Subaru was fast asleep, knowing his life isn't in any danger really helped the boy in putting his mind at ease. However, that was eventually put to an end once the pink haired doppelgängers let themselves in.
"Good morning, guest-sama." The two girls said in perfect unison and bowed towards Subaru who was very groggily waking himself up. His vision was still blurry as he didn't prepare himself to wake up this early. Subaru managed to at least figure out that the twin maids were the ones to wake him up.
"You two…?" He asked exhaustedly.
Without wasting any time, Flam continued. "We were informed that you'll be participating in Lady Felt's candidacy training."
Oh right, I was going to be doing something like that, Subaru thought. However, he was still too tired and just yanked the covers over himself. "Five more minutes…" He groaned out, nearly passing out again.
The twins blinked and looked at one another for a moment. They then shrugged in unison and bowed to Subaru. "Understood, we will return in five minutes." And with that, the twins left the room, leaving Subaru to continue his sleeping montage.
The time spent sleeping once again was really relaxing. Subaru was also kinda surprised that he even got away with it. Usually in anime when someone said that phrase, they would try extra hard to get them up or something along those lines.
As if on cue to his thoughts, he felt a very powerful force strike his stomach. It was as if someone drop kicked him, aiming directly in his stomach. The pain shot him up from the bed, letting out a loud groan as he instantly saw who his attacker was.
It was Felt who had indeed drop kicked him.
"GYAAAAAH! What was that for?!" Subaru cried out. Five minutes hadn't even passed since the twins came by.
"Do I really need to answer that?! You were trying to bail on me so I decided to knock some sense back into ya!" Felt answered as she was still standing on top of Subaru.
"Alright, I get it. But you don't need to launch yourself at me like a missile!"
"I don't know what a missile is but I'll launch myself at you however I want if you're gonna stay in bed like some kind of troll! Besides, you promised that you'll go through this with me. It'd be pretty shitty of you to abandon family like that."
Subaru raised an eyebrow to this. "Family? Oh yeah, I've been meaning to ask you about that. I remember you calling me your big brother at some point. Is that some kind of alibi for something?"
"That thing? Not really. I mean, you stuck your neck out for me and you really saved my life from that crazy bitch. I seriously would be dead if it weren't for you. And that's what family does, they stick up for one another." Felt smiled, showing genuine appreciation.
Subaru smiled as well and lightly chuckled. "I guess you got a point there, little sister." While Subaru was lightly chuckling, that comment made Felt look rather annoyed and stomped her foot down. Since she was still standing on top of Subaru, Felt essentially gave his stomach another kick which stopped the boy's chuckling and let out another gyaah sound. " H-Hey! What gives?!"
"I dunno, when I hear you say it like that, it pisses me off." Felt explained as she crossed her arms, looking very clearly disturbed. "Call me something else."
Subaru took a second to think and placed his hands over Felt's feet before he answered, just in case she got mad again. "Well, how about lil' sis?" He then braced himself to endure another kick. Luckily, that kick never came.
"Hm… Lil' sis…" Felt muttered. "Yeah! It has a nice ring to it! I knew you'd come up with something less embarrassing."
"But lil' sis is just a shortened version of little sist- GYAAAAH!!!" Subaru was suddenly interrupted as Felt stomped her foot down.
"Yep, it really does have a nice ring to it. Glad you agree, big bro." Felt declared as she silenced the poor boy beneath her with her stomping. Hell, she added another kick just for good measure which this time around made Subaru retaliate to Felt's surprise. Once Felt stomped her foot down again, Subaru managed to catch it this time and toppled her over beside him. "Hey! What gives?! Don't go blocking my ki- AHAHAH!!!"
Felt's scolding was suddenly interrupted as Subaru began tickling her. Subaru was now smiling smugly as he had finally got the upper hand for once. "Counter attack!" Subaru shouted out loud as he mercilessly tickled the short blonde.
Felt was in tears, laughing her ass off as she helplessly flailed around. "H-Hey! G-Get off! Hahah!" That was the best the poor girl managed to say in this tickle torture she found herself in.
Unfortunately for Felt, her pleas fell on deaf ears as Subaru continued his tickling onslaught. This scene didn't last long, after a few minutes, the twins returned to the room. "I hope you've gotten enough additional rest, guest-sama. I think it's time to-" Flam stopped what she was saying as the twins were now witnessing Subaru mercilessly assaulting poor Felt.
