Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (WN)

Chapter 5: 14: The Sword Ghost Under the Moon

Dinner party where everyone sprang up, forgetting each other are political enemies, etc.

When I finished dinner and went back to the room, the room already had a futon that the employee laid for me while I was away. Looking at the futon in two rows, Subaru wrapped his tongue around the inn's good hand.

This is true in hotels and elsewhere, but the accommodation in this hand is often once again ready for futons, sheets, towels, etc., while the guests are vacant.

Strangely unprotected habit, I've always wondered.

"Subaru. Apparently, the unsuccessful man snuck into the room while the Betties were gone -!"

"Oh. You're carefully futon laid and you're folding back the towel you messed up or something."

"This is...! Yes, it must be a trap for the Betties to be caught off guard. They're the ones with no loopholes around them."

"Shall we believe in their free goodwill once in a while? Well, it's not free."

Forgive Beatrice for her useless vigilance in expressing her diligent professional consciousness, Subaru quickly falls asleep rubbing her eyes at Beatrice.

By the way, since we officially signed the contract, Subaru and Beatrice's rooms are the default for the same room. Anastasia offered to have a room for Beatrice, but I resigned wholeheartedly because I knew she was coming to Subaru's room within the night anyway.

This is not about Beatrice not being able to sleep alone, it was purely about taking into account Subaru's physical condition, which resulted in a high amount of mana generated from Odd while he slept and the gate became incomplete.

"So it's not because Betty wants to be beside Subaru. Misunderstood."

is the opinion of Beatrice at the outset of the contract.

I don't care where the sincerity is anymore at this time. Because Subaru has also been completely used to sleeping on nights other than his own in the past year.

"... this green mass is poisonous. I don't know if it would be free if I ate..."

I guess it's because I enjoyed it there and was tired there. Beatrice, who entered the futon, was dragged into his dreams early, and is now being made into a traumatized wasabi in his dinner seat.

Stroking Beatrice's forehead with her face on her face, Subaru fully enjoyed her adorable partner's sleeping face before rising.

"Well, why don't I take a bath and let you rest for a while today?"

On the pillow of Subaru's futon, a replacement yukata is provided for Subaru to wear. If I don't know how to wear it, I was told to feel free to go back to the room, but it looks like Subaru can wear yukata as well as kimono properly.

Answer why you can get bored in your spare time in the original world.

"If it weren't for Ferris and Anastasia, I could have been in charge of all the women's clothing and everything."

Whether it's true or not, I wanted to be in charge of Emilia's attire, but all the candidates for the king's race have a beautiful range of girls in sight. Whatever the character had some difficulty, none of the pleasure of decorating that outfit should have been gained without taking a pull.

"Ma, I can't help it. After dinner, let's just be satisfied that Emilia Tan's three knits are ready."

I may unwrap it before I go to bed, but it activates when I unwrap three knitting 'Three Knitting Waves!' is the aim of Subaru's bunk. The natural wavy feel of the hair is also beautiful from Anastasia, but I'm sure it will also show up in Emilia's long silver hair.

"Cute whether it's three knitting or three knitting waves occur. Emilia, you're a sinful girl, at all. Bear, you're not gonna enjoy this."

Beatrice's hair is curiously fixed in a vertical roll no matter what she tries to do.

Perhaps there is a cause for how it was born as an artificial spirit. It's not impossible to force different hairstyles, but as soon as I unbundle the bundle, I go back to the vertical roll. That's a sight to see, so I've been allowed to play with it a few times.

Looking forward to tomorrow morning, Subaru leaves the room quietly with his yukata.

While killing the sound diligently on the slab floor, taking care not to wake Beatrice. I also find it a little inadvertent, but given today's inn guests, it's a lineup that makes the bad guys who try to break in more pathetic instead.

'I know there's nothing, but if something goes wrong in this compartment, I'll figure it out. I want you to feel safe at night'

was the comforting word of Reinhardt, who broke up in the sitting area.

It's not limited to 'In the Inn', it's too heartfelt to say 'compartment' and on the contrary I'm afraid. Given his character, it was even possible that he humbled himself where he wanted to say 'city'.

