Yep, I fucked up. Sorry for not updating, but here it is. Dragon King, Chapter 2. Enjoy.

Chapter 2, Day 2

Starry night, the cool night breeze slowly blowing leaves by as the girl stood there in the darkness, taking her normal position under the roof of the familiar gazebo, her white skin and dreamy dark purple orbs shining elegantly, enchantedly in the moonlight.

She was very much by herself, perhaps only her and Rem were still awake, one doing some last minute work and then her, enjoying the night while in deep thought.

"I… Am marrying Subaru…" she says to herself, a blush slowly working itself onto her face. "Puck said that… Married couples kiss, but… Kisses…" the thoughts were getting to be too much, and she stopped herself.

"I don't dislike him, I… He doesn't dislike me, and he's a king candidate… but I know it won't work well, I… I don't have… The mentality.. Fitting my body.." she continues, thinking over her own circumstances.

"I don't want to disappoint him or myself, so I Will try my hardest… Ah… I know the first step!" her face goes very red here, and then she goes off to carry out her thoughts in the mansion.

Morning, the sun was starting to shine through the pristine windows onto the marble floor, reflecting and lighting up the room. A peaceful way to wake up, as Subaru slowly opened his eyes, staring at the ceiling that he's seen a few times now in the past day.

But there was something odd, a warmth, a chilling presence that also brought a flood of butterflies to heart, and a single small collection of long silver hairs resting on his arm was more than enough proof to immediately plunge his heart into overdrive. 'HOW IS THIS HAPPENING?!' he internally screamed as loudly as he could possibly even think.

Emilia was curled up cutely in bed next to him, her sleeping face pointed towards himself with a light blush painted on it, she must have been embarrassed doing this in the night. He blinked a few times to make sure it wasn't his imagination, but her presence there afterwards was proof that it was completely real.

Unsure of what to do, he just laid still for what felt like hours, until only a few minutes later he heard light knocking at the door. "Subaru… Kun? A-are you awake?" he heard Rem lightly ask through the door. 'Oh noo…' he slowly tried to shift around, and soon made it to the edge of the bed without waking Emilia.

Rem waited patiently as she could hear the shuffling, but then smelled something odd… She could smell Emilia behind the door, and suddenly her face flushed red as she imagined what that could mean.

Suddenly the door opened, and there he was, looking about to die with giant beads of stressful sweat forming on his forehead, and quickly exited the room and then sighed heavily in relief. "Ah geez, if I knew she was going to sleep in my room…" he exhaled again, wiping away the sweat with his arm.

"S-subaru kun…. Would ha-have done what?" Rem asked, and he looked to her in slight embarrassment. "Well I went to sleep alone yesterday, then wake up with her next to me in bed. Of course, I was freaking out."

She thought on it a bit, and then relaxed her thoughts. "Right… Emilia sama isn't one to be brash or vulgar…" she said aloud, finally Subaru realized what she was thinking. "Woah there, Rem, that's highly private information!"

She giggled a bit, and he poked her nose. Surprising her, and then she bowed. "Right. Reinhard sama requested that I wake you, so that you may begin swordsmanship training." she said, and behind her was a small pile of white breathable clothes, something fit for training that can be ruined without worry.

"Awesome, thanks Rem!" he says, and then she escorts him to the destination.

Reinhard was outside, far away from any destructible objects and wearing his usual off duty uniform, and holding two wooden swords. Yes, his training starts today… Would he do well? Probably not.

He had changed into the new clothes back in the mansion, and out here in the morning it was a bit chilly, but not much to worry about. He made it up to a cheerful looking reinhard, and took a sword. Rem stopped where she was, to give the two space.

Some introduction later, that today would be basics, relieved Subaru to no end. "And I thought you were going to just do the 'now that you know what we're doing I won't hold any mercy' esque things and proceed to beat me senseless."

Reinhard lightly chuckled at this. "I wouldn't want to harm his majesty, that would be nothing but treason!" he comments, making Subaru shake his head. "Still, that you call me that bothers me. Just yesterday I find out this royalty business, about being a king candidate, and i'm already on a training regiment. You waste no time in preparation, huh?"

True, or at least as long as Subaru feels like it. "As long as you're fine with the schedules, we can always take breaks or change them based on your mood or feelings, I would not want to overtax you in any way if you want just to take a rest day." he says, making Subaru a bit more at ease.

