Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (WN)

Chapter 5: 20: The Thoughts of Enhancement

Subaru exhaled roughly, only to fall on his knees on the spot.

Perimeter, Emilia or Beatrice. And even Liliana is sending us a worrying glance. Priscilla had an uninteresting face and was about to stir up her own.

Gradually, consciousness regains a sense of reality as they are exposed to the voice and gaze of their care.

As he felt his thoughts slowly accelerate in that way, Subaru chewed up and understood little by little what he had now tasted.

Suddenly, the scenery shifts as if it changed the TV channel.

The smell, the taste, the sight, the sense of loss of reality that I was feeling until the brink of shattering and turning into something else altogether - no, it's the abrupt feeling of reality.

The discomfort that only Subaru's consciousness is dragging the previous channel, even though the eyes, ears, nose and skin are all adapting to the new world.

Bite it down, chew it up, chew it up and swallow it for the first time, the switch is over.

"- Eh."

Eating his teeth off, Subaru stood up.

Shake your head and look around. It's a beautiful sun-drenched park, with fountains and green lawns and colorful flowerbeds.

And there are four beautiful girls surrounding Subaru - Emilia, Beatrice, Liliana and Priscilla. Besides, Liliana's words earlier sounded 'twice'.

"It's okay, Subaru? You look amazing now."

"... Emilia Tan. Right now, Liliana's song is singing again. Didn't you say something nice or something?

"Is that where you're from!? I can't hide my upset, shocked and scratched heart that this Liliana, was so retrospectively ignored! Compensate! Compensate me."

Grabbing her sleeve and shaking off Liliana trying to raise a lawsuit issue, ignoring the singing princess who blows "ahhh" Subaru asks Emilia with her gaze. Emilia also apparently realized from Subaru's attitude that was not a joke question,

"That's right. From now on, Liliana will sing another song that we've missed. Yet Subaru begins to talk to Liliana about it..."

"At this moment, you mean. Okay, thanks....... thanks"

Thank you, and as soon as I say it, I get unspeakable disgust.

I frowned, as Emilia bewildered, at Subaru, who accidentally put her hand on her mouth.

It's not that Emilia is bad. Not to mention the need to suffer the words of gratitude. It just reminds me of that unparalleled malice in the world right up to the last minute.

"Right. Me..."

I didn't say whether he was dead or not, but I finally got a sense of realism after thinking that far.

- Natsuki Subaru is dead.

Dead and again, I started over and came back from the time I lost this world.

While I am relieved that I have returned in that way, repentance becomes a fever and pushes me over.

All that, by that time, Subaru should have been ready.

A year ago in that forest, in the 'sanctuary', in the 'trials', Natsuki Subaru was so determined to reject 'death' and to resist the grief that was born.

Dead. Not so shy. Instead of resisting, don't even remember the discomfort.

What was that? Even though it's true that it was an anomaly, Subaru doesn't even know what was going on. An anomaly I felt, but experienced, but don't know.

Subaru didn't feel strange about that apparently unusual space. Subaru is not the only one. Everyone else who was there also gave himself up to a madness similar to Subaru's.

There's something wrong with my head, such as being restrained in chains, watching a crying boy, smiling and supporting it. Not to mention the fact that a boy is thrown off and even raunchy such as welcoming him to crash to death with applause.

What the hell is wrong with you that something like that can happen?

And Subaru, when was he dead while he saw that?

There should have been no sign of 'death' until just before. No, I can't say it was no longer there. Even though there was, it is possible that he did not perceive it as dangerous.

I don't trust my senses with anything. The anomaly leading up to 'death' and what happened is obvious in itself, but not a single solution leading up to it is clear.

How did he die?

Was it even attached to that crashed dead boy's body, something like explosives? The moment it crashed to the ground, it burst and blew the perimeter. For that moment, I feel like the memory of instant death has something close to it.

It's not clear. The memory of the 'death' moment is greatly influenced by Subaru's mental state at that time. Even if I try to sort it out calmly, I can't help myself with the vague handover of my memory when I wasn't calm.