The two looked at one another and nodded in unison before both Flam and Grassis rushed forward. Before Subaru knew it, he found himself pinned down in an arm lock. After realizing the position he was in, Subaru began to helplessly squirm around. "Ow ow ow!! I give, I give!!"
Despite the boy's plea for mercy, Grassis, the twin that had him pinned, kept her stance. Felt, who was escorted to the side by Flam, took a second to catch her breath and smugly smiled at Subaru. "I guess what goes around comes around."
"W-What do you mean?! You're the one that started it!" Subaru cried out before nearly yelping in pain again. "OW OW OW!!! L-Loosen up, will you?"
Grassis silently remained still, doing a phenomenal job at apprehending the boy. Flam then spoke to Felt. "Lady Felt, are you alright?"
Felt couldn't help but chuckle rather triumphantly. "Yeah yeah, I'm sure big bro learned his lesson so you can let him go?"
The twins blinked and asked in unison, "Big bro?" Grassis was quick to get off Subaru and rushed beside her sister then both Flam and Grassis bowed to the still whimpering Subaru profusely. "We're sorry, guest-sama. I was under the impression that you were assaulting Lady Felt." Flam explained.
Subaru got himself up and stretched a little. He was about to give those girls a piece of his mind but he stopped after seeing the two. They were just kids after all. He let out a sigh before smiling at the two. "It's all under the rug. Just be careful next time. A-And be a bit gentler too." Subaru nervously chuckled at his last remark before the twins bowed once again.
"If you would, Master Reinhard is still waiting for you both." Flam explained, gesturing to the door so that they could get on their way.
"Sure thing. Just let me change first."
Felt's brow twitched at Subaru's response. "Would you hurry up?! I want to get this dumb thing over with already."
Fearing another attack, Subaru frantically waved his hands in front of himself. "I'll be fast, I promise."
With a heavy sigh, Felt stepped out of the room with her arms crossed. The twins followed right behind her, leaving Subaru alone in the room once more.
"She sure is a handful." Subaru muttered to himself after the girls left and got himself changed back into his signature tracksuit. He didn't really have any other clothes after all other than the bed wear that this place provided him. Perhaps he could ask Reinhard or one of the staff to help fix that at some point.
Subaru got himself out of the room shortly after, regrouping with the girls. "Please follow us." Flam instructed as she led the way beside her sister. Subaru and Felt followed behind.
Felt was still smiling pretty smugly at Subaru and leaned close to him, whispering up at him. "You got beat up by a little girl~"
He had indeed got his ass handed to him by the little twin named Grassis but there was no way he was just going to admit that. "I-I was just going easy on her. It would tear down my moral code if I attacked a little girl."
Felt wasn't buying it at all, her smug smirk she still wore proved just that. "I dunno, it sounded like you were screaming like a girl back there."
"Manly! It was a manly scream!" Subaru countered.
Flam glanced back at the two. "Your manly scream sounded feminine to me." Grassis nodded, agreeing with her sister's insight.
"Not you guys too…" Subaru slumped down in defeat which earned him a cheeky chuckle from Felt.
Soon enough, the group arrived at the dining hall to find Reinhard sitting alone at the table with a plate of untouched food in front of him. Across the table, there were two more plates of food. Reinhard smiled once everyone had arrived. "Good morning, I was starting to fear that something may have happened."
"Nah, a certain someone was just trying to bail in their own special way." Felt said.
"I wasn't trying to ditch you! I just wasn't expecting to get up this early!"
"My apologies, I should've mentioned that Miss Felt's lessons are going to start at this time and will proceed until after dinner." Reinhard clarified.
Felt blinked a few times as this piece of information was only brought to her attention just now. "That's all day! I might've agreed to do this but there's no way in hell I'm turning these lessons into a career!"
"I doubt it'll be all training." Subaru added. "Why don't you tell us the schedule you had planned, Reinhard. That way, we'll know what to expect."
"That's a reasonable plan. Well to start with, we'll be going over proper manners over the table so breakfast will be part of our lessons. Afterwards, we'll be going over h own to properly introduce yourself to others. Depending how long that takes will determine our next activity."
"So it's more of a 'we'll get there when we get there' lesson plan?" Subaru confirmed.
"That's an interesting way of wording it but yes, the length of these lessons entirely depends on how quickly you both can learn them."
