human
Subaru:  Subaru noticing Echidna’s pretense meant…
gpt
Subaru:  “So something that could be noticed by an outsider of minimal connection should have been noticed by the man who regarded himself as her first knight, huh…?”
human
Julius:  “Wait a second, dumbass! That isn’t a fair thing to say at all!”
gpt
Subaru:  “”
human
Julius:  “The situation…the situation was just bad! It was already a huge enough incident, and you were already at wit’s end yourself! And not just you! Ricardo and Mimi and the rest of them were, too. Me noticing was just… It was just by chance!”
gpt
Subaru:  Latching onto Julius’s self-deprecating comment, Subaru tried to stop him from blaming himself, but he could not find anything to say to ease Julius’s feelings at not having performed his duty as her first knight.
human
Subaru:  What could he have really done? Can he be blamed for it? With all his achievements, efforts, everything he had built up in his life as a knight crumbling like a castle of sand, fading from the minds of the master he had sworn fealty to, the comrades who he had sworn to raise her to the throne together with, the friends he had spent so much time fighting alongside as a knight, and so many others, how could anyone order him to stand back up? How could anyone expect him to be resolute? To be refined? To behave like a proper first knight? Who could do that?
gpt
Subaru:  If being a knight meant not being allowed to be hurt like every other human was allowed to be hurt, then being a knight was a curse on Julius Juukulius.
human
Julius:  “It is the job of a first knight to always elevate such chance accidents into something more definite.”
gpt
Julius:  “Gh! What is a first knight supposed to be… If that’s it, then a pain-in-the-ass title like that is better off—”
human
Julius:  “Don’t tell me to discard it, please. I… Right now, the thought of even a single thing slipping away from me is absolutely terrifying.”
gpt
Subaru:  Subaru’s random attempt at consolation was easily swatted aside by the ideals of chivalry that Julius lived by.
human
Subaru:  The feelings Subaru wanted to vent stopped in the back of his throat, and he could not say anything as Julius shook his head.
gpt
Julius:  “Returning to the subject at hand… Echidna, what is your goal?”
human
Echidna:  “…To return this body to Ana. The primary reason I guided us to the Pleiades Watchtower was that rather than the victims of Gluttony and Lust.”
gpt
Julius:  “So you do not desire the present state of affairs. Which means you have not found a means of restoring Lady Anastasia… What if I were to kill you?” Julius’s eyes narrowed as he asked a dangerous question made all the more threatening by his sword still being pointed at Echidna.
human
Echidna:  She averted her eyes and touched her breast.
gpt
Echidna:  “I do not have any way to prove that I am not just an evil spirit that is making up excuses in order to take over Ana’s body."