If Subaru was insane, it would be virtually impossible to figure out the insane memories of death exactly as they were.

"Are you sure you're okay, Subaru? Liliana's kind of stubborn."

"There's no such thing as obstinacy. I don't give a shit what Natsuki-sama thought of me, and no. Don't get me wrong, I'm not sad or anything."

"Look, I really care about you like that."

Liliana's fortitude, even spotted by the natural Emilia, but Subaru recalled the position he was required to take in that exchange.

At this point, Liliana and Subaru were running to replenish their sweetness for reconciliation while Liliana was buying time with the song. And shortly after I finished that shopping, I ran into that 'anger' monster.

- I don't have fifteen minutes left until that nightmare speech begins.

"You're lying..."

I don't recall ever being this close to 'back to death' and death time.

From a few hours to a few days, it has been 'Back to Death' that Subaru has had the time to give. But this time, it's too short, too short.

In only fifteen minutes, what can Subaru do?

Time runs out while you're worried.

In this case, it would be a simple story if we simply avoided death. I hope Subaru doesn't even go where that speech arrives. If that anomaly, that death, is caused by a bomb quite a bit, I won't get involved unless I even go to that place.

No way, you didn't use a bomb to blow up a whole city.

So if you prioritize being helpful, just talk about not going over there. Sirius didn't show up there targeting Subaru.

Purely indiscriminate malice, there just happened to be Subaru.

Even if there was no Subaru, Sirius' crime scene would remain the same. But that means that the speech begins and ends with or without Subaru.

Whatever the consequences, at least the boy who was thrown down will surely die.

"We have to stop... damn, we have to stop...!

Scratch your head 27615; Subaru decides.

You can't be abandoned. To that boy, Ruthbell is not guilty of anything. I'm looking forward to my birth brothers, and I'm a pathetic boy put in such a position in place of a childhood tame girl. What can you do to help yourself without saving it?

"Beatrice, with me...!

Come with me, Subaru hesitated, close to raising his voice.

"Subaru and what could it be?

To Subaru's voice and shape, Beatrice asks that with a serious face.

Taking Beatrice here is a natural choice in the sense of enriching Subaru's power of war, beyond what we know is at stake.

The choice not to take him here means that Subaru's battle power will be halved. But still Subaru hesitated.

Nothing is sentimental about wanting Beatrice to fight, etc.

Regardless, I'm not saying I don't have that idea in the genuine part of Subaru, but that wasn't the reason on this occasion.

- It's Emilia. Emilia's here.

――――

Witchcraft is in this city.

They - I don't know more than one yet, but at least there's the Bishop of the Great Crimes of 'Anger'. I don't know if it's the Bishop of the Great Crimes acting alone, because I don't know the reality of witchcraft.

But the anxiety of leaving Emilia unattended in a city where witchcraft is known to be in the dark cannot leave the back of Subaru's brain.

The fear of leaving important human beings where they are not.

Fear of reaching someone whose witchcraft demon hands are dear in a place out of your sight.

It's a terrible cloudy yet lingering fear at the base of Natsuki Subaru's heart.

Then take Emilia under 'Anger'? Out of the question. Encountering witchcraft and Emilia only creates tragedy. That's all we know for sure.

I can tell by remembering when Petergius. Subaru must not bring Emilia and witchcraft closer together. That's not why. Yes, it is.

"Beatrice, with me..."

"With Subaru?

"It's the same sweet thing, okay?

……

Beatrice frowns at Subaru's words. I guess it's because I didn't think it was enough to say it until I gained momentum. Subaru nodded at Liliana, who snorted thoughtlessly, and turned to Emilia,

"I'm going to run for a bit and get you something sweet to pick up lightly. Emilia, gracefully and calmly, listen to Liliana's song and wait."

"Uh, okay. But you're okay if I don't go with you, too?

"It's okay, trust me. Because I'll protect you."

Smashing her big eyes, Emilia nodded reddenly at Subaru's words. Then Subaru invited Beatrice to look at this one surprised and gently put her lips to her ears,

"Protect Emilia. I'll call you as soon as I need your help."

