Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (WN)
Chapter V.38: The Request of Witchcraft
Bringing his neck, Subaru had even forgotten to breathe in his eyes staring at this one.
"It's generally the way I expected it to react, but it doesn't feel very surprising either. I look like this too, and sexually a woman...... no, it's a hard place for spirits to have a distinction between men and women, so should I even say spiritually it's a female neighborhood?
White body hair, narrow black eyes.
To a neutral voice, a far-fetched narrative that could be terrible. It certainly matches that witch figure in my memory, such as where I can describe that figure in two colors: white and black.
But even so,
"What, a bad joke. You echidna......?
"The Witch of Greed" invites Subaru to the Tea Party, encountered in the "Trial" of "Sanctuary".
The enticement of curiosity to seduce the invitees of the Tea Party in sweet and gentle terms, to puppet them as they wish, and to seek on them all the consequences that they will not see for themselves.
Never again, I just thought I was the one who never had a chance to see his face.
"That you came out dressed like a fox? Don't joke. What are you up to in this dangerous situation?"
"Wait a minute. I don't really want you to be alone."
Returning from the first shock, Subaru tries to pack into a white fox named Echidna in front of him. but stopped Subaru from stepping forward with a voice like Anastasia blaming him for keeping that white fox wrapped around his neck.
Subaru turns the same hostility that was directed at the White Fox to Anastasia.
"Don't be cocky. Don't be cocky. What are you doing with him... hanging out with him? In the first place, he can't get out of the Sanctuary."
"I don't know what you're talking about, but it was over a decade ago when we first met Echidna. Ever since, I've come to this day with very little letting go. What Natsuki-kun is saying, isn't it a little bit of a match for Tsuji?
"More than ten years...?
I wander around the surface society before that, and I get angry at you for doing whatever you want.
Originally, it was only her own testimony, if I may think so, that I heard that Echidna could not come out of that castle of dreams. Suppose it was conspired from that point on.
"That's how you laughed at people who don't know anything all the time."
"... for God's sake, it's a lot of deep-rooted hatred. It's a misunderstanding that's going to be hard to solve, but thanks to you, I've been clear about it."
"Sounds like it. As Echidna said."
In contrast to Subaru, which deepens his anger towards Echidona, Anastasia and the White Fox are exchanging convincing squeaks.
When Subaru frowned on that, the white fox shook his neck sideways with a strangely human odor trick,
"I'm afraid from earlier that you have spoken so often of your distrust of 'Echidna', but I don't know what that means. More serious than that."
"What does that mean?"
"It's a simple story. I don't know anything about 'Echidna' but myself. I have the awareness that I am an artificially made spirit and the memory of my name. But that's all. Other than that, I don't have a single guess of myself. That's what I'm saying."
"Huh?"
Thinking of what to say, the White Fox wanted Echidna and the rest of the rest of the bullshit. No, if you think they're echidnas, what are you going to say?
How can you believe that even though you are an artificial spirit, named 'Echidna', and in contact with Subaru in this setting, you don't have any memories, etc.
"Oh, my God, I don't believe you at all, Natsuki-kun."
"You bet. I know what an echidna was like. It's a natural reaction from me. That's because... oh, you insist you don't know."
"I don't want to believe it because of my head," he said. There's only so much time left. You're in trouble. "
To Subaru, who exposes his vigilance, only Anastasia does not break his spare attitude.
Subaru's vigilance for Anastasia is bouncing in the sense of being grouped into echidnas. Bad for Julius and Ricard, but you'll also need to fix your confidence in them.
If the will of the head and hands and feet is not united, there is not enough room to hold hopeful observations.
"If you don't remember, why did you name me? There's no reason to do that, except to be sure I know Echidna."
Hasn't revealing his name and exposing his qualities already proved that he is an 'echidna of the Tea Party'? And if she is the 'Echidna of the Tea Party', she is definitely a different person from the 'Echidna of the Coffin' Roswar seeks, and the 'Echidna' of those who Svalbard knows. There were a lot of things I wanted to ask you.
Even if I know this moment is not the time to talk about it like that.
But Anastasia breathed like she was tired of such a deviant Subaru,
"Listen to me on the air. You're going to get sick of it. It stinks."
"Broadcasting? How could a witchcraft broadcast have anything to do with this?"
"- One of their demands is to offer artificial spirits."
