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—Waking up was like the moment your head breaks through the surface from underwater.
Pulling your body out of the unconsciousness of dreams, circulating reality around your body by breathing. And slowly consciousness returns, and you break through the surface, being born.
If you wanted to put on airs, you could say that sleep is death, and waking up is birth.
Either way, that poetic feeling aside, as his consciousness gradually awakened…
“—Subaru! Hey, Subaru. Are you okay?”
“Ngh, whoa?!”
When he opened his eyes, Subaru was shocked by the pretty face right in front of him, and he rolled to the side.
The ground disappeared out from under him, and he fell a short way and hit his shoulder.
“Ngh!”
“Wah! Are you all right, Subaru?! Why did you suddenly roll?!”
“I-it’s not like I decided I wanted to just go for a roll…”
Rubbing his shoulder, Subaru shook his head and slowly stood up, and after blinking a few times, he was confused.
He was in a green room.
Inside the room, the overgrown vines covered everything, completely hiding the wall. It was so dense he would have believed someone saying the room had been made with vines.
And apparently, Subaru had ended up in the very center of the room, sleeping on a bed of leaves. And then he had rolled off the bed, ending up in his current situation.
He calmly analyzed it, but there was a reason for that.
“Mm, it looks like you didn’t hit yourself too hard. Thank goodness. But we were really worried, so please don’t scare us like that.”
“Emilia, he won’t reflect on his actions properly if you say it like that. If you aren’t stricter, he won’t understand how worried we were.”
“Right. See, even Beatrice is saying that. She was a mess when we couldn’t find you, and she almost cried when we found you collapsed…”
“Couldn’t you say a little less, I wonder?!”
An exchange out of a comedy sketch unfolded before his eyes.
Nodding along at that adorable back-and-forth, Subaru looked around. As he sat on the ground, there was some sort of massive creature behind him.
“ ”
It was some kind of big lizard. A big lizard the size of a horse with black, scaly skin. For some reason, it leaned in toward Subaru and rubbed its nose against his neck.
It’s pretty friendly. Subaru gently rubbed the top of its head.
And then he slowly exhaled.
“I get it now.”
Coolly, calmly, slowly, he exhaled.
Seeing Subaru like that, the two girls in front of him cocked their heads.
““Subaru?””
They were in sync, like sisters, as they said his name.
A silver-haired girl who was so beautiful it hurt his eyes and a fairylike little girl in a cute dress.
A girl with silver hair, a girl with drill curls, a giant lizard, a room made of plants.
Subaru opened his mouth wide and screamed.
“Isn’t this just like those stories about getting summoned to another world?!”
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