"Well that's nice, but if I didn't want to train at all, would you be mad?" he questioned, honestly wanting to know the answer. "No, I would simply try to do my best to make you happy and comfortable." he replies, this really unsettled him. "Yep, definitely not doing that." he says.

Rem was wondering what the conversation was headed towards, but could understand that Subaru doesn't want to take advantage of Reinhard's leniency and just do nothing ever. He could do that, but he's not. A good thing, really.

Soon the chat ended, and Reinhard started having Subaru strike at him. He critiqued his strikes, telling him how to better attack, how much harder or softer to swing for each different angle, and then how to defend from each attack as well.

In the twenty minutes she had spare to watch them, Rem could see the Sword Saint's divine protection of Training Mastery taking full effect… Subaru's attacks were already getting relatively good, in a mere twenty minutes, he went from having no real experience to seemingly a day's worth, and no doubt by the end of his three hour training session, he would likely be able to handle himself against a bandit or similar.

"Uhn… Wh… Where am I?" Emilia began opening her eyes, the light slightly blinding her as she looked around. She could recognize some things, but then it donned on her… She was in Subaru's room, and he was no longer in the bed. "Eeee!" she squealed a bit, realizing what happened.

"Ouhhh… Lia, what's the matter?" Puck sleepily asked, slowly coming into view. "We're in… Subaru's room…" she told him, and then his eyes widened in shock. She could clearly see this, and was quick to explain. "No no! I-I came i-in here yesterday, a-after he was asleep!"

She pretty much shouted at the cat, entirely catching him by surprise. He deliberated what to do as he came closer to her, setting down on her shoulder.

"... Lia…" she looked to him questioningly, wondering what he was going to do. "I trust him enough to know he won't hurt you, but… getting into his bed is… well, he is young, just like you, and that can lead to some bad things…" he trailed off, thinking of what more to say without exposing her mind to more… Adult elements.

"But… Married people sleep in the same bed, d-don't they?" she innocently asked, leading him to sigh. "Well, erh… yes, but that's a bit more… Ah, okay. How about this, move to the room next to his, so it'll be like that, okay? But you can't do it again, not until you…"

She smiled a bit, knowing that he was having trouble trying to protect her. "Okay, I'll do as you say… I just hope Subaru understands as well." she adds, and he mentally prepares for what the future may hold, the… Troubles he'll have to resolve, between the two.

"I may just be getting old.." he says, getting a giggle out of the girl. "You're going to ignore everything I said, I just know it…" he sighs, knowing that this will end badly… For him, at least. So, he just followed the girl and tried to keep her distracted until at least after Subaru's sword and magic training was over.

As it turns out, she never did get outside to watch him do those things. She got to experience his shenanigans first hand.

At lunch, Rem came and gave him and Reinhard proper breakfast, spending a good part of the hour with them.

Soon after, magic training was to begin. Subaru was already finished with his food at the gazebo, and headed inside to fetch "The drill loli" as he said, saying that "I'll pull her drills if she doesn't come with" just as he ran out of sight of Rem.

She prepared for some kind of smashing or shattering noise to come within the next few minutes.

Inside, he was running down the eastern wing by gut feeling alone, choosing the third floor on gut feeling alone as well. Running, running… Until he ran into a door the just opened in front if him, a thin frail looking arm still on the handle as he runs straight into it and makes a loud clapping sound as he hit the door, and with the momentum, weight and impact the door was overloaded at the hinges, and splintering wood along with a falling sensation followed the pain… then, he was hit with the new pain of hitting the door a second time, but face first on the ground…

Of course, he failed to hear the gasps and small shriek, the light yet heavy weight struggling to get off his back as it was pinned with its hand stuck below him, wedged between the door. "S-Subaru!" he heard it that time, Emilia's crystal voice.

Sure enough he tried getting up, to no avail- somehow he felt vastly heavier than he did a few seconds ago, and could even feel some weight on his lungs. Emilia felt this too, and wondered what it was… And she could now feel herself being pulled towards him just by the weight of gravity alone, it was quite difficult for her to move and even more so for him, as he had her weight on top of him too.

"What… The… Heeeelllll?! If… I… Exhale, I… Feel that… My lungs are…. Going to collapse…." he struggled to say, and she was more or less caught in trying to talk as well.

