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Shitshooter: I really don't think anyone thinks of "flowery words" when they think Satella has a deep understanding of Subaru. Maybe it's the fact that Subaru's situation doesn't invite many people to really understand him in the first place and that Satella, someone with a front row seat to his life and thoughts, is objectively one of the closest ones. That's also besides the entire deal with Satella and Subaru's past that needs to be explored still.

Tappei has also stated that Echidna is someone who completely understands him.

First, thanks for the review. And about Satella, she outright made no attempt to understand the situation.

And it doesn't matter what Tappei says about Echidna. She is poorly written even though she had so much potential and she was very interesting. Tappei may state she understood him perfectly but what is written shows Subaru was incomprehensible to her. Echidna is a character with so many contradictions which is why I say it's badly written. As an example on one side she is a psychopath with no emotions and then she can cry and feel angry like a normal person instead of only acting like she can feel them.

In Greed IF LN she just 'tolerates' Subaru for Return by Death and her comforting is fake.

But we also know that she loves him genuinely.

You should just take her as you wish. I know people get angry at me for saying this but the whole Emilia plot in arc 4 and other stuff butchered Echidna's character before she even had that. She is nothing but a contradiction.

Ssahu72731: I didn't understand shit since it's like the prologue, but it was cool to read.

This story takes place in the future where important events already happened. Also, Subaru's place cannot be threatened nor story is about that. The first chapter was nothing but the introduction, but even so, I won't just tell everything that ever happened and leave it to interpretation. The story is about Subaru's relationships rather than events so they don't matter much. I only talk about them for the sake of building for drama.

Phelipebr: Excellent capitulo.

Thanks. It makes me happy that I heard that from you enough times that I don't need to translate that sentence anymore.

The sound of footsteps echoed in the hallway. Armored soldiers were lined up, they could feel the anger of a King while looking at Subaru. However, some people couldn't read the air.

Arakiya and Cecilus were standing there. Seeing Subaru, Arakiya face palmed, knowing that Cecilus was going to cause ten times more problems now he saw Subaru.

Cecilus had a beaming smile the moment he saw Subaru, it was as if he was a child and his favorite uncle came visiting and brought him presents.

"How cold! Trying to avoid me! But don't worry we will have fun correcting that mistake!" He couldn't believe how lucky he was! Just as when he had Murasame and Masayume!

"I will break your disgusting swords as I did to Reid." As much as he hates doing this. He allowed him to feel a very small portion of who he was. Which was of someone who constantly destroyed fate and would do it until he was satisfied. A monster who was chained by nothing. Not by Satella. Not by anyone.

And certainly… it didn't matter how legendary swords were or how powerful they were.

Being sturdy and being powerful weren't the same thing. Everyone is revered and worshiped in this world, and everyone exceptional in this world, regardless of how loved and feared they were, they would die against him without much effort.

They were too fragile against his determination. They didn't have the capabilities or determination to fight against an anomaly like him. Even Cecilus's very straightforward power and the gap between their speeds did not matter. He would die if he attacked. He was ready for him.

"Let's not do that!" Cecilus comically backed up.

"A wise choice."

With that he left them alone.

"Subaru-sama!"

As a voice called him. He stopped.

"Don't you want me to—"

"Thank you for helping me in my travels, Javis. However, It would be healthier for me if I can be alone with my companion."

"What companion? And…are you sure you don't want me to—"

"You can keep it. Sometimes I need to remind people but I am pretty rich. Even before my ascension, I was quite richer than anyone else." That was true, the ability to invent and struggle to learn how the economy worked in this world through careful observations. Even Anastasia had no chance against that. Not to mention she was just talented… that's why she never improved. She only depended on her intuition and gift.

Just like anyone in this world. That's why it's just impossible for anyone to defeat him.

"I didn't mean to disrespect, Your Majesty!"

"I know… just don't worry. I want to travel slowly until I reach Lugunica."

"It might be weird coming from me but… are you sure you will be sa–"

"I am. I trust my companion more than anyone. I can't think of anyone who helped me more in my solitude."

It was such a magnificent sight. As his honest feelings come out. He truly felt, he was a great man.

A Great King.

As he left. He made sure to recall every moment they spent and burn it into his memory so that he can never forget.

As Subaru concealed himself and avoided people spying on him. He was waiting in front of a lake. Deep in thought.

