Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (WN)
Chapter Six-41: The Odor of Tranquility
- My consciousness returned and the first thing I felt was breathlessness and pressure.
"Kahu."
Coughs up, unpleasant feeling accumulated in the mouth - spits out saliva full of sand and scratches open heavy eyelids. I was unconscious.
It's not sleep, it's an interruption of consciousness swallowed by a more imposing, defiant wave.
Heavy as the sand hung over his lashes, resisting it, Subaru recollects what happened to him and what happened last minute.
Sure, there was a terrible confusion, and then I tried to get out of the tower, until definitely I left the tower without anyone interrupting me -
"Mimizu and... white, light..."
Reminds me of the terrible events that happened shortly afterwards, the sight of continuous impact, and Subaru wonders if he is really alive.
Do you have enough weather for yourself to survive in all those anomalies?
The most suspicious thing about whether or not you're really going to die, even if it were, is the way the undesirable Gentile named Natsuki Subaru is today.
"After the needle, go to Ant Hell..."
I could remember the ground being submerged and swallowed underground with the remains of a giant mite. I managed to stretch my neck to secure oxygen, but at last I was swallowed by the sand and my consciousness disappeared.
The quote, he thought it was suffocating to death as it was, but it didn't.
"Is this... the desert basement, huh?
It's a dark situation that looks around but seems to be a space with no light source and you can barely even see it at hand.
Open your heavy eyelids and bring your palms out of the sand right in front of you. Barely, I can see it there, but the world doesn't rely on it so much that I can't even see the existence of a lifeline.
- Really, it even seems dangerous if I'm staying in the living world.
"... Zoh, I won't, you idiot"
Thinking that far, Subaru slowly moves his hands and feet, freeing his body from heavy tightening buried in the sand. The compression that hung all over her body was caused by a bed of sand that was swallowing down from her waist, and it was fortunate in her unhappiness that it wasn't her upper body that was buried.
Can we even refer to the sand mountain that raised the flag as a guideline to collapse without defeating the flag? Subaru carefully sanded off and got out in order to avoid being buried in the sand heavily in a poor move.
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If you barely get out of the sand, what you feel is a heavier sense of fatigue than you assume.
It would also have been caused by the cold sand that took away his temperature and kept him under extended compression. I'm afraid I can't even figure out how unconscious I was.
"Are you lucky you didn't get stuck with another blemish where you slept..."
Talking, Subaru turns his hand around his hips remembering his thirst.
When escaping from the tower, a leather bag of water secured for desert travel should have been there. But the fingers that asked for water swung empty, and after several explorations, no leather bags could be found.
"If you were buried up to your waist, naturally..."
When I was swallowed by the sand, the bag of water seemed to have come off. At the same time, bags packed with emergency food are also off hand. My mind was somewhat calm, even though that meant a fatal situation.
My heart is already paralyzed by the ruthlessness of this situation, and it may seem ridiculous to react one way or another.
"At least if it's nearby...... huh?
Get down on your knees and explore by hand around the sand mountains you've escaped.
That much sand. I hardly expect it, it was a restful act, but I have a soft feeling just around my upper body was out.
I checked with my fingers and was amazed that it was the leather bag I sought. And
"Even though the contents are empty, I'm surprised twice..."
The weight and feel of the leather bag quickly showed that its contents were empty. For once, I try to put my leather bag mouth on my lips, but a slight Shizuku lingers to dampen my tongue tip.
Even with that kind of water, it's precious water now. Indulging in a twitching sensation at the tip of his tongue, Subaru puts the leather bag back on his hips again and again explores the surroundings with his hands.
――
If there was a leather bag of water, it might be possible for those in food.
Such expectations were fulfilled and betrayed in the same way as water.
- Food is scattered and falling around the sand mountains as if they were scattered.
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Due to the darkness, the sand mountain scene is not known exactly.
However, I can see all over the sand mountains, scattered with the food Subaru brought in. And the fact that the wreckage riding on the palm doesn't keep it in its original condition - in an entity, you can see something eating and scattering and leaving it alone.
The thirsty Subaru's throat rings.
Scattered food is rolling around Subaru. This fact roughly hurt Subaru's spirit, which he intended to calm down, to scratch 27615; with his nails.
