Theater Of Despair (Old WHDAAA) :)

by Reactionist

This is the old version of Watching Him Die Again and Again. Chapters 1-14 before the rewrites looked like this. Have fun comparing how much I've changed between the old one and the new one. I also used the old name for Watching Him Die Again and Again. It used to be called Theater of Despair hence why the art says that name. Had fun using it again! Enjoy guys.

2. Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Ep 1 Directors cut

Season 1 Episode one Directors cut.

Begin.

The window showed a dark void with flickering lights. Heavy pained gasps could be heard as somebody struggled to breath.

"Who's…" Rem immediately caught the sound and her eyes widened as she recognized the voice.

"This is bad… Very bad…" Subaru struggled to speak.

"Subaru!"

"He sounds like he's in pain." Felix was quick to point out, further worrying the Emilia camp and his own mistress for the will being of the boy.

"Subaru? What's wrong?" Emilia's voice could be heard faintly.

"I'm there with him?" Emilia hoped that she could be able to help him. She's hurt him far too much.

The darkness briefly dissipated and revealed a hand with a pool of blood beneath it.

"OH GOD!"

"That's Cap'n's hand!" Garfiel and Otto shouted as they saw their brother bleeding on the screen.

The window changed scenes to show a series of square buildings with lights all over them. One of them in particular is displayed. Isles of assorted metal cylinders and small paper books were arranged inside. Next to one of these isles, Subaru is shown reading a book with pictures on it.

"Ah, I see. This is where they suck you in."

"What.." Beatrice looked at the window as it showed some strange place that Subaru was standing in. she was focused on the previous scene but this place her contractor was in sent her for a loop.

"Is this where Natsuki Subaru hails from?" Crusch asked Emilia as the many different objects greatly interested her.

Emilia shrugged as she looked at her Subaru beside her.

"Barusu said that he can never return to his home and that it's a small island nation to the east"

"But… there are no island's to the east of the map." Reinhard inspected the surrounding area around Subaru with great interest as if he was a kid inspecting a toy. This is the first time he's seen another nation, not just read about it.

Everything was interesting and highly addicting to look at.

"Cap'n's homes is so cool!" Garfiel inspected the broad range of objects surrounding Subaru with stars in his eyes.

The scene changed once again to the hand with the increasing amount of blood beneath it.

"No… Run! Hurry!" Subaru crowed out.

Emilia's hand fell right beside the bleeding one.

"What!?" Emilia grew pale as she saw her body robbed of life through the screen. What was happening?

"Emilia-sama."

Emilia was startled, turned around to see Crusch standing behind her.

"We need to keep watching."

Crusch placed both of her hands on the horrified Emilia and the shocked Rem beside her. Consoling them as best she could.

"Emilia-sama, Rem is worried for Subaru as well. We have to watch and find out why this is happening to him."

Emilia nodded and kept holding her Subaru's hand.

She felt like something was very, very wrong.

The scene changes to Subaru picking up colored cups and plastic bags of food.

"Nah, Natto."

The scene cuts back, a hand now reaches out to grab Emilia's.

"Wait there…"

Again, the scene changes to Subaru at a counter speaking with another person.

"That'll be 363 yen."

Subaru picked up a metal coin and stopped to look at it.

"Oh, a grooved-edge ten."

Having paid for his items, Subaru exits the building. He stops short of a road and watches a metal box run by him.

"What was that?" Otto asked as he saw the cube passing Subaru.

"It's called a car, I suppose."

Everyone looked at the smug Beako as she held Subaru's hand and felt proud of her knowledge.

"Da fuck's a car?"

"It's what people in Subaru's home use for faster travel. They don't have ground dragons at all on is island so they created a metal box with wheels on it that drives faster and much smoother than a dragon. Infact." Beatrice explained to the amazed crowed.

"And Hooooow would you knoooooow this my dear Betty?"

"Hmph, I have no intention of telling a simple clown about the source of my knowledge, I suppose."

"You wooooound my aching heart, Betty-san."

The scene changed to show the hand trying to reach Emilia's.

Subaru's revealed to be the owner of the hand with his mouth bleeding and his face grimacing from the pain.

"Going to…"

"This is getting frustrating." Otto nodded with Al's statement as he was worried for his friends. What the hell was happening to Subaru?

The scene returned to the Subaru that was out of the building. As he starts to move, suddenly, a dark hand reaches for him.

"hmmm, does this have anything to do with the witch?" Anastasia asked as she saw the evil looking hand.

"He does have her scent…" Rem whispered to Emilia and Beatrice, which made Emilia look at the boy sitting inbetween them with shock and surprise.

A weird force of wind ran through the world Subaru was in as if it was a scanner. Sensing this Subaru looked around before shrugging. "I guess anyone's eyes would be tired after holing up in their room, gaming all day."

"What's gaming?" Ricardo asked as he watched.

"It's what Subaru's age group spends most of their time doing for entertainment. They created a magic system that allowed them to create virtual worlds and stories that play before them as if they were gods. If you wanted to control a knight, you can. If you wanted to be an evil dragon, you can. Subaru told me that gaming changed the world for him, Infact."

"So Subaru is the one that told you about this?" Otto asked, jealousy he never got to hear such cool things from his bro.

Noticing Otto's jealousy, Beatrice gave him a smug smirk. She looked to the side and found a pouting Half elf staring at her. Had she looked up, she would have found a pouting Oni, but she continued to watch in silence.

"If that's what he does for his free time then no wonder he has no swordsmen ability." Julius was starting to regret his actions after he heard what Subaru's life is like.

"Oh, regretting beating up a civilian, are we?" Reinhard asked his friend with sarcasm as he warned about that.

Julius huffed, "If he had no skills then he shouldn't have made those claims."

Reinhard just shook his head in amusement.

Subaru rubbed at his eyes for a bit. As he was rubbing them the scene began to change. He struggled to force his eyes open at the sudden brightness.

Once he opened them…

"Oh, dear dragon!" Otto yelled as he understood what he was seeing.

He looked around, slowly and melancholy, not registering that he had just been transported from his home.

"Oh this makes so much more sense noyw." Felix watched with shock at the revelation.

"What's going on?"

"I thought he was lying when he said he was from far away." Mimi said in shock.

"This stuff obviously isn't fake. Which means…"

"Oh my god!" Emilia watched as her knight looked around in confusion. He was taken out of his hometown in a second just like that.

"Far away from everything he loves." Emilia's heart clenched for the boy. Her knight truly was amazing to stay so cheerful after such an experience.

Crusch just stared at the screen with shock. "This should be impossible."

"Yet it isn't." Wilhelm shook his head solemnly at the boy's misfortune.

"I've been summoned into a parallel world!"

"Does such a magic exist I wonder." Priscilla looked at Roswaal for an explanation.

"hmmm doooon't look at meeeee." The man shrugged and continued to watch.

Title card:

Re:Zero Life in another world from zero.

"So he is from another world… " Otto couldn't register just how amazing his friends life is.

"That does explain why I couldn't find anything about him."

Emilia and Rem looked at Anastasia alarmed.

"Hoshin-sama, what do you mean? Why were you looking for Barusu's origin?" Ram was the first to announce her thoughts on the matter.

The purple haired candidate giggled a little. "He intrigued me after he made the brilliant plan to subject the great calamity. I needed to know everything about him since he was my rival's knight. But sadly information on his origin and previous associates were close to zero. Which surprised me since my merchant network is the best in regards to unraveling information. But Subaru-san was practically an empty slate everywhere I looked."

The scene changes to show a little blonde girl running with swift speed on the rooftops of the city. A weird jewel with a blood red ruby in the middle was shown in her hand.

"The speed my lady runs is truly amazing." Reinhard complimented his mistress.

"Kiss ass." Felt muttered making him sweat a little.

"She was running because she was stealing my insignia." Emilia pouted up at the Sword Saint.

Reinhard sweated even more.

Awkward situations were not his strong suit.

