We strike fast and we strike good.
But damn it Herion...Is that all you got? Come on man, put the work in it! I've seen better fics on Wattpad!
"Hm…Roswaal…" She moaned loudly as she let herself be played with the fingers of the Margrave.
Lied on the bed, next to a blue haired maid, the silver haired half elf, bearing the name of Emilia "Natsuki" couldn't think of anything else but the pleasure in which she was drowning alongside this man.
Clearly driven by nothing but her lust, Emilia reached her white, soft hands to him as she grabbed his back, to pull him closer and use him as a support. A shining ring most apparent on one of her hands.
"This is incredible…" She softly moaned again, gritting her teeth because of the pleasure taking her over.
"Roswaal-sama…Please don't leave Rem aside…" She begged as she awaited her turn again, looking to the half elf in envy, her hand on her privates.
"Do not wooooorrry my dear Rem-kun, I will take a goooood care of you right after this." He answered confidently, thrusting his might inside the candidate.
"Hgn! Subaru…Subaru will be home soon…" Rem thought out loud, looking at them both and earning the silver haired lady's attention. Somehow…She suddenly felt troubled.
"S-Subaru…?" She wondered as she gripped Roswaal's back.
Upon hearing this name, Roswaal maliciously smiled as he suddenly slammed himself inside of her even harder, earning a large groan from her and putting all of her thoughts about Subaru away.
He knew what he was doing, and he was most delighted it all went according to plan.
Immediately after that, Rem was snapped out of her thoughts as well, her lust driving her as she heard Emilia's yell…As Roswaal went forward and grabbed her mouth into a kiss, hungry and sloppy, his tongue playing with her insides.
'Subaru…We never did that…' Emilia thought as she breathed in and out loudly, a smile of lust on her face.
'It is so good…But-'
*SLAM*
Pulling her out from her thoughts by a loud bang again, Emilia turned her head immediately to her side along with her two partners, to see the door broken into piece with such force, it created a cloud of dust.
"What the…!" Emilia stuttered, still in the arms of a surprised Roswaal.
However, as the dust started to vanish, silhouettes started to appear, along with colors…To finally show a blond tiger boy with his leg still extended after breaking down the door…And…
"S-Subaru!" The half elf stuttered, looking at him in alarm. "This is not what it looks like…"
Rem's mind snapped as she saw the man wearing a ring on his hand show up in front of her. Her thoughts went suddenly wild in fear, as she hid her face away in shame…Unable to face him.
Why? Why did she do that? Why is she in this situation right now?
"It is exactly what it looks like, Subaru-kun." Roswaal answered with a smil-
*click*
"…"
"…"
"…"
"Yup, got it." Subaru said with a slightly upset and disinterested tone, holding his phone up to the people in front of him.
Roswaal's eye twitched a bit, recovering from the sudden flash in front of his eyes, as Emilia and Rem just pushed him aside to cover themselves, confused about what just happened.
When Roswaal was able to finally open his eyes correctly and have a better view, he saw not only Subaru, Garfiel and Otto. But Frederica, Beatrice…And Ram as well.
"S-sister?!" Rem uttered, looking at the pink haired Oni.
As both ladies managed to find their clothes and put at least something on to cover themselves, their entire bodies fell rigid as they found themselves before the eyes of the entire camp looking at them with contempt.
Otto was so disgusted he turned his eyes to the side with a loud click of his tongue.
Garfiel kept watching at the three of them with a wrathful glare, letting his rage be felt through his eyes.
Frederica, for the first time, seemed to harbor an extremely upset look in her eyes as she her bestial facial features seemed to leak off, showing her absolute distaste to the situation as she looked down on them with a glare akin to when she had to kill a filthy bug.
Roswaal's gaze stopped on the black-haired boy. He knew and foresaw this situation coming. Subaru entering this room and seeing this.
Then Roswaal could outright smile before his face and accomplish his plan…But there was something wrong.
Subaru…
Why didn't he look sad? Why wasn't he broken?
Such simple was the mind of one man. It was something that Roswaal himself forgot after such a long time, but when he saw Subaru putting a ring on his hand…A revelation came to him once more.
Why tire yourself to face an obstacle…When you can instead find someone else to do it for you, more efficiently?
This was the mindset Roswaal found out. Therefore he knew what he had to do to, to bring Natsuki Subaru into a perfect state.
Destroy to better rebuild.
So…Why?
What was this?
Subaru's expression wasn't to be described anymore. It was a strange mix of thoughts and emotions one could hardly ever live. Of course, he was upset, disgusted and even felt betrayed by what he had to witness at the moment, but he had all the time to cry already.
