Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (WN)

- Before the unexpected sight, Subaru had no choice but to glance at it.

Strange things are a night in a row.

Starting with an unintentional sleep, he ran in search of Anastasia-Collar Donna, who was no longer from the green room, and saw a bird that could not have been in the tower, and chased it. I lost sight of that bird at the end of the day, explored the nearby floors and walls to find a hidden passageway -,

"- Through the tunnel, it was a snowy country"

The spilled light mouth has not contributed in any way to this strange description of the sight.

It was not the walls and not the tunnels that Subaru dived, nor was it the snowland or anything else that spread in front of him, but the night of the cold windy sandy sea.

Brilliant stars float in the black sky, and from the balcony of the surveillance tower you can admire the sights of the dunes as far as the black sea.

Everything doesn't match Subaru's words. Instead -,

"- Natsuki-kun?

Hearing the squeaking of the plundered Subaru, a shadow of the wind softening his hair turned back here.

A girl holding her light purple, wavy hair down gently with her hands - a poor looking bearer with shallow-colored round eyes with skin so white that it floats in the darkness.

It's the Anastasia I've been looking for. Subaru only patrolled the call for a moment,

"... that's a great spot for an evening walk"

Hiding the surprise of the debauchery behind his tongue, Subaru shrugged his shoulders to Anastasia. To cut that trick and the topic out, Anastasia laughed small, "Oh no,"

"It's true that the view is good. But because of the view, it's too bad the view at the heart is black or something. In the long run, it was different just to see the city."

"This is it, though it's not as funny and bad as watching the ocean at night. And I don't care what you say..."

Saying, Subaru points his finger over his head, not the view at a glance. Anastasia looking up in the sky at it - there, there is a starry sky full of heaven.

"The air is cold and clear, so the stars look super good. Romantic, isn't it?"

"It's true that the stars are beautiful, and we agree that the air is clear. Burns... and isn't there anything more bothering you than seeing the stars?

"What do you mean, more concerned?"

"The very fact that you see the stars. So far, what night did you see the stars in the sand sea?

Anastasia told me in a frivolous breeze, and Subaru slapped his hand "uh".

As she pointed out, it was strange to see the starry sky from the balcony in this way, given the journey to the sandy sea so far. Around the Preades Surveillance Tower, you cannot find a star brilliant in the sky.

Because...

"It must have been like a cloud in the sky."

"Doesn't that mean this tower has nothing to do with temper... or that it's higher than the temper it was standing in?"

"At this height, well, I can't say enough about that either."

I noticed the view outside from the balcony, but the current altitude - the hierarchy that hits the four layers of the surveillance tower, is not tens of meters above ground, but at a height in hundreds of meters. I didn't really feel it, but the stairs up from five to four floors were that tall.

"... Still, whether it's coming to the middle of the tower in this position"

Not outside the balcony, but looking up at the tower along the outer wall, Subaru exhales.

If I guess correctly, I can't see the top of the tower like poking a cloud, even though it's rising above the temper. It has nothing to do with darkness, it's still up there.

That's why there were more than four hundred stairs to the second floor. That alone leaves no doubt that the tower leaves considerable leeway.

Whatever -,

――――

As for the starry sky and the height of the tower, there, Subaru turns his attention to Anastasia. There is no suspicious movement in Anastasia, where she breaks her lips with her hands behind her hips.

There's no such thing as vigilance or how they're going to set something up.

At least, make sure that it doesn't suddenly expose hostility -,

"- So, what's the excuse for this situation?

"Excuses?"

"Late at night, I can sneak out of my bedroom, through a secret passage no one knows, and play with the birds while it's in the night breeze here... you're too suspicious"

To the strange-faced Anastasia, Subaru pursued by squeezing his jaw.

The birds - yes, the birds.

On this occasion, it is the two of Subaru and Anastasia who poke each other in the face in this way, but the balcony is packed with many other audiences besides the two of them.

That was the crop-like birds that kept the situation quiet, not making it slight.

――――

One, two, etc., and not such a calm number at all.

Stay on the outer edge of the balcony and the number of birds that can rest their wings does not drop fifty. It is so numerous that it seems to be a herd, but it is resistant to determining it as a herd because the species of birds gathered are not uniform.

White birds, blue birds, black birds, spotted birds, large birds, small birds, lean birds, fat birds, cluttered and non-united birds.

That fact is quite different, too, but it is the behaviour of the birds that shapes this sight that Svalbard has learned to spook more than that.

- With so many birds, instead of ringing, I can't hear one feather.

It is not certain that the birds each have the wisdom to communicate with one another.

