This is OteySpinster on Discord, and Oteycri000 on . First of all I wanted to thank the readers for showing interest in this story and I welcome all sort of constructive criticism and opinions.

IF YOU HAVE NOT READ ARC 6, DO NOT CONTINUE READING THIS

HEAVY SPOILERS ARE AHEAD

IF YOU HAVE ONLY WATCHED THE ANIME

DO NOT READ THIS.

This may have several OOC moments due to me not being the burning fan most of all of you are. I will try to correct the moments as they come along with your commentary and thoughts. You can treat this as a What IF story or original content.

Up to you. Basically, this run of Subaru's life he will be and use his Sage status.

Now I do not want to spoil or reveal any further details. So, enjoy and thank you.

Also, this is the prologue, I will try to update once a week, maybe more, maybe less depending on the circumstances. Saito from Reactionist discord, Two Face, and Crypticz are helping me and just wanted to give them an honorable mention, thank you guys. And hopefully keep a schedule of 5k words per chap, hopefully more.

Chapter 0: Prologue

Darkness is seen surrounding a boy with black hair and fierce looking eyes. He opens his eyes lethargically, trying to struggle to regain consciousness. As he slowly blinks and with a groan manages to stand up, he looks around with a lost expression.

"Where am I?" mutters the boy to himself as he tries hard to regain his memories of what he was doing before he fell unconscious. A sharp pain manifests in his head, as the beginnings of a migraine form.

"Ugh, what the hell, why does my head hurt so much?" Gasps the boy in pain as he holds his head with a visibly painful expression. With tears of pain in his eyes he takes deep breaths to slowly stabilize his trembling body. Upon regaining a sense of normalcy, he thinks back to his last memory.

Flashbacks of him going to the convenience store to purchase some snacks go through his mind, as the last thing he remembers was a moving van about to collide with him when he got distracted. His eyes widen as he stumbles.

"Did I die?" Fearfully questions the deeply troubled young man. But then where is he, where all he can see is darkness? He looks at his surroundings with an intent to explore when suddenly he hears a cute voice talking.

"I love you; I love you, I love you." Are the words the boy hears as he slowly turns around and starts witnessing the darkness slowly dissipating as a petite figure shrouded in a dark haze approaches him slowly.

The boy widens his eyes in surprise as his reality seems to start breaking down while staring at the entity approaching him till it is but a mere two feet from him. His breath slowly hitches as the dark haze surrounding the figures face slowly starts evaporating.

What greets his eyes is quite frankly, in the boy's opinion, the prettiest face he had ever seen even besides all the anime and models he has looked at surfing the Internet. Long silver hair that seems to fall almost to her knees, with a perfectly shaped heart face containing the most dazzling amethyst-colored eyes he had observed, even in all the shows he watched. Her full lips were smiling in a gentle and loving manner as she gazed thoughtfully upon him.

"HYEEK! An angel has appeared to take me to Kami-Sama. I Natsuki Subaru will gladly accept this verdict of my sins to such a wonderful divine being!" Proclaims Subaru as his hands reach his chest, making sure his thumping heart does not erupt out of sheer bliss. The silver haired woman stops repeating her words and giggles softly at this foolish man, that has captured her heart before she even realized it.

With a tender expression on her face, she quietly speaks:

"Subaru you are not going to visit any Kami-Sama since you haven't died yet." She smiles tenderly and continues: "I know this must all be very sudden Subaru, I just want you to know that I have and will always love you Natsuki Subaru! My beloved till the end of times." The love-stricken woman declared loudly and with a hint of embarrassment, as a flush appears on her face.

Subaru is shocked beyond words. What good deeds did his past reincarnated self, achieve to have such adoration and love showering upon him. He slowly fixes his gaze on this wonderful fairy's face and tries his hardest to remember her. But despite a feeling of warmth in his chest towards the woman, he cannot for his life recall ever meeting her. What a tragedy.

As Subaru slowly gets used to seeing the tender gaze of the woman in front of him, he recalls he never asked for her name. What an unfair starting point between two strangers that seem closer than friends. He clears his throat and speaks:

"I must have been blessed by the stars to have somehow earned your affection, however I do not even know your name? If I may be rude and ask what is your name, dazzling angel?"

The woman seems to pout in annoyance at his response and he feels that he has wronged her already.

What kind of man is he to have already led to a bad impression mere moments after meeting? Or maybe reuniting since this woman knows his name. She felt as if many daggers had stabbed her deep in the heart, with a face topped with deep expressions of sadness and tears that threatened to spill any moment.

