Chapter 2 " All over again"
— Unfamiliar ceiling.
The first thing he saw above him was an old ceiling, with small cracks radiating from the edges. Recalling the events that had taken place an unknown amount of time ago, Subaru realized that he had been knocked out, definitely by magic, because he had not felt the pain of a physical blow before the onset of darkness. It was probably dark magic or something. Unfortunately, Natsuki wasn't very good at this, as he had only used one small spirit in his time.
As he slowly rose from the straw on which he had been carefully laid, Pride felt a strong chill that sent shivers down his skin. When the black-haired guy looked out the window, behind which he was met by a heavy snowstorm. On the other hand, many of the houses were covered with a huge layer of ice, not far from which there were frozen figures that looked like people, it was impossible to determine more precisely.
Fearing what might meet him outside, Subaru went to the door and pulled, but the door wouldn't budge. No matter how hard Subaru tried to open the door, it wouldn't unlock, and the thought that he was locked with a key was deaf, since there was no lock in the door. Moving to the edge of the only room in the house, the cultist ran and broke the door with his weight.
After the collision, Subaru sat on his knees in a cold snowdrift as a strong wind ruffled his black, spiky hair.
— What's going on here?"
The boy said hoarsely as his eyes focused on the snow inferno, which was the best way to describe what was happening, because there are no such exact words to describe this picture.
—What the hell?"
The thoughts in his head were racing from side to side, staying in this cataclysm was tantamount to suicide, the snow was up to his chest, and it was quite difficult to get out of there, as the snow began to cover a new layer of solid ice. Rising from the snowdrift, which had increased significantly while the Subaru remained in it, the guy slowly made his way through the snowstorm, going in an unknown direction.
Opening his eyes slightly from the wild wind accompanied by ice crystals in the air, Subaru came across a block of ice, however, it was not like the snow statues he had seen before. Squinting through the blizzard, Subaru could make out the outline of a small human body buried under a huge layer of ice, and his skin crawled again, but this time not from the cold. Silver hair, large amethyst eyes, and pointed half-Elven ears. Only two people so similar in the archbishop's life fit this description, and the pin in the ice-bound girl's hair dispelled all doubts.
"E-Emilia!
Without thinking twice, Subaru started hitting the hard, cold ice with his bare hands in a futile attempt to break it. Like a man possessed, the guy started trying to break the ice with his head when his knuckles were smashed into blood, shattering it as well from the next contact with the hard surface. Gradually losing strength and hope, the young man did not notice that he was covered with ice, giving up trying to break through the ice, and accepted an all-consuming death.
"I promise."..I will definitely save you! Just wait!
He says those last words again, and it's funny, because he's done it thousands of times before. Before losing consciousness and plunging into the cold darkness, he takes one last look at the one for whom it is not a pity to die again and again.