In their adventures in the Sage's Tower, they conveniently conquered it once again for one more time. To say their adventures were smooth was both true and false. True that they easily overcame the other trials, but Reid. Reid was still a thorn on their side. Although Shaula, not knowing who Subaru is at the time since they did not met at all, begrudgingly helps them once again.

"Once again I thank you for your help oh wise Sage." Reinhard said bowing to Shaula.

"No need for your gratitude, I am willing to help you and your comrades." Shaula replied to Reinhard's act of kindness. 'I still hoped it was master who came back and not you..' She thought, wishing to see her beloved master, after four hundred tears of separation.

"And we thank you oh Divine Dragon Volcanica." The knights said in unison, bowing before their divine dragon, who by this point didn't bother to say anything to the knights, but just bows.

As they said their thanks, and said their good byes, they headed down the tower, and once again made their back home.

"Alright! Now that we have the blood of the dragon, Subaru will be back to normal right?" Emilia asks the spirit, having a bright smile on her face.

"Yes I suppose, but something bothers me in fact..." Beatrice replied, having a stern and concerned look.

"Hm? And what is it that bothers you Beako?" Emilia asks.

"First of all, you can't use that name when you talk to Betty in fact! And second, I feel like we are missing something I suppose." Beatrice said, thinking deeply in her mind. 'Why does something feel so missing?' She thought.

"What do you mean by that Beatrice?" She asks once more.

"I'd rather we speak in private I suppose." Beatrice said as she pointed at their companions, who were chatting with each other.

Emilia complies and they went to the very back of the carriage.

"Remember what the Witch said I suppose?" She asks Emilia, to which Emilia gave a confused look. Until Emilia remembers what the Witch has said.

'Here's a helping aid, one of the things you need to awaken him is the blood of the divine dragon.' Their minds played of that fateful scene, their meeting with the Witch.

"I remember now... It's only one of the things that Subaru needed to be returned to normal..." Emilia whispers under her breath.

"And we still have to figure out what other things we need to do so I suppose." Beatrice added.

As the journey back home went on both girls thought about what the other things they would need to save the black haired knight from his comatose state.

It was another peaceful morning in the Mather's residence. The winds blew throughout the area, carrying with them petals and leaves.

"Looks like it's another beautiful day isn't it Subaru-kun?" Rem said to her hero as she takes him out to the yard with his wheel chair, sleeping head laying on Rem's arm.

'Why?' She thought. The boy, no the man she loved would be in this state. She felt resentment towards the knights who tortured him. She wanted nothing more but vengeance. But the Mather, who's she's working for, is already on pressing issues about the camp's stability. If she acted irrationally, it would spell disaster for the entire camp. She wanted to tear those two apart.

"Oh Rem-san, Natsuki-san you're here." Otto intrudes.

"Oh, it's you Otto.." Rem said with sadness in her tone.

"What's wrong Rem-san?" He asks.

"It's just... Subaru-kun didn't deserver this! After what he has done he doesn't deserve this!" She yells letting all her emotions out.

"It's true that Natsuki-san didn't deserve this at all, but gluttony-" Otto gets cut off.

"It's because of all of you who failed to trust him!" She yelled.

It was true. Back then, they never knew who Subaru was, and they just followed the words of the little spirit who accused him for being a witch cultist. And here they are now, suffering the consequences. Letting down the boy who saved all of them from harms way. When odds are against them, he's the one who chose to defy everything against them. And here he is now, in deep slumber. It's about half a year in that he is like this.

"I know Rem-san and I am-" Otto once again gets cut off as an explosion was heard from a distance.

"What was that!?" Otto yells, as he looks where smoke was coming from. His mood drops, eyes widen in horror.

"I-Its them..." He said as he recognizes the hooded figures who once kidnapped him and that led him to meet Subaru.

"Witch cultist!" Rem yelled as she brought out her morning star.

"Otto, get Subaru-kun to safety, I'll handle them" She ordered out, horn out, and without hearing Otto's response, she lodged herself into the cultists killing several men.

Otto by then was now running inside the manor, everyone who can fight were ordered to fight off the cultist, while those who are young and too valuable to loose were ordered to escape into the secret exit. Otto and Petra, like before in the burning mansion, were once again on the run for their lives, both carrying Subaru. But it was too late. The cultist have prepared for everything. And with that, the odds against them were unbreakable. Fate has already stated what shall happen to them. After the fight nothing was left, but smoke and debris, bodies, and blood.

