human
Subaru:  Subaru quietly inhaled, hearing an arrogant and overbearing laugh. There was no way Subaru would fail to recognize the haughty man who had given him directions when he’d been separated from Rem back at the meadow, the same man who had given him that knife. Because of the face covering, it was hard to say for sure, but his voice and attitude were exactly as Subaru remembered them. And the fact that he knew Subaru’s name was also proof it was the same person. Subaru had been sleeping on the bare ground inside a wooden cage, and his entire body was battered and bruised, so apparently, he had managed to stay alive. He had brought Todd and the other soldiers into the jungle, used his miasma to lure out a demon beast, and then used the opportunity when they were being attacked to escape…
gpt
Subaru:  "And then I…"
human
Masked Man:  "From what I heard, you triggered a trap while wandering in the jungle. The villagers were making a fuss about a person getting caught in a trap set for a beast."
gpt
Subaru:  "Trap… Village…?" Subaru swiveled his aching head and looked outside the cage. The cage he was enclosed in was far rougher in make than the metal cells he had seen in the army camp. It looked simple, or perhaps like it had been built in a rush. And outside, in the distance, he could see a cluster of tall trees, and an open patch of ground that had been created by clearing the space between those trees—to Subaru, it felt almost like the village in the Sanctuary. The Sanctuary was a village built deep in the Cremaldi Forest. However, unlike the Sanctuary, which had buildings like houses and a church despite being in a forest, this village could generously be described as a bunch of log houses. It was mostly a collection of primitive lean-tos. Seeing that, the words came to Subaru’s lips.
human
Subaru:  "The Shudrak?"
gpt
Masked Man:  "Oh—you know of them? Well, judging by your unsightly appearance, you have surely borne quite a number of burdens in a single day. Did you find the woman from whom you were separated?"
human
Subaru:  "...Yeah, thanks to you." As the masked man questioned him, Subaru let out a deep breath. The man was acting composed, but given that he was also inside a cell, he was in the same position as Subaru—the odds of him being an important member of the village who just happened to like being inside the same cell as village prisoners was incredibly low. Subaru had just been imprisoned in the imperial army camp, and now he was a prisoner here. But that wasn’t all.
gpt
Subaru:  "...This is… My shoulder and back?" Touching himself in both places, he could tell from the painfully tight feeling that something was staunching the flow of blood.