Die.
Puck!
Be quiet Subaru.
I don't care what you—
Complacency! Negligence! That is sloth!
You should have killed me right away!
Even with the power you have
you failed to do what you needed to do!
Foolishness.
If you truly want to kill me...
Then grow a thousand shadows half of what Satella could...
Are you... Puck?
Can't you tell?
Maybe it's cruel of me to ask that.
Unbelievable...
This is unbelievable!
It cannot be!
A mere spirit...
My faith...
Everything I've devoted my love to...
At the hands of a mere spirit—
A human who's only lived a few decades shouldn't talk to a spirit about time.
Time has nothing to do with the depth of one's faith!
I wish you wouldn't liken me
to a fool like you a being that lives for eternity
but wastes most of it in idleness!
Ah my brain is tremblinglinglingling...
Death isn't even a punishment.
This is why I hate all of you.
The Ordeal has been completed.
Even if my body dies
my wishes will be called to the exalted witch's side.
And I'll receive her love.
I look forward to our reunion!
He quit while he was ahead.
Now shall we have a little talk?
Subaru you have committed three sins.
First you broke your promise to Lia.
You don't seem to understand how important a promise is
to a spirit-arts user.
Second you ignored Lia's wishes and returned here.
And third...
You let Lia die!
In accordance with my contract
I will now destroy the world.
Why?
Lia is...
Emilia is my entire reason for existing.
There is no reason for me to exist in a world without her.
The fog is coming closer.
It looks like a troublesome one has been drawn here.
Gluttony...
Oh I suppose they call it the White Whale now.
You called it here let Lia die
and now you die yourself.
You really are useless.
I've heard this laugh before.
The voice of a man I hated to death.
No... It's me.
I'm laughing at myself.
I let Rem die killed Emilia
and now I'm going to die in vain.
I really am so...
You truly are slothful Subaru.
Subaru-kun?
What's the matter?
Rem...
Yes I'm your Rem.
I'm sorry I didn't notice...
This crowd is tiring you isn't it?
Tired.
Yeah that's right...
I'm out of energy worn down...
I'm tired.
Subaru-kun!
Sorry about that...
I was feeling kind of stressed
so I skipped out on explaining.
Sorry.
Really you mustn't do that...
I realize that you are giving a great deal of thought to our situation.
But I don't dislike it when you are so forceful.
Sorry that I worried you.
I'm fine now.
I guess you've seen me just being pathetic depressed all the time...
But I get it now.
You get it now?
I've bothered a lot of people
with all my contemplating and agonizing
but I finally figured out how to take care of everything.
Or when I really think about it
I was told what to do from the very start.
But I don't know when to give up...
But I think that is what's so wonderful about you.
Things I've realized and been forced to realize...
All kinds of experiences have brought me here
but I've actually had the answer for a long time...
I've decided Rem.
Yes?
Run away with me.
As far as we can go.
Huh?
I'm going to leave the capital to head far west.
Or maybe north.
Um...
I heard no one can enter the southern kingdom
so one of those two.
I don't like cold weather
so I'd personally recommend west.
Ah um...
Honestly it could be a long journey
and I know this is a snap decision
so it won't be easy—
P-Please wait!
The way you said that makes it sound as if
you plan to go to some other country that isn't Lugunica...
Oh!
Knowing you it must be because you've had another great idea!
Something that will help Emilia-sama and Roswaal-sama!
That's not what this is Rem.
There's nothing I can do in the capital.
But I'd be just as powerless if I went back to the mansion.
That's what I figured out.
So run away with me Rem.
We can't stay here.
That's what everyone has been telling me.
I didn't want to believe it
so I've denied it with all my might but...
Yeah they're right.
No one ever needed me.
That's not—
It is true!
It's been spelled out for me over and over...
That's why I've decided to just disappear.
It's for the best.
Anything I do will just lead to a dead body...
Or maybe more depending on what happens.
I've had enough.
Let's run Rem.
You and I can't stay here.
We shouldn't be in this country!
But this is so sudden...
We don't have time!
I'm sorry it's sudden I really am.
I really really am.
But you have to choose.
Choose?
Me? Or someone else?
Choose.
Let's get a dragon-drawn carriage and head west.
We'll leave Lugunica and go far west... To Kararagi was it?
We'll buy a little house and live there together.
Even if bad things happen
I can keep going if you're there.
Just having someone waiting at home for me with a smile...
No matter how tired I am
if I know you're waiting for me I know...
Please choose me!
If you choose me I'll give you all that I have!
So please...
Run away with me.
Live with me!
Subaru-kun...
I cannot run away with you.
