human
Subaru:  "I was a guinea pig without even knowing it!"
gpt
Ram:  "That was a joke. The drug takes effect immediately upon swallowing it. If it were harmful to you, you would have died during the night."
human
Subaru:  "That’s not even funny! Seriously, am I gonna be okay?!" Subaru made gagging motions with his mouth, but the tea he had drunk the day before had long been absorbed into his system. Praying that nothing bad would happen to him, Subaru focused on procuring the tea ingredients.
gpt
Subaru:  "So what about the final ingredient?" he asked with a sense of total dread.
human
Ram:  "The final ingredient…well, I will keep that a secret until we find it. A special little punishment from me to you."
gpt
Subaru:  "A punishment worse than drinking poison?"
human
Ram:  "You drank it of your own volition, Barusu. One could also say you gave Emilia poison."
gpt
Subaru:  As irony stacked on top of irony, Subaru fell deathly silent. Ram kept the fourth ingredient a secret, and the first three ingredients were all deadly. That meant either the final ingredient was surprisingly basic or something so fiercely horrifying that she hesitated to speak its name out loud. He fiercely wished it was the former and would rather be kept in the dark if it was the latter.
human
Subaru:  "You know, going into the forest with you reminds me of when we looked for Rem."
gpt
Ram:  "Ah yes, when you were pathetically mauled by a dog, and Master Roswaal dashingly came to your rescue."
human
Subaru:  "The memory was indeed pathetic and dashing—you’re not wrong there—but we won’t have any encounters with demon beasts today, I hope? Just FYI, all I’m carrying in my equipment tab is an item bag and Shooting Star." Shooting Star was the name Subaru had given his beloved kitchen knife. Many a vegetable had fallen to Shooting Star, but it had yet to earn its stripes in battle. If he had to fight a demon beast with it, Subaru would rather beat a pathetic retreat.
gpt
Ram:  "Don’t worry, Barusu, nobody expects you to be even slightly useful in a fight. Also, I’d rather Rem not scold me afterward. Why…why does the blame have to fall onto me anyway?"
human
Subaru:  "Um, uh, sorry about that. Oh—that’s right! The Urugarum in the forest—Roswaal exterminated all of them, right? So why do we need to beware of demon beasts?"
gpt
Ram:  "Urugarum aren’t the only demon beasts in the forest. In fact, now that their territory has opened up, I’d assume the demon beasts of the forest have started their turf wars, wouldn’t you? No demon beasts are as dangerous as the Urugarum, but you’d be reduced to a pile of bones if you met any of them."
human
Subaru:  "Wasn’t planning on meeting any demon beasts anyway…not in a billion years, thank you very much.