CHAPTER 6
THE REASON I TRUST YOU
When he found Emilia, cowering and clutching her knees, Subaru felt relief, which seemed out of place.
Having found Emilia was the first part of it. That Emilia was here was the second. As he had firmly believed she could be nowhere else, her being here had fulfilled both his wishes.
“Though, I have to say, you really thought about this, Emilia-tan.”
“ ? ”
“Sure, here’s a place you can hole up without anyone finding you…especially since the people who can enter are limited in the first place, and none of the ones who could were likely to do it.”
At the very least, besides Emilia, there were three candidates to enter this place—Echidna’s tomb. One rejected the Trial with every hair on his body, one had lost her role as the price for going against her creator, and the last had been stripped of his qualifications after earning the Witch’s ire.
Beyond those three, the others possessing qualifications were forbidden to enter under the terms of the pact they upheld. Truly, it was the perfect place for Emilia to hide in.
Emilia hung her head at Subaru’s words of praise. Then, with her head still lowered…
“Subaru…why are you here?”
“If you have to ask why, that’s a tough one. Probably because I’m always thinking of Emilia-tan, so I’m the one with the best grasp of Emilia-tan’s feelings?”
Though, if that was truly the case, none of this would have happened to begin with. Emilia wouldn’t have passed the night with enough worry to wind up so backed into a corner that she was cowering in a place like this.
And this time, too, Emilia replied “No” to Subaru’s answer, shaking her head.
“That’s not what I… Subaru, I don’t mean the reason you’re here… Subaru, you’re in a place people without qualifications can’t enter, you know?”
“Oh, you mean why my body didn’t get thrown back like Roswaal’s? Fact is, even without being thrown back, I had to put up with a lot. It wasn’t bad enough to make me collapse, thanks to my Gate being so puny. I suppose I should be grateful that I have no talent for magic.”
“Is that how it is…”
When Subaru replied that he’d put up with a lot , Emilia’s eyes became filled with gloom. Tilting her head as she rested her chin in the gap between her knees, Emilia turned her gaze toward Subaru.
Her gaze bore the colors of uncertainty and resignation—an un-Emilia emotion he had never before seen on her.
“…I half believed and half hoped that you’d be here, Emilia-tan.”
“Half, half…”
“Since I ran around here, there, and everywhere and couldn’t find you, I had to turn my thinking on its head…not where , but why . Then, after I figured you were probably here, I’m relieved I actually found you.”
“…You were relieved?”
“Hm?”
As Subaru smiled to try and put her at ease, Emilia posed that brief question.
Her voice was quiet, ready to vanish at any moment. When Subaru raised his eyebrows, Emilia stared straight at him.
“You’re saying that finding me here makes you relieved? That’s all? …You’re not angry?”
“What, Emilia-tan? Don’t tell me you were scared you’d made me angry?”
Emilia’s meek, trembling voice made Subaru loosen his lips without thinking. Having set off without telling anyone where she was going, she was scared of being scolded the instant she was found, just like some little kid.
“I’m not angry at all. I was nervous, and to be honest, it didn’t exactly make me comfortable, but I’m not angry. I’m just really glad about everything, finding you here included, I’m just really glad.”
“…That so?”
Subaru had exhausted all the reassuring words at his disposal, trying to loosen Emilia’s tense heart.
“You’re…not angry.”
And yet, there was no relief infused into Emilia’s murmur.
“Emilia?”
“You’re not angry with me. —You won’t even get angry.”
Her small, raspy voice was trembling.
When Subaru, suspecting something, drew his eyebrows together, he had already realized too late.
Emilia was looking down, biting her lip, her eyes wide open.
It was as if she was trying to keep the tears filling her eyes from coursing…
“Why won’t you get angry with me?”
“ Ah— ”
“I did something selfish, didn’t I? I bothered you, didn’t I? I left without saying anything, so you worried… I made you unsure if I’d run away…that’s what I did. That’s what I did, right? It’s natural to be angry, isn’t it? Subaru, even you must be…”
When Subaru tried to interrupt by calling out her name, Emilia poured out her emotions with a rapid flood of words.
Emilia was asserting her own selfishness, apparently to draw blame to herself. Overwhelmed by the sheer force of her negativity, Subaru came to realize the error in his thinking.
Emilia hadn’t been afraid of angering Subaru. Emilia was afraid he would not blame her for her actions.