Why did everything end up like this?

Why couldn't he have a normal love life?

Why did Emilia confess to him like that? Did she think her lack of common sense would be overlooked like always? Actions had consequences. Subaru swore she wouldn't have things as they were before. No more convenience for the girl who had a convenient life. It would be downhill from here if she didn't think things through.

Would he ever be able to get a happy ending?

But the biggest question that resided inside of him was—

—Did I ever make the correct choice?

As he asked himself. Someone responded by hitting him on the back.

"Ah….You know, I am a King now you can't just hit me—"

Again.

"..."

Again.

"Okay! Okay! I am sorry, for whatever! I don't know what I did but it's my fault please don't hit me Patrasche!"

Even though she wasn't satisfied with his lack of understanding she snuggled him nonetheless.

"Without you, what would I do?" It was a rhetorical question. Without her, things would be much darker.

Without that. Subaru got on top of her.

"Be sure to go slow girl. I have to relax."

She didn't show any sign of acknowledgment but surely.

She understood him. As always.

Days passed. To begin with, he wasn't present in the Kingdom he ruled for months and he even took his time while returning.

Patrasche was faster than most ground-dragon even before she got some abnormal buffs by being too close and connected to Subaru.

Now she was fast enough that people wouldn't realize who he was if she ran at full speed. But he had his black cloak with orange lines. He had ways to conceal himself too which included Patrasche. So he stopped several times to help people. Weirdly enough, some people realized it might actually be him. But it always ended with "There is no way, right?"

Perhaps even though Subaru was quite different than other rulers… people didn't think they would just conveniently get helped by the King himself. But suspicions existed nonetheless.

Was it orange that gave his identity away? Or maybe it was something else? It wasn't the first time he helped people without showing himself so maybe there were rumors about villages getting better when a mysterious traveler visits them. If there were such rumors then they could easily be connected to him since he never once turned a blind eye to any problem.

It didn't matter how they came close to figuring it out.

The only purpose of concealment is so that rumors won't reach the Capital before he does.

As he got close to the more populated areas he increased his speed.

He could see that even though just 3.5 years passed in his rule. Visible development could be seen.

Subaru didn't think he did it out of his goodness or anything. At first, it was definitely for his own Pride that he worked so hard.

It wasn't a secret he didn't like The Kingdom he ruled.

However, the results spoke for themselves.

He usurped the throne from five Dragon Maidens. And before a month passed he was accepted as the ruler.

…

"Well Patrasche, I think this is the end of our vacation. Everyone in the Kingdom will think that I cheated on them for you."

"Gaah!" It seemed like she was agreeing.

"Well, maybe it is the case? Not to mention I do make jokes regularly about taking only you and running away to live a calm life with you"

"..."

"Ah. You got me. Most of the time, it's not a joke at all."

As Subaru grew up. He learned that running away doesn't mean giving up and that he didn't just have the responsibility to babysit anyone. Beatrice could do it herself since she wouldn't be alone with Echidna being present. So his only responsibility would be to be happy on her own. Just like Meili.

Maybe he should just run away?

"Well, I know you don't like this. But we have no other choice."

"..."

"Yes, yes. I will be as gentle as possible. Get ready."

Subaru closed his eyes to focus and opened his palm and aimed toward the sky.

"Al Shamac"

The world darkened for the two and they couldn't see anything….

"Calm down Patrasche! Everything works well!" He wouldn't forget to assure her. Patrasche's discomfort because of his weird ways of doing things made him feel bad. She was very important to him.

He could see that dark space was bending with time itself to correct the place bent and distorted by Subaru. Patrasche probably just saw pitch darkness.

It's not as if Subaru got buff and now he had a higher mana capacity. After fixing his gate on his own. Subaru decided he will learn magic seriously. Which caused his gate to be broken so many times that he lost count.

Though it wasn't the same as the first time. It's more like a sore muscle. Which was a good thing.

Not only that, Subaru made his own research on magic. Realized instead of literally forcing open a hole in space and randomly trapping things in it with original Al Shamac. You could do it with some natural flow of space-time. There were so many ways to lessen the cost of this ridiculously expensive magic. Even this Al Shamac was too different from what Echidna and Beatrice knew. It was efficient and made traveling possible unlike the original.