So Subaru walks inside the inn without any vigilance for a moment. The mind is already geared towards the big bath, and although there is a pity that it is not an open-air bath, Subaru believes that the bath has the unique pleasure of being an inn.

――――

Its legs stopped and its fuzzy face changed its expression when it passed through the edge overlooking the garden.

In the evening there was a stand-up between Reinhardt and Garfiel, whose garden entertains the eyes of what it sees, changing its fun again at night.

A round moon floats in the black sky, and the thickness of the clouds on the moon gives the sky a demonic charm. A cool breezy garden, where one figure stood up.

"- Mr. Wilhelm?

Difficult back and white dyed hair.

Only one old man, as far as Subaru knows, can tell at a glance that yukata suits him even in the back.

"Is this Lord Subaru? Did I surprise you?

He must have noticed some signs that people would pass by. Looking back at the call, Wilhelm looked at Subaru with that expression softened.

Get your hands in the yukata and sit in the Japanese style garden. Why does it look so good?

"Were you about to have a hot tub?"

"Yes, with that intention. Finally, I wandered around wanting to see the garden at night. I'm not lost in an inn I'm unfamiliar with."

"Lord Subaru will never do that again. Besides, I was drunk and crazy about the garden aesthetics first, too. I know what it's like to expect this sight."

"... there's something itchy about being able to lift it."

Subaru can scratch his cheek and honestly illuminate Wilhelm, who turns his trust without a threshold.

Wilhelm is one of Subaru's purest esteemed figures in this other world. There are many other beings who want to line up and compete, but he may be the only one who has feelings close to 'looking up' and envy.

As a person or as a man, Wilhelm was Subaru's ideal.

"Something bad for Lord Subaru. In the solemnity of the garden at night, foreign objects like me would have been tempted to mix."

"Nothing. Instead, the sword ghost and the Japanese-style garden look too good, one that will be engraved forever into my mind's photograph. People who can see the moonlight, they like it."

As far as Subaru knows, the moon and night look best on Emilia without complaint.

Her long silver hair is not like the sunshine of the sun. Emilia's beauty is that of the moonlight that she wants to lean on. So Subaru wants to be a star that leans against the moon.

Therefore, the appearance of the sword ghost now nestled in the moon and night was a terrible reminder for Subaru.

"... Lord Subaru is a real loser. Such a heart-shaking word, not an old body like mine, if you whisper to a woman, let's be attracted."

"Even if I say this face and shine, the butterflies are not attracted, but treated like balsants. Besides, at the moment, this rhetoric doesn't make any sense to the person who wants to tickle her heart the most."

"I painstakingly choose words to see the grin of a difficult woman...... its all about love pleasure, Lord Subaru"

Svalbard shrugs his shoulders in teasing Wilhelm tones.

"Whoa, it's been a long time since I've been in an inclusive love story. Did Mr. Wilhelm have those days, too?

"Do you want to hear?

"Sure."

When Subaru gratefully follows his manners, Wilhelm looks happy in a lot of ways, "Well, I can't help it," he said.

"I still am, but when I was younger, I was a poorer mouth and less spoken man than I am now. Sometimes I was only interested in swinging swords, and I didn't even have any other topics in mind besides swinging swords. I think I bored my wife when I first met her."

"But your wife didn't hate talking to Mr. Wilhelm like that, did she?

"My wife was a deeply nostalgic woman. While I lost my mind in the weight of the business I carried on myself, I didn't try to escape responsibility or stop caring for others. In the beginning, my wife kept talking to me, and it must have been her natural kindness."

Wilhelm lays eyes on the memories, smiling just to miss them.

Subaru quietly lowered his back to the edge and listened to the old man's old story.

"It's what I was so lousy at, she just threw the topic at me all the time when I met my wife. Besides, there's even a verse at first where I didn't really realize I was attracted to my wife, and while I was talking to her, I always thought it was abominable how high my chest sounded."

"Mr. Wilhelm wasn't used to women, either."

