[ In his travels across dimensions, Subaru has caught bits and pieces of various belief systems, cultures, and customs. They were all so very fleeting as he and Kamui fled the hunter that pursued them, he can hardly say that he knows them all that well. He can safely say, however, that many have beliefs about death and about dreams.

It should come as no surprise that for some peoples, the two aren't mutually exclusive. For Subaru's part, he could no more tell whether this is or isn't a death dream, but he's certain that it is a dream of some kind. ]

I spent somewhere around two years in a magically induced sleep from which I couldn't escape... All of this makes me question whether I woke at all.

[ Has he admitted that to anyone before? Likely not. But being pulled into this particular contest for the Oracle truly does make him question. No matter which way this falls, he isn't with Kamui, and he supposes that's all that really matters in the end. Until he finds his way back to his twin, the conditions don't matter.

He can't leave him all alone again. ]

There was a soul with me, shortly before that sleep was ended. A girl. She too was asleep, but it was far more dangerous for her than me. I think... There's too much about all of this we don't know, yet we're expected to act as arbiters.