"Shouldn't there be more?. one from Kararagi and the other from here. It's evident who will win.." as he kept a keen eye on the Priscilla poster.
"Guess Lugnica does have some smart people." Priscilla stood up.
"Don't forget the idiots, I am looking at one of them right in front of me." as Felt stared at Priscilla.
"How dare you! I will personally make sure you get beheaded!"
"Oh Ya? Reinhard, We are beheading her!"
"My lady. I am not beheading anyone." Reinhard silently responded.
"So can I only?"
"No."
"Too bad. Here I thought the town's children would finally get a ball to play. Especially considering how your head is hollow and filled with air. Guess your head isn't as round as your breasts." as she looked at a furious priscilla, getting more angry.
The men in the theater tried to look away in respect. While the women just looked at their own bodies and felt jealous.
Ram was hysterical as she rubbed on her flat chest.
Woah Woah! No one is cosplaying as Marie Antoinette here.
As much as I wanna see some drama here…
Who am I kidding? I am keeping you guys alive just to see you react. If you gone, me sad.
As people were just getting more fearful of the screen.
Let's look at a kitty to ease the mood.
As the screen continues playing.
The crowd around the posters slowly fades away. A person who appeared with cat ears and brown hair.
"Nyaa~ It's me." Felix yapped around, while tugging onto to Crusch's hand cuffs.
As the Cat demi-human drags his feet wearing a tattered knight's uniform.
"Argyle san."
"Felix." as both Wihelm and Crusch turn to Felix with worry.
"I am fine nyaa~" as Felix hands shake at a similar sight, a sight he had seen before.
His eyes seemed dead as he turned his head to the notice wall. He approaches it and sees the posters. But there is something wrong as he notices three posters.
Two perfectly fine but the third. A poster which has dark scribbles and dribbles on it.
"Nooooooooooooo!" as he screams while falling onto the ground.
People in the theater got startled by Felix screaming.
"Felix?" The knights were getting concerned, so was Crusch and Wilhelm.
"There must be a explanation, why Crusch sama isn't there." as Felix's main concern still was about Crusch.
Slowly bringing his feet back up, Felix walks with trembling feet. As memories of him re-appear.
Him waking up and standing on the ground of fresh grass and corpses. He heavily breathes as he looks and notices a dead old butler on the ground, still holding onto his sword.
Felix walks away from the corpses.
"Whale.. Whale.." he murmured under his breath.
"Wilhelm san. I am sorry."
"It's not your fault Felix-dono. I was…Tch." as Wilhelm punched on his armrest with anger.
Soon he un-clenches his hands and places them over his face. Guilt soon overwrites hate.
"Theresia.. Theresia. I am so sorry" he whispers to himself.
Felix was walking down a path and noticed a peculiar corpse. Mauled by the majestic beast. Its skull smashed inwards and parts of its body bitten. The face was unrecognizable while soaked in dark red blood, as what remained was the person's long tied up green hair.
And what supposedly was the person's eyeball which fell off from its eye socket and was lying nearby the corpse.
The scene shifts to the same person being crushed under the teeth of the whale. It returns back to Felix who was clutching onto his hair while continuing down the path.
"Crusch sama.. Noo!" Felix cried out.
Everyone was shocked at the plight of the duchess. A horrifying scene.
Crusch herself had no words. Most of her camp was wiped out. She was on the verge of blaming herself. She wanted to slap her other self for all this.
'Apologies' that's what they were capable of giving to her. But to Felix, not even that could work. Yet he hated himself for how he just left them, not even mourning for their deaths.
Wilhelm is still whispering his beloved wife's name. Felix crying while holding onto Crusch. And Crusch herself stared at the screen in disbelief. How.. How.. Could she do all this?
Felix could be seen walking in the middle of the town towards the knight's quarters. He notices a familiar face of a purple haired knight_ Julius Jukuilius. His dead eyes were now filled with hope, as he tried to catch up with Julius. But before that he stops and experiences a headache.
An image of a person with a scribbled face lending an arm to Felix in a cellar.
Everyone was now well aware that Crusch was forgotten. A victim of the white whale attack.
