Disclaimer:

Starting as a CPU from Zero is a work of fiction. I do not own any of the Re:Zero characters or original stories, only the plot of this fanfic and my OC. The Re:Zero characters and original storyline belong to Tappei Nagatsuki. This is written solely for entertainment. Inspiration for my OC's abilities come from TrapMaster20 on Wattpad. Give their books a read if ya don't mind.

ARC 01

" " Speaking

' ' Thoughts

El Fura Bold=Attack or strong shout, or Witch of Envy talking.

Chapter 1

3rd Person PoV

In one dimension a black haired Japanese male has just been transported to a place called Lugnica, while in another, a teenage male had just been engulfed in an explosion that even a god (1) would have been hard pressed to escape unscathed. While our protagonist should have died or at least disintegrated, something decided to infere. Or rather someone. Moments before the explosion, a distortion in space appears and instead of being caught in the explosion, an unconscious Nise falls into the distortion rift. On the other side of the rift, a pale figure is seen with a black veil covering her face, and shadowy masses around her resembling hands. No details of her face can be made out, but one thing is clear, she is... crying? She is crying, the same way you would if you were told someone you love was given the death penalty. (2). Even in his unconscious state, Nise appears uncomfortable and reaches out to the mysterious figure. But she ignores this, pushes his hands down and speaks. "SavehimsavekeephimsafeIlovehimProtectSaveFlugelSubaruLoveLoveLove." ??? says.

"Youwillhelphimright? I'llgiveyoupowerkeephim

safedonthurthimlovehim... And then clearer, "Please keep my beloved safe like I couldn't, please help him."The first person speaking sounds slightly insane while the other sounds broken and dead inside. Nise, while still knocked out, reaches for her again. This time she doesn't pull away, and he presses her into a hug. "Don't cry, big brother is here for you, Kotori." It's obvious he's not speaking to her, but she appreciates it nonetheless. The figure smiles sadly. "Thank you" After this is said, multiple shadows reach out and Nise is grabbed. And before he can wake up, another distortion is opened and he is sent to the same place as the other male. Causing drastic but hopefully better, irreparable changes to what occurs. Of course this intervention wasn't without consequences.

1st Person PoV Nise

"Ugggggghhhh, huh? Where am I?" Man, my head is ringing. It feels like a group of elephants were crammed in my skull and decided to tap dance. Ignoring the fact that I seem to have a hangover, I try to recall what I was doing previously. 'Ok I was fighting something or someone to protect... someone else?' No that's not it. I was protecting Ko, Ko, I was protecting Ko... "Crap! What's her name?!" Try as I might I can't remember her name. Worse I can't remember what I was doing beforehand or my family or people I may have knew. To add insult to injury I remember pretty much everything not related to those events. "Welp, no use in worrying about things out of my control. I need to focus on what I can control and then start Nepping around later." I say before pausing and hearing myself, "Firstly figure out why I said Nepping around instead of fooling around, and secondly figure out my whereabouts." Nodding to myself I began to look around the area. I take note of a few things. One, I seem to be in a forest, Two, I seem to be outside of a small city, town, capital? Eh whatever. Lastly, I don't know how long I've been wherever I am, but my outfit is spotless to have been in a forest. Like seriously, this outfit is S-P-O-T-L-E-S-S. Oh, you want to know my outfit? Ok I guess I'll do my best to describe it. I'm wearing a white T-shirt with a diagonal black line across it, a black jacket left unzipped, blue jeans, a pair of black combat boots, and a red locket. Speaking of the locket, I open it and immediately smile with nostalgia. Inside lies a photo of a person I assume to be me, and a red haired girl with twintails and an ahoge, I believe it's called. In the photo the girl and I are laughing at the camera while posing with peace signs. Come to think of it, is this that Ko-something girl? I can't remember but based on this feeling I have, she's someone important to the me I can't remember fully. I'll hold on to this and hopefully be able to see her again. Enough of that though, time to enter this weird city. That I've somehow been walking towards the entire time. Neat. Upon entering I have to blink to make sure of something. "Well I'm pretty sure I'm not from here considering I'd remember that even if I had amnesia." What is, that, you ask? A furry's paradise. No that is not me trying to be funny, I am dead serious. There are literal Neko's, Lizardmen, and freaking dragons for vehicles. This place looks medieval in time and technology. Such was my astonishment I forgot my surroundings. "Look out!" Eh? Oh would you look at that, one of those dragons is about to hit me.

...

Oh crap, one of the dragons is about to hit me!