We're supposed to laugh together
as we talk about the future remember?
Maybe we can't laugh now but...
You know once we actually get moving
I bet we can—
I have thought about it too.
We would arrive in Kararagi
and rent a place to stay.
As long as we had a home and work
we would get by somehow.
Fortunately thanks to Roswaal-sama I have received an education
so I think I could easily find work even in Kararagi.
You might have to either look for manual labor
or take care of things around me.
Once we had a stable income
we could look for a better place to live.
In the meantime you could study
for perhaps a year so that you can find
a decent job until you can actually work.
We would work together.
And once we had enough money perhaps we could buy a house.
Maybe we could even open a shop.
After all Kararagi is a thriving commercial area.
I'm sure we could earn a living on one of your fanciful ideas.
And once our jobs were on track...
Um it's embarrassing to say
but we could have a child.
It would be half-demon and half-human
so I'm certain it would be feisty.
Whether we have a boy or a girl
twins or even triplets
I know they would be adorable.
I'm sure it wouldn't be all fun times.
And not everything would work out as I imagined it.
We might have only daughters and no sons
so you might not feel very proud of your family.
Rem...
But... But... Even when the children grow
and reach the age where they start to treat you coldly
I shall still be on your side!
We will be famous in the neighborhood as a couple of old lovebirds
as we take our time spending life together and growing old...
Rem...
I would feel bad for doing it to you
but I would prefer to die before you if possible.
I want to die quietly
lying on our bed with your hand in mine
surrounded by our children and their children.
To say "I was so happy"
as you all look on...
I could end my life happily so happily.
If you...
If you want it that badly then...
If you could wish for that future with a smile
I would be truly happy to die that way...
As long as I could live with you.
Just knowing that you want me with you when you run away
makes me happy from the bottom of my heart.
But I cannot.
Because I know
that if we run away together now
I would be leaving behind the Subaru-kun that I love most.
Subaru-kun
please tell me what happened.
If you cannot please trust me.
I swear I shall do something to make it right.
But for now at least we should go back.
If we take our time and consider things calmly
maybe we will find a different answer.
I've already agonized over this.
I've thought about it.
I've suffered.
That's why I gave up.
It's easy to give up but...
It's easy to give up?
Subaru-kun?
Don't give me that!
There's nothing easy about giving up!
You think I'm just doing nothing
thinking about nothing
cutting myself off from everything
and throwing everything away!
And that's all it took to give up?!
It was not easy to give up!
It was so much easier for me to think
there was something I could do!
But there's nothing I can do...
There's no way out!
The only path everything leads to is giving up!
If I could do something
I would... I would...
Subaru-kun...
It is easy to give up.
But it doesn't suit you.
I do not know what painful things you've been through
or what you have done to make you suffer so.
And I know it would be wrong of me
to thoughtlessly say I understand.
But... But even so...
There is something that I do know.
I know that you're someone who cannot give up on something halfway through.
I know that you are someone who can smile
when you talk about your wishes for the future.
I know...
I know that you are someone who cannot give up on the future.
You're wrong.
I'm not that kind of—
I am not wrong.
You haven't given up on anyone.
Not Emilia-sama or Sister.
Or Roswaal-sama or Beatrice-sama or anyone else.
I have... I have given up!
Carrying it all was impossible from the start!
My hands are so small
that it all slipped through my fingers leaving nothing.
No that isn't true. You have—
What do you know?!
What do you know about me?!
This is the kind of man I am!
I have no strength but I want it all.
I have no knowledge but all I do is dream.
There's nothing I can do but I struggle in vain!
I... I...
I hate myself!
All I do is talk a big game
and make myself sound like a big shot when I can't do anything!
I never do anything
yet I can complain like a pro.
Who do I think I am?!
It's amazing that I can live like this and not feel ashamed!
Right?!
I'm empty...
There's nothing in me at all!
I know that...
Yeah that's obvious...
I know it's obvious.
Before I came here...
Before I got into the situation that led me to all of you
do you have any idea what I did?
I did nothing...
I've never done a single thing.
I had all that time all that freedom...
I could have done anything
but I never did a thing.
And this is the result! What I am now is the result!
All of my powerlessness all of my incompetence
is the product of my rotten character.
Wanting to accomplish something when I've never done anything
goes beyond the limits of arrogance!
The cost of my laziness and all the wasteful habits in my life
just ends up killing both you and me.
That's right.
I have no character.
Even when I thought I could go on living here nothing changed...
That old man saw that part of me perfectly.
Right?
I wasn't trying to get stronger
or trying to make things better.