"Truly, I devoted myself only to the sword. Forget what I thought when I held the sword, so that I could get food to live by immersion. - It was my wife who reminded me why."

"When did you realize you liked your wife?

"... were you expecting Lord Subaru"

Subaru responded silently to Wilhelm, who spoke without force.

I'm sure Wilhelm doesn't realize what he looks like right now. Subaru was terribly proud that he could see his face.

Wilhelm's eyes, the wrinkles on his cheeks, the tone of his voice, the tricks, everything tells the story.

He is still in love with his wife - Teresia Van Astrea - at the time we met.

The old man's face, his attitude, his presence spares no love for his wife.

Look at that face. Who wouldn't notice the moment he fell in love?

Anyone knows the depth of that thought when they have gathered all the dullness, living and living in this world.

Wilhelm's love is so proud.

"- Eh."

I don't know, Subaru was looking at Wilhelm's face and he almost cried unexpectedly.

Hot stuff gathers in the back of my eyelids without overcoming what comes in. I don't know how I felt like this. Look at people's faces in love, how can these breasts get hot?

Doesn't crying out here just bother Wilhelm?

"Lord Subaru is right. It was then that I realized how I felt about my wife."

Lie down on your face and pretend to scratch your head. Subaru hides the signs of tears from Wilhelm. Will Wilhelm, who continues his words, have you noticed Subaru's tears?

Subaru listens to him, not knowing which is right, whether he is immersed in old stories or daring to show a bare gesture that he doesn't realize.

"Waving the sword was all I had. But what I thought by the time I waved the sword, and what I thought by waving the sword, was everything that shaped me. My wife made me realize such a natural thing. From then on, every time I hold my sword, I remember my wife"

"Is that, even now?

"- It was and always was the sword that connected me to my wife"

To Subaru's question, Wilhelm put aside a few moments before spinning his words.

With the moonlight on his back, Wilhelm is facing Subaru. The emotions that are only in the eyes of the old man are complex and not readily readable by Subaru.

I'm proud of you. There is remorse. I have hesitations. I have passion. Shame on you. Brave.

- But there was love in all of it.

"As long as I hold the sword, I will continue to think of my wife. So I will never forget my wife even after she died. When I die, I want to die holding my sword. For me, that means I can be with my wife."

――――

Wilhelm's, that's the clumsy, straight, only way to love.

Subaru breathes and then repeatedly takes deep breaths to hold his palpitations in. Since I decided that my tongue was no longer paralyzed and my mouth was able to speak properly,

"Don't tell me when you're going to die or something that's not even on your side. Even Mr. Wilhelm is still too young to think about hiding."

"Lord Subaru?

"Even Mr. Krusch, Ferris, relies so heavily on Mr. Wilhelm. Mr. Krush has a hard time remembering, and even Ferris, who supports it, can't get it on his face, but I'm sure he's desperate, and Mr. Wilhelm has to help him! And even me!

――――

"Even I still have a lot to teach Mr. Wilhelm. In enemy factions, you might think of what you sweetened. But I..."

Subaru liked Wilhelm.

So, with my thoughts about my late wife in my heart, I respect him as a man for having defeated that vendetta. Even if he didn't feel like it, whether it was a repeating Subaru experience or a less-than-ten days of mentorship, Subaru saw the strength to honor Wilhelm.

From that Wilhelm's mouth, I was all the more afraid to hear words reminiscent of 'death'.

More than ever before, Subaru has become sensitive to the 'death' of acquaintances. That is also because of the covenant with Roswar, and also because Subaru's own stance on 'Back to Death' has changed.

It was also the part where Emilia and Beatrice were secretly in danger.

"... As always, I'm not good at choosing words"

I'm stubborn, Subaru, and I'm desperate. Hearing that voice, Wilhelm laughed.

The old man looked at Subaru repeatedly with a gentle look of shallow breath, keeping his lips open.

"I took great disrespect and hard work. That's what I said earlier, but I'm not thinking about dying all the time. It's true that I thought of it that way for a while, but it seems to have been successfully overcome."

"......"

Subaru quickly realized that he was talking about a war with the white whale.