The scene changes to Subaru walking on the street.

"I guess I can assume this is a fantasy world. With typical medieval-style culture."

Everyone looked to the little girl sitting in the front row for explanation. Which she was more than happy to give with a haughty teacher like tone.

"Medieval, is a word that is used in Subaru's home to describe a long lost culture from the past. In his time, the culture is called 'modern times' in which there are machines or mechanical contraptions that make the normal everyday life convenient for humanity, much like those cars." Beatrice smirked as everyone listened with awe and amazement.

"What would warfare look like I wonder." Julius asked.

"They don't use swords, in fact."

"What do they use then, magic?" Crusch asked with great interest.

Beatrice shook her head. "In Subaru's home, there is no knowledge or use of magic."

"What?"

"That explains why he couldn't use his gate properly." Emilia spoke with sadness as she looked at Subaru. Honestly it all sounded so amazing! Why didn't Subaru tell me about the place he grew up?

"What do they fight with great spirit-sama?" Reinhard asked with hope in his eyes that maybe Subaru's world achieved a form of everlasting peace.

Beatrice shivered in place "Warfare in his home is much more cruel and brutal. Often laws of war are ignored and there is no conduct of honor. They have a 'modern' version of a bow and arrow that they call 'guns'. Only they are much more cowardly. They shoot metal projectiles from long distances at tremendous speeds. They can seriously injure, or kill instantly within a second of firing. They have versions of those cars with guns on them, only they are armored as to take a beating. Being almost unkillable. They also have flying metal boxes shaped like birds that can drop metal rods that explode upon contact with the ground. Killing scores of people within the blink of an eye. There have been many cases of these weapons being used on civil regions and hospitals and churches. They've developed many more gadgets and weapons for the sole purpose of killing as many people as possible, in fact. Subaru looked to be in great pain when he spoke about them to me, I suppose."

To say that a chill ran down everyone's spine was a gross understatement. Even Roswaal seemed distraught.

What a terrifying place.

"I can take 'em"

Otto slapped the back of Garfiel's head.

"A place were demi-humans are common place and probably stuff like wars and adventures, as well."

"WATCH OUT!"

Subaru looked behind him to see a boy about to be crushed by a speeding dragon carriage.

Subaru is shown to do some poses in excitement.

"This is it! Its my chance! This must be where I produce my first magic!"

Subaru shouted as he did a weird pose. It did nothing and the boy is shown huddling on the street about to be crushed.

A knight shows up and saves the boy, making the crowd cheer for him.

Subaru is looking embarrassed and slowly retreated. "Guess am not ready to use magic yet."

"Hahaahahahaha" Otto and Garfiel, being the good bros they were, took the opportunity to laugh at their brother.

"Stupid Barusu."

"He thinks he's the hero of a fantasy world." Beatrice smiled a little at her contractor's embarrassing yet endearing moments.

It was great when he was like this. Not scratching his…

It was just great to see him so normal.

Subaru stops at a sign with fruits behind it. "I can't read this."

"Hmm." Ram seemed to be thinking.

"That doesn't seem right." Rem spoke in a hushed tone.

"He knew how read and write when he arrived at the mansion though, strange."

"Maaaaaybe he learned it waaaay before he arriiiived?"

"Not possible, the day shown here is when I was stealing her insignia." Felt spoke up

"Sorry big sis." she rubbed her head sheepishly.

Emilia just smiled warmly with no resentment.

"These are some weird clothes you're traveling in boy."

Subaru looked at the merchant and pointed at the red fruits. "What are those?"

"Those are appas"

"So they can understand me huh."

Subaru gives him a few coins from his pocket.

"You can't use that stuff in Lugunica. That means you're flat broke, huh? Get outta here! Don't interfere with my business!"

Subaru is looking distraught as he walks along.

"There's no other way, I'll just have to go around gathering information first."

Subaru is shown to have various misshapes and messy situations that lead him to set in an alleyway with his clothes wet after dropping in a canal.

"Hahahaha oh my god!"

"Dis boy is ours! Hahaha!" As Otto and Garfiel showed the strength of their bro code with Subaru by laughing at him once more. Many felt compelled to smile and even laugh along at Subaru's first outing in their world.

"My hero had to overcome a lot of trials."

"Silly, Subaru hehehe." Emilia and Rem giggled at their knight's clumsiness.

"This is how its supposed to be? Wasn't I summoned into a parallel world?! Where'd my protagonist status go?!"

He picks up his phone and start looking at his contacts. His mom's and dad's numbers are shown. "Looks like it still works. But whats the point in having it!"

"My starting gear sucks as well! I need more than this stuff since I haven't trained for anything yet. Where's my Excalibur?!"

"I don't understand this child." Priscilla glared as she felt incompetent for the first time in her life trying to understand this commoner's words.

"He's basically asking why he was summoned into this world with no one to meet him or guide him, I suppose." Beatrice translated the Subaru language.

Crusch nodded her head and inspected the Metia in his hands. "That's the metia he used to defeat the Whale."

"So Cap'n really did defeat the whale huh? He's da coolest." Garfiel smirked proudly and he felt excited that he might be able to see the battle where his captain put down the giant monster.

'like a true knight.'

"Where's the cute girl that summoned me? Did she summon me and leave me here?"

Subaru looked up to find someone walking towards him. "Hey, is she finally here? The cute girl who summoned me…"

He stops talking as the scene reveals three ragged looking young men smirking down at him.

"What are you blabbing on about?"

"If you don't wanna get hurt, cough up whatever you've got!"

Subaru is picked up from his shirt by the leader.

"I guess this is where I come in." Reinhard smiled as he watched the first time he met his friend.

"CRAP!"

Suddenly a voice shouted from behind. "Move it, move it!"

"You guys outta my way!" A blonde girl ran through the alley.

"Is that the cute girl who summoned me?!"

"Summoned? I dunno what you're talking' about, but I'm busy!"

"Sorry, live strong!" Felt jumped over the wall, leaving Subaru to be mugged.

Rem glared at Felt in anger.

"Wh-What?! That didn't happen! I never met Bro in there, I met him at my hideout near the loot house." Felt voiced her surprise.

"Hey that didn't make you decide to be less hostile toward me, by any chance did it?"

"Actually, it rained on our parade and made things worse."

"Yeah of course hehe…" Subaru laughed nervously.

Crusch leaned back and watched the kid with pitying eyes. He was honestly just a normal child that had no business in this world.

'Still though… I'm glad he's here.'

She smiled to herself.

"Just clam down, Natsuki Subaru."

"Its an long time rule since Ancient times that a person summoned into a parallel world will display supernatural powers!"

"Still arrogant…" Julius smirked at the never changing attitude of his childish friend.

Subaru suddenly punches the tallest guy on the right. "Lumps of XP!"

Turning around swiftly, he delivered a kick that knocked the short guy on the ground.

"That's the first time I ever hit someone, I didn't expect it to hurt me that much… but this world is set up so that I'll be strong!"

"Yeah, show 'em who's boss, Cap'n!"

"My adrenaline is surging! I've got this."

Subaru runs towards the third guy with a smirk.

The third fella reveals two blades in his hands which makes Subaru stop in his tracks.

In a genius move made by some of the greatest scholars in the world, Natsuki Subaru surprised all as he bowed deeply before the criminal.

"I'm sorry! It was all my fault! Forgive me! Spare me!"

"We don't know this guy." Otto immediately rectified his blonde disappointed brother's previous statement.

Subaru was kicked in the face.

As he withered around in pain, the two men he knocked down started getting up which made him look panicked.

"Play games with us you die! Scum!" the three hooligans kicked and beat the boy down as he tried to protect himself.

"Where are you? aren't you supposed to show up now?" Rem asked Reinhard with a glare.

"I-I don't know, when he called for help, I showed up before he got beaten up. This is… not what occurred at all!"

People were confused by this as it came from the greatest Knights to ever live so this guy wouldn't lie or forget this easily.