"You've destroyed my door, and this is your punishment for twenty minutes, I suppose." - That devilish voice, that little brat, drill haired loli's voice rang in his ears, and with what little he could see, her ankles and feet at most, stood triumphantly above both him and Emilia, basking in the glory of what she's just accomplished.

"B-beatrice! W-why are -Hk! Are y-you dis-disto- Hk! Torting gravity?" Emilia managed, and it seemed that Beatrice didn't so much as move. "Because this entertaining payback for dirtying Betty yesterday, I suppose." she even leaned over and waved at Subaru, taunting him. "Damn drill haired loli… I am so pulling your drills when this ends!" he yells through the throat squeezing gravity, honestly sending some chills down the loli's spine.

"E-Even so! Betty does not yield to threats!" she says back, but Subaru could tell it affected her. "That's like saying we don't negotiate with terrorists!" he says back, confusing both of them immensely.

"T-terrorists?" she says the word again, they have this word there as well, but hearing it in speech… Especially in this context, it was very strange. "You're calling yourself a terrorist now, I wonder? You truly are strange, as strange as that one is uninformed, I suppose!" she says, now bringing questions to Subaru's mind.

He started struggling forward, climbing off the door with Emilia finally getting free, the two struggled to their feet at either edge of the doorframe, Emilia stood and watched as he took spacelike slow steps, each one eliciting a loud clap as it reached the floor, he was approaching a stock still Beatrice, as she was shocked that he was attempting to get to her.

She instinctively protected her drills, but then saw a gleam in his eyes that spelled nothing but revenge… Surely, he'd get her drills one way or another.

"Taking a page right out of a one punch man fanfiction I read, the best way to calm a brat! Is! To! -" he started assaulting her sides with his hands as fast as possible, ticking was the last thing she could have imagined he would do, but the instant that he began she lost concentration on the gravity field, and was in pure shock.

"Tickle them into capitulation!" he declared, locking her in one arm so it'd be impossible for her to escape as she was suppressing with all her might the urge to start laughing at the feelings originating from her sides, a truly difficult task… One she was horrified was actually presented to her, she was beyond horrified of the method he was using on her to stop.

Emilia simply watched in amazement as he continued to tickle the poor spirit to the point of exhaustion, she was tolling on the ground looking pained to death as she finally started to break her facade and burst into laughter, then she started wondering what she'd do when this ended.

Reinhard was already heading towards her, wondering what happened to the broken door and the shrieking laughter coming from within the room Emilia was leaning in towards, and peeked in himself.

Presented to him was the same thing Emilia saw, freezing him in astonishment as Beatrice cried for help, for him to stop, that she was sorry, even to the point of saying that he could pull her drills instead, her prideful front was decimated just by relentlessly tickling her into submission.

The sight lasted two or so more minutes until she didn't much resist at all, in fact she seemed to be getting very tired from it, like she was going to pass out from exhaustion. It was then that he stopped, and righted her as she staggered about in daze.

"That's how you make a brat stop being bad." he states, turning around to look at Emilia, but not only sees her but also Reinhard and Rem as well. "Subaru sama, what did I miss?" Reinhard asked right then, making Subaru start laughing himself.

"Long story, but it's not unrelated to the broken door or why Emilia tan has a red face right now." she had been thinking over his way of punishment in seeing Beatrice look submissive and quiet as he started talking with Reinhard, and found that he would probably be great with kids. You can guess she also thought, he would be good with their kids in the future.

"Hk!" she realizes that Reinhard turned to her, and hid her face a bit. He then turned back to Subaru questionly, wondering why he would purposely point out Emilia's expression. "Well, I mean, it makes her even cuter than normal, and it's not against the rules for her to embarrass me too."

"Wh… What?" Emilia asked, opening her eyes normally, looking to Subaru in question. "Well, yeah. I may be a little stupid at times because I am trying to get certain reactions out of people, so…"

She thought on that. "But that's not fair, I don't know what makes you like this!" she says, making him scratch his head a bit. "Ahh… I guess … Ahh.." he was trying to think of something that would work, but then Rem cleared out her throat with an "Ahem."

"Subaru kun, I could be your personal maid." she says almost earnestly, and after the statement sunk in Subaru reeled at her forward statement. "W-w-what did you just o-offer?! That's essentially marriage but perverted!" he starts getting loud and pointing at her in overreaction, his face red from the idea being run through his mind.

"Ooh, I get it!" Emilia happily says, clapping lightly in joy. "It was a joke?! But it sounded legitimate!" he yells, bringing a few giggles from Emilia, and a very neutral Reinhard to display a grin.

