Hey, there readers, so I've read your comments and I've decided to go along with the arc 6+ version of this fic. While I can say the main reason is that most of the people choose arc 6+ over arc 5+, it would be in between.
One of the main reasons was the story's strong resemblance with WHDAAA by Reactionist. I originally didn't intend to be considered this story to be a ripoff and such, but I made some huge mistakes especially thinking of starting with arc 5 and the warden part which is a lot similar to WHDAAA. Starting off with the warden, I intended to introduce him as a character from Overlord in arc 3+ but that was a huge mistake of introducing him as "warden" on the first chapter on my end, and while I agree that's not the only reason. The interactions seemed a lot similar to me, Subaru staying asleep and whatnot to where dear readers were right of it being a kind of rip-off, I agree so myself. I am the one at fault here, my apologies. I apologize again if anyone was angered. I decided to fix my mistake and start afresh. As of now, I hope you'll enjoy my fully new, polished version of Re: Zero Watching His Sufferings From Zero (Arc 6+) and I am not the one to repeat the same mistakes again nor will I give up on this story, I'll finish it through the end. :)
(P.S. I was about to tell in this in my previous arc 5+ version but I'm doing it now in the prologue; I really got inspired and motivated by WHDAAA a lot to write this fic but sadly, I'll not make it a spin-off of it since My plan here is to give Reactionist-san a good competition. With that said, enjoy the fic!)
Since I'm going with arc 6+ of the story, a few characters would be added which the anime-only or those who didn't catch up to the novel wouldn't know of. So to avoid spoilers as much as I can, I'll briefly introduce the ones going to appear here and a few monuments from arc 6+ without trying to spoil anything. Having read through arc 6+ middle portion is recommended.
Characters-
Shaula (Female): An apprentice of the sage named Flugel who played an important role in the sealing of Witch of Envy. Shaula's current master is Subaru and she's in love with him.
Meili (Female): Although introduced in arc 2+, she warms up with everyone by arc 6+ after the events of arc 4+ and is a member of Emilia camp currently.
Monuments-
Pleiades watchtower- The name of the tower Subaru and co. are situated in currently. Witch of Envy is also sealed in here.
Green room- A room in Pleiades watchtower where a spirit bestows healing powers to everyone in it.
"Nononononononono...whyyy! Where did you all vanish off to?!" A panic-stricken Subaru said while running in circles.
Subaru, an ex-hikikomori, had his life changed completely when he got summoned to this fantasy world and met an angel..err, half-elf named Emilia whom he devoted his life to.
But currently, things were not so good for him. No, "not good" was an understatement, things were fucked up for him completely! A few moments ago, he was having dinner with most of the Emilia camp and Anastasia camp. But peace was never an option for him.
In one second, he closed his eyes, letting out a yawn as he hasn't had a proper sleep in the last two days. He had too many things to worry about and sleep wasn't on his list of the things to be fret upon.
And in the other second, when he opened his eyes and found no one by his side, with a haunted look on his face, he began pondering what the fuck just happened. Before he knew it, he dashed out, hoping to search for everyone while screaming their names, while searching every room.
It didn't take long before exhaustion overtook his body, and not to mention his lack of sleep made things worse with each passing second.
"EMILIA! BEAKO! JULIUS! WHERE ARE YOU GUYS?" a fatigued Subaru screamed, hoping somebody hears his shrieks. Why do such stupid things happen to him in just a blink of an eye?
Someone who heard his cries was near the green room but it was not who Subaru was really searching for, but it still relieved him for the best (dragon) girl was safe and sound.
"Graawl." Patrasche chirped, happy that her beloved master didn't disappear.
"Thank goodness you're here, at least! I was so worried that everyone, including you, disappeared on me." Subaru said in relief.
A normal person would have gotten a panic attack by now, but for Subaru, these were like everyday occurrences which he almost got used to by now. Even if he was "almost" used to such shitty phenomenons occurring to him almost every day, he can never stop worrying about the people he loves.
Sure enough, Julius can save himself and his lady Anastasia but, for Emilia, things are different. Subaru can never stop worrying about Emilia even though he knows she's stronger than him and not to mention Puck's no longer around her anymore, and her troublesome trait of being a half-elf draws her unwanted, malicious attention.