Emilia looked at how roughly Subaru was being beaten.

"When we get back, these three get punished." Felt ordered Reinhard as she glared at the screen.

He nodded and shook his head at the mannerisms of the thieves. 'hope they stopped doing this since Felt-sama took them in.'

"That's enough!"

Everyone looked at the entrance to the alley to find a serious looking Emilia sternly glaring at them.

"I don't remember this! I never met him in that allyway." Emilia quickly voiced her surprise as she saw herself on the screen. What was going on?

"Let's just watch, this is either an apparition of Barusu's life or…"

"Or what, sister?"

"Or we could be seeing something special that only he can see." Crusch intervened and voiced her thoughts.

"Who the hell are you?!"

"Stop this now and I'll let this slide, so just graciously return what you stole."

Subaru looked at Emilia with his eyes shining.

"What we stole?"

"Now please. It's important to me. I'll give up on the other stuff but I can't let you have that. Be good and hand it over, please."

"You didn't come to save this kid?"

"What strange clothes he has, if you asked me if I had a connection with him, I'd have to say no."

"That's cold." Otto looked at Emilia in disappointment.

Emilia just watched with confusion as events she never lived through were shown.

"Then you have no business with us! If someone stole from you then it might be that brat who just ran by!"

"Double the punishment, damn snitches." Reinhard noted his lady's orders.

"Ohh they don't seem to be lying, I need to go after her." Emilia runs towards the direction while passing the three criminals and the beaten Subaru.

"Just how many people will abandon him, I suppose?!"

Emilia looked guilty.

But perked up when…

Suddenly, Emilia stops and looks back glaringly at the three.

"I can't let this slide either." Emilia raises her hand and shoots ice chunks into each of the thieves's faces.

"Magic?" Subaru asks weakly from the ground.

"Mess with us you die! You think just because you have magic you'll win?! Three against one is still to our advantage!"

"You're right. Three against one may be unfair." Emilia smirked as she opened her palm revealing a cute little cat.

"You're right, maybe two against three will make it a bit more fair."

"Y-You're a spirit's arts user!" the big one says in a terrified tone.

"Correct. Back off now and I won't come after you."

"You bitch! Next time I see you're dead."

"Do anything to her and I'll hunt you and your kin forever." Puck rubbed his cheeks.

Subaru looks up gratefully at Emilia. "Thank you for saving me."

"Don't move!" Subaru looks startled as Emilia stares him down intensely, which made Subaru blush a red hue on both cheeks as he tried to avert his eyes away.

"See? You averted your eyes because you have a guilty conscience! Looks like my judgment was spot on." Emilia looked happy with herself but Puck tries to reason with her.

"I think it was just an instinctive male reaction. I didn't since any malice at all."

"You be quiet Puck. You know who stole my insignia from me, don't you?" Emilia leaned down towards Subaru.

"S-Sorry but I don't have the slightest idea."

Emilia glares down at him, pouting a bit but she looks shocked when she sees that he's innocent. "Did I really just come the long way around?" Emilia is panicking. Which makes Subaru smile as he starts to get up. "You should probably hurry after her, miss. I can help…" Subaru faints on the ground.

"Aw, you shouldn't have tried to get up. What should we do?" Puck looks at Emilia.

"None of our business. He won't die so we'll just leave him here."

"Really?"

"That's a bit harsh Emilia-sama." Petra spoke which surprised everyone since nobody noticed she was there.

"When did you get here?!"

"I just woke up with Fredrica-sama, when Subaru-sama was blinking into our world."

"Sis is here?!"

"Yes, Really."

"You say that, but I bet you'll still help him."

"I'll not!"

"Yeah, right."

Subaru open's his eyes a little and sees Emilia yelling at a smirking Puck with a flustered glare on her face.

"I'll absolutely not save him!"

"Who bets she saves him?" Anastasia called out and laughed as everyone raised their hands.

Emilia flushed.

She's even super cute when she's mad… that's a parallel world fantasy for you.

Emilia was full on blushing.

Subaru wakes up on someone's lap.

"Is my head on someone's lap?" The boy blushes.

"You're awake?" Subaru blushes even more as he looks up.

"I didn't know cute girls could be this hairy… Wait! That can't be right!" the boy looks up at the imposer to find a giant cat smirking down at him.

"ahhhhh" Subaru screams and jumps away while holding on to a wall with a very disturbed look like he watched his parents having se-

"It's just a thoughtful arrangement we made, so you could at least feel happy until you woke up." Puck said.

Subaru glared at the giant cat, "First of all, don't talk in that high voice! No sane guy confuses a cat for the main heroine!" Subaru shook his head in despair.

"Aw, seeing you so happy was worth making myself bigger." Puck teased

"I'm not happy!" Subaru shouted but then noticed Emilia glaring at him from the side.

Everyone was looking at Rem, Emilia and Beatrice as the three girls laughed while holding their stomachs.

They didn't get it.

Subaru's lap pillows are sacred.

So seeing it get defiled by a giant Puck was hilarious to the three girls.

"I'm sorry about this, you stayed with me the whole time I was unconscious…" Subaru apologized but was interrupted.

"Don't get the wrong idea. I had to stay because there are things I want to ask you. Healing your wounds and making puck your pillow until you woke up were for my own benefit so you need to repay the favor."

"For such a normal favor, you're making it sound like I really owe you big."

"No such thing. You have some idea who stole my insignia, right?"

"Insignia, you mean one of those badge things that shows your affiliation?"

"It has a jewel in the center and this big."

"Sorry but no matter how many times you ask, I have no idea."

"There's no helping it then, but you've given me the information that you know nothing. So you gave me my answer for healing you."

Subaru looked confused.

"Well, I'm in a hurry, so I'm going now. Next time don't wonder into alleys like these alone. I'm only warning you because if it happens to you again, saving you won't be of any benefit to me, so don't expect me to help."

Emilia starts to leave as Puck speaks with the bewildered Subaru.

"Sorry about her, she's so insincere. don't think badly of her."

"Is this… how we first met?" is this what he meant… When he said that I saved him.

Emilia looked on with a troubled heart. She didn't remember this event happening. But they felt too real. They proved what Subaru was talking about.

"Just… what is going on with you, Subaru?"

She asked softly as she watched. She wanted to learn more about him. She wanted to learn more about what he lived through.

Subaru looks at Emilia as she's leaving, "Insincere? I think its beyond that. She was in such a hurry to find what was stolen from her, she stayed to help me and came up with a lame excuse for a favor so I wouldn't feel I owed her, even though I'm a total stranger, anyone who lives like that…"

Subaru picks up his things and runs after Emilia with a smile, "… is gonna end up wasting their whole life!"

Puck smiles.

"He had Emilia-sama figured out from the start." Ram snorted with a small smile at the first meeting.

"So this is where he starts to hold affection for her." Julius smiled at the screen.

"I'm beginning to understand, why he holds you so dear." Rem smiled at Emilia.

The Half-elf just caressed her knight's unmoving hand.

"Hey, wait up."

Emilia looks back to meet Subaru's eyes.

"What? Just so you know, I can only spend a little more time with you."

"I sense you're being a tiny bit lenient… forget that. You lost something important, right? Let me help you."

"But you said that you knew nothing-"

"But I remember her face at least! If I see her again I'll know!"

Emilia appears to be thinking. "Your strange… I can't repay you if you help me."

"I don't need you to. I want to thank you that's why I want to help you."

"I didn't do anything deserving of thanks. I told you that I already received compensation for healing your wounds."

Subaru just smiles at her. "Then… I'm going to help you for my own sake… lets see… yeah! One good deed per day!"

"You seem really stuck trying to get him away from you." Crusch spoke up

Emilia just looked at the screen.

Why?

Emilia looks away with a confused look on her face. Puck shows up and smiles at her.

"I don't sense any malice. I think you can just accept his offer." he looks at Subaru with a smirk as he teased. "After all, the more shields between you and ruffians, the better."

