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Subaru:  He knew the little magic user would go for it, but still… It hadn’t exactly been a warm and fuzzy process, but Subaru had finally managed to win Beatrice’s cooperation. He’d repent of pushing things on to a little girl because of his own powerlessness after all the problems were cleared up.
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Subaru:  “…You want to know more about shamans?” Subaru’s cut-and-dry statement caused Beatrice to raise her shapely eyebrows with an air of disgust.
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Subaru:  His top priority was to deal with the menace of the shaman’s attack on the mansion without a moment to lose. A large part of why he asked Beatrice for help was so that her magic could counter the deadly curses. Explaining as much as possible to Beatrice without getting to the heart of the matter was crucial for Subaru. “I’ll probably pay a price if I let too many cats out of the bag, so…” When he’d tried to confess his Return by Death to Emilia, time had suddenly stopped all around Subaru as a black cloud took the shape of a hand and inflicted immense agony upon him. Subaru’s silent screams and the torture of having his heart crushed had robbed him of any notions of easy defiance.
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Subaru:  As a result, Subaru was immensely wary of the black cloud, choosing his words very carefully as he continued to explain. “I know there’s such a thing as curses, but I don’t know anything else beyond that they’re different from magician and spirit stuff. I want to know more about them.”
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Beatrice:  “It is rare for someone to ask about that. I wonder, does paying that bunch any heed get you anywhere?”
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Subaru:  Like before, Beatrice’s distaste toward even forming the word curse on her lips was considerable. Back then, he’d avoided pushing deeper into the matter, but that would not be the case this time. “Curses are magic spells that exist only to cause trouble for other people and come from some country up north, right?”
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Beatrice:  “Is it not sufficient to know that much, I wonder? Curses invade their targets like a disease, limiting their movements and robbing them of their pure life forces… A tradition in very poor taste.”
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Subaru:  “Normally I’d say it depends on how you use them, but looks like you can’t use them except to hurt people, huh?” Reason enough to call these curses. If curses were supernatural powers that existed to bring down others, the practice in his home world of putting needles into voodoo dolls probably counted. Well, not that he actually accepted the existence of the occult in that world…
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Subaru:  Subaru sat up more, thinking about the things Beatrice had mentioned in a grave tone of voice. “So, let me ask this… How do you defend against a curse?” It was pretty tough to aim a counterattack at the shaman without knowing his identity. Subaru’s one advantage was knowing in advance that an attack would take place.