If I had tried Wilhelm, the battle against vengeance would have come precisely with such readiness that it would not have been spared in exchange for life. At that time, Wilhelm was even ready to die and challenge the battle. And now that I've gotten over it -,

"We think things are going well. Leaning my thoughts so much, I didn't lose my life and it lasted. I don't even feel ashamed of myself right now."

"Mr. Wilhelm......"

"We are honored, above all, by what we need. Both now and in the past, my breasts tremble at the blessings that this self, who can only wave the sword, is still required. There are people I need to support, and I can visit my wife's grave. I'm overprivileged."

Yes, is it?

Is that really the case? Hasn't Wilhelm been forced to?

In the bosom of an old man with a gentle smile, it cannot be discerned by a shallow young man like Subaru. I can't accept my weakness wanting to believe that there is no lie in that laugh.

Isn't the truth impossible? If not, isn't it suffering that Subaru won't reveal?

But if you think so from your true heart, isn't Subaru just wanting Wilhelm to feel unhappy?

"Lord Subaru. - It's a virtue, but it's also weak."

…………

Seeing the distressing Subaru, Wilhelm said so in a quiet voice.

There is no laughing sound there. But I'm not offended or scolded. That's like teaching somewhere, like older people talking to younger people.

More thankfully, it was the kind of voice my grandfather spoke to my grandson.

"My wife had that place, too. There's a bad habit that pushes your heart and kills you, and you put yourself behind you, like you care about the hearts of the people around you."

"Bad habit, huh?... No, I'm not such a good guy in the first place. I've never wished for everyone to be happy or anything like that. It's just that I wish I was happy just the people around me."

"People around it, it's a matter of scope. My wife didn't want it, but she was so powerful that one woman didn't need it to have it. And the extent to which it could be delivered with that power reached farther than she thought."

Wilhelm's wife, Theresia, is the predecessor Kensei.

Its curriculum vitae is brief, but Subaru could also be touched upon in the past year. A hero who suppressed the civil unrest that broke out within the kingdom of Lugnica, known as the Subhuman War, in years after attacking Kensei.

What she accomplished with her extra strength was precisely a feat of saving the nation.

There can't be enough in Natsuki Subaru to be compared to Yingjie like that.

"I understand your wife's story. But whatever it takes to apply it to me."

"My normal wife was a normal woman who loved flowers. Just because you are a hero, a hero of history, doesn't mean you are from day to day. And Lord Subaru. Your name and your reach are now wider than you think. It will become more and more so in the future."

"I don't..."

"I am sure. Lord Subaru is the one who musters together someone who can't do what he can't do on his own, and he's sure to accomplish it."

――――

Out of the question.

Wilhelm complains about how much he buys himself.

Is Subaru believed to be a man who could do such a great thing?

Subaru is a weak, retarded, even weak half-willed man. There's nothing I can do on my own, so I've just gotten involved with others with my mouth full and repeatedly sneezed on the spot.

That way, I'm sure it'll go bankrupt someday. Even if things are working out now, when something comes up that can't be helped on the spot, it's bound to go bankrupt.

When the inevitable time comes, Subaru will be disappointed -.

"I'm sorry. This kind of thing, you'll just have trouble getting convoluted. People who are old for nothing only regret not being able to take care of them."

"Mr. Wilhelm, I..."

"Now, you may not be conscious yet. There will be people, or a lot of people, who have not noticed that. But sooner or later, everyone will know."

"I'm a tiny, helpless bastard."

"Yeah, I like you, you little, helpless bastard."

Putting aside a beat, Wilhelm nodded satisfactorily.

"And people who think so, there will be more to come."

Subaru quietly silenced on Wilhelm's words as if he had something to feel.

On the other hand, there was something overwhelming, and some minds want to laugh off that it's a big deal. Still didn't cut it off unilaterally because the other guy is Wilhelm, who is nothing else.

I don't believe it from my head.

But it's not like denying it unilaterally and trumpeting it either.

Subaru decided to bring in the thoughts he felt in his current story until he could digest them.