Felix was whining as he said that he would never forget Crusch sama.
Julius notices the struggling Felix and approaches him.
"Wait.. something's wrong." Julius as he looks at his counterpart's face.
"Why are you wearing a knight's uniform?" Julius stares into Felix coldly.
"Julius.."
"Why do you know my name?" Julius immediately cuts off Felix.
"But.. But.. I am Felix."
"The only Felix I know is one who pretends to be a knight.. An imposter."
"But.. But.. I am Felix the knight. I am no imposter. We have known each other for a long time."
Felix's eyes turn dark. He forgot and he got forgotten. Crusch, Wilhelm, he left them to die. Now Julius and everyone forgot him. Was it his punishment?
Why did he have to be born so weak? To be born a wimp?
He thought he had a role. A role to be a healer. Yet if he couldn't even do that.. What was he even capable of doing?
Yes. He had been mocked many times about being a healer only. But being a healer was the one of the things he was proud about. Still it bothered him.. It bothered Felix , the fact that maybe he could have a better chance to protect the people he loved and cherished.
He thought to himself while he looked at Crusch, who was keen on the screen.
Maybe that's why He hated Subaru Natsuki. Subaru was a boy who appeared weaker than him. Yet the boy was capable of something greater than what he could actually do. Turning back time to save the one you loved.
Excuses he could make about Subaru being a potential threat. Excuses, he could only make. But he couldn't help but sympathize with the dead eyed guy. As the crowd would berate Subaru for being reckless, he couldn't help but to think to himself he would do the same thing.
But the fact that Subaru was the only reason they were all alive now. He wouldn't admit it… from his mouth at least.
But the only thing which was stopping Felix from wishing to have Return By Death, was Crusch. He had seen how Crusch reacted to Subaru and his death parade, How she felt hurt. He couldn't do it..
"I don't remember any Demi-human being a knight." Julius replies coldly.
"But.." Felix tries pleading with Julius.
"I would suggest you change your sham before the other knights find you." Julius abruptly leaves the place.
Julius had a strained emotion visible in his face. While Felix just accepted the fact that he isn't going to end well in that world.
While the rest of them were put off from their interaction on screen. With even Mimi scolding Julius for forgetting Felix.
Juilus remained quiet as he saw his other self leave the helpless Felix.
The other knights caught Felix and surrounded him.
"FUCK.." Aldebran cursed. "Those racist fucks are going to torment him." he continued cursing.
"There are children here!" as Fredrica closed Petra's ears immediately and Ricardo hugged the triplets.
"Al!" Priscilla was furious.
"Princess… please not again." were the last words Aldebran spoke before he went flying from his seat.
Oiii.. No physically harming anyone here.
"He is my knight. I can do.." Priscilla argues.
Not here! Plus he is more of a punching bag.
"I did not ask for your opinion, you lowly commoner!"
The noble lady isn't quite noble, isn't she?
"Shut up!" Priscilla stood out from her seat, ready to kick someone. Everyone else was getting worried with the commotion.
He did warn me about this shit happening.. I can't believe I accepted this offer. Fuck me..
"Can you stop cursing? There are children here." Fredrica pointed out.
Huh? Children? Fucking children? They are the least of my worries right now.
"But.. but.."
Just watch the show. Before I do something bad.
The screen unpauses.
Felix walks away, with a lot of bruises and injuries. But he tries healing them. A black eye, A lot of red marks.
"Disgusting."
"Poor thing."
"Assholes." as everyone was horrified by what happened to Felix. But for Felix it meant something deeper.
It became much worse, he thought to himself. The knights themselves have returned back to their old demeanor towards demis. Hate.. rage.. Unnecessary anger. It was the same as last time as he remembered times back then.
Regardless he managed to show what he was capable of.
With that he earned respect and.. Was able to gain some 'friends'.
But now to them, he was just a dirty demi human imposter.
The relationships he built with everyone.. They collapsed. Resetted.
Felix walks away, now fully healed.
"Help! Someone help! My child!"
Felix pauses as he notices a woman holding onto a child. He appeared to be extremely sick.