At least, these reactions lasted until Rem spoke again. "I-it was a fully earnest offer, Subaru sama." she states, bringing silence to the room. In what was thirty seconds but felt like hours, she could feel the pressure and possible pain of being turned down right here, in front of everyone but her sister and current master.

"Again, a personal maid is essentially marriage, and… Why am I being made to make this decision?!" he asked himself, and Rem shook her head. "Ah, I should rephrase… I meant that I could be both yours and Emilia sama's personal maid, and I can aid Emilia sama in gaining desired reaction from you, ahh.. Not… Not what you first… Assumed."

How she said it, though, was beyond 'unconvincing' as a way to describe it. "Oh… Rem, why offer this when you already serve us as a maid for Roswaal?" Emilia asked, and Rem waa getting even deeper into the hole.

"W-well, Emilia sama…" she started, but then was saved by Reinhard. "Actually, that sounds like a fine idea. Rem is already a highly talented maid, so she would serve as a proper personal maid on visits to the Capital or elsewhere, Subaru sama, Emilia sama." he says, making a good case for her.

'Really, Reinhard? You and I both know that isn't her goal in this!' he mentally says, sounding a little harsh even in his mind. "Sorry, Subaru sama. I cannot hear what you internally say, but I understand your worries. I will talk with Rem after this, but the end decision is still yours."

Reinhard used telepathy to say that to Subaru, and then got a nod in return. "Okay, I accept." he says, causing her face to light up. "I don't know why exactly, but… I accept as well." Emilia says, finalizing the offer.

"Now that you idiots have solved whatever fiasco that is, can we move on to the task that was dumped on me without my consent, I wonder?" she asked from behind Subaru, still looking a bit flustered.

"Oh, and no maid or silly girl in here either." Beatrice raises her arm, slightly pushing the two back with a light bit if invisible magic force. Rem nodded and left promptly, and Emilia was a bit saddened, pouting while begrudgingly leaving the room.

This left just the three of them alone, and one would expect Beatrice to explode on Subaru the second the door closes… But, there still wasn't a door to be closed. The library was locked to the room, and she was figuring out what to do about it.

"Hrr… Redhead, you're the current sword saint, I suppose?" she asked, getting a nod. "Betty dislikes this immensely… Repair the door, and then we can continue, I suppose." she said, going back to her stool.

Subaru wondered if he really could repair such damage to the door, sure he could just recieve some kind of insane builder divine protection to do it, like how he got one to detect the gate crossing yesterday, but fixing the damaged hinges and splintered wood was another story… Or so he thought.

Reinhard already saw the damage, so he just headed out and down the hall, going to do 'something' that would fix the door. "That man is like that blue haired maid, he'll do anything you ask of him, I suppose." Beatrice sighed, shaking her head at everything that happened in the last ten minutes.

"So… You're not mad about what I did?" he asked, but to this she was highly annoyed. "Mad? Me? Yes, Betty is angry with you, I suppose. You treated me like a child, and in front of the silly one and the maid, the redhead doesn't care… But you've hurt Betty's…"

He understands what she means. He hurt her ego, he made her laugh and submit in front of people. It must have really affected her, for her not to be putting up a false reason for it.

He puts a hand on her shoulder, making her look up at him with sad looking eyes. "There's nothing wrong with being like a kid even if you are 400 or whatever, you look like a kid. You act like a kid. You put up a false front to be strong, but… Just be a kid, Beako. It suits you better."

She was looking unsure of what to say. "Betty…" she says. "If what I said hits hard, then think about it. You can always be a kid, I won't stop you from being one. Nobody will. And to be honest, it's funner that way." he says, patting her shoulder and then standing up again.

She was simply silent, looking to the ground while shuffling her feet back and forth. "Betty will… Betty will… Think… About it…" she answers meekly, surprising Subaru a bit.

Though before he could ask or say anything else, footsteps could be heard from near the end of the hall. "Redhead is back, I suppose…" she said, trying to regain a bit of her front, even if it simply was a little of it.

The two watch as Reinhard repaired the door, actually it's quite amazing… Seeing splintered wood be mended and even the cracks slowly dissipating, like as if the damage never even happened.

Though he also had to reset the hinges, being as crooked as they were would do the door no good. Regardless, it took less that five minutes to fix.

