7
“—Subaru! Hey Subaru! Are you okay?”
The connection to his rolling head and the change of perspective were instantaneous.
What greeted Subaru as he awakened on the soft bed of vines was the silvery voice that he hadn’t been able to find no matter how much he searched only minutes earlier.
“Emi…lia…”
“Subaru… Thank goodness. You woke up. We were really worried.”
Weakly opening his eyes, he saw her. She was smiling in relief.
“ ”
Emilia’s smooth, slender neck was radiant.
His well of emotions still dry, he slowly reached his hands toward her neck. Such a slender neck would easily fit between his two hands.
“? What is it, Subaru?”
Emilia’s eyes widened in shock as Subaru put his hands around her neck.
She was surprised but didn’t make any move to stop him. If he felt like it, he could use all his strength and snap her neck easily.
Despite his literally holding her life in his hands, her reaction was dull, unresponsive, as if…
“It would seem Subaru is not fully awake yet, I suppose. Rather easygoing for how much we worried.”
“—Ngh.”
Subaru let go of her neck when he heard the voice right beside him.
Looking over, he saw Beatrice on the edge of the bed with her short arms crossed and looking exasperated.
“True.” Emilia nodded wryly. “But if you’re just a little groggy, then that’s fine. I was so worried it might have been worse… Beatrice was almost in tears when we found you on the ground.”
“I wonder if you had to add unnecessary details!”
Beatrice’s face went red as she indignantly pouted at Emilia’s innocent statement.
The two of them chatting easily didn’t understand the impulse that had entranced Subaru moments earlier. They had no idea how dangerous the situation had been.
Their behavior toward Subaru pointed to…
“…So then this is…”
He’d returned to the moment right after Subaru Natsuki had lost his memories, or put another way, to the moment when Subaru Natsuki realized he had been summoned into another world.
And also—
“—!”
“—! You…ngh”
Hearing a faint whinny, Subaru spun around and saw it.
The massive black body sitting politely in the corner of the green room—the lizard that had done everything it could for Subaru until the very moment it was swallowed by the shadow was leisurely sitting there.
“…This doesn’t feel quite right. It was Betty and Emilia who found him.”
“Heh-heh, don’t pout. It’s fine, isn’t it? Subaru and Patlash are really close, after all.”
He could hear Emilia and Beatrice behind him, but Subaru didn’t respond. He just gave the lizard a massive hug, grateful that it was there, too.
—He was grateful to the one being there who hadn’t hurt him.
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