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Translator: TranslationChicken
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Editor: TranslationChicken
(Thank you Kizarat, Abhahl, Nero, Roanz, Aaron, Rodolfo, Chris, Zazorok, HX for helping me with proofreading on the Live Draft! <3)
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ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO TAPPEI NAGATSUKI, THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR OF RE:ZERO, THIS IS A TRANSLATION OF THE FREE JAPANESE WEB NOVEL INTO ENGLISH
JAPANESE WEB NOVEL SOURCE: HTTP://NCODE.SYOSETU.COM/N2267BE/220/
Previous Part 1/2: https://translationchicken.com/2017/11/24/rezero-arc-4-chapter-54-to-know-of-hell-part-1-2/
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Not understanding Subaru’s words, Garfiel’s eyes wavered with confusion.
Naturally, he couldn’t have known what his “Sloppiness” was referring to. After all, it was a mistake he hadn’t yet made.
[Subaru: ……Guess there’s no point even if we keep talking]
Watching the silenced Garfiel, Subaru decided to end the conversation here.
He had raised Garfiel’s caution to its utmost limit, and after this bluff, there was already no way he could disarm him in this loop.
Although Subaru never had much hope of success in this loop, seeing it completely fall apart like this was still somewhat hard to bear.
[Subaru: But…]
――But he must endure it nonetheless.
Since he had resolved to wager his life, this wouldn’t be the last time where he’d have to bear this sense of loss.
He would probably never get used to, or manage to forget that pain.
Surely, if he ever got used to the endless cycle of “Deaths”, only to find that he could no longer truly desire the future ahead of him, Subaru’s heart would be swallowed by darkness, never to return. Somehow, he just knew this.
[Subaru: You still want to stop me, don’t you, Garfiel?]
[Garfiel: …………]
[Subaru: If you do, that’ll only draw things out longer. So it’d help if you didn’t]
Even if Garfiel killed him now, Subaru would just be returned to the Tomb, a few hours ago.
Everything after that would feel like a throwaway match, and if Garfiel pulled him aside again, he should be fine if he just chose some safer responses.
Though of course, it’d be better if he could avoid Returning by Death altogether.
Garfiel didn’t respond to Subaru’s prodding.
Seeing this, Subaru turned his back, and began walking out of the forest towards the Sanctuary. He would need to begin planning tomorrow’s actions, and organize all the things that must be confirmed.
Although he has as many chances as his strength of will would allow, that didn’t mean he should waste them.
[Garfiel: You……]
Watching Subaru walk further and further away, Garfiel called to him with a voice of stifled emotion.
Subaru stopped, but did not turn around. Staring at his back, Garfiel muttered,
[Garfiel: Just what…… are y’tryin’ to do in th’Sanctuary? What do y’plan t’do with us, ah? Oy]
[Subaru: I’ve already told you. I intend to save Emilia. I don’t plan to do any harm to the Sanctuary……or to you, for that matter]
He knew of the disaster that was going to befall the Sanctuary, and intended to rescue its residents from their fate. Naturally, Garfiel would be counted among them.
But that would only be the final result,
[Subaru: I’m sure I’ll make you despise me many times over before we get there. I’ll apologize for that in advance. ……Sorry]
[Garfiel: ……I’ve got no idea what yer sayin’. Everythin’ y’said……yer soundin’ exactly like ‘em]
Garfiel spoke as if he was speaking to something frightening and incomprehensible, and Subaru could only resign to the fact that it was inevitable.
As much as he wanted to be understood, he knew that Garfiel couldn’t possibly understand.
[Subaru: I don’t want to fight you. From tomorrow onwards, just act normal…… it’s alright if you can’t, but don’t get in my way. Go back to a warm bed and get some early sleep for tonight. Oversleep, shirk your duties, or wake and go right back to bed for all I care――]
Tossing out these last words before leaving, Subaru suddenly stopped mid-sentence.
Just now, he had noticed something in what he just said.
