"That was a bit closer than I expected, you saved us." Puck gave a thumbs up to Subaru in gratitude.
"Nice one Puck. Thank goodness it was before five, while you're still on duty. Thanks!" Subaru gave a thumbs up in return.
Everyone present looked at the attacker as she said "That's a spirit right? How wonderful." Elsa giggled as she faced them. "I've never dissected a spirit's stomach before."
Felt stretched and took her knife, clutching it in a reverse grip. She eyed Elsa warily, sizing her up. Elsa looked at her in return, that sadistic smile still glued to her face. Felt pointed her knife at Elsa. "You were planning on killing me anyway weren't you?"
"You bitch, don't get your kicks from picking on little kids you gut loving sadist! Felt is doing her best to live strong...and you were planning on murdering her anyway? Are you a kid? You should learn to value life more! Do you know how much having your belly cut open hurts? Well I do!"
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm in the process of letting the justice and chivalry I never knew I had to denounce all the world's unfairness! And what I consider unfair is you, this situation and..."
Felt, seeing an opportunity present itself, dashed towards the woman dressed in black, a burst of wind following in her wake. Elsa was slightly taken aback at her speed but didn't falter as her black kukri knife flashed through the air.
Felt jumped over the blade whilst simultaneously putting her knife in between her teeth and grabbing a hold of Elsa's shoulders before using her legs to kick at Elsa's back. The momentum and force applied sent Elsa flying backwards, but the Bowel Hunter regained her balance in mid air and landed lithely on her feet. That's when she realized something was missing.
Felt stood up from the floor, holding Elsa's black cloak. The one which would've negated Puck's attack. Key word being would've.
"I'm a thief remember? Besides I was highly trained in my past life so underestimating me was your mistake." Felt said slyly as she threw aside the cloak and held up her knife.
"Sorry for that Puck, she's all yours!" Felt went back to Subaru and the others as she flashed Puck a thumbs up.
"I don't really know why you did what you did but," He aimed his fluffy paws at the Bowel Hunter as he proclaimed "My name's Puck! Remember it after you die!"
Icicles flew haphazardly in Elsa's direction and dust erupted from the force of the attack.
They waited with bated breath. There was no movement. "Did we get 'er?" Rom asked nervously, his club already in his hands. "Don't ask that question old man!" Subaru urged but it was too late. The flag had been raised.
Elsa's sadistic giggles echoed through the the spacious loot house as she rushed out of the dust, her black knife slashing towards Emilia.
Emilia cast an ice shield while Puck dealt out more ice shards. Felt's earlier thieving of Elsa's cloak didn't come without any results, as it was obvious from the blood that caked Elsa's black dress.
Puck kept shooting ice shards at her while she leapt about the loot house, a smile still stuck to her face. "I didn't expect a simple slum rat like you to know about my cloak, let alone be as skilled as you were to catch me by surprise. My, my I certainly did underestimate you. Forgive me for that." Elsa cooed at the blonde haired girl from the ceiling before having to jump away to avoid an icicle piercing her chest.
"Yeah no, fuck you." Felt flipped her the bird and then looked back at Subaru. "You met up with Reinhard before coming here right?" Felt was pretty sure this was the right loop as Subaru had been poking around her excuse of a house, but she wasn't there to see Subaru and Reinhard meet up.
"What? Yeah I did and also, how did you know that?" Subaru didn't look at her as he was busy following (well trying to at least) Elsa's movements but his tone indicated that he was surprised.
Alright, that means Reinhard should be in the area but the problem is. I doubt I'd be able to get out of here to ask for his help. That creepy as fuck bitch has her eyes on me and if I try to get away...yeah no. Felt cursed as she gripped her knife tightly.
It occured to her that annoying prick that brought her to this hell hole of a world had said that he didn't mind if some changes were made to the timeline. In that case, she had two options here. Somehow find a way to get Reinhard to deal with Elsa or find a way to yeet the black bitch without the red haired knight.
She clucked her tongue. Option two was a no go. Felt knew about Elsa's regeneration ability and she doubted there's a heavy ass hippo just lying around.
"Rom-ji I have a plan but I need you to cover the half-elf for now. Can you do that?" The old giant hefted his club and although he knew that he didn't stand much of a chance against Elsa he didn't hesitate. "You can count on me, this old bag of bones can still put up a good fight."
Felt nodded and sprinted towards Emilia and Puck, the spirit and contracter still in the process of trying to skewer the Bowel Hunter.
Emilia looked towards her and turned back to the fight at hand while asking "What is it?"
Felt quickly informed her of her plan and looked nervously at her reaction.
I have no idea what I can do if this doesn't work so here's to hoping...
Emilia sighed. "Alright, but I'll need a few seconds. And after this is over I'd like my insignia back."
"I wasn't planning on selling it to her anyway, just need that boy and you here." Felt muttered under her breath and turned towards Elsa. "Anyway, Rom and I will take of her, hurry and do your thing."
Subaru watched the fight, his muscles tensing every time Elsa got close to dealing a deadly blow.
But most of his attention was on the blonde thief.
She's different from before.
The huge change in her demeanor was throwing him off. Even more so was how she had seemingly known about Elsa's special cloak which does something that he wasn't sure of. Not to mention how she had apparently known about him meeting Reinhard.
It's like she's known about all this beforehand.