Originally, it was Subaru who realized it was full of what was missing. That's what I've got, my emotions, my words, I'm trying to drag and walk as far as I can, and that's what I decide.

That's how I decided to make this Wilhelm word one of them.

Watch Subaru, bewildered but determined, as Wilhelm mercifully does.

I don't realize Subaru desperate to look at himself in that gaze.

"... a little too much talk. I apologize for stopping you for so long."

Wilhelm cut it out that way, anticipating that a settlement had been reached on the grid in Subaru.

Take it, Subaru decides to go to the end of this night's act.

"I'm the one who didn't do anything wrong. I wanted to hear your wife's love story. I wanted to hear it."

"No. It's been a while since I've been satisfied either...... but I'm happy to talk about my wife. I haven't had much time lately for Master Kursch or Ferris."

"On top of not being in love enough, I heard about the subtle footsteps of the faction!

"I got a little too sentimental. The old man's long story, it must have been boring."

Wilhelm smiling thinly makes those blue eyes pass a whisper of emotion.

I only saw it for a moment. I didn't miss that. Subaru turned his consciousness to what happened in the first place.

At first Wilhelm stood alone in the garden.

Like Subaru, I initially thought I had come down to enjoy the garden flair. But Wilhelm told Subaru.

There's something foreign going into the view, and I need to apologize.

Enjoying the view of the garden, the best viewing spot is on the edge where Subaru is.

On the contrary, if you stand in the position where Wilhelm is, you will lose the joy of fully enjoying the landscape of the garden lit by the moonlight.

Regardless, that could have been over-thought. But if there's any other reason Wilhelm came to the garden, it's...

"... where Reinhardt stood."

――――

The position Wilhelm stood in was an absolute realm that Reinhardt continued to defend in his standings with Garfield.

In the slightly disturbed gravel, the footprints of the red-haired swordsman, who stood in an immovable setting, often stand out.

Wilhelm noticed the discomfort and it is also a natural flow that he tried to ascertain. But the sincerity that kept standing there is only known to Wilhelm.

"Mr. Wilhelm. I'm not going to stick my neck in the extra family situation, and I'm going to graduate from the wild horse guts of asking lightly about what happened, so I don't want to imitate it like I say anyway..."

"Yeah, I'll ask you"

"Can't you get along with Reinhardt? You're family, aren't you?

My grandfather and grandson, the impeccable stepping into a complex Astrea family relationship.

Subaru talked about the trust he built with Wilhelm, knowing it could scratch there.

Wilhelm and if it was before we talked about it in this garden, we might not have. But the conversation ahead and the side of Wilhelm looking down in the footsteps of his grandson.

If you saw that, you couldn't avoid it.

"I was talking to Lord Subaru, and I thought,"

…………

"I wonder why I am unable to exchange words with my own grandchildren in this way"

That was bittersweet, Wilhelm's heartfelt word.

The expression disappears from the side of Wilhelm. No expression, but not no emotion. Pushing emotions to death is a robust shell to keep unrivalled moans from appearing outside.

Wilhelm has it. It was an indisputable regret.

"I'm a man with a lot of regrets. But I have three regrets in my life that I can never excuse. One of them is the cause of the groove between me and my grandson today."

"But Mr. Wilhelm regrets that, doesn't he?

"It's not about being forgiven for repentance. So much so that the words I slapped on my grandson then...... Reinhardt are heavy. The harder it was, the harder it was to forgive, the dumber it was."

On the side disguised as faceless, there are so many signs of flames that Wilhelm is likely to burn himself.

It's an angry fire that continues to burn for years without forgiving Wilhelm's heart and audacity. Regret sparks, and the flames burn Wilhelm and don't let him go.

"On account of my wife's hostility, I have kept turning away from that regret. And now that we've met our enemies, we know that if it's true, we should step aside."

"But I'm not brave enough"

"As long as you're ashamed of yourself. My grandson still resents me. If you think so, you don't have legs."

The bottom of my heart, the whining voice of Wilhelm like I was disappointed in myself.