After all, that meant—
“Why won’t you get angry…? Are you not angry because you d-didn’t expect anything in the first place? You being kind to me when I fail like this means…my failing didn’t disappoint you at all? Isn’t it because you…thought I wouldn’t do well?”
Perhaps, just perhaps, this was an insecurity that had always rested at the bottom of Emilia’s heart, one she had never before put into words.
Over and over, Subaru had greeted Emilia with warmth when she failed in her challenge of the Trial, crushed by her own, cowardly heart. As he did so, he had both aided Emilia and instilled anxiety within her.
She was despondent over betraying his expectations. But Subaru had never showed that to Emilia, not even once.
As the failures added up, continuing to gently console her might have saved her heart temporarily, but only by searing ever-greater anxiety upon it.
All that time, Emilia had been frightened of Subaru and Puck’s kindness.
“You’re wrong, Emilia. That’s not how I think of you.”
Subaru earnestly tried to reach out to the great ripple arising in Emilia’s heart. If he let go of her heart there, it would be lost for good; he would never be able to capture it again.
“It’s not because I think that way that I’m not angry with you…”
“Then…! Then why…why didn’t you…keep your promise?”
She instantly raised her voice. The word promise held him in its snare.
When Subaru, who was hit right where it hurt, was cowed into silence, Emilia shook her head in rejection. He could offer no response. —It was a fact that Subaru had let go of Emilia’s hand the night before.
“I asked you to hold my hand until morning…! Subaru, you promised …! Why did you let go of my hand? Why didn’t you keep your promise…?”
Her tearful voice strictly levied blame on him for not keeping his word.
He could have listed reasons if he wanted. To liberate the Sanctuary. To learn more about Garfiel. —But those words were thin, light. Besides, it wasn’t just that.
Subaru’s reasons for breaking his promise, for leaving Emilia’s side, were not limited to those things.
“Subaru…Puck…you all break your promises and go off somewhere else. You go off somewhere and leave me behind…liars. Subaru, you liar. Puck, you liar. Liar, liar…!”
Face lowered and tears flowing, Emilia bumped her head against Subaru’s shoulders, her hands powerlessly pounding his chest. There was virtually no force behind them. And yet, the pain felt like it was enough to tear his body asunder.
That was probably the same pain Subaru’s insensitivity had caused Emilia.
“I—I told you before how important promises are to me…! How to spirit mages, to me , promises are so important… That’s why I wanted you to keep them… Subaru, you apologized for not keeping them before…so why did you break your promise again…”
“Emilia…”
“You mustn’t break promises…you mustn’t lie. You have to keep your promises… I mean, if you don’t…if I’d only kept mine, I… Mother and Geuse wouldn’t have…”
Her face still pressed into Subaru’s shoulder, Emilia slammed emotions into Subaru that had nowhere else to go. Her upsurge of sadness and anger over his betrayal had sliced her thought process into thousands of tiny pieces.
“You mustn’t lie…you mustn’t…!”
The grief-filled voice that spilled out tore at Subaru like a claw to his heart.
Promise —that was a word that had passed between Subaru and Emilia, bearing different meaning to each. He’d hurt her before by taking their promises too lightly, and the memories of that were still fresh.
And yet, once again, the word promise held no gentle echo but instead a crippling weight that bound them both, enough to make Emilia bury her head between her clenched knees and continue crying even that very moment.
With every second that passed, seeing her like that carved feelings of guilt into Subaru’s heart. As he listened to her sobbing voice, he desperately pondered what he should say.
Was it right to apologize? Was it right to act as if he understood? Should he earnestly console her?
The thoughts went round and round inside his head, but try as he might, he could not grasp which answer was correct.
What should he—ought he—did he need to do? What he needed most—
How could Subaru best convey how he felt?
Subaru thought and thought, searching for the best words he knew, the ones that could reach the heart most—
“Emilia. —I love you.”
What he voiced was a confession that was clashed enormously with the time and place.
“…Eh?”
Subaru’s confession made Emilia lift up her face, as if wondering if she had misheard him.
She beheld Subaru with her violet eyes, which were dotted by tears even then. He saw himself distorted by the droplets—and yet, he held something strong within him that absolutely would not waver.
For then and there, he bore no uncertainty whatsoever about the words he needed to convey.