Felix tried lending a hand but he stepped back and continued walking away into the trees.
The last straw, it was for Felix. He hated himself, each time he saw his other self walk away from his duty. How he wanted to strangle the other him. But then he realized something important.
It was all because of Crusch. If his relations truly were resetted, then his personality would have also.
Since it was the nature of close relationships from a young age which shaped up his personality.
"Felix." Crusch assures him as she places her hand over his. Almost calming his trembling hands.
"Crusch sama." as he turned his head in despair.
"Now.. Don't worry about it. Nyaa.." Crusch tried to imitate Felix, which ended badly.
"Hehehe… Nyaa~ Crusch sama Nyaa~" Felix giggles cutely as he is surprised by Crusch's 'Nyaa' attempt.
Crusch realized that something must have been bothering Felix for a long time, considering he stopped saying 'Nyaa' like he used to. Crusch hearing Felix returning back to his normal speech patterns was a sigh of relief as well as brought an unusual sense of happiness.
Felix just walks into a forest. He looks dead and doesn't notice anything in front of him. Suddenly he falls over.
"Poor kitty." Petra was feeling sad.
Everyone including Garfiel agreed with her. Losing someone you cared about was painful. They couldn't help but see themselves in his pain.
They also lost their comrades, friends, family and their significant other.
Over Felix's body was a shadow. Felix got up to see a face. A face so horrible he immediately drops himself on the ground in fear.
In Front of him was a face with a green tint, a black coat, and a prayer cap. And ofcos a insane face.
"Petelgeuse Romanee Conti Desu.."
Followed by other cloaked figures emerging from the darkness.
"Oh od, have mercy." Julius was getting furious, angry to see the madman's face. Others were agitated, disgusted and taken back by the archbishop's appearance.
The madman's crimes don't match his previous self. A kind soul turned into a horrible mess. But they were well aware Betelguese was just a shell for the original Guese.
Felix.. He just looked with no emotions, almost as if he accepted the other's fate of being a failure. But how close is his current destiny to this failure. If only he knew, he thought. He did not know what to expect.. Perhaps a long tormenting death. He just wanted his other self to have a swift death. But know what the witch cult is capable of, so his wishes would be for naught.
Ok here there will be a time skip.
"Huh?"
"Nothing bad happens for some time?"
"Thank god." as soon as everyone heard what Reinhardt stated.
Sadly.. Tch. would be around the time where you guys were going to Pristiella.
Hope you guys learn how to swim?
"Who are these 'guys' exactly? Especially considering most of us here are dead." Crusch questions.
The Anastasia camp of course.
Wait.. wait.. You guys are actually putting on those horrified faces for show huh? It's certainly entertaining me. Those triplets.. Even got the beastman scared lol. Even you Anastasia.. I thought you were a cold person who didn't show any emotions.
"It's you. You are the cold monster. Leave us out of this." Anastasia was clearly panicking as she shouted out.
Not the first time I have been called a monster. Come up with better insults. It Looks like only little Juli here is the calm one here.
"I am mad. I am just not showing, knowing that my hate would only entertain you." Julius replies while showing a hint of the anger he spoke off.
Oh so just a mask. Boo.. I will break that mask of yours. But you are already broken inside. It gives me intense pleasure to announce that your other self wasn't so lucky to keep that all inside.
"What are you talking about?" Anastasia was getting concerned about the matters regarding her knight.
Julius, you are going to tell them?
"I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE!"
A little box waiting to be open with the correct key. Sadly can't use 'Al Goa' on the box.
"Mocking me?~~" Roswaal gave a small chuckle at him being ridiculed. Being made fun was something he was used to, but not in a subtle way like this. It mused him a little. As he sits on his seat with his legs crossed.
"Stop with this bullshit already!"
But you said it from your own mouth. I didn't do anything.
"I would never." his eyes strained as he panicked. He gets up from his seat in an attempt to stop the screen.
Well then see for yourself.
The screen plays a scene of the water city of Priestella.
"Liar!" Julius screeches with a loud stern voice enough to sore his throat.
The screen halts playing.
"Will you stop trying to brainwash us?" Julius demands an answer.
