Re:Zero - Starting from Zero (Natsuki Subaru)

Within the sky.

Subaru Natsuki opened his eyes again.

The pressure of death and the arguments with his partners are driving him crazy.

Subaru Natsuki can no longer trust anyone around him.

"Since what you need is 'Natsuki Subaru'."

Subaru Natsuki found Shaula.

"Shawula, do you trust me? Will you do anything I ask?"

Xia Wula tilted her head, then nodded without hesitation.

"Of course! I live for my master! My life belongs to my master! I'll do whatever my master tells me to do!!"

"Even if I asked you to kill everyone in this tower, would you?"

Xia Wula blinked blankly, and then accepted Natsuki Subaru's idea in just 0 seconds.

"Yes."

Despair began.

It has begun to head in an irreversible direction.

With the help of Shaula's power, Natsuki Subaru slaughtered everyone inside the tower.

Emilia, Beatrice, Merry, Julius, Ram, Rem...

To Natsuki Subaru's dismay, Anastasia ran away.

Natsuki Subaru initially wanted to chase after them, but then realized that letting one person go back was also a good option.

I decided to just stop pursuing it.

……

The way everyone died was incredibly tragic.

Almost all of them died because their bodies were pierced by the white light emitted by Xia Wula.

Natsuki Subaru watched the tragedy unfold inside the tower with a calm expression.

Subaru Natsuki was probably already insane by this point.

No one knows.

Subaru Natsuki arrived at the library and, together with Shaula, searched for the Book of the Dead belonging to her slain companions.

Subaru Natsuki's thinking was very simple.

Since all that everyone wants and needs is that former hero, "Natsuki Subaru".

So now, this piece of trash will have to start from scratch and piece together everything about the former hero, "Natsuki Subaru".

Subaru Natsuki's solution was to kill everyone he had ever known and then read their Book of the Dead to see what kind of existence Subaru Natsuki was from their perspective.

Natsuki Subaru believed that only in this way, only in this way, could he regain his past memories and become "Natsuki Subaru".

As for the fallen comrades?

Natsuki Subaru wasn't worried, after all, "Natsuki Subaru" was omnipotent.

If that hero "Natsuki Subaru" returns, Natsuki Subaru will definitely have the ability to return to the time before everything happened through death.

Go back to before all the tragedy happened, and then everyone will be able to see the Subaru Natsuki they need!!!

Natsuki Subaru read through everyone's Book of the Dead in turn.

However, because he had read Beatrice's Book of the Dead, he passively endured Beatrice's experiences over the past 400 years.

400 years of solitude, 400 years of experience, 400 years of confusion, 400 years of having no one to confide in.

This massive amount of memory was almost enough to make Subaru Natsuki's brain explode.

Subaru Natsuki's hair turned completely white almost instantly.

Because of painful memories in his mind, Natsuki Subaru kept banging his head against the wall.

Subaru Natsuki now has a new scar on his forehead.

With a head of white hair and a scar on his forehead,

Despite the fact that, apart from those two things, Subaru Natsuki's appearance has hardly changed, but...

He's becoming less and less like Subaru Natsuki.

"Let's go, Shaula."

Subaru Natsuki's next goal is to kill everyone who knows him.

Piecing together the true Natsuki Subaru from the memories of different people.

……

The two left the Tower of Sages, and no one knew how much time had passed.

Emilia smiled and looked at Subaru Natsuki.

"Subaru, isn't it time to eat? Don't force yourself, okay?"

"Ah...yes, I'm so hungry my stomach is practically sticking to my back."

Natsuki Subaru began preparing to start a fire and cook.

Natsuki Subaru was accompanied not only by Emilia, but also by Beatrice, Merry, Julius, and Ram.

Everything has become very similar to what it used to be.

Natsuki Subaru interacts with everyone in the same way as before.

It's clearly a very joyful and everyday scene.

It felt very eerie.

Emilia let out a silvery laugh.

Beatrice was very arrogant.

Ram was just as sharp-tongued as I remembered.