"All done." he says, closing the door softly as it signifies the completion of his task. "Redhe- … What's your name, I suppose?" she changed her sentence quite blatantly. "Reinhard, Lady Beatrice." he says, heading over to grab a few books.

"Not much has changed since Reid, I suppose…" she mutters something else, and then opened a book near herself as well.

They would end up doing it outside, where Beatrice told him that he has an affinity for yin magic. "Yin? Shadow… At least you already told me what that does, else i'd have gotten all excited to only be told it is literally just debuffs."

"Astrea, has the world forgotten the power pertaining to Yin in such short time, I suppose?" Beatrice seemed a bit surprised at his explanation of it being 'debuffs' as he said.

"Sorry, Lady Beatrice. All that we know is the common spells because it is so rare, and reading through a few of these books pertaining to it have… Proved quite the opposite." he was flipping through a few pages in the book he was reading, and called to Subaru. "Try casting Murak."

He scratched his head. "Well I don't know what that does, am I going to explode or something?" he asked this jokingly, but Reinhard looked grave. "No! I would never suggest something that would put you into mortal danger, Subaru sama." "That you had to add the word 'mortal' to that sentence doesn't help!" the that he could only smile half heartedly and scratch his head, making it obvious to Subaru that maybe it was a joke.

"Ugh… Ok, Murak!" he says, and the looked around to see nothing happen at all. "It didn't do anything…" "No, it worked, try jumping, I suppose." He looked to his feet and shrugged, then jumped. "Wh-what the? Low gravity!" he says, shooting up into the air with ease. "This is way better than I thought." he says, slowly floating back down.

"If you're amazed by that, then you truly don't know the limits if magic, I suppose." Beatrice holds out her hand wide, as if expecting a shockwave to explode from it. "El Minya." she says, and forty or so dark purple bolts formed around her.

This even surprised Reinhard. She then dropped her hand, the bolts disappearing from around her. "Consider yourself lucky, Betty has all the past's knowledge of Yin magic, and I will crush your puny mind's expectations, I suppose!" she proudly declares this, looking quite renewed from earlier.

"Well, teach me everything, my master." he says, legitimately to her. "Betty feels this may be different than she expected…" she says mostly to herself, but shakes it off quickly. "Being away from my tea is bothersome, so I shall make this quick…"

It wasn't quick. From the beginning till the end if the four hour period, Beatrice showed both him and Reinhard various Yin spells, droned on about the extents of what Yin magic is capable of, from shamak, to weight and visual distortion, to minya, to teleportation and even absolute negation, if used properly, it is one of the most versatile kinds of magic, and by far the most powerful when used properly… At least anyone can claim that about any magic, based on the user's ability, but this was a true exception.

"The only thing it can't really do is heal people, is what i'm noticing." Subaru says, near the end of the period. "Unfortunately so, but almost everyone that can use magic at all can use healing magic, you're just better at it if you have water affinity, I suppose."

She was looking quite happy with herself and didn't seem snooty or 'tsundere' at the moment, but surely it would come out again.

"That's good to know, like… huh… Emilia and Rem would know that, then?" he asks her, but this seemed to pull something from her. "Ah… Betty is far more able than either of them in healing magic, In fact…" she sounds a bit sorrowful.

"Okay okay I get it, you want more attention, and you'll show me how in return?" he asks, trying to figure it. "Well, it would help, I suppose…" she waited a bit before realizing something. "Oh, this task is over, I suppose. Bye." she up and turns around, going through a rift without another word at all.

"Lady Beatrice is quite an interesting person." Reinhard comments, as Subaru stares blankly at the spot she left them from. "How can you say that after she just left like that?!" he questioned him in a slightly ragged manner, causing the knight to readjust. "It would be that she enjoyed being out here teaching, and… I think she wants you to bring her food, or maybe she is hoping that will happen."

His annoyed expression went away as he thought on it. "What? To me it seemed she was more than eager to just leave, which she kinda did…" "It's what she was feeling, or I could sense that she was feeling.. And hunger along with hope and some other mixed emotions were swirling, so that's my guess, Subaru sama."

He nodded. "Oh, and I think there is something wrong… There seems to be something causing her great… Depression… I would suggest to help her with that, but I couldn't imagine where to start on that." he adds, making Subaru turn back to him. "Beako, depression? If that's true, she's pretty… Nah, she's terrible at hiding it, I noticed too. I've already set my mission goals at making her less stubborn loli and more 'loli' so adding on a 'remove depression' checkbox isn't too much labor…" he chuckles a bit, making Beatrice into a mission with main objectives.