He would have been stuck in his thoughts if not for a certain (best girl) ground dragon licking him. She was worried for her master, as he looked rather troubled.
"Oh? Yeah... sorry about that Patrasche, I got stuck on my thoughts for a second."
"Rawr." Patrasche licked Subaru once again to let him know it's alright.
"You are saying something like it's alright, right Patrasche? I wish Otto was here to translate you for me."
Patrasche nodded her head and continued licking her master until she felt some tremors in her body. Her dragon instincts told her something wasn't right and they should get out of this as soon as possible. She picked up Subaru by his collar and placed him on her saddle.
"Woah! Patrasche, what's wrong?" Subaru inquired while patting her scales. He didn't like this sudden change in his ground dragon. Before he knew it, Patrasche bolted off at full speed.
Subaru knew something was wrong. He felt what Patrasche felt, fear.
Deciding to leave everything to his ground dragon, he started scanning the surroundings.
In a mere second, Patrasche stopped her rush and broke through the walls, landing on the sandy ground and getting out of the tower successfully. Though the fall injured Patrasche and her legs were hurting a bit because of the height she jumped from, she'll not let that stand in her way! She'll make sure her beloved master is safe and sound.
"Great, who knows how many rules we broke out of this fucking tower! I don't even want to memorize the rules now." Subaru complained as he was getting agitated by each second, not at Patrasche, but at the chain of events that were unfolding before them.
Subaru's irritated look quickly turned into that of fright as he finally understood what was happening.
Before him and Patrasche was the tower, but it was more like a miasma tower rather than The Pleiades tower. That's right, Subaru quickly figured out that the shit that happened had to be related to the Witch of Envy! He berated himself for not figuring about it earlier; it was literally the most obvious thing in this world!
The being responsible for bringing him to this world, the being responsible for all of his sufferings, the being who gave him this cursed ability named "Return by Death" (wait no, he's the one who named it lol), the being responsible for all the hardships Emilia had to face through because her traits are like that of this witch.
He wasn't cursing Satella; he knew she was a caring, sweet girl, but he rather cursed Satella's spilt personality, a monstrous entity known as the Witch of Envy. She, who tainted Satella's name and all the half-elves 400 years ago. She who killed almost half of the world's population and sucked the world dry during the great calamity.
The Witch of Envy was a true monster in every sense, he hated her because she loved him, he hated her because she made a toy of his heart every time he wanted to pass on his little "secret", he hated her because she made him feel the phantom pain after she was done with harassing him by toying with his heart, he hated her with all of his being!
Subaru had only one choice now which is to kill himself right now and restart.
But every time he thinks of it, the memories flow through him, Satella's request to love himself more. Emilia, Wilhelm and Felix mourning over his suicide during the time he thought he lost Rem forever.
Oh, Emilia's cries of despair and agony of him committing suicide, the nightmares of it haunted him to this day.
It'd be really unfair to Patrasche who almost risked her life to make sure he is safe only to find out he committed suicide even if Return by Death might rewind time. He'd use Return by Death as a last resort, just like it has always been.
"Patrasche, we have to get away from this miasma as far as possible!" Subaru commanded.
She seemed to understand him and dashed off, away from the tower.
For a moment Subaru thought he had escaped from the clutches of Envy, and she couldn't make it to them if that's what her plan was. But oh boy, he was wrong...
He completely forgot about the mabeasts dwelling upon this desert and knowing his luck, he was sure some overpowered mabeast would come out of nowhere and make him his/her dinner.
Patrasche sped up, completely frightened now. Subaru had a hard time breathing since the speed Patrasche was travelling at now was insane for a ground dragon.
But Patrasche eventually failed. Shadows covered the total area in a split second, and before they knew it, Patrasche's speed was going slower by each second. It was as if the shadows were acting as friction.
By now, Patrasche's speed was that of a snail and she suddenly jerked Subaru away from the saddle and held him by the collar once again and threw him off at full force she could.
The last thing Subaru saw was Patrasche and the shadows surrounding her. She looked at her master, at what she thought to be one last time. Nobody could tell she was a ground dragon who could understand emotions. From what Subaru saw, Patrasche had a look of regret written on her face.
