It’s not that she’s clueless, but she’s a witch with a lot of confusing looks.
Coffin - The witch is lying in a black coffin that stands vertically. She looks about thirteen or fourteen years old.
Her gray hair that reaches her back is tied into two hanging ponytails. She wears white clothes and is fixed in the coffin with a black straitjacket and iron chains. The eyepatch covering her eyes has the intersection point at the center of her face. Not so much her appearance.
Dangerous, rather, her appearance has an overwhelming sense of witch compared to others so far.
"I came out because I was constantly being noised by Donna~ I was sleeping soundly~...because~ I don't want to be awake for too long~ Please don't say boring words~"
"Oh, okay, thank you for coming out. What you just said was more like "sloth" than "gluttony"... Are you the "Gluttony Witch"?"
It would be inconvenient to stand far away since the other party couldn't see him. However, because Echidna had just given her advice, Subaru only took a cautious step forward.
Suddenly, Daphne in the coffin twitched her nose gently and murmured:
"Ah...this is a powerful poison to Daphne's body - Centipede Coffin"
"--Well!"
As soon as he called out, the scene in front of him made a sound of surprise deep in Subaru's throat.
To put it simply, it was just Daphne moving behind her, as if to open up the distance that Subaru had shortened.
However, the method of movement was beyond Subaru’s imagination.
The lower half of the coffin that bound Daphne suddenly floated off the ground. The reason came from the feet growing out of the bottom of the coffin—the feet of arthropods such as spiders or crabs. Those feet lifted the coffin and moved it backward.
A moving coffin - but compared to this statement, it is more like the movements of living creatures.
"Then, that...can I ask what that is...?"
"Which one~? Please tell me so that Daphne, who is invisible, can understand~"
"It's...a very beautiful coffin. From my narrow knowledge, coffins usually don't have legs, and they don't move with fast movements like insects."
The coffin made a creaking sound and landed at its destination as if sitting down. The long legs retracted inside again. It was very similar to the movement of a turtle hiding its hands and feet in its carapace, but the level of weirdness was incomparable. Subaru swallowed at the sight, while Daphne
It’s a nod to express understanding.
"Oh~ If it's a centipede coffin, it's because Daphne can't move. That's why we made this child. It relies on Daphne's sweat and discharge to move. It's very convenient~?"
“Suddenly the topic of bodily fluids that I don’t want to hear came up.”
In short, it is a creature that feeds on the host's waste materials and moves around. I think it was because of her poor expression, so I thought about it in my mind first, but it turned out to be too abnormal.
The most unusual part is probably the part about "making this child"
"Staying next to Subaru, Daphne's body won't be able to bear it... because Subaru has a smell that Daphne likes very much... it makes people want to eat it~"
"I want to eat...it doesn't sound good to me."
The expression is cute, but the witch said "I want to eat Subaru" without hesitation, and she did so literally, with no other meaning besides preying - that is to say, she does not object to cannibalism.
You can't defeat the opponent with common sense and ethics. In order to control the pace, Subaru strikes first.
"I understand that it doesn't make sense for us to talk to each other for too long. Now that we know it, let me ask you a quick question about the three major Warcraft you created."
"Three major magical beasts...?"
"——! They are monsters like the white whale, the big rabbit, and the black snake! You made them, right!?"
Her attitude seemed like she was not impressed. Subaru became anxious and said the name of the monster while speaking fiercely. After hearing the name, Daphne shook her head left and right a few times before saying:
"Oh~ It's a whale~ Bunny~ Are there any snakes?"
"I just said..."
"Who told Subaru to call them strange names? They are names given by humans. I have never heard of them. Those children escaped from Daphne on their own."
Daphne was twisting her body inside the coffin, trying to dodge Subaru's anger. It seemed that she had no consciousness of creating life.
——It is obvious that Daphne’s actions in creating the monster can be said to be comparable to the power of God.
"Then why make them..."
"——? What did you say~?"
"Why! Create them! You put them into this world!"
Unable to stand her irrelevant attitude, Subaru roared at the Mother of Monsters
He blushed with anger, pointed at Daphne and shouted
"Four hundred years have passed since you died! Do you know how rampant the monsters are!? Instead of just a few people dying, dozens or hundreds of people have died! The number of victims is still increasing to this day!"
What comes to mind is the fierce battle with the white whale on Rufus Plains
The screams and persistence of Wilhelm who lost his wife, the days of lamentation and anger of the soldiers who participated in that battle - the origin of all this comes from the coffin witch in front of him
"For what! Why did you create that monster, the white whale!?"