"That's what you want me around for?!" Subaru glares at the cat outraged.

"I mean it, though. I can't do anything to thank you."

"No problem just leave it to me."

Subaru and Emilia are shown in many different scenes where they look all over to find Felt. They end up sitting on a high area in the city and looking over the sight.

"I talked big but this town is too huge to find one little girl huh?"

"It's the capital of Lugunica. You didn't even know that… umm..."

Emilia looks at Subaru with a sheepish look. "That's right. We haven't asked your name yet. Should we introduce ourselves." Puck asked the boy.

"Oh, yeah right. I'll intereduce myself first then."

Subaru does a weird pose with his finger aimed at the sky. "My name is Natsuki Subaru. Not only am I clueless, I'm also broke beyond compare! Nice to meet you."

"As hopeless as ever, I suppose."

"That is just how shameless Barusu is."

"So he's always so rash, huh?" Felix asked.

Crusch shook her head with a smile of amusement.

Emilia smiled at the scene but with a pain filled squeeze from her heart, knowing that she couldn't witness it when he was just a normal boy and not some saver she needed to thank.

He looked so cute though.

"Cap'n's pose was cool." Garfiel grinned at Subaru on the screen.

"I guess so, yeah." Ricardo agreed with the demi human boy.

"When that's all you say, you really do sound hopeless. And I'm Puck! Nice to meet you!" Puck floats really fast towards Subaru only to be met with his hand and begins shaking it. Emilia looks at how Subaru and Puck are shaking their hands with a surprised face.

"It's very unusual to see someone who can touch a spirit so casually. Where are you from?"

"Subaru does have a high affinity for spirits." Julius spoke calmly remembering when his own spirits were easily able to contract with the boy. He was not jealous.

"Stop being jealous, Julius-kun." Anastasia gave a knowing smile at her Knight as he huffed and looked away.

"Doesn't matter, I suppose. Betty is the only spirit for Subaru, infact." Beatrice looked proud at the fact.

"Of course, he wouldn't be the Lolimancer without you!"

Everyone laughed at Ricardo's joke.

"Well, following the usual pattern, a small island nation to the east."

Emilia looks to be in thought. "Lugunica is the easternmost nation on our continental map. There is no island nation to the east."

Subaru looks surprised at this. "No way, really? there's nothing east of here?"

Emilia looks at Subaru with pitying eyes. "You have no idea where you are, you have no money, you can't read, and you have no one who can help you. You might be in an even more precarious position than I am… um, Subaru, was it?"

Subaru blushes red as he looks away from her, "Yes, that's my name."

Puck floats around the boy. "Hmm you look really well built from where I'm looking."

Subaru opens and closes his palm, "A do work out every day. Even for a shut-in like me, I still need to be ready to guard my house."

"What does Shut-in mean?" Crusch asked the expert in speaking fluent Retar- I mean, Subaru.

"It's what you call a person that wastes their life doing nothing but seat in their room or house. Not wanting or needing any interaction with the world outside, I suppose." Beatrice mumbled in a low voice.

"So Subaru is someone who wastes his life?" Reinhard asked, a little concerned for his friend's laziness.

"So… he was just a normal boy with no friends and nothing to live for in the outside world." Rem looked at the sleeping boy with sympathy.

"That explains his mannerisms… Dear spirits this feeling is getting worse and worse." Julius waved his hair in frustration as Subaru's weak and pathetic nature was getting revealed more and more.

"I don't know what 'Shut-in' means but you sound like you come from a respectable family."

Emilia moves and picks one of Subaru's hands to inspect them, ignoring the boy's blush.

"Your fingers too they're pretty. they're evidence that you don't live the peasant life."

Subaru steps back from her and changes the subject. "U-Uh anyway, I know your cat's name now, but I haven't heard yours yet."

Emilia looks away as she appears to be thinking about something.

"I'm… Satella." Emilia looks at Subaru sternly awaiting his reaction. Puck looks at her in shock.

"What?!"

"What's the meaning of this Emilia?"

Everyone looked at their Emilia in shock waiting for an explanation. The girl herself was just staring at the screen with shock. "I-I don't know what this 'me' is doing! I wouldn't use the name of the witch like this!" Why was this version of her so mean to Subaru?

She could only look on helplessly as the rest seemed to calm down and watch with her, they too wanted to find out what was going on.

"I have no family name. You can just call me Satella."

"I see… Satella… That's a nice name." Subaru smiles at her.

"He doesn't know what the name means." Felix shook his head at the boy's stupidity.

"He's not from this world Felix. He has a good excuse." Reinhard called out the cat boy.

Felix just shrugged, letting out a sigh as his shoulders fell.

Emilia looks shocked at his reaction as if she as waiting for something else. Puck floats closer to her ear and sighs in disappointment. "You have terrible taste."

He swims into her hair.

"Then, time to get back to asking around!"

the scene changes to show Emilia pointing at a crying girl. "Hey Subaru, does she look lost to you?"

A find a little girl looking round frantically.

"But what about our questioning?"

"That's also important, but if she's lost, we have to do something."

"I'm in no position to talk since you save me but do you understand the position we're in?"

"But… she's crying! Is she not, Subaru?" Emilia had a look of conviction on her face. Subaru looked amazed.

"Ha! He just looks like a lovesick pup!" Ricardo and the twins laughed as they saw their bro falling in love.

Otto and Garfiel just smirked endlessly as they knew now where this tiring obsession with Emilia of that friend of theirs started. They will tease him about this.

Rem remained silent and watch with a pained smile.

"Thank you for all your help, Subaru. After I help that little girl, I'll handle it on my own from here." Emilia walked towards the girl.

"Bet number two, he doesn't leave her side." Anastasia announced cheerfully and laughed again when all raised their hands.

Even Emilia raised her hand with a smile as she looked at the boy beside her.

Always beside her.

The girl noticed Emilia standing infront of her with a smile. She noticed Emilia's features and recoiled in fear.

"Oh… Emilia-sama." Rem whispered in a gentle pitying tone.

Emilia ignored this and knelt with a gentle smile aimed at the kid. "I'm sorry I'm not who you were looking for. So what's the matter, aren't your mom and dad with you?"

although she was gentle with her, the small child seemed to be frightened from Emilia and began shedding tears.

"Uh….um… please don't cry alright! I won't do anything to you, all right?" Emilia tried to calm the girl down to no avail.

"Can't even stop a kid from crying, some leader you are! How can you lead a nation if you can't stop a child from whining!? Haha!"

"I would like to see how you deal with a distressed child." Crusch came to Emilia's defense and glared at Priscilla.

Suddenly, Subaru's hand was infront of both girls showing them his ten edge coin.

"What I have here is one grooved-edge ten-yen coin. I will now clutch it tightly in my hand. Tight, tight, tight… like that! And now imagine that!" He opened his palm to reveal it was empty when it should have had the coin in it. The girl looked amazed at Subaru to which he gave a gentle smile.

"How'd he do that?!" Garfiel was just as amazed as the child.

He moved his hand to her hair, "And this… is where the coin was hiding." He gently showed the kid his coin. The girl smiled with awe and astonishment but looked up at him with an asking look.

"You can have this. Its rare so take good care of it."

The little girl smiled brightly and took the coin. "Thank you!"

"I see. You got separated form your mom, huh? it'll be fine! Just leave it to me and this young lady here. We'll find them for you in no time."

"Subaru seems really good with kids." Frederica smiled at the sight of the happy girl.

"Yeah, everyone in the village loves Subaru-sama." Petra cheerfully announced.

"Another Loli!? Holy moly this guy is dangerous!" Ricardo laughed at Al's joke.

An imagine of the three with a bright light showed as Subaru voiced his thoughts. "When they see us like this, people who don't know us probably think we're a married couple and child, huh?"

Wilhelm smiles warmly at the young man that was clear as day in love.

"He wears his heart out on his sleeve." Reinhard laughed and secretly routed for his friend.

