human
Ferris:  “That’s why I thought I’d get into the dragon carriage to lower his guard.” As Ferris replied to the wide-eyed Subaru, he checked Kety’s fallen body and found something.
gpt
Ferris:  When he lifted a hand, it was holding a cross-shaped sword furnished by the Witch Cult. “That’s one of the swords the Witch Cultists… They seriously infiltrated the traveling merchants…?”
human
Subaru:  “But we captured this one alive. The instant I touched him, I made the water in his body run wild and knocked him out. Though if I’ve directly affected someone even once, I can do the same thing without even touching, meow.”
gpt
Subaru:  “…Meaning you can do the same thing to me. Kinda gives me the chills to hear that…” Grudgingly, Subaru did as Ferris directed and checked on things beyond the curtain.
human
Subaru:  Fortunately, no one on the outside seemed to have noticed the skirmish inside the carriage.
gpt
Subaru:  No one else seemed to be coming aboard. “But if one of them was a Witch Cultist, that changes everything.”
human
Ferris:  “We can’t be certain they don’t have others among the merchants…but we can check that from here on out, I suppose?” Ferris shook his head as if it was no big deal.
gpt
Ferris:  After that, he gave the unmoving Kety a smack on the cheek, then pressed a palm, glowing with a pale light, to his face and said, “Now, spill out everything that you’re planning, would you? Ferri’s hand is the gentlest in the world…but it can do such terrible things, meow?”
human
Subaru:  “—” Subaru’s body shuddered when he remembered the phrase Those who know how to heal people also know how to break them.
gpt
Ferris:  Ferris’s request made Kety open his eyelids a crack, gazing at Ferris with unfocused eyes.
human
Ferris:  His lips frailly struggled to move, but Ferris’s power was supreme. He apparently couldn’t move at all. “Ferris, be careful. If he is a Sloth, even if he can’t move his limbs…”
gpt
Ferris:  “He can still use his power, yes? That’s why I have you watching, Subawu.”
human
Ferris:  Just because the flesh could not move didn’t mean Unseen Hands couldn’t be put into motion.
gpt
Ferris:  In accordance with Ferris’s request, Subaru squared his shoulders and kept the closest eye possible on what Kety was doing.
human
Ferris:  With Subaru and Ferris both hemming him in, Kety breathed out, seemingly deflated. Then—
gpt
Kety:  “—”
human
Ferris:  “What?” When Kety seemed to murmur something, Ferris narrowed his eyes, demanding he repeat himself.
gpt
Ferris:  Subaru hadn’t been able to hear the statement, either. Kety opened his mouth once more—
human
Kety:  “—YES.”
gpt
Ferris:  “—! Ia! Protect him! !” Ferris seemed to leap to his feet the instant the whisper reached his eardrums, calling to Subaru, at the entrance to the wagon—no, to the common spirit tethered to him.
human
Ferris:  Ferris’s gravity, normally unthinkable for him, made Subaru stare for a second, wondering what had happened, when…
gpt
Subaru:  “Ah?” With a burst of heat, the common spirit flew out, deploying a crimson wall of shimmering light around his entire body.