Now he too, felt nothing but anger.
No room for pity. No room for self loathing.
No room for forgiveness.
Just.
Anger.
And Roswaal felt it. He felt it was wrong. He felt something didn't go well…
But all of his doubts dissipated when his eyes fell on another member of his staff he knew well, so well.
She was just looking at them. With her usual glare. Nearly the same.
And that's when Roswaal understood.
"E-everyone…What are you doing here?" Emilia stuttered, walking forward with shaky footsteps.
"Yeah, I wonder what we are doing here indeed, "Emilia-sama"." Otto growled out loud, making everyone else harder their glare.
Emilia stopped in her tracks upon hearing the tone of the green merchant.
Until she had a better view of all of them.
They were all…Mad.
Upset.
Disgusted.
The look in their eyes wasn't one of surprise like hers. This wasn't the happy and relaxed look they all had everyday when they met her. When they interacted with her, when they laughed with her, when they talked to her.
This was a look far more…Dark. A look she knew very well.
For this, was the look she always received in the past.
"W-why…Why are you all-" She tried to continue, before a purple crystal flew from them, scratching the elf's cheek as it exploded on the wall of the bedroom behind.
"Don't you even dare try and act like this now, I suppose." Growled the little spirit who just used her magic.
"Beatrice…" Emilia whispered, holding her cheek.
The sheer shock of being shot at disturbed her. The way Beatrice was looking at her, these eyes full of wrath, made her shiver in fear, as she raised her eyes to the other members of her camp in confusion.
"Don' try an' search for anythin' towards us." Garfiel spat out with an incredibly disgusted tone.
"Indeed. Please, do not seek anything akin to our compassion. You are most responsible for your own actions, Emilia-sama. Rem-san." Frederica continued.
"What?" She said, troubled. "My….My own actions…."
"I-I…" Rem uttered, holding in her tears.
Emilia and Rem started to breath in and out loudly, trying to find something, to say something. To be able to justify themselves and defend themselves, to find a proper way, anything, anything for their family and friends to stop looking at them with those eyes.
So…They both turned toward the only one they could turn to now.
The only one who was always here for them.
The one they could always rely on, the hero who saved them and…Was there for them.
"Subaru…" She called out softly with a small smile.
"Subaru-kun…"Rem called too. But her tone was more…Afraid.
They both knew Subaru very well. He was nothing like the kind of people existing in this world. Subaru was…Different. He always has been. More mature, more clever, more smart, more open minded.
Subaru natsuki was so different he somehow felt like he was out of this world. A boy that could see the bigger picture.
A boy with a heart of gold.
Emilia still remembered the day Subaru told her he loved her. The day he held her hands and kissed her in the sanctuary. The day he gave her the strength to stand up and face her trials, in order to save the people she cared so much for.
It was all…Thanks to him.
And when she said she was unsure, he told her that he would wait. For her to set her mind, for her to be ready.
But since that day and even before, since the beginning…Subaru would always look to her with a smile and shinning eyes.
So why was he…
For Rem, it was different. Subaru didn't just do a lot for her, no.
He saved her.
From her own mistakes and from herself, Subaru Natsuki stood up to show her she needed stop reminding her past and focus on the future.
He is the one who told her to smile and speak about tomorrow until her voice gets hoarse!
He was the one who showed her the light, the one who managed to make her believe in herself again, the one who showed her, her worth!
So why…
"S-Subaru…?" The half elf spoke in a hushed tone as she came closer to him.
Her eyes reflecting her fear and her pain, her hand shaking and trembling as if she was in the middle of a frozen lake, a broken smile, the smile of a mad person taking shape on her lips as she came closer and closer…
She then raised her hand towards his face…Something she always loved to do, because Subaru would always accept her touch…
*slap*
Emilia's face stood rigid and paralyzed, unable to move a single muscle…As Subaru slapped her hand away before it could reach his face, a cold and threatening glare in his eyes that pierced the half elf's soul to the core.
Roswaal gritted his teeth in anger as he understood his failure.
Otto nodded his head as if to approve his friend's action.
Garfiel growled as he showed off his teeth, angry that she came this close but satisfied with his captain' reaction.
Frederica narrowed her eyes in absolute contempt as the loud slap still echoed in her ears.
Beatrice held her contractor's jacket as to show her full support to what he was about to do.
Ram just kept looking at the scene, her eyes narrowed and her mind at ease to know that Subaru took the right decision.
Rem however…Started to shatter. Started to break. Her mind solely focused on the loud slap that just went through her eardrums, understanding that Subaru…
Just rejected his number 1.
The number one in question…Who was about to fall into the depths of darkness.
