'Re:Zero' Fanfiction: The Viewing
By u/RenzoRenzoRenzo
In a dimly lit room, an ornate door was illuminated by white light. A bouquet of seven flowers sat in a vase on top of a marble pedestal stood between the quartet.
"Where are we?" Emilia asked Beatrice.
"A room, I suppose." Beatrice stood still, her eyes transfixed on the door ahead.
Ram and Julius slowly came to. The two of them joined Emilia and Beatrice.
"I have no recollection of getting here. We must be vigilant." Julius grabbed the hilt of his sword.
"This doesn't look like a room in the mansion." Ram slowly approached the door.
"It's good to see that you're all well. Where is Subaru?" Emilia worriedly looked around the room.
A sharp mechanical click, then a blunt thud emanated from the door. The door slowly creaked open to reveal an unknown body under bright light amidst a black room.
"Everyone, please stay here." Julius drew his sword and slowly approached the body across the door.
As Julius cautiously approaches the body, the details of its condition would slowly come to be. A pool of blood and entrails littered the floor, seeping between the tiles. The boy grasps his innards in futility, gasping for air that never fills his lungs.
"Natsuki!" Julius rushed towards his friend in a panic. He knelt down and tried to put pressure on the gaping wound.
"What!?" the three frantically sprinted towards the dying Subaru.
Beatrice and Emilia tried desperately to heal Subaru, but the wounds would not close. Ram took the open hand of Subaru and tried to comfort him.
"It's not working! Beatrice!"
"Betty is trying! The wound is not closing!"
"Please Beatrice! Save him!"
"Betty is trying! I will not let my contractor die!"
Subaru's breathing became rapid and in short succession. The blood curdling in his throat made it all the more violent and difficult to watch. Subaru's terrified face slowly became vapid. His struggle was no more. He has died.
"It's done..." Julius let go of the wound.
Ram slowly let go of Subaru's hand. "I'm sorry miss Emilia. Subaru has passed." She looked away from the unsightly corpse. "I'm sorry, Barusu…"
"Subaru! Hey! Please- Beatrice! Save him!" Emilia, using her magic trying to close the gaping wound could only beg for help. Tears fell down her cheeks onto Subaru.
Beatrice looked at the corpse of her contractor with shock and deep sadness. She knelt down beside the boy and cried her heart out.
"No… Subaru… Don't leave me…" Emilia placed her hand on the bloodied cheek of her most precious person.
"I'm sorry Miss Emilia. There's nothing else we can do." Julius stood up and looked away from Subaru.
Emilia rested her head on Subaru, weeping.
"I will definitely… Save you."
"Subaru!?" Emilia looked up only to see darkness.
The quartet looked around in search of the impossibility that Subaru was still alive.
"This may be a trick. Be ready." Julius readied himself, as did Ram.
The light drew away from Subaru and the bereaved. It trailed its way onto the distance, illuminating Subaru with a bag in his hand walking towards a shabby shack.
"Subaru!" Emilia got up to run towards Subaru.
"Emilia, wait!" Julius chased after her.
As much as Emilia ran towards Subaru, she never got any closer. She stopped as she ran out of breath, allowing the three to catch up to Emilia.
"I can't… reach him…" Emilia crumpled to her knees.
"Please do not run off like that Miss Emilia." Ram said sharply.
"That's Subaru, isn't it?" asked Julius.
"There's no way it is. Barusu is dead."
"This must be a foul apparition, I suppose." Beatrice wiped her tears.
"That house… that's the house I met Subaru in..."
"Ah…"
The scene follows Subaru opening the door. A lonely severed arm greeted him. Then a leg. Then half a body.
"What is-!?" Emilia gasped.
"Behind you Subaru!" Julius could only shout at this scene.
"―Aah, you saw it. I have no choice then. Yes, no choice at all."
With a quick slash, Subaru was tossed to the wall. Blood violently poured through his tracksuit.
"No!" the contractor could only look ahead.
"Subaru!" Emilia clasped her mouth. Eyes wide in pure terror at the scene.
"Barusu!"
Julius stood there dumbfounded. He knew he couldn't do anything to save his friend.
He collapsed on the floor onto his own pool of blood. A new figure entered the gored house.
"What-!?"
"Subaru…?"
"Miss Emilia?" Julius looked towards the shaken Emilia.
"I don't remember this!" Emilia shouted.
"No… wait…"
Subaru could only whisper these words, unable to reach Emilia.
Thud.
Emilia fell at arms length of Subaru's corpse. Subaru, in his last dying moments, reached out to Emilia.
"I will definitely… save you"
Death had taken Subaru.
Blackness overtook the grisly stage.
The four did not move from their place. Emilia, shocked and horrified by the events that were displayed, looked onward at the gruesome scene.
"This… this never happened… Felt and the old man were alive when I came in! I… I don't remember this!" Emilia tried to make sense of it all. But the scene denied her of this comfort.
Beatrice collapsed down to her knees, trembling and trying to understand what all this meant. She could not help him this time. She was helpless. "I don't understand…" she mumbled as her tears lined her cheeks.
Julius still looked towards the blackness that was the scene. He could only grimace.
Ram looked towards in shock. No words or tears were given.
Hey everybody, thanks for reading! I hope this was enjoyable for you to read. The next chapter will encompass Subaru's second death.
I decided to jump on the reaction fanfic bandwagon. This fanfic series will follow the deaths of the web novel, only including some of the key characters that seem pivotal as of arc 6. I'm going to rush towards the more crucial moments before Subaru's demise, so the character build ups will not be shown; scenes like Subaru crying on Emilia's lap will not be covered, nor will Subaru's heroic moments be covered. This will only display Subaru's deaths.