human
Echidna:  "If I cooperate with you, the people you absolutely wish to save will arrive at a future in which they are saved. You will have no more reason to worry. In extremis, I will find the answers to the problems that you must directly confront. All you need do is put them into effect, thus climbing over the walls. If you are afraid you must continue to worry, one choice you have is entrusting those worries to me. I will not fault you for this. I will welcome it. Therefore, I now ask you once more."
gpt
Echidna:  "Since you do not understand what to do, how about letting me lead you by the hand? I promise, I will bring you to the future you desire without fail."
human
Echidna:  Echidna stretched her hand out to Subaru. If he took that hand, a pact would be formed. Echidna would cooperate with Subaru in accordance with her words.
gpt
Subaru:  "Echidna. —I’m afraid of being hurt."
human
Subaru:  "I hate pain, suffering, and sadness. I don’t want to go through painful times, and I don’t want to watch someone other than me go through bad things, either. —I don’t want to die."
gpt
Subaru:  "So because it’s predicated on sacrifice, I won’t—take your hand anymore."
human
Subaru:  "I don’t know exactly what everyone felt like they lost yet. —But I think I want to find out. If I understand that, I think I can repay everyone in a way besides death."
gpt
Echidna:  "…But that is a path of thorns. The shortest way to the future is to choose to use your life as a tool and cut it open. It would have been better if you offered your heart alone. To reject this, and to preserve both your own heart and someone else’s future in your hands at the same time, is most difficult, and moreover—" Echidna cut off her words with a pause of her breath.