"Subaru, my name is Satella and it is an absolute joy to see you again, however this beautiful reunion has to be cut short, due to topics we must discuss before you are summoned elsewhere." Gloomily concludes Satella as her mood seemed to have turned sour at the brief time they have together.

Subaru is shocked by these words, she called him, his beloved? Aren't those words that only married couples exchange? The weirdness of the situation is making Subaru believe that he is having an amazing dream. However, with how Satella, ah what a pretty name that is Subaru thinks to himself, seems so troubled the situation may be more dire than a mere dream.

As he opens his mouth to speak, Satella interrupts him by placing a finger on his lips, which freezes him momentarily at the soft sensation. Before she begins explaining with tears in her eyes that frighten Subaru and make him feel worthless to make sure a pretty maiden cry:

"My beloved, our time is increasingly becoming shorter. I have some crucial things to explain to you before you get summoned. First of all, I am so sorry!" Cries out Satella as her face morphs into an expression of pain and grief. But Subaru could not speak as she still held her finger against his lips. After a deep breath she continues:

"Through events that I don't have much time to tell you about. You have been ripped away from your world and transported to mine, and this world functions on vastly different laws than the one you come from." After a deep breath Satella steels her resolve and continues explaining:

"Firstly, there is magic here and you will be at a complete disadvantage compared to the regular denizens of my world. Secondly you will go through a lot of events beyond your understanding that…!" Suddenly, Satella stops talking as a hidden fury erupts from inside her and she screams:

"THAT I HATE! I HATE HAVING YOU TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THIS! WHY CAN'T I JUST TAKE YOU WITH ME!? IT IS NOT FAIR! IT IS NOT RIGHT FOR YOU TO SUFFER JUST SO THAT OTHERS WILL BE SAVED!

Yells Satella as she is seeming to struggle with her own emotions and a maddening look taking over her otherwise serene expression. Subaru starts getting chills down his back and steps back as if confronting a wild beast that is confused and trying to lash out at the world.

"Satel.. Satella-Tan cal… Calm down please, you are starting to scare me." Subaru barely finishes stating as he looks in shock at the quick transformation this angel had, almost seeming to morph into a demon with intense hatred to everything and everyone.

Satella shakes with visible tremors as she fights furiously with her inner demon, and takes control slowly. After closing her eyes and taking deep breath she opens them and tears once again burst out of her eyes as she rushes to Subaru and embraces him. Leaning her head against his chest as she tries to will herself to stop crying. Subaru hesitantly understands that this Satella is not the same as the one that exploded in a furious outburst and slowly wraps his arms around her in an embrace.

While calmly stroking her hair, she becomes more mellow and relaxed. She looks up at her beloved, her hero that destiny stripped away from her and follows up on their conversation, looking at her with a worried expression that nearly makes her burst into tears once again.

"I am sorry you had to witness that unsightly behavior of mine. I just need you to remember this. No matter what happens, or what you go through, I will always love you, my beloved. You Are NATSUKI SUBARU! My hero and most treasured person!" Boldly explains Satella as she embraces her beloved tighter and losing herself in the sensation of bliss of being in the warm arms of her champion.

Subaru breathe hitches as he looks at this maiden with a blank mind. What did he do to deserve such loyalty and affection, why would someone like Satella, an angel in his mind, go so far to declaring such embarrassing feelings of affection towards a shut-in loser like himself?

"Satella-Tan please hear me out. All I am is a seventeen-year-old otaku shut in. What did I do to deserve such affection from you? Please answer me or I might go crazy." Pleads Subaru as tears start forming in his eyes and his heart, for no explainable reason starts to thaw and warm up to this literal stranger he just met.

Satella looks up at her hero looking upon with such a lost expression, that it pains her heart. She cannot explain the reason of her knowledge of him, nor her ever present feelings of the sheer amount of LOVE that she carries for his soul. Suddenly, she feels as if her time here with her beloved is almost up and panics. While looking at Subaru with a forlorn expression she quickly declares:

"My beloved, all will be explained in time. But right now, we are lacking in that most valuable currency. Quickly remember when you get to the tower, seek out Shaula she will help you and take you to read some journals that will aid you in this new world that is opening up for you."

She cradles his face with such care and love that make Subaru's breath hitch and his eyes get slightly damp as a feeling of alarm takes over him and he grasps her hands in his and questions:

"Wait! I am going to remember this moment, and treat it as my most treasured memory. I cannot respond to these feelings of yours so soon but, give me time and I will surely give you an answer that will satisfy you!"

