Chapter 1
Before the newly reincarnated teenager could spout anymore choice words at the sky, a carefree voice sounded in her mind.
"Yooo, it's me the guy who decided to reincarnate you as Felt."
She felt her eye twitch in annoyance and promptly replied with a stern "Why?".
"It was for the simple reason of entertainment. Now before you start yelling I suggest you listen carefully to what I have to say." The voice in her head said and although reluctant, she did as it said and sat down on a crate, giving them her attention for now.
"I've reincarnated you 3 days before Subaru gets summoned and this world follows the anime albeit with some cut content included. As you already know, you being here will create changes in the timeline and I don't really care about that as long as you don't deviate from your mission."
"My mission?" She asked aloud. She had already gotten over the shock of being the opposite gender and since she retained next to nothing of her past life's memories, it was easy to get used to being Felt and not Keith.
Though she wasn't lying when she said it made her slightly uncomfortable, she did have the memories of when she was reincarnated and she was obviously of the male gender back then. Even now she could barely glance down at her own body without feeling weird. The need to touch herself and determine that this was indeed her body was barely being held back.
Now put that last sentence out of context.
"Getting rid of your old memories was a good thing since it seemed to have helped you adapt quicker to this situation," The voice ignored the "Which you put me in." that followed after and continued. "your mission is simple. Help Natsuki Subaru, seriously that guy deserves a break."
Felt closed her eyes and after a few moments, asked. "Do I have to?"
Instantly the voice replied "Yes, and if you don't...well there are worse things that you can be reincarnated as, you sure you want find out?"
Grimacing, she shook her head. She could imagine the owner of the voice giving her a smug grin. "Besides, if you complete your mission and make sure Subaru gets the future he wants, you can go back to your old life or ask to be reincarnated somewhere else. Or in general just ask for anything you want and well reward it you.Also you probably already know but, you have all of Felt's memories, her divine protection and her skills, along with your past life's skills. What else...oh yeah right right, you get to keep all your past life's memories about Re:Zero and that's about it. Any questions?" Felt kicked her legs while pondering what to ask.
"So it's fine if I mess around with the timeline as long as I help Subaru?" She asked for confirmation.
"I'd prefer if you didn't bring any major changes, the Lolimancer must be born, Emilia X Subaru must be a thing. I don't really care about Rem cause she's way too dependent on Subaru in my personal opinion. I can already hear her fans screaming for my divine blood but I don't give a fuck. So basically other than those two things I mentioned, do whatever you want. I'm pretty sure I forgot something..
eh I'll just tell you about it the next time I check up on you." The presence inside her head started to fade and all Felt could do was scream a "next time?!" as it finally disappeared.
She sat still for a few seconds then punched the crate next to her...and regretted it afterwards.
Nursing her aching fist, she got up and stretched. "Help Subaru huh. Well I've got 3 days to get used to this body. And I already have her memories and skills along with the Divine Protection of the Wind, I think it's called. I don't remember it having any name. On that note, don't the people who receive a Divine Protection know the name and what it does straight away? Or am I special case since I was technically reincarnated into this body." She muttered as she started walking.
In her past life, she was obsessed with Re:Zero, to the point where she had watched the anime, read the web novel upto Arc 5 and was in the process of buying the Light Novels. Although she was impatient and spoiled herself with the future arcs and the lore on various media's and platforms.
Well to be fair one of those platforms were fanfiction and she didn't actually know if what she read was canon.
Felt stopped in front of a rather broken down building and stared at it before continuing down the street towards the capitol of Lugunica. She knew the way thanks to the new memories (or technically old, she wasn't sure which was the case here) in her head.
She stopped in the middle of a square once she read the capitol and looked around. Both in her past life and current life she was skilled in parkour and she put this to the test as she ran through the crowd and jumped onto some crates and then onto the building next to it, all the while keeping her momentum.
"Alright, in these three days I'm going to train. I have to deal with Elsa and if I am to help Subaru, I can't let Reinhardt capture me. Speaking of Subaru, can I talk about Return By Death with him? Eh, I'll ask that annoying voice guy the next I hear him." She muttered as she vaulted over a ledge and continued running.