I hear screams and for some reason the sound of a male yelling, "I have the powah!". Seriously why that last one though? Oh yeah, I'm still standing here, actually why am I still standing here? In the nick of time I feel someone grab my neck like I'm a small child and jump out of the way with me in tow. The screams die off and everyone moves along with their day. I wonder should I be offended. "Are you okay young miss? You should pay better attention. Even though it's my day off, your lucky I was out patrolling and could step in. Anyways my name is Reinhard, what's yours?" A voice belonging to a red haired male, wearing what looks like a knight outfit, pulls me out of my thoughts and I immediately reply back with an I'm fine before the full comment processes. Wait, did he say miss? "Uh Mr.Reinhard, wait I hate formality so I'm calling yoooouuu... Rein, yeah Rein, ok Rein I'm actually a male." "Really? With your appearance and your slender frame, as well as your voice I thought you were. My apologies I was wrong to assume." "It's fi-, wait wha?" The moment appearance and voice goes through my ears and processes I immediately dip off and run to a conviently placed fountain and check my reflection inside. Oh no, nonono, nononono, f* f* f*. Staring back at me is a young androgynous (3) teenager. That wouldn't be a problem in itself except for two things. The slender feminine frame I seem to process, and the lilac purple hair I possess that goes down to my shoulders. If I didn't look enough like a female, the hair finished the deal. Oh and I also have a white D-pad hairclip in my hair now, yay. But let's add salt to it. The voice. The voice. My voice is distinctly female. Let's see... Look up Fate Jack the Ripper dub voice and imagine it slightly older. That's my voice. In light of these events, there's one thing to do. Inhale and...

3rd Person PoV

All through Lugnica, people were moving on until they heard:

"Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?!" What sounds like a young female questioning the meaning of life.

"Mommy why is there a little girl screaming?" A young child asks his mother. His mother covers his ears and tells him he'll understand later.

On this day many people paused and listened to the sound of a person who seems to have died inside a little.

1st Person of PoV Nise

Well I may look and sound like a girl but at least I can confirm I'm still most definitely a male. Don't ask how I found out. Anyways I decide to do some exploring around. Maybe I'll find something interesting, like that guy who looks out of place in his orange and black tracksuit. Who is currently walking into an alley. Alone. With three other people walking behind him. Or I guess he got pulled in with them?

...

Crap.

Earlier with Subaru 3rd Person PoV

This is really going to be a problem. With no money and no idea what to do, he repeated the thought over and over again in his mind. Well, it wasn't completely accurate to say he had no money. The wallet in his pocket was filled with all the cash he owned, enough to go on a little bit of a shopping spree if he had to—under normal circumstances. But in this case, "no money" is really the only way to describe his situation. "Yeah, but the currency system here is completely different, isn't it…" The young man flicked his rare notched ten-yen coin in the air and breathed a deep sigh.

He didn't really have any features about him that stood out. He had short black hair and was of average height, being neither short nor tall. He was a bit muscular, though, as if he had been working out, and the cheap gray tracksuit that he was wearing really suited him quite well. He had small irises, so the whites of his eyes stood out, but right now, the way his eyes were downcast, he didn't have a very aggressive or championing look to him. He looked average enough to be quickly lost in a crowd…but right now, most of those passing by looked at him out of the corners of their eyes as if they were looking at something strange they had never seen before. But that was to be expected. After all, among all those onlookers, not one of them had black hair, nor were any of them wearing tracksuits.

"So this is a world with half-humans…and probably wars and adventures, too. As for whether there are any animals I'm used to around… I'm not too sure, but given that lizard cart thing…it looks like they use animals in the same way we do." After putting all of that together, Subaru let out a long breath, but not a sigh. If things unfolded the way he had fantasized about before about otherworldly summoning, he ought to be able to use his knowledge of modern civilization to hold sway over everyone else…but there were a lot of things that still didn't make any sense. "The truth is, I have no idea what to do next, and I still have no idea how or why I was summoned. I don't remember stepping into a mirror or falling in a pond, and if I'm to believe this is the otherworldly summoning format I'm used to, where is the beautiful girl who summoned me?"

Truly he has his work cut out for him.

Just as Subaru was about to walk out onto the main road, he almost bumped into someone who moved out in front of him. "Oh. Sorry 'bout that."

Subaru gave a short apology and tried to continue past, but… "Hold up!" …he was grabbed firmly by the shoulder and pulled back into the alley. Nearly falling over himself as he turned around, Subaru looked up to see that the person who had thrown him back was a man with a large build. Behind that man were two of his buddies, and the three men stood in such a way as to block Subaru from exiting the alley onto the main road. The way they moved, it didn't appear this was the first time these men had done this, and Subaru had a bad feeling about what was going to come next. "Umm… May I ask what you three fine fellows plan on doing with me?" "Oh, it looks like this one here's a smart one! Well, nothing to worry about. Just give us everything you've got on you, and there's no need for anyone to get hurt." "So that's the deal, huh? Yeah, I guess it would be. Ha-ha… This really sucks." The men's gazes were filled with scorn and ridicule. They looked like they were in their twenties, with the meanness of their personalities reflected in their faces and dirty appearances.