Satellas heart warms to her beloved's words as another expression of sorrow fills her as she tries to explain that he may not be able to keep this wonderful encounter they both have enjoyed as an intact memory. Before she can open her lips and explain, a strong pulse of energy surrounds both of them and her eyes widen as she rushes to finish saying:

I have to go now, but don't forget I will always have a piece of myself with you." With a bold expression and determined eyes she leans towards Subaru's face and gives him a peck on the lips while whispering: "Safe travels my beloved. I love you."

Subaru barely has time to offer a response to all the new information Satella gave him or process the first kiss he ever experienced before he is ripped asunder by space and time taking him out of this area. With panicked filled eyes he desperately shouts:

"SATELLA! I WON'T FORGET YO…" As he disappears from the area he shared with Satella.

She emotionally stares at where her beloved vanished off too and begs anyone listening to safeguard him well and not let him suffer too much.

For she knows the ability she bestowed upon him will make his life a living hell due to her greediness and possessive nature. An alarming thought forms in her mind. She forgot to warn her beloved not to venture outside the tower no matter what at this time.

She just hopes he will remember her words. With tears in her eyes her form slowly dissipates and, in the end, there were none left in the area where such emotional outburst was seen on display.

At a certain mansion a strange looking man abruptly gets up in shock, his gloved hands holding a black, leather bound book. The pages on said book seem to go under constant perusal and scrutiny, evident due to the frayed edges on the pages. As he slowly regains calm, he sits down in an ornate and expensive looking chair, laying his hands down on the armrests and propping his hand underneath his chin. The man slowly closes one eye, leaving a yellow orb looking down on the page that had caused such unrest in his study.

"Hmmmmm… Hoooww very interestinggg. There was nothing of worth stated happening in my beloved teachers guide, yet seeeems like events may be unfolding faster than predicteedd." Concludes saying the odd man as his lips curl in a sinister grin, the moonlight glinting off his yellow eye making the visage all the more frightening. The man starts chuckling in sheer happiness as a slight knock on his door interrupts his amusement. Still smiling with mirth, he motions the other figure on his door to come inside.

A pink haired girl appears after opening the door, with a petite figure dressed in an impeccable maid's outfit. Her expressionless face revealed little to no emotion at all. Upon sighting the master of the domain that she lives and works at; she slowly approaches the man and questions:

"Roswall-sama I was passing by and heard you laughing in a worried manner, if something is troubling you, please let me know and Ram will give her full assistance in whichever manner that you may need." Slowly states the young maiden as she stands directly in front of her master and curtsies with clear loyalty shown on her face.

Roswall chuckles and beckons her to come sit on his lap, and with the same expression she complies. After getting herself in a comfortable position she leans her head back to rest on his slim chest. Roswall starts pouring his mana into Ram to aid her, and she slowly develops a blissful expression due to the relief the mana had in aiding her frail constitution. In sharp contrast with the previous indifferent visage, she had shown.

"Things are going to get lively my dear Ram, for both of us and the residents of this manner. Makeeee sure you and your dear sister are as diligent as always, for excitiiing things are sure to occur soooon. Ah yes, I almost forgot to ask, our deearr Emilia-sama said she wanted to go to the capital to view how the most pristine city in our beloved country looks. When wasss that again my dear Ram?" Finishes saying the man in his oh, so strange way of speech.

Ram's face stops showing her content expression as she quickly thinks to the last time she spoke to Emilia-Sama. Remembering her dear twin informing her just the other day of what their lady wanted to do she replies:

"My dear sister Rem told me the other day that in one month Emilia-Sama was going to journey to the capital. Either I or Rem were going to accompany her. Whether it's me or my sister, one of us will go with her to keep an eye on her and make sure she doesn't get into any trouble." Concludes Ram with a proud smile as she remembers with confidence. Then suddenly frowning she turns her head slightly back to inquire:

"Why do you ask Roswall-Sama, are you planning on accompanying her?"

Roswall enigmatic smile does not leave his face as he responds back to his cherished maid:

"Nooooo my dear Ram, you may accompany her. It wiilll be a good test for the future queen of our nation to venture into the capital she may rule from one day, and return safe and souundd.

Without noticing the ominous way her master answer ended sounding, she just nods to herself and gets up from his lap. She straightens her dress and bows in respect while bidding Roswall goodnight.

After she closes the door Roswall ponders his thoughts for a while. His smile slowly gets a touch more sinister, as he straightened himself and crosses his legs, he reaches into a drawer, and pulls out what looks like a compact mirror for makeup. Opening it swiftly, he waits a brief moment before speaking:

"I have a contract that may interest you, deeear Elsa."

