human
Puck:  "Did you see the lap pillow, too, by any chance?"
gpt
Subaru:  "Only because she did it for so long. It was quite difficult to stay kneeling in that position for hours, and I offered to take over several times, but… Relax, Lia saw it through to the very end." Subaru's metaphorical seal of approval abruptly made Subaru, still shy about the awakening of his love, red in the face.
human
Puck:  Puck nodded at Subaru’s schoolboy reaction. And then—
gpt
Puck:  "Ei!"
human
Subaru:  "Ow—! Why did you just scratch me? !"
gpt
Puck:  "You had an explosion of complex feelings of affection for my daughter. Maybe I ought to explode you?"
human
Subaru:  "You ought not!! That daddy mind-set’s a complicated thing, geez!"
gpt
Puck:  Puck’s “explosion” of fatherly concern threatened to put distance between Subaru and Emilia.
human
Subaru:  Subaru plaintively bowed his head before Puck, somehow managing to keep the situation in check. When this process was finished and he glanced back at Emilia, he saw that she seemed to still be immersed in conversation with the spirits, never noticing the comedy routine between man and beast that had ruptured the calm of the morning. Subaru watched the side of her face, gazing at the gentle, charming smile so beautiful that you could drown in it, when he abruptly murmured to himself.
gpt
Subaru:  "—A silver-haired half-elf, huh?"
human
Subaru:  It was one of the things Beatrice had said about the Witch of Jealousy. The witch had shaken the world to its core, and even now, her name was synonymous with terror. He wondered how great a burden it must be to have similarities with such a being. Even Subaru, who had never felt hardships like this, could imagine it was no easy road to travel. And yet, Emilia had been raised to be an honest, benevolent person… No doubt in the hope that she would live as a lovely, untainted flower.
gpt
Puck:  Puck looked back and smiled, one paw on his hip, the other toying with his whiskers. "Or maybe she was raised by a good father. Mm-hmm."
human
Subaru:  The cat could read his emotions. He’d no doubt discerned Subaru’s thoughts to work out the context of the soliloquy from a moment before.
gpt
Puck:  "Well, to a large extent she was just born that way. Not to harp on it, but that girl had a much, much harder time than you can imagine. It’s adorable how she’s like this in spite of it all, though." As Puck squinted, the thought of contradicting him never crossed Subaru’s mind. The plain fact was that Subaru didn’t know anything about Emilia, while Puck had spent an enormity of time with her. Subaru’s knowledge of how hard it’d been for her barely scratched the surface. Puck was driving home that Subaru had no right to act like he knew. Men were helpless in the hands of Fate. Subaru knew that powerlessness all too well.