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The Distance Between Starlight by Falwind
Fandoms: Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 | Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World (Anime)
12 Oct 2025
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Summary
Subaru loved her. So deeply it broke him. And when everything collapsed, when his hands were soaked in sacrifice and his heart emptied by failure, he left without asking for thanks or forgiveness. Just a charm attached to a letter, and a plea to forget him.
But Emilia remembered.
She remembered the boy who screamed and cried and still smiled for her. She remembered the warmth in his voice when he called her Emilia-tan. And she remembered how she turned away when he needed her most.
Now, she stands where he once did: broken, mending, and desperate to be enough. To change. To reach him. To carry the weight he once bore.
When she finds him again, he’s not the same. He’s calm, poised, untouchable. But beneath the silk and charm, she sees it: the grief, the guilt, the boy who never forgave himself for surviving.
He tells her it’s too late. That they’re done.
But she doesn’t flinch.
This isn’t a story about forgiveness. It’s about clawing your way back through shame and silence. About becoming the person you weren’t, when it mattered most.
It’s a story about earning your second chance.
Even if it kills you.