"You hear that, Felt? The faster we get these done, the more we can do in our day." Subaru explained with a smile.
"Well, if that's how it's gonna go, then I guess it wouldn't be too bad." Felt submitted, even letting out an annoyed sigh.
Reinhard shook his head. "Actually, the plan was to immediately start the next lesson. We'll be cycling lessons until lunchtime where we'll review this morning's lesson. We'll resume our lessons afterwards and we'll once again cycle through them until dinner. Our lessons will all be over for the day by then."
Both Subaru and Felt stared at Reinhard with a dumbfounded look. Felt was slowly scooting herself closer to the door they came in from, getting ready to book it but Subaru placed his hand on her shoulder causing her to stop.
"Don't worry," Subaru whispered. "I'll talk to him after we eat." He then gave Felt a thumbs up but Felt didn't respond, she just continued to wear that same weirded out look.
The two awkwardly took their seats and finally began their first lesson. The lesson itself was very simple, in all honesty, it was pretty insulting. Reinhard's only instruction for this was to use silverware to eat their food.
This was of course enough to enrage Felt. "I know what a fork is! I'm not stupid!"
"In that case, this lesson should be easy." Reinhard smiled, seeming to be genuinely proud. With a click of her tongue, Felt shoveled some of the food with her fork. Before she could take a bite, Reinhard intervened. "Not like that, you're supposed to use your fork like this." Thus the knight demonstrated his silverware prowess, something that Felt couldn't care less for.
After his demonstration, Felt just stared at Reinhard for a moment and just gobbled the food that was still scooped on her fork. This food tasted amazing too, one thing this place makes up for is certainly its food.
Reinhard just assumed Felt was clearing her fork for her next attempt and just watched expectantly, kinda like watching an infant about to take their first steps. This annoyed Felt and was about to scoop some more food the same way as before. However, Subaru was the one to stop her this time.
"Cmon, just humor him a little."
"With what? He should be happy that I'm even using his dumb fork."
"I said I'll talk to Rein after this, if you can do this for me, I promise the workload he's trying to haul on us will be drastically reduced."
Felt gritted her teeth. "I don't know what you're trying to pull here." She then let out a sigh. "Fine, but I'll kick you if you don't keep your end of the deal."
The blonde girl reluctantly took the food in her fork like Reinhard had instructed. It wasn't hard or anything, it was just annoying for the young girl, especially that stupid happy look Reinhard was giving her. It looked like he was some kind of proud parent.
"Will ya stop looking at me like that?! It's creepy!" Felt hissed.
In return, Reinhard just scratched the back of his head and smiled. "My apologies, I didn't mean to offend you. I'm just overjoyed to see how quick of a learner you are."
"It's just eating! There shouldn't even be some kind of complicated method for that to begin with." Felt said. She was about to strike at her food again before Reinhard yet again interrupted her.
"You should wipe yourself with your handkerchief before resuming your meal."
"Grr…! Why does that matter?! I swear, you're trying to piss me off on purpose, aren't you?! What about big bro? You haven't said a word to him on what he should be doing." This caused Subaru to give off a triumphant smirk. Before Felt could call him out anymore, she finally noticed that his plate was clean, devoid of any food. "Hold on, where did all your food go?!"
"Hahah, while Reinhard was too busy focusing on you, I strategically took out my target as fast as I could!" Subaru proudly declared before patting his stomach.
"What the hell?! We're supposed to be doing this together! And Reinhard, why didn't you lecture him? Are you that hellbent on making my life miserable?"
"I didn't mean to have Subaru discounted. This training is more aimed towards you so I was under the impression you wanted Subaru as emotional support." Reinhard reasoned
"Oh he'll be supporting me by doing everything you're making me do! If I have to eat weirdly, then so does big bro!"
"My apologies for my ignorance. I will correct our lessons from now on to fit both of you." Reinhard bowed, showing his respect.
"Cmon lil sis, you're not going to make me do everything you have to do, right?" Subaru pleaded, already getting a bad feeling about this.
"Yes you are! What are you even worried about? It's not like they're gonna put us in a dress."
Subaru let out a sigh of relief and smiled. "Yeah, I guess you're right. I guess I shouldn't worry too much."
"…"
Reinhard stayed silent for his own reasons. Almost as if he had something in mind that involved a dress.