“You’re trying to take the same Trial over and over, night after night. I don’t know what past you’re seeing, but the past isn’t something to squirm about forever.”
“…Agh, gah.”
“And instead you’re all like I’ll try my best , I have to do it , all stubborn and everything. If you cleared it, that’d be one thing, but the result was that you failed after running your mouth, wasn’t it?”
“S-Subaru…”
“In the end, with your pet and your guardian gone, you can’t even walk properly by yourself. So what, you’re gonna drown your worries in tears, abandon your duties, and go to sleep? I can’t watch you like this.”
The abuse Subaru seemingly spat out made Emilia open her eyes wide and still. Her surprise was such that he could see few tears left in her moist eyes; she trembled weakly, her lips unable to speak even a single word.
Without doubt, never had Subaru hurt Emilia’s heart more than he did that moment.
This was the malice and disgust that Subaru Natsuki had never once turned toward Emilia to date. Receiving this, Emilia’s expression slowly dried up as a smile came over her.
“That’s…right. E-even Subaru…thinks about me that way. It’s only n-natural…”
“ ? ”
“I’ve done…terrible things, even though I was told better, haven’t I? Ever since I came here…no, since long before…I’ve caused nothing but trouble…that’s why I…”
Without a word, Subaru accepted the trembling Emilia’s self-deprecation. Emilia’s throat contracted, seemingly swallowing down her sobs, yet a pain-filled smile remained upon her even so.
“That’s why it’s natural to…abandon me…Puck and Subaru both…”
“—Got that right. After failing this many times, I still don’t see any sign of improvement. It’s only normal to think that this is less I’ll manage somehow and more Who cares what happens .”
At the end of her self-denunciation, Emilia tried to conclude that she was hopeless. With bitter words, Subaru was in full agreement, stealing the conclusion from right under her. And then—
“—But.”
One step before coming to that exact conclusion, Subaru cut off his words.
Emilia lifted her face. Subaru understood the emotions hovering in her eyes so much that it hurt.
He understood, for this was the same despair he had once harbored toward himself.
That was why—
“Emilia. —I love you.”
Subaru would not let Emilia escape, using the same words that had once cast an inescapable curse upon him.
“ ? ”
Subaru made his confession, staring into her eyes, bordered with long eyelashes, which shuddered from the impact.
“I love you. I love you I love you I love you. I’m hopelessly in love with you.”
“Why are you…all of a sudden…?”
“I love your super-pretty silver hair, I love those purple eyes that are like glistening gemstones, I love that voice that makes you feel good just from hearing it, I love those long, slender limbs, the white skin, the height difference and stuff is so ideal I can’t stand it, I mean, just being with you makes my heart beat like crazy, and it’s really bad.”
“Agh, aah…”
“I love the fact that you’re a little ditzy, it’s cute how you try so hard at everything, I really respect how you’re so frantic to help other people, I think how you put others before yourself is adorable, and I want to see all your emotions right by your side, forever.”
“A-at a time like this…stop messing around!”
The words seemed to slide out of his mouth as his feelings for Emilia poured out.
Subaru passionately confessed, but Emilia loudly and angrily shouted back.
“Why are you saying this all of a sudden?! This isn’t what we were talking about! S-Subaru, even you think I’m no good! You can’t watch someone like me…that’s why!”
“Yeah, I suppose so. By rights, seeing you failing and giving up like this would make anyone’s love run out. Normally, even I’d abandon you, turn tail, and run. And if you weren’t Emilia, I would.”
“Why?!”
Even as Subaru concurred that the results were hopeless, he denied the most important part at its root.
As if to say it settled nothing , it was unforgivable , Emilia rose her eyebrows anger.
“Even though you know I’m no good and unsalvageable…why do you forgive me despite that?!”
“If you’re looking for an answer, I’ll say it as many times as you want. Because—I—love—you!”
When Emilia pressed close with a tearful voice, Subaru once again raised his own, their foreheads close enough to touch.
Overwhelmed, Emilia recoiled, but this time, it was Subaru who closed the distance. With the two close enough to breathe each other’s breaths, black eyes mingled with violet as he threw his words at her.
“I love you. That’s why no matter how sorry you look, I only feel like I’ve discovered a new side to you. The way you keep trying even when you don’t stand a chance makes me wanna cheer you on, and no matter how much you get disgusted with yourself, I will never hate you.”
Subaru absolutely would not allow Emilia’s wavering eyes to escape.
