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At Mansion School, Anything can Happen
"I'm afraid none of these would fit you, Barusu. Rem, would you kindly alter one of the uniforms?" Ram seemed to be a step ahead of the game.
"Yes, he needs to look the part when he is working." Rem immediately grabbed one of the smaller uniforms, and got to work. "Please follow my sister while she gives you a tour of the mansion." Ram kept a close eye on him as he followed her around, keeping track of everything, he seemed intent to get it right. At the end of the tour he decided to speak.
"Thank you for guiding me. I hope that we can get along while we work." He smiled lightly, trying to ease the tension that he felt emanating from her. "I also thank you for taking the time to help me learn the language of this place."
"It is of little concern, it is as Master Roswaal wishes." Ram turned to the boy. "But if anything is to happen to Rem, or anyone else."
Subaru felt the anger that loomed from her threat. "Understood. I want you to know that I do not desire to harm a soul. You can see how weak I am already." Subaru gestured at his whole body. "I only want to be able to protect myself, in the event that I need to. So once again, I thank you." Subaru bowed, and ignored the stoicness of Ram. "Now, I'm going to check in with Beatrice, and try and find out about a 'schedule' of some sort, for the magic education." With that, he went to the nearest door, and opened it, walking into the library. "Hey Beatrice."
"Oh, it's you. I guess I have to treat you kinder, I suppose." She stood up and walked over to Subaru, paper in hand. "I spoke with Master Roswaal and developed the times you'll be coming to learn, I suppose." She then handed him a stone. "This will get hotter the closer to lesson time it gets, so pay attention, I suppose." Subaru looked at the small stone, and turned it over in his hand. "Once we start, we will begin with finding your affinity, I suppose."
"Affinity? Is there different magic types or something?" He noticed her nod. "I see. Well thank you, Beatrice, I need to speak with Master Roswaal, can you make your door go close to him?"
"I can, I suppose. You are a student and worker of his, I suppose." She waved her hand, and Subaru walked out, almost running into Master Roswaal.
"Master Roswaal. Sorry for nearly hitting you. I was just wondering if you had a certain schedule for our lessons in politics."
"Ah, young Subaru! I will let you know that, starting tomorrow, it will be every other day. Once you start learning how to read, we can get you a calendar."
"Thank you, sir." Subaru bowed, and gathered his bearings, and then began making his way towards his room. "Being a guest was fun while it lasted, but one must not become too content with what they have. I should learn that." Subaru continued to walk, and didn't notice that Rem was approaching him, until she had caught up with him at his door.
"Barusu, I must ask you, what caused you to want to work for Master Roswaal?" She watched as he turned towards her with a confused look on his face.
"I just wanted to change my life. I've lived too long being content with my life. Thing is, I'm not anything. I decided, if I want to live, I need to be able to take care of myself here." Subaru smiled at Rem. "I just haven't told you and Ram yet, but thank you for taking the time out of your days to educate me in literacy. I also hope we will enjoy working together." Subaru bowed to her. "Thank you. Now I am going to retire for the night."
"But Barusu, it is time for your first lesson." Subaru noticed the book, paper, and pen that she held.
"Oh, that's starting already, I never knew that." Subaru opened the door and gestured towards it. "After you." The rest of the night, Subaru paid close attention as Rem began teaching him the language. After the lesson, Subaru followed Rem to the door. "Thank you once again. If you ever need me for anything, despite how unlikely it is, I am always here. Once again, thank you. And have a nice night."
"Alright, Barusu, try not to get into trouble tonight. Sleep well." Rem bowed, and walked off. Subaru watched as she walked off, then closed the door, and returned to practicing the glyphs. After retiring for the night, he woke, and immediately got into the uniform that he hadn't noticed Rem leave last night.
"Time to start working. let's see, I believe that later tonight I have a lesson with Beatrice. I know!" quickly, before going to prepare breakfast, he went to the uniform storage and started to make a slight alteration to the lining of his coat. After placing the stone within the breast pocket and walking out, he almost ran into Emilia. "Oh, Lady Emilia, my apologies. I should be more careful."
"Subaru there is no need to be so formal, it was a simple mistake." Emilia placed a hand on Subaru's shoulder in a reassuring manner.
"I'm afraid I can not be so casual, seeing as I am working at the moment. Now if you'll excuse me Lady Emilia." With that Subaru walked off to the kitchen, where he found the twins. "Good morning Rem, Ram. How are you?"
"We are fine Barusu." Ram's cold tone started to have less of an effect on Subaru. "Could you begin peeling the tatoes?"
"Of course." Subaru quickly grabbed the knife and began trying his best to peel with the knife, occasionally slipping and cutting his hand. "Damn. Gotta be careful you klutz, no one wants blood in their tatoes." Subaru berated himself, he needs to get better at this job. After finishing he pressed his hand over the pocket, and noticed a little heat. "Ah, after breakfast I see." Subaru then began to eat the meal prepared for himself and the twins on his own, he then checked and found the stone to be getting very hot. He then started to walk of, when Rem stopped him.