"... and I saw something that Betty couldn't even tell me."

"If you call me, you can think of me as a nasty scene."

Pushing the dissatisfied Beatrice's nose with his finger, Subaru runs out of it as he gently raises his hand. Subaru walks at full strength without looking back, feeling the sight of the four to be dropped off on his back.

Running down the road, it won't take five minutes to get to the square earlier.

I'm just a little behind the start in the first place. Only a small amount of time was allowed, and this time, that slight difference in time could have been fatal.

"Still, I haven't shopped this time, so it should still be close enough..."

As he glides over the cobblestone, he stops and Subaru looks around in the square where he arrives.

I was just looking up and couldn't afford to look around, but at least I don't see any black-coated groups or individuals suspicious in the visible position.

The action of the Archbishop of the Great Crimes alone, can I take that as it is?

"The question is what to do from here on out. When that speech starts, I don't know why. I'm more likely to be pushed into a situation."

I don't know if I can keep my sanity when I'm taken in by that again or anything more than I don't know how that anomalous space works. Subaru thinks that that brainwashing space is horrible because he was no longer able to sense the anomaly as an anomaly.

"Guys, let's evacuate from here...? It's the same as when Petergius... no, I don't have enough hands, and if I make a bad noise, Sirius might make a move."

Should we evacuate the crowd present here so as not to get involved? but how. In the first place, if Sirius doesn't want a special meaning for that speech, maybe Sirius doesn't even need to limit the place here.

If there's no one here to listen to a speech, it's just a story to do elsewhere. Moving the victim simply creates a flow through which another victim is born.

"Then we'll have to eliminate the culprit...!

Instead, now is our chance to know where Sirius appeared.

This also coincides with what I thought when I crusaded Petergius. Witchcraft must not be left alone. It's not all about preventing the damage of witchcraft, it's all about repeating it if we don't eradicate its root causes.

It was too late to get to this idea.

If we had concluded immediately, Subaru would not have done anything to come here alone. No, wrong at the time of my return to the park in the first place.

If you could at least send me back to the inn, I'd use the help of Wilhelm and Julius...

"It doesn't matter if it's gone. Anyway, I'm the only one now. If the speech starts, I can definitely crack a place... but no, it's faster than that!

In conclusion, Subaru finds its roots in the White Tower, where the limiting tower - an abominable speech - takes place. From there he went inside, through the window, and Sirius gave a speech.

Then he should already be inside in preparation for the speech to be delivered in just a few minutes. Even if it hadn't come in yet, we might be able to rescue the restrained Ruthbell.

Subaru runs exploring for surveillance eyes around him and reaches the roots of the carving tower. Hiddenly he laid his hands on a door built to be discreet on the side of the alley, and Subaru pushed open that iron door and slid his body inside.

The inside of the carving tower was dim and filled with cold, dusty air.

I don't feel the sound because, unlike clock towers and such, I don't need to have gear and other tricks inside. The only mechanism that can reward the time of the carving tower is the tale of the radiance of the demonic carving crystal, which is only a natural reflection of the slight changes due to the time of mana full of atmosphere, in the colour of the crystal.

- Therefore, the sound heard from inside the carving tower is nothing more than the sound made intentionally by someone.

"... Ngu"

"No crying, no calling, no noise. You're a really good girl. You're a strong kid. I'm sure your brother or sister, who I haven't seen yet, will be happy about your strong brother, Mum and Ena. It's nice."

I can hear you, you lousy voice.

I can hear the groans of a boy frightened by his decadence.

I hear a sobbing voice coming from the top floor of the spiral staircase. It seems resentful, blessed, hateful, and affectionate.

It's a distortion. It's not decent. It's insane.

――――

At the time he was sure he was there, Subaru exhaled deeply and killed his breath.

Counting the heartbeat, Subaru stretches his legs to the stairs, placing his hands on his chest, directly above the heart about to sound. Luckily, it's a stone staircase. If you pay close attention, you can avoid making footsteps. Not to mention they should be focused on the child at hand.

