Re: The Cost

Written by LiquidAngel

(a/n): Sorry for the late update. The story have changed tremendously so I was busy re-planning it. Form next time, the upload speed will be a bit more faster. Now the new Arch begins! From now on, the chapters will be a little longer, and the real stroy will begin. Enjoy the new Arch and let me know what you think :D

Chapter 4: Life


Life isn't something to be belittled. But it is a fact that it is fragile like a candle in front of a wild wind.


"-So we talked about the Orientalism today. We also-"

It was a boring ethics lesson and Subaru was being tortured-

"Pss! Subaru-kun." -by the blue devil.

"Psst~ my Subaru-kun~" Rem chirped, dozing of on Subaru's shoulder. Her voice tickled Subaru's whole mind.

"You haven't forgot about our date today, Subaru-kun? Rem is so excited what we will do... She heard that on the first date, couples ki-" Rem's passionate monologue was interrupted by teacher's booming voice.

"Rem! I hope you aren't digging in your Subaru in my class." several giggles were heard. Petra, a blond girl in Subaru's class, looked at them enviously.

"O-of course! Rem was just talking about your class with-"

"Then would you kindly explain to the class about what Confucius(the philosopher of the East) said? We were taking about that right now.""

"Uh- um.." Rem couldn't reply as she did nothing but hug, rub, and chirp with Subaru.

"He said "The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; He is prepared to give up his time, effort, and even life. Such a man may be reckoned a complete men.". You didn't listened to the class, did you?" The bell rang, telling them the class was over.

"Rem, you will have a after-school class with me today. Well... That's it for today, everyone. You are dismissed."

"A-after-school class?! But t-teacher?! Rem has an important date-"

"You heard me Rem. LEFT-OVER CLASS. Do you understand?"

"Y-yes sir..."

Hearing the classmates giggle, Rem flopped next to Subaru with a sad face. Rem said nothing as others swarmed out of the class to enjoy their luch time. To cheer up the mood, Subaru took out his lunch box.

"Rem-rin? How about we have lunch with Beatrice? I also brought mayonnaise too!"

Hearing the word 'Mayonnaise', Rem opened her eyes wide.

"T-then, is Subaru-kun is taking Rem to a date?"

"W-what?! Um.. I think it is just a normal lunch..." But when he saw Rem's puppy face, Subaru gave up.

"Gha! Okay. It is a library date then. Pack your lunch box Rem." As soon as he finished his sentence, he ran out of the classroom with his face blushing madly. Rem who is left alone packed her lunchbox that shaped like Subaru's face.

"What a lovely Subaru-kun~~"


Few minutes later-

"May I ask you why you are eating your lunch in Betty's quiet library, I suppose?"

"Wow Beako. You really read a lot! I can't believe you are my age! You are more like a teacher! Wow look at how thick this-"

"Are you listening to Betty's words, I wonder?!"

It was a 'quiet' library where Subaru, Beatrice, and Rem ate their lunch in peace...with exception of Beatrice, a girl from Subaru's next class.

"Betty is the only one that can eat her lunch in this library. Betty made sure of that with a library teacher!, I suppose!"

"Oi, Beako. If you scream like that, you won't get taller anymore. Let's just have a quiet and lovely luch together. Look at how beautifully Rem is eating."

"S-Subaru-kun thinks that Rem is so cute that he wants Rem as a bride."

Subaru's face began to blush. However, Beatrice slammed the table as if she was pissed off.

"You two are the VERY DISTURBANCE of my peaceful lunch, I suppose!"

Hearing this, Subaru and Rem looked up at Beatrice and put their fingers on their lips.

"Shhh~ be quiet Beako."

"Shhh~ please be quiet Lady Beako."

FInally lost her temper, Beatrice jumped up on the table and screamed at the couple.

"LADY BEAKO?! I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU IF YOU WAN'T TO CALL ME 'LADY', YOU SHOULD CALL ME LADY BEATRICE!" Rem giggled at Beatrice childish reaction. However, Subaru's face was pink.

"Um.. Beatrice? I see you are wearing pink today..."

Beatrice didn't realized what he meant, but when she did, she kick Subaru on his face.

"You are a pervert! How dare you place your dirty eyes on Betty!" Beatrice hurriedly climbed down the table she was on and made an angry(but cute) face at Subaru, whose noses were bleeding.

"Blood! Red alart! Subaru-kun is bleeding! Rem is going to take care of you!"

Rem jumped up and down and pulled out a bunch of napkins with Subaru printed on it.

"Rem? Why are your napkin has my- guh, never mind. Just don't use that in public."

Never noticing Subaru's comment, Rem stuffed generous amount of napkins in Subaru's nose in order to stop the bleeding. But when Rem thought that the amount wasn't enough, she began to stuff more and more which eventually made Subaru suffocate.

"I think that is enough- (cough) No seriously ENOUGH! (cough)(cough)" Surprised, Rem retreated a huge bunch of napkins that was choking Subaru.

"R-Rem is sorry for her misbehavior! Rem will get any punishment that she rightfully deserves!"

"No Rem. Seriously? I won't punish you for this. How can I? Thanks to you, the bleeding received from the clumsy Beako stopped."

"If you keep calling me 'clumsy' or 'Beako' again, You will get another bleeding, I suppose."

However, saying this, Beatrice silently murmured; 'Though Betty does not dislike being called 'Beako.'

But the couples were too busy to hear the sentence as they were cleaning the mess they created. When Subaru spotted Rem nicking on of the knapkins with his blood on it, Subaru sighted.

