Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Vol. 6 (Light Novel) by Tappei Nagatsuki

Author:Tappei Nagatsuki
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Adventure, Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure
Publisher: Yen Press
Published: 2018-02-27T04:00:00+00:00

8

From there on, desperately clinging to life was the only thing that kept Subaru going.

“I don’t wanna die… I don’t wanna die, I don’t wanna die…”

He was out of breath, tottering on his feet, with droplets of blood in his eyes clouding his vision. But Subaru took no heed as he ran. It changed nothing; he’d been lost in darkness and mist to start with.

Within the embrace of the moonless, starless night, Subaru couldn’t even see his own feet. Or perhaps the White Whale had swallowed him long ago and he simply hadn’t realized it. Perhaps, even in that very moment, he was in the belly of the demon beast, running only toward his own doom…

“Hic.”

Amid the darkness, Subaru kept running and running, all alone.

He had lost Rem, Otto had abandoned him, even the White Whale had left him behind.

He didn’t know why I don’t wanna die was the only thought he had.

What meaning was there in living? What meaning was there in not dying?

Perhaps the incoherent thought rose to the fore as a simple, instinctive means of protecting himself from fear and pain. It was disgusting how, even at that juncture, his self-pity was at work.

“—Ah?”

As he berated himself to no end, the mist suddenly, and without the slightest fanfare, fell away.

Subaru crumpled to the ground with an expression of disbelief at the abrupt end to the darkness that he thought would continue forever. Soft moonlight poured down on him as it sunk in that he had survived.

Subaru, feeling blood flowing through his limbs once more, stretched both hands toward the night sky. What made him do so was not unbridled joy at grabbing hold of life.

“I did it again…”

He despaired at himself, having once more cheated death after another wretched struggle.

Having obtained the life he had so craved, Subaru could take little joy in it. An unquenchable sense of guilt burned in his chest, and his shame at forgetting about her almost made him crave death again.

“Rem… Rem…!”

Covering his face, he called her name as irrepressible hot tears continued pouring out from him. In so doing, Subaru sought her forgiveness so that his own soul might find comfort.

He rubbed his head against the soil as he wept. He didn’t know how much time passed like that until he heard a slow creaking sound drawing closer to the hunched-over boy.

“Y-you’re…”

It was a land dragon, pulling the bloodstained remnants of what had once been its carriage.

He remembered it. There was no mistake—it was Otto’s land dragon. But there was no sign of the young man who had shoved Subaru off.

“Why are you…? Where is he? Where’s Otto?”

Though he voiced the question, he of course received no reply. The land dragon tottered closer; Subaru, in turn, rose and walked toward it. As Subaru looked up at the cruelly damaged animal, he realized it.

—The driver’s seat was stained with blood, impaled with crucifix-like daggers.

Someone had attacked when they’d left the mist.

Subaru couldn’t even imagine what despair Otto must have felt, having gone

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