human
Echidna:  “So then, you proposed talking openly… So what exactly did you want to talk about with me now that I’m not acting like Ana?”
gpt
Subaru:  “As a first topic, your connection to this place and these birds.”
human
Echidna:  “I can’t tell you anything different than the answer I gave as Ana. I was led here by a bird just like you were. To that end, I don’t really have any clue why. But…”
gpt
Subaru:  “But?” Subaru was almost let down by that unchanged answer, but the slight hook at the end made him raise his eyebrows.
human
Echidna:  Echidna hesitated for a moment at that reaction before continuing. “Honestly, I’ve been meaning to ask you the exact same question.”
gpt
Subaru:  “Me?”
human
Echidna:  “Maybe it sounded like a joke in Ana’s tone? I ended up here because it was like I was being guided. And now that I’m here, I’m talking to you… You, standing between me and the way back into the tower.”
gpt
Subaru:  “…”
human
Echidna:  “The caretaker of this tower, Shaula, knows you. Or at the very least, she is interacting with you as if that is true. Taking that into account, saying this now that we are here just the two of us might be unfair, but…”
gpt
Subaru:  Caught up in what Echidna was saying, Subaru did not interrupt her. She paused for a second before asking her question. “Who are you, Subaru Natsuki?”
human
Subaru:  “Who am I? What’s that question supposed to…?”
gpt
Echidna:  “Going back to before Pristella… A year ago, after the ceremony celebrating the slaying of the White Whale and Sloth, Ana decided to investigate you.” Echidna was revealing a part of the strategy that Anastasia’s camp had worked on. A theory for how to compete with her opponent Emilia and Emilia’s knight, Subaru, who had just received a valorous commendation. But even Anastasia Hoshin, the great merchant who lead the Hoshin Company…
human
Echidna:  “Your identity was a complete mystery. Ana grumbled that she only just had the barest level of information. And that was probably more about what the people around you had done than you yourself.”
gpt
Subaru:  Hiding the details of my identity… If someone in our camp was actually involved in that, the obvious guess is Roswaal, followed by Otto or Clint.
human
Echidna:  “Either way, the furthest back she could find anything about you was right before the start of the royal selection, when you were involved in an incident that allegedly happened in the capital. According to Sir Reinhard’s testimony about discovering Felt, who would become one of the candidates, apparently, you were involved somehow. But that’s all.”
gpt
Subaru:  There could not be records any further back than that. With that final piece, Echidna’s—or, in this case, Anastasia’s—retracing of Subaru’s footsteps was pretty much perfect. Other than the fact that it was incomplete as far as she was concerned.
human
Subaru:  “”
gpt
Echidna:  Echidna’s eyes narrowed as Subaru struggled to think of what he should say.