Subaru flashed when he saw the old man as if he had rapidly become smaller. And after flashing, it erupts unexpectedly.

"Lord Subaru?

"Shh, excuse me. I didn't mean to laugh, but I just can't."

Wilhelm looks incredible, but not even Subaru.

How much does this old man surprise Subaru this past night alone?

"Mr. Wilhelm seems to think of something as if he doesn't deserve to name himself Reinhardt's grandfather..."

"Yeah, you're right. With my grandson, I know I'm bad and I can't step out. Such a cowardly self with all its affection..."

"No, you just look like a grandfather who's afraid his grandson won't like you."

"... is"

Until then Wilhelm, who had a cloudy face, stuffed his breath and looked at Subaru's face.

Subaru still waved as the urge to laugh lingered,

"I don't know exactly what made Mr. Wilhelm and Reinhardt awkward. So it's also possible you're talking about a misunderstanding. But from the outsider's point of view, Mr. Wilhelm wants to make up with Reinhardt, and he looks like he's seriously trying to apologize. Then you should apologize."

"But Reinhardt won't allow it"

"If you can't forgive me in one go, apologize until you forgive me. First of all, you don't apologize because you want me to forgive you, you apologize because you want me to, right? That's how selfish I am about the apologist's desire to apologize. 'Cause he's the one who did the worse thing to want to apologize."

――――

Now to Subaru's polarity, Wilhelm was more discontinued.

Of course, I understand that even Subaru is too selfish a discourse right now. Still, I thought I needed to shake it up and push it now.

To move Wilhelm. To face Reinhardt.

"Well, if you suddenly apologize for being alienated for years, I think it would be 'what is this guy' at first. But if you apologize many times, in time, 'what the hell' will change. I don't know if that's going to be" I can't help it, this guy "or" Uh-huh, this guy. "

"I think it's getting worse."

"But it's changing. From now on, which sucks and is fixed, don't you think it's just better for what it moves?

Subaru has a reputation for starting all sorts of human hearts at their worst.

Relationships If you're going to be surrounded by eight directions at worst, it's not much for Subaru.

"Besides, if you give me even one of those pennies for the first time in years, my attitude might soften soon. I'm the one who's always had a bad impression, but I use that law where I feel like a good person if I do something nice. Outreach, Reinhardt might be a little too. I told him he was my friend. It was a lot easier."

"Exactly, Reinhardt isn't that simple..."

- Reinhardt, he said he wanted to hear about the white whale.

Wilhelm slightly loosened his shell to the words of a lightly spoken Subaru.

There Subaru conveyed to Wilhelm the words asked of him on his way to the tea room, shortly after rendezvous with Reinhardt.

Hearing it, Wilhelm's blue eyes open in detail.

"I don't know if the white whale thing is connected to their awkward relationship. But if it's connected, Reinhardt cared about the white whale. You naturally also know that it was Mr. Wilhelm who crusaded the white whale. Mr. Wilhelm has been trying to avenge your grandmother for over ten years, and he knows it."

――――

"I'm sure he's expecting something hardened to move now, too."

Subaru has no idea what Reinhardt really means.

Reinhardt is too perfect a man, and I take it personally that he has never mourned helplessness or ignorance like Subaru.

It's too self-absorbed thinking. He's human, too. As troubling as it may be, there must be.

If you try Subaru, it only seems superman, Wilhelm. Because if you try to peel it off, you're the natural man, the natural grandfather, full of natural troubles and flaws.

So is Reinhardt, what's wrong with thinking so?

In Subaru's words, Wilhelm has been amazed for a long time now.

The old man closed his eyes to indulge in every word Subaru spoke, and now he spends his time quietly in the wind.

So Wilhelm said, after a period of silence flowed between them.

"Will my grandson... Reinhardt listen to me"

"It's okay to talk to him as much as you want to, and he'll shake you off. I, Emilia, do a lot of things to girls other than you."

"Not at all -"

Hearing Subaru's answer, Wilhelm shook his head to the side.

Then the old man looked up, looking up at the moon floating behind him.

You're no match for Lord Subaru.

And he said so in a tone that included a grin.