Brain washing? Now only accusing me of brainwashing? Hmm.. what if everything that was shown here.. Subaru's journey was all fake?
Skeptical looks.
"They were all a lie?"
Everyone's faces were filled with certain indescribable emotions.
"What? Subaru isn't.." as Emilia struggles to take it all in. She didn't know what to believe. Those viewings she saw about Subaru were too close to reality.
Priscilla was much more surprised but later in shock about what it meant if Subaru didn't have RBD.
Surprised that someone else has better luck than you Priscilla?
"Impossible!"
"First tell me. Is it all really a lie?" Reinhard was not having this shit right now. A crisis regarding a friend, that too a close friend.
"Subaru.. Subaru.." Emilia was silently chanting his name, and soon she stood up.
"My Subaru, I want to know him. I want to know what he is going through. So please.. tell what he really went through."
"Did I really kill Rem's hero back then?" Rem shed some tears as she wanted to deny that fact all that she did to someone she loved.
"TELL SOMETHING!"
"Brotto.. What is he saying? Cap'n isn't Cap'n?"
"I don't know Garfiel."
It's up to you to decide by the end of this viewing whether whatever you saw till now was real or not.
"Why can't you just tell us?"
"Why are you making us go through all this?.. It's regarding our friend here and You have no right here to interfere."
"Subaru.. Is he a.. NO NO NO.. It can't be no no.. I know my Subaru." Emilia takes in huge gasps on air.. Not be able to process anything.
Isn't that what you thought before the viewings?
"..." She had no answer. It was true she thought to herself. Yes Subaru might be a liar.. A person who hides.. Yet she still believed he was a good person, with or without the viewings.
Well then.. I will continue the screen as Julius seemed to have settled down.
"'You are toying with us from the who are you?"
It's none of your business.
"You are just a maniac who is trapping all of us here." People start rallying up as they try to rebel.
"Subaru.. What did you do to Subaru?" Emilia was getting worried.
"Emilia Tan."
"Subaru!" as a ray of hope reflects off her amethyst eyes as she perks up her ears listening to a voice she so longed for. Beatrice was overwhelmed with her feelings.
"Subaru kun."
"Subaru dono."
"I don't know where I am.. I don't know where you guys are.. But I promise I will save you all."
That's enough.
"Wait please.."
No!
"Subaru. I am sorry.. I am sorry you had to go through all this alone." Emilia clenches her own heart as expresses her emotions to him.
Oopsie. He didn't hear it.
"WHAT!"
I have been waiting for him for a long time. Waiting for him everytime he died but he never came, so now I will be having a nice long conversation with him.
"Who are you?" As everyone shudders at the mention of someone waiting for Subaru after each of his death.
Just a person who has something to settle with him.
"What are you planning to do with Subaru?" Emilia asks with a quiet voice..
No answer.
"What are you planning to do with Subaru?" with a slightly more raised tone.
Still no answer.
"What are you planning to do with Subaru?" getting inpatient she got up from her seat.
No answer again.
"WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING TO DO WITH MY SUBARU?" she shouts silencing everyone else who were dealing with their problems.
The screen plays.
A beautiful scene of Priestella. The water city of Lugnica. The water canals and the scenery were breathtaking.
"STOP!" as a glacial ice grows on top of the screen. The temperature of the room drops due to the presence of the ice.
The ice was translucent as no one wasn't able to figure out if the screen was broken or not.
Everyone tries to step away from the screen. A sudden blast of heat would be felt. Especially Ram's face.
Petra was squirming and crying as she was held tight by Fredrica, while everyone else were struggling with themselves to keep themselves as the mere thought of being burned alive made them highly alerted.
"No. It can't be happening again." Ram spoke out under her breath while she kept her hand over her forehead.
As flashes of memories of flames, Destruction, A blue oni child crying with tears filling up her blue eyes. And finally a Pink glowing horn flying right up in the air.
It was the day of the massacre. Where an oni was no more an oni.
Amidst the confusion , Ram rushes to Roswaal and hugs him.
"Ram~" Roswaal eyes open with surprise.