"——? Aren't big creatures more valuable to eat?"
"——Uh, what?"
Subaru's words were aggressive, but Daphne's baffled expression from the bottom of her heart blocked his anger. Such an attitude made Subaru lose his temper and groan, while Daphne became more and more confused.
"The white whale is very big~ yo? That kid, if you use it to eat, can't it feed a lot of people~?"
"What did you say……?"
"Big Rabbit, you can increase the number no matter how much you want. As long as the child is here, no one will go hungry. It's amazing, isn't it?"
"On the contrary, many people were eaten by rabbits!!"
What Daphne said was simply fragmented. If we simply take her literal meaning, we can know that the reason why she created the Warcraft was to solve the food problem. In order to save the people who were suffering from famine, she spawned Warcraft to provide food - and those Warcraft
, but caused a lot of sacrifices
"Your thoughtfulness has had the opposite effect! Why do people who are fed and eaten by monsters still..."
"I want to eat each other, but I don't consider the possibility of being eaten. Isn't this too willful?"
The smiling Daphne said to the bitter-faced Subaru in a very matter-of-fact tone.
"————"
Swallowing these words, trying hard to understand, and finally realizing that I can't understand
I was deceived by the appearance and language skills, thinking that this was a conversation between people.
However, this is a misunderstanding. The girl in front of me is definitely not a "human"
"That's the law of animals..."
The weak eat the strong - Daphne's concept of action comes from this, and she does not find value in a world where the strong eats the weak. Her focus has always been on "eating"
Echidna said that Daphne is dangerous and that she is a being that cannot be spoken to. Now Subaru knows why.
Because Subaru and Daphne's values are so different.
She is a witch. These witches are the only seven true witches in this world.
"The same goes for Subaru...don't you think of "Gluttony" too simply?"
"————"
"Appetite~ is the most important desire for survival~? After all, if you don't satisfy your appetite, you won't be able to survive~"
"————"
"Even if there is no stability, even if you are not loved, even if you can't express your feelings, even if you can't maintain your self-esteem, even if you can't get what you want, even if you don't desire anything, you won't die, right~ But..."
"————"
"If you don't eat, you will die~?"
Among the seven deadly sins, only "gluttony" is directly related to life.
The true meaning of "gluttony" is to indulge in an appetite that exceeds needs. However, what Daphne is talking about at this moment is the appetite needed for survival.
That is an undeniable truth, but——
"Part of what you said is correct, I agree with that, but that has nothing to do with..."
"If Subaru also tries to be extremely hungry, he will understand it once. He will know the meaning of what Daphne said, and he will understand what kind of world Daphne and Bunny live in."
He was extremely hungry. If this was really used as a citation, Subaru would not be able to reply.
Subaru has never been starved to the point of dying. In his original world, in an ordinary family in modern Japan, there is basically no crisis of food shortage. Even if he is summoned to another world, he will soon meet Emilia.
, was lucky enough to be picked up back to Roswaal Mansion
I have never been trapped by food in my life, so I can't really understand what Daphne is saying.
——It is impossible to understand the mood of the witch who is now suffering from the unbearable pain of hunger.
"Excuse me, was it your hunger that gave birth to the monster Big Rabbit..."
"Because those children were born based on this, especially when Daphne was so hungry that her chest was touching her back...so I can understand their feelings of eating each other~"
"...Don't you even have a conscience? Let the monster you created taste that kind of hunger."
"——? Even if the bunny is hungry, Daphne won't be hungry after eating it~?"
"...I am an idiot for asking you."
No matter how much we talk about each other, it is impossible to understand each other with this witch.
For Daphne, even her own monster is just a reserve of food that she catches when she is hungry, born by herself, eaten by herself, the ultimate version of self-sufficiency - she is completely the mother of Big Rabbit.
Faced with Daphne like this, it might be useless to talk nonsense, but——
"If I say I want to annihilate Big Rabbit, can you teach me how?"
"Hey~ you want to destroy the baby rabbit~? That baby is very weak and easy to eat, and it will also increase in size. It's Daphne's confidence~"
"Since you want to force the idea of eating or being eaten, which is the law of the jungle, I hope you can also agree with the survival instinct of killing the opponent in order to survive."
Daphne uses theories that go beyond common sense to cause trouble, and Subaru also uses sophistry to refute
If they have different values, there is no way to have a dialogue. At first glance, it looks like there is a back-and-forth dialogue between Subaru and Daphne, but in fact neither party caught what the other said.