Subaru walks up the stairs slowly killing his footsteps while allowing Beatrice to be called at any time. Upstairs, the voices you hear get a little closer, and tension increases.

The carving tower itself is high enough to look up, but nothing stands out inside until it reaches there. The center of the tower stretches with large pillars that support it, and the spiral staircase is shaped towards the top along the walls of the building.

And the voice of the devil and the brave is the end of the stairs. The only window that leads to the outer wall - probably for access from there to adjust and inspect the demonic engraved crystals installed in the carving tower, etc. The space in front of that window, from which the voice was heard.

Loft, more like an attic. Is it closer?

A gentle glimpse of what was going on from under the stairs confirmed that in the darkness behind that space, two moving figures exchanged words with the thighs.

There are no other shadows. I'm sure I see no apparent horror development, either, of witches lurking silently.

- And then I peek into the gap and punch in a blow.

――――

You shouldn't think about catching them alive, etc.

Survival as a result is not the same difficulty as trying to capture it from the beginning. Not to mention if they don't know what they'll do if they keep them alive.

Subaru crouches and turns his hand behind his hips on the spot.

The pattern provided there was firmly gripped in and the score was removed from the lower back holder.

Svalbard's hand holds it, a weapon with a slightly extra-length pattern, even if gripped with both hands, with a knitted tip stretched out of special fibers - a whip.

It is of the type commonly regarded as a cattle chase whip, a dish known for its use by world-renowned film archaeologists in ruins vandalism.

Subaru's whip is the type of thing that has an even longer range and is more difficult to handle than what the archaeologist professor had. Subaru had a year of proficiency in it and was up in arms by the time they all qualified to pass it on from Clind.

Among all weapons, none other has Subaru chosen the whip as his main gear.

A variety of uses may be considered different from armaments such as swords, hammers, spears and bows. Above all, in the sword, only a few years are known, such as the area where Subaru can reach.

Subaru, who already knew the battle of those at unusual heights on the path of the sword, had realized enough that he could not break in there with a burning blade.

Therefore Subaru chose not a sword nor a spear, but a whip.

You can only stand around being smarter and creative.

Then it may be better to use the weapon as much as you wish and make it your own.

Plus, a whip - a medium range attack is possible.

――――

From the end of the stairs, the distance to Momozo and Ugly Shadow is approximately four meters. The limit of Subaru's range is around it. One step if you're sure to hit it. No, I just want to step in and wield the whip in half a step.

Either way, the killing power of the whip doesn't predict a single hit. If you try to kill a blow with that weapon, you will be expected to rely on other factors.

Naturally, in this case, there is no other way to take advantage of height.

- Then there's only a certain distance to hit.

――――

Breathe small and exhale slightly. And I held my breath.

Standing up, Subaru climbs up the stairs with his right hand holding the whip. As soon as we reached the upper floor, we still haven't noticed the shadow in the back here. I can take the lead.

I took half a step, stepped in, tried to turn it over my head and waved my arm.

Cut the wind, the tip of the whip rips the sound and flies through the prey.

Side arms swinging through the side give priority to the speed of the lead and the purpose caused by this whip attack with outrageous attention to power.

The head of the snake that swoops through the universe eats up against his defenseless back. To tangle its neck and slap down the manifestation of malice to Nara.

But...

"Why are you so angry?

A blurry voice was emitted with his back pointed at this one.

Shortly afterwards, the shadow wields its right arm at a tremendous rate, offsetting the power of Subaru's thrown whip tip with chains tangled in its arms.

The sight of a silver snake intercepting a curvaceous snake.

For a moment Subaru was taken aback by the sight, but the moment he decided the tip had gained a definite feel, he swung his arm through the diagonal thoughtfully.

"Oh?

Kun, and the shadow of being disoriented - Sirius steps on and falls back.

The chain dripping from its right arm did offset the blow of Subaru's whip, but it was chewing the tip of the whip on some of the links in that chain. Sirius lost his posture when he was pulled.

"Ugh!