Subaru was on the distance, hands in his pockets. He was on a field of flowers. Emilia was looking at him from afar back. Winds carrying petals that blew pass him. It was a sight that Emilia wished to see. As she was about to walk towards him, she notices, bright bluish light was now forming on his right side of his body, on his shoulder and head, they were separating from his body. As Emilia knew that he was fading, she ran towards him, winds picking up more petals, making Subaru's form hardly visible. As she gets to him he had faded, and the petals then blew around her.

She was now in a white void, she saw darkness approaching her, but with one look she saw Subaru running away from the darkness approaching.

"Emilia!" He yelled as he extended his arm to her, to which she caught.

Both gave a small smile to one another as the darkness no longer approached them. But then Subaru's eyes widen. Emilia looks at Subaru with concern, as they both looked down, a shadow claw penetrating his chest. Then the claw moves away, Subaru's blood sprayed out of his open wound. Emilia's face then gets caked with some of his blood. The body flickering between Fortuna and Subaru as the body fell.

"No!" Emilia yelled in despair as she saw the body fall. Subaru then falls into the water beneath them, his body sinking into the depths, as his blood left a trail. Emilia tries to reach out for Subaru, but she can't.

"love...you.." Were the words that came out of Subaru's mouth as he sank deeper, only for several claws to appear, latching onto him, and then pulling him deeper underwater.

"Subaru!" Emilia yelled as she stood up from her seat in the carriage.

"What is it Emilia-sama!?" Reinhard asks the terrified girl.

Emilia took a look at everyone, who was asleep except for Reinhard as he was guarding the group as of that moment.

"I-It's nothing, just had a nightmare, that's all." Emilia said as she shrugs it off.

"Are you sure Emilia-sama?" Reinhard asks to be sure.

"Yes, it's nothing." Emilia replied, to which Reinhard nodded, and Emilia then began taking her rest once more.

'So it was a nightmare huh?' She thought. 'I hope you're doing fine Subaru.'

Several days have passed since their journey to return, to which the way home was more peaceful and more reassuring for both women who were trying to wake up the boy. They were happy that they got all of the things they needed to help Subaru. But the question still remains, what else do they need?

"We still haven't figured out what else do we need I suppose." Beatrice said.

"Yeah, what else could we need?" Emilia replied. It's been a whole week since they thought of anything they could need. They thought one of the things was the book of the dead, but they couldn't find Subaru's name. They could only find a book with characters that they couldn't read.

While in the tower, both Emilia and Beatrice were in the library several times, and several times, they'd encountered a book with odd characters, every, single, time.

"Who's book is this? And such odd characters." Emilia said as she tried to pull out said book.

"Don't you dare read that I suppose!" Beatrice yells at her as she saw Emilia almost opening the book.

"Why not Beatrice?" Emilia asks the spirit.

"We don't know the consequences of reading that in fact!"

"It's just a little peek Beako~"

"No is no in fact!"

"Fine.." Emilia then placed back the book she nearly opened.

Then their day went on.

Back to present, both girls are now considering those books. But it's a long shot. Although they don't know if what the Witch has told them is true. Maybe the blood is all they need? Or Subaru is really dead and they're just clinging to false hope. They'd prefer tp believe the first one. They wanted to repay him for everything they've done.

"We should do something for him after all this I suppose." Beatrice proposed.

"But he would just reject it again, probably saying he's fine.." Emilia pointed out. Subaru was a humble man, a very, very humble man. And he would often reject offers that would be equal to his deeds. This made his good quality, but sometimes it was annoying, especially when they offer him something great after hi risked his very life for them.

"Then we would do it non the less I suppose." Beatrice said. After taking her hand, Subaru had freed her from her damned contract that let her mind fade away slowly for four centuries of loneliness and isolation. She wanted to repay him by being his contracted spirit. But now her priority is to save her contractor from his state.

'I wish I could reverse back time, so that I could prevent it all I suppose.' Beatrice thought. Out of all those who left the boy and those who tortured him, Beatrice felt the most guilty. If she hadn't accused him in that fateful day, things would haven't been this way. She hated herself for the past months of him being in a comatose state. Every time she'd see her contractor, it pains her heart that her sweet, and idiotic contractor is their potato now.

'I should've helped him, I should've trusted him.' These were the thoughts of Emilia ever since they reunited with Subaru. She failed him. She failed him like the other elves in eloir forest. This is another reason why she hated herself. She failed the elves, she resembles the Witch and now, she failed the only person who viewed her not as the Witch who brought destruction, but as every other normal being. In his eyes, she was never the Witch Satella, but Emilia, only Emilia.

