Run
Run
Run
That was what Subaru was doing
It was all he thought about
As he ran he felt free
Memory's of his torture played over and over again and again.
Yet he kept running
"Wow thanks, girls, your mana reserves are helping me out," Subaru said only slightly out of breath
"No problem"
"Your welcome"
"I'll accept your praise"
"Yay praise"
"Glad to help"
"You should get fit."
Subaru's six contracted spirits replied
Subaru stopped running to catch his breath seeing that the capital was out of sight
Subaru sat down allowing his weak and fragile body to rest
"*pant*, *pant* you know girls if we're going to be contracted for life I say we form a better relationship early."
"And how would we do that?" Asked the spirit of water
"Well, I think it's rude to just call you spirit or girl, would you all like a name?"
The spirits were surprised to hear this.
"Yes please."
"Yes please Subaru"
"Yeah"
"We'll only because the others agreed"
"Sure"
"Sounds lovely"
"Ok, ok, mmmmm... ok you"
Subaru points to the fire spirit
"Your name will be Blaise, because it sounds like Blaze and you know fire and stuff."
Blaise shorn happily
"It's a great name."
Subaru points to the water spirit
"Ok since your a water spirit it makes sense that your name is... Aqua."
Aqua let a cool aura em it if her
"It's a very nice name, thank you."
Subaru points to the earth spirit
"Ok Earth spirit, you need a name that says down to earth, hmmmm how about... Toph?"
Toph was pleased
"Yeah sounds perfect."
Subaru points to the wind spirit
"Ok now for you, how about Aeolus?"
Aeolus gladly accepted the name
"It's acceptable I suppose."
Subaru looks to the Yang spirit
"Yang huh? You need a name that shines bright, how about, Eon?"
Eon was beaming
"Yes, yes it's amazing."
"And lastly Yin... for you may I call you Shami? It reminds me of the one spell I used to use."
Shami thought about it for a second
"Yes, I can accept such a name."
"Alright everyone, now listen up, we didn't properly get to introduce ourselves back there in that cell, let's reintroduce ourselves and I'll go first."
Subaru points to the sky
"Hello my name is Natsuki Subaru, I'm broke, weak, lost everything and now is asking if you wanna be my new family, so I ask you for your support and strength."
The spirits were quiet for a second before Aqua spoke up
"Hello Subaru, my name is Aqua, I'm a water spirit and I would love to lend you all my support and strength."
Subaru smiled
Toph went next
"Alright then, listen up, my names is Toph, I'm a super strong earth spirit, and I will lend you my support and strength."
Eon was about to speak when Shami began to glow
Subaru was confused
"What just happened to Shami?"
"It appears I've evolved from a lesser spirit to a Quasi spirit... odd I'm not even a year old yet."
Subaru looked at Shami confused
"Wait how long does it take for a lesser spirit to evolve normally?"
"Dunno, I just thought it took many years, but I guess your spirit affinity truly is just that high. Plus since your magic affinity is Yin it also benefited me to evolve much faster."
"Wow, so I guess I can expect all you girls to evolve soon?"
"Maybe I hope so." Said Blaise
"Anyways, can everyone agree that we're now family and will lend each other our strength?"
All the spirits floated around exited saying some variation of yes
"Ok, ok. I've rested for enough, it's time I started running again, does anyone know the way to a kingdom far away from Lugunica?"
"Why would you want to run so far away... not even on what humans call a dragon carriage ?" Asked Eon
"Simple really, the farther away I am from the people who tortured and betrayed me the better, I probably won't return until I'm certain that I can defeat everyone... maybe excluding the sword saint. And why don't I rent a dragon carriage? Well, what if say Julius goes hunting me down and hears that a black-haired boy purchased a dragon carriage? He says something like, that boys a witch cultist, which direction did he go? I wanna capture and torture him again for the fun of it."