Fears of being preyed on, held against mites, sweep up Subaru's forehead and back, consuming precious moisture and sweating away.
Originally, this place was crawling out of that giant mite, so to speak, a monstrous passage.
Mimizu, its lord, would undoubtedly have died, but there is no wonder that monsters and others in symbiotic relationships with it lived in this passage.
"Get here right away..."
If we don't leave, Subaru thinks.
But I don't see the surroundings in Subaru who thought so. Instead of walls, we have to crawl on all fours to rely on the ground, to make sure that there is a wall, that there is a way, that there is a way, and we have to crawl and run.
"Ouch... damn, it hurts..."
Subaru crawls and escapes the scene as his right ear, plundered by a white needle, claws of his right hand, still in the process of regeneration, are sued by a painful organ of his whole body.
Something, to keep away from unusual beings. Even if you don't know what the hell is ahead of you, before you get away with it.
Now anyway, I just had to keep running to get away from the fears I couldn't get to.
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Knock, snort, and Subaru advances his hand and foot towards you so that he can be led.
It was gradually becoming stronger and a definite feeling, leading Subaru to the back.
- It's been about an hour since the crawling escape began.
Suspiciously escaping, Subaru repeatedly slipped down the sand mountains many times, blocked by walls on roadless roads, and from time to time rolled frightened by the rain of sand falling from overhead.
In doing so, Subaru finds himself in a cavity beneath the desert.
It wasn't meant to be salvation where I realized it, but there were real signs just after I realized that fact.
- It was an oddly attractive odor that suddenly slipped into the nasal cavity.
Odd. You can never call it cute.
Under normal conditions, smells are nothing more than uncertain information of considerably lower priority in determining the situation. But if vision was sealed in the dark and even the sound became a vague world in a place of nothing, its sudden odor was felt badly fresh.
Subaru therefore began to crawl attracted to it, like a toddler who relied on the wall to walk.
He rattles his nose, acting like a dog, and leads him to the back of the cavity while the smell leads him - no, he receives guidance that is uncertain where he might be headed, whether it is in the back or in front of him.
"Ha, ha, ha..."
All the time, Subaru had his tongue out, and that was what made his breath rough like a real dog.
I've heard that dogs get their tongues out for thermoregulation, but that doesn't hit Subaru's tricks right now. Subaru gives out his tongue and challenges the darkness in a dog-like shape because he wants to bathe the slightly flowing wind at the tip of his tongue to increase the amount of information he gets at all.
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In the dark, Subaru learns in just a few hours the illusion that he has become the creature he applied to the darkness. Naturally, such a tentative first sense of omnipotence is very different from the fact.
As always, the darkness gave Subaru nothing, and the lonely space just resonated with its own breath and a slight scratching of sand - but that was comforting for Subaru now.
- Scary, scary, we have to do something.
It was only during the first time that I had such natural feelings as a person.
Now Subaru loved this' lonely 'space where silence and darkness were absent.
Here, you don't have to get hurt.
Here, you just keep scratching your feet trying to get out.
Here, you don't have to think about anything, you have something to do.
I feel a sense of stagnation that gives itself to the raw mud embraces Subaru's heart, which is placed in a pressing situation, saturating it like a stubborn clay workmanship.
As it were, if it melted into it and disappeared, that would be fine, wouldn't it?
- That's how I was thinking, immersed in a sense of inertia and fatigue escape.
"Shit, what is this..."
In good order, Subaru should have crawled through an invisible cavity.
Along the way, I found my way to the left and right, choosing the right for a scattered quote about which to go, from which there was an even longer, odor-tracking journey.
Is there a place at the end of it that can be appeased? Can you reach a bright place? Even with no such outlook, Subaru pushed along fine.
And yet...
"Come here, end of story...?
The narrower and narrower paths and the tighter slopes ahead, waiting for Subaru were literally narrow enough to crawl and only proceed, and the sand walls at its end - in other words, the end of the smell.
"So far for what... no, wait"
Angry with the blocked situation, Subaru stood still as he tried to punch the sand wall. And it bothers my head about the smell I've been following and the contradiction of the status quo.
Subaru, no doubt, came to this place relying on the smell that drifted.