"At best, I can't see you as anything more than her older brother." Emilia breaks his dreams.

"Ohhhhh."

"ooofff"

"Coooold!"

Emilia blushed from embarrassment. Stupid Subaru. She pinched his hand a little. She wished he would wake up.

"What makes you think I'm that much younger than you?!"

"Mommy!" the girl suddenly let go of their hands and ran into her mother's embrace.

"Looks like she found her."

Emilia smiled at him. "I'm glad."

The scene changes to them sitting on a fountain ledge.

"I think we took a pretty long way around, but what benefit will you insist that you got out of this?"

"That's easy. Now we can continue our search with our minds at ease, right? Anyway why did you help me? You were against the idea."

"I could say I just wanted to show off my magic trick, but that would be a lie. I told you that finding your insignia is my good deed for the day!"

"Then, since you helped the little girl isn't your one good deed over?"

"The comeback was way too logical! Come on it isn't bad to do more than one good deed for a day right? I just got tomorrow's out of the way. My plan is to get a week's worth of good deeds taken care of early!"

"Subaru, you're the type that basically wastes your whole life, aren't you?"

Subaru slums, "You're the last one I want saying that to me."

"You aren't a bad boy though."

"Why are you treating me like I'm younger than you again? I doubt there's much difference between us."

"I don't think making guesses on that will help you. I'm a half-elf." Emilia looked down with a dark expression.

Subaru looked up at her in surprise as he noticed her ears for the first time.

"Now I understand… "

Emilia gripped her knuckles tight as she waited for a certain reaction once more.

"… No wonder I thought you were so cute! Elves are always beautiful huh?"

"Smooth!"

"Capture her heart Lolimencer!"

Subaru's smooth line made everyone route for him. Emilia blushed beet red and covered her face from the compliment. She might have been more pissed that she didn't receive it in person and only got to see it given to another Emilia if she wasn't embarrassed and happy at the same time.

Emilia looked at him with a shocked expression.

"What?"

"Well… I mean… I'm a half-elf…"

"Yeah I heard you."

Emilia stood up from the ledge and looked away from the confused boy. She held her head in her hands as she lowered herself to keep him from seeing her blush.

Subaru was even more confused when an angry Puck flew out of her hair and punched Subaru in the face softly.

"What'd you do that for?"

"I just had to do something about this unbearable tingle I feel!"

Subaru touched Puck's nose with the tip of his and smirked. "I can't accept being hit for a reason like that. Though I forgive you because it was squishy."

"I didn't hit you out of anger or anything. The opposite infact."

"Subaru, you're such a dunderhead!" Emilia turned around and glared at him.

"Who says Dunderhead in this day and age? And why are you insulting me?"

"Hmph! Whatever! We have to get back for our search."

"Hang on! Running around without a plan never ends well. that's a basic rule of searches?"

"Rule of…."

"Yep. You revisit the crime scene a hundred times. Where was your insignia stolen?"

The scene changes to Subaru standing with the appa sales men behind him.

"You see, it seems the crime happened right around here, so I returned to this fruit stand after valiantly telling her to leave it to me."

"What? I thought I had a customer but it's just that broke kid?"

"Haven't you noticed I'm not who I was before?"

"What?"

"Just look who I brought with me, she's someone that might become a regular!" Subaru pointed at Emilia but he didn't notice that she looked slightly embarrassed.

"Um, Subaru. You seem to have some weird expectations of me, but I don't have any money either."

"Huh? Seriously?"

"So, what did you want to say to me now that I have two broke customers?"

"We're looking for someone and we hoped we could ask you some questions… "

the boy was yelled at by the salesmen.

"That was a sarcastic way of telling you I don't have time for losers with no money! Get outta here!"

"Geez this guy's so nasty." Felt glared at the man in annoyance.

Many agreed with her.

Subaru was closing his eyes to defend himself from the man's yelling.

"Mister!" a cheerful child voice called out.

Everyone looked at the side to see the little girl and her mother from earlier waving at them.

"Hi there."

"What brings you back here?" Subaru asked the mother.

"It's my husband's shop, so we were just stopping by."

"Husband?" Subaru looked at the salesmen.

"Daddy!" the girl hugged her father

"That's my little girl. Wait, you know these broke losers?"

"She got lost and they found her."

The man glared at the sheepish Subaru.

"Here lady, take it." Emilia looked down at the smiling girl as she presented a flower in her hand.

"She want's to thank you in her own way so please accept it." the wife smiled proudly at the scene.

"Thank you." Emilia smiled gently as she placed the flower on her dress.

The Appa salesmen coughed to gain their attention. "Sorry about that, you helped my daughter, and I want to thank you. You can ask for anything."

"That was convenient!" Otto smiled happily at the good turn of events.

"Barusu will mess it up." Ram gave her two cents.

the two smiled brightly at one another but Emilia's smile turned into a proud superior smirk.

"There, you see? That came back around and worked in our favor!" she held her head high in smugness.

Some laughed at the way she was proud of herself. Emilia just pouted.

The scene changed to both Subaru and Emilia walking in a very run down and unpolished neighborhood, nothing like the rest of the capital. People with worn out clothing and nasty glares were staring at them both as if they were food.

"The atmosphere, air, and the attitudes of the people living here are awful. Are you sure she's here?"

"That might be that Felt girl, a nimble little blonde, right? She's well known in the slums. Dunno where she lives, though." A flash back with the salesmen was shown.

The scene returned to Subaru and Emilia.

"Maybe someone will tell us if we ask."

"No one would sell out one of their own, so I don't think that would work." Puck answered Emilia.

"My lady is going to work hard to make these poor souls see the light of hope." Reinhard declared but was soon kicked in the shin by a blushing Felt.

"I don't care about these losers!"

Reinhard just smiled at his lady.

Felt huffed.

"Maybe we should comeback later."

"Whether you stay or leave, you should decide quickly. I'm almost out of time."

Subaru looked at Puck, confused. "You're what? Out of time?"

"I have a cute appearance, but I am a spirit. It takes a ton of mana just to maintain a physical appearance. So at night, I return to the crystal I was summoned from and prepare for the emergence of the sun. On average, my ideal staying time is from about nine to five."

"Nine to five? You sound like a civil servant. Employment conditions for spirit's are severe."

"We'll be fine without Puck. We have to move forward." Emilia looked serious.

"Yeah. But sorry… I'm at my limit… " Puck yawned and began to disappear.

"It's almost like he's dying."

"Sorry to work you so hard, Puck. We'll handle things from here so rest." Emilia smiled at her spirit.

"Don't do anything reckless, if it comes down to it, use the odo to summon me again."

Emilia nodded and Puck looked at the boy.

"Alright! See to the rest, Subaru." With that, he went into the crystal.

The scene changes to Subaru holding his jacked while blushing as he and Emilia walked through the slum.

"Hey, I haven't been alone with a girl since I was in grade school!"

"Pervert Barusu."

Rem pouted at the way he acts with Emilia, why wasn't he like that with her?! She was a girl too.

"Don't get any weird ideas. I know magic."

"I won't! The bigger issue here is how we find Felt now."

"I'll ask the lesser spirits."

"Lesser spirits?"

"Lesser spirits are beings that haven't become spirits yet. They grow over time and when they gain strength and self-awareness, they become great spirits like Puck."

Subaru stares in amazement and awe as tiny flashing lights surround Emilia. He's completely mesmerized by her as it's shown how he was blushing deep red on both cheeks while staring at her glowing image.

"And that… is where Natsuki Subaru fell for his Emilia-tan." Otto and Garfiel cried as they watched their boy fall deep into the sink hole that was love.

They were handed handkerchiefs by a certain crying old man wearing a butler suit.

He too swam in that hole. He never came back.

Emilia just felt guilty. Subaru looked at her like that when she gave him nothing. She never experienced this scene. He had no reason to fall in love with her at first sight. So, why was he so… good to her? What did she do to deserve it?