Of course, it wasn't just Yin magic or magic alone. Subaru found exploits and new ideas on everything. Authorities or witch factors weren't exceptions. But only a few people with less than fingers on a hand knew most of his capabilities.

However, his feats of Yin magic weren't unknown to the common folk, no actually everyone knew it. He also had similar feats in Yang magic too. Which was an affinity he had cultivated on his own. He wasn't naturally gifted with Yang affinity. But not having talent never stopped him unlike literally everyone in this world.

So he became the first ruler in the history of Lugunica with a magic title: Black.

White, which came from mastering Yang affinity, was much later. So Subaru has been called Black King, King of Shadows, and other titles thanks to his advancements on Yin magic. It was quite embarrassing but he was fine with it, after all, it was far better than Lolimancer, and of course…

Supreme Loli User.

This was the last version of the Lolimancer series… starting from Lolimancer people made ranks for his 'Loli using ability' Supreme Loli User was the last version so far.

But that title wasn't important, unlike the magic title. He would rather forget.

Titles of color were given to the people who mastered certain affinities. Subaru had Black and White, Felix was Blue, and the rest belonged to Roswaal. Which included all the colors in a traffic lamb.

As he felt that they were reaching. "Patrasche, keep your eyes closed." He warned her. The first moment of getting into the Spacial Gap and the moment you are getting out of it is deadly for everyone because the brain would crash in those moments. Patrasche was protected by Cor Leonis but that didn't save her from vomiting.

Subaru was unaffected because of his affinity with literal space-time itself and his consciousness took the concept of 'unknown' like it's normal. Thanks to him traveling in his consciousness every time he dies. Return by Death was far superior to anything… truly. The self-explanatory name did injustice to the complexity behind Return by Death that only he knew.

Though he was told by Echidna that looking at the Spacial Gap would be a madness-inducing and brain-trembling experience. But Subaru loved that nauseating light-headedness he was getting by looking at it. But he wouldn't tell that to Echidna. (1)

As Subaru saw them engulfed in white light. He knew they reached their destination.

He was currently located at the end of the Noble District. Just before the Royal Land. He thought if he should just barge in as he is or should change to a better outfit.

Nah. It's not like what he wore was anything ordinary even though it kinda looked simplistic.

"Yep. We are going home."

He didn't know if he told that to Patrasche or himself. Who was he trying to convince?

Anyway, They reached the gate.

"Halt! Show us your permit… Your Majesty!" Just as the soldier was asking for permits and identification. His gaze landed on his face. The moment that happened he kneeled just as every soldier close by.

Subaru took his time to look at the reactions. He could afford that as a ruler after all.

'Weird. They don't seem to emit anything close to negative emotions. Or is it just hidden from the public? Well, let's see.'

His gaze landed on the armored knight with strands of blond hair showing above his eyes. He knew him. Like he knew everyone kneeling around him.

"Rise your head, Hemil." He said that but didn't get off from Patrasche just yet. Unless that's required. He didn't have time for pleasantries.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Subaru learned that just allowing everyone to rise at the same time wasn't normal in most cases though exceptions weren't rare as well, like at parties. Though even parties were no different. If he was coming. Everyone would kneel.

"I did not conceal it, yet I am not aware of what action others took in response to my absence. Tell me how that went."

"If I am not overstepping my boundaries, I may invite you to an unworthy but nonetheless private place to report all I know. My comrades are excited about your return, they might slip something even though I have my utmost trust in them."

'Well, that's true. It's not like I take that as an insult. And I don't think he means slipping as in telling people inappropriately. The mood will change and will be realized by others regardless of how tight their lips are. And I know they are tight enough. Otherwise, they wouldn't be guarding this entrance to the Royal Land. I wouldn't allow it'

"That will be unnecessary. Mine return is not classified. All of you are allowed to be eased"

The sighs could be heard and anyone could see the relaxing expressions.

Time and time again he had put them in a different position such as not telling anyone anything, in some cases they even lied to Emilia's face. The current Dragon Maiden, their Queen.

So it could be understood that they were relaxed and nothing crazy was happening.

'Though Pris's way of talking is rubbing me off '

"As you wish Your Majesty, then may you allow one of my men to inform those who are required to know your arrival?"

Subaru POV

'Well, that's dumb and can be classified as insolent behavior from people who thought they had that right to know when I arrive. But the situation seems interesting. He seems troubled too'

"'Those who are required to know my arrival?... Now that's pretty damn interesting people in PLURAL, getting crazy to request intel for MY arrival? To YOU guys!" I said jokingly while making a smirking face.

