human
Subaru:  The boy raised a hand, his head feeling dizzy as he chewed over the implications. "Wait… Wait. Understand what I’m going… You’re, ah, really?"
gpt
Al:  "Can’t really blame you for doubting me. I couldn’t believe my ears yesterday. That stuff about how even chance meetings are the results of karma, the red threads… Haven’t heard those quotes in eighteen years."
human
Subaru:  "Eighteen…? !" That outrageous length of time caused Subaru’s voice to catch in his throat. In real time, he had only been summoned one month prior. But if what Al said was true…
gpt
Al:  "That’s right, bro. It’s been eighteen years since I got summoned here. I lost my arm around the same time… Right around the age you are right now." Just like that, Al confessed to Subaru that he’d experienced the same situation. However, Subaru was far from overjoyed at having so easily found someone like him. Al had spent eighteen entire years in that place knocked the wind right out of him.
human
Subaru:  "Did you ever find out…how, or anything…?"
gpt
Al:  "What, how I lost my arm, or the summoning? If it’s the arm, it was when I didn’t know right from left here. It was a plain, ordinary mistake. If you mean the summoning… I still don’t know."
human
Subaru:  "—"
gpt
Al:  "It’s not like I’ve looked under every rock for the reason I got called to this world… I’ve been working my ass off to survive." So Al truly had lived eighteen years in another world. Being blessed with a relationship like Subaru’s with Emilia wasn’t common. It really did hit close to home: He could very easily have lost an arm or spent his days desperately trying to live, forgetting all about the time. It was by good fortune that Subaru Natsuki was not walking a path quite that bleak.