Why did she want him to keep looking at her like that?

Why was Rem glaring at her?

Questions that will never be answered.

The scene changes toshow that it was night time and they were both walking alone in the empty creepy streets.

"This place is getting lonelier and lonelier. Does she really live in a place like this?"

"Sure looks like it."

"The lesser spirits said they saw someone who looked like Felt coming in this direction… "

Subaru looked at a passing man and stopped. "Hey Bro! Does a girl named Felt live up this way?"

"Huh? Felt? Nothing that way but Old Man Rom's loot house."

The man laughed as he understood. "Did Felt steal something from you guys? Well, go try negotiate to get it back. Live strong."

"Why do I have to pay money to get back something stolen from me?"

"Well, at any rate. We're here." Subaru looked from the dark loot house to Emilia.

"I'll negotiate with him."

"All right. I'll leave it to you."

"You agreed to that quickly. The way you've been acting I thought you'd say, 'Leave this to a useless boy like you?! That's so ridiculous, I'm laughing my head off!' and I'd be hurt, but still decide to help you all over again."

"That seems accurate. Haha"

"I wouldn't say something that mean. Of course, I'd be lying if I said you haven't been holding me back… " Emilia smiled at him.

"Pffttt."

"Poor guy." Felt was sorry for him.

"That definitely knocked him down an inch." Julius noted.

He turned away with a disbelieving look. "It'd be a lie?!"

"But… I'll try believing in you."

Subaru looks surprised at this.

"If it actually goes well, I'll consider it a bonus."

"If you'd look up at me and say 'Do your best for me' I'd feel a lot more motivated."

"I can't force myself to say such a thing. But do your best."

"Yeah. I will. I won't be back too late, but you can have dinner without me."

"Stop being dumb. Be careful."

"Sure, sure. Don't come in until I say it's all right, Satella."

Subaru noticed how she was looking at him. "What?"

Emilia looked away. "N-Nothing. Never mind. If you can get my insignia back, I'll apologize." Emilia smiled at him guiltily.

"What were you trying to do when you said your name was Satella?" Anastasia asked as she saw how guilty the on screen Emilia looked.

Emilia looked up at her in thought. "I think that… the other me wanted to scare Subaru away. She must have noticed how persistent he was in helping her and tried to test him."

"Why though?"

Emilia shrugged at Felt's question.

Subaru opens the door and looks around the dark room with the light in his hand. "Excuse me."

"Now, am I walking into a demon nest or a snake pit? In a fantasy world, either is totally plausible… "

"Geez… I don't like this." Felix sounded out his worry.

Subaru is looking round the dark house, aiming the light at various bookshelves and cabinets filled with valuable looking objects.

"This isn't right. Old Man Rom wouldn't let anyone in." Felt looked worried that Elsa might have come here. It was another version of their world after all. Who knows what else could happen?

"This is all stolen loot and why isn't there anyone here?"

Subaru looked around with his light.

"A place that handles stolen goods can only afford to be so careless." Subaru walked in the darkness…

and stepped on some red liquid…

"Oh No!" Petra screamed at the sight.

Blood...

Felix flinched already wanting to jump and heal the body.

Blood!

"No please! No." Felt screamed as she looked on.

More blood.

… The scene shows Subaru discovering Rom's mutilated body. Bleeding from his neck as it was cut open, missing his arm ad bleeding from it's place. Subaru stepped back with a look of pure horror at the sight.

"Old Man Rom! NOOOOOO!" Reinhard had to hug his lady to calm her down and watched the rest with a grimace. He felt like a failure of a knight.

"Oh, dear, you found that?" A smooth womanly voice sounded from within the darkness, surprising the boy.

"It's her! that's the scary lady's voice!" Petra called out remembering Elsa's voice when she tried to kill her in the old mansion.

"Who?" Crusch looked at the maid with confusion and fear for Natsuki's life.

"The bowel hunter." Reinhard sharply answered as he looked at the screen.

"Well, I have no choice, then." the voice sounded closer and more excited.

"No, Run! Cap'n!" Garfiel desperately wanted to get in their and save his captain. He knew how weak Subaru was physically and he fought Elsa by himself before so he knows just how tenacious she could be.

Subaru didn't stand a chance. He was dead the second he entered the loot house.

Subaru slowly and frigidly looked behind him.

"Yes, I have no choice."

Subaru was kicked to the floor, making him drop the light.

He struggled to stand as the room was dark once again.

"It burns…"

The boy looked down at his body and noticed through the dimly let room,

he was bleeding.

Is this… all mine?

"Oh god what is this?" Felix watched in horror.

Everyone watched in horror.

Subaru couldn't stop himself from puking as the blood started gushing out of his mouth.

This is bad… this very bad…

"Wait.. that's!"

"The very first moment of this apparition." Anastasia watched with critical eyes.

The pain forced him to drop back down and struggle on the floor as he bled from his wide opened guts.

The door to the house opened and in came a worried Emilia.

"Subaru? What's Wrong?"

"No… Run! Hurry!" Subaru spoke through his bleeding mouth and pleaded that she heads him.

But the scene changed to Emilia walking through the dark house and looking back at something.

The scene showed Subaru's hand with a pool of blood under it. A sound of flesh being cut sounded out and Emilia's dead body was shown dropping and bleeding right beside Subaru's.

Emilia didn't have the strength to scream as she watched with her hands covering her mouth and tears running over her face.

Not only was she killed. She was watching Subaru die.

Was this real?

Then how… was he… Emilia looked at the sleeping Subaru with wide horrified eyes.

No…. Please god no.

Emilia started to understand.

Subaru's face glared with determination as he moved through the pain and ignored the blood gushing out of him from his exposed guts and his mouth.

"Wait there…"

He reached for her hand.

"I'm… " His eyes were starting to lose the light.

"Going to… " He held Emilia's hand and squeezed it.

"Save you… " The window moved closer towards their hands and shook.

Then… darkness…

A voice could be heard. A shape could be seen but it was blurry.

Slowly.

"What's the matter, boy? You look like you've seen a ghost." The Appa merchant was shown beneath the blur, holding an Appa and speaking with Subaru as if it was his first time meeting him.

Subaru slowly looked up at the man in confusion. "What?"

"I asked you about the appa. The appa! Do you even have money?"

"What?"

"Don't 'What' me! The appa! Are you buying it or not?"

Subaru looked confused at this. "Oh… No, like I said, I'm broke beyond compare…"

"The hell? If you're just browsing then move along. I run a business here I don't have time for window shoppers."

Subaru stands in the middle of the street with dark creepy music playing around him as he checked his bag and his surroundings finding that it was sunny and not Night time.

Call of the Witch is playing.

"What's going on? wasn't it nighttime just a minute ago?" Subaru had a haunted look on his face.

He looks down and raises his clothes to find his belly uncut and perfectly healthy. "The wound on my belly is gone… "

A flashback plays reminding him of Emilia's death beside him.

"Oh, right! Satella! Damn it, didn't Puck ask me to take care of her? I have to get back to that shop!"

"What?" Priscilla finally showed interest.

Everyone stared in shock.

"No.."

"That's… impossible."

"Cap'n…."

"Subaru-dono has... never been afraid of death before. Not once was he afraid for his own life during the hunt of the whale, or the subjugation of the witch cult. Subaru-dono has faced death many times…" Wilhelm began to realize where the boy's unparalleled spirit came from.

All of the combatants in the room stared at Subaru, petrified, as they all came to the same conclusion Wilhelm had.

The three girls were just hugging the sleeping Subaru with all their might as they saw his death.

"So that's how you were able to find me?" Emilia cried as she lamented on all the times he came to save her, with knowledge that he shouldn't have known. Saving her from things he should never have been able to expect or prepare for.

"How many times has he…?" Reinhard bit his tongue as he watched with a pale face. While Reinhard had never truly faced death himself, the thought of someone like Subaru facing it over and over again horrified him. Guilt began to seep into Reinhard.