Subaru rushes all at once, pulling even more arms against the falling Sirius. Subaru jumped from his shoulder and hit his body with a half-spinned bandage-wrapped figure. Its body, unexpectedly light, blows gently under the mass of Subaru.

"Ugh, kiddo!

A fine scream and Sirius' body, who played the floor, overcame the scaffold as it was and was thrown downstairs as Subaru's first prospect had. More than ten meters from this height to the ground floor - at least a height that crumbles like fruit if one child falls out of his head.

"Are you all right, Ruthbell!

Without seeing the upside of the fallen Sirius, Subaru rushes to another figure that remains in the back. The small shadow was still Ruthbell, and he looked up Subaru with a frightened face with chains in his hands.

His chains are apparently connected to chains wrapped around the boy's lower body, and that alone reveals the content of Sirius' evil taste.

"He......! You let yourself wind the chain...!

How fearful Ruthbell would have been if he had been made to twitch and act like he was literally strangling himself. Even now, interrupted in the middle, the expression is engraved with an engraving of fear that will not disappear.

When he perceives the malice, Subaru feels sexually angry. instantly slap the boy on the shoulder, forcefully snatching the chain he is gripping,

"Enough! That's enough. You don't have to do this. You're getting out of here with me!

"But if I don't keep my word, Tina will... Tina will...!

With tears, Ruthbell makes her lips faint.

With that in his eyes, Subaru accidentally stuck his throat.

The boy rode this devil's deal in exchange for safe childhood. Though he feels so horrible, Ruthbell guides him more about the girl than he is.

My legs trembled, my teeth roots stopped fitting, my vision blurred with tears, even though my words were straightened out.

"It's okay, it is. There are so many people in this town I can count on right now...

The plundered breath interrupts me, and I don't have as many words as I think.

To reassure the boy, he must convey a powerful word. There is now a sword saint in this town. Some of the best knights. He's also the best healing magic user in the kingdom, and he's got all the faces on his side that a little city could destroy.

So there's nothing to be afraid of. No examples of the prosperity of evil. That's right. That's right.

There's nothing to be afraid of. So,

"So... stop, your legs tremble. Yes!!

In front of Ruthbell, who was less fearful and out of focus, Subaru was desperately raising his voice by tapping his fallen knee.

The voice is also turned upside down, accompanied by a sad sounding and frightening. The kind of disgust that carries something unobtrusive entwines the whole body and doesn't let Subaru go.

"- Oh."

Ruthbell spills yellow vomit, making a sound like a bubble bursting in front of him. Ruthbell cramps her body like she caused an attraction and falls over her own diarrhea. In an attempt to hold the boy, Subaru also spat out the contents of his stomach, succumbing to the discomfort of being caught around all his guts again.

In the morning, a dyskiyaki stuffed in my stomach loses its prototype and overflows with a sour smell of gut and stomach fluids. Subaru even continued to vomit in abundance, savoring the lobster and the pain of nearly drowning in the diarrhea.

Spit or not, your eyes turn, your teeth squeal, and your whole body doesn't stop trembling. I'm not feeling the cold. Subaru knows what it feels like to be squeezed into an invisible hand with your stomach and shuffled without stopping all of your guts.

This, undoubtedly,

"- What you fear so much is proof that you are kind."

A calm voice was called from behind, Subaru vomited again.

Subaru also falls off his head again on the floor dirty with diarrhea as he is about to drown in overflowing gastric fluid. Sticky liquid feel on cheeks. I can put my face on the dirt accumulated on the floor and whenever I repeat my shallow breath, the yellow bubbles make a noise and bounce.

Sirius smiled at the misery that made him want to turn away from such an eye.

Side by side with each other, breathing desperately in their own vomited revulsions, watching the Subaru still invaded their entire bodies by unstoppable tremors.

"People can tell. People can be one. Kindness, it's not for you. It's for others. Kindness shines because it is applied to others. Being kind to yourself is just being selfish and too different from being kind! Therefore your kindness in doing this is a genuine glow that thought of others! Oh, it's 'love'!

"Ugh, bi..."