"Roswaal sama."
"It's ok~" as he raises his hand and gently strokes Ram's pink hair, while Ram herself nudges herself and buries her face into Roswaal's coat and his chest.
Roswaal accepts this, even though it was not the world he desired. It was a world he was eventually cornered into.
As everyone stepped back from their seat, only Emilia was sitting unfazed. The flames didn't engulf as others expected. It was almost as if the Fire couldn't touch her, only the fire in front of her stayed put while the rest of the fire around her grew forward.
Soon the fire subsides. The seats were undamaged and the frozen screen surely melted.
The screen continues.
Everyone else returns to their previous seats still being cautious that the fire might return. Even though the seats were fine, the heat which still resided within it caused few minor degree burns on their back or their arms.
Finally the seats were void of heat, soon everyone was seated back normal.
A carriage could be seen riding through the city of Priestella.
Inside it was a girl with lilac hair who was looking through the window.
Out of nowhere three orange furballs come out of nowhere hogging out the window.
"It's Mimi's turn to see." one of them talks out.
"Actually.." says the other with a monocle.
"Be careful Mimi."as the third one voices his concern.
"You are no fun Tivey. Boo."
"It's us! It's us!.. Hetaro, Tivey and Mimi." Mimi shouts out.
"I don't like the implications of this." Anastasia said under her breath.
"Me too." Julius, who was sitting next to her, responded.
But for now it was unusually a calm scene.
In Front of the carriage were two people.
A huge wolf man and a knight.
"I warned her against coming here." the wolfman spoke out.
"Anastasia sama knows best." the knight silently scoffs away.
"But you didn't know Anastasia, when she was this little." Ricardo shows how small by bringing his huge hands together while still keeping the reins to the carriage.
"Ricardo! You can't just tell that to people." Anastasia raised her voice.
Ricardo gave out a hearty chuckle. Soon everyone followed, except Julius who was surprised what went on the screen.
"Hmm.." as Julius keenly looks at Ricardo's hands.
"You seem interested." Ricardo responds after seeing Julius and where his concentration went.
"Because I am." he casually answers.
"So you accept the fact you want to know more about Anastasia."
"Huh? Huuuuuuhh?" Anastasia was confused about what was going on.
"Hahahahaha I can't believe he fell for it again." Ricardo laughs.
"Wait Anastasia, you have to see what happens." He continues laughing while pointing at the screen.
"Julius, do you know what he is saying?"
"I don't know what this man is even talking about." Julius replied while he coldly stared at the laughing Ricardo.
"Not this again."
"Nah man. You have to relax sometimes. That too in front of her." Ricardo pats the back of Julius.
"I don't understand what you are talking about. Anastasia sama is my lady and it is my duty to always be ready to serve her." Julius spoke out sternly as if he was a man of no secrets to hide.
Everyone else was just sitting on their seats. Waiting for something bad to happen.
Finally the carriage stops.
"Here we are." Ricardo announces loud and clear.
"Priestella being the watergate city. It is unsettling for me." Julius says while having a hint of anxiousness in his voice.
"Huh? Why?"
But before Ricardo could be answered. The carriage doors open wide open.
"Wait. wait." as Anastasia tries to hold onto the over excited Mimi.
"Mimi, wants to go there. Then there and here also." as her head moves to anything interesting. Filling her eyes with wonderful curiosity.
"Why Pristella.. Especially the fact it is a watergate city?"
Julius did not want to answer even if it was his lady who was asking him. He just wasn't ready.
Julius kept his cool while looking at the screen.
A montage of the Anastasia camp enjoying their trip. While Julius is right at the corner most of the time, Just being there.
"Reinhard is like that sometimes." Felt sighed.
"I see.."
"What do you mean, Felt sama?"
"Oops. I didn't mean that in a bad way, Rein."
Night falls over Priestella. Julius gazes through the lit up city from his Balcony of the inn. He crosses his arms and leans himself forward on the balcony railings. A click of the door could be heard.
"Julius." a voice calls out to him.
"I don't want to sound rude.. But is there anything bad going to happen to them?" Otto asked.