They didn't look like they were halfhumans, but they certainly weren't saints, either. You couldn't call it an unusual plot development. Encountering thugs was a way to show the dangers of everyday life. In other words… "Damn, I've triggered a compulsory event."

As he looked at the men smirking, Subaru tried to hold the status quo with a fake smile and considered his options. He was in quite a pinch, but since the beginning of time, in stories where humans are summoned to other worlds, those humans tended to be able to wield some kind of superpower. If Subaru had been summoned to this world under the same conditions as the stories he was familiar with, it was very likely that he had been given some sort of power. With that thought, Subaru felt that his body was a little lighter than usual. "I'm starting to get the feeling that this world's gravity is, like, only a tenth of my world's. I can do this. I can do this! I'm going to mow you all down and make this the first chapter of my glorious future! You're only here so I can pull experience points off of you, you scum!"

"What the hell is he going on about?" said one of the men. "I don't know, but I'm pretty sure he's making fun of us. Let's kill 'im," replied another. "Took the words right out of my mouth… You're going to regret this!" returned Subaru, before flying forward with a straight jab from his right hand, aiming for the big man in front. Subaru's fist collided with the man's nose, but he also cut his fist on one of the man's front teeth and started bleeding. —I hit someone for the first time in my life! Wow! It hurts way more than I expected. Subaru was confident in his fighting form, but he had never been in a real fight before. The man who was punched fell to the ground. Without taking a moment to pause, Subaru leapt at another of the men, caught off guard, as his next target. With a clean arc he landed a kick on the side of the next man's head, slamming him into the wall of the alley. This was going even better than he'd expected, and he started to be sure of the notion that he was invincible in this new world. "I guess in this world my stats are pretty good! What a rush! Now to finish this!" Turning back around, Subaru bent forward to beat down the last man standing, when his eyes centered on what that man was holding in his hand: a glinting knife. Immediately Subaru dropped to his knees, bent over forward, and with a spectacular single motion prostrated himself, pressing his forehead against the ground. "I'm sorry, that was absolutely terrible of me, I ask that you forgive me and please find it in your generous hearts to spare my life!" Prostration—it was the most exteme form of showing absolute submission to another and the lowest form of Japanese humility.

Just where did all of that fired-up feeling go? Subaru felt as if he could hear the blood drain from his body. Desperately clinging to any hope of mercy, he tried to make himself seem small and continued to apologize. With a knife involved, fighting was out of the question. No matter how you might train yourself, if you were stabbed, it was all over. All things in life are transient. Before he knew it, the two that Subaru thought he had defeated were back on their feet. One was holding his bleeding nose and the other was shaking his head back and forth, but other than that both looked as though they were in surprisingly good condition. "What?! You mean to tell me that my one-hit knockout punch only did that much damage?! What about my superpowers?!" "I dunno what you're going on about, but shut your trap! You've really done it now!" It looked as though Subaru had been completely wrong about being summoned into another world coming with the promise of some kind of powers. He wasn't really any stronger than he had been before. One of the men stepped on the back of Subaru's head, scraping his forehead against the ground and causing him to bleed. Another then kicked him in the face, and Subaru curled into a ball as tightly as he could as he was subjected to further acts of violence. After all, the one who hit first was Subaru. The men didn't hold back at all. 'Crap, this is really, really hurts. Like, I could die. No, seriously.'

Unlike in his own world, there was no guarantee that these thugs wouldn't take his life. At this rate, it would be better to try one last-ditch effort to retaliate before he was beaten to death… "Stop moving, you whelp!" "Ow! No, don't… Ow! Ow! Ow!!" The man with the knife stomped on Subaru's hand as he tried to get up, then readjusted his grip on the knife so that the tip was held back toward his arm, ready to strike. "After we make sure you can't move we're going to take everything you've got. That's what you get for acting tough, you punk…" "I-if you're looking for money or valuables, I'm sorry but you're out of luck. After all, I don't have a cent on me…!" "Then those strange-looking clothes and shoes'll do just fine. You can just stay down and be food for the alley rats!"

As the three began to try and make good on these words,

"Hey! What are you doing?! Knock it off!"

Another voice was heard.

Nise PoV

When I saw this boy get pulled into a dark alley, I expected a small skirmish, and I was partially right. Apart from the weird comment about exp, he actually did pretty well at first, while defending himself. It was going great until he saw the knife. Then he got on his knees and prostrated himself. Probably should've stepped in at that moment. But I waited and soon regretted it cause boy did they about kill him. The thing that stopped me from walking off completely was the threat about becoming food. Ye- no. So I immediately charged in.

"Hey! What are you doing?! Knock it off!"

The three thugs stopped what they were doing and looked back at me, concern on their faces about getting caught. The boy on the other hand looked like he saw an angel appear in his time of need. "We're sorry," the big thug said, "We didn't know this was your companion!"