And from there, an idea had taken shape in his mind――
[Subaru: Might be worth trying]
[Garfiel: ……Hah?]
[Subaru: Anyways, that’s it for tonight, Garfiel. Whatever your worries and concerns are, I’ll take care of everything. So just be patient and wait until then]
[Garfiel: ――! You……!]
Listening to Subaru speak in future tense from beginning to end, Garfiel’s head shot up.
His face flushed with anger, he bared his teeth, spitting,
[Garfiel: Don’t give me that condescending bullshit…..! Who, who th’fuck asked ya t’take care’of anything? Don’t go meddlin’ in what’s none’of yer business! Granny, th’others…… anything! Y’don’t fuckin’ know anything……!]
[Subaru: I don’t know, so I have to find out. That’s why I have to do this]
[Garfiel: Yer only seein’ th’fuckin’ surface, how can y’possibly understand!? Smirkin’ like an idiot, prattlin’ outta dreams, muddlin’ things with fuckin’ pretty words y’fuckin’ con-artist piece’of shit!]
[Subaru: ――――]
[Garfiel: Y’don’t know pain, don’t know what sufferin’ feels like, so don’t fuckin’ talk like y’know everything――!!]
Garfiel screamed back, raving at Subaru’s arrogant facade.
The shouts dissolved into the night’s forest sky, and faded into nothing.
Condescending, speaking like he knew everything, meddling in what was none of his business despite not understanding a thing.
――Indeed, all this was true, and there was not the slightest ground to dispute it.
However,
[Subaru: ……I do know]
[Garfiel: ――――]
[Subaru: I know what Hell is. ――So many times, I’ve seen it]
If there was Hell in this world, it’d be all the worlds that Subaru had seen.
At the end of countless worlds, burning those scenes of Hell into the back of his eyes, certainly, he knew it well.
And that was why――
[Subaru: It’s enough that I’m the only one who has to know that Hell. That is the reason I’m here]
――He sincerely believed this in that moment.
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After leaving Garfiel whimpering and clutching his heart, Subaru did not return to his bed inside the Cathedral.
He would have headed to bed and set about slowly figuring out his strategy for the near future. In fact, until recently that had been his intention.
But there was a reason he chose to discard that plan and head somewhere else instead.
[Subaru: …….It should be this way if I remember correctly]
Peeling aside the sprawling ivy, Subaru muttered to himself while making his way down the unmarked path.
Visibility was poor under the forest canopy that obscured the moonlight. The dense, knee-high weeds didn’t help, either. There was no consistency to the uneven ground, and he was forced to slow his pace to keep himself from stumbling.
[Subaru: While I’m usually pretty confident about my sense of direction, the memory’s too hazy, huh… But it’s not like I had time to calmly look around the place, so guess there’s no helping it]
Making lame excuses for himself, Subaru felt his way forward through the foliage.
This was the forest outside the Sanctuary――but quite far away from where he and Garfiel last spoke. Subaru had first gone back to the Sanctuary before entering the forest again.
As for why he did that――
[Subaru: Pretty sure this was where he showed up back then…]
Before this series of loops began―― on the morning of the first Trial, Subaru had visited the Tomb with Otto to confirm his qualification.
In the end, the Tomb accepted Subaru, and he was granted the chance to challenge his past in the Trial that night―― but there was something else before that.
That morning, while bantering with Otto on the way back, they were confronted by Garfiel who had emerged from the forest. At the time, he said he was patrolling the Sanctuary.
[Subaru: But the timing was too good to be a coincidence, and why did he come from that direction?]
It was almost like the timing of his appearance had been staged, and there was the problem of where he appeared from.
Recalling how Garfiel emerged from the bushes beside the Tomb, Subaru felt a sense of deja-vu. Sifting through the peculiarities in his memories, he realized something.
――It was the mysterious facility where Beatrice had teleported him from the Mansion.
Having been returned to the Sanctuary, coming out of that facility, he had a feeling that it was terribly close to where Garfiel had emerged back then.