But at least these non-united birds are united only in their will.

"Natsuki-kun can't help but be anxious not to..."

In response to such subaru suspicions, Anastasia puts her hand on her cheek.

"Secret passage, isn't it exaggerated? Because this is how Natsuki-kun stays here."

"That's... the bird led me, that's it."

"If we do that, we'll do the same. I was wandering around the tower at night. Then the birds will fly away. If you go after something, you come here."

――――

"Oh, my God, you don't believe me, do you?

Simulating a bird with both hands, Anastasia, who was swimming in the sky, narrows her eyes.

Naturally, but not a satisfactory explanation. There is no basis for denying it, but is there such a convenient story? Shelf yourself up and Subaru concludes so.

"This bird..."

"These kids, what the hell?"

"- That's what I want to hear."

The same goes for the lazy Anastasian attitude, but the sight of the birds just watching this exchange in the distance is uncomfortable.

I find it difficult to read emotions from the eyes of a bird, or really, I feel separated enough to think that I don't have emotions or anything like that.

These birds, the balcony, what the hell is Anastasia thinking?

"You're just like me and you don't know anything... it's too convenient for you to pepper that"

"Natsuki-kun doesn't know anything about it, and there's something we'd like to say... but I'm in real trouble. Ever since I got here, I've been in a crazy mood."

Oh man, he hands on his forehead, and Anastasia shows a grieving bare gesture. Looking at the Anastasia without alarm, Subaru was, uh, remembering about the bird.

- A bird flies through the Augurian dunes towards the Preades surveillance tower, he said.

It was the city liquor store that stopped by to prepare for the crossing of the sand sea to the tower. If you ever get lost in the sand sea, the shopkeeper said look for birds.

Fortunately, the Subaru didn't make the kind of mistake of being shipwrecked in the sand sea, so it was an almost forgotten advice-

"If you look at this, you mean it wasn't just a rumor..."

Even in the wake of Subaru's whining, there is no response from the birds.

They just fold their wings quietly and rest their wings like they don't like to fly through the midnight darkness.

Exposed to cold winds, yet still leaning on each other, without sharing the warmth. Just look at Subaru and Anastasia like an exquisite doll.

"These kids have been doing that all along. We were just on our way."

"Believing that's a little impossible by my rules of thumb."

"Rule of thumb?

"In my experience, when I come across a situation like this in the middle of nowhere, my life is mostly at stake, I promise."

Subaru's imminent death experience in detoured behavior is quite extensive.

It used to be a mansion night wander, and that starts where Lem slaughtered me.

Loving what had happened since then, Subaru's rule of thumb had concluded that bypassing behavior = death.

If it's that rule of thumb, the situation seems pretty dangerous now-

"If you do, you can study new patterns in that rule of thumb. Not this time."

――――

"For cowardly Natsuki, the worst possibility is that we're up to something. If you think about attracting me to this tower like this, and letting me go around some hell of a conspiracy, to stop Natsuki-kun and Emilia... do it?

They poke at the stars, making Subaru's cheeks slightly stiff.

"Easy to understand wow," Anastasia chuckled at how Subaru looked.

"Rest assured. I haven't thought about it that hard, and we have no hostility towards Natsuki-kun. of this tower, to no one else...... ah, the exams burn"

"Shaura and Reid, huh?"

――――

As soon as I give my name, Anastasia pushes silence with a bitter face.

Seeing that reaction, Subaru leaked "ah".

"You weren't listening because you were asleep, were you? Um, he's the new guy in the two-tier 'exam'... but he's Reid Astrea. The first generation of" Kensei ". Hi, they called me out of the past, it seems to work like"

"I don't care what you ask. Design, this tower. … what was the Creator thinking"

In response to Subaru's explanation, Anastasia adds low at the end of the shuddered comment. Subaru stuffed his breath at the signs of the carraragi valve slipping out of its tone.

Up to this point, I have treated and intended to treat her almost as an anastasia. But after all, the essence of her being in front of me like this...

"- Right now, it's just me and you two here. Why don't we talk hungry?"

"Mmm..."

"Honestly, talking to you wearing people's guts doesn't make any sense. Whatever they say, I can't trust you from the root. So..."

"- He wants to exchange words with me, not with me playing Anna"

At the moment, the signs of Anastasia changed to meet Subaru's suggestion.

Even though the atmosphere surrounding her is renewed and her figure remains unchanged, her visibly confronting presence deteriorates. The emotions in my eyes were switching the look of my thoughts weaving.

――――

Thus, in front of Subaru breathing into the change, Anastasia - no, the artificial spirit Echidna, who was playing Anastasia, slowly heads to the outer edge of the balcony.

