human
Subaru:  What was the point of Subaru feeling such loss and despair when he didn’t truly know anything about them? Was it all really just a bad dream? Or did Subaru not know anything, not a single thing, about the two of them? Even though he’d thought of them as precious people he wanted to protect…
gpt
Subaru:  “So in the end, I got worked up and pathetic all on my own, not knowing, not understanding anything…?” —It has nothing to do with you. Subaru knew nothing. He’d beaten away all his chances. He had nothing left but the skin on his back. Within the darkness covering his eyes, the memories of the days he’d spent at the manor broke apart, one by one, into dust. Subaru’s heart, too, shattered. Lying on his back, Subaru put his palms to his face and wailed at his own powerlessness. Had it all been a utopia beyond his reach from the beginning? Was everything Subaru had seen simply a dream, the time he’d spent there a mere illusion? Subaru looked like he was about to break out in tears.
human
Beatrice:  “…How long are you going to stay like that, I wonder? Stand before she finds you.” Impatient from Subaru still not moving, she roughly grabbed the palms covering his face and yanked them up. As his field of vision opened, the lightweight girl used her entire weight to haul Subaru to his feet.
gpt
Subaru:  “—” The sensation conveyed by her palms took away his thoughts. Ignoring Beatrice’s intent in rousing Subaru so insistently, he felt her palms, weighing how they felt.
human
Subaru:  “H-hey. What do you think y— Why so interested in my palms, I wonder?”
gpt
Beatrice:  “…I shall regret it for the rest of my days. Perhaps you were simply too wretched as you slept like that?” Abruptly, Beatrice looked away, giving him only her cheek.
human
Subaru:  Subaru flexed his hands several times, reflecting on the warm, peaceful sensation he’d felt from them while he slept. —While Subaru had his nightmare. A dream with an agonizing sense of despair and loss, over and over again. That hadn’t been the only time he’d felt warmth when in pain. It’d happened before—
gpt
Subaru:  “Back then…someone held both my hands…”
human
Beatrice:  Beatrice suspiciously raised an eyebrow.
gpt
Subaru:  Subaru brought not only his right hand before him but his left as well. It was difficult for one person to hold both hands of someone who was asleep. He doubted a single person could lie on a bed alongside another and hold both hands without difficulty.
human
Subaru:  “—” So why did he feel like both his hands had been held? The reason was simple.
gpt
Subaru:  “Ram. Rem.” Both had held Subaru’s hands while he slept. It had been here on the fourth loop, before anything had happened at Roswaal Manor.