Lust Chapter 1: A butterfly dream

This world felt surreal for the Natsuki Subaru of this world.

While he didn't feel any danger looking at his counterpart, who was definitely shocked by his presence, he did feel something...off.

"Who are you? Are you her? The shapeshifter?" The Natsuki Subaru of this world spoke with a sharp tone, almost like he was commanding an answer rather than asking out of fear.

"You seem confident."

"Of course I am, do you not know who you are speaking to?"

"…"

Subaru paused as he took a closer inspection on his counterpart's attire.

He just realized that it was way too fancy than anything he's seen.

Hell, it's beyond the level of noble or knight attire, prompting him to ask:

"What's with the attire? Are you the King all of a sudden?"

"What do you think?" A bit of sass can be detected by this world's Natsuki Subaru, prompting Subaru to be very annoyed by this.

"Oh, I don't know, perhaps you just like dressing up like royalty."

"..."

The Natsuki Subaru dressed as a King was very mad at his counterpart's comment to the point that he was considering punching him though he did manage to calm down.

"...you know what, I'll just take your word for it and looks. You are a jackass Natsuki Subaru. I'll have to believe in multiverse theory."

"We teleported to another world, that should be more than enough evidence that the impossible is possible."

"Fair enough."

King Subaru had said as he was shaking his head, having a headache that something like having a counterpart from an alternative world right in front of him.

"You are annoying." As King Subaru had said this, he went towards the window in order to see if today was going to be a peaceful day.

Subaru was just dumbfounded by that comment.

"I hadn't said anything yet."

"Shut it. Let me think."

King Subaru continued to look outside as he sighed, thinking of how his day had suddenly become very complicated in just a few seconds.

"Quite the ego you have on yourself."

"I've earned it." King Subaru responded swiftly, very unhappy with that comment. "I doubt you are at a royal status with that attire."

"Didn't mom teach us not to judge a book by its cover."

"She isn't here." King Subaru sharply responded. "Answer me this, what are you doing here? What do you want?"

"I'm here...I'm here to..." He paused as he recalled back that the watcher had mentioned right before the journey into the alternative worlds that this one was not important enough to get a proper description. "Actually, I was sent here by accident."

"Accident? How does one travel to another world by accident?" King Subaru questioned as he became skeptical of his counterpart.

"Let's see, four witches of Envies came out of the worlds I had gone through and well, I stumbled here to avoid a...bad ending."

King Subaru was still skeptical about what his counterpart had just said, though then again dealing with four of the crazy witch of envy wouldn't be enjoyable for him either.

He put his hand on his chest as he didn't really like speaking about her, prompting him to say:

"Okay, fine. I'll believe that for now, but that still begs this question, what are you going to do? If you are here by accident, when will you be leaving and where exactly?"

"That...I'm uncertain." Subaru hesitated to answer since the last thing he knows is that the watcher is the one that pulls him from the alternative worlds. Without him, he's stuck in another world.

There's also the fact that the watcher was dealing with the four Satellas all on his own.

"Let's just say my transport is dealing with that issue."

"Hm." King Subaru was silent for a moment before making his way out of the room. "Stay here. I need to take care of something."

As King Subaru was about to leave, his counterpart questioned:

"What? Are you late for something?"

"Yes, I'm a busy guy. Now stay here before you cause trouble. Also, don't allow anyone in. I don't want you interacting with anyone."

As he said in a stern voice, he slammed the door after leaving the room.

Subaru crossed his arms, a bit annoyed by this though he found this as the perfect opportunity to look around and see what makes this world not worth being in, according to the watcher.

("A world where somehow the boy was able to get all the girls...don't know how but he did.")

("What does that supposed to mean?")

("Don't think about it as much, just a stupid world.")

Subaru crossed his arms as he recalled this small talk about this world.

'What could he mean by that? What has my counterpart been up to? How did he become king?'

These were some questions that were lingering in his mind, especially the king part since from what he's aware of, that should be impossible for someone like him.

A possible and the only way this would be the case is Return by Death.

That ability assisted his Sin Archbishop of Pride counterpart to overcome all challenges alone.

There was also his recent counterpart, who would abuse Return by Death just to make sure the perfect future can be achieved.

There's also the Purge King who had used Return by Death in order to create the Organization known in that world as The Pleiades.

All of this made him think that this Natsuki Subaru had to have done some stuff in order to somehow become the King.

("A world where somehow the boy was able to get all the girls...don't know how but he did.")

