04x13 - Tachinasai

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Why don't we all check the library
and see if Reid's book is in there?

So you wish to use his book of the dead

as a guide to defeating him, I suppose?

Yeah.

The books of the dead tell us
how someone died.

Reid shouldn't be an exception.

That does make sense.

Trickery over honor.

A very Barusu solution.

Mhm, true.

Subaru is really good at
wily treachery.

Who the heck says 'wily treachery'
these days?

However,

is Reid Astrea's book even
in that archive to begin with?

There's no questioning that he existed
four hundred years ago, but...

Nobody can live for centuries like that.

I'm sure he died like anyone else.

That is not necessarily true, I suppose.

After all, Betty has been alive
for four hundred years.

I'm over a hundred years old too, maybe?

Counting from when I was created,
I'd be about 400 years old as well.

And poor little me
has been waiting here for 400 years!

Man, so many ancient-types here!

Even you, Emilia-chan?!

However, given his disposition,

it's unlikely
he's one of the long-lived races.

His disposition?

You mean how he was really energetic?

Rather than energetic,
"outrageous" would be a more fitting term.

Even if he were one
of the long-lived races,

I can't imagine he'd have stayed quietly
inside the tower for 400 years.

Indeed.

He hardly seems like the type
to stay put in one place.

So, no objections to the idea that Reid
is a lively dead guy?

Then it's settled.

If it's needed to beat this tower,

let's do it.

What's wrong? Still not convinced?

No, it's not that.
We have no other alternatives.

I concede that your idea
is our best option.

Is something bothering you, though?

This is a personal issue of mine.

Please, pay it no mind.

Ram.

Mind taking care of everyone for a bit?

So, what is it you wish
to discuss with me?

Are you really planning to beat Reid?

Subaru, you...

Sorry.

Ideally,
I'd give you all the time you need

to pick yourself back up.

But we don't have that time.

So I'm going to spell it out for you,
Julius.

I'm listening.

That's one thing, and this is another.

Look, I get why you're
awkward around me.

Yesterday's me
probably did something to you.

But that has nothing to do
with the "me" right now.

You're the strongest guy in our party.

So even if we find a strategy to win,

beating Reid will be on you.

I have already lost to him twice.

I know.

Then win it next time.

I didn't see how the fight ended.

I don't remember anything
before yesterday.

So I've never seen you lose
to Reid even once.

What you're missing ain't courage.

It's the determination to win,
the will to not lose.

You've got plenty of courage
packed in here.

I'm leaving Reid Astrea to you.

You'll be the one
to defeat our toughest foe yet.

Why do you expect
so much of me

when you've forgotten everything
before yesterday?

That's just...

the image I have,
the impression you give.

Everything about you
makes me feel that way.

Is that so?

My air made you feel that way.

Forgotten by the world,

unable to verify my master's existence,
reduced to such a state...

But even then, not everything I have
cultivated up to this point has vanished.

Is that what you want to say?

I didn't put it that smoothly, though.

Feeling a bit more motivated now?

Who can say?

Your words are purely emotional
and lack solid ground.

Oh, come on, man.

However...

That's one thing, and this is another.

Ah! Subaru, look!

We found Reid's book!

Wait, seriously?!

Meili's the one who found it.
Impressive, right?

N-Not really.

I just happened to spot it by chance.

Don't be silly.

Be proud of what you accomplished.

Good girl, Meili.

You're messing up my hair.

Still, if finding it was just luck...

Unfortunately, that implies we haven't
cracked the logic behind the library.

I actually had a book I wanted
to look for if we knew how.

Mister, don't tell me...

Told you, didn't I?

I won't cut corners
when it comes to raising you right.

So,

is it safe to say
no one's read Reid's book yet?

Of course not.

We can't have anyone acting rashly
and losing their memory like you.

For the record, we're still not sure
these books caused my memory loss.

I know this is going
to sound very selfish,

but I think it's safest
if I'm the one who reads it.

Subaru...

We're a team,
and every one of us has a role here.

Julius is our frontliner,

Echidna is our scholar,

Ram is our verbal ab*ser,

Meili is our cutie pie,

Beatrice is also our cutie pie,

Shaula is in charge of fan service,

Emilia-chan is our beautiful main heroine,

and this is the role I have to play.

I feel like there were some really
weird roles mixed in there,

Nah, yer imagining it!

I'd gladly strip fer you, Master!

Yep, off goes my top!

Nah, I'm good.
If you strip any more than that,

I'll lose my mind.

I got left out!

With that settled...

Is everyone here okay with me reading it?

Yes. -

Promise me you'll come back...
actually, no.

If I make you promise,
you'll just end up breaking it.

If my memories get wiped again,

feel free to give me a nice,
long lecture in a cage of ice.

Nobody here would do something
that extreme, I suppose.

I know.

You're too nice for that.

Subaru...

Alright, I'm heading off.

I might get back late,
so feel free to eat dinner without me.

Dummy.

Are these...

Reid's memories?

Oh?

You're back, mister?

Who...

No, where?

Which question do I even start with?