The spirits were a bit shocked
" Are you a part of the Witch's cultist?" Asked Aeolus
"Nope, I hate them as much as the normal gut does, but I hate those who hurt me more."
"Meaning?" Aqua pondered
"I'll probably kill a witch cultist no problem, but if I see someone who hurt me, I'll hurt them mentally, as much as possible. And since they hurt me it's only fair, after all, torture is a violation of my human rights..."
"That's understandable." Said Toph
"So anyone knows a kingdom I can travel to?" Subaru said getting back on topic
Most of the spirits were quiet, except for one
"If you're looking for a faraway Kingdom, I recommend going to Kararagi." Said Eon
"Do you know the way?" Asked Subaru
"Indeed I do, follow me as you run." Replied Eon
"Alright let's goooo to our new happy future... and hopefully overpowered destiny."
Location: Roswaal Manor
Emilia, Beatrice, Rem and Ram had returned from the capital, all very upset at the event that had just unfolded
Beatrice had red eyes, from all the crying, she remembered the day she condemned him, she broke her own contract... a contract that had brought her such happiness and good memories. She hurt the boy who saved her... she was a failure of a spirit and she knew it
Rem had a look of hatred in her eyes, as she thought about the horrible things Julius and Felix apparently did to her Hero. If she ever caught those two alone she would gladly murder them.
Ram was upset, she felt sad that Fate was so cruel to Subaru, but she was mainly just happy that she could remember Rem again
Emilia was broken, she let such an amazing man go, she was there when he was sent off to get tortured and she did nothing. But Emilia despite everything felt like she couldn't go on without him, she felt like an incomplete puzzle without Subaru... regardless of if it was greed or Naivety but she would get Subaru back, she would apologise and he would hopefully forgive them.
As the four entered the manor they were greeted by Frederica the maid.
"Welcome back Emilia-sama, it's great to hear that your exhibition went well."
"Hello Frederica please gather everyone to the dining table, we have an urgent matter to discuss immediately," Emilia said sternly
"Right away Emilia-sama."
Frederica ran off as Emilia, Ram, Rem and Beatrice made their way to the table
...
Everyone had gathered as per Emilia's request
"Alright you may be wondering why we've gathered you here, well we have a few important announcements to say. Firstly I am not Lady Beatrices contracter."
"Tc'eh hella ye talking about?" Said Garfeil
"If yourrrrrr not Lady Beatrice's contractor then whooooo is?" Said Roswaal in his usual accent
Beatrice had a pained expression as she said his name
"It's Subaru Natsuki."
Silence fell upon the table
"Who ta hell is... w-where IS MA CAPTIN!?" Garfeil yelled in shock
"Subaru-sama?! How could I have forgotten the man who did so much for me?!" Otto's face had a horrified expression
"Ahhhh Subaru-kunnnnn how could we forget you?" Said Roswaal not breaking his smile
"WHERE IS MA CAPTAIN?!" Garfeil shouted
Emilia let a tear fall
"W-we don't know..."
"Ta fuck do ya mean YE DONT KNOW?!" Garfeils gave off a dangerous expression
Beatrice stood up allowing her mana to flow
"WE DON'T KNOW I SUPPOSE!" Beatrice screamed with tears in her eyes.
"Well, that begs the obvious question of what happened to Subaru." Said Frederica
"His name was eaten by Gluttony... and I accused him of being a witch cultist I suppose." Beatrice said with pained breaths
Otto's eyes widened in horror
"No way, you know what happens to people that are suspected of being part of the witches cult r-right?" Otto said with sweat coming down his head
Beatrice didn't respond
"Ye Bitch, DIDN'T HE SHOW YA HIS BLOODY CONTRACT?!" Garfeil wanted to rip Beatrice in half as he spoke only not doing so because he would probably be stopped by Roswaal or Beatrice herself
"HE DID I SUPPOSE!"
silence
"HE SHOWED ME THE CONTRACT, BEGGED ME TO LISTEN BUT I BROKE IT INFROUNT IF HIM, I BEATRICE GREAT SPIRIT BROKE OUR CONTRACT THEN SENT HIM AWAY TO BET TORTURED." Beatrice began to cry uncontrollably
Otto held a disappointed look as he asked the next question
"And Emilia-sama, what were you doing as all this transpired?"