In short, the white fox answers Subaru's question.
Subaru made a void in his thoughts once in its content, and his understanding soon caught up.
Broadcasting, witchcraft demands, artificial spirits. That's...
"No way......"
"It's a demand I don't want to believe. They demand artificial spirits - that is, me or the girl with you. So it makes sense to want to talk to him?
"How do you know Beatrice is an artificial spirit?"
"You'll see, that's all I'm saying. This isn't all an explanatory feeling. I think she would've noticed if she'd seen me move and talk."
The white fox gently crushes each and every one of Subaru's questions.
At least, Subaru has not received any mention of fox collar wrapping from Beatrice, who is supposed to be encountering Anastasia in the inn. However, Beatrice might not have spoken of information she wasn't sure about because there was so much to hold in with that.
I don't know how you could hold anything by yourself, considering that if Subaru told Beatrice, he was going to say boomerang.
"I don't think there's anything I can do that the girl with you didn't notice. I have many flaws as a spirit. [M] The so-called contract cannot be imitated, nor can it be allowed to use magic to defend itself. Instead, I'm confident I can hide the signs. I'm a little suspicious about that confidence, too."
"I can't make a contract... so what is Anastasia?"
"Our relationship with this child will be with the spiritual user. Not in the essential sense of the covenant, which is exchanged between the Spirit and the covenant... if I say so, accomplices."
"I want to see the end of this girl. That's why we've been hanging out for years saying we can't. Sometimes I buy someone to talk to and get out."
When the white fox says so and smiles, Anastasia's fingertips tickle its throat. The friendliness also showed that there was more than a certain amount of trust between them.
"How could you reveal such insight to me? You don't have the power to fight, that kind of thing."
"If you try to get someone to trust you, it's natural to disclose this information, right? Not to mention the fact that the survival of the city was now at stake… I want to do something crazy and avoid talking on my side in situations where a critical role is required"
"We should have thought about it a little bit and stopped it. This kid won't even listen to me if I tell him. At the very least, I had the others take their seats off."
Echidona, a white fox who honestly makes claims that he would nod if he hadn't named him, and Anastasia who supplements that white fox opinion. Upon hearing that much, Subaru finally realized earlier that Anastasia's ruthless attitude was a behavior to create an environment for talking one-on-one with Subaru.
To draw Subaru's consciousness to himself and to pay for Julius and Garfiel.
"It is best not to follow the demands of witchcraft. Saya, if we and Natsuki-kun cut through the white, everyone else doesn't know what an artificial spirit is. Even if you refuse, you don't know what's going on. You can't convince everyone."
"I agree that I can't hear the demands of terrorists.... but I haven't cleared my suspicions yet when I heard that the fox was Echidna."
"I'm bound by my name. Did Natsuki-kun's known 'echidna' do something that bad in nature? He's going to be with my kid. I'm in trouble."
"If it's someone else at all, I'm going to apologize, too. It's a good time to talk, it's too echidna herself to find the element of denial. And..."
"And?"
Subaru worries about whether to tell Anastasia who twists her neck.
Even Subaru doesn't know exactly what "artificial spirits" are. All I know is that Beatrice and Pack are and the fact that it was the witch Echidna who made the two of them.
Naturally, if it is true that the white fox in front of you is also an artificial spirit, then there is no doubt that its existence was made at the hands of the witch Echidna.
With a desire for eternal life, Echidna created a mechanism to create replicas.
Now there is also a doubtful part of how far that claim was correct, but the conclusion that if that claim were true, it would be a spiritual one is sensible.
Spirit who loses his flesh and frees himself from the concept of life - if he can sublime his own existence to such a thing, it surely fits the witch's greed to know everything.
Therefore, I do not doubt that this white fox is an 'artificial spirit named Echidona'. The only focus is on the authenticity of the testimony that you lost your memory. That's all.
Anastasia said she's been dating for over a decade. But that's not the only reason to believe. It's not strange if you've spent more than ten years preparing for it.
It's all just to fall subaru at this moment right now -.
"This is Akan. You look like you've been hit by something terrible."
"When you hate me so much, I'm also interested in doing it with that other echidna... let's put that down for one second. If you don't trust me, that's fine. [M] I don't mind you listening to me. Anna, please talk to me."