Well, aren't you greedy?

But we don't dislike that about you.

After all, we just love greedy people.

Welcome to the final resting place
of the soul's obsessions.

The cradle of Od Lagna,

the Hall of Memories.

The Hall of Memories?

Exactly, the Hall of Memories!

And we are the Witch Cult's
Sin Archbishop of Gluttony,

Rui Arneb.

Well, you probably won't be staying
for long this time either,

but let's play nice, mister.

Look, I don't even get
what a Sin Archbishop or a Witch Cult is.

Simply put, the Witch Cult is a gathering

of this world's most hated outcasts.

Yeah, that definitely sounds
like a group of bad guys.

So, does that make you a villain too?

Ya shouldn't bully poor,
innocent girls like that, mister.

We and us have feelings too, y'know?

You keep changing the way you speak.

Is that just your character quirk?

Don't worry about it.

We have a bit too many egos, y'see.

So whichever takes the lead
is kind of up in the air.

But I don't really have much of a choice.

They're a gift from Dear Brother
and Big Brother.

So we have to take it,

or we'll fall short
of being their little sister.

So you're a cute sister
who cares about her brothers.

As an only child, I'm jealous.

Is that so?

You might have a little sister
or brother by now, y'know?

Could you not say scary stuff like that?
I don't even want to picture it!

We get it, mister.

You feel guilty for your parents, right?

You regret being a bad son
who couldn't even say goodbye.

Wondering how we know?

Of course we know.

Because there's no one out there
who understands you

more than we and us.

Don't touch me!

We just want you to feel at ease, mister.

What the hell are you?

What are you trying to say?!

Cradle of Od Lagna,
the Hall of Memories...

Nothing that comes out
of your filthy mouth makes any sense!

Simply put,
this is where souls get filtered.

Where souls... get filtered?

Once you use a rag, you wash it,
dry it, and use it again, right?

Souls are the same.

You scrub the dirt off,
then use them again once they're clean.

By dirt, do you mean...

Memories and experiences?

If that's easier for you to understand,
sure, why not?

Picture it however you like, mister.

A place where...

memories and experiences...

So...

the one who stole my memories...

was you?

That's right.

Something's approaching the tower!

Take care of Master fer me!

I will go too.

Lady Emilia, Rem's in danger.

Beatrice. Please, look after Subaru.

You can count on Betty, I suppose.

Infinite...

Hell's Snipe!

No!

It has been a while, Big Sis.

Gorge! Feed! This world is nothing
more than an endless feast!

Which means yesterday's "me"
came here too.

Yep, exactly.

It really is incredible, though.
Wonderful, even.

To end up here again...

Just how many tries did it take you
to get this far since then?

Come on, tell us, mister.

We answered your question, didn't we?

How many misters have there been
since we ate you?

How...

Don't worry,
what happens here stays inside here.

It'll be a secret just between you and us.

So, mister.

How many times does this make?

F-Five...

Amazing, how amazing, truly amazing,
so amazing, it really is amazing!

And precisely because it's amazing,
because we admire how amazing it is...

We gorge! We feast!

We want to savor every last bit of you
until our bellies burst!

From our experience,
appetite and lust aren't that different.

And lust is basically just love, right?

In other words,
when it comes to you, mister, we...

Stop it!

Give me my memories back!

Or else...
- Or else you'll snap our neck?

Us, a frail, helpless little girl?

Are you even capable of doing that,
mister?

Besides, even if Natsuki Subaru's
memories were to return,

the "you" right now would die.

Think about it.

If your old memories come back,

they'll erase and replace the
"draft" that is you right now.

That's essentially the same as dying.

Is Natsuki Subaru really worth all that?

S-Stop spewing bull...

Memories are what shape a person.

Mister.

The "you" right now,
and the relationships you've built.

Besides, not to
rain on your parade, but...

"Natsuki Subaru"
isn't exactly our ideal man.

Poor, tragic Emilia!

A pitiful girl rejected by the world,

all because she was born
looking like the Witch!

And yet, here we are, by her side anyway!

Aren't we just so nice?!

Weak, fragile Beatrice!

A lonely girl who spent centuries
all by herself with no one to rely on!

Someone has to hold her hand
through the dark, treacherous road ahead!

What are you...

Devoted Rem,
offering her unconditional love!

An incomplete existence
who can only feel alive

by throwing herself away for someone else!

She needs someone like me to guide her!

What are you trying to pull?!

We're simply giving voice
to what Natsuki Subaru was truly thinking.

What he craved was superiority,
plain and simple.

He surrounded himself
with convenient yes-people,

drunk on the pleasure of playing savior.

Knowing that, are you really going to k*ll
your present self for Natsuki Subaru?

Well?

What's it gonna be?

What do you wanna do? Whaddya wanna do?

You can do whatever you want, y'know?
Just do what you want!

Do whatever ya want!

It doesn't matter what you do,
because we'll forgive you, no matter what!

So, what'll you do, mister?

Can you really make
such a big decision like that?

Learn to love yourself more earnestly,
properly, sincerely!