When Natsuki Subaru saw the Elf Knight Julius, he acted like a cat with its fur standing on end, and Julius could only chuckle helplessly.

This even includes the Beastmaster Meli.

The group chatted animatedly about mayonnaise, which made the conversation a bit noisy.

……

If Subaru Natsuki, whose hair has now turned white, could stop talking to thin air, things wouldn't be so strange.

……

In reality.

Everyone's expression turned ugly.

"What...what have I done...?"

Natsuki Subaru's lips trembled as he stared incredulously at his reflection in the image projected onto the screen.

That's him? Without a doubt, it is indeed him.

Why did he make that choice? He killed everyone?

Just because he wanted to piece together the original Natsuki Subaru from other people's Book of the Dead and other people's memories?

What a twisted idea.

Natsuki Subaru stretched out his trembling hand and covered his face.

Natsuki Subaru's fear wasn't stemming from seeing himself in the image, laughing and talking with the imagined crowd.

Rather, it's because...

Everything that happens in these scenes could actually happen in real life!

Natsuki Subaru doesn't believe he could maintain his current state after experiencing what Natsuki Subaru went through in the scene.

I can maintain my current state and avoid degenerating into a madman like the one in the video who wants to kill everyone who knows him.

Because he realized that the images being projected on the screen could actually happen, Natsuki Subaru felt a wave of fear and lingering dread.

Fortunately, things didn't turn out the way they appeared in the video.

Fortunately, I didn't become that kind of madman.

How dark, how painful.

Natsuki Subaru was panting heavily.

Emilia touched Subaru Natsuki's hair with a worried expression.

"Subaru? Don't overthink it, calm down first."

Beatrice looked intently at Subaru Natsuki's face, then gently touched his face with her small hands in a comforting manner.

"Subaru is always too gentle and too sentimental, that's why Betty is always worried about you... Subaru, everything in the picture is fake, don't worry about it."

Xia Wula was just feeling happy because of Tianmu's understanding of her feelings for her master when she noticed that her master's expression was now extremely unpleasant.

"Master...are you alright?"

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, it's all Xia Wula's fault!"

Xia Wula clasped his hands together and sincerely apologized.

Rem clung to Subaru's arm the whole time, pressing her face against it, greedily inhaling Subaru's unique scent.

"Subaru...don't be afraid...don't cry...don't be sad...because I'm here...Rem is always by your side...Rem will always protect you...Rem...loves you..."

Otto scratched his head to the side.

Otto hesitated for a moment, wondering whether he should speak up, since Subaru Natsuki was now surrounded by a large group of girls.

Subaru Natsuki was stunned.

"Huh?"

"Why did you...?"

"I'm a madman, I'll...!"

In Natsuki Subaru's view, the version of himself in the image had fallen into darkness, slaughtering people related to him like a madman.

But why is it that the person you cruelly killed in the video, instead of being afraid and leaving you, comes to comfort you?

Emilia pinched Subaru's nose, and Subaru couldn't breathe for a moment.

Fortunately, Emilia immediately let go.

"Fool!"

Beatrice nodded in agreement: "Subaru is definitely an idiot."

Rem's face was still pressed against Subaru's arm.

"Subaru is an idiot... but even if he's an idiot, he's the smartest and most amazing idiot..."

Emilia said with some guilt.

"Please stop apologizing, stop blaming yourself, stop feeling guilty towards us, okay?"

"It's all our fault, so why does Subaru always think it's his fault? It's all our fault..."

Julius nodded: "That's right, Subaru, we made you feel insecure, it's our fault."

"We failed to notice, because of some trivial matters, that you have been suffering in the cycle of death and reincarnation."

"Even if you say that the person in the picture is crazy, and that's what made you that way, the responsibility lies entirely with us, that's undeniable."

"So, given how things have developed, our deaths might be the best outcome... or perhaps the only outcome..."

"I'm sorry...we've always..."

Julius looked worried and dared not look up to meet Subaru's gaze, as if he felt very guilty.