Talk:Natsuki Subaru/Synopsis/@comment-103.83.212.218-20180423075340/@comment-29781768-20180423102205

Chapter 42 is called "Tower of The Dead"

Summary by Reddit user "Usterm"

Summary :

Subaru is repeating "kill kill kill" to himself, while planning on killing everyone. Even thinking about how easy it'd be to kill the children. Then he finds Shaula a bit sliced up with her head smashed in. Echidna's dead too. Ram's got a hole in her, seemingly from Shaula's attack. Julius is sliced up, seemingly defending Meili. Meili bled out from her wounds.

Everyone is dead. Subaru was relieved the first time he saw one dead, because it meant one less for him to kill, but his enthusiasm left him. He notes that he hasn't seen Betty or Emilia's corpses anywhere. Betty wouldn't leave a body, as a spirit and all, and what happened to Emilia may be answered later.

Also, it seems I was mistaken. Patrasche is alive. It was the other Earth Dragon who died. Subaru shanks her, but Patrasche doesn't mind. In fact, she grabs him and frantically starts running out as shadows start swallowing up the tower. Dragging him outside as the whole thing gets gobbled up by darkness. Which may answer what happened to Emilia.

As he's outside, watching the tower sink into shadows and shit, after Patrasche saved him and got swallowed, he sees something. Not a shadow, lizard, or bird. He asks who it is, and it replies, in a voice he doesn't recognize,

"Next, try guessing, hero."

Then his head goes flying off, he wakes up, and he rushes over to hug his dragon.

Notes: The "Next" implies the killer knows RbD. Emilia probably got possessed again, but is not the killer. Also, of all the people we know and have seen in the tower, Rem is the only one whose voice he has never heard. Just saying. Hero. I'm not alone in observing any of this either.

Oh, and Subaru thinks he could totally beat up Julius in a swordfight, since he took Kendo. Glad to see that reference from the early WN is still in.