human
Subaru:  "I don’t know much about the reason things went sour between the two of you. I might be off the mark for all I know. But from my outsider’s point of view, you and Reinhard genuinely want to patch things up. In that case, it’s a lot better for the one doing the apologizing to go first.”
gpt
Subaru:  “Surely, Reinhard will refuse to forgive me.”
human
Subaru:  “If he won’t forgive you right away, keep apologizing until he does. In the first place, apologizing isn’t about someone forgiving you, is it? You apologize because you want to. The desire to apologize is selfish and arbitrary. I mean, the person apologizing is the one who did something bad in the first place.”
gpt
Wilhelm:  Wilhelm was bewildered by Subaru’s shocking leaps in logic.
human
Subaru:  “So yeah, apologizing all of a sudden after so many years have passed will make someone think, What’s with this guy? But over the course of apologizing a bunch of times, that’ll start changing. Hard to tell whether it’ll become This guy’s beyond help or This guy’s so annoying, though.”
gpt
Wilhelm:  “I believe that would count as a change for the worse.”
human
Subaru:  “But it’s still a change. Wouldn’t any progress at all be better than keeping things horribly frozen in place like they are now?”
gpt
Subaru:  “—Reinhard told me he wants to hear about what happened during the fight with the White Whale.” Subaru revealed the fact that would probably become the key.
human
Subaru:  “I don’t know what the White Whale has to do with you two not getting along. But if it is connected, Reinhard knows it’s Mr. Wilhelm who struck the White Whale down. He knows that you spent over a decade to avenge his grandma, too.”
gpt
Subaru:  “He probably hopes it’s high time for things stuck in the past to start moving, too.”