“Even if you hate yourself for your own shortcomings, even if you worry that the people around you can’t help but hate you…I’ll keep expecting things from you, and I’ll never use your weakness as a reason to hate you, or ever abandon you. Never.”
He understood how Emilia felt. But he also knew how to take her hand and pull her out of it.
For once, someone had refused to abandon him, even when Subaru tried to abandon himself.
“My love for you runs deeper than you’ll ever know. All of you is like a shining light to me. Of course, parts of you are no good. You’re not an angel or a goddess; you’re just a normal girl…you’ll cry when things are tough, and you’ll feel like running away when things happen that you don’t like. I get all that.”
But. But even so.
“But even with those weak parts, even with the parts I said terrible things about, I love all of you, Emilia. That’s why…even now, I’m not disappointed in you.”
“—! That’s! That’s so self-serving, isn’t it?!”
Emilia stubbornly refused to listen to the myriad claims that feel from Subaru’s lips.
Unable to push her confusion aside, she kept on tossing out words of denial, and therein lay his hope.
“After saying I’m no good in a way like that, you say you love me even so…that’s unbelievable! Why do you believe in me like that, Subaru…? I don’t understand it at all!”
“You’re wrong! You’ve got this wrong from head to toe. It’s not I love you ’cause I believe something . —It’s not like that. I love you. That’s why I believe in you!”
“Love alone isn’t a reason to believe in someone!”
“ ? ! If love wasn’t enough for me to believe in you, then why else would I go through such horrible shit just to save a troublesome girl like you!!”
Their voices loudened as their mutual feelings clashed.
When Subaru put his hand against the wall and rose to his feet, Emilia did the same, standing so that she might face him. At a range close enough to butt foreheads, both had furrowed eyebrows as Subaru and Emilia vented their feelings at each other.
Never before had the pair launched spittle, faces red, as they exchanged ragged words that all amounted to You’re wrong!
“I love you! I love you enough to make my head go nuts, enough to be happy to die for you! That’s why I’m putting up with the pain and suffering, standing in front of you even though I wanna hurl right now!”
“That’s…! I never asked you to! I never asked you to say all those selfish things… Subaru, you’re not thinking of my feelings at all, are you?! This is how you…take the brunt of everything, always getting hurt because of me…you don’t understand anything about how that makes me feel!”
“Like I could, like I’ve even thought about it! What I think of all the time is just ways to look good in front of you! I think about what I should do that’ll make you think the best of me, what I should do that’ll let me see your happiest face …it’s hard work, damn it. Put on a cute face like I want a little more often, would you?!”
“Don’t talk about me like I’m some sort of doll! If you’re thinking of my happiness…wh-why do you break your promises?! I asked you to keep them and everything! Why? Why won’t you?! You actually hate me, don’t you?!”
“I love you!!”
“Liarrr!!”
Subaru’s desperate attempts to slam how he truly felt into her overlapped with Emilia’s loud voice.
Just how much had he once told himself to put off conveying his feelings to her? Just how many obstacles had Subaru overcome so that he could tell her the words that would convey them?
He piled on his confessions of love so much that they must have come off as cheap, empty words. But to Subaru, they were his true feelings, a confession that came once in a lifetime with his entire body and spirit—the real deal infused with all of his being.
“I’m not lying! I love you! What do you think about me anyway?! You always act like you know it all! How much do you think you’ve shaken my heart, stringing me along with that cute face of yours like I’ve got a chance?! Stop toying with me!”
“I-I’m not toying with you! All I did was act normally. Don’t say weird things about it! Even though I have so much to consider right now, you’re asking me how I feel about you… I can’t think about that, Subaru! Stop it! Don’t make this hard for me!”
“Who’s making this hard for who?! You’re making it hard for me !!”
“You’re the one making it hard for me, Subaru!!”
Like little children having a tantrum, both were reduced to emotional arguments without a shred of logic between them.
With irreconcilable force, Subaru and Emilia slammed their fierce emotions into each other with loud voices.
Inside the tomb, purportedly a place of tranquility for many years, the pair’s irrational arguments continued to echo without pause.
“I don’t know how many times I’ve said it! Subaru, you’re a liar! You break your promises, but you come to me with a calm look on your face… Y-you thought I wouldn’t notice, didn’t you?! I’ve been watching you! I’ve been watching to see if you keep your promises with me, Subaru!”