I was just striking an obvious pose to justify myself
to say that I was trying that it wasn't like I wasn't doing anything.
I wanted to say I couldn't help it.
I wanted to be told that it couldn't be helped!
I only pretended to push my body to the limit so that would be possible!
Even when I had you help me study
I was just posing to cover up how embarrassed I felt!
At heart
I'm just a small cowardly filthy piece of trash
who's always worried about how others see me. And nothing...
Nothing about me has changed!
I knew it all along.
That all of it was my fault...
I'm the lowest of the low.
I absolutely hate myself...
I know...
That no matter how deeply you have fallen into darkness
you still have the courage to reach out your hand.
I love it when you stroke my hair.
I feel as if we can understand each other
through the contact between your hand and my hair.
I love your voice.
Just hearing you say one word
makes my heart feel warmer.
I love your eyes.
Normally they look stern
but when you're being kind to someone
I love the way they soften.
I love your fingers.
For a boy you have such lovely fingers.
But when they clutch mine I know they are the strong
slender fingers of a man.
I love the way you walk.
When we walk together
I love the way you occasionally turn to make sure I keep up.
Stop...
I love the way you look when you sleep.
You look unguarded like an infant
and your eyelashes are on the long side.
When I touch your cheek you calm down...
And when I playfully touch your lips you don't even notice...
And it makes my heart ache terribly.
I love you.
Why?
When you said that you hate yourself
it made me want to tell you
all the wonderful things I know about you.
That was all phony.
You just don't know me!
I know myself better than anyone!
All you know is yourself!
How much do you know about the Subaru-kun that I see?!
Why... do you like me so much?
I'm...
I'm weak and small.
I'm running away.
Just like I ran away last time!
So why?
Because you are my hero Subaru-kun!
In that dark forest
when I didn't even know who I was anymore
and couldn't think of anything but violently lashing out
you saved me.
When I woke up unable to move
and Sister was exhausted after using too much magic
you faced the mabeasts as a diversion so we could escape.
There was no way you could win
and your life was in real danger.
But you still stayed
and came back to my arms still warm.
When you woke up you smiled
and said the words I wanted to hear most
when I wanted to hear them most
from the one I wanted most to hear them from.
My time has been stopped for so long.
Ever since that fiery night
the night I lost everything except my sister
my time has been stopped...
It was you who melted my frozen heart
and kindly made my stopped time begin to move forward again!
I'm sure you have no idea how you saved me
or how happy I was at that moment on that morning.
That's why I believe.
No matter what painful things happen
even when it looks like you'll lose...
When no one else in the world believes in you
when you don't even believe in yourself...
I will believe!
That the Subaru-kun who saved me
is a true hero.
No matter how hard I tried
I couldn't save anyone...
I am here.
The Rem you saved is right here.
I've never done anything. I'm empty.
No one will even listen to me.
I am here.
I will listen to anything you have to say.
I want to.
No one expects anything of me.
No one believes in me.
I hate myself.
Well I love you Subaru-kun!
You really don't mind that it's me?
I want it to be you.
I would not want for it to be anyone else.
If you cannot forgive yourself
for being empty and having nothing
then let us start from here right now.
Start what?
Just like you started my time for me when it was stopped
we will make the time that you feel is stopped for you
begin to move again.
Let us start here.
From square one.
No
from zero!
If it is too hard for you to walk alone
I will hold you up.
As we walk we will share the burden and support each other.
Wasn't this what you said to me that morning?
Show me how awesome you can be Subaru-kun.
Rem...
Yes?
I love Emilia.
Yes.
I want to see Emilia smile.
I want to be of help to Emilia's future.
Even if she says I'm in the way
even if she tells me to stay away...
I want to be next to her.
Using my feelings for her as an excuse
to get her to understand everything
was arrogant of me huh?
It's okay if she doesn't understand.
I just want to save her.
If there's a bleak painful future waiting for her
I want to take her away to a future where we can all laugh together!
Will you help me?
I can't do anything alone.
I lack in everything.
I'm not confident that I can even keep walking straight.
I'm weak fragile and small.
So to make sure I keep walking straight
to help me realize when I'm wrong
will you help me?
You are a cruel man Subaru-kun.
You ask all this of someone you just rejected?
Hey it's also hard for me to ask this of the one who rejected
my once-in-a-lifetime proposal.
I humbly accept.
If it will help you
my hero
greet the future with a smile then yes.
Yeah just watch.
You get a front row seat...
To see the man you fell for
become the most awesome hero ever!
I'm watching you.
You're watching me.
So I won't look downward.
Natsuki Subaru's story will begin right here from zero.
My life in another world starts here from zero!
From Zero