"Tut tut, Rem-rin. Are you seriously nicking the bloody tissue? You are becoming more of a yandeare you know." Caught in action, Rem sadly threw away what she tried to 'steal'.

Looking at the scene, Beatrice sighed.

"Well, those two really fit each other, thanks to their stupidness, I suppose. They don't match Beatty's intelligent self." She frowned a little when the idea popped into her head.

Will... Betty be no match for Subaru, I wonder?

She shooed off the idea and continued watching Rem who was chasing after Subaru to get back her homemade 'Subaru napkin'.


After a quite an energetic lunch, Subaru was lying on his back at the school garden.

"Thanks to you Rem, I think everything I ate is already digested."

Rem, who was snuggling beside Subaru smiled.

"Well that means Rem's Subaru-kun is in good shape. Rem is looking forward for Subaru-kun's admirable body for Rem to admire-though Rem would love him feeble or muscular."

"Ugh..." Too embarrassed to continue the talk, Subaru just closed his eyes and enjoyed the warm breeze. Rem suddenly hopped on Subaru and hugged him tightly.

"Subaru-kun." Rem whispered.. Blushing at the fact that Rem was on top of him, Subaru lost his words.

"Sorry that Rem is too aggressive and daring today. But please know that Rem loves her Subaru-kun."

I love you, Subaru-kun

The words poured down at Subaru so bluntly that it made him dumbfounded. Rem just smiled as if she had more things to say.

"Rem loves you, Subaru-kun."

"I- I..."

"Yes. Rem knows you have some feeling to Emilia, but please keep in mind that Rem loves you."

"U-um..."

"So.. May I sleep like this for a while?"

"..."

"..."

"... WHAT?!" finally realizing what Rem said at the last part, Subaru tried to shrug off Rem. But the blue haired girl was holding on his shirt as if her life depended on it. Subaru heard a soft snore coming from her.

"Hmpf. I think I should stay like this for a while." Subaru thought out loud.

Blushing, Subaru too closed his eyes in ordered to catch a short nap.

"What a lovely blue devil she is, huh." Subaru whispered.

'Blue devil souednd like a bad nickname.' Subaru thought and soon fell drowned into a peaceful nap hugging Rem lightly.

.

But Subaru never noticed that a small grin appeared on Rem's face.


Time passed and it was almost the end of the school.

"Subaru-kun. Please wait for Rem. Rem will do her best and catch up with you!" Rem said. She looked so eager that Subaru was thinking she might threaten the teacher.

"W-well, I'll be waiting around the fountain. Take your time Rem."

Subaru worriedly said goodbye and hurried to the mall.

When Subaru reached the mall, the total stock of a musical ticket were almost sold out.

"I-I baely made it!" Subaru exclaimed. He held two tickets-one for him and the other for Rem-in his hand and sat beside a fountain and waited for Rem.

30 minutes passed and Rem didn't showed up. Even though the Ethics teacher was a bit strict, he is the last person to make his student have after-classes for more than an hour. Feeling nervous, Subaru stood up to look for Rem. He entered the ally which was a bit dim by building's shadow.

'It is creepy...' Subaru thought.

Actually, his instict was telling him that something was wrong. As Subaru experianced couple of deaths, he was 'familiar' with the atomsphere of death, and he was sensing one here. Subaru pulled out his phone to call Rem but its battery was dead.

"Shit. I don't like this." Subaru cursed under his breath.

Now, getting back to the fountain sounded like a good idea.

'But Rem might be in trouble. Shouldn't I be there for her?'

But what if he gets into trouble? Rem might be on her way and was stuck in a traffic jam.

'No... This was no time for any streets nearby to have traffic jams.'

Fighting with his internal panic Subaru made his feet move on.

Subaru walk quite a long time and now reached in front of a narrow dark alley. He was about to ignore it when he found a mini figure on the ground... The figure that resembled Natsuki Subaru himself.

"No.. This is..." Subaru opened his mouth in horror. The figure is custom built, which means that it belonged to only one person he knew- Rem

Suddenly a gush of panic smashed him. Rem treasured this figure so much that she wouldn't let it drop like this. Actually, she always polished it and kissed on it.

"Caught Red-handed, aren't I?"

A chilling voice flew from the dark alley beside him. Before he turned to face that direction, he felt a stabbing pain in his back and fell forword.

His face impacted the merciless ground which welcomed his bloody figure. As his eyes faced toward the alley, Subaru was able to see the bloody mess that lied inside. And all those blood was from a corpse that fell limp few feets away.

"R-rem? REM! REM-REM-R-REM AHHH REEEM!" Subaru cried out in despair. But it never reached the lifeless body of a blue haired girl who loved him so much.

"Ah~ you must be [The Subaru-kun] the girl screamed about. The hero who's going to save her, huh? Unfortunately, you failed. I thought you are the one- but now, that doesn't matter anyway. I loved your warmth."

The killer- or much like a psychopath began to laugh like crazy but Subaru wasn't able to hear it. He felt his body drown once again to the depth of the darkness.

He was dead.


(a/n): Good? Bad? I hope you guys liked this! Killer's vague words will be explained soon. And thanks to Red and ReviewR524-Lordmore for your opinions for the school scene. I hope you liked them(but they were too short... What a shame.). I will see you guys soon. Until then, have a good writing~!

P.S. ReviewR524-Lordmore is not a bad name. We can call you Reviewr. (Then...will I be called LA? :U)