There is no anti-fall fence, just an outer edge with a fence at an unfortunate height. She gently laid her back on the wall and gently stroked the head of a white bird nestled right beside her.

And -,

"- This was certainly the first time you and I had exchanged words together in this way."

and accepted Subaru's suggestion and smiled with a smile.

"You're not coming?

"No, 'cause I don't have a fence, and I don't like the safety precautions because they're too imperfect"

"Nothing, you're not going to poke me off when you're approaching alert, are you?

"If that's a credible way of saying it, it's not. That sounds like the original."

Sitting in an extremely dangerous place, Subaru bent his lips to Echidna, who invites him with his innocent face. but you didn't like that no complaint, she blatantly frowns.

And then I said, "Okay?" Stand your finger up to interpret the

"As I have said several times, could you not look at me much like that original witch? To be clear, it's not unpleasant to be compared to someone you don't know. Even if it was my own creator."

"What do you mean by that... right, I'm sorry. I'll do it right."

"Please"

The appearance and voice remain anastasia, and Echidna appeals to Subaru to do so.

Honestly, even that allegation sounded just like Subaru's known-vicious witch tone, but her claims include circumstances that should be snorted honestly. In fact, if Svalbard is told that he is similar to Echidna, he would strongly appeal for discredit.

"Nevertheless, your concerns are best. If you see this nocturnal, no-one noticed where you're walking alone, you can't help but suspect. But after taking that suspicion for granted, let me lay it down and deny your suspicions."

"You, don't touch that bird too often without warning."

"... were you listening to me now?

"I was listening."

Earlier, there was a discrepancy in the content of the opinions offered by each other.

However, more than Echidna says, Subaru can't help but wonder if she can stroke the little bird - the head of a bird as creepy as a crop.

This is the afternoon park, except if more birds show biological reactions.

"Are you not afraid of coming all the way up here and getting stuck all over your body and getting killed?

"Well, your imagination is even scarier. You're not gonna tell me that's a rule of thumb, are you?

"She looked so cute, she jumped on me so well... I've been like that"

So since then, I have been distracted by the large number of animals gathered in one place.

I have had many 'back to death' experiences, and I can assure you with certainty that there has never been an easier death, but it is a memory of that that that seemed like a sudden terrible death.

"... I wouldn't force you around actually having a blue face. I'm not familiar with these birds either."

How pale Subaru looked, Echidna pulled her hand off the little bird early. Then when I put my hands on my knees, I stare at Subaru again, "Well".

"Breaking my stomach, you suggested to me... so what the hell do you want to talk to me about forgetting how I behaved to be Anna?

"In the meantime, this place and its relationship with birds"

"As for that, I can only return the same answer I answered as Anna. I was led here by a bird, just like you. Until then, he said he didn't have a single idea. Just..."

"Just?"

Subaru's eyebrows rise in the pursuit, discouraged by the irreplaceable answer, but only marginally left him hooked. Slightly patrolling the reaction, Echidna continued.

"I honestly wanted to ask you the same thing."

"To me, the same thing?

"You might have sounded like a joke because you were going to be Anna. I walked here to be led. And now I'm talking to you in this place.... stand in front of the entrance back to the tower, with you"

――――

"You were also familiar with Shaura, the keeper of this tower. At least, the other side is totally treating you with that intention. I think it's cowardly to add that and tell you after being alone here..."

Swallow by Echidna's words, Subaru does not pinch his remarks. To that Subaru Echidna cut the words once, and, with Anastasia's face, offered to inquire.

The question is...

"- Natsuki Subaru, who are you?

"Nothing, nothing..."

"Before I go to Pristella, I'll return to the story. A year ago, after you completed the White Whale Crusade and the Laziness Crusade. Anna investigated you."

Echidna's reveal. Is that part of the Anastasian faction's king-race strategy?

Examining the rival candidate, Emilia, Subaru, who received the medal as his knight, would be what should be called Theory in these battles.

But even Anastasia Hosin, the big merchant who leads the Hosin Chamber of Commerce...

"I didn't know your identity. Anna blurred that it was difficult to find out the least amount of information. Probably the result of what people were doing around you rather than you."

Subaru's intelligence control, if there are people involved in such an act in the faction, would it be Roswar, next point, around Otto and Clind, who will be in the lead?

Even if it was, no wonder I was doing it. And they were either not nice enough to bother telling Subaru that fact, or they were not innocent enough.

"Anyway, all I could trace was that just before the king's election began, I was involved in a little event that supposedly happened in the king's capital. When Knight Reinhardt found Felt, one of the candidates, he was able to testify that he saw you. But that's all."