A woman seems to materialize from the small yet high quality mirror. Dark lush hair cascades around her shoulders, as she wears a very revealing dress that exposes more than it should. With a grin as sinister as the one matching the man across from her she replies:

"Oh yes, will I be able to have some more fun?" She licks her lips in a sensual yet seemingly sadistic manner. As if all she enjoys in life is the ruination of others and blood. Her eyes sparkle with excitement and hope at a new contract with this man who is just as broken as her, yet disgusts her all the same.

"It wiill be quite the endeavor my dear Elsaaa, lots of fun and exciting things are comiiingg." Finishes stating Roswall, all the while still staring down at the single sentence that will change this world in ways that are yet to be seen:

A New Sage Has Arrived

In a location far away from that mansion, there lies endless dunes of sand. An arid climate is found at every corner and a deep and dangerous miasma shrouds the land, poisoning all that may be brave enough or foolish enough to venture these cursed lands.

These are called the Augria Sand Dunes and are a part of the world no one would actively seek to live in. However, if one were to successfully brave the endless wave of Mabeasts and hazardous climate, one may be able to find a way to be close to the beacon that can be seen throughout the land.

A structure seemingly endless in height glinting with the sun. A feat of construction that puts regular brickworkers and masonry workers in awe. This tower is named the Pleiades Watchtower, and it is inside this tower, within a certain floor that we can see a young man resting on the bare ground. His peaceful sleep seems marred by unconscious tears that come out of his sharp looking eyes. Slowly the boy's serene dream is interrupted by his consciousness eventually returning. He wakes up still groggy from his sleep.

"Ugh, what the hell, why does it feel like I have done the same journey twice with no results in each one?" Mutters Subaru as he slowly gets up and rests his hands on his knees, still sitting down.

He tries to remember what he was doing before he fell asleep. He remembers the convenience store, the moving van, then darkness. As his thoughts get aligned themselves, he gasps in shock and fully stands up right now. Looking frantically around for what he just remembered.

"Where is she, where did she go?" Subaru says as if in a frenzy looking around everywhere for that silver haired girl he remembers. But then he calms down and with a furrow in his brows starts actively trying to remember who she is, and what she is to him.

"Dammit why can I not remember her name; it is on the tip of my tongue. Aghhh, how frustrating. Was she just a dream? No that can't be! I have never had such a vivid dream. And what is this faint female fragrance that surrounds me? Ughhh, how useless, think dumbass, THINK!" curses Subaru as he tries to hold on to a memory that keeps on being on the very verge of his fingertips, then slips away swiftly to his ever-increasing frustration.

Brief flashes of conversation strike his head as he remembers key words.

"She kept on saying she was sorry, looking very apologetic. As well as I love you to myself over and over. Hehehe, what an angel. But wait she also mentioned a tower, some queer name as well. Hmm? Was it Shaula? I wonder who that is! Ahh as well as some books to read to inform me on this new world! Success on remembering at least the important bits, Not too shabby Subaru!" Finishes saying the boy as he has a smug look on his face. His self-gloating lasts a little while longer until the full implications of what had transpired to him start making themselves known to his mind.

With wide eyes, Subaru turns around and looks at the floor of a tower he has no idea in what region, nation or world it is located in. He looks and observes some more. With the signifying and dizzying size of where he is he must realize he awakened in a large tower.

"I have been isekai'd to another world?! All that manga and anime wasn't full of lies. Wow this is all a little too much, deep breaths Subaru, let's take some deep breaths." He slowly calms down and thinks about all the isekai worlds he has seen, as well as a certain tower webcomic.

"Does that mean I have magic? Or maybe I am the hero sent to save this world! Maybe that Silver haired Fairy is my reward? I think I can get to like this setting, well if it's a tower then there is only one thing to do! Time to go up and find rewards and quests!" Greedily states our tragic protagonist, as he has not thought all this through due to the young excited mind that had lived off of anime and fantasy to combat the dread he faced in normal life.

Subaru looks around and locates a stairwell, as he looks at the sheer size of it, he gulps. Then he steels himself and smiles.

"Only way to get up is by climbing those stairs, this tower won't beat me, Natsuki Subaru, pro gamer and in good shape, a rare combination if I do say so myself." After pumping himself up to the trivial activity of climbing some stairs he starts his ascent.

Some time passes and, on another floor, we can see a hand slowly reaching up to propel a tired boy to the next floor. As he manages to get himself up and roll on the ground he exhales in defeat. Man, if all those floors are gonna be like that, this is gonna be tougher than what I thought."