And so, hoping to find something there, he was now trawling through the forest in the dead of night, searching for the path to that facility.
[Subaru: A trodden path……that means]
Seeing the vegetation give way to patches of exposed earth, Subaru deduced that someone must have been regularly passing through here. Following this trail deeper into the forest, carried along by the exhilaration and speeding up his steps――at last, his field of vision brightened,
[Subaru: ……Found it]
It was a crumbling stone building. An ancient structure on the verge of collapse in the depths of the forest with its back against the cliff face.
Approaching the structure, as he made out its contours obscured by the darkness, Subaru tilted his head.
[Subaru: Huh…? Pretty sure last time I saw it, it was more destroyed than this……]
The building was certainly showing its years, but Subaru got the feeling that its state of deterioration was less severe than he remembered. Simply put, what Subaru saw last time was a ruin, whereas the building before him still retained some semblance of its original architecture.
That is to say,
[Subaru: If my memory’s correct, then sometime between now and the sixth day, something destructive will happen to this building…… right?]
Drawing from the sum of his memories, that would be the only conclusion.
If that were the case, then, just as he imagined, this place was not entirely unrelated to what was going to happen to the Sanctuary.
Holding his breath, and stifling anything that might give away his presence, Subaru carefully turned the handle on the door.
It opened with surprising silence, and a putrid stench greeted him as he stepped inside.
Same as last time, scattered instruments littered the otherwise barren and desolate entryway. Passing through a corridor reminiscent of a waiting room, Subaru headed towards the destined chamber.
He reached the door at the end of the hallway―― and beyond it, would be the room with the bottomless pit where Beatrice had transported him.
He might just walk into the pit if he wasn’t careful. So, with that in mind, Subaru slowly pushed open the door and peeked his head inside,
[Subaru: ……Oy oy]
As the scene panned out before his eyes, Subaru couldn’t help but let slip this sound under his breath.
A pale, refracted light lit up his face. Narrowing his eyes at the dazzling brightness, Subaru dumbly turned his gaze to the source of that light.
And there, in that destined chamber at the very back of the facility, was――
[Subaru: Lewes-san……?]
――A small female figure encased in the center of a massive crystal, faintly glowing with a pale-blue luminescence.
-=Chapter 54=-
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Next Chapter: https://translationchicken.com/2017/11/30/rezero-arc-4-chapter-55-the-girl-in-the-crystal-part-1-2/
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Let me know if you find any missing words! ❤
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Chapter 55 Live Draft:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/re-zero-arc-4-55-15588090
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Next Chapter: https://translationchicken.com/2017/11/30/rezero-arc-4-chapter-55-the-girl-in-the-crystal-part-1-2/
Wait, did beako transport him using a vortex or was it through a door?
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She used the door of a ventilation-tunnel
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Thus him appearing on the other side and then he used the ventilation again to get out of the building and bypass that pit right?
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Yeah
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the question is how is beatrice involved with all of this, any ideas?
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someone said in the comments that Beatrice [nonono don’t tell me >_< -tc],I think.
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Eu sei a resposta, mas responde-la estragaria a surpresa que vem mais a frente.
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Beatrice is a great spirit, maybe she has something to do with Echidona?
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What Id like to know is how Beako knew petelgues and why she has a gospel
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Betelgeuse* weird that that’s in my phones dictionary….
Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse….
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Betelgeuse is the second brightest star in Orion, and is located at Orion’s right shoulder.
There are several names in the Re:Zero universe which comes from stars. Subaru, Rigel, and Spica are a few examples.
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Oh I wasn’t aware the Betelgeuse was a star thank you for the clarification.
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Hey chicken how long did it take u to learn Jap/English and thank you for the chapter know u are busy with ur studies.
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I got a head start since I can read all the Kanji, and then it’s mostly lots of dictionary look-ups for words I don’t know. I’ve improved far more over the year I spent translating than I spent learning before. :3
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That’s awesome I always wanted to learn a different language but never really knew where to start I was just curious. 🙂
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So you knew kanji? Are you chinese?
