Re:Zero - Starting from Zero (Natsuki Subaru)

After a short rest,

The two continued their search for Emilia's lost badge.

Emilia suddenly remembered the location where her badge had been lost.

Subaru Natsuki's eyes lit up, thinking that the place might be crucial.

What was unexpected was...

Emilia's badge was lost at the fruit stand where the fruit stand owner who chased Subaru Natsuki away was located.

The fruit stand owner glared at Subaru Natsuki, this penniless wretch.

However, this time Subaru Natsuki remained calm.

Because he has Emilia, a local, with him! Surely a local like her can't be broke, right?!

Emilia hesitated before speaking, "I don't have any money either..."

Just as Subaru and Emilia were about to be kicked out by the boss, the little girl they had helped before and her mother suddenly appeared.

Subaru Natsuki only learned this after talking to him.

The little girl from before turned out to be the daughter of the fruit stand owner.

Out of consideration for his daughter's benefactor, the fruit stand owner changed his previous attitude and told Subaru and Emilia about the thief Felt.

After gathering the information, Natsuki Subaru and Emilia headed to the slums.

Just then, the sun began to set.

Parker, the cat spirit who had always been by Emilia's side, spoke up.

"Lia, whether you decide to go back or stay here, be careful, my time is almost up."

Natsuki Subaru asked, somewhat puzzled, "What time??"

Parker said wearily, "Although I'm cute, I'm still an elf, and being outside for a long time consumes a lot of magic."

Subaru, take good care of Ria.

After saying that, Parker disappeared.

Subaru and Emilia continued their search in the slums.

By the time the two found the thief Ferut's location, it was already midnight.

Natsuki Subaru let out a sigh of relief: "Satella, I'm very good at negotiating. Leave it to me, you just wait outside!"

Natsuki Subaru and Emilia stood outside the Felt base, Natsuki Subaru said this.

Emilia trusted Subaru Natsuki completely by this point, so she let him go.

Emilia's expression suddenly turned grim as she searched for Subaru Natsuki inside the Sage's Tower while looking at the contents of the light screen in front of her.

Emilia hadn't forgotten what had happened there before...

"This isn't right, this isn't what I remember!"

A very bad feeling rose in Emilia's heart.

"What will happen next...?"

Beatrice followed Emilia, offering gentle words of comfort.

"Emilia, don't worry."

"Take it slow, let's find that idiot Subaru first."

……

The images on the sky.

I just pushed the door open.

Natsuki Subaru saw that there were a lot of stolen goods in the room, but strangely, there was no one guarding such a large amount of stolen goods.

Natsuki Subaru looked into the dark room, took a deep breath, and mustered his courage to take a few steps inside.

Before we'd gone very far...

Natsuki Subaru suddenly felt a sticky liquid under his feet.

He was just about to say that the house was so dirty.

I looked down.

The lantern that Natsuki Subaru was carrying shone on a corpse on the ground.

Then, a large old man's corpse came into view.

Natsuki Subaru's face instantly turned ashen, as if he had swallowed a fly.

"Huh? We've been discovered?"

"Well, there's nothing we can do about that then..."

!!!

A whooshing sound came from behind Natsuki Subaru.

Natsuki Subaru had no time to react before he was stabbed and fell to the ground.

Natsuki Subaru struggled to sit up from the ground, feeling an intense heat in his stomach.

Natsuki Subaru looked down and witnessed a scene that filled him with despair.

His stomach had been ripped open by the attack, the wound was incredibly deep, blood was gushing out continuously, and his intestines were even visible inside.

Natsuki Subaru was incredulous, panting heavily as he reached out and touched the wound on his abdomen, his palm instantly becoming covered in blood.

"No, no, is all of this my blood?"

Subaru Natsuki couldn't utter a single word.

Natsuki Subaru coughed up a mouthful of blood; he could feel death drawing ever closer.

"Oh no, oh no, this is really the end...!"

Just then.

Sensing something was wrong in the room, Emilia opened the door.

"Pleiades?"

"What's wrong? What happened, Subaru??"

Natsuki Subaru collapsed to the floor, using all his remaining strength to say, "No... don't come any closer... run..."

However, at this moment, Subaru's voice was already very weak, and Emilia, who had just entered the house, could not hear it at all.

Emilia was still walking towards Subaru Natsuki.

Three seconds later.

The sound of something cutting through the air rang out again.

Emilia collapsed in front of Subaru Natsuki.

Natsuki Subaru's pupils suddenly contracted as he stared incredulously at the silver-haired girl lying before him.

Natsuki Subaru couldn't believe that this was the same Satella who was incredibly kind, had a beautiful smile, and had come to his rescue.

The "Satella" before us is growing weaker and weaker.

Natsuki Subaru gasped for breath, each breath causing him immense pain.

Natsuki Subaru gritted his teeth, used his last bit of strength to reach out and grasp the already cold hand of "Satella" that was so close to him.

"Wait for me...wait for me...I promise..."

"I will...I will...save you..."

Subaru Natsuki's vision went completely black.

……

Emilia and Beatrice both stopped in their tracks, their faces contorted in disgust.

"What on earth is going on? This is fake, it's absolutely fake, this can't be, how could Subaru be dead?"

"If that's true, then what's going on with Subaru suffering from amnesia now?"

"This canopy is fake!"

Beatrice, who is usually calm, loses her composure after seeing the image of Subaru Natsuki's death on the sky.

Emilia also felt a painful tightness in her chest, as if someone were squeezing her heart.

"Subaru... what on earth is going on?"

"Subaru is dead? He's dead? What on earth...?"

Beatrice noticed Emilia's change in mood and gently comforted her.

"Emilia, don't be fooled! How could what's being projected onto the screen be real?"

"If Subaru died back then, who is in the Sage's Tower now?"

"Besides, as someone directly involved, do you even remember the footage being projected onto the screen?"

No, no.

Beatrice suppressed her anger and sneered, "Doesn't this just prove it? It proves that this canopy is deceiving us."

"This canopy was probably created to distract us, Emilia. Don't let it affect you."

"Let's find the real Subaru first."

Emilia wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and nodded gently: "Yes."

……

King's capital.

Felt, standing next to Reinhard, had a very unpleasant expression.

"What did that scene just now mean? Did Subaru die? And in Rom's shop? Also, how come Rom is dead too?"

"What on earth is going on? This canopy...!!!"

Sensing that Felt's emotions were fluctuating greatly, the relatively calm Reinhard gently pressed Felt's shoulder.

"Lady Felt, please calm down."

"We still know too little. But based on the current intelligence, it's likely that everything this canopy is showing us is fake. Don't be influenced by these false things."

……

Inside the Tower of Sages.

Mei Li's pupils contracted slightly.

"Elsa?"

Melly knew Elsa. The moment she saw the corpses in the scene, the wound on Subaru's stomach, and that familiar voice, Melly immediately knew it was definitely Elsa!

"What exactly is going on...?"

Now, even Mary can't laugh anymore.

Julius muttered to himself, "If it's fake, that's fine, but if it's real... Subaru, is all of this really your experience?"

Julius looked out the door, his eyes deep.