Records prior to that can't exist.

Therefore, Echidna - in this case Anastasia - the Anastasia investigation had almost perfectly followed Subaru's footsteps.

Except that's an inadequate result for them.

――――

Echidna's eyes narrowed and Subaru was cramped with answers to what to say.

To date, many experiences have suffered from the inability to communicate information on 'Back to Death' and from the inability to share information that underlies it. But this is the first time this has happened.

Who Natsuki Subaru is and who he comes from will be chained.

"I..."

"And this is how much I've lined up."

"-?"

With a serious face, Echidna spread her hands on Subaru, who managed to squeeze out the words. The tone is so mild that Subaru is stunned.

After such a Subaru reaction, Echidna nodded satisfactorily, "Yeah,"

"Anna and I's perception of you is such an unknown trait and a newcomer knight who has accomplished so much... that's up to Pristella. I can't say how that impression was transformed in the fight against witchcraft in Pristella... but I feel a little different coming to this watchtower"

――――

"I want you to be anxious and wary of being together in a space where no one's eyes can see you two late at night like this, and forgive me for having no choice"

Closed her open arms, Echidna tilted her neck with a smile.

That's how he finishes listening to her with disgust, Subaru moves his thirsty lips around his shoulder and seriously worries about how he should take it.

but while I was worried, I realized.

- That Echidna's hands on her knees are so powerful that her fingertips are white.

"... you, are you seriously freaking out?

"- That statement is a little out of your mind. For example, how do you really relate to Shaura?

To Subaru's question, Echidna throws back another question without answering it.

"Shaura and I have never met here before. I don't know anything."

"Three layers of 'exam', is it a coincidence that you unraveled it so quickly?

"... coincidence"

"So you've been through a disguised hidden passage like this, seemingly uninformed, in a situation where I happen to be the only one, and you've been speaking up?

――――

What can go on with this one is a grudge festival from Echidna to Subaru.

This is what she says to Subaru by repeating her questions.

"Try to take the opposite position, or..."

"Still, I estimate you are unlikely to be hostile due to a variety of factors. This is how I revealed it in my chest, and I want you to think it's sincerity to show it."

With his hands on his thin chest, Echidna showed with attitude that he spoke of his mood.

Even as Subaru, it was the mountains who wanted to buy that willingness and snort at Echidna's words, looking again at his identity and the suspicion of his actions.

It's the mountains...

- Apparently, my creator left quite a scratch in your heart.

The more I think the behavior of the artificial Spirit Echidna resembles that of Echidna, the 'Witch of Greed', the harder it is to believe from the heart that any good faith is exhausted.

This is exactly what I would call the leftover incense of a witch.

"Your, say, okay. Convinced. Believe it or not..."

"Your grid is incredible."

"It's a coincidence that you and I met here. So, where are we? What do you think places like this balcony are for?

As a matter of fact, even if this Echidna was up to something, there's nothing to prove to make me crack my mouth here. Instead of credibility, I overheard the words in force majeure.

But it's a different story from the fact that this place was a hidden space. There's got to be some kind of existential value here than it was purposefully hidden.

"I have a hypothesis about that. Three days ago...... do you remember what happened in the sand sea?

"Three days ago, before I got to the tower, I thought it was a mess..."

"During that distraction, a white light struck us chased by Hanaki Bear. - That was apparently Shaura's fault, wasn't it? Then this place."

"- His scaffolding to monitor the sand sea?

Subaru rang his fingers before Echidna's hypothesis reached its destination.

I'm satisfied with her guess. In fact, Shaura has been pointing at the distance and sniping what she says is close to the tower by 'Hells Snipe'. I thought there were no windows, and I was wondering where in the surveillance tower I had no means of looking out -

"Perhaps these places are all around the circumference of the tower. From what I've seen, this space detaches from the direction we tried to approach the tower."

"What about the birds?

"It's a mystery about birds. Touching it like this has no reaction. However, since you probably seem to have a temperature, it doesn't mean you're actually a crop. I'd like to try to dismantle it if possible..."

Looking down at the bird beside him, Echidna brutally narrows her round eyes. But when she pulled the finger she pointed at, she stared at its fingertips,

"Hate, I don't want to put any more strain on Anna's body. If you're going to strangle the bird, we'll talk fast..."

"Well, if you really need it..."

A little over a year after being called to another world, I have had experience hunting birds and wild rabbits with Subaru. Regardless, I feel too different between killing to eat and killing to try.

"After I kill you, for eating..."

"Yes, you had some leftover food issues. Well, I'd like to ask for about twenty."