Well Murphy's law doesn't exist everywhere my guy.
Basically 'Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.' . It's quite interesting to think about it.
"Everything has gone wrong." Emilia abruptly spoke out coldly.
The rest of them agreed with her. It was like one of Subaru's failed loops but there was no Subaru, and this one couldn't be changed.
The screen unpauses.
"Julius. Oh you are here." Anastasia sounded surprised.
"Anastasia sama." Julius immediately stood up straight in attention.
"Like I said. You need to chill out." Ricardo spoke out calmly.
"How many times do I have to tell you? It's training."
They continue talking for a while about matters. Anastasia now lays her body on the rails as she looks at the beauty of the bright night city.
"Julius, you standing there up straight makes it awkward you know? Why not just lay on the railing?" She turned her head towards Julius.
"I am fine, my lady."
"Why not just lay on the railing?"
"..."
"Why not just lay on the railing?"
Julius cave in and does what he was told. Next to Anastasia sama, with their elbows touching each other. Soon followed with a blush on both their cheeks which was barely visible due to the single lamp which lit up the balcony.
"But you only listen when Anastasia says huh."
No answer from both of them as they are still processing their interaction. The authenticity or rather the fact were they even able to hold a conversation like that.
"You know what Julius, I do sometimes wish I had that integrity of yours."
Julius who was looking at the scene turned his head around to see a smiling Anatasia who was looking beyond the railing.
"My lady… I also wished I was as sly as you are, Anastasia sama."
"It's lovely." Petra blushed.
"Yes.. they seem lovely with each other." Fredrica continued.
"No we aren't!" Both Anastasia and Julius were fuming.
"Ye right, I ain't believing it." Felt spoke out.
"You sure you two are not hiding something behind my back?" Ricardo cracked.
"Ricardo!" they replied in unison. Almost as if they were in sync with each other.
Julius initially gasps and soon gains re-composure.
It was Anastasia's turn as she turned her head to see Julius staring at her.
"Since we both have something the other wants, why not make a deal?"
Anastasia's question made Julius smile then followed a laugh which wasn't too loud but was still audible to Anastasia.
"Now I am definitely not believing you two are just lady and knight." Felt shouted.
"Reinhard?"
Reinhard smiled and gave no answer.
"I see the wind of untruth blowing from these two." Crusch joked on.
"You too look cute together." Emilia looked sincere which made Julius look back at Anastasia almost as if he was waiting for her to say something.
The sun rises marking the new day.
As the Anastasia camp continues touring the city. They exit a shop to see a huge crowd Swarming around them , pushing them away. Finally finding someone Julius grabs onto him.
"What's happening?" he asks worriedly as he squeezes the man's arms.
"Pristella being this chaotic. First time I am seeing this." Otto pointed out.
"No wait.. There is something wrong." Reinhard had noticed the faces of the people. The face of fear.
"The.. The.. Witch.. Cult.. Flood.." The man shudders in fear as he lets go of a disdained Julius to get the message.
"Oh shit!" Garfield growled.
"Without natsuki san.. The witch cult got priestella? Oh Od."
"Ricardo!" Julius calls out to the crowd and finally reaches to the wolfman.
"I got the triplets." Ricardo reveals the orange furballs grabbing onto his arms.
"Anastasia sama? Where is she?" Julius runs frantically even before Ricardo could answer, pushing away people in his way.
Catching a glimpse of a yellow star hair clip and her lilac hair.
He finally reaches to see a worried Anastasia.
"Quick thinking." Wilhelm complimented Julius. Julius wasn't sure how to respond as he caught a glare from Reinhard from behind.
"finally found you." Julius says while grabbing Anastasia's arm.
"Julius.."
The crowd had subsided, which was not a good sign.
"Ricardo, here take care of Anastasia sama and take them to the capital as soon as possible." Julius spoke.
"What!" as most others were confused of what was this turn of events.
Julius knew what the person would do, why wouldn't he? They were the same person after all.
"Julius, what are you doing?" Anastasia questions her knight as she saw herself easily passed to Ricardo as a commodity.
"Be safe. I trust you Ricardo." Julius says to him, disregarding Anastasia's question.