Several men couldn't help but chuckle. Though I sensed it wasn't just my joke making them laugh.

But the situation itself was ridiculous enough that it was honestly funny. Some people try to learn about my arrival before others. Not to mention it seems that they are also ordered to not mention that to me.

Well, that's hilarious.

But if this points out to something darker then I will make jokes out of people instead of words. But for now, I did not get that feeling.

"Your Majesty, it's more than that. But as the way orders were given. Some of them nullify others and those that are not nullified also conflict with each other."

So that would be…

"So there are lots of requests for arrival. But there are some of them telling you to inform them first! And also saying any lower rank is just to be accepted without any rejection but not applied? Would that be correct?"

"As expected, Your Majesty did not lose his sharpness just because he went on vacation!"

"..." As he said that sentence… everyone recalled how blunt this guy could be.

Damn. Look at this silence, it must be awkward, poor guy. Well, his name is… Boris. Yes, he is a low-ranked noble however his military deeds as a brute force were indeed helpful. Though I am not impressed by brute strength alone… this guy knows that strategy has to be made by strategists. So he was dead set on doing things as ordered. He saw that as a goal and wouldn't be distracted by anything else.

Right now I can't even see him. His voice came from the gate above. I know those who take duty there love talking.

"Thank you, Boris. However, I wasn't on vacation. Unfortunately. Very. Unfortunately. Indeed." I sounded a bit too sad. And I was sad. That was no lie. Imagine having a vacation.

I also added. "You may raise your heads. And if you wish so you may come here, Boris. It's been a while."

After taking seconds to consider his options he gave an answer. "Then I shall bask in your presence."

That sounds normal. Yes. Normal when I have MUCH MUCH weirder lines thrown at me. Not to mention I hear what he just says from women regularly. Maid's most of the time… all the time actually.

I wonder if waiting for him to come below will be awkward tha— he is going to jump isn't he?

Oh, here it is.

The impact that would destroy and wall hit the ground, I triggered my mana for a second to dispel all the dust.

Well, it's my fault for not explicitly telling him to not jump!

As he realized he didn't think about the dust and opened his mouth to make a really long apology, I just raised my hand to silence him.

He went into a kneeling position as others with his head above and I was indeed covered everywhere but me not putting them into a formation is a sign of trust. So it won't be a problem.

I gestured for Hemil to continue his report.

"As Boris-san made it obvious. You were absolutely correct. I just don't have anything to say, I humbly accept any other request you have."

Well. I have one.

"I can check the nullified orders later, make sure to record them, and have a backup. They might be important later. Now what I require is the orders and requests from higher-ups with the order of importance.."

Not everyone could order them to be notified in time of my arrival. But some people could make the request without being seen as suspicious and without their request being nullified. It would be different if it was a classified mission but no one other than me can give that mission to any gatekeeper of Royal Lands.

So if I am right. The only ones left are higher rank nobles. Camps of Dragon Maidens and Maidens themselves. Council of Wise Man. Russel Fellow and excluding him one or two members of Six Tongue. Well, that should be all of it.

"Your Majesty, It is impossible to put all the requests in such order"

"Why is that?"

"All of them come from extremely high and with reasonings that can't be easily discarded"

Hmm. It seems that no one forgot to put their context in it. If no one did then one of them would've been highlighted. For example, if there was no reasoning in any of them and Emilia also asked for intel on my arrival, her order would be the only one I would be hearing right now.

So that means there is a probability that everyone I listed had done that with context but I don't think they would go that far. True that I wasn't here for months but Lugunica is a Kingdom that can function without any command from the ruler because how royal line is just incompetent airheads with a cheat bloodline that ables them to make good decisions.

So while I am ready for the backlash, I don't think high-ranking politicians even cared after some point when there are people like Echidna who can feel I am alive or Beatrice who literally gets 'pinged' when I am hurt too badly.

"Then let's get inside and talk. I have been inspired to make a new tea recipe on my travels."

"Aaaaaaaaaaah~ so no alcohol?"

Our big muscular friend Boris wined before realizing he was thinking loudly.

I chuckled a bit and everyone laughed along.