“That’s a bad personality right there! Testing people like that… What are you, a Witch?!”
“A liar who breaks his promises has no right to talk!”
“This and my breaking promises are two different things!”
The unconcerned way Subaru changed the subject left Emilia so angry, her words caught in her throat. She was so seized by emotion that she couldn’t give voice to her thoughts.
She made ragged breaths. Breathing in and out multiple times, Emilia’s eyes were in tears as she asked him.
“Why…why did you break your promise…?”
“…I feel bad about breaking my word. I really wanted to keep holding your hand and stay with you until morning. That’s the truth.”
“That’s not what I asked. —Why did you break your promise?”
“…I can’t tell you.”
Clenching his teeth, Subaru responded to Emilia’s question with a low, anguished groan and a shake of his head.
Subaru refusing to give her an answer at this point made Emilia cover her face with her hands.
“You won’t keep your promises. You won’t even tell me why you broke them… What do you want me to do now? If you have something to tell me…just come out and say it! If you don’t, Subaru, even I can’t believe you…!”
“Emilia.”
“If you’d only kept your promise and stayed with me until morning, I’d probably believe you, Subaru! I’d believe you and probably have given you everything! Instead, you broke your promise…”
Her face disheveled, Emilia embraced her own, slender shoulders. Anxiety and fear rested in her quavering, violet eyes, for Emilia was speaking not to Subaru, but herself.
“After Puck was gone, my memories…they’re coming back, little by little. Inside me, scenes I don’t know and conversations I don’t remember are gushing up one after another.”
“ ? ”
“All these things I didn’t know until now, things that by rights I should have remembered…just how much have I forgotten? I forgot them and then acted like they never happened…!”
These were the memories Puck had called back in exchange for his pact with Emilia: the true memories kept under a lid that she had turned her back upon long ago.
The lid had been removed, and scenes of a past she did not wish to remember had been restored. However, to Emilia, this came with the fear that she would no longer be able to be certain what was her true nature.
“When all those memories come back…what will I do then? Is who I am right now really me? I forgot so many precious things, I forgot about Mommy…is who I am right now wrong?”
Nature dictated that everyone accumulated memories over the course of their lives, binding each person to others around them.
If that was so, was a life underpinned by false memories not wrong in every respect?
If the point of origin was wrong, did that not make the path walked and the destination reached all wrong as well—?
—What’s important is not where you start, or what happens midway, but how it ends.
Suddenly, a voice reverberated in the back of his mind.
The distant voice, one that was very familiar to Subaru, was the voice of someone who was very close to him yet would never meet again.
When they were parting, at the very, very end, in the name of homework, she had given Subaru a gentle present.
—Yeah, you’re right, Mom.
However it started, whatever path one walked, who had the right to decide what was right or wrong until the very, very end?
“Emilia, no matter what memories you remember, nothing’s gonna change. I love you. I’ll always love you.”
“—! I can’t…believe you. Subaru, the version of me you say you love…m-might not be here anymore. You can’t…say something like…”
“I can. No matter what happens, you’re not going anywhere. I…love you.”
“…Those are…the words of a liar. Coming from someone…who can’t even make me believe him…”
“—Then…I’ll make you believe.”
With trembling eyes and a trembling voice, Emilia rejected Subaru.
Words weren’t getting through. His demeanor couldn’t convince her.
But words weren’t the only way to convey feelings. That was why—
“Suba…”
“If you don’t like it, dodge.”
They were at a distance close enough to breathe each other’s—no, there was not even a breath’s distance between the pair.
Reaching his hand to Emilia’s shoulder, Subaru brought his face close to her. When Emilia saw Subaru approach, bewilderment rose into her eyes as her body went rigid.
For one second, he waited. It was the only chance he gave her to throw him off.
“ ? ”
But Emilia closed her eyes.
Whether this was surrender or the product of hesitation, Subaru knew not.
“—Mm.”
Their respective breaths became one. Emilia’s breathing caught as Subaru knit his brows in pain.
For the tiny sound that resounded was that of the pair’s teeth forcefully bumping against each other. The first thing they tasted was a faint, throbbing pain. However, the powerful heat that followed erased it even from the most remote corners of their heads.
Her lips were so soft. It was a kiss where they simply touched.
To Emilia, it was her first. To Subaru, it was the second time he had kissed her.
