Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Vol. 11 by Tappei Nagatsuki

Author:Tappei Nagatsuki [Nagatsuki, Tappei]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Light Novel
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2019-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

A man’s heart was weak to darkness and isolation. He’d heard something like that from…somewhere.

When he’d heard that talk, Subaru had probably given it a good laugh. In terms of mental strength, he couldn’t really compare to a lot of people, but even so, he must have found being broken by isolation and the dark to be absurd.

He didn’t know what experiment that talk resulted from, but he’d never end up that way.

Without any empirical basis, he simply figured he’d be all right. What a little fool that made him.

“”

And left in actual darkness and isolation, a fair bit of time came to pass.

Right then, all Subaru could think of was death.

He was thinking of ways to die. He yearned for “death.”

Perhaps, even, that desire might not have been related to Return by Death.

He was afraid of the dark. He was terrified of isolation. He hadn’t known.

If he stopped breathing, wouldn’t he die? If he kept chafing his arms against the ropes, might he die of blood loss? If he rammed his head against the floor, how about that? What if the next moment, an earthquake happened and he tumbled into a crevice?

There was food that had fallen all over the place. What if worms came and ate Subaru whole? He’d heard that mice gnawed on the fingers and ears of the sick. Why didn’t he make himself bait and find out for himself?

If he forgot that he was even himself rather than just a simple collection of meat, then—

“”

He was so thick with love of death; he was late in noticing.

Footsteps. He sensed a human presence approaching. Was it time for his care again? Another opportunity to deepen his isolation.

He heard the sound of something pounding on the hard floor. Slowly, it was heading for the prone Subaru. It drew nearer, even as Subaru had lost track of whether he was faceup or facedown at the moment.

Death from hunger. How about starvation? If he obstinately refused to eat, death would approach, slowly but surely. Thinking it worth a try, he tried to reject the hand his caretaker stretched toward him—

“—I imagined you would be in a terrible state, but this is even graver than I presumed.”

For a moment, Subaru didn’t understand what it was.

In that world, a sound beyond his own filthy breathing and his beating heart that could make his eardrums tremble? He felt like it was something beyond his knowledge. Very, very late in the process, he comprehended it was something called a “voice.”

Someone’s voice. The voice of another person, something he hadn’t heard in how many centuries? And of someone known to him.

“a”

“Oh, please do not raise your voice. We are crossing a rather dangerous bridge, so I would rather not be caught here by a guard. Neither of us is very good at giving up, you know?”

With an easygoing tone, the other party replied to the fallen Subaru’s lamenting voice while doing something to his body. The light sound made Subaru comprehend the bindings on his hands and feet had been untied.

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