human
Subaru:  “I didn’t think I was making anyone besides Otto or Roswaal work that hard…”
gpt
Meili:  “I think everyone is doing their best to make sure you and Big Sister…especially her…can stay how you are.” Meili nodded at Subaru’s analysis as she hugged her legs and rested her chin on her knees.
human
Subaru:  Acting to protect Emilia. That was Subaru’s duty as her knight, but everyone in their camp shared that feeling in their heart in some form. Subaru had intended to pay better attention to that, but with these sorts of things, he was always a step behind the more perceptive people in the group. He wouldn’t have guessed that included Petra, too. Let Emilia be Emilia. While they weren’t overprotective about it, that was what everyone in their group wanted. “…I started working five or six years ago.”
gpt
Subaru:  “…You’re willing to talk about it?”
human
Meili:  “I was the one who said just ask if you wanted to know something. It’s not like I’m dead set on hiding it.” Meili tilted her head, her blue hair slipping from her shoulders as she looked a little bit exasperated. The way her braid swayed caught Subaru’s eyes as she started to elaborate matter-of-factly. “Like I said before, in my case it was more like obeying Mama than doing a job. She was really, really scary if you didn’t do as she said.”
gpt
Subaru:  “Mama, huh?” Subaru understood that Meili didn’t mean her actual mother. In one sense, she was a bit like a foster mother maybe, but as far as Subaru was concerned, she was the mother of the distortions in Meili’s character and didn’t deserve any amount of respect. Using terror to force a young girl like her to carry out orders and mold her into a killer… “She knew from the start that I could make demon beasts listen to me, so that part wasn’t an issue. That was why she picked me up in the first place.”
human
Subaru:  “Wait a sec. Picked you up? So then…”
gpt
Meili:  “—? Ah, yeah, I was abandoned. I was thrown away in a forest before I could remember anything and raised by demon beasts.” She was talking like it wasn’t worth noting, but it was quite the shocking story. Being raised by demon beasts as a baby…
human
Subaru:  “It’s not really the time to be commenting about actually getting raised by wolves. Also, can demon beasts even raise a baby?”
gpt
Meili:  “It would be impossible for a normal kid. But I had the ability to get along with demon beasts from birth… That was why I was apparently saved.” Meili stopped there for a moment as Subaru looked speechless. “Well, anyway, this blessing is probably why I was abandoned, too… So it’s hard to say if it was good or bad. Heh-heh.”
human
Subaru:  “Meili…”
gpt
Meili:  "Hmm? Was that not funny? I thought that would get a laugh." Meili feigned looking hurt as Subaru struggled with what to even say to her.