He shook his head and cleared his thoughts as he glanced towards Emilia who had been standing still for a few seconds. He noted that Puck was no longer with her, meaning that his time was up.
He was about to ask her if something's wrong when suddenly she brought her hand up and the room temperature lowered immediately. A giant glacier grew from the floor and towards the ceiling, breaking through the roof of the loot house and high into the sky, the fading rays of the sun hitting it's surface and making it glow a slight orange color.
Subaru opened his mouth in sheer shock. "What the hell?" He uttered. Elsa snuck a glance at the towering ice and hummed. "My why would you that I wonder?"
Rom and Felt backed away from her. The blonde thief looked at the huge hole in the ceiling. "It's to summon a ridiculously overpowered knight here."
Suddenly the ceiling was broken once more (much to Rom's dismay) and someone landed inside.
"Reinhard!?" Subaru exclaimed. "We meet again Subaru." The knight said in greeting as he turned towards Elsa. "Black hair, black clothing and knives unique to the northern provinces. You're the Bowel Hunter aren't you?"
Elsa licked her lips. "And you're the Sword Saint, all my opponents are such wonderful individuals."
"Reinhard, here." Felt threw a sword she found on the wall. He caught the hilt and looked at it before turning towards Elsa. ,
"You're not going to use the sword on you waist?"
"Unfortunately, it doesn't deem you a worthy opponent."
"My, I feel like I'm being underestimated."
Elsa lunged towards Reinhard only for him to kick the ground and stun her, followed by the flat side of the blade hitting her and sending her flying.
She regained her footing and turned towards the knight once more, before dashing and jumping around the room and lunging at him once more.
This time Reinhard met her knife with his sword with enough force to shatter it. "You have been disarmed please stand down."
Elsa lunged at him once more.
"Be careful Reinhard! She has a second one!"
Reinhard blocked the hidden blade with ease as Elsa muttered "I didn't think you'd know."
"Well I learnt it the hard way."
Elsa backed away and assumed a stance as Reinhard did the same.
The Bowel Hunter had had enough, it was time to end this.
"Shall we end this?"
"The Swordplay of the Astrea family." Reinhard said as he assumed a stance as well.
"The Bowel Hunter, Elsa Granhiert."
"Reinhard van Astrea, of the line of master swordsman"
He raised his now glowing sword and slashed.
There was a flash of light that blinded everyone as the loot house exploded.
The dust settled and Subaru looked around at the wrecked loot house. "Damn, Reinhard you're a monster yourself!" He yelled at which Reinhard responded with a "Even I can get hurt by a comment like that."
Meanwhile a blonde haired thief looked around her surroundings, dazed for a few seconds. "I feel like I'm forgetting something..." She muttered as she winced from cuts littering her body.
"Oh shit." She looked around for her knife, now remembering that Elsa was still very much alive and was going to attack in a few seconds.
She found it and threw it towards Subaru as she yelled
"What the hell are you doing throwing knives at me!"
"To your left you fucking idiot!"
The rubble in the corner shook and suddenly Elsa was sprinting towards Emilia with the intent to kill, only for Subaru to step in her way with Felt's knife.
"She'll go for the gut!" He yelled as he blocked the blow barely with the knife.
Elsa cursed under her breath as she jumped onto one of the remaining walls of the loot house. "Soon enough, I'll disembowel everyone here. Till then, take good care of your guts."
With that she disappeared into the night...never to be seen again...until season 2.
Felt gave a sigh of relief. It was over. Finally.
She casually watched as Subaru and Emilia talked and looked at the knife on the ground. It was sliced in two.
Yeah well it's not her problem. She justified as she watched Subaru fall over with blood spraying from his cut open stomach.
Rom walked over next to her and put a hand on her head. "You expected somethin' like this to happen is what you told this man. But I can't help but think that you had everythin' predicted already."
She shrugged in response.
Emilia walked over as Rom went away to see if he could salvage anything from his now destroyed loot house.
"Oh right the insignia." Felt reached for her jacket pocket when she realized that she didn't have her jacket on her.
Well to be completely honest she had thrown it off when the loot house had exploded because of two reasons.
One being that she absolutely cannot let Reinhard see that she was a candidate for the throne, fuck politics.
The second being that bastard that summoned her here wanted her to stick with Subaru for now.
"I had it in my jacket." She muttered sheepishly to the half-elf.
Emilia looked around the destroyed loot house and pouted.
Luckily Reinhard found it pretty quickly (she didn't know if he had a Divine Protection of finding lost insignias, or if he was just plain lucky) so that was taken care of.
Now I have to find a way to get Emilia to take me the mansion but how-
Don't worry about that I've got that covered.
Felt's eye twitched again as she put on the jacket.
Oh and good job in handling that. I probably should've given you a power or something but I mean who needs that. Anyways I talked it over with Satella-chan, or more like listened to an asmr of her repeating the same sentence for over 47 hours and we came to the agreement to allow you to talk about Return by Death with anyone you want.
On one hand, this could work in her favour but.
And why pray tell, do not need an ability?
Ehhh, it ruins the fun.
Can I strangle you?
No, no you may not.
I feel like this is rushed and lacking in many areas. To be fair I've made several drafts and just concluded that I should at least upload something. I'll try improving the quaility of the chapters. Ima yeet now lol.