Huh? But he's not my companion. This confusion must have shown on my face because the second thug, the one without a knife says: "Is he not your companion then?" I shake my head no and the thug with a knife, ya know what I'm nicknaming these thugs. Big thug is now Chungus, Knife-less thug is now Stabless, and thug with a knife is now Stabby Boy. Anyways Stabby Boy then tells me to scram and I pretend to turn around before stopping and saying: "He may not be a companion of mine, buuuuuttttt, I can't turn a blind eye to a guy in peril. That's just not my style." Then all three thugs get up and walk towards me menacingly. "Well you can't help him if we hurt you right?" "Yeah leave before things get ugly." "After all you still need time to grow Ms. Flatty!" The sound of glass shattering is heard. The boy, Subaru, flinches and begins to crawl away, knowing what is probably coming. Stabless, and Stabby Boy both stare at Chungus. "Hey man, too far." "Yeah you crossed a line there." So what? It's just a little girl, she's smaller than us. She has a better chance at getting a bigger chest than beating us." If the glass was shattered before it outright disintegrated now. "Ya know boys? I was just going to give you a little warning before. Maybe hit you a few times," I begin, "But now? I'm going to break you." With those words, I do the same thing Subaru did, and punch Stabless into the street with a right hook. He is most likely out. He'll be fine. I think. Ignoring his limp but hopefully not dead body, I make a come here gesture at the other two. When they don't move, I decide to. Looking at Stabby Boy, I dash forwards and attempt a roundhouse spin kick.

While he dodges the kick, he doesn't dodge the follow up elbow slam I put in his neck. There's a thud as his body bounces twice on the ground.

Two down, I crack my knuckles, "One to go."

Chungus decides to take initiative and charge forward. He throws a right hook which I dodge. Followed by a combo of punches, which I dodge by leaning side to side when necessary. Not bad actually, he could be a decent boxer in my world. Still though he can learn more. On his last punch he overextends and I capitalize by grabbing his arm and performing a judo throw, slamming him into the ground. I immediately grab said arm, and put him in an armbar. "I may be small, but I'm still growing dang it!"

Wait what am I saying? I'm not a girl! It still feels triggering though. Hmmm... I wonder why?

But just then… "Hey! Out of the way! Out of the way! I'm talking to you! Move!" yelled someone in a flustered-sounding voice as they dashed into the alley. Like the men, who suddenly looked up, Subaru managed to glance up in the direction of the voice, though he couldn't move his body. What he saw was a small girl with longish blond hair dashing by. From her red eyes, you could sense a strong will, and her one canine tooth sticking out made her look like quite a prankster. She's kind of cute actually. I ignored this but give her a look of confusion. The girl raised her hand in an apologetic sort of gesture and didn't slow down as she continued racing down the alley. She went right past the men and kept going toward what should have been a dead end, kicked off against a wooden plank set up against the end wall, grabbed the top of the wall, and lightly flung herself up onto the roof of one of the surrounding buildings, where she disappeared.

...

Well that happened apparently. At least no one else is coming by this alley-

"Hold it right there, you evildoers!"

Well looks like I spoke to soon.

Author Notes:

Well here's Chapter 1 of Starting as a CPU from Zero. So, a few things first. The numbers inside ( ) are going to be corresponding to down in the Author Notes. Ex:

1. Keep in mind when I say god, I don't mean the omnipotent one, I mean one possessing shreds of divinity. Ya know what, just look up Tiamat in Nasuverse and that's the kind of god I mean. They can die.

2. The fact that Satella loves Subaru and cries when he dies, yet made him experience said phenomenon over and over again is ironic and astounds me.

3. Androgynous means partly male and partly female in appearance or of indeterminate sex.

Basically you can't tell if they're a boy or a girl.

Anyways yeah this chapter is something different. As you can tell Nise's free spirited and his thought process is all over the place. He's only serious if need be as seen in the previous chapter, when he pulled a shonen protagonist moment. Also as stated earlier, Nise's life was saved but the price was the cost of some of his memories and a few other things, which will be figured out later on. But yeah interference in someone's fate is never without consequences.

And yeah Satella seems to not care about consequences so...

If you can't tell Nise's little outburst was another side effect of that interference. His personality is more or less the same but it's also a mashup of some Hyperdimension Neptunia characters. In this instance, it's a combination of Blanc and IF. In all honesty, the thugs are lucky Emilia came by cause if not, well let's just say, there's a lot of ways to create graffiti. Anyways leave a review of this story if ya don't mind, any criticism is strongly suggested. Keep it focused please. I can't fix it if you aren't clear. Last tidbit, Nise is most assuredly gonna be forced to be a dress up doll. Sorry my guy. Alright see ya till next time.