'Wait, but he mentioned that he doesn't even know how he...got all the girls...wait a minute.'

Right has his mind had caught that last detail, his thoughts were interrupted when he heard a loud banging on the door.

"Hey! Why's the door locked? Open up!"

'Who...is that? Sounds familiar.'

Subaru thought of the possible people this voice could be though the attitude the female voice was giving was probably enough to tell him who it could be.

"Felt?"

"Subaru?! What are you doing there? Aren't you supposed to be—"

"It's not important right now. Here, let me open the door."

As Subaru opened the door, he was not expecting to be suddenly tackled to the ground.

"What the—?!"

"Why are you locked up here? Aren't you supposed to be with Anastasia right now?"

"..." Subaru remained silent as his mind was trying to figure out why his counterpart wanted with Anastasia. "I had...something else to deal with here."

"Something else?" Felt questioned at first but right as she was going to ask more, Subaru could notice that her mannerisms had suddenly shifted.

This was something that had made him hesitant for a moment before he quickly reacted as he was not expecting Felt to have tried to kiss him.

"Waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait." Subaru said as he was avoiding her attempts, which only left her confused at first.

"What?"

"Let's talk about this—"

"What is there to talk about?" Felt speaks with a very annoyed tone. "We are alone here, just the two of us."

"E-Exactly!" Subaru said with a hesitant tone before trying to get up. "Wouldn't Reinhard get angry by this?"

"Reinhard? What does he matter in this? Stop teasing me and let me k—"

"Hey, look! Something punchable."

"What?! Where?!"

Felt got up as she was wanting to punch something that isn't Subaru only to realize that she was tricked.

"Hey! You tricked m—" She stopped as she realized that Subaru wasn't in the room anymore. "Subaru!"

As she shouted this, she began to use her divine protection to speed herself up while running all around the area to search for him.

While she ran around with intense speed, Subaru was hidden underneath the table and was surprised that the hiding spot even worked.

'Now's my chance!' He thought to himself as he quickly got back on his feet and started to run. He didn't have a direction to go but he needed to find his counterpart to question him.

'What kind of weird shit has my counterpart been up to?'

As this question popped up, he started to put two and two together.

He thought back to what Felt was trying to do in the room while also what the watcher had said about this world and this world's Natsuki Subaru.

Once it all connected, he almost threw up.

'Gross! What kind of sick fuck is this version of me?!'

He was disturbed since he was not expecting that he would go after Felt.

It's not even that Felt was a bad partner, it's the fact that she still acts like a child and a spoiled little sister.

This combo alone is already making his counterpart be a bigger creep than even the Sin Archbishop of Pride counterpart of his, who was completely obsessed with Emilia.

'What other shit as he pulled off? No, what other girls is he doing that with?'

He thinks this since there was the description he got from his counterpart of this world was that he had gotten all the girls.

At first when hearing that, he didn't know how to reach...then again, the situation was off at the time.

Now with everything he's dealt with and has seen, this Natsuki Subaru from what he could tell, doesn't seem to have struggled though he must remain skeptical.

He doesm't know if this counterpart is some sort of secret villain while playing the so-called king.

As he was running around in search of his counterpart, he ended up bumping into someone which only happened because he didn't notice them leaving their room.

"Sorry! I didn't see you there. Here let me—"

He stopped himself as he noticed that he had bumped into Crusch.

"Crusch?!"

"It's okay, I was carelessly leaving the room." She responded.

Subaru didn't like that, so he quickly got up before assisting Crusch back up on her feet.

"No, don't blame yourself. I was the careless one." As he said this and helped Crusch be back up on her feet, he cleaned up some dust that was on her shoulders before once again apologizing.

Crusch only smiled at how humbled Subaru was before returning into her more serious expression.

"I'm curious, weren't you with Anastasia right now?"

"..." Subaru was silent as he needed to be careful here. He knows that Crusch had her ability to detect when someone was lying. "...Honestly, I was looking around for someone right now."

It wasn't a lie per say since he was currently in search of someone, his counterpart...though the problem with this response was that he dodged the question.

He noticed that Crusch was in deep thought though what he did not expected was...

"Understood. Then I'll leave you to your things. Though don't forget your meeting with Priscilla. She would be mad if you were late."

"...understood."

He was a bit dumbfounded that she just let him off the hook.

He knows for sure that Crusch wouldn't simply let him leave since she's acting like the version he knew before she had her memories taken away.

'Meeting with Anastasia and with Priscilla? I'm not liking this at all.'