The lesson wasn't kept track of for the remainder of the time, leaving Felt to finish her food the way she wanted to. Reinhard decided to not pursue it any further since he now understood that Subaru will have to be taught too and decided to leave it for the next lessons.
After eating, Reinhard was about to lead the group to the next room. However, Subaru kept his word and took Reinhard off to the side to talk to him in private.
"So Rein, I wanted to talk to you about Felt's lessons." Subaru started.
"I assumed as much. There's nothing to worry about though, I only intend to have you participate in lessons that fit your qualifications." Reinhard smiled.
"I do appreciate that but that's not what I meant. I mean the length of the schedule if that makes sense."
Reinhard rubbed his chin as he recalled the schedule he had planned out. "I find it perfectly reasonable. All the proper lessons fit in and it gives both you and Miss Felt the rest of the day off after dinner. Perhaps you're right though, I see no harm in adding another lesson or two afterwards."
"N-No, I'm not asking for more lessons! It's actually the opposite." Subaru frantically corrected.
Reinhard looked genuinely surprised at this feedback. "Are you sure? My apologies, I haven't trained myself in the arts of teaching. Anyways, what was it you wanted to suggest?"
"Well, I guess more time to do our own things. The current plan hardly gives us any breathing room and I think that will only make the lessons harder to… process, if you get what I mean. Right now, we're supposed to cram everything from morning to late evening."
"Hmm… That sounds reasonable. You seem to have experience with this, would you mind helping me redo our schedule?"
Subaru smiled brightly and gave Reinhard a thumbs up. "Sure thing, Rein!"
"Thank you, we can start this later. I would like to get Miss Felt in top shape as soon as I can."
"Only if I call the breaks until we do so."
"Reinhard nodded. "Of course, I will trust your judgment on the matter."
With the schedule discussion out of the way, the two returned to Felt who had their arms crossed and was impatiently tapping her foot on the ground. Flam and Grassis were standing beside her, looking like they were her personal attendants. "There ya are. Did you sort out that bullshit lesson plan?"
Subaru nodded and gave her a thumbs up. "Sure did! Everything should be smooth sailing from here on."
Letting out a sigh of relief, Felt walked beside Subaru and Reinhard with the twins following at a distance. "Good, let's get this over with already."
The group settled down in one of the vacant rooms which looked pretty spacious compared to the other rooms and was mainly empty. Kinda like a very roomy living room. Reinhard explained that this room is where all their other lessons will take place and the lesson they will be starting with would be 'proper manners'.
A drop of sweat ran down Subaru's face and gulped audibly. He could already tell this lesson would take weeks to complete. Maybe Reinhard really knew what he was doing when conducting the original lesson plan.
Regardless, the lesson had begun.
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"Now bow your head and position your hands like this." Reinhard instructed, bowing a specific way to Subaru and Felt.
Subaru had no problem following along, performing each pose masterfully like the renowned poser he was. That couldn't really be said for a certain crimson eyed girl. Felt was honestly giving it a try at first but she ended up feeling weird and stopped going forward with it.
"Grr… Do I have to keep my back straight like this? It doesn't feel natural at all." Felt complained.
"Bowing in this position is a must. Any other way would make most nobles assume that you're either disrespecting them or you're foreign."
"Wouldn't it be easier to just say I'm foreign?"
"That would make things worse, that course of action would either have you deported to whatever country they think you're from or have you detained and questioned under the assumption you're a spy."
"Why the hell is the law so strict in this country?! Those high up pigs are so damn paranoid." Felt sighed before trying the bow again. She held up this time but she sure felt uncomfortable doing it. "There, ya happy now?"
"That's wrong, the correct thing to say is 'Pleasure to make your acquaintance, my name is Felt'." Reinhard corrected.
"Well there's nothing pleasant about this! How about this for a greeting?" Felt then swung her foot at Reinhard to kick him.
The knight just caught it and calmly repositioned her foot back to the ground. "That's not what I said. Allow me to repeat myself-"
"Yeah yeah, pleasure to meet ya or something. God, this is irritating the hell outta me."
The lesson was put to a stop as Carol made her way into the room, bowing her head to Reinhard.
"Master Reinhard, Lord Roswaal is here. He wishes to have an audience with you and Subaru." Carol briefed.
Subaru's eyebrow lifted. "Me? Some lord wants to see me?"
