"You know Naruto!? Are you from—!"
As Subaru asked hopefully, the blue haired guy gestured him to follow him.
"Let's talk where there are less people."
"Mhm!"
Subaru nodded and followed him.
A person from Earth, but doesn't look like it.
—So, if I got directly summoned, he must have reincarnated or transmigrated!
As they arrived in an alleyway without any people, and the guy asked him with curiousity, "Are you from Earth too?"
"Yeah! You too!?"
—Yes! Finally! Someone from Earth! Should I ask his help for adjusting into the new world!? No no, I shouldn't burden him. But if I can give my phone to him, isn't it fine?
The blue haired guy also seemed excited about meeting an Earthling.
"I was reincarnated. I guess you got pulled into this world like standard Isekai. Truck-kun?"
"No! I was just coming out of convenience store,and then I found myself in this world!"
"Seriously? No Truck-kun? Saving a cat or anything?"
"No, nothing."
By talking about this stuff with someone, Subaru finally started relaxing.
"I am glad that I found someone! You don't know what kind of crazy stuff I just went through.
A crazy woman just cut through my abdomen and started admiring my intestines... It was crazy... So painful... I can still remember it..."
The guy winced at just imagining what Subaru went through.
Who even admires intestines, filled with poop? What a crazy murderer...
"Then do you have some super regeneration cheat? That seems really painful. And... don't call anyone Satella. It's basically the name of the Demon Queen who consumed half of the world."
"B-but she said that was her name!"
"She clearly didn't know you. Do you have a save point like cheat? Like a game?"
As the blue-haired guy asked him about his cheat, everything clicked in place. Subaru's eyes widened in realisation as his mind cleared.
Yes. Dying, then arriving at the appa stall. Night becoming day. Not-Satella not recognising him. His wounds being not there at all.
It is, Return by Death!
"Yes! That must be it! After dying, I always arrived—"
Suddenly, the world stopped and Subaru started shivering.
The fear, the instinctual fear of something incomprehensible felt more agonizing than dying to Elsa.
Invisible hands fondled his heart, giving it a light squeeze, as if warning him against telling anyone about his cheat.
The world resumed again, and Subaru started clutching his chest, gasping for breath.
"Hey hey! Are you alright!? Are you having heart attack!? Or trauma!? Take deep breaths! I will call a healer—"
Subaru saw his panicked face, heard his panicked face, and decided to ignore the warning.
He will rather feel that terrible pain of his heart getting squeezed than not telling it to someone from Earth! Someone who can help him, and prevent him from dying again and again!
"I am fine! My cheat is Return by Death!"
Subaru pushed through the fear and pain, and revealed Return by Death.
And at that moment, the world not only stopped, but it also lost its colour.
Subaru felt like the blue haired guy was still conscious, could still hear and see him.
Or perhaps it was all just Subaru's messed-up mind's delusion. Delusion of getting saved. Delusion of thinking that the one who can help him being strong.
The colours returned to the world, it started moving again, but the blue-haired guy seemed stuck.
"Oi! What happened!? Can you hear me!?"
And then, before Natsuki Subaru's eyes, the blue haired guy's heart exploded.
Blood came out from all his orifices, and he dropped on the ground in his own pool of blood.
The blue-haired guy has died.