He pushed silently and spilled in the tone that the white fox gave up on Subaru entering the suspicious darkness. Encouraged Anastasia shrugs her shoulder and slaps her hand to get back on her mind.
"Yes, sir. In the meantime, that suspicion falls behind. What matters is the demands of witchcraft, and this is our priority. Witchcraft makes three other demands."
"Three others...... that means four in all?
"Well, I gave the city building back to us... and now it's just the number of control seats left. I did everything I was kidding, but don't be angry with me."
I'm just kidding, even if they say so.
It's not enough to lay the worst under the worst already, such as impressions of witchcraft. Whatever you say on this, the shards are so confident that the impression won't waver.
To Subaru, who silently urges ahead, Anastasia strokes the tail of the white fox with her hand. Then gently dampen your lips with your tongue,
"Firstly, one of the demands is to offer an 'artificial spirit'. This is the demand for 'bulimia'"
"bulimia......"
"I know a lot of things, but I'll see you later. Then next is the demand for 'anger'. - Collection of the Book of Wisdom, brought into this city"
――
Even though he was shocked from outside his imagination, Subaru opened his eyes.
to that Subaru reaction, Anastasia thinly narrowed her shallow-colored eyes to
"From that face, Natsuki-kun sounds like a familiar word."
…………
"No, that's good. I was having trouble with this, too. Because we don't know, and Echidna doesn't know. Naturally, Julius and the others are with us."
"... really, don't you know that fox? The Book of Wisdom."
Where I was having trouble with the unknown demands, Anastasia smiles like I found a helpship. No matter, there can't be such adorable emotions behind the smile.
However, it would also be true that he looked suspicious in the ensuing inquiry of Subaru.
"No, I don't. This is true, too. … it seems that the Book of Wisdom has something to do with Echidna, which you know."
"Oh, yeah"
"When this happens, it doesn't even seem possible to know what you're looking like. What kind of echidna do you know? Nothing to do with witchcraft?
As much as I wanted to wonder if it was a blur, Anastasia and the White Fox perception seemed subaru to something that was close to the party but unplanned.
But that's what they can't help thinking.
If you believe the White Fox claim, the name 'Echidna' only indicates the individual name of the White Fox. Subaru is the only one who knows that the Creator of the Artificial Spirit is Echidna, and most importantly, there is not even enough left for the witches to be remembered in general, except for the ones whose names are 'Witches of Jealousy'.
The only people with a sense of crisis in that name are officials of the Emilian faction who know her presence even fragmentarily.
"- Echidna is the name of an old witch. Besides" The Witch of Jealousy, "there have been witches in the past. One of the witches, he's already dead. It's just that I've met someone who's only a soul. So I'm on guard."
"Natsuki-kun, is it also a fever? I want to get hurt."
"You can't fall asleep. It's not funny. Those are the strange people, the witches. Artificially create spirits, so that could be it."
"I see.... that Echidna is also my biological parent"
In a frustrating and mixed response, the white fox reads behind the narrow Subaru words. Nothing, I didn't hide it, but what I didn't unequivocally affirm was gently bringing something backward to Subaru.
Did the insides of such Subaru come to his face, the white fox tinkly throated and laughed,
"I touch the secrets of my birth in unexpected places, it's also a pleasure in life. I'd love to hear more about it when I get a chance."
"... you don't know more about spirits than I thought. Even my Beatrice knew a little better. No, Beatrice never even told me you existed in the first place. How was I born?"
"Too bad, but I don't know that either. I don't know how I was born, nor do I have a sense of purpose. I'm just interested in this girl. I've been following her."
White fox sees Anastasia in Subaru's allegations. Anastasia leaned her little neck into that gaze, then slowly stared at Subaru,
"We are also concerned about Echidna's involvement with witches. I'm sure it has nothing to do with witchcraft. So I'd like to return to the Book of Wisdom..."
"" The Book of Wisdom "is a prototype of the Gospel that Witchcraft has… the full version from which it originated. It's a prophecy where the future will be remembered, and Dragon Historic Stone is the same mechanism."
"Dragon Historical Stone and... If I let him do it, he doesn't seem credible. Is that a little bit of a witch's handmade book, too?
"That's what they said. But the two books that existed must have burned. At least I didn't hear and don't know there were other books."