"You idiot! You, you don't know the legend of Zelda!?

Subaru raised his anger when asked to open up and massacre the birds. Echidna, yelled at with knowledge she couldn't possibly know, has her eyes rounded.

Regardless of that, I felt like killing exactly twenty of them.

"Besides, if you just kill them, do these countless birds have movement, too?

"... there's an undeniable fear of that"

To Subaru's anxiety, Echidna also puts her hands on her mouth for all this.

The birds are unresponsive to the two people who continue their noisy conversations, but only their gaze, as always, is directed at the Subaru people who can be considered outsiders of this scene.

bird burial, the word passed the back of his brain, and Subaru withdrew Echidna's immediate suspension.

"If we're going to do it, let's get ready before we do it. For one thing, I'm behind you now."

"There's no rush to escape, is there? Okay, that's fine. As a matter of fact, it's hard to imagine what these birds are going to get."

"Well, don't have an atmosphere like the late statement where exploration and intellectual desire prevailed."

――

Echidna, who apparently doesn't really know how to be a witch, was still caught off guard because she seemed to maintain a behavioral style close to the original.

So Subaru ignores it there and throws questions at the part where he is not witchy, as a spiritual echidna.

"I didn't really make sure, but what about Mr. Anastasia?

"... still the same. Anna continues to sleep in the depths of this body. I've never lived in my body this long, so don't lie to me if I tell you I'm not in a hurry."

"A rush?"

Subaru was able to get into the nuance that he had not been able to return to his original body, but Echidna shook his neck to the side saying, "I am not."

"Me and Anna are in a contractual relationship between the Spirit and the Sorcerer for once. Together, the incomplete Spirit and the incomplete sorcerer... are incomplete relationships, though. I told you about Anna's body."

"Oh, the gate is flawed or not"

"There's something close to your relationship with Beatrice right now. Unlike you, Ana's flesh has no Mana receptacle at all. She's going to have to spend Odd to keep her contract with me."

"Yeah, yeah?

The explanation also seemed no different from that received roughly before. But Echidna said Subaru's understanding was shallow, pushing his finger against his chest,

"On Ana's behalf, this state of affairs equals what I continue to manifest. It was an accelerating act of eating up Anna's odds. Ana's odds are still shredding."

"Odd thinks it's his soul itself... I mean"

"Anna took my hand, aware of the danger of signing with me. From then on, it was assumed that eventually the end would come... but now, sooner"

- So as soon as possible, I have to give my body back to Anastasia.

Echidna so tightened up the situation in which she and Anastasia were placed. I think Subaru was taking their situation too lightly into account.

"With such a body... in such a lame state, how can you be a king?

"Does that mean you want Anna to give up her rights, even for her own husband?

"- Huh! You're kidding me! I'm not talking about that! I..."

"Anna never pulls. I won't even give up. I know that."

Echidna ran out to Subaru, who stepped in and tried to make his voice absurd.

Pressured by the momentum, Subaru blinks. Then he shook his lips with his forehead,

"... does Anastasia want her country until then? Even if you might get it and let it go soon."

"It may be shorter than people, but Anna herself uses that shorter amount of time many times better than others. Besides, Anna has a reason not to give up her throne."

To the voices of the powerless Subaru, Echidna said with confidence in Anastasia.

And told, why can't I give up my throne? It's...

- Because they wanted it.

Soon, the risen Echidna walked over here, facing Subaru from the front in the middle of the balcony.

I peek straight into my black eyes and Subaru can't move into the words said by my shallow eyes.

of the Preades Surveillance Tower, of the "Test," and another weight is pressed against Subaru.

――――

I can't move, I can't speak. Neither does Echidna, say anything.

That's how he replaces the two stopped moving, and only the feathers cleave through the cold nights. The feathers fell out from the rear and joined the flock of birds resting their wings.

Another one, the bird goes to the balcony...

- From behind.

――――

Subaru remained unchanged and stood with the outer wall of the watchtower on his back. If a bird were to wing from behind it, it would be nothing more than from the inside of a watchtower.

Echidna, Subaru, was led here by bird wings.

Then naturally, even for the wings of the third bird.

"- What's the story now, what the hell?

Somewhere stunned, a voice sounds on the balcony like the very essence of believing has swayed.

To the voice of the man standing up, the birds spread their feathers simultaneously. And with tremendous feathers like heavy rain, the birds fly without hesitation.

To the night sky, to the sea of dunes surrounded by night and darkness.

Subaru and Echidna, as comfortable as they were left behind in the Great Sea Plains,

- And leave Julius Euclius.