The smell rode in the wind and did reach far below Subaru, who was on the other side. I mean, if there's room for the wind to flow, this can't be the end of the line behind the sand.
The wind must have flowed from the outside into the cavity.
"If so...!
With his hands around him, Subaru swoops down the path of the end of the line with his hands behind his back.
Left, right and front, there's no way you can overlook the bottom. Then where could Subaru have overlooked it?
- Wasn't it after being abandoned by the stars and afraid to say?
- There it is.
For an hour after a spoonful, his hand, which was touching the ceiling, cut off the sky, and Subaru let his eyes shine.
When you get up and stick your arm in the back, it won't hit the ceiling even if you put it in your shoulder. There's a hole. The size is more than two turns larger than the torso of Subaru, and the body enters softly.
I mean, if you stick your back and legs up, you should be able to climb.
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From above that hole, a slight breeze flows in. So far, the odor that Subaru sought as his only object is pouring into the basement in the wind.
To Subaru, who sounded his nose and made sure of it, there was no possible option not to climb.
"Gu... no..."
Put your body in the hole and push your back against the wall. Regardless, the walls are also made of sand, so if you make a slight mistake in the angle at which the load is applied, it will soon collapse and the prospectus will collapse.
Be careful not to, but be bold when you put your foot on it, Subaru sticks his butt and foot in a flash of motion, little by little, and climbs up.
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Fortunately, the walls of the holes have their marks everywhere, moderately supporting Subaru, the lone climber.
In a moment, if you are the owner of superhuman physical abilities, you may be able to put your foot on this crease and jump to the top of the hole with a pimply flying procedure.
"To"
But Subaru doesn't have that physical ability, and we just have to continue with the authentic challenge.
Still, it seems that Subaru's body, forged in unknown time, was trained to withstand the activity of this hand in its unnatural state.
Gradually adapt to the body that reloaded the engine so that you can get used to the new car. By the time I crossed the middle of the hole, I had grabbed the knack and established my strength as a wall climber in splendor.
Most of all, before you unfortunately show your strength...
"- Exit"
Za, I don't know how many meters up the wall you've come, but you should have crawled up high enough to not avoid falling to death if you noticed.
To its heartless praise, Subaru finally accomplishes the tread of the wall.
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Not as emotional as I thought.
Boring thoughts such as this, if you do it, are not the cause of it either.
I just thought. - He said it would be trivial if we put this in front of him, such as climbing through walls.
Through the hole, stepping on new sand, Subaru rises.
And before the beauty nestled in the front, he groaned briefly.
"- Door."
- There was only one strange door standing there, not relying on anything.
- Nestled, in front of a single door, Subaru was on his way.
"Visible"
Above the hole that Subaru had reached, it did not pass straight to the ground.
This place is probably still in the cavity - if there was also a layer in the cavity, the point where Subaru fell is a salt plum such as B2F and now there is a B1F.
And it was in a hidden space, not so much in Dai Yang, but in a means that should be called euphoria, a single door that just stood up comically, without integrating with walls or floors.
Will there be something at a glance to see what this means?
- Besides me.
Looking at the door, Subaru says so with terrible, arrogant emotions.
With his hands on his chest, his eyes open, Subaru was clearly aware of it against the door he suddenly encountered. - That this is a door for me.
There was a strange certainty.
This door is your own.
The wind that poured into the basement, the smell that the wind carried in, the self that traced it to.
Everything was inviting Natsuki Subaru to this place.
And now the door in front of me is pale, claiming to exist even in this darkness, waiting for the moment when it opens in the hands of Natsuki Subaru.
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As if touching a loving lover, Subaru walks over to the door in the comfort of bouncing.
It looks like a double open, wooden door, twice the height of Subaru. If I stared, there was a handle in the middle of both open doors, to open them up, and I could see a strange pattern on that part.
- What you see is seven jewels.
"-"
With that treasure in his eyes, Subaru touched the door.
As soon as possible, the treasure ball of the door starts to glow. - That number, four.
Of the seven treasures, four gleam and welcome the visit of Natsuki Subaru -,
- The Lord of the Doors did not acknowledge the visit of the unlocked.
- Shortly after the blink, Subaru didn't know where he was and blinked his eyes.