"Hemil regardless of who said what. No one will inform anyone, but the west garrison, others will definitely snitch. Also, their guard duty at the gate along with yours is now over. Tell the knights that soldiers and knights here are just too tired."

Cheers erupted but Hemil silenced them quickly. "It will be done. But may I ask the reason?"

"Well. You didn't want tea… so I thought we can go to 'my place', all drinks from me!"

Now. even he was shouting. Though I raised my hand to silence all of them.

It's kind of a red flag. When people shout too much I am usually present.

Truly. I am most comfortable with soldiers and knights.

It's ironic when pretty much everyone thought the army was the biggest threat to me.

They just don't understand.

As we quickly relocated to Pandemonium.

To be honest it is a legendary place for everyone. It's not known to the camps or even people like Emilia. I didn't even tell Echidna other than bragging that it's better than the flying Island she claimed to have before she literally lost it.

This is the place I decided to create when I left the Emilia camp and other camps for my own goals and this is the place where I decided to become a King.

This giant place which is distorted in size like Tardis(1)(it's bigger inside)was larger in size compared to my castle in Royal Land even if you just compare the outside.

The organization… if you can call that. Still runs even in my absence. There are powerful beings and weirdos I collected in my travels and people I helped. It has countless purposes. There are even some places where children get educated. Mostly orphans, but I was pretty selective. It's a well-known fact that I have a secret institute which I have control over. All nobles tried to show off their children to get accepted for both education and to learn about this place so they can expose themselves.

I didn't discriminate against children. So I didn't take more orphans because they have no place. There were places for them in the Kingdom anyway. That was the first thing I made sure of as a King. So the majority being orphans and children from poor places is just what it is. Though there are some noble children and young men and women too. It's up to them if they want to expose after their education is completed or not. They can't give up the location anyway. That's impossible. This place is beyond the reach of the very world let alone Od Laguna.

Though it's a secret with binds made by me. Many soldiers know this place. That's one of many ways I reward people. There are people obsessed with this place. Sage Council tried so hard to convince me but no, they weren't convincing enough.

"It seems that everyone is having a good time huh?"

"Well, this place is a mystery and drinks are worthy of Royalty, not to mention there is no threat of the enemy. It's a reward we are unworthy of My Lord"

"You are here so I think you are wrong about the last part"

When you are King. 'My Lord' becomes an informal way of talking. But I got used to it.

Anyway, I was drinking with Hamil in my study room. We saw the view of people who preferred to spend their time outside instead of at the castle. As Hamil realized I was looking outside he started talking once again.

"I can't see the Kingdom at all."

"Neither I."

"The forest I can see seems weird. The forest in the east has colorful trees, and the one in the west has crazy big trees."

"Well, I like big trees."

"That's…" Yes, I was the one who destroyed the 'Flugel' tree. Yes.

But he just continued without commenting on that.

"It doesn't seem like you are worried about all the dragons above, My Lord? Not to mention they are way beyond…"

"Oh yeah. They aren't normal dragons but I know all of them so it's fine."

"Is it fine to keep all of them here while we have a very limited supply of flying dragons?"

"Nah. We have a lot. I have a talent for training them and making them grow… it took time to understand it. But I even found the ones from very old times. I just kept it to myself."

"..." Of course, that was a shock for him since I was keeping such a thing away from everyone. But like most of my men, he was used to being shocked by me so he shrugged it off quickly.

He asked me further who stays in villages in sight. I give a short explanation that there are rare species that I made peace with. How they are safe here and how I gained their trust.

It's not that I gained anything from them in return. It's just… Why let any race extinct? We are all together, making this world more colorful.

…

As my mood started to darken. We get into the business.

"So who was the first one to ask for the intel? Saying "Sir" is enough. I dislike giving so much time to honorifics."

"Yes Sir. It was Al."

"What?!"

Well. After my shock. I realized I just made him promise to not tell anyone including Priscilla, to think he found a way to exploit that…well, he didn't tell anyone, technically.

"When did this happen?"

"The day you left Sir."

I couldn't hide the shock… that guy getting spoiled too much by me because he is a fellow Japanese…

"Okay. Next."

"Anastasia Hoshin-sama."

"I don't want to ask but I have to… when and how?" This isn't the order I could guess… What is even going on?

"Well, she said she was concerned because of Her Majesty's worries. It was just three days after Al, Sir."