"Just what have you been through, Subaru?" Crusch asked, staring at the boy. Her voice was filled with concern, and her eyes were filled with terror.

Subaru runs from the street and into an alleyway where…

he finds the three same thieves from before.

"hey, why do you look so spooked?"

"If you don't wanna get hurt, cough up whatever you've got!"

"You guys… did you see I was alone and decide to get revenge?"

"Huh? What're you talking about?"

"Are you nuts? don't worry about it. Just leave everything you've got on the ground and we'll let you go."

"Alright , fine. Everything I've got, huh? I'm in a hurry so I don't even care." Subaru puts his bag on the ground for the three.

One of them gets cocky and smirks. "Now act like a dog. Get on all fours and howl,'Help me!'"

Subaru glares at the three and attacks. "Don't get cocky you bastard!" Subaru punch the one standing in the middle, knocking him out. Without hesitation he kicks the shorter thieve so hard that the wall he slams into forms cracks.

The larger man begins howling punches towards Subaru but he manages to dodge and grab the man's arm in both hands.

"Don't underestimate a truant kid with too much free time. After swinging a wooden sword around all the time for no reason, my grip strength is over 70 kilograms!" Subaru is shown squeezing the man's arm and burning his skin.

Then Subaru kicked the man where his family's future was.

The poor thieve held his crotch and tried to hold the wall beside him to keep from falling from the pain.

"I'm in a hurry! Don't get in my way again!"

The scene changes once again and shows Subaru standing infront of the loot house but this time it was in broad daylight so he could see all of it.

"Don't freak out… don't freak out, don't freak out!"

Subaru psyched himself up and knocked.

"There's no doubt about it." Crusch looked on with a shocked look.

Priscilla nodded as she looked at the screen with something atone to pity. "Yes, he returned back in time."

"Subaru-kun…" Rem cried at the prospect of her hero facing death many times.

Rem now knew why he wanted to run away that day in the capital. Why he was so heartbroken, and willing to give up. What terror did he face to get to that point?

Oh gods…

They all watched in silence, some unable to believe, some not wanting to believe, and some beginning to believe. Only a few were delighted to know the secret of Subaru Natsuki. Everyone else… Was horrified.

"Is someone in there? Please answer me! Please!"

As he knocked and banged on the door in panic, it suddenly opened up revealing the same man he once saw bleeding on the ground.

"Shut yer trap! You tryin' to bust down my door, when you don't even know the signal or password?!"

"He's alive… he's alive… " Felt watched with heavy breathes the shock of her big bro's death fresh on her mind and the idea of him returning in time not coming into her mind yet.

They're alive. They're alive. That's what mattered.

"You're!?" Subaru remembered him as that same man that had his neck and hand cut and wounded.

The window shows Subaru and Old Man Rom sitting at the bar. The boy was looking all around him as if spooked by something.

"What're you all fidgety for? Are your balls chafin' ya that much?"

"I'm not worried about the position of my privates! Don't start the conversation with potty humor!"

"You're already interrupting my evening booze."

"Don't drink while the sun's still up. you'll die young."

Subaru looked down and then back up with a look of conviction. "Actually… this is gonna sound dumb but… have you died recently?"

Old Man Rom started laughing at the boy. "Well I admit I'm an old man at death's door but I ain't dying yet."

"Okay. Then have you seen a girl with silver hair?"

"Silver hair? I ain't seen anyone that conspicuous."

Subaru looks surprised at this. Was it all a dream?

Then exactly how much was a dream? And why am I in this world?

"S-So It's possible that he ain't truly dead right? C-Cap'n didn't die. It was only a dream."

No one had the heart to disagree. They all wanted this to just be a dream.

"Please god. Make it be just a dream." Petra pried as her tears were wiped by the sympathetic older maid beside her.

"So what are you doin' here, anyway?"

"oh… I'm looking for an insignia. It belongs to a silver haired girl that helped me out. I don't know why but it's important to her."

"An insignia. Sorry but I ain't got anything like that."

"Are you sure? Try to think! Your old and senile!"

"If I can't remember it when I'm at my best, with booze in me then the only explanation is that I don't know. But… I've got someone bringing in goods later. I'm told its some fine loot. There is a chance its what you're lookin' for." Rom smirks at the boy.

"Is the one bringing it in a girl named Felt?"

Rom seemed surprised. "What, you even know who swiped it? Of course, whether you'll be able to afford it is another matter."

"Ha! It's no use trying to size me up. I'm broke as they come after all."

"There ain't no use talking about it then."

"No, there is the option of trading."

Rom looks at Subaru's bag.

"Now that you mention it, you've got some unusual stuff there."

"That's right, for example this is a corn potage snack." Subaru picks a small bag and points at it.

"It's super tasty!"

"That's the prize he gave me in the snow festival." Petra sniffled and tried to get her mind off of it.

"Was tasty?" Mimi asked regain her composure.

Petra nodded her head.

"Tha's food?" Subaru hands him the bag and Rom pops it and eats the weird yellow pieces comnig out of it.

"I see! What an odd flavor! These would go great with booze!"

"Right! Right!… Hey! don't just start eating them!"

"Well, I dunno what you plan to trade but you'll have to come after Felt gets here, mm, that's good!"

The screen shows Subaru sitting on the steps of the loot house waiting as the sun was setting. He was looking at two poor kids that were eyeing him up from afar.

"I guess, in any world, there are people with money and people without. It sure is easy to see here."

"Hey what're you doing there? Your in my way."

"Felt!"

"You know me?"

"Of course I do! I've been waiting for you!"

"What for?"

"Wait, are you saying you don't remember me?"

Felt looked to inspect him. "Have we met? You know I'm a busy woman so unless they leave a good impression I don't remember most people I meet."

"I'd say that was a pretty huge impression… well, forget that. I want to negotiate for the insignia you have."

Felt smiled at that. "Oh so that what it is huh? Alright, I'll hear you out."

"Th-This didn't happen either." Felt called out weakly.

Emilia cried harder as she heard the sentence she dreaded most.

God let it be a dream.

"For a rat…"

"Posion."

"For a white whale…"

"A harpoon."

"TO the noble dragon lord, we are… "

"Shitbags."

"C-Cool password." Recardio tried to salvage some mood.

"Thanks." Felt replied weakly with no smile.

She hoped to god this was a dream.

Subaru watched as Felt and Old Man Rom recited the password infront of him. Opening the door was the old drunk.

"Sorry to keep you waiting Old Man Rom."

Felt is given a glass of milk to drink. "Hey Old Man, did you water down this milk? It tastes nasty."

"Hey, I give you something outta the goodness of my heart and you call it gross?" Rom ruffled her head.

"You two are closer than I had either hoped or expected. I'm feeling left out, over here."

"Don't talk like a wuss, when you have a face almost as scary as Old Man Rom's."

the screen moves from Felt to Subaru as he twists his face into an insane expression.

"Scaaaaary!" Roswaal shivers at the sight but he's still smiling. Infact… he was smiling wider than before for some reason.

Da fuck?

"People have said many things to me, but you say I can compete with this old guy?"

"Okay I went too far that time. Sorry, bro." Rom smiled and bowed to Subaru.

Rom was just looking at them with a deadpanned stare. "You two aren't in some conspiracy to try and to piss me off, are you?"

Many chuckled weakly at that.

"Old Man Rom asks about him from time to time you know?" Felt meekly told the group.

"When we go back to the capital, we'll make sure Subaru-kun has the opportunity to play with you and Old Man Rom." Rem gave her some reassurance.

"T-Thanks." Felt seemed to perk up a bit.

Rem smiled towards the girl as she rubbed Subaru's hair. She wanted it to be a dream. God let it be a dream.

"Okay, well, why don't we get down to business? How much will you pay for it?"

"You don't waste time… before I answer, you do have it right?"

"Of course I do. There." Felt showed the stone with it's ruby glowing in her hand.