"Julius. Answer me."
"My lady, there is a flood incoming and as a duty of a.."
"Julius. Please just stop being a proper knight for once.."
He had no answer, as he stood there looking at the ground.
"No means No, Julius."
"But others.." Julius spoke out.
"Ricardo, drop me." Anastasia demanded.
"Ricardo, don't."
"If it was a normal enemy, I would have let you go Julius. But it's a disaster."
"I place faith in my spirits, Anastasia sama."
"But I don't."
"... please bear with this stubborn knight just this once, my lady. Ricardo."
A que for Ricardo to leave.
"Julius.. What if you don't come back?" Anastasia looked at Julius with the earnest of eyes, clear with care she had for him.
"I never thought of it." he spoke stoically. Thinking for an answer, which he did find.
"It's been a pleasure to serve you, Anastasia sama." were the last words Anastasia heard before she could see her knight from afar.
Julius turned his head backwards to witness a huge wave of water moving towards him.
Cries of people still trapped made Julius move his feet again.
Rushing to every source of sound he could find. Moving through the rubble if people out, who ran away immediately.
After looking over everything he could find he looked at the vacant barren roads. The wave wasn't far.
"Lend me your strength, once more." he clenched his free arm.
He started running away from the wave.. Running as fast he could like a stallion.
The water flooded into the streets crashing through everything.. It swept Julius with it. He had no time to react as he tried bringing himself afloat.
Close to the surface but still wasn't enough.. As bubbles came out of his mouth.
He was slowly losing consciousness. His life flashed in front of his eyes.. He didn't look at his surroundings but only realized about the strong wall he was headed to.. After getting hit by it in the head. As the water around him turned red. He opened his eyes to see some corpses floating..then finally closing them. Leaving himself to his own thoughts.
No one spoke a word. It went too fast that no one didn't even had time to think. A wide variety of emotions went through everyone, especially the Anastasia camp.
'When did this all begin? Why did I decide to do all this.. Can I be reminded once again. When did I decide when I wanted to be a knight? Uncle.. Didn't force me.
"Huh? What is this Nyaaaa?" Felix was confused to hear his friend's voice on screen even though he was right next to him.
Everyone was.
"Perhaps a monologue?" Reinhard pointed out.
To which everyone settled on and agreed to.
I finally remember. The circumstances seemed familiar like this.. A flood. I was small.. Very small. My parents were alive.. They were smiling. It came so suddenly.. Who would have thought a moment is all it's needed to change everything.
In this state of confusion they had forgotten Julius, who seemed cold sweated. He just didn't want others to find out.. What a man he was.
The water was taking away them.. Like how it took me. I remembered screaming, never realizing that would be the last thing they would ever hear from me. For how I wish I would have listened to their words now.
Julius didn't speak as he saw his own tragedy being narrated in his own voice and mind. He thought of himself as someone one must not take pity on.
I was weak back then.. I was barely holding it, I felt like I was glass cracked. Finally after I was rescued.
I was angry. Angry at the guards for not being able to save my family.
"I am weak.. I always have been." Julius spoke out. People weren't sure what was happening.
"Laugh at me at how weak I am." He confesses.
"Julius.." Anastasia turns to see a sight she had never thought she would have to see, her knight feeling ashamed.
And Yet it happened again. I couldn't save everyone. The Excuse for my incapability is time. Shifting this blame was just not it.
To be this ignorant of oneself was nothing but a harm. What a shame of a knight I became.
"Yes.. see. I could never save everyone. Like him. I am half the man he is. I admit that I never liked him. And seeing his journey only cemented my inferiority to this man. I could never accept that"
"That's why..that's why I.." Julius was at the edge of himself as Reinhard and Felix still kept a hand on him.
"I..am nothing but a fool of my selfishness." he lets out a bomb of words
I shouldn't bring others with me for my rather slothful approaches and decisions.'
Julius both on screen and off screen had finished their monologue/speech. Julius sat down.
"You have done well.. Our contract is broken." Julius opens his mouth and his eyelids one last time. As the spirits around him leave him and his drowning body.
