Catherine Tells How Sebastian Died, Explained：find a way out

What's really going on

The questions look clinical, but each one pushes Catherine back into the memory she has been hiding from. She is not merely a witness; she was there, running beside him, and the telling exposes how helpless she felt. When she says, "We didn't move either way," she admits they were frozen before the pursuit even began. Sebastian's command, "Let me handle this situation, will you?", shows a man trying to control the moment while his body betrays him — she notes he was "paralyzed near the entrance at the café" and that he walked "faster and faster in panic." The horror isn't only the mob; it's that the streets themselves offered no exit. "Up. Straight up. That was the only way open," she recalls, and the memory turns the town into a trap. Her account is less an answer than a re-enactment, and by the end she is back inside it.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• Panic is written into the rhythm of the sentence itself.
• The only way here is not a plan but a trap closing.
• A ruined temple gives the chase an ending nobody wanted.
• Catherine's calm voice makes the scream louder.

発音のポイント

• all white — Link all and white into one smooth sound.
• faster and — The and in faster and is reduced to a soft schwa.
• caught on — Caught on runs together like caw-ton.