After thinking about it for a second, this might just be the call he was waiting for. Some lord who already knows of him is asking for both him and the most OP person he's ever met. This must be the event where he'll be told about a prophecy that he's a summoned hero who will save the world!
Reinhard nodded to Carol. "Thank you, let him know we'll be there shortly."
After Carol left the room, Subaru asked Reinhard, "So, who's this Roswaal guy?"
"Lord Roswaal is a brilliant mage who has been a great help to Lugnica. He is also appointed as the capital's court mage."
A mage too? This was really going his way, maybe he can tell him his affinity that Reinhard mentioned during yesterday's outing, Subaru thought.
"Sweet! Let's go meet this guy! Wanna come along, lil' sis?" Subaru offered his hand to Felt who had already taken advantage of the initial intrusion to sit down.
"Nah, I'm sure this Roswaal fella is just another stuck up noble. Besides, I didn't hear that they wanted me so I choose to opt out on this one." Felt crossed her arms with her classic stubbornness.
"Miss Felt does have a point. She can wait here or get to know my home more if she chooses." Reinhard said.
"Wait, really?" Felt asked. She was honestly expecting to hear some kind rebuttal or excuse over why she should tag along.
Reinhard nodded. "Indeed. Like you said, he didn't call for you by name so you have every right to not participate."
"Well good! At least you have some common sense in that thick skull of yours." Felt commented, just being glad that she finally has an actual choice.
"Aw, what happened to sticking together?" Subaru mentioned. "I'm sure it would be a nice learning experience to be around nobles, like a practice run."
"Look, I appreciate you looking out for me and all but this is the first time I'm given a choice in this place. Just give me this." Felt practically pleaded.
"Alright, you win. Try not to get lonely without us." Subaru teased.
"With how persistent you're being, I'm sure you're the one who'll feel lonely without me." Felt smirked as she laid out her counter tease.
"Ah, guess you got me there. I'll definitely get lonely without my trusty little mascot." Subaru said with a mischievous smirk.
"Urk!!!" Felt flinched and her whole face reddened. She hopped back on her feet and stomped her foot on the ground. "Quit joking around like that!"
As much as Subaru wanted to tease the poor girl even more, the thought of having his face kicked in stopped him. "Yeah, yeah. Cmon Rein, let's not keep that Roswaal guy waiting." Subaru didn't even wait for any more responses, he just made his way out of the room and Reinhard followed suit.
Soon enough, the two made it to the manor's entrance hall and found Carol pouring a cup of tea to a particular looking individual. The individual in question wore purple clothes and a cape. His face was painted white and had a purple symbol painted over his left eye. Overall, he looked like a clown.
"Woah, this Roswaal guy must be a pretty fun guy to bring his clown around." Subaru said.
Everyone in the room faced their attention to Subaru. Carol had a look of disappointment, Reinhard looked genuinely concerned, and the clown… well… he just looked happy to be here.
"Friend, this is Lord Roswaal." Reinhard whispered to Subaru.
Subaru looked panicked at that moment and started apologizing profusely to the man who was clearly dressed like a clown and not a lord. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean it!"
"Myyyy~ You really are quite the interesting one, Natsuki Subaru." The man that was known as Roswaal said to Subaru. "Allow me to make a prooooper~ introduction; I am Roswaal L. Mathers, Lord of the mansion of Margrave Mathers."
"Well, you already know my name already but let me give you an introduction of my own! I'm Natsuki Subaru! A shut in who's broke beyond compare." Subaru proudly declared much to Carol and Reinhard's dismay.
Roswaal on the other hand just kept his delighted looking smile "That certainly was quiiiite~ the introduction, Subaru. Now allow me to share with you the purpose of my arrival."
Both Reinhard and Subaru took a seat with the latter waiting in anticipation. "I've come to express my sincerest gratitude for what you've done for Miss Emilia."
Subaru's eyes lightened up at the mention of Emilia. "So she's with you?! That's amazing! Where is she? I really wanted to catch up with her."
"I'm afraid Miss Emilia is still in my domain. She has some rather iiiimportant~ studies to take care of."
"Oh right, Emilia is a royal candidate too, I guess that makes sense." Subaru sighed. He was really looking forward to an official visit from Emilia. "Wait a minute… What exactly is your relationship with Emilia?!"
"Simply put, IIII'm~ Miss Emilia's sponsor. I am looking after her and ensuring she does well in her candidacy to take the throne, so to speak." Roswaal informed which helped relieve that spark of jealousy he randomly felt there.