Keep up the good work! I can’t keep but check daily the live draft 😅
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Definitely the best notification I ever get. Love the work Chicken!
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❤
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You get notifications?!
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Yeah, email notifications.
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oh wow right under the post comment thing you can set up for notifications
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I get 4 notifications
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Thnx for the chap. The time to uncover some secrets begins.
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The last thing he said to Garfield was the coolest thing ever said. My boy Subaru manning up :’ )
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Yeah niBBa needs to show em who is boss here.
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… OR you know, it might be that Subaru hasn’t lost the arrogance..
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“Not understanding Subaru’s words, Gafiel’s eyes wavered with confusion.”
Gafiel?
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Thanks for catching that! ❤
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I don’t understand. The way Subaru is talking to Garfiell it’s like his power level has gone over 9000.
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I think the reason is that Garfiel really doesn’t want to kill Subaru.
This might be either because he was ordered not to kill Subaru, or because never wanted to kill Subaru in the previous loops, and wasn’t given any reason or orders to kill Subaru in this loop.
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Orders from who?
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Knowing that Roswaal has a Gospel, he could have been feeding Garfiel and Ram predictions and instructions, so it might be a combination of previous orders and orders given after Subaru’s respawn point.
Considering Garf’s lack of response in front of the Tomb this loop, either: A)Subaru’s scent works differently than he thought, B)Garf is a great actor, or C)Garf can’t actually smell the Witch’s scent and was was instead told by someone.
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Lewes-san. She was looking at Subaru quite suspiciouspy, if I recall, after he had left the tomb.
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Ah right! I didn’t make that connection…
Guess I liked Lewes-san and didn’t want her to be the one.
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My guess is she smelled the stench from Subaru after his Return-by-Death, which made him still like one hell of a bad guy – she then began to suspect him and told Garfiel about the stench. He then went and started looking for confirmations – if he got one, he acted. There is still something missing though, I believe.
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*(stink, not still)
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What a smooth and good translation. Thanks for providing us with this wonderful story Chicken!!
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They’re everywhere! D:
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I wonder how many times Subaru has died so far now. Somebody needs to start making a death-counter. xD
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If u want i can do it. I can make a total death counter and seperate death counter per arc?
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Please do this. I’m morbidly curious at this point.
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Ok i will do it once the new chaptor is out.
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1. Belly sliced open
2. Belly sliced open
3. Bakstabbed in alley
4. Died from curse while asleep
5. Died from the Morning Star to the head
6. Death by decapitation caused by wind magic
7. Jumped from cliff as an act of suicide
8. Frozen to death in a secret passageway
9. Death by decapitation caused by wind magic while carrying Rem
10. Frozen to death while his mind was in the process of being taken over by Petelgeuese
11. Killed by Julius because his mind was being taken over by Petelgeuese
12. Assassinated by Witch Cultists (don’t know details)
13. Slit throat in an act of suicide because of Rem’s state
14. Belly cut open (Elsa is back!)
15. Bled to death because of gaping hole from his back to stomach (while he was being eaten)
16. Eaten by a horde of rabbits
17. Committed suicide by using the handkerchief he received from Petra to avoid being consumed by Envy
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What was the 12th death exactly ?
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Is the death counter based to LN or WN? heard there were differences specially on arc 3?
Thanks
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The death counter is based on the WN, though many of the earlier deaths are those I’ve seen in the anime.
I don’t know the details of the 12th death, I just know of it because of the chapter “The Girl in the Forbidden Library”, where Chicken gave us insight into the circumstances around that chapter.
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the 12th death is an ambush of the witch cult (from the excerpt of the girl in the forbidden library)
and everything is good 🙂
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Thanks for the hard work chicken-sama ❤
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The Lewiss-an cloning facility??
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Not only that but possibly many other thinks that goes beyond human rights and stuff.
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“Since he had resolved to wager his life, this wouldn’t the last time where he’d have to bear this sense of loss.”
I think a “be” is missing after “wouldn’t”.