"Feel it fully. Show it to me fully. your 'love'. That limitless kindness. I wanted to save Ruthbell-kun, your dignity!

Sirius tapped lightly in front of the two peeling white eyes with a diarrhea coating.

Then the Phantom crosses his own arms, fingering Subaru and Ruthbell respectively with different hands, shaking his hips. Like dancing, like honoring.

"I feel Ruthbell-kun's fear with you, gentle. Ruthbell-kun feels the fear of Ruthbell-kun through you. Ruthbell-kun feels the fear through you, and now you feel it again from Ruthbell-kun. Ruthbell-kun puts the fear you felt again on your own. You feel your fears that Ruthbell-kun has put on and felt, combined with what Ruthbell-kun has laid down so far. Ruthbell-kun feels the fear you felt whole together with the new fresh fear, and Ruthbell-kun feels the fear overflowing with freshness when you take over. The true fear you feel is made your biggest fear by Lusberg's embrace, which creates a second and third fear that frightens Lusberg, and by wrapping the next fear born in Lusberg with your own fear..."

I feel like I'm being whispered something in my ear. Overwhelming momentum looming paranoia, bullshit. There is no room in Subaru right now to understand that. Because for Subaru today, everything that goes into his ear, everything that goes into his eyes, is only the object of fear. If breathing is also fear, Even blinking seems like fear, but if you don't blink, your eyes are thirsty, you can't stand the pain, and even that pain is only a symbol of fear for Subaru today, which means that you think you might feel the next pain, and if you make Subaru feel the infinite fear that never ends, you can't blink, but if you blink, even for a moment, the world will be closed to darkness, because you don't see anything, and you don't know what's going on in that moment of darkness, and it's only natural that you don't have any means to determine it, and if you can't understand it's a factor that instinctively evokes fear, then life is about overcoming fear, and then fear is about life. It is the emotion that begins with the weakness that is exposed in such an extreme state, and the fact that you can have it also means equals that the creature has the object to feel the fear, and the function of feeling this fear also passes through the function of feeling the pain, which also means that in order to sustain life, you cannot separate the instinct of perceiving the danger, which means that you are blunt about the value of life, not to say, "Oh? Apparently, you've gone mad. Loving and sensitive people sometimes become terribly vulnerable. Oh, 'love' so people suffer. But people can live because of 'love'. That's very difficult. Okay, let's get Teena to help. Ruthbell is tired." Being blunt in value to life is contrary to the biological function of survival. In other words, fear is a necessity. So being scared now is not a shame, even if it's a matter of pride. Of course, it's only a shame that such a thing doesn't do any good, but it's a good thing that you're doing all the time by twisting these sorts of things.

"For your welcome after the song, why don't you prepare a pair of bitches or something for Master Natsuki? I'm sure you'll have sweet treats or something. Don't you think then your heart will play and you'll get closer to each other at once? Don't you think?

Shortly after the blink, the world changed and Subaru fell ill as he heard his voice. The face of the girl, who had a lousy wink in front of her, approaches and her forehead clashes against that forehead.

"Shit!?

"Huh?

A hard noise sounded and a spark scattered in front of him.

Subaru glances back at the sharp pain. Front, there was a sound of something falling over the grass, but Subaru stroking his forehead can't confirm it at all.

"Hey, what...?

"It's not what it is. Subaru, suddenly I hit Liliana in the head. No, if you don't like them, you have to be the first to pay attention with words."

"It is. Before you start waving violence, you better be careful if you don't stop winking."

"Was it that insignificant? Me!?

He sounds out of his heart and Liliana jumps up.

Emilia and Beatrice exchange indescribable glances at that Liliana word. Liliana was shocked and collapsed on the spot.

"It's a stupid farce. Old husband, don't be too unaccompanied by the concubine bird. There's no next time."

You don't like the assault perpetrated against Liliana, or Priscilla rarely tells you things about Subaru's actions.

Subaru nodded vaguely at it, checking again where he was,

"... disgusting"

He came back twice and spilled some unchanging emotion for the Phantom.