"Ah, alright. So basically I saved the life of a political beauty. I'd say I've done a pretty good job in doing so! I definitely should be getting some kind of reward." Subaru boasted.
"I agree wholeheartedly. You have done me a greeeeat~ service after all. Just name anything you want and if it's within my power, then it's yours."
"Really? In that case…" Subaru stood up, a look of determination embedded in his eyes.
"Keep a position open for me in the future and hire me to work for you until then!"
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Felt has no idea why but she randomly sneezed.
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It wasn't long after their meeting concluded and Roswaal departed. The Clown Lord really only thanked Reinhard for his assistance and left soon after.
"If you don't mind me asking, friend." Reinhard started after both Subaru and himself began to head their way back to Felt. "If you wanted a job, I'd be more than happy to hire you here."
"That's not the point. I just want to help out Emilia in her side of the candidacy. I figured she should get all the help she needs." Subaru said, hiding the fact that he just wants to get closer to Emilia.
"Really? Well, if that's the case, wouldn't it make more sense to ask to be a permanent resident?"
Subaru faced Reinhard in utter shock. "Wait, that was an option?!"
"Lord Roswaal did say anything you wanted, I'm sure that would go under the lines of things he has the power to do." Reinhard explained, letting out a light smile at Subaru's sudden mood swing.
As the two were rear by the room, they spotted quite a peculiar sight. Subaru and Reinhard started witnessing Felt being dragged by both Flam and Grassis, one twin grabbing Felt's left leg and the other grabbing her right. Felt was screaming profanities as well as trying to grab the floor. Felt didn't seem to have noticed the boys as she was effortlessly dragged back inside the room the duo initially left them in by the twins.
Subaru only watched in awe at that whole scene before them while Reinhard chuckled. "Miss Felt is quite a handful." Reinhard mentioned.
"So… Did she try to run away again?" Subaru asked, still in his state of awe.
"It would be rude of me to assume such things. I'm sure it was some kind of misunderstanding." Reinhard said, looking at the brighter side of things.
"Yeah… Let's go check up on her."
Finally, the duo went inside the room just to find an enraged Felt yelling at the twins.
"What did ya do that for?! I said stop!" Felt snapped.
Both Flam and Grassis were calmly facing Felt, being unaffected by the feisty girl's yelling. "My apologies, Lady Felt." The twins said simultaneously with Flam continuing, "After you used the restroom, we noticed you climbing out the window so we took it upon ourselves to bring you back safely."
Subaru let out a heavy sigh after hearing that. Felt was definitely trying to run away again.
The sigh caught the attention of Felt and shot her gaze on Subaru. "H-Hey! When did you guys show up?!"
"Enough to hear that you tried to run away again! Is that why you didn't want to join us?!" Subaru complained.
"Not really, the opportunity kinda just presented itself and I just took it." Felt casually exclaimed.
"What kind of opportunity? A personal escort from two girls that are smaller than you?" Subaru teased.
A visible irk formed on the feisty girl's forehead and flailed her arms around. "It's not my fault! These bean sprouts are tougher than they look!"
With a big goofy smile, Subaru approached Felt and got on his knees, being at eye level. "You got beat up by a little girl~" Subaru teased in a feminine way, trying to mimic Felt's voice.
Felt blushed and growled at the all too familiar line. Without saying another word, Felt swung her foot at Subaru and kicked him across his face. The act was so fast that Subaru didn't even have a chance to cry out in pain. Instead, he fell on his side with that goofy smile stained on his face.
"H-haha… W-Worth it…" Subaru muttered.
Felt's wrath didn't subside. In fact, that little comment only fueled it further as she now began to kick the boy while he was down, earning her low grunt sounds after each kick. "Stop it! You look like a damn pervert when you smile like that!"
Eventually, Reinhard intervened, putting a swift stop to this sorry scene. Everyone took a moment to collect themselves, except for Flam and Grassis, they were pretty damn good at keeping their neutral fronts this whole time.
They took this time to update Felt what happened during Roswaal's visit. To put it simply, she was not happy. Felt went to kick Reinhard but easily caught it. "What the hell Reinhard?! Why didn't you say something?! At least say that big bro's already working for ya!"
"My apologies, Miss Felt." The knight apologized "However, this is a decision that Subaru made and as his friend, I will respect his decision."