Thx you for your work!
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Thanks! Fixed it! ❤
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I guess his return by death isnt gone since the witchs’ stench is still on him
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I kinda wish that the author expounded on Garfiel’s reaction to Subaru’s last words. But oh well.
Does arc 4 really end at chapter 60? Chicken?
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Agreed, I really want to know what the hell led to Garfiel “whimpering and clutching his heart”
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Fist of Subaru tried to provoke Garfiel to see if Garf would kill him but noticing this Garf instead got mad at him and creeped out, on top of that he is acting with arrogance like he knows everything. In other words Subaru is acting just like Roswaal and that scared him.
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No Arc 4 goes to 130 chapters
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I see, that makes more sense.. But Daaaaaaaaaaaaamn we’ve got a long way to go.. Keep up the good work chicken!
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I’m following in Japanese, I’m in chapter 64 and it’s not over yet, and from what I’m realizing it’s going to take at least 5-6 chapters to finish.
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‘Meddling when its none of your business is the essence of being a hero’…GO SUBARU
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Lol nice reference.
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Waow this definitely made my day ❤
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❤
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Interesting chapter!! Thanks for releasing again.
As much as he wanted to be understood, he knew that Garfiiel couldn’t possibly understand.
There are two ‘i’s in the Garfiel.
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Thanks for finding that! ❤
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As much as he wanted to be understood, he knew that Garfiiel couldn’t possibly understand.
I think it should be garfiel not garfiiel
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Thanks for finding it! Fixed it now ❤
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What volume in the light novel is this part?
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The point in the story is parallel to Vol 12
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Subaru sure deserves a guiness world record for most deja-vus
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Garfiel:Y’don’t know pain, don’t know what sufferin’ feels like, so don’t fuckin’ talk like y’know everything
Me: Really bro? You superduperly wrong…hahahaha
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Thanks for your work 🙂
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Seems we might finally get some answer and possibly more questions as well.
Thanks for the chapter.
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where is your Patreon link?
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Chicken. Is there a translated LN of rezero? And what’s the difference between LN and WN?
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There is a translation of the light novel. The english one is only at volume 5, which would be at the beginning of arc 3.
The difference is that the web novel is free online and something like a draft. The “light novel” is more “official”.
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Finally! Subaru managed to win some against Garf and left him behind
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Wow Subaru destroyed Garfiel with his talk-no-jutsu xD
Great chapter Chicken-sama!
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I think garfiel never wanted to kill Subaru, each time he was killed when he tried to get out of the sanctuary. it means that he has no intention of letting anyone out of the sanctuary. also garfiel had seen what suffering is by seeing his behavior in this loop.
(actually I kinda know what will happen but rest assured, it’s spoiler free )
( those who want to be spoiled can visit re zero wiki page of fandom of Subaru ,in that there’s a column tittled synopsis)
again thank you chicken-sama
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Hey chicken, keep going 👍👍
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Cloning building
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May guess is that they were experimenting on the people I think Garfiel is powerful because of the horrible experiments he went through that is why he says you don’t no hell and the witch of greed made this place and that clown over sees it. I bet it’s all for just in case the witch of envy comes back that’s why she still keeps all the witch souls in case they have to fight her again
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Thank you Chiken-senpai ~(:^^)-yy
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When Garfiel told Subaru that he doesn’t know pain and suffering, I died😂😂
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GG WP SUBARU
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Nice job again chicken.
Btw will you be translating arc 5 after 4?
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What if Return By Death was Subaru’s Gospel?
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But Gospel is a book, right?
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Hey there chicken! I started reading your work after I had watched the anime season and started at the end of Arc 3. Really impressed your work, you manage to convey the right amount of feelings through your words and the vocabulary is amazing too. Really love your work. Keep up the good stuff.
P.S good luck with your exams.
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Thanks for the read!
As the comment previous to this one says, your vocabulary usage is awesome and it helps me improve in English. For that I thank you a lot!
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❤ ❤ ❤
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