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Chapter 126: Tough Talk

Chapter 126: Tough Talk

Shuffling out of the Tomb on his own, YN went to walk to the edge where the steps to descend were, but from beyond his vision and before he could take the first step down—

Ram: —YN.

Having bounded up the stairs, faster than she had ever in any of the previous loops, the peach-haired maid YN knew well was right before him suddenly with an alarmed look on her face.

YN: R-Ram—?

Ram: —Are you injured? How bad and where are the wounds?

Just like every time before, Ram had fully expected YN to be rejected by the Trial like Roswaal had, but to her continued astonishment, as she grabbed his arms, lifting them, turning them over, and inspecting them, she found he was without injury.

Ram: ...How?

As he stood in place, unmoving, the maid went full circle around him, inspecting for any obvious lesions like what had encapsulated Roswaal's entire body. Making her way back to the front of him, Ram hastily grabbed his shirt collar to pull him down closer to her own height, which from there, she manually turned his head about, inspecting for even the smallest injury.

Ram: ...Nothing. There's... There's nothing. How is that possible...?

Talking a step back from him now, Ram's one exposed ruby eye seemed to glitter in the torchlight with a potential theory.

Ram: Unless—?

Simply nodding to the maid, her one visible eye became larger, in awe at YN. Quickly throwing a head-check behind her, looking for where Garfiel was, she re-approached YN and began to straighten his shirt collar. As she pushed his posture back to normal, the maid whispered to him.

Ram (whisper): Speak not a word of your Trial to anyone. Ram will come see you later.

The oni in her usual cunning self, had quickly recognized that YN's lack of injury and the lighting of the Tomb were all synonymous indications he had undergone the Trial, similar to how Emilia had too.

Ram's never been this concerned about me after coming out of the Tomb for the first time in a Loop... Is it because Subaru and I took longer to exit this time? We did talk for a while in there... Or maybe it's because I exited on my own this time? It's strange to say the least... She seems extra concerned over me. She understood that I took a Trial pretty much immediately, but she does that every Loop. I guess I better just go with the flow on this and maybe that'll clue me in to why it's different this time...

As Ram had let YN's condition and revelation overwhelm her thoughts, she gently shook her head, letting her peach hair sway as she regained her composure. Ram, as a maid, still had other pressing priorities too at this moment she needed to concern herself with.

Ram: Emilia-sama, and Barasu—

YN (whisper): —Both took the Trial too.

Ram, finally asking what she knew she should have started off with, nearly gasped at this second bombshell of information.

Ram (whisper): Barasu... as well?

Looking to her left and right, as if trying to quickly weigh her options on what to do with that additional thunderbolt of a fact, continued to whisper to YN.

Ram (whisper): R-Regardless, Emilia-sama; are there any issues relating to her?

YN: None.

Letting her responsibilities as a maid it felt slowly crumble due to the storm of confliction in her mind, Ram had to force herself to maintain her usual composure now. —Which, was something made even more difficult than usual due to the irregular mana replenishments she had been forced to deal with since the Mansion had been evacuated.