Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World. Volume. 1.
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‘CHAPTER 3:- ENDING AND BEGINNING.
‘Sub-Chapter 3.’
“Give it a rest already! Just what is it going to take for you punks to learn?!”
Tired of seeing those three thugs again, Subaru furiously stomped on the ground.
This was the third time they had met. Every time was in a back alley, three against one. Given how their first and second efforts were fruitless, Subaru was stunned that they were so determined to catch him that they’d try a third time.
“I don’t have the time or the patience to deal with you fools. Out of my way, now!”
The current situation had really put Subaru out of sorts, but there was also the fact that, given what happened last time, he thought he should be able to scare them if he shouted. At least that’s what he thought.
“‘Get out of my way,’ he says. Ha! I don’t like your attitude. You don’t get it, do you? You’re not in a position to be ordering us around.”
“It was three-on-one last time and you guys still lost like you were nothing! You think you can talk big like that? Even sore losers would show more shame when they wail!”
However, the thugs didn’t seem to fear Subaru at all, and kept up their taunting. Subaru bit his lip at their unexpected reactions. Even small-time villains like this had a sense of pride, he thought.
He wanted to avoid wasting any more time and risk losing Felt and Satella. Also, given the risk that a fight would entail, Subaru decided that he should deal with this peacefully.
“Fine. Have it your way. I’ll give you everything I’ve got. That’s what you want from me, right?”
Subaru held back his irritation and raised both of his hands in the air, showing that he was giving up.
The thugs all looked at one another after Subaru changed his attitude, and then all burst into laughter.
“What’s that?! If you were that scared, you should have just said so!”
“Ha! Look at this guy! Don’t talk all big if you’re just gonna bend over!”
“Whatever. If he’s going to do as we say, that just makes it easier on us, right? But what a coward, huh?”
Subaru was irritated, but he just laughed it off. He decided to name the group of thugs “dumb, dumber, and dumbest” to make himself feel better, and muttered under his breath, so they wouldn’t hear. “Once I meet back up with Satella, I’m going to borrow Puck and make them…pay?”
Just as Subaru was about to lay out all that he owned in front of him, he froze.
“Huh…?”
Out of everything that had happened since Subaru had arrived in this new world, this was the most unsettling.
“Why…?”
At Subaru’s fingertips, inside his plastic convenience store bag, was a bag of crispy snacks. Corn-soup flavored, they were one of his favorites, and he had grabbed them on a whim at the store to eat in place of his dinner.
When Subaru was with Rom at the loot cellar, he had shown them off to him as a great late-night snack, an act that he had later regretted.
However, that bag was still there, as full and sealed as when he had bought it at the store.
“I shouldn’t have these anymore… Rom ate them all, and I complained and…there weren’t any left. I’m sure of it.”
Why were the snacks back in the bag? There was no trace that it had been opened. It wasn’t possible.
Subaru felt his thoughts blocked on all sides. However, in that locked state, Subaru still came to a conclusion about what was happening. Even though he had come to a conclusion, it wasn’t doing him any good. As soon as it occurred to him, he rejected it as impossible. His sense of reason denied the possibility.
“Hey, what are you doing?!”
“…What?” Subaru suddenly heard a voice right next to him. Cut from his train of thought, that was the only way he could react.
It was one of the thugs. The smallest one. The one Subaru had just named “Dumbest.” While Subaru was lost in thought, Dumbest had walked over and put his hand on Subaru’s shoulder.
Subaru twisted and pushed his hand away. “Out of my way…”
“What’d you say?!”
“In every sense of the word, I’ve run out of time to deal with you guys. I’ve got to…check something.”
“Are you kidding me?” As Subaru pushed Dumbest aside and moved to exit the alley, the other two stood angrily in his way.
“Get out of my way! I’ve got somewhere to be!” He had to rule out this unbelievably stupid, unthinkable theory…
Faced with Subaru’s yell, the men hesitated a bit. If he could break through and get out onto the main street, he would probably be out of harm’s way. After deciding that, Subaru stepped down to kick firmly off the ground.
However…
“…Wha?”
Just as Subaru put his foot down it twisted. The strength drained from his legs, and he fell to his knees. He put out his hands to catch his fall, and cursed his idiocy for stumbling at such a critical moment.
“Huh… That’s strange…” Just as Subaru tried to push against the ground so he could stand back up again, his arms started shaking. He didn’t think he could stand back up again. He didn’t think he could even lift his body.
“Well, I’ve done it now, haven’t I…?”
Subaru looked back as he heard that voice tinged with anxiety, and then he realized what had happened. A knife was sticking out of his back.
“Gah… Ah…” As soon as Subaru was conscious of it, an unbearable pain swept through him. He choked. It was a natural reaction to the searing agony.
…I’ve been stabbed! I’ve been stabbed! I’ve been stabbed! I’ve been stabbed! I’ve been stabbed! I’ve been stabbed! I’ve been stabbed!
Dumber, the one with the knife, had struck first. Subaru didn’t notice as he drew his weapon, and just as Subaru was trying to push past him, he was stabbed in the back.
This pain was the same kind of torture that he had experienced in the past few hours, but no matter how many times he experienced it, he didn’t think it was possible to ever get used to it.
“What? You really stabbed him?!”
“I didn’t have no choice! What do you think would have happened if he had escaped out into the street? Just think of what we’d have to deal with if he did.”
“Wait! Don’t do that, you idiot! ….Ugh. Yeah, this is bad. His guts are damaged. He’s gonna die.”
The giant, Dumb, turned Subaru’s body over, and as he did, the knife was pushed deeper into his back.
“Ughh….” Still greater suffering was piled on top of Subaru’s existing pain and even Subaru’s death throes were kept from leaving his throat.
Subaru couldn’t call for help or scream out in anger. There was nothing left for him to do. He just repeated his irregular breaths, feeling as though he was going to drown in his own blood as it filled his throat.
The feeling in Subaru’s hands and feet started to leave him, and his consciousness was flickering weakly like a light about to go out.
Again, his vision went dark. This was the end, just like last time.
What do you mean, “last time”…? Subaru thought to himself. The fact that he was now clinging to an idea that he had disregarded as stupid before just made him feel even more pitiful.
But if he was going to cling to it, he might as well go all the way.
Turn your thoughts away from dying. Before you die, figure out what’s happening around you.
Your eyes are dead. Your arms and legs are gone, too. What you have left is your nose and your ears. Then you’d better use them both to death. It doesn’t matter what lingering scent I smell. It doesn’t matter if all I hear are insults. I smell the mud of the road. I smell the iron-like smell from the blood pouring from me. Now my nose is dead. It’s dead. I doubt my ears will last much longer, either.
“…at…take the…valuables…”
“…ere! The guards! They…”
“…un! No! If we…caught, I’ll…”
All I was able to pick up were those bits of conversation. That’s great and all, but the part of my brain I need to figure out what that means is already dead. I’m dying so I just listened. I don’t know if I’ll remember. …What does it mean to remember? Why do I want to remember? What does it mean to want? Why…what?
As Subaru’s brain died, his other functions followed soon after. At the very end, with a faint sound of something being pulled from him, something scraping…Subaru lost his life a third time.
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