As they near the mansion, they would never notice the smoke that was rising up from where the mansion's exact position is. They were blindly entering hell.

Subaru couldn't believe what he witnessed. He watched it all within the castle of dreams. He watched the massacre. He already experienced this in one of his loops. but to witness it again, with him in a calm state where he was in peace, he fell to the ground kneeling. On one hand, part of him wanted to see this as retribution, but on the other much larger hand, he wouldn't want this type of retribution. When he saw how Petra got killed, and so well Rem, Ram, Garfiel, Otto, Fredrica, and himself, he puked at the sight.

Satella was furious at the Cult. She wanted nothing more to tear them apart, rip them limb from lime until they were no more. They were another reason why her beloved suffered so much. She hated that she was also framed.

Typhon, witnessing said events, wanted to shatter those bastards apart after she saw how devastated Subaru is.

Carmilla just looks away from the massacre. Even though she already saw this type of massacres in the previous loops, she couldn't handle how bloody these are.

Minerva gritted her teeth in anger and frustration. In anger because of what the cult has done, and in frustration for she couldn't had healed them.

Daphne, Sekhmet and Echidna weren't fazed by the slightest at what happened. Daphne had her blindfold on, Sekhmet was lazy to even watch it happen, and Echidna, Echidna just looks amused at what happens, her grinning face says it all.

"I have to admit it was bloody, but I do wonder." Echidna mused as she sips her tea.

"You wonder what Chid-Chid?" Daphne asks.

"How will that half-elf would react?" She spoke out as she was done sipping her tea.

'Ho-How Emilia would react?' Subaru thought. He knew his relationship with Emilia has grown, until that day when she decided to leave him into the hands of Julius and Felix. He felt so betrayed that day. The day he started to be conflicted with himself. The day his ugly side has reared it's ugly head. HE wanted them to suffer after everything he has done for them and after they've done to him, but his heart tells him that he should forgive them. Subaru is a very complicated man, rather fighting with himself from time to time.

Tears could be seen coming out from the boy's eyes. Satella just comforted him once more. He was so conflicted with himself as if he has two personalities like her.

In the smoky hallway of the mansion, nothing lays there but blood. Blood decorated the walls, the floor and the ceiling. Someone's arm can be seen hanging from the window. Several bodies of hooded figures also laid in these halls. Some with minor injuries, while some have some or majority of their limbs severed from their bodies. Such is the hell that the returning candidate, spirit, and knights saw. It was a massacre.

Those who returned from the Sage's tower who saw this knew what could be the cause of this.

All of the knights stared at the sight with broken wide eyes, same goes to the sword demon. The failure to protect these people, the guilt was too heavy for them. Reinhard fell to his knees as his guilt bared heavy upon him. Felix's eyes began twitching, his eyes has tears, ready to leak out. Julius was slack jawed at the sight, trembling at what he saw. Wilhelm, his aura was fuming from him like his aura when Subaru proposed the alliance when he mentioned the white whale. He swore vengeance. After what the boy has done to him to avenge his wife, now he will avenge the innocent lives taken by the cult. He knew that if every member of the Mather's residence were dead, Subaru too will be also dead. And so he vowed his vengeance for the boy who made his dream become a reality.

Emilia and Beatrice had broken expressions on their faces. At the sight of the hell they've seen, they are now clinging to false hope that everyone survived this. Once more Emilia then began playing memories of Subaru in her mind.

'Emilia-tan!'

'No one says dunderhead these days.'

'E.M.T'

Beatrice couldn't utter a single word as her jaw hung low. The possibility of her contractor living from this is no where near possible. She failed him again. 'I failed again, I failed again... Failure...Failure, failure, failure failure...' She berated herself as tears run down her face, her vision becomes blurry as the tears flows out.

As if her instincts to her to walk on with Beatrice, they did so. Emilia held Beatrice's hand then walked on the bloodied hall. Their minds were too broken for the sight that they didn't bother walking limbs, organs and chunks of flesh that were on the ground. They then get to a set of stairs, and as if reality glitched, they too saw Subaru struggling to get up the same stairs they're walking on, holding his mouth and gut, as if he was in pain.

"Subaru!" Both girls yelled, but as they get to Subaru, his form fades away and the girls have grabbed someone's body. Garfiel's body. Garfiel's torso was open, the bones and his organs full on display, his head hung low.. As the girls realized what they've touched, they recoiled back and the hand that they didn't use to touch Garfiel, they covered their mouths with it, seeing this poor boy's fate. And as they looked away from the sight, they began to press on.