It was not like the first time, which carried the cold taste of death. The second kiss…bore the hot taste of life.
“ —Ah. ”
“I love you.”
When their lips mutually pulled apart, blood rushed to Emilia’s cheeks as Subaru unhesitatingly spoke those words.
“No matter how sorry you look, no matter how we argue like this, I’ll still love you the same way, Emilia. No matter what happens, that’ll never change. It’ll probably make me love you even more than before. —That’s why I’ll believe in you, forever. And if you have to ask why…
“Because you love me…”
In a daze, Emilia finished Subaru’s sentence as she touched her own lips. She stroked her soft lips with her fingers, as if the touch of what had been there yet lingered. White tears coursed down her cheeks.
“It’s natural to be anxious when memories you don’t know about come gushing out. I understand why you’d feel scared that a version of you that you never knew is coming out. But it won’t erase the path you’ve walked. You’ll be all right, Emilia.”
“How can you talk…like that…?”
“Because it’s not important where you start, but where you end. —The woman I respect most in the world said that.”
Normally the worst guesser that could be found around the globe, his mother had taught him the most important thing he would ever learn.
It wasn’t that he truly understood the answer to her homework assignment, but she’d made him want to understand.
At the very least, he wanted to show Emilia his good side when anxiety was making her stand still.
“It’s all right, Emilia. No matter what you remember, I’m on your side. Whether you forget or remember, it’s all fine. If you’re still scared even so, we’ll find it.”
“Find…find what…?”
“Just like I sent you my feelings of love full speed, I’ll send your worries packing full speed, too. That’s how we’ll find your precious feelings.”
Emilia did not fear any choice that hurt her for the sake of others. Through these, she prioritized the people around her, a stance that was noble and beautiful and that Subaru deeply respected.
But though the words It’s for someone else’s sake were gentle, they were also sad…because how she felt for someone whose face she couldn’t see did not even come close to how she felt about those she could see.
“All that said, I was kinda hoping you’d turn some of those precious feelings my way…”
“My…precious feelings.”
Perhaps Subaru’s words had not really sunk in as Emilia touched her hand to her breast. Her fingertips were touching the crystal where Puck had once been, cracked with its light long lost.
It was a vestige of a bond that should have been there. However, Emilia grasped it firmly nonetheless.
“If I get all my memories back…will my precious feelings be among them?”
“Yeah. I’m sure they will. Along with a reason to keep on walking.”
“—Mm.”
He wouldn’t call it half trust and half doubt, but Emilia certainly didn’t agree completely as she nodded.
Seeing Emilia like that, Subaru closed his eyes and turned his face skyward.
—He felt like the words that had previously saved him the same way had been…gentler.
He felt like he was saved by words that were gentler. Harsher. Stronger.
— Can I really be there for Emilia like that?
“ ? ”
Asking that out loud would have been too uncool, though, so he didn’t actually say it.
He exhaled, exhausted. Then, the very instant he forgot about it, the tomb’s rejection slammed directly into Subaru’s spirit. Putting his hand to a wall without thinking, he barely managed to avoid tumbling to the floor.
“Subaru! A-are you all right?”
“It’s nothin’…well, that’s what I wanna say, but it’s definitely somethin’. It’s pretty bad right now. For the time being, if we’re gonna continue this lover’s quarrel, I’d like to do it outside.”
“Goodness…as if I have any intention of that.”
When Subaru, blue in the face, tried to put on a strong front, Emilia faintly smiled.
It was a strength bereft of strength, but the sight of Emilia returning to normal was a sign to Subaru that she had become more positive, if only ever so slightly. She was still anxious, and answers were yet to come. Even so, she smiled.
“ ? ”
When the wobbly Subaru rested his weight against the wall as he walked down the passage, Emilia hesitated to lend him a supporting hand. Perhaps this was an aftereffect of having earlier touched each other’s lips.
Thinking back, the sheer boldness of it made his face run hot.
But for that one moment, he set a number of such deep sentiments aside.
“ ? ”
At the end of the passage, orange-colored sunlight was entering at an angle.
And there—
“—Heya. Sorry we kept you waiting.”
“Tch.”
When Subaru spoke those words, there, raising a hand—
“—Not like I was waitin’ for you .”
—and clicking his tongue in annoyance, was Garfiel, waiting for the pair, his entire body drenched in red by blood and the setting sun.
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