As the people watch the purple knight descend in this flood onto the floor.
"Holy shit." Garfield spoke out.
People looked at Julius who was calmly looking at his counterpart die the same way his own parents did.
The outburst he had cost him some energy. It wasn't the matter of hiding anymore. He revealed it all, whatever he had been going through. He couldn't even meet his lady's camp eye to eye. Out of this shame of admitting how much of a person he viewed himself to be.
"Julius."Anastasia looked at him. It was as if both of them were broken by their sudden confessions.
"I did not know you had to go through all that." as she felt more than ever to have him as her knight. Yet realizing how greedy she was to put herself and disregard others.. Others close to her. She couldn't speak out much.
As the both of them return back to their shell of previous relationship.. As a knight and his lady for the best.
Subaru laid on the ground. He woke up suddenly after feeling the sensation of being wet. He sat on the ground to see his pants wet. Well not only his pants, the back of his jacket also. As he realized that he was lying on top of some water. It wasn't a puddle, the water was continuous. Never ending, Subaru stood up and saw the mesmerizing scene.
A pond with a never setting sun above it. He stares at this, he sees the water undisturbed from a region away from him. It was like a Mirror image of the sky which was formed in this shallow body of water.
He walked step by step, while he held onto his pants. The water ripples follow his steps.
He walked a distance and stopped after seeing a figure. A dark hooded figure.
"Excuse me!" he called out to this stranger.
The figure turned around.
"Yes?" as it walked towards Subaru.
"Where is the exit.."
"Oh how you don't know. Well.. I have been waiting for a long time."
"I see. So you are also stuck here.. Hehehe." Subaru nervously laughed.
"Your words not mine. But what about a seat?"
"Where?"
The cloaked person pointed at the table and two chairs.
"How did they appear?"
"Some questions were never meant to be asked." as the mysterious person sits down. Subaru does the same.
"What is your name, mister?"
"Well your friends know me as screen."
"Eh. My friend's know me and your name is screen?" Subaru got more confused than before. He looks around to see a picturesque of his friends sitting in something like a theater hall.
"What did you do to them? What did you do to me?" Subaru realized the threat of the person next to him.
"Wanna talk to them?" he asks.
"Let me go.."
"They are listening to whatever you are saying right now."
"Emilia Tan.
I don't know where I am.. I don't know where you guys are.. But I promise I will save you all."
"That's enough."
"Wait."
"No."
As the picture of his friends disappear.
"Who are you?"
"Just a person who wants to have a talk with you."
"It's just like the witch's tea party.."
"Shut it. I don't want to hear about the witches." the voice of compassion changed to hostility.
"I see."
"So how does it feel?" The figure turns its head towards Subaru.
"To feel what?"
"To not die."
"what?" Subaru asks with wide eyes and a quivering mouth.
"I know technically you think you die.. But you really don't die."
"What! I die.. I feel the pain of death each time I loop. It really hurts.. Everytime I come back I can't get the feeling out of my skin. My body might not have the same effect but my mind does." Subaru got mad and went on the rant.
"Death is said to be a state of eternal unconsciousness. You were only close to death, you never felt it."
"You dare repeat that again." his anger was slowly escaping from his mind.
"I'd rather not and get straight to the business. Well.. how does it feel?"
"What do you mean.. Did I not tell you how I felt?"
"Yet I can sense there is something you are hiding from me."
"I don't get it."
"Even me.. Like why do you bother saving these people."
"Because they are my friends."
"Even after all they did?"
"What did they do.."
"I can only advise you one thing. Some Things even the people close to you aren't even worth saving,"
Subaru didn't have anything to say as he stood up and started walking.
"If you walk far, you will eventually fall asleep." The figure just sat there.
Subaru didn't turn back as he just went his path.
With Subaru nowhere in sight, the figure held on to his cloak brushing it to the side to be more uncomfortable. Its feet get revealed to be skeletal like.
"To go through this impossible feat just to save them and yourself. I certainly can leave you not.. But if there are no more people you want to protect.. Would you still use it? Only an apostate of love wouldn't.."
Had this lying for some time kekw.. Might as well posted it.