"RAWRRR" Patrasche roared pridefully at her master which probably meant "RUN!" before the shadows enveloped her.
As for Subaru, he felt like crying, but he had to stay strong. If he does redo once again, he'll let Patrasche know who's the best girl but as of now, he has to run! Fast!
Sadly, the shadows were too fast for him and before he could run away; it enveloped him as well.
Emilia had the strangest moment of her life.
A few moments ago she remembered she was with Subaru and others. And in the blink of an eye, she found herself in a strange room with luxurious looking chairs and a gigantic screen.
The strangest thing was that all the royal candidates were present as well, along with their knights, who all seemed to be equally confused about what just happened in the blink of an eye.
"Greetings noobs, My name is Jack Winst- CUT! CUT! CUT! (This was just a joke lmao)
"Greetings, fellow mortals. My name is Ai- Suzuki Satoru. In my world I am commonly known as The King of Darkness, Strongest Magic Caster, Supreme One, Sorcerer King and many uncountable to be honest, I just remember these."
Many of the Re: Zero cast had different reactions, his voice honestly scared some. No mere human could have a voice like that- oh wait! A mere human wouldn't be able to accomplish a feat like teleporting everyone in the blink of an eye to a secluded, unknown location anyway. And most important where was he? They could only hear his voice!
Roswaal found himself interested in the "Strongest Magic Caster" part.
Thoughts like, "What would a devil with such a scary voice do to them?" scared Emilia.
"I understand your fear, but I mean none of you any harm. I am merely here with one purpose that is to show you all the feats, achievements, adventures and most importantly, the sufferings of a boy who hails from the same country as me." Satoru reassured.
Roswaal was now interested. He made a guess with the word "sufferings" on whom it might be. The same boy who might be the sole key to reviving his beloved teacher.
Crusch made a guess on who it might be with the keywords "boy" and "feat" "achievements" but she wasn't completely sure.
Emilia made a guess on who it might be with the word "adventures". Her stupid dunderhead of a knight who always risked his life while trying to save everyone but she wasn't completely sure.
"Speaking of which... Where is Subaru?" Emilia thought
"Subaru! Where are you hiding? Come out! Betty needs your company in fact!" Beatrice beat Emilia to it.
Emilia considers Beako as a little sister but she can't help but remember Puck whenever she takes a glance at Beako.
"Master! Master! Where are you? You can't leave me alone again, yea! Not after I patiently waited 400 years for you!" a girl known as Shaula beat Emilia after Beatrice.
Not being able to take it anymore, Emilia voiced her own concern. "Subaru, where are you?"
Everyone they knew was present.
Nobody was missing from any groups, in fact, all of them seemed to be here.
They were about to greet the Emilia camp and Anastasia camp members, especially those who went to the tower seeking cures but one glimpse at the distressed girls of Emilia camp and they changed their minds and started searching for Subaru along with them.
"Oi, Satoru Suzuki! Where's mah cap'n?"
Satoru replied quickly," Do not fret, your dear friend is safe in the care of an elf girl currently. He won't appear here yet. He's enjoying himself as we speak."
"ACHOO!" Subaru sneezed. He was half-awake, feeling some kind of divine pillow below his head. "Oh wait, could it be, Emilia-tan's giving me a lap pillow? Maybe I died and fainted after I went back to time." Subaru thought.
He was 100% sure these divine thighs were of Emilia-tan. E.M.T!
... Well, he was half correct because-
"Subaru-kun, why is it that you always think about Emilia even after receiving a lap pillow from me?" A voice identical to Emilia's shared her thoughts with an annoyed tone in her voice.
"Wait... Emilia-tan would never call me Subaru-kun... THAT MEANS THIS GIRL IS-"... "AAAAUGH, SATEL-!" It was an S.M.T moment (Satella-tan Maji Tenshii or Satella is seriously an angel!)
Meanwhile, people in the theatre were confused about who this blue-haired girl was. She looked identical to her sister Ram. Ram seemed to know something as she immediately exclaimed, "REM!" upon seeing her. Maybe "Rem" was her name but nobody was really sure since they feel they've never met her before.
Everyone but Emilia camp had a slight idea of who she was and what her name was thanks to the black-haired knight of Emilia.