No...

I can't...

I want to spend more time with them...

Of course, we get it, we know,
we feel you, we completely understand!

No...

I don't want to...

No...

No...

No...

I don't want to...

Right, exactly.

So, what do you think
you should do?

I stay as I am.

Right. You stay as you are.

You already took it from him once.

It's a game of musical chairs.

Whoever claims the chair gets to be king.

Now, admit it!

Natsuki Subaru is nothing more
than the stranger closest to you.

Now k*ll him!

Let's k*ll him!

k*ll 'im!

You will k*ll him!

Just k*ll him!

Why dont'cha k*ll him?

Slaughter him!

m*rder him!

End him!

I... Natsuki Subaru...

You are the real,

the one and only Natsuki Subaru
in this world!

Did you come out
because you were scared, Natsuki Subaru?

I don't want to fade away.

I don't want to die!

I want to be with them!

I love them.

That's why...

That's why I'm not you.

You and I aren't...

Who are you talking to, mister?

There's no one else here.

So who?

Why must you choose one or the other?

On your feet!

On your feet!

Why...

Why do you have
to say those things to me?

On your feet!

Who even are you?

Isn't this enough already?

Haven't I suffered enough?

On your feet!

But it hurts so much...

I'm in so much pain...

Why...

Stand up!

Stand up! Stand up!

On your feet!

Why...

Why is my chest...

so hot deep inside?

On your feet, Natsuki Subaru!

On your feet,

my hero!

Now that you're up, go.

Go and save everything.

Everything?
What's "everything" supposed to mean?

Everything means everything.

All of it.

Everything, everyone, yourself.

Even the stranger closest to you.

Can I even do that?

Do you seriously believe
I'm capable of that?

I do.

Because...

Because?

Because what?

Please give me strength.

Give me my answer.

Tell me what I need to...

Because you're...

Because you're my hero, Subaru.

Mister?

What's wrong?

Let's pick up where we left off...

That's enough.

I'm sick and tired
of your twisted rhetoric!

We were one step away.

One single step away
from completely stripping

"Natsuki Subaru" away from Natsuki Subaru.

The hell are you talking about?
Why would you do that?

Isn't it obvious?!

Because we can't eat
the same person twice, that's why!

We had to keep you separate!

The "Natsuki Subaru" we ate once

and the leftover Natsuki Subaru
had to remain distinct!

What are you after?

Happiness, of course.

Say, mister.

Haven't you ever thought life was unfair?

You can't choose where you're born,

you can't choose your parents,

you can't choose your environment,

you can't choose your future,

you can't choose a single thing.

But what if you could choose?

That's why we search!

For a rosy future that makes us feel
like this life is actually worth living.

Until we stumble upon that destined life,

we'll eat, bite, taste, lick, and devour!

We'll gorge! We'll feast!

But no matter how many
other people's memories we devour,

memories of death are the one thing
we can never get our hands on.

Say, what does dying feel like?

It must be agonizing, right?
Painful, right?

Miserable, right? It hurts, doesn't it?

Though some say it feels good.
Is that true?

Come on, tell us, tell us, tell us!

If you have my memories from yesterday,
shouldn't you already know?

That's old news, no realism whatsoever!

We want a rawer sensation.

A fresh, vivid, unexplored frontier
no one else knows.

Memories that are unique in this world,

memories no one else
could ever experience!

The sheer convenience of dying
to retry the moment something goes wrong.

Even after finding your perfect life,

there's always a chance you could ruin it
with a single mistake, right?

But that doesn't apply to you.

So please, we're begging you,

let us eat your life...

until our bellies are completely full.

My pain, my deaths, my life...

All of it is mine and mine alone.

I don't have a damn thing
to hand over to you.

You can starve to death for all I care,
you thief!

Things aren't going
to play out the way you want.

My name is Natsuki Subaru.

It's the name Natsuki Kenichi
and Natsuki Naoko gave to me.

Nothing more, nothing less.

I am me.

You might get overwritten
and disappear, y'know?

Let me teach you a magic phrase:

That's one thing, and this is another.

We failed! We couldn't do it! We blew it!

We messed up! We blew it! We came short!

And because we failed, now we have to
leave it to Dear Brother and Big Brother.

So your brothers are in this tower?

I have to go, then!

Is this...

It's the exit.

So what now, mister?

You're gonna regret this, y'know?

Dear Brother and Big Brother
are gluttons who'll stop at nothing.

It'll be fine.

I remember my promise.

Natsuki Subaru will never forget it.

Which is why...

I know we'll meet again.

And when we do, don't just scold me.

ON YOUR FEET

ON YOUR FEET
Let me hear your gentle voice too.

ON YOUR FEET

Damn it!

What a piece of work!

Stop, Rui!

What the hell are you doing?

What is this emotion?

Precious, when it's so precious,
if it's so precious...

You'll pay. You can't run.

You'll never, ever...

The bothersome memories
have been discarded.

Now all that's left is to devour the rest.

Don't think this is over, Natsuki Subaru.

Your life belongs to us!