"Su-"
"Don't touch me with your filthy hands."
'Don't touch me.'
'Don't touch me.'
'Don't touch me.'
Emilia couldn't possibly believe what she just heard. Her eyes wouldn't accept the look on his face. Her ears wouldn't accept what she just heard.
Her mind, her soul couldn't believe it.
These words echoing in her mind and freezing her entirely!
Subaru!
Her Natsuki Subaru…
"I think this situation has wasted enough time for us." A pink haired oni spoke up, walking forward in front of everyone.
"Barusu, you have what you wanted?" She asked without turning around.
"Yeah." Subaru answered as he closed his eyes, putting his phone back in his pocket. "I do."
"very well. Then we shall all take our leave. You three are free to return to the distasteful, disgusting and unsettling activities you were practicing." She coldly stated.
Everyone spat in disgust to the maid's last words. But really, they could hardly respect them anymore, anyway.
One could say her tone wasn't very different from the one she was accustomed to use on a daily basis. However, this was a statement visible by only the outside perspective, as every single soul in this room right here and right now, recognized the sour and far more bitter tone, of an legitimately upset Ram.
Upset…And disappointed.
Ram knew she was but a mere maid, bound to a contract over and loyalty to this man she swore her entire being to.
She knew she had to no say in his choices and decisions.
But if there is one thing that grew in her mind within all of this time, was how…She was nothing but a mere tool.
She was a tool for the one she loved. The only one in her eyes that gave her freedom and protection, that saved her from a grim fate…Wasn't feeling the same affection that she held for him.
This, in front of her eyes, was nothing but a testament of it.
However.
For the years that passed, there was one person who never considered her like anything like this. Someone she was sure to claim with all of her soul, that would never dare to do anything but thrive for her wellbeing, no matter the cost for him.
Someone that saved her in the past, and certainly save her again.
Someone who gave her back the one she lost and held so dear, she still couldn't believe she lived to forget about her.
And that someone, grew to be one she cared for the most in this whole wide world.
There, lied the reason behind the building wrath of the Oni goddess.
Her lord betraying her feelings and doing something like this certainly was hurtful, but there would be nothing but lies to claim that a large part of her wasn't expecting such a thing.
Her anger was a result of the pain that he felt.
Her anger was a response to these three scums who dared to hurt the one who did so much for her and for them.
Lord Roswaal could manipulate her all she wanted.
But hurting Natsuki Subaru was something she wouldn't tolerate from anybody. Even her lord.
"Ram…" Emilia tried to call, her voice frail and broken, like someone trying to desperately hang on anything left for her to not fall.
"Please do not expect Ram to do anything, Emilia-sama." She spat back at her. "You and my sister are the only ones here that broke your oath."
Rem flinched upon hearing her sister referring to her, slowly raising her head towards the pink haired Oni with a weight on her stomach, pressuring her soul more and more for every second she would take to direct her eyes towards her.
And she had all the rights to be afraid. Because the look Ram harbored on her face was the one she couldn't even dream of in her worst nightmares.
Her breathing started to go faster, as her mind went blank with nothing more but the red eyes of her sister to focus to.
The disappointment and disgust.
But as if it wasn't enough…
"I feel ashamed to have you as a sister, Rem."
And she blacked out.
The memories of her past coming back. The shame of her being the younger sister of Rem. The same of being nothing but a failure.
All of her life, Rem was nothing, nothing but the shadow of her own sister.
And the now, the said sister looked at her the same way everyone ever did in her past.
"I…I…" She uttered, her lungs unable to breath anymore.
But as she was sinking in the darkness of her own failures…No one came to her aid. Not even her hero.
How could he, after a-
"Ram…!" Subaru said in a low tone, with a hurt expression.
"Keep quiet, Barsusu."
"But she i-"
"Don't." She cut him, turning her head to glance at his eyes. "If you want to do it, you can't back down anymore."
Subaru did nothing but grunt in distaste, looking to his side in an attempt to avoid looking at Rem. Because he knows he would feel pity and change his mind if he ever did.
"Subaru-kun…" She whispered as she looked to him turned his head to the side.
"Why?" He said out loud, his voice startling the two ladies.
"Why would you do that?"
"I…I don't know…" Rem cried. "I'm sorry!"
Subaru slowly began to grit his teeth, his fists shaking as if he was about to punch her face with all his strength.
Seeing it, Beatrice held his hand tightly, offering him the support he needed to face this trial.
"You're sorry…?" He repeated. "You're sorry."
He turned his face towards them both one more time.
"Because you think 'sorry' is enough?!" He voiced between gritted teeth, his eyes set on the two ladies.
