'Arghh, I passed out?'

Subaru slowly opened his eyes, adjusting to the bright light.
'I feel something soft underneath my head….a lap pillow? No no no, a girl's lap isn't this hairy….' thought Subaru.

His eyes adjusted to the sunlight and the first thing he saw was a cat? A humanoid cat giving him a lap pillow.

"AHHHH, what the fric-" yelled Subaru

"Oh you woke up? Good. Lia was kind enough to help you and asked me to give you a lap pillow" said the cat

"What happened?" asked Subaru, with a little disappointment because it wasn't the girl who gave him a lap pillow.

"Hmm, you exhausted all your mana which caused you to faint. If you do this again then there is a high possibility that you will damage your gate 'permanently'" said the cat while turning back to normal size.

' All of it? All of my mana?! But it was just a single attack! Then what's the use of this ability?!…sh*t ' thought Subaru

"Hey"

Subaru turned around and looked at the girl. Once again Subaru was enthralled by her beauty.

"Y..Y…Yes? errr…..Thank you for saving me…" said Subaru nervously. Then Subaru looked away immediately because he wasn't able to maintain eye contact with her.

"ahh…uh..you can thank me by giving some information" stated the girl

"Information…?" asked Subaru

"I am looking for a thief who stole something very important to me. Have you seen her?"

'Her? A girl? Oh, it might be that brat who landed on my head'

"Yeah, she ran past me and the thugs. She had blond hair, skinny, had a scarf around her neck with something shiny in her hand" said Subaru with a doubtful tone.

"Yes! Yes! That's her. Do you know where she is?" asked the girl with a little hope.

"Nah, sorry I don't know where she is.." said Subaru. He was sad because he couldn't help her with any else.

"Ohh…it's okay, thank you for the information" the girl started leaving the alleyway, disappointment, worry, and panic clear on her face. Then an idea popped up in Subaru's mind.

"Hey, I can help you. Let me help you find this precious thing of your" Subaru pleaded.

"But I cannot repay you." said the girl

"It's completely okay! Let me help you." said Subaru

"It's okay Lia, let him help you. I don't sense any malicious intent from him. It's safer if there are more meat bags between you and danger." said the cat

'This cat, what is it's problem?' Subaru yelled internally.

"If you say so..." said the sliver haired girl.

"OK since you are going to help us, let us introduce ourselves. My name is Puck! I am a spirit. Lia's father and guardian." said the cat, now named Puck

'Father? What is this complicated relation between them?' thought Subaru, confused.

"I am Natsuki Subaru. An average guy who is broke and completely clueless." said Subaru while doing his pose.

"That's..That sounds awful." Said the girl as she put her hand on her mouth.

"Hehehe" Subaru laughed

"...so, what's your name?" Subaru asked the girl.

The girl thought for a second 'Should I say my real name?...He looks trustworthy but I don't want him to be involved in my business..it could be dangerous!'

'Its okay Lia, sometimes you can't do everything alone. You need to take others' help too. Plus we get an extra meat shield!'

'Puck! Don't say that'

"My name is…Emilia"

"Oh! A pretty name for a pretty woman."

Emilia blushed when Subaru complicated her. She had never received a compliment from anyone before….she felt warmth…something which she felt a long time ago.

Suddenly Puck started swirling his…paws? And 'tried' to smack Subaru's face. Keyword 'tried'

Subaru instinctively swatted Puck like a fly.

"oh i am sorry, it was just my reflexes…hehe"

"grrrrr…."

"Anyway, Emilia, let's go to the place where you lost the…'thing' which you had. What is this 'thing' btw?"

"It's my insignia. It's a triangular piece of….'jewelry' which I had with a red stone in the middle."

"Oh…ok lets go to that place where you lost it."

They went to the place where Emilia lost her insignia. They found a lost child over there and helped her find her parents. It was Kadomon's child so he helped them by giving information of the thief's reached the loot house around sundown.

"Emilia, you wait here. I will go inside and check whether it is safe or not. Okay?"

"uhh…okay but don't you think it's better if we both go inside togeth-"

"No! I will go first. You wait here."

Subaru entered the loot house. The door was open so it was easy to enter. It was dark inside. He could see all the stolen items over there lined up perfectly like a shop. But, (oh no) Subaru felt some warm liquid underneath his leg. He turned on the flashlight in his Cell phone and looked at the warm liquid on the floor

BLOOD (run boi run!). It was blood. Then he aimed his flashlight at the source of the blood. It was an old giant and a girl with blond hair.

'Oh no, i need to get out of here quick'

"Ara, you found their bodies? Now that's unfortunate…." Subaru heard this seductive voice before getting slashed and guts spilling out

"AHHH" screamed Subaru

"Ahh, what lovely guts you have" said the seductive assassin.

Right after that, Emilia entered the loot house.

'Nooo! Go away don't come here' Subaru screams internally.

But it was too late, Emilia, right after she entered was also slashed, guts spilling out, blood everywhere.

'No…no….NO!'

'I…I am going to save you Emilia. I promise' Subaru made a promise which cannot be fulfilled and..

Natsuki Subaru died.

But then

Subaru opened his eyes, only to find Emilia and Puck beside him, with a worried expression

"Subaru? Are you alright? You look…pale" asked a worried Emilia

"Want me to heal you Subaru?" Asked Puck

Subaru couldn't process the current situation and the only thing he could say was

"Huh?"

Chapter 2- The Encounter

Ends

RE_COPY

It's getting interesting


That's it. The second chapter is finally done. I dunno when I am going to write the Third chapter. Next week i guess, maybe a bit early

This chapter is completely like….canon? This is his first death so I wrote it in a different chapter.

They might be bit, a bit OOC, but I want that. I want to change Emilia's personality. Make her less...innocent.

AnonyCresort out