Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World. Volume. 1.
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‘CHAPTER 5:- STARTING LIFE IN ANOTHER WORLD.’
‘Sub-Chapter 1.’
“I’m so glad you’re here… I won’t let you get away this time.”
Upon seeing the girl, Not-Satella, walk in through the door, Felt wordlessly stepped back.
Felt looked mortified and her mouth twisted in frustration.
“You really are a persistent woman, aren’t you… Why couldn’t you just give up already?” said Felt, sounding as though she was on the verge of grinding her teeth together.
“Unfortunately, this is not something I can give up on. …If you’ll be a good girl and hand it over I won’t hurt you,” replied Not-Satella, the tone of her voice incredibly cold.
As Subaru felt the tension of the atmosphere in the cellar rise, he couldn’t help but shiver.
Why was Not-Satella here?
The sun had only just begun to set. The first time around he and Not-Satella hadn’t even reached the entrance to the slums yet. By the time they had reached the loot cellar, the sun was completely down.
“…Which must mean that without me, she would have found this place a lot faster…”
Even if Not-Satella hadn’t run into Subaru in the alley and healed him, she would have found this place all on her own.
Subaru couldn’t describe how he felt, with the uselessness of his actions across both space and time so thoroughly proven.
But even as he drowned in his empty feelings, the situation advanced without him.
As Felt continued to step back, she had already crossed from the center of the room to the back, and Not-Satella, while continuing to block the exit, changed her stance and pointed her palm forward.
With the faint sound of shattering air, Satella activated her magic. It seemed that her specialty really was ice magic, and as icicles formed in the air in front of the palm of her hand, the temperature of the room dropped.
“I only have one demand of you: Return my badge. It is very precious to me.”
There were six icicles floating in the air. The tips were rounded, so that their power seemed more in their weight rather than their sharpness. However, it was clear that if one hit, it would do far more damage than if a stone were thrown.
Of course, Subaru himself was counted among the possible targets, and so he tried his best not to incite Not-Satella, just wordlessly looking on.
“…Rom,” called Felt, a little over a whisper.
“I can’t make a move. It’s your fault for bringing in such a troublesome thing along with such a troublesome opponent, Felt,” replied Rom, his giant body tensed as he shook his head.
Rom had at some point grabbed his club and still held it in his hand, but his arm was slack and he didn’t look ready to swing it. He seemed to be gripping and releasing it as though he was still hesitating.
“You’re going to give up before the fight’s even started?” said Felt, challenging Rom.
“If this were an ordinary magic user I wouldn’t be complaining, but…this one’s a problem,” replied Rom, with a hint of admonishment in his voice, narrowing his eyes as he looked at Not-Satella.
In Rom’s stare as he looked down at her was both an extreme sense of caution and an element of awe.
“You’re an elf…aren’t you, miss?” said Rom, his lips shaking.
Subaru looked up reflexively. Rom guessed that she was an elf, but that would make him only half right. Subaru knew from what Not-Satella had told him about herself the first time around.
Upon hearing Rom’s question, Not-Satella closed her eyes for a few moments, and then after a small sigh, she responded.
“Technically, you’re mistaken. Only half of what I am is an elf,” she said in a tone as if she was making a painful confession, and Subaru furrowed his brow.
However, the other two had a much more exaggerated reaction, especially Felt, and with a shudder she continued to step back and said, “A half-elf…and with silver hair?! You…you can’t be…”
“I’m not her! We only look the same! It’s… It’s a problem for me, too.”
Subaru didn’t know what was going on, but he could tell that this was a conversation that Not-Satella didn’t want to be having.
However, Not-Satella’s denial didn’t seem to calm Felt down; rather, it put her even more on edge, and she turned her red eyes full of animosity toward Subaru, who was still standing silently on the sidelines.
“You… You set me up, didn’t you?”
“What?”
“I thought it was fishy when you said you wanted to return this thing to its owner. The fact that you kept me from hiring people to block her way was also part of the plan, wasn’t it? You two are in this together, aren’t you?!”
As Felt said those words, gushing full of hatred, Subaru realized a few things. One, that Felt was having another misunderstanding, but secondly, why Not-Satella was able to find this place in such a short time.
Normally, it really would be impossible for her to reach the loot cellar in this short amount of time.
Normally, Felt would have hired people from the slums to get in Not-Satella’s way, delaying her arrival.
Because Subaru had rushed Felt and stopped her from doing that, Not-Satella had been able to come straight here.
While Felt’s doubts were untrue, they weren’t very far off. It was true that the current situation was moving in Subaru’s favor. Subaru did want to get the badge and return it to Not-Satella himself so he could receive her praise, but as long as she got it back, he wouldn’t complain.
If things kept going at this rate, it would work as a nice backup plan. However…
“Huh…? What do you mean? You two aren’t together?”
Not-Satella seemed puzzled as to why Felt was turning on Subaru, but Felt just laughed.
“Ha! Cut the act! I’m the one who’s backed in a corner here. So go ahead and take this badge from me and laugh at my stupidity, why don’t you?”
“Oh, come on. Just because you’re at a slight disadvantage doesn’t mean you have to cave so easily,” replied Subaru.
“That’s all you have to say after bringing this girl here? Damn it, I’ve been had!” said Felt, roughly scratching at her blond hair and clicking her tongue.
Satella seemed to frown at Felt’s far-from-ladylike attitude, and Subaru gulped at the dangerous state of circumstances and misunderstandings, not knowing where to fix his gaze.
As Subaru looked around he realized that there was a red flower decoration pinned to the left breast of Not-Satella’s cloak.
“Haa…” Subaru sighed, and then smiled. All of his hesitation up to this point just seemed so stupid now.