"You didn't know, uh." Otto commented on his side.
"Talk 'bout a justification." Garfiel growled.
Frederica tiredly nodded her head to her brother's statement.
Rem's mouth just fell of her face, her eyes in sheer shock as she couldn't spill the words out of her mouth.
Seeing her unable to continue, Subaru raised his eyes to the other culprit. The one that was shaking and trembling, her eyes showing nothing but the void that was her mind now.
"And you kept saying that promises were so important to you. I thought I managed to earn your forgiveness for what I did years ago but after that…You still had some bad blood against me, did you?" He said in a low voice. "Since the most important promise we ever did, you had to break it."
"I…I just…" She tried to argue.
"You just what?!" He yelled back. "You just what, Emilia?! You just wanted to feel loved?! You just wanted someone else?! You just wanted to try maybe?! While I had to wait for you, love you, protect you, shelter you and save you! Again and again, until you accepted me…!"
Emilia's eyes started to leak streams of tears on her cheeks, as she held a hand to her neck, as an attempt to find her breath…While everyone around looked at her as if she was an animal. A prowling dog.
"But even a dog, remain faithful, I suppose." Beatrice spat to her, the meaning of her words understood by everyone.
"I went through every corner of this damn world, through blood and sweat." He continued. "I could have ran. I could have let you die in that shelter against Elsa, I could have ran away and let you get murdered by the cult, I could have let you become a doll for Regulus! I could have let your camp vanish away! But I didn't! I stayed here, because I loved this place, because I loved the bonds I created, because I loved my friends…"
Every single word Subaru spoke weighted on everyone. Emilia felt like her mind was hit by every last one of his statements, crushed by every words, teared down to pieces.
But nothing was more destructive than…
"Because I loved you." He concluded, before wiping his tears away with a swift movement.
"But I was wrong."
And to these last words. To this last strike…Emilia's body felt limp, her muscles losing their strengths, every last bit of the light in her eyes disappearing to nothing but emptiness. Darkness.
As she could only see the eyes of Subaru.
These eyes looking at her with disgust.
With contempt.
With HATE.
"Subaru…" She whispered in a tone so faint only she could hear.
"I think this concluded this discussion." Ram sighed, seemingly satisfied by Subaru's will.
One had to be strong to renounce the only love in his eyes.
She knew that very well.
As she didn't possess that strength.
"Now my deeeear Ram, every-"
"Roswaal." Beatrice interrupted, shooting a threatening glare to the magi in front of her.
"Shut up!" Garfiel roared.
"You have no rights to speak right now, Roswaal." Otto continued.
"I too, believe that silence would be the best option for you now, master."
His mouth forcibly shut, Roswaal only watched upon all the people in front of him taking a defensive stance around the one he tried to break.
What an irony.
He was so obsessed by the return of his teacher's guiding…That he forgot about everything else.
Forgot how everyone in front of him, right here and right now.
Are those who loved to defy fate.
And on these last actions, with a mind settled one what he had to do as of now, Subaru shot one last look in the eyes of the lord…A fearsome and challenging look, as turned around and walked out of the room.
Followed by Garfiel, Otto, and Frederica.
Before the eyes of the two girls he loved and cherished the most, looking at him walk away. Paralyzed by their fear and actions.
Shortly…Ram was the only one standing in the room.
"Ram…" Roswaal said with a low voice, seeing he had now a chance.
"No."
"…"
"Roswaal-sama…No, Roswaal." She corrected herself. "I recognize what kind of relationship the both of us had and I was indeed, ready to do anything for your sake."
Roswaal's eyes widened as he recognized the hurt voice of the Oni, speaking her mind.
"But you decided to attack yourself to the only other people that matters for Ram's life. I would have accepted you to break my heart." She said, turning back to the lord with her demonic eyes slightly tearful.
"However, to break my sister's, to hurt Barusu…" She growled with a threatening aura. "That, I cannot accept."
With these last words hitting the lord of this mansion like a powerful blow in the face…Ram turned around to show the end of her devotion and followed the one Roswaal has been defeated by…Once again.
Blinded by his own beliefs, Roswaal had jumped into the fire once again with an attempt to burn the one who standing on his path for far too long…
Only for him to get beaten once again.
For his gospel to be bypast again.
But…As he stood there, lost in the ocean of thoughts that his mind was, between the 2 broken women he defiled…
As he stood there, defeated…He reminded the eyes of Subaru, when he looked at him.
The eyes, telling him that it wasn't over yet.
I'm sorry for what you had to read...But it's necessary for the sake of the plot...Yeah, a plot. Like, even my 2nd grade writing assignment has a better plot line than his bullshit.