Exhales the boy defeated by a mere staircase. After taking probably too long he adjusts himself and gets up observing his surroundings until his eyes lay upon a door. With intrigue he moves closer to it and notices that there is sand around the edges and sprinkled on the floor. Kneeling down and feeling the sand he notices it feels a lot coarser than the one from back in his beaches from Japan.

He thinks to himself that this tower may be located in a desert or arid area, after stating the obvious, he gets up from his half-kneeled position and puts his hands on the doors. (Satella warned you not to venture outside son).

"Maybe I can recon outside for a little bit before returning inside. Okay let's do it, you never know if there are side quests or useful collectibles. Maybe even a powerful weapon! Alright here I go." Yells a spirited Subaru as he pushes the doors to the outside of the tower.

Blinking at the sudden light of the Sun in the sky, he traverses a short distance before his eyes adjust from the change of location. As his vision finally sets, he squints at what looks like an endless field of flowers.

"Wow this world can have such beauty in the middle of a desert I see. What a true fantasy world this is turning out to be. I wonder if those flowers have any uses. Let's go take a closer look. At the very least if she was here, I would not mind making her a crown of flowers." He emotionally says, as he stares at how pretty the gardens of flowers really are.

After venturing closer to them he starts feeling a huge sense of fatigue, he turns around and looks at the tower, admiring how tall and proud it stands among this land and surrounded by this small paradise of flowers. He turns around while huffing and out of breath and decides to just take a couple of flowers and go back inside the tower. To hopefully find a rest area where he can replenish all the sweat, he has excreted.

As his hand grabs some flowers an animalistic roar is heard, and to the boy's utter shock the flowers start getting bigger in size. No, it is not the flowers but the land they were resting on. Until he is staring at something he could only call a demonic beast. Or perhaps bear would be a more appropriate term. If a bear could actually have flowers all over their body, short legs with disturbingly large arms.

Subaru looks at the bear's hands and lets out a suppressed shriek. The bear's appendage looks like claws used to eviscerate and gut their prey. And the way the bear was looking at him, he didn't have to put two and two together.

He turned around and started running, running as he has never before in his life to the tower door. He was a scant 20 feet from it, an easy distance to cross for a physically fit boy like him.

"I am almost there, almost there, almost ther- Hyeek?!" He screams in confusion as the world suddenly seems to rotate and he is on his back looking at the front of the tower, Only ten feet away from it.

With the shock of the adrenaline, he believes he tripped and fell, and hurriedly tries to stand up but realizes he can't. His eyes widen in horror at the grim and gruesome sight he sees. His whole bottom half is spread out a few feet in front of him, his legs twitching with the leftover energy of his desperate run.

Blood is everywhere, as the smell of his own shit and piss hits his nose due to his bowels having been torn to shreds. He coughs blood and looks down at the remaining body attached to him and it is just his torso alongside his arms, neck and head. He even thinks he can see some of his intestines still attached somehow, leading to a macabre sight.

He visibly trembles as he sees more of those mounds of flowers rise up. And With just the remainder of his body he claws at the sand, inching ever closer to the door as tears fill his eyes and snot comes out his nose.

What kind of twisted sick world is this! He questions as his sanity slowly shatters and his organs fail one by one due to extensive bloodloss and shock to his heart. He doesn't even feel much pain due to his brain already shutting off those nerve endings after getting dismembered in two halfs.

"I DON'T WANNA DIE, I DON'T WANNA DIE, PLEASE SOMEONE, ANYONE HELP M-." His pleas of help cut short due to one of the demonic bears having crushed his skull, as some of his buddies had already started fighting amongst themselves over who gets what leg, or what organ of our fallen hero who had gotten torn to shreds.

His consciousness slowly came to a standstill. As a distraught silver haired girl felt the pain her beloved had felt she cries in sorrow. While gently murmuring to herself I won't let you die.

And after his brief awakening and barely explored time, Natsuki Subaru Died.

Thanks for reading the prologue, I greatly appreciate it and I forgot to add a little more detail to what exactly this story will be about, I suppose. And thank you for the honest and heartfelt reviews.

So this story will be very loosely based on the original run of Subaru. Events that you think you may know because of the plot will not help as much as you may think. There will be more challenges, headaches, and events that will spiral in ever increasing different directions, all meant to make this Subaru, or I call him Sage Subaru overcome himself.

Next chapter should answer some more questions and there is a reason for this taking place a month before original events, It will all be explained later on.

Hopefully I will be able to release the next chapter by this weekend and it shall contain things that will help all of you. Thank you for reading.

And no Subaru will not be an OP sage in terms of combat power. He will be stronger than original Subaru, and more cautious, however will still suffer a lot. Cause it isn't Re:Zero without suffering.

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