"Where are you going, Barusu?" Rem's question was innocent, but suspicion was lacing her voice.
"Oh, well you see, it's time for me to begin magic training with Beatrice." He indicated his breast pocket. "She gave me a stone that would let me know when to meet her for the lessons, and it's about time. So I'm going there now. Farewell, Rem." Subaru then walked to one of the doors and walked in, meeting Beatrice.
"You're on time, I suppose." She then put the book down which she was reading, and stood up. "Are you ready to find out what affinity you have?"
"Yes, but one question, what are the different affinities?"
"There are four basic affinities, being Earth, Fire, Water, and Air, I suppose. But there are also Shadow and Light, which are much rarer, I suppose."
"Okay, now I'm wondering which one I have. Would you care to tell me?"
"I can't do it myself, I suppose. But Bubby can." That was when Puck appeared next to Beatrice.
"Morning Subaru!" The energy of that spirit was infectious.
"Morning Puck. How are you today?"
"I'm well enough. For now, Affinity time!" Puck then placed the tip of his tail on Subaru's forehead, hummed, then swirled around Subaru. "You have shadow!"
"Shadow huh, what's it do?" Heavy offensive abilities would be nice.
"It blinds enemies, weakens them, and slows them down, things like that, I suppose."
"Debuffs huh? I was hoping to have a more offensive magic, but I can work with this. Now then, how are we going to begin my education?" Subaru was ready to learn, and fast.
"We will begin by teaching you the very basic spells in your affinity, then, once you've learned those, you need to learn about other magics, so as to counter them, I suppose." Beatrice was already getting bored.
"Beatrice, thank you, for teaching me magic, I can only assume it's the last thing you want to do." She looked at him, the mild contempt in her eyes, seemed to subside.
"It was agreed upon by Master Roswaal, I cannot go against his wishes, despite my desire to, I suppose." about an hour later, the lesson finished, and Subaru was ushered out to return to his work. He quickly went and found one of the twins.
"Ram, sorry for not starting immediately. I had my lesson with Beatrice." He bowed in an apologetic manner.
"It doesn't matter Barusu, for now, go ahead and clean the windows in the manor, then sweep the steps, and finally clean the bathroom. Is that simple enough?"
"No need to take it easy on me Rem. I'll take care of it in no time!" Subaru was confident in his work, and quickly started. Then windows were simple enough, then the stairs took up little time, the bathroom on the other hand was a different story. "Oh, this is going to take a while." After cleaning the rest of the bathroom while letting the large tub drain, he began to scrub said tub. Suddenly Rem walked in.
"Barusu, once you finish this, we need to begin the preparations for dinner." She looked and saw how diligently he had cleaned. "You are doing well, Barusu." Subaru looked at her.
"Well, it is my fist day on the job, I need to try my best to impress." With that said he returned to work, a determined look on his face. The rest of the night continued without much by the way of major events. The next day was the same until dinner preparations.
"Subaru, we have a need for more spices, so tomorrow we're going to fetch some from the village." Subaru almost perked up at what Rem said.
"Alright, I'll help you as much as I can." After dinner, instead of Rem teaching him, it was Ram. "Oh, is she gathering a list for the shopping?"
Ram nodded. "Yes, Barusu, so she asked me to cover for her." She had a slight edge to her voice.
"Well you shouldn't have to do much, cause right now I'm just studying the basic 'I' glyphs until I get those down." Subaru, returning to his studies, felt her eyes burning into the back of his head. "Listen, Ram, I'm sorry if I've done anything to upset you, I just hope that we can be friends and coworkers, is that all right?" He smiled and turned to her, noticing the shocked expression quickly pass over her eyes.
"Well, Barusu, if you can handle that, then I suppose that I'll let you be." Subaru continued, but noticed she didn't leave. He turned and saw that she was passed out on his bed.
"Heh, she really shouldn't exhaust herself, I feel like she's been working too much, but I doubt that." The rest of the night consisted of him studying until he passed out at his desk.
The next morning after breakfast Subaru and Rem went down to the village to gather more spices. Whilst Rem bought the spices, he walked around the village, and got caught up with children. When they reunited, Subaru was holding a spare rag to his hand.
"Subaru, what happened to your hand?" Rem was concerned, but not overly so.
"Ah, this, I got caught up with some kids and the little dog that they had bit me. No big deal." Subaru walked over to Rem, and hoisted up the barrel of spices she had. "Well, shall we return to the mansion."
"Yes, lets." With the spices back at the mansion and the chores finished, they retired for the night. The next morning, Subaru was in a different room than usual.
"I know this ceiling." Subaru sat up and saw the twins at the foot of the bed, the bed he woke up in when he first came to the mansion. It hit him like a wave.