human
Subaru:  Moving back in front of the first monolith, the three of them put their heads together.
gpt
Emilia:  “Great hero destroyed by Shaula, touch upon his grandest splendor… It feels like someone trying to sound epic.”
human
Subaru:  “It’s certainly an abstract sort of phrasing. But if this requires Shaula’s memories to solve it, then it’s a failure of a test, isn’t it?”
gpt
Emilia:  “I can’t really say I disagree.”
human
Subaru:  For something that calls itself an examination, if the solution requires relying on someone other than the exam taker—and not just someone else, but the person who is supposed to be managing the tower—then that’s totally unfair.
gpt
Subaru:  They were currently on friendly terms with Shaula, through no fault or effort of their own, and had managed to get into the tower without fighting her, but were it not for that, they could have easily been in for a brutal fight to the death.
human
Subaru:  Even if they had succeeded, it was very possible they would’ve had to kill her just to gain access to this place. “That would make it basically impossible to ever pass this examination.”
gpt
Emilia:  “If whoever set this up didn’t wany to let anyone pass, then that would be one way. Putting a powerful guardian as a first line of defense and then making it so that the exam was impossible to clear if that guardian was defeated.”
human
Emilia:  “But you don’t think that’s what this is. Right?”
gpt
Subaru:  “Well, yeah.” Subaru smiled wryly with a nod as Emilia stared at him with eyes filled with expectation.
human
Subaru:  It was Subaru’s weak point. He had no defense against people like Emilia or Beatrice giving him that look.
gpt
Subaru:  It was the same with Rem and Garfiel and Otto, too. And Petra and—there was no end to it if he really thought about it. Patlash and Ram were the only ones who didn’t do it.
human
Subaru:  “Hmm. With a few notable exceptions, questions like this are generally designed to be solvable. If you really wanted to hide something, then it makes no sense to purposely give anyone a chance to find it.”
gpt
Emilia:  “Right, so you’re saying this is something different?”
human
Subaru:  “Shaula said this is a great library where we could find anything we wanted to know or discover, right? That doesn’t sound like the sort of thing she would say off the top of her head. More like something she was told herself once. In which case it was her master who made this place and left it in Shaula’s care. In other words, her master intended for it to serve as a library from the beginning.”
gpt
Subaru:  And the more Subaru tugged the thread of that possibility, the more their current situation felt unnatural.
human
Subaru:  The creator of the Great Pleiades Library must have intended for it to be used. That explained the examination and Shaula’s watch.
gpt
Subaru:  “So from the start, it’s something only people who can get along with Shaula can use?”
human
Emilia:  “But Shaula was told to take out everyone who approaches the tower.”