It was Beatrice and Roswar who were brought the Book of Wisdom by Echidna. It can be ascertained that both of the two books in each possession were burned during the incident a year ago.
Beatrice's "Book of Wisdom" became ashes with the burning forbidden library, and Roswar's owned "Book of Wisdom" burned with the hands of a future-endangering ram.
Neither of them should have left the Book of Wisdom, which exists, more than disappeared.
"But isn't that what it says when you hear it from the witch Echidna?
"... yes"
Anastasia vividly dismisses Subaru's assertions.
I have no choice but to reply badly with a toothpick, because Subaru also found its thinness of credibility. It just doesn't seem like Echidna was lying then either.
Although I think all this is something that only Subaru can empathize with in person and in dialogue with the witch.
――――
"I don't trust that person. But I trust what the other guy says. For Natsuki-kun, it's a bit of a hassle."
"Even myself, I thought so. Right. It's paradoxical that I don't believe in him, but I believe in this."
Echidna's deeds were performances to make Subaru his own puppet.
But not everything was painted hard with lies and falsehoods. Is it because Subaru wants to think so? Still let that witch shake your heart?
"Regardless of how Natsuki-kun feels, there are three possibilities that can be considered about that and the Book of the Wisdom. One is that witch is a liar, and the Book of Wisdom is still elsewhere"
"The second is that the witchcraft guys who don't know that The Book of Wisdom burned are just making a scene...... right? But what about the third?
"Aside from lying, if there's a chance that the Book of Wisdom is still there, there's one reason - the Book of Wisdom hasn't burned out. Unlike the rest of the burn?
"Nah."
The possibility that the Book of Wisdom remained burnt, which I had never considered.
to the outgoing Subaru, waved the fingers raised by Anastasia,
"I don't know if it's real, but it's a book made by a witch, right? Difficult to burn or restore it back to normal... I don't think I can even say yes?
"Ya, I certainly won't say until I don't have that. I'm not saying... but actually, the problem is, whoever restored it has it"
"I wonder who could have recovered the book from watching it... I think this is a little too much for us, so I think there's usually a second possibility. Either way, I'm not going to ride their demands."
Subaru thinks with his hands on his mouth to Anastasia, who contemplates and raises possibilities.
A position to pick it up when The Book of Wisdom burns. I can't have the forbidden one. That's the mansion burning down, swallowed by the burning of a forbidden library.
But how about the book of Roswar? I heard the result that the ram burned with magic, but then it should have scattered ash somewhere in the 'sanctuary', which was snowed with Emilia's magic.
Suppose that was left to burn. Even if the book really had the ability to restore. Even if someone is in possession, it's not strange. Not strange, though.
"If I can bring it in, it's someone in me. But it doesn't make sense not to talk about that book I picked up. The Book of Wisdom is not in this city."
"Oh well. Then it's nothing. Yeah. I don't even know who we are. I just didn't do it anymore because of the book."
Convinced, the desire to believe is just winning too much to call it that.
But Anastasia didn't point it out and didn't try to pull a topic about The Book of Wisdom. instead,
"Then the next demand. The demand for greed and lust is easy to understand, and I don't think it's worth discussing..."
"Those guys... no, not now because of the bulimia and anger, but what"
I have only the worst impression on the capella of "Sexuality" and on the legulus of "Greed".
There is a strong negative sentiment about Capella being left last minute and Leggles being taken away from Emilia. - The transformation of my right leg and Emilia's continued failure to hear anything tightened my chest.
"I don't want you to get mad at me..."
"Depends on the content"
Subaru replies so instantly to the anxious Anastasia forerunner.
exhale as Anastasia gave up "Let it be......" in that answer,
"The demands of lust, unlike anything else, are mere harassment. Uh, 'Bring twenty pairs of compassionate men and women to control. - I felt like I would never do harm."
"You're lying. There's more to it. What's not harmful? He forgot he turned people into dragons!
Subaru reveals his anger at Capella's unbridled and evil demands.
Twenty pairs of men and women who love each other - it's even nasty to imagine what that ugly loving monster would do in front of such a man and woman.
"From the Bishop of the Great Crimes' perception, you're not in harm's way as much as you've changed your appearance. I didn't scratch it. It comes to my attention to clean it up in one word. So, the demands of the greedy..."
――――
Shut up, Subaru waits for Anastasia's words with anger in his eyes.