"Tread lightly." he was told as he left, Reinhard sighing as he looks up to the sky, thinking over the past two days, and his own problems. "Would it be too hopeful for him to help me, as well?"

Lunch, a little late but still lunch. He found himself in the kitchen with ease, yet he still doesn't know the full layout of the mansion. Ram was apparently prepping something for dinner later that day, and rummaging through drawers she failed to find something she was looking for.

She was unaware of his existence for the longest time even after he had gotten the things he wanted for a sandwich, and even finished eating it as he just observed her having trouble with the lack of spices at hand.

"I guess you'll have to get more soon, huh?" he asks, startling her. She turned around and quickly went a bit rigid, realizing that one of her masters were standing there in front of her. "Y-yes, Subaru sama." she says, still facing towards him.

"Ahh… When do you plan on going?" he asked, surprising her once again, she was expecting him to have her do something. "It looks like my sister and I would be going sometime tomorrow, Subaru sama."

He nods a bit. "Cool, mind if I come with? I mean, I haven't really seen the village besides the bit I saw coming here two days ago." he says, surprising her for a third time. "I… I don't see any issues with that, but would it not interfere with your schedule?" she asked back.

"Reinhard is himself, saying that whatever suits me is better.. Ah, I can just tell him i'll be taking some time for it, he'll probably come with." "Okay, Subaru sama." she says, getting back to work. "Oh yeah, you don't have to call me with the 'sama' either…" he adds, but she would refuse. "It would cause undue issues in front if visitors or on business trips, amd you are a king candidate as well, would it not be disrespectful to always call you properly?"

He pondered. "Well, I guess you do have a point… see ya later, Ram." he then leaves, going off to find Emilia, both so that he can talking with her and so that he can bring her for studying as well.

At least he didn't have to search long, he found her in her room, pacing about in worry and angst. The initial reaction was nervousness, like yesterday, maybe the idea of marriage was still a bit much for her… no, it was just that, she doesn't much understand relationships of that kind, so attempting to act that way causes her distress, which usually bares a cute or lovable reaction, like how she is right now.

He learned that Puck hadn't come out of his crystal since the library incident, and Subaru could understand why, as how they were being crushed against each other on the floor. Maybe he was also angry at Beatrice for doing that to Emilia, he figured he would be if he was in his position.

Beyond that, he was simply trying to get cute reactions out of her, which was proving to be more difficult without people around, but she was definitely a good person to talk to, and absorbed quite a lot of whatever he said as true… especially when he began talking about Beatrice, about his plans to bring her into the fold of being 'normal' again.

She mostly agreed with his ideas on that, but the true issue was execution… How does one go about it? It was difficult for either ti come up for an answer, and before they knew it Reinhard came to teach them with a few large books in hand.

One would have found this wholesomely boring to 'endure' as it was literally him reading straight out of a book, or rather three and a half whole books for four whole hours, almost non stop.

But that was the most effective way, as everything he said was quite literally etched into their memory with permanent chisel, so in those four hours they learned everything inside of those books and could recite them perfectly if asked to, and for a short time Reinhard had him try writing, which he wrote in Japanese first.

"Si you are fluent in a written language, even if it isn't ours… Though, why is it pronounced the exact same way?" he had to ask, being that two completely different languages could have different writing styles, syllables and characters, yet be pronounced in speech the same way without error. "Don't know, wish I knew. But… would it be difficult to transition?" "No, it'll be even easier, then."

He had him write a word in japanese and then copy the character he presented him with, and afterwards that was ingrained into both mental and muscle memory as well. An impossible thing he thought, but the sword saint really is just that amazing, that this kind of thing is possible.

It was then when he realized… With this kind of teaching, each word only has to be copied once for him to know it perfectly, it was just a process of elimination until he finally knows them all, which would occur in the next two or three weeks.

As for books and history, he had, in those four hours, learned a great deal about Lugnica as a country and a few other nations, some long since dissolved and the current ones, that the world was dominated by the four nations of today.

One striking thing he learned was the Demihuman war, and what caused it… And who resolved it. It wasn't hard to realize the sword saint's true power as he had been with him the past three days, but that Therisia, his grandmother, was responsible for ending an entire 10 year war almost single handedly?