"Grr… Fine…" Felt stomped her way to Subaru and kicked his side, letting out a grunt. "And you! What the hell are you thinking?! Are you that stupid?! You dumb fucking dumbass!!!"
"Calm down, I'll explain everything, just stop kicking me." Subaru pleaded, still rubbing his side from the initial kick. He knew Felt would be upset but he didn't expect all hell would break loose.
"Go on then! Lemme hear your brain dead excuse on why you thought it was a brilliant idea to decide your future without me!" Felt hissed.
Wait, without her? Subaru thought. He decided to brush it off for now as there was a much more pressing issue to contain. "You remember Emilia, the girl you stole the insignia from?"
Felt only nodded, still waiting on the boy's excuse.
"She's a royal candidate too. Since you don't want to be queen, I thought I should help her out with that."
Felt still didn't look any less angry. "And how does that give you the go ahead to jump sail and wag your tail to another girl?! You promised to stay with me, dumbass! Or have you forgotten?!"
"Slow down there, I'm going to join her after you announce your resignation. I'm still keeping my end of the deal by sticking with you until then."
This was enough to settle down Felt, at least a little bit. "If that's how it is, then fine. But I'm still not happy about this! Next time, ya better talk with me about stuff like this stuff!"
Subaru sighed in relief as he finally reached some kind of understanding. "For sure. Why are you against this though? You're not jealous, are you?" Subaru teased at the end there.
This was more than enough to catch Felt off guard and blush. "I-It's nothing like that! I'm mad that you're letting yourself get poached like that!"
Not convinced, Subaru shook his head and smiled. "You don't need to hide it. If you'll miss me that much, you can always- GHOOOH!!"
His speech was interrupted once Felt punched him hard in the stomach, instantly taking the air out of his voice. "I said I'm not jealous!"
Finally deciding to intervene, Reinhard stepped forward. "You both have plenty of time before anything is set and stone. Surely you both can solve your differences until then."
Felt let out a sigh and finally relented. "Yeah, as much as I hate to admit it, you're right about that. Guess I gotta teach this numbskull his priorities at some point."
Subaru weakly gave Reinhard a thumbs up. "N-Nice assist, Rein…"
After that hot mess was over with, the trio resumed their lessons. Luckily, they made good progress beforehand and they managed to finish in about an hour.
"Hey, Rein." Subaru started not long after their first lesson, second if you consider breakfast. "I think now would be a good time to take a break. We've been at this lesson for hours."
Much to both Subaru and Felt's delight, the knight agreed. "Understood, shall we regroup in the dining hall for lunch?"
Subaru nodded. "Sounds good to me. Actually, would you be willing to stop by that market from yesterday with me?"
"I don't have a problem. We should be able to make it there and back just in time." Reinhard concluded.
"You two goin' out again? Count me in." Felt declared with a big smirk.
"Actually," Subaru intervened. "I just need Rein for this."
This caught Felt by surprise and the blonde girl gritted her teeth. "What's wrong with me coming along?!"
"That's a secret. But I promise you, it'll all be worth it in the end."
"Stop with this! What are you hiding?!"
"If I tell you, that'll ruin the surprise!"
"Surprise?" Felt tilted her head in confusion. Suddenly, she just thought of something. "Alright then. I actually just remembered that I wanted to check something out here anyways. Guess I'll see ya around, big bro." Felt rushed herself out after that, not even bothering giving Reinhard a proper goodbye.
Subaru let out a sigh of relief, that was a lot easier than he had anticipated. "Alright, guess we should get going now."
Reinhard nodded. "I agree, where exactly was it you wanted to go?"
Subaru smirked. "That tailor shop we got kicked out of."
The knight lifted an eyebrow. "There? Are you sure?"
"Sure am! Though I do have to ask you for a huge favor."
"Certainly, what is it, friend?"
Subaru dropped to his knees and groveled to Reinhard. "Please lend me some money! I promise I'll pay you back once I get a job!"
Reinhard blinked a few times and chuckled. "Well, you've been a great help to Miss Felt so I don't mind compensating you a little for that deed."
"Thanks Rein! You're the best!" Subaru got back up and thus the two started their very uneventful trip to the tailor and back. Luckily for Subaru, the tailor shop owner didn't seem to recognize him so he didn't get kicked out this time.
Subaru was all too excited, after all, he really wanted to exercise his one and only good quality about himself; sewing.
