw out his legs without force.

Words are not exchanged, and the occasional communication of intentions I thought I could do is actually a one-way street, a relationship that has just been cared for in various contexts.

"Otto"

"And what? If it looked like a good vibe right now, I'm going somewhere to stay out of the way..."

"I don't know why Patrash tried to help me... listen"

Otto has' the protection of the Spirit of the Word 'and should also be able to have conversations with the existence of different ecologies such as animals and insects. Naturally, he should also be able to communicate with Patrash.

What Patrash thought and tried to take Subaru out until he got hurt - the bottom line of which was, I didn't care now.

But Otto makes that Subaru favor by bending his lips and making an unpleasant face.

"Honestly, you don't feel comfortable, Mr. Natsuki"

"Don't say that, please"

"Mr. Natsuki, what kind of graveyard was this' trial 'in, to see from the current whining to Patrash? In the daytime and earlier, it's a faint reminder that Mr. Natsuki is eligible for a' trial ', but he failed to do so, didn't he?

"... oh yeah"

The impact of the interaction with the witches is strong and the memory is about to become obscure, but in this loop Subaru has not told everyone that he has broken through the first 'trial'. Only exceptionally revealed to Garfield, entering the cemetery with his feet for a second 'trial', a witch's tea party.

The reasons being beaten are not all 'trials', but I can't think of any reason to correct Otto's mistake, and Subaru pulls his jaw as he is asked.

Otto dropped his shoulder on that Subaru and sighed blatantly just as he was frightened.

"I can also make predictions about why I did that...... I made a fool of myself, Mr. Natsuki. Besides, I have a painful eye inside, and the quote worries me about the love dragon. It's like this now. You must have noticed something happened to Mr. Natsuki because Patrash is a good prospector. So you blow me up and you rush here... and the scratches are irrelevant."

――――

Otto traces the same flow to conclusions with the imagination of Subaru earlier.

Subaru also reached that point. The problem is one thing about how Patrash got me that far. I'd like Otto to to hear that.

"What is it, those eyes? You don't think I meant what I just said?

"So on the contrary, do you think I look like I can tell a joke right now?

"I think Mr. Natsuki had the temper to make a boring joke, even if it was worn out, and in the current situation, it would still seem more laughable to be asked if it was a joke. - Really, don't you get it?

Asked in a low voice, Subaru is overwhelmed by Otto's gaze before arguing.

Otto is staring down at Subaru with the eyes of a fool, if you will, who sees something incredible. What, you think there's a grand overlook in Subaru?

But the squalid Subaru has no verse in mind, he just frowns and is confused. The feeling of impatience even makes me sweat on my forehead, but nothing comes to mind.

Otto sighed a second time at the look of it,

"My protection is not as versatile as Mr. Natsuki thinks it is. Even if you can communicate your will, it doesn't translate. It's clear to me that trying to tell someone via me is a nuance issue."

――――

"Still your eyes say do it. Fine... I wonder if it makes sense to do it, this"

While drooling of bumps and dissatisfaction, Otto listens to Svalbard's request.

Walking over to Patrash, who is still nosing Subaru, Otto stroked that black back gently,

――――

From Otto's throat with his mouth open, a high-pitched, plucked voice is emitted.

Impossible in humanities. It is a call which, as a result of the work of the 'protection of the Spirit of the Word', has been transformed into the most suitable form for communicating the will with the earth dragon.

Patrash raising his face sighs and responds to Otto in the same way. Hearing that, Otto opened his mouth again, and a few hisses were exchanged that way,

"I'm done... um, it's still hard to say to tell you well. It's not like a human being because of the way he expresses his emotions, so I'm the only one who understands what it is..."

"Don't rush it. Please, tell me."

"I'm not in a hurry... uh, I'm in real trouble with this! I mean, it's a really weird thing to tell you this."

scratched his head Otto raised his face after several thoughts and repeated his thoughts when he leaned back again, and it was finally time for Subaru to start poor slamming while sitting down, exhaling,

"Right. Well, I guess I picked the closest word."

"Oh... Patrash, what?

"Well, don't make me say that."

"- Ah?"

Subaru rounds his eyes at the words Otto utters as he lights his cheeks and scratches them to the smell.

I'll just wait and see if he says something else, but there's no way any more words are coming out. Otto says "So" to Subaru, who is taken aback,

"Patrash says, 'Don't make me say that. Well, that's my opinion."

"Don't make me say that... what..."

"Whatever this is, it will stay that way. If you want to add my opinion, do you have to tell me, like this? That's right."

To Subaru, which deepens the increasingly perplexing color, Otto stood one finger and said, "Okay?" and foreshadowed,

"Knowing that the person is in a predicament or not, I jump out and give him a hand without even being hurt, I stay on the side until I wake up, and I laugh ho safely when I see him wake up - I don't think it's going to change what he thinks of the person who does this, whether he's a human or a dragon,"

"Ahh."

"Well, 'don't make me say that,' even if you're not Patrash. Has it not passed dullness not to notice because of the attitude shown by Konokake? You're happy."