She has no shame. Really. She wasn't lying when she said she just gave up on predicting him and just looked at Emilia to learn anything. Not to mention… her being the second one to react meant that Emilia just thought I was having one of my episodes and left for a few days. But Anastasia thought differently. Her intuition is crazy.

And… Why didn't she tell Emilia? Hey, hey. Anastasia-san? She is your Queen too! And plus you are friends, right?

I did ask why she is so rebellious… however.

"Tehee~ It's a merchant's privilege to keep information! Subaru-kun wouldn't want me to change anyway!"

I couldn't help but sigh at the memory.

"Next."

"Then… It was Priscilla Barielle-sama. A little boy gave us the letter though."

"Oh?! What?!"

No. No way!

I was sure I would come back and she would be "You were gone? Oh, I didn't realize!"

Not to mention… she probably figured out before Anastasia since no way Schult travels that fast alone!

And where is Emilia?! Hey! Don't tell me she thinks I just go out to buy milk!

"I feel drained but… Continue. No actually wait! How did Priscilla know?"

"She didn't tell us anything. The letter was pretty straightforward. But… I thought I should look into it a bit and…"

?

"Well. It seems that Lady Priscilla went to Echidna-sama's location when Beatrice-sama was missing and she didn't let her go even now…"

Oh my stars.

What the fuck?

She invaded Echidna's place, barged in, and kidnapped her child.

After that, she somewhat succeeded in monopolizing Beatrice; the one and only person who can fully sense my location(I doubt Echidna helped anyone now I think about it.) when I, The King, was absent?!

Wow. This is the craziest Pris feat! I have to update that list. The woman literally had a daily knowledge of my movements…

After I stopped laughing without holding back. I stopped as if that never happened.

But even so…

"How did… Priscilla kept Beatrice?"

"I don't know Sir. But there is no way it was forced. The laws you put for the sake of freedom of the Great Spirit Beatrice stop anyone from demanding anything from her regardless of importance. So by using those laws Her Majesty and Wise men tried to judge Priscilla-sama even though you were absent… but Great Spirit made her choice."

Wow.

She won from day one. Not to mention after that if anyone wanted information about me they would need to satisfy both of them.

"Did she tell anyone about anything?"

"Not at all. Only Priscilla-sama was informed. She… bragged about that to Her Majesty… which created lots of… 'drama' as you would say."

Ah. My love life. Favorite gossip content for citizens. They love it.

"Let's get a bit faster."

"As you wish. After a week. Bordeaux-sama—"

"Oh…. What is this ridiculous order?"

"There is nothing I can do Sir."

"Don't mind me. Please continue."

"After that, Margrave and Russel Fellow."

"I see. Damn clown strikes again and Russel."

"After that, rest of the Wise men."

"I see."

"Karsten-sama and— Her Majesty, after a month."

"Hemil… you are the one who read all the letters, right?" I said it as I looked at the letters and tons of other documents I would read later.

"Yes, Your Majesty. If there is any mistake it was because of my shortcomings."

"No, no. This is a crazy situation anyway… and I am sure there is even more crazy 4-D Chess happening beyond this. But if you read all of the letters that means you also read Emilia's so… do you think…" Subaru said some incomprehensible things but everyone learned to ignore it already.

Instead, the man focused on the part he understood.

"I think it was Suwen-sama. But I have no way to confirm that."

Oh, Otto. I see. So I can't deduce Emilia's reaction from this letter.

What a bother.

"Well. Let's have a short rest. After two days… we are going back."

"As you wish."

As I sipped my favorite beer while watching the scenery—

"And…"

"It's good to have you back."

After that… he waited for a moment and left the room. Perhaps people can understand when I require to be alone. Pfff… no way. If only that was true…

So far it was good, my return.

But again… I couldn't say "It's good to be back." So far it was good. But I knew It wouldn't last.

This was probably bad... I enjoyed writing but it's quite hard to write Subaru as a King, talking with his soldiers. I cringed quite a bit while writing it.

And about (1) it's a reference. In Star Wars, looking at hyperspace is madness-inducing and very uncomfortable. But Darth Vader loves doing it. I thought it was fitting for Subaru to get high while other people would die from looking at it.

All of this is buildup. I will publish quickly until ch 4 and then slow down. If you like the story please Follow/Favorite or kudos if you are in AO3. It motivates me a lot. I love numbers.

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