Rem had her memories of everyone, including her treasured moments with her hero back, but sadly, the people surrounding her seem to have forgotten her, except her big sister. Of course! Her sister is amazing in every way, there's no way she'd forget her pathetic little sister. It seemed clear this resulted from Gluttony defeating her in that fight.
Even though Crusch gained her memories back, she did not know who Rem was.
"I've got to thank Barusu." Ram muttered to herself, not wanting Rem to hear this.
"Satoru-sama, can you somehow give us the memories of Rem back?" Ram pleaded. She even addressed him the honorific "–sama"
Right on cue, Satoru spoke up. "I'm sorry, but it's impossible, not really impossible, but backbreaking work. Those gluttonies are expert at hiding themselves."
He thought to himself, "They might pop up behind your ass and you'd never know." (LoL)
Ram looked distressed.
"So what do we do? I just want to get the memories of my sister back!"
"I'd suggest watching this viewing, there are some episodes which deal with your background and I can say for certain you'll gain 70% of the memories you had with your little sister."
That was enough for Ram. Ram was more than convinced. She didn't care what this view showed, but if it meant getting a part of her memories with her sister back, it's worth it. She'll observe it diligently through the end.
"Alright, let's finish this so-called viewing fast and get our memories of Rem and the sooner we leave from here, the better," Ram suggested to everyone.
All the members of the four camps nodded except Priscilla, who didn't care about a gutter rat's words and just hoped this "viewing" would bring some kind of fun to her.
"So all of you are ready to watch?" Satoru inquired.
Everyone nodded their heads as they all had things to do in Priestella. And some were curious about asking the Anastasia camp and Emilia camp how their trip to the tower went so far and some even had suspicions the irritated half-naked girl was the sage but they all found the answers to their questions, eventually.
The screen loaded...
"Here we go." Everyone thought.
Author's Notes
Whew! That took out my energy since I've been writing for the last three-four hours, but again, it was fun to write.
I hope you find this story interesting and before I continue let me say you should definitely check out 1Story maker's ReZero (rewind and rewatch from zero), ReZero cast watching Natsuki Subaru's Adventure To Death by GoldenFang17 and Life of Natsuki Subaru by strangerwager. They are all good reaction fics which I've read and I can say with no doubt they are better than my story!
And of course, Watching him die again and again by our Reactionist-san. We talked yesterday and now one of the main reasons for me making this story is to give him a true feeling of competition. Of course, I know I'll never reach legendary heights like his works nor will my work be any better than his, but even then I'll try my best and try to satisfy you all. Also, let me know what you think of this prologue. I'm sorry if you find it shabby, I'll definitely try to improve in the upcoming future chapters.
Now coming back to characters. Patrasche best girl! and as expected, Shaula joining conversations around others who are strangers in her point of view would be uncommon, but I'm excited to make her react to her master's death again and again. Those who commented on wanting an awakened Subaru, their wishes are going to be fulfilled somewhat by the end of arc 2 (guaranteed!)
And in the next chapter I'll introduce a few witches of sins to the theatre and warning: Emilia, Beako (brother-sister love), Rem and some other girls are going to be attached emotionally to Subaru by the end of arc 3+ (you have been warned lol)
As for Rem, I honestly thought to give everyone's memories with Rem back to them as I did in the previous fic but I had a brilliant idea!
They'll regain her memories bit by bit by watching the show, that way it can remain emotional for both Ram and Rem. Tell me if I did a mediocre job at hiding some spoilers and there will be a few SatellaxSubaru moments in the next chapter!
Now coming to our OC Supervisor, those who figured out Satoru Suzuki is Ainz Ooal gown, congo! And just for the information, Ainz is and will be the only guy from another anime at the moment, I promise all the others characters will stay purely to Re: Zero theme.
Do review and follow if you like and if you're dissatisfied with the character Ainz, enlighten me which character can be a good supervisor in the reviews (can be from any anime) if it sounds interesting, I'll sleep over it.
I'm sorry if this chapter seemed too short and also, let me know if I'm missing something. I hope this doesn't look like my previous story anymore. A big thank you to those who commented, both negative and positive ones. I'm off to write chapter 1. Enough talking, for now. I'm not Regulus Cornyass's son.–LongTyler out.