The passerbys looked at the source of the ruckus, finding a black haired individual wearing strange clothing and sharp eyes that gave off a menacing glare. Most people ignored him and walked away, others shook their heads and wrote him off as a crazy person while a select few stared at his bizarre appearance and wondered what he was talking about.
But one person sitting on the roof a building smirked as she stared at the boy running down the street away from the green haired man known as Kardomon. Her mission had just begun and she wasn't going to fail it.
No matter what.
She got up and stretched lightly before turning around and running, a burst of wind following in her wake. She had already learnt how to use her Divine Protection and was making use of this.
Yesterday, she had met up with Elsa who had contracted her to steal an insignia (Emilia's) and she had accepted. Felt had only seen Elsa in action on screen or in the form of words, so she didn't really feel any genuine fear. But she did feel uneasy, and Elsa had most definitely caught onto this, as she had said, "Is something the matter?" while looking at Felt's stomach. Well her bowels.
It didn't help that she was dressed like a strip dancer in a bar.
Anyway, she had spotted Emilia and proceeded to use her Divine Protection to steal her insignia. Before Emilia could notice, she was already on her way.
Felt got to a safe distance before stopping and she took out the insignia from her jacket pocket and looked at it. Her suspicions were confirmed as it glowed red. "So regardless of my reincarnation the insignia still chooses me or rather Felt as a candidate. I could use this, but right now I don't plan on joining any Royal Selection crap." She flipped the insignia in the air once before putting it in her pocket and proceeded to sprint to where Rom's Loot House was. On her second day, she had checked if Rom knew she was different but to her surprise he didn't seem to find anything wrong with her. Felt wrote it off as the annoying voice guy being helpful (that sentence was contradictory and she didn't care) and proceeded to continue on.
Now she raced along the streets of the slums and saw the house in question in the distance. She slowed to a walk and idly stared at her surroundings. She had already checked if Subaru was on the right loop so she had nothing to worry about. Although she briefly wondered what her failed loop selves did.
She had no idea if she could fend off Elsa in a fight, let alone beat her.
Giving a tired sigh she knocked on Rom's door.
"For a rat?"
"Poison."
"For a whale?"
"A harpoon."
"To the dragon we are?"
"Shitbags."
The door opened and Rom welcomed her in.
Felt had mixed feelings about the giant. Her memories of him gave strength to the need to protect him, but the fact that she wasn't actually "Felt" gave strength to the need to not care about whatever happened to him. But she wasn't heartless and so...
"Yo, Rom-ji, I've got a bad feeling about this deal."
The giant regarded her with a confused look, and she continued.
"The lady that's going to meet up with us for the insignia, my contractor. I have a feeling that the deal isn't going to end well so keep your guard up old man." Felt gave him the most genuine express of worry that she could give and it seemed to have worked as the giant sighed. "Don't worry Felt, I'll protect us both, I've still got some strength in these old bones." He hoisted his club onto his shoulder.
Felt gave a nod and stood up. "I'll be heading out for now, I'll be back in time for the deal. Don't fall asleep old man." She said and stepped outside. Felt stretched and sprinted off towards the direction of her house knowing that Subaru would be around there at this time.
Sure enough he was there, and with her excellent memory she replayed the exact scene that had happened here, up to the point of collapsing the house on the poor fella.
She wasn't sorry about that.
Felt proceeded to replay the entire scene up to the loothouse and up until Emilia showed up. (She was too lazy to describe everything that had happened since she had somehow replicated the entire scenarios that had played out)
As Emilia asked for her insignia back and Subaru and Rom prompted her to do the same, Felt gave a shrug and started to give it to her, all the while staring behind Emilia and checking for Elsa.
"Puck! Shield her!" Subaru yelled out.
And thus the battle of the Loot House began.
Its rushed I know, and I probably butchered the characters as well. Im not going to use the excuse of this being my first fanfiction (which it actually is) but I'll try to keep improving. That being said I'm going be busy for a while so the next chapter is going to have slow progress done on it. I'll try to get it out this month at the least. Ima yayeet cya
