human
Todd:  "Looks like you’re getting along better than you were last night. Did you manage to make up?"
gpt
Subaru:  “…It’s hard to tell. I wanna say my sincerity has gotten through a little, at least.”
human
Louis:  “…I can hear you. If you believe I have lowered my guard, you are mistaken.”
gpt
Rem:  “Uguu!” Rem made her dissatisfaction with their conversation known. She wiped Louis’s mouth, and the girl seemed to be in tune with Rem, as if siding with her.
human
Subaru:  Subaru had complicated feelings about seeing them so intimate, and his expression visibly sank.
gpt
Todd:  “Don’t get so down. At least she’s someplace where you can talk with her like this. Compared to me, that’s already a big improvement.”
human
Subaru:  “Ah, oh yeah—you talked about being separated from your fiancée.”
gpt
Todd:  “Yeah, she lives in the capital. That’s why I have to finish up this mission. We’ve been apart too long. Whoo, it’s lonely, I tell you.”
human
Subaru:  “Is that why you’re looking after us?”
gpt
Todd:  “Yeah. So just let me use you guys for a bit. Make it worth the effort.”
human
Subaru:  Maybe Todd had only said that to keep him from feeling anxious, but Subaru was genuinely grateful for Todd’s consideration. It would have been tactless to just thank him directly. And Todd seemed to recognize that, too. The four of them ate with that sort of mood about them, and then…
gpt
Subaru:  “You mentioned us being able to catch a ride with the resupply wagon, but how long do you think this mission will take you guys?”
human
Todd:  “I told you—until we can find the people of Shudrak hiding in the jungle… If we don’t find them, we might be left out here for years,” Todd said glumly. “Serving the court isn’t easy.”
gpt
Subaru:  “People of Shudrak…” Subaru thought for a bit as he held the wooden spoon in his mouth. The people of Shudrak—when he’d first heard about them from Todd, Subaru had wondered if this maybe referred to the masked man he had met in the jungle earlier. Subaru owed the guy for the knife, so he had not mentioned him to Todd, but now that felt a bit ungrateful. At this point, Todd had done at least as much for Subaru as the masked man had. So how did it make sense to repay the masked man, but not Todd?
human
Subaru:  “Hey, Todd, what are you guys going to do when you find them? You’ve got a camp like this set up…so are you going to fight?” He tried to do his best to feign simple curiosity. But he couldn’t totally hide the tension in his voice and body language. It wasn’t exactly a natural subject to bring up, and Rem’s expression changed when she heard it, too. Even if he was conspicuously ignoring it, she had an evasive reaction to the word fight.
gpt
Todd:  Todd closed an eye. “The generals seem to prefer not fighting if they can avoid it. The Shudrak are a pretty powerful tribe, apparently.