Re:Zero Watching Him Die Again and Again

Chapter 4: Ep 3 Director's Cut

Chapter 4: Ep 3 Director's Cut

As the screen flashed rapidly with images from unknown events at a fast-paced speed, the rest of the watchers were left to ponder the question Emilia had uttered to herself.

One such person couldn't help themselves.

"You think there could be more things your knight is hiding from you, Emilia-sama?"

The half-elf sitting to the side of the sleeping boy couldn't help but flinch at the question coming from the judging Crusch.

"He... He never told me about any of that. I did try to question him for everything he seemed to know at the loot house... But he was just too injured after saving me..." The half-elf was looking at her clenched fists with a deep frown of confusion. Her heart couldn't help but feel heavier with each thought of Subaru not trusting her enough with these horrible memories.

"Oh? So you do recognize that since Natsuki-kun didn't reveal any of this to ya, he might be hidin' more than jus' that power of his,' Anastasia asked with a bit of a curious gaze towards the saddened half-elf.

"I... I don't know-" Emilia's voice cracked as she kept her hands to herself, "He didn't trust me enough to tell me about this so I'm sure there's more he wouldn't want me to see."

"Ah..." Anastasia shook her head and backed away from the half-elf. Clearly, the girl was in the middle of a crisis on her own, the merchant queen did not have to intervene.

But she wasn't the only one as the blonde silent spirit sitting on the other side of the half-elf was found frowning deeply as well.

"Neither did he talk about it with Betty, in fact."

Emilia glanced at the small drill-haired girl beside her sleeping knight with a look akin to one of deflation as the spirit's last interaction with her still kept the half-elf in a frenzy of hurtful emotion regarding Beatrice's words to her.

"A-Are you sure, Betty-san?" Emilia's silver bell voice sounded hesitant to speak with the girl, even going as far as to change her honorific for the loli. A distant, cold, and professional one.

"Yes, I suppose," Beatrice replied simply.

"I mean... It would make a ton 'f sense if the boy didn't talk about this with anyone. I doubt anyone would believe 'em."

Some in the Emilia camp stared at the shrugging dogman in outrage.

"N-No way. He had to have told at least Otto-kun and Garfiel-san! They are his most trusted friends!" As she said this while refuting the dogman, Petra's blue desperate eyes wandered to the two boys sitting in the front seats. She only saw one grim look and dimmed stares from both Otto and Garfiel.

"Y-You, guys?" Petra's eyes widened when all she received from the boys were shakes of their heads.

"Cap'n didn't share this with me," Foregoing any of his pent-up frustrations and questions, the blonde muttered rigidly with conflicting emotions showing on his face. The merchant beside him didn't find it appropriate to blow up a second time so he just settled for fixing his hat with a grim frown.

"I didn't have any idea about this either, Petra-chan."

Petra's eyes widened, wondering over Emilia, Beatrice, and Rem in desperation.

"None of us knew, Petra-chan," Frederica whispered from behind the girl with a hand on her shoulder. "Sit down."

"B-But..." The little one sat down with tears in her eyes that had yet to flow down her cheeks. "He can't be keeping that to himself... Not on his own!"