Emilia began to cry
"I-I-i watched, I did n-nothing but watch as he was sent away..."
"Well... stopped a great calamity, helped take down a couple of sin Archbishop's and this is how he's repaid." Otto clenched his fist drawing blood
Roswaal was looking down eyes visibly scarred Subaru was supposed to be his ticket to achieve his goals, Roswaal understood that Subaru is as equally important as Emilia in achieving his with his power granted by the witch of envy he might be even more important...
"So Emilia-sama what happens now?" Roswaal spoke without his usual accent or tone surprising a few listeners
"Isn't it obvious? We track Subaru down, Reinhard has already been sent to Subaru's cell to use his divine protections to gather information and once that's done we can begin locating him." Said Ram
"Do ya think he wil'l wanna see us after all dat?"
Emilia smiled
"Subaru he's always been the type to forgive and grow from experiences, that's what makes him so unique. But I'm not sure this once, what's happened to Subaru is something no person should ever experience. Subaru probably won't wanna come back easily." Emilia showed a face of pure pained determination
"But we will get our hero back." She finished stoically
Petra quietly spoke, "Will Subaru ever forgive us?" The small maid said feeling shame that she couldn't help her love and hero.
Federica put her arms around the young maid
"Petra, Subaru's just been through the worst experience anybody could ever experience. Some might even call it hell... so it's very likely that Subaru won't be very open to seeing us for a while."
Petra looked down saddened by the elder maids words
Emilia turned to Garfeil
"Garfeil, would you give up being my knight when Subaru returns?"
"YA FUCKIN BET I WILL."
Knock knock
"Ohhhh it seemmmsss we have company." Roswaal said back to his normal self
The two maid sisters went to the door
And when they opened it they saw Reinhard the sword saint and Felt.
"Excuse the intrusion but I have information about Subaru that you might find interesting."
"This Dummy took way too long to get almost no information."
"I'm sorry that I disappointed you Felt-sama future queen of-"
"Shut up already and let's go in."
"Yes Felt-sama"
As the Maids walked Reinhard and Felt over to the table Rem couldn't help but feel extremely excited that he might know where Subaru-kun is
"Greetings, I apologise for the sudden intrusion but I have some information about Subaru."
Emilia looked at the Saint with excitement in her eyes
"Yes, what is it?"
"Firstly, I found by using my Divine protection's that Spirit magic was used in that area meaning that Subaru somehow used spirits to escape. And secondly, the guards while spotting Subaru laving saw nobody with him."
"HELL YE MY CAPTION'S A BADASS, ESCAPING PRISON IS HELLA COOL."
Beatrice felt betrayed
"Bettys Subaru used spirits... but b-but?" Beatrice struggled with the very concept that Subaru replaced her for abandoning him, sure it would make sense but the thought hurt far too much for Beatrice to accept.
"Don't worry Beatrice, I'm sure he didn't contact any of them, he just used them to escape a desperate situation," Emilia said trying to calm Beatrice down knowing how torn the great spirit must be
"So he escaped on his own? Wow, Subaru-sama truly is amazing huh?" Said Otto trying to lift the room's spirits
"Wait do you know where he is I suppose?" Asked Beatrice
"Unfortunately no, this dummy was only able to get that much information, would you believe we spent half an hour at that prison for such small results?"
"What now?" Asked Emilia
"Well, Emilia-sama you will be glad to know that both Our Camp Crusch' Camp and Anastasia camps have agreed to form a alliance to find Subaru and of course, your camp may lead this operation if you wish."
Emilia with a stern look replied
"With our four camps combined resources and might we will find my missing knight... I promise."