Hearing Otto's sweeping answers, Subaru becomes aware of his idiocy additions and subtractions.

Then, if you look at the patrash just around the corner, the ground dragon is staring at Subaru with a gentle look that won't change, and if you notice this change in mood, shake your long tail and stand up.

――――

Again, to Patrash as he leaned his nose, Subaru's hand moved to stroke naturally.

Stiff, stroking his rocky skin with his palms, Subaru trembled in his voice,

"Oh well... you, you like me"

――――

"I like you, will you stay, or what?"

There was a feeling that what I had grabbed in my chest would fall.

Patrash hisses at Subaru's words and yasles Subaru's palms with his nose so hard that he can even blindfold them. Svalbard tried to open his mouth as he frowned on the feeling of skin being shredded.

"Oh..."

"Mr. Natsuki?

To the lid, a hot Shizuku conveyed Subaru's cheek.

Tears. Where I was unconscious, there was a sudden overflow of what I had been putting in. I rush to put my hands on it and wipe it, but it's too late to try to hide it. Otto saw me.

"Natsuki cried when he realized he was being missed by the earth dragon..."

"No... now, no... it's just because of the silly timing meshing around... damn, I was just lacking in the sense of reality around there, and suddenly the answer jumped in, so my mind was ready..."

The more dastardly, the more desperate Svalbard can be at what is still coming up in overly timely developments.

At the witch's tea party, Subaru realized the true meaning of his' I don't want to die '. As much as I want to protect my loved ones, so does my desire to be with them.

And I had just vowed to see if I was worth being spared by my loved ones, such a difficult feeling of consciousness.

Come there, Patrash's free loyalty.

What are you going to do with this imitation before you take action here?

Patrash brought me the answer to Subaru's thoughts and what to do and what to do with his head, with his awakening.

At least for Patrash, Subaru says that if you realize you're having a nightmare, you're having such a huge impact that you think you want to get you out of there even if you're scratched.

"No way, I didn't expect to be taught by you first. - Thank you, Patrash."

Subaru also strokes Patrash with emotion, as he responds to the loyal love directed at him. Indulging in the feel of its palms, Patrash stands resolutely with his spine stretched out. Most importantly, the movement of her swinging tail subtly showed her uplifting mood.

"I was just able to reconfirm my bond with Patrash, Mr. Natsuki, are you okay?

"Oh, thank God, thank God.... What do you mean you're okay?

"Well, it's your body and your head. 'Trial' inside must be so tough, huh? I cried because I was in love, and Emilia was like that."

I wanted to disagree with the words I said, but Svalbard doesn't mention that part because I'm pretty sure they grabbed my weakness. Instead, I wondered how Emilia looked when Otto dropped her voice,

"It's easy, isn't it? But mine's probably better than Emilia gets. Still, you're worried about me until you... you like me a little bit too?

"Wouldn't you say something disgusting!? What is it, there will be so much to be missed. You can't just get tired of Patrash, and you're not going to ask that around to everyone you meet, are you?

"Can't you? Honestly, I'd like a lot of encouragement from Setouchi right now to see if I can affirm myself."

"Yeah, yeah, I'm glad my usual tone of mouth is back.... I'm only worried about Natsuki in view of my future relationship, so don't get me wrong."

Otto said so with his hands to this side, looking disgusted by Subaru's odd trailer.

Considering the relationship, it is a disgusting rhetoric, but as for him, who wants to clarify his position as a merchant, I guess it is a necessary statement.

"I'm going out with Mr. Natsuki because I want to maintain a good relationship with Uncle Mazers Borderline. If there seems to be a problem there, or if there is a danger to me in the first place, I will let you get away with it. Just remember that."

It's a thin statement when it comes to thin hearts, but it was more about implicit understanding for each other than cynics. Even more so now that I dare speak of Otto's kindness.

"Oh, right. You... no"

In response to that otto's realistic remarks, Subaru tries to snort, stopping.

The discomfort in the back of the chest that I overheard his foreboding now and plundered with it.

I immediately came to the answer and Subaru exhaled "ha".

"... what?

"Nha, I remember. Yeah, he was. He was."

Nodding over and over to the strange-faced otto, Subaru looks up in the sky with his hands on his head.

In the loop, which began with this' sanctuary ', Subaru acted with Otto many times. And each time, Subaru saw it.

So Subaru looked at Otto,

"If I'm in danger, I'll rub it..."

"Yeah, of course. Isn't that obvious? There's no reason for me to go that far with Mr. Natsuki or anyone else. [M] The one with the life..."

"You're not running away."

"-"

Subaru shrugged at Otto as he tried to distract the Realist with a slight tone.

And to Otto, who rounds his eyes, Subaru turns directly from the front and says,

- You're not running away from me, Otto.

That in the past he snuck into Garfiel's lair, where he did not quit violence, to help Subaru.

And to protect Subaru from the menace of the bestialized Garfiel, that he joined the villagers and resisted trying to stop him.

Subaru knows him who doesn't, even if the bad guys are lining up a terrible word.

So,

"Otto, you're my friend."