Insanity. But, true. It was also unsettling how it was mostly directed at half elves, so Subaru was saddened that the country would go into civil war over what a person looks like, or because of what they are, instead of what they've done. It's not fair, and he thinks it's not fair.

Emilia though, hearing history uncut as Reinhard told it, was a little mortified… And was very happy that Subaru thought how he did, and hugged him for it. Not even awkward, it was just a way of saying thank you.

Essentially, from today, Subaru got a good gage of how far along he'll be in a week, a month, even a year ahead… And it was looking like he'd be finished with everything he was supposed to learn or train on in just a month or so's time.

The three headed for the dining room, being led by Rem who had retrieved them. Inside was normal, but… Beatrice, she was sitting next to his spot. Emilia nudged him a bit since he stopped moving, so he kept going and took his seat.

She looked… Not mad? I guess that's the best you could say, that she didn't look mad or annoyed, maybe he coerced her.

Dinner proceeded as normal with Roswaal asking about what he learned, how his and Emilia's days were, if he was comfortable here, but all of that was mostly just idle chatter for both of them, they were more concerned about Beatrice, who seemingly began getting annoyed with Roswaal droning on with the questions.

But, dinner ended before she could explode. Maybe it was lucky, but probably not.

Besides watching Emilia talk with spirits outside and even touching a few, he was getting pretty tired. Steadily tired, even if he wanted to stay and watch Emilia in the majestic light of spirits, he couldn't, so went to bed.

"End of day two, and it wasn't that bad. Haa… I really wonder though, is Reinhard actually note bored? He's teaching me like somebody would a child… But he's right, in like a month then… He won't have to anymore… What then? Just political stuff?"

The questions piled on for a while as he sat in bed, minutes compounding on top of each other as the night passed away, or rather just around an hour as he kept thinking, until he heard a soft knocking at his door.

"Uhh.. Come in?" he said, and the door opened slowly, though while expecting Rem or Emilia, it was neither. "I thought about it, I suppose." a familiar young voice came to audible levels, Beatrice.

"Did… What did you decide?" she was sitting on the end of his bed now. "Betty dislikes being wrong, in fact." she says. "Are you wrong?" the long silence that followed afterwards was a bit painful to her. "Yes."

She submitted to his request form earlier. "what will you do, then?" he questioned. "Betty will…" she just goes silent, maybe it was too hard to say or maybe she really didn't know.

"... That's alright, do you want to stay here for now?" again there was no response. "Okay, but i'm going to sleep. If I don't see you in the morning, then at magic training. Goodnight, Beako."

EoC Auth/Char convo

[King Sub] "Well, you're past the point of no return on Beako. why'd you do it?"

[MNR] "Well, Red kinda wanted it, and I thought 'why not?' because I've never had her lose her pride before, or well... like this, so I am experimenting. so... congratulations. Beako is your first child."

[King Sub] "That's bull! That damn loli is literally over twenty times my age, how does that even begin to make sense?!"

[MNR] "Trust me, there are some anime out there with even weirder shit being the norm, imagine what weird level shit to them would look like to us?"

[King Sub] "Ahh... fuck, good point."

[Knight Sub] "RE SHORTS!"

[Red] "Fuck off, King Shorts!"

[MNR] "I'm happy to write both you fucking lunatics, just stop yelling at me!"

[MNR] "Oh, an btw, look at this future for you guys." (Shows future in mystique way shape or form to subarus)

[Subarus] "WHAT THE FUCK MAN?!"

[Red] "Its only temporary, that's why the Arc is called 'Convergence!'

[MNR] "We've said too much, they're shutting us down!"

['THEM'] "FREEZE, IT'S THE FB-" (Channel cuts, explosion sounds and gunshots)

[MNR] "Seeya next time!"

Mhmm, yeah it really did take a long time. Though, the next chapter will finally end Arc 1!

Or maybe i'll put in a Dragon King: Shorts! Chapter during the 2 ½ week period between Arc 1 and Arc 2.

Also, speaking of Arcs, we have 10 to 14 confirmed and many OCs, may you look forward to the silver and black haired childrens!

Hnn, Beako in this ff is going to be treated like a kid really hard by Subaru after magic training, as you can already see she got pretty ruined in front of Emilia, Rem and Reinhard, all by tickle submission.

Seeya next time in Re:BBZ (R) for Re:Shorts!