Seeing Not-Satella’s stern expression and attitude had reminded Subaru of the way she had rejected him in his last loop, and had caused him to be unable to do anything. However, he knew that no matter how many times he looped back, Not-Satella, at her core, wouldn’t change.
The fact that she had saved that little lost girl this time as well was proof of that.
“The more we all talk about this, the more confusing it’s going to get, so, Felt, why don’t you just go ahead and give that badge back. Now, Ste—I mean, you should take it and get out of here, so you don’t get it stolen from you again.”
“Why are you acting like you know me all of a sudden? I really don’t get what’s going on here…” said Not-Satella.
“I don’t get what’s going on either. Just who do you think you are?” asked Felt, looking at Subaru.
Subaru had tried to get things moving again and change the mood, but Subaru only got turned on by both girls, and failed to get anywhere.
Subaru looked to Rom for help, but…
“It’s a magic user we’re dealing with. I can’t really make any moves. Don’t be so hasty,” replied Rom, misunderstanding what Subaru was trying to say.
Ugh, this old man’s useless, thought Subaru, just barely holding himself back from clicking his tongue in irritation, then trying to figure out how he was going to respond to both girls’ stares.
But just then…a black shadow silently seemed to slide in and creep up behind the girl with the silver hair.
“Puck! Block!!”
A sensual smile melted into the shadows and raced forward, and a silver glint seemed to squirm as it lunged toward Not-Satella’s white neck.
In that instant with Subaru’s eyes opened wide, the girl’s head went flying—at least it would have.
There was a loud clash, not the sound of steel cutting through bone but of steel shattering glass. As Not-Satella was thrown slightly forward there was a bluish white magic circle activated behind her head.
The light of the magic circle took the tip of the blade and had just barely kept the silver-haired girl alive.
Not-Satella then leapt forward and turned around, her silver hair waving, and behind that curtain of hair Subaru could see a gray-colored furry animal standing. Puck lifted up its nose, proud of its save before looking toward Subaru.
“That was just in the nick of time there. You saved us.”
“Nice going there, Puck. Really, I’m the one who’s saved. Thanks,” said Subaru, giving the cat a thumbs-up, even as he was still shaken.
It was still before the sun had set—in other words, Not-Satella’s very reliable backup partner was still on its working hours.
Subaru’s quick response was important, but it was due to Puck’s amazing performance that Not-Satella was still safe.
As for the aggressor, her surprise attack blocked…
“A spirit, a spirit, huh? Ah…ha-ha… That’s wonderful. I haven’t ever opened the stomach of a spirit before.”
Lifting her dangerous weapon in front of her face, the woman’s expression was one of ecstasy. It was the murderer Subaru had seen so many times before: Elsa.
Both Subaru and Not-Satella were immediately on guard in response to the sudden new arrival, but the first one to react was neither of them.
“Hey! What’s the meaning of this?!” Felt yelled, stepping forward with her voice raised in anger.
Felt pointed a finger at Elsa and then took the badge out of her pocket with her other hand.
“All you’re supposed to do is buy this badge from me. Turning this place into a bloodbath was not part of our agreement!”
“Buying the stolen badge from you is certainly what I came here to do, but it’s hard to hold any negotiations if its owner had already come and taken it away. So, I decided on a change of plans.”
Felt’s face was red with anger, but upon seeing Elsa’s eyes fixed on her, wet with murderous intent, she gulped. Elsa looked on, with an almost loving gaze, at Felt’s fear.
“I’ll just kill everyone here, and then I’ll pick that badge up from the sea of blood afterward,” said Elsa, all while holding the expression of an affectionate mother on her face. She then tilted her head and continued on cruelly, “You weren’t able to do your job. Do you really expect me not to throw away something that’s useless to me?”
“…”
Felt’s face twisted as if in pain, but the emotion behind it was not of fear, but something else. Elsa’s words must have touched upon something sensitive, deep inside her. Subaru didn’t know what that was, but…
“Don’t give me that, you bitch!!”
…it was enough for Subaru to shout out in anger at Elsa, and forget about how weak he was compared to her.
Elsa turned and looked at Subaru, surprised, and she wasn’t the only one. Felt and Rom turned to Subaru and even Not-Satella was no exception. However, the one most surprised was none of them, it was Subaru.
He couldn’t understand himself, just why he was so angry. In part because he could not understand it as this emotion rose up inside him, he spit all of it out.
“Is it really that fun for you to pick on such a little kid, you intestine-obsessed sadist?! Just because things aren’t going exactly the way you planned, you’re going to wreck everything and throw a tantrum?! What are you, five?! How about you treasure life for once?! Do you know how much it hurts to have your stomach ripped open?! I know!!”
“…What are you trying to say?”
“I’m just taking this moment to let the unforeseen sense of justice inside me rant about the injustice of this damn world, and right now, to me, the injustice of this world is you, and this situation, so right now I’m channeling all of my anger about everything on to you!”
As Subaru’s shouting continued to make no sense to her, Elsa let out a rare exasperated sigh. But while Subaru was kind of hurt by her nonserious reaction, with spit flying, he shouted one more time.
“All right! That’s enough buying for time. Get her, Puck!!”
“That was such an amazingly lame tirade there, I want to write it down and leave it for future generations. …Guess I’ll have to respond to your expectations, huh?”
Compared with Subaru’s shouting and stomping, Puck’s voice was aloof and detached. Elsa immediately looked up, but all around her, from all sides, were sharpened icicles, more than twenty in all.
“It seems I haven’t introduced myself, little lady. My name is Puck. I’d like it if you at least remembered my name, as you say farewell to this world.”
Immediately afterward, the icicles flew at Elsa.
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