"Ha"
Spilling a frightening exhale, Subaru looks down at his own hands.
I see. Naturally. There's light here, there's color. I can also see my scaffolding. Standing on a stone floor. - Stone, on the floor.
"-"
Hardened himself, Subaru looked around in panic.
Around, there are walls, walls, walls in a red tea-like hue - walls of towers created in circles, behind which is the main door that becomes the entrance and exit that leads to the outside.
This is the fifth floor of the Preades Surveillance Tower, inside the tower.
I'm back to that place, which should have popped up with some kind of strong determination.
"Ba"
I guess, it doesn't go on. Words don't come out.
It should have been right after the blink. In a moment Subaru stood up to a place like this. I can't stop being stunned, I get dizzy and my feet flutter.
Barefoot barefoot, stripped shoes hit his toes and rolled, Subaru chewed his back teeth hard.
Not if you're stunned here. Escape now - no.
"Why should I run away?"
Boiling, cloudy emotions boiled, Subaru looked up with a strong passion.
A scorching abomination like a boiled magma whirls hot inside Subaru all the time.
It was the end of the time of solitude, the end of the darkness of tranquillity and the end of the stinking smell - an unspoken hatred for being forced to take everything that was in that place.
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Why did Subaru have to run away?
Because someone plotted to kill Subaru, and took his life, not once, but twice. How can you hide the matter behind a calm mask and be in a good man's place?
- The suspect is only in the tower.
Do you assume the culprit in it? Did you escape because you can't do that?
You idiot, you idiot, you idiot, you don't know anything.
- If one of the suspects hits, you can smash it until you pull the hit.
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Fortunately, they're all caught off guard against Subaru.
Only the culprits that must be included are less alert to Subaru - and there is no reason to know that the culprit is suspected of being Subaru.
Here is the advantage of Subaru's death once.
Once dead, I know someone is trying to kill me.
All you have to do is kill the person you're trying to kill before that crime is committed again.
"Hiha."
A ferocious smile comes to mind and Subaru holds his mouth down with his hands.
With Kaishin's proposal popping up, Subaru gained the gift of saving himself.
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If that happens, I have something to get rid of quickly.
Subaru behaves quickly if it is to be concluded and implemented. Early enough, Subaru takes the spiral staircase further down - down toward the sixth floor.
Suspicious as I may recall, are there lizards on the bottom six levels of the tower that the Subaru - the original 'Natsuki Subaru' - helped to cross the desert as they came to the tower and the carriage of the journey?
Naturally, some of that would be quite useful for 'emergencies'.
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Reaching the lowest level, Svalbard found the carriage he wanted, but stopped there.
The reason is right next to the carriage - a giant lizard that crashed there and has already run out.
Its head is swept away and its body, which has lost its top from its neck, is flanked on the floor. I don't know how powerful it was, I don't see any blown heads around.
Instead, I found that the blood flowing out of my giant body was polluting the ground, but I was already thirsty and the corresponding time had passed since the tragedy.
- Needle.
Moment after moment, what emerged behind Subaru's brain was a mysterious white needle that blew up the figure, the offense with the mite just after leaving the tower and the head of that mite.
The impression matches that white needle attack with the lizard carcass rolling here. If so, then that attack was likely someone in the tower - a suspect, one of them.
And we bury lizards, equal to our own livestock, so unreserved -
- You mean you lost your intent to hide who you are?
The opponent seems to have been brief about whether the decision was made to get away by Subaru.
Trembling at the fact, Subaru went into an untouched carriage - vandalizing a carriage that seemed to be treated as a sleeping bed, and Subaru found a sweeping knife out of the proper luggage.
Probably something close to that in the survival knife as a treatment.
Rather than armed, salt plums, such as large blades used to cut through obstacles - but in this situation, splendidly, the murder weapon that will fulfill Subaru's purpose.
"I don't know who the enemy is..."
- I'll show you something in the eye.
Burning into the dark emotions, Natsuki Subaru takes the knife and heads upstairs.
Creates a cheek-distorted grin, and hatred holds itself back.
If you are to be saved, if you are to escape, believe that even the crime will be justified, and proceed.
- Keep those cheeks unaware that tears of indelible fear are telling.