Anastasia mouthed some of that attitude and could hardly breathe out her destiny.
There,
"Here's the demand for someone who speaks of greed." Do a wedding for yourself and the silver-haired bride. Don't interrupt any preparations for the wedding. "
"Echidna......"
"Anna was trying not to talk. I'm sorry I overreacted."
In place of Anastasia, which cannot be cut out, the white fox defending its neck responds first.
That interaction between two people who think of each other does not come into the present Subaru.
- Have a wedding with a silver-haired bride.
Leggles of "Greed," I don't even have to think about who the bride the man is referring to for the wedding.
"- Don't be ridiculous, that bastard!
Therefore, the explosion of Subaru with the outburst of anger on his tongue intact is justified.
Anastasia flaunts her face and the white fox reverses her hair. Not so long ago, Subaru's anger was pure and straight.
Floating in the back of your brain, gray-haired man.
A murderer with transcendent powers who took Emilia and even hated her, who said that her appearance was everything.
What is it that a mistaken man who just had the mighty power is saying that he was kidding?
"No Beatrice, no Book of Wisdom, no Emilia! One for each and every one of you, don't mess with them! You're kidding me, give it a shot!
"... I've been thinking about reacting like that, but you're too right to feel it."
Anastasia laughs with pleasure when she sees Subaru absurd her voice to passion.
But the grin was never overflowing from the flamboyant emotions. It's more of a different kind behind it, it's got Subaru and homogeneous passion rolling around, but it's a dead one.
"With all the artificial spirits, we can offer echidna together. But other than that, you can't lose mentally to them. We invited Mr. Krush and Emilia to the city. I can't believe they hurt me so much... and I can't just shut up."
"That's belligerent, Anna."
"I just know the battlefield. I know if I run away, I will. If we don't get the witchcraft to take root and demand damages."
Unhandled, facial, loss account.
While decorating with every word, Anastasia has never loosened her will to fight.
Even Julius and Garfield, Wilhelm and Ferris, under the circumstances of which they were pessimistic, could also say that it was a grand language that could be said because they did not experience the fear of the Bishop of the Great Crimes with their skin.
But Subaru didn't.
There is no point in making a statement that breaks the morale of an ally in this situation. On the contrary, now her presence, burning in retribution in this way, can undoubtedly be relied upon.
"Everybody gets tiny. Saya, but they took the lead, they took the second hand, so who's convinced at the end of the plate? Make an excuse to lose in the afterlife."
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"As long as I'm alive, there's now and next. Don't throw your life at me. I feel sorry for myself."
Anastasia announces with a fierce grin on her calm face.
The temper pouring out of the little girl's body was enough to make her forget that she was not the one to put herself on the battlefield. No, she's a war soldier.
She is a soldier of a hundred wars in a battlefield where her profession exchanges wars.
"Both Mr. Krush and the people who have been changed are fully likely to be able to cure themselves if they do 'lust'. If I catch you and make you care about that. Yeah. Natsuki-kun doesn't care about leaving her precious princess behind?
"Holy shit! Emilia will be my wife. Kill the bulimia and regain Rem's memory. Sirius buzzes over me with a lousy bastard. The cappella makes them all sit down and return to their original appearance. So we repel!
"Both Anna and Natsuki boy try to make the impossibility go through as normal. I guess that's the biggest reason I like you guys."
Subaru responded to the break-up of Anastasia, and the white fox who saw it nodded satisfactorily.
Just after waking up and leaving a sinking feeling until before starting this discussion, Subaru is put on Anastasia's warfare.
Because I lost in WWI and WWII. What?
Next. No one is dead yet. I didn't let you die.
Win at the end, win and survive. If that is reached, the Subaru will win.
"Ricard is exploring the area and looking for Joshua and the other kids. I should be back in a little while. Then again, let's all go to the ops conference."
"We need to see what's going on in town and what's going on with the controls."
"I won't pull it out. I think I'm starting to turn my head."
I've decided to do it, that's why my mind's decided too. That's all.
Subaru sends his gaze outside the city hall as he draws his jaw to Anastasia's words.
A window visible only on one side of the city, from which he could also see a control mount stretching high.
There is no distinction between East, West, North and South, until which tower it is.
But anywhere Emilia, Rem's memory, hatred, there's a monster.
- The battle to save the city, the loved ones, is still going on.