human
Subaru:  Subaru teetered on the precipice between life and death.
gpt
Todd:  Todd smiled at Subaru in the same way he had while treating Subaru’s fingers, while having lunch with him, and while praising him for his contributions to burning the jungle. "So you brought up the Shudrak people without being prompted to. Is it safe to expect you’re about to say something we’d like to hear?"
human
Subaru:  "...Yeah. I know where the Shudrak people are in the jungle."
gpt
Todd:  "—! Well, that’s just great!" Todd clapped, a trace of joy in his smile.
human
Subaru:  Seeing that reaction, Subaru was sure that the miracle he had dragged out of himself had worked. But it was a double-edged sword, too—since he did not actually know their location. The man who had given him the knife, and the hunter who had taken aim at him—he thought it likely that one, the other, or perhaps both were connected to the Shudrak, but he had no way to get in contact with them from here, and no clue where exactly they were. Which meant Subaru was staking his life on a major gamble.
gpt
Todd:  "Why do you know that?"
human
Subaru:  "...Because I’m one of them."
gpt
Todd:  "I see—so you really are. Skin color aside, you’ve got the black hair. So I’d suspected that might be the case. The Shudrak are famous for having black hair."
human
Subaru:  Hearing that, Subaru was greatly relieved and felt a sense of having been saved by luck. A greasy sweat joined the cold sweat that already coated him from head to toe thanks to the tricky tightrope he was walking. The pain in his shoulder was still growing, and the fingers of his left hand were starting to throb with pain, too. On top of that, his body had still not recovered from everything that had happened at the Pleiades Watchtower, nor from when he’d chased Rem through the jungle, then escaped into the river. Holding on as his consciousness wobbled and his mind threatened to give out, he now embarked on an interrogation where any mistake would mean death. All for the sake of survival—all for rescuing Rem. To return to Emilia and Beatrice, and to reunite Ram and Rem.
gpt
Todd:  "In which case, are you some sort of scout? Are the clothes and knife a disguise so you could blend in with us?"
human
Subaru:  "...I stole the knife from a traveler. Same for the clothes. And…"
gpt
Todd:  "You tried to slip in to spy on us. That’s a bold plan. It looks like you really did almost drown, and there was always the chance of us not noticing the knife…"
human
Subaru:  "But it feels more realistic this way, right?" When Todd pointed out the shoddiness of the supposed plan, Subaru laughed it off as intentional. He curled his lips, flashing his teeth to make his normal appearance look even nastier and lend his explanation even more credence.
gpt
Todd:  Todd considered his claims
human
Subaru:  The silence was heavy, dragging out Subaru’s suffering.