As they got up the stairs, once more reality broke and they saw Subaru walking slowly, and the could hear him utter noises as if he saw something from hell like them. The two instinctively ran to him once more, screaming his name, but once they got to him, they touched the wall his form was next to.

"What's happening?" Emilia asks. Even though the traumatic sights were still engraved in her, she managed to ask what the hell is happening and why are there random Subarus in the halls.

"Moreover, what are we stepping on I suppose?" Beatrice asks as now both girls took a look underneath them. What they saw made them jump back. It was Ram's body. Her head and legs were gone, not connected to the torso. They looked around and saw Ram's head on a cultist's hand, her eyes were wide open, and blood coming out of her mouth. As both women saw the sight, they both ran. They ran as fast as they can.

Until they saw another Subaru next to a door that's open, looking at it with all dread and despair. He enters the door, and sees a bookshelf opened like a door. Both women followed him through that and when they came upon the door, Subaru recoiled back, then disappears.

Before the two girls entered the secret chamber, they saw a letter on Roswaal's desk. Someone has called for his presence and that they would have a meeting with the rest of the domain's lords.

'So he survived?' Both girls thought. They haven't seen Roswaal's body during the entire ordeal, so it was likely he wasn't here when they attacked.

Both women knew, what lies behind the door, might be Subaru. Taking a deep breath, closing their eyes. They opened the door, and slowly opened their eyes. They saw two corpses. Otto's and Petra's. Although not severely damaged, what made them fall to their knees is what they saw. Subaru's corpse. His upper body was cut in half, separating right and left. His brains and upper organs can be seen. Teeth broken, and several bones smashed. Some organs missing, and some severely damaged.

The girl's faces wore terrified and despaired looks on their faces. Mouths open, and tears now leaking. Beatrice started slamming her fist into the floor, while Emilia's form started to tremble.

'I failed him again, I failed him again... Failure, failure, failure, failure... BETTY'S A FAILURE!' She berated herself. Her hatred for herself sky-rocketed as she remembers that day when she left him be to the people who would eventually torture them. She was mad at them, she hated both knights. But she knows the fact they acted under her words when she accused him as a witch cultist.

Emilia's mind was in a blank state. Couldn't think of anything but despair, regret and hatred. If she wanted to use her awaken power, she will do so. Her hatred for the cult grew more. First Father Geuse and Mother Fortuna. Now Subaru. She nothing more than to kill the damned witch who showed up that fateful day. She wanted nothing more than to kill Pandora.

As the scene went on, little did they know there were still cultists in the area...

Getting in undetected by the knights, some cultist managed to get to Emilia and Beatrice, but Beatrice sensed them and fires a barrage of Minya crystals at the cultists.

But some managed to get through and plant a knife on Emilia's back.

"AGH-" Emilia yelled in pain, as she now too joins the battle. As they were too focused on what's happening in front of them, they never checked their backs. And with that, both spirit and half-elf fell in battle, as a cultist from behind stabbed them over, and over again. Both fell to the ground, but before they loose their consciousness, they heard a voice.

"YOU BETTER NOT FAIL THE NEXT TIME!" The womanly voiced yells. With their consciousness nearly gone, two shadowy claws came from no where and grabbed them.

Darkness...

"I think I have a solution for Subaru's predicament." Someone said. They hearing was a bit deaf, so Emilia and Beatrice couldn't tell who's voice was that.

'Wha..' Emilia thought in her mind. 'Didn't I just die a minute ago..?'

Beatrice couldn't believe what's happening. 'I-I've gone back in time...?'

"Although we may need to venture back to the Sage's Tower." The voiced said, this time, they could recognize who's voice was that. It was Roswaal's.

"What is your saaaaay Emilia-sama?" Roswaal asks as he now looks at the half-elf who's face was that of confusion.

'Have I just returned back..?'

A/N: AND CUT! That took longer than expected. I hope your greed for new chapters are satisfied. And yes, Emilia and Beatrice has RBD now. I have nothing more to say, criticize if you want to, and please don't be toxic when commenting, already dealt with that earlier this week with another fanfic and it was a pain to deal with. Anyways, see you all soon my beloved readers!

A/N 2: I made a huge mistake on adding Roswaal as a dead man, so I'd just removed him from the casualties, as for the next chapter, I'll take a break for a bit because school work has taken it's toll on me. So please do not expect another chapter immediately.

-Stranger