Right as he was going to take the opportunity to confront his counterpart, Crusch spoke,

"While I have the chance..."

Crusch grabbed his arm and pulled him towards her before having the chance to kiss Subaru's cheek.

"..." Subaru was just stunned. He looked at her and could see her face turn red before heading off towards the direction of the hallway he came from.

He touched his cheek with a shocked expression.

'What just...happened?'

He wouldn't believe that Crusch had feelings for him, him of all people. Not to mention that this is very bad since he can't let himself be kissed by anybody that isn't his Emilia or maybe his Rem...maybe.

Still, this was unsettling—

"Subaru! Where are you?!" Felt shouted as she continued to run around at a fast pace.

This prompted Subaru to start running again since he knows he's really pissed her off now.

Though after a few minutes of running, he knew that Felt was right on his trail, prompting him to try any door nearby until one of them opened.

Once this happened, he entered the room quickly and closed the door in a way to prevent Felt from figuring out where he had went in.

'...at least that'll buy me some time...for now.'

"Subaru-kun?"

"..."

There was a moment of silence from Natsuki Subaru.

Although he's heard her voice a few worlds ago, it was an older version of her, however this was different.

Since he had seen her in the previous world with the same state that she's in his world, hearing this world's version of her hurt.

He turned around and first noticed her face, awake and full of life.

"Rem..."

"What's wrong, Subaru-kun? Did something happen?"

Subaru remained still for a moment before not hesitating to give Rem a hug, which caused her to stun for a moment.

He is aware that this isn't his Rem though he didn't care.

Unlike the older Rem that definitely looked and acted different due to age, this Rem seemed to be around the same age as his world's version of Rem.

"I-Is everything okay, Subaru-kun?"

"..." He didn't know what to say but all he can do is just keep hugging her, wanting to hold a version of her.

Rem didn't understand what was going on, though her senses indicated that Subaru needed this, prompting her to hug him back.

As the two were hugging, she began to pat the back of Subaru's head all the while enjoying this embrace from him.

"Was today a hard day? Did something go wrong?"

"No...I just need this." Subaru said this before ending the hug, just now realizing that this version of Rem had a big belly.

He was about to make a comment on it though his instincts told him to hold off on that and to observe how Rem reacts when she notices him looking at her belly.

Once she noticed that, she touched her belly as she asked Subaru,

"Do you want to speak with him or her?"

That question alone tells him everything about what's going on, and gives him the last thing to confirm what his counterpart has been up to in this world.

'That bastard.'

Right as he was going to leave, Rem's question dawned on his mind.

He knew it would be disrespectful if he had left or if he created some excuse to leave.

This caused him to approach this world's Rem before setting his right hand onto her belly.

As he did this, he waited for two minutes before feeling a kick.

"..." He was indeed shocked by this, yet felt an odd sense of pride. "That feels...prideful."

"Rem's glad." Rem spoke with a smile. "Rem is happy that she can support you emotionally, but she wants to support you physically, too. She's a little frustrated that Petra gets to take that role, hehe."

Although it was to tease Subaru as she sticks her tongue out, Subaru couldn't help but pause for a moment.

'...what?'

Subaru remained his cool as he didn't want to worry Rem though all he can do is give a smile, or well the best he can for her before turning around and heading out of the room.

"I'll be right back, Rem. I remembered I need to speak with someone."

"Oh? With who?"

"Just someone. No need to worry, I won't be long."

As he said this, he left the room as he did everything in his power to keep his cool as he wanted to kick his counterpart's ass.

He walked around the hallways for a bit before noticing someone opening the door.

He wasn't sure at first if it was Felt, who was probably still looking for him, though after a second of having his guard up, he realized that it was his counterpart.

"Don't worry, we will do this again tomorrow. I promise."

As King Subaru said this, he closed the door as he prepared to head off only to spot his counterpart.

"The hell are you doing out here?!"

"..."

"..."

The silence only made the atmosphere between the two grow tense.

Right as it seemed like a fight was about to break out between the two, a sudden voice spoke out:

"There you are! How dare you make me look all over for...wait..." Felt stopped on her tracks as she noticed two Natsuki Subarus. "Th-There's two of you?!"

"...shit." Both Subarus knew that things have just gotten...complicated.

Author's note:

I was going to make this into one long chapter to cover Lust If since well it isn't a fun world per say but then I thought, let's give it some interesting things.

Hopefully you all enjoyed the chapter for the most part.