human
Echidna:  "I didn’t really check too deeply before, but what’s going on with Anastasia?"
gpt
Echidna:  “…No changes yet. Ana is still sleeping deep in this body. I’ve never inhabited her body this long, either, so I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t getting anxious.”
human
Subaru:  "Anxious?"
gpt
Echidna:  "Like I told you before." Echidna touched her borrowed body’s chest, implying that Anastasia was sleeping in that location as she closed her eyes. "It’s been a month now that I’ve been borrowing her body. I didn’t exactly take things lightly before, but…the feeling that her life is continually being shaved away is still heavy.”
human
Echidna:  "So I have to give her body back to her as soon as possible." Echidna finished with that.
gpt
Subaru:  The details made Subaru realize that he had been taking their situation too casually. At the same time, Anastasia’s handicap felt almost too large. "Can she really take the throne with her body in that…messed-up condition?"
human
Echidna:  "Do you mean that Ana should give up her right in favor of your master?"
gpt
Subaru:  “Gh! This isn’t a joke! That’s not what I meant at all! I—”
human
Echidna:  "Ana will never withdraw. She won’t give up, either. I know that much."
gpt
Subaru:  Subaru stepped forward and raised his voice, but Echidna sharply cut him off. Overwhelmed by the force of it, Subaru blinked. And then slowly, carefully…
human
Subaru:  “…Does Anastasia really want her own country that badly? Even if she might have to give it up again before long?”
gpt
Echidna:  "It might be shorter than the time an average person has, but Ana will use that short time far better than anyone else. And Ana has her own reason for not being able to give up on the throne."
human
Subaru:  Subaru’s voice was weak.
gpt
Echidna:  Echidna’s was filled with faith in Anastasia. And the reason for not giving up that she mentioned. That was…
human
Echidna:  "Because that is what she wants." At some point, Echidna had stood up straight and walked over to Subaru, standing face-to-face with him in the middle of the balcony. She said that while looking him straight in the eye. Subaru was frozen in place. It was a different sort of weight from the Pleiades’s examination pushing down on him. He could not move, and no words came to his lips. Echidna did not say anything, either. With the two of them frozen there, the only sound that split the night air was the beat of wings from behind, coming to join the resting flock. Another bird coming to the balcony… From behind…
gpt
Subaru:  Subaru had not moved from the start and still had the wall of the tower at his back. If the noise was coming from behind, then it was coming from inside the tower. Echidna and Subaru had been brought there by the flapping wings of a bird. So then naturally, a third set of wings would also…
human
Subaru:  "What are…you talking about…?" A voice that sounded almost dumbfounded, as if some core belief had been shaken.