"This one's got a jewel on it so I had to work really hard to get it. If you pay me enough to match my effort, we'll both be happy."

"I have no money."

"Then we have nothing to discuss!"

Subaru waved his finger smugly at the girl.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. I don't have money, but I have things worth money."

Subaru showed his phone to them. "What I have here. Is a magical device that can stop time for everyone, everywhere… A Cell Phone!"

"This didn't happen either did it?" Crusch looked solemnly at Felt. Emilia looked up at the girl with some hope in her eyes.

Felt looked down in guilt. "H-He did ask to trade when I first met him. And he put his phone on the table."

Many were happy that this might be it the true timeline.

But then..

"But he met me at my hideout and not at the loot house."

As their hopes were crushed and the horror reemerged, Felt looked down and closed her eyes.

"This… Isn't the right one." Felt's tone sounded defeated. Reinhard couldn't help but feel guilty.

"What is that?" "I never see anything like it."

Subaru tapped the phone and aimed at them. "Take this, nine continues shots!"

the phone flashes at them and blinds them.

"Whao! Hey! What's that sound, and that was too bright!"

"Are ya tryin' to kill me?!"

"No, hold on." Subaru showed his phone to them and on it a picture of their faces.

"Those are our faces! What kind of magic?"

"I told you, it's a mystical item that can freeze a moment in time. With this you can capture moments in time and store them in here."

"Tha's cool." Garfiel nodded weakly.

"I really want one like that." Mimi spoke in a hushed tone. Broken.

Please…. Let it….

"That's amazing!"

"Is that one of the metia I've been hearing bout lately?"

"Metia?"

"It's the name of the devises that let people who haven't the gate to use magic like real magic users."

"What can I get out of this metia?"

"No doubt more than that insignia."

"Then that settles it! This cell phone for the insignia! Negotiations complete!" Subaru reached to take the jewel but Felt took it in her palm.

"Nope. Not yet."

"Why not?"

"You're not the only one I'm negotiating for this."

"Huh?"

"Besides, I nabbed this insignia because I was asked to. My client told me I could get ten holy coins for it."

"You already have a deal with the one you stole it for? I don't know what ten holy coins would be worth, but… "

Rom interrupted Subaru.

"That metia you've got is worth at least twenty holy coins… no, there are probably fanciers out there who'd pay more for a thing like that."

"That means we can get away with overcharging for it!" Felt shouted excited.

"So when is the client coming?"

"Don't worry. Negotiations will be held here. If I tried to handle them alone then i'd be sunk if a client decided to bilk me. But with Old Man Rom here, I don't have to worry."

As felt nodded in satisfaction, a knock on the door sounded, gaining everyone's attention.

Felt went to check who it was. Leaving Subaru and Rom together.

"Are you okay with letting her use you like this?"

"I've known her for a long time, so I'll help her out."

Subaru chuckled at the sight of Old Man Rom holding a giant Bat.

"You know, it drys chuckles when someone looks like such a barbarian."

"Well, look at where we are. Everyone around here is just as desperate to survive. It's common for youngsters to join forces with other in similar situations, to keep themselves alive. But Felt ain't cut out for that. that's why I gotta look out for her."

Subaru looked at Rom with pity.

"I was right. It was for me."

Felt entered and with her…

was….

Let this be a dream please.

"There seem to be several outsiders here." Elsa spoke in a friendly manner.

"Well, I'd be in trouble if you bilked me. We weaklings have our own brand of smarts."

"I know this older fellow, but who is this young man?"

"This is your rival. He's the other person negotiating with me."

A chill ran down his spine as he stared at the smiling Elsa.

"That's that bitch!" Garfiel writhed in anger. He wanted to transform and rip her face off the screen. He wanted to avenge his Captain. More importantly, he wanted to save his Captain.

"The Bowel Hunter..." Reinhard had a noticeably angry tone. Not only did he let her get away, he now had to watch her kill his friend, and his master, twice now.

Garfiel gave a low and venomous growl, as if to agree with Reinhard's disdain for the women.

"He's going to die again…" Julius was the only one in the room who could voice the upcoming truth. Bracing the others for the force of the wave that will soon hit them.

"Run, please, just run." Felt began to tear up as she watched the insane woman of her nightmares once again enter the loot house.

Felt grabbed a hold of Reinhard's loose clothing for comfort, he sat still beside her, his eyes fixed on the screen.

Elsa is shown to be drinking a glass of milk while the other three sat on the table with here.

"I see."

"So that means you two will be bidding against each other. I don't care who gets the goods as long as there is a highest bidder he will be the winner."

"I think I like that personality of yours, so how much did this young man bid?"

"I'm putting up this metia. Its the only one of its kind in this world. I'm told that its worth more than twenty holy coins."

"Metia? Hmm, as it happens my client provided me with some extra funds so I'm prepared to sweeten the deal."

"The client… so you were asked to fetch it, too?"

"Myyy I wonder who that might beeee?"

Before Garfiels chair could fall to the ground from the force of his launch, his claws were at the Clowns throat.

"I swear to god! 'F you're the reason-!"

"Relaaaax Garfiel-kuuuun, this isn't my doing this time."

"What do you mean, this time?" Crusch quickly caught on as to why the blonde tiger was outraged.

Roswaal simply smiled at them as the shocked crowd glared at him. "You don't have the evidence." He whispered in a manic tone that brought shivers down everyone's spine.

"That's right. The client is the one who wants it. Would you happen to be in the same business."

"Being in the same Business as me would mean they're unemployed!" The music stops as even the earth itself had to register this dumbass's word puke.

"hahaha, okay that's funny, come on." Mimi laughed along with Petra at Subaru's idiotic nature.

But the adults just watched quietly. Sweat on the back of their necks. Waiting for all of this to go horribly wrong.

"So this unemployed guy has named a price that puts him far in the lead. What price is your master putting on it?"

Elsa dropped a bag filled with holy coins on the table making everyone look at it in shock, Rom counted the coins.

"Twenty holy coins exactly."

"These are all the coins my client sent me. Are they enough?"

Subaru looked down in disappointment.

"You're a man! Don't make that pathetic face! I told you, your metia is worth no less than twenty… "

Subaru looked at Rom with hope.

"As I see it, victory in this deal is leaning toward the boy. Sorry for you and your employer, but you'd better bag up those coins and leave."

"Yes!" Subaru jumped up in excitement, making everyone look at him wierdly.

"Wh-What? What's wrong with a little victory pose? I'm psyched!"

"No one said anything. Go as crazy as you want. I don't car as long as I get my profit."

"Uh, sorry, Elsa-san. you'll probably get in trouble, huh?"

"It can't be helped. It was my employer's fault for trying to underpay."

Elsa stood up and drank the last of the milk.

"Well, this deal ended in disappointment for me, but I shall take my leave now." Elsa licked the milk on her lips.

"By the way, what do you intend to do with that insignia?" Elsa asked the boy.

Subaru simply smiled and opened his trouble hole. "I'm going to return it to its owner. Rom and Felt looked at him in distress.

No.

"Stupid Barusu!" Ram was the first to shout her belittlement of his actions.

"Idiot!" Emilia screamed as she finally broke into tears and hugged her Subaru tight.

"Run, please just run! You'll die!" Felt screamed.

"Come on, Cap'n!" Garfiel roared. His breathing started to pick up. He couldn't take the death of his Captain again. Despite his demeanor, he didn't like watching people die.

Especially not the man that saved him from himself.

Subaru realized what he just said and started panicking as Elsa had a sinister smile of twisted madness on her face.

"So… You're with them, then." Elsa smiled darkly.

Felt pushed Subaru to the ground as he was focused on the dark grin the evil woman was giving him he didn't see the blade the was aiming for his stomach.

"Wh-What?"

"Do you want to die?!" Felt shouted at him in anger.

"Oh, my. You dodged my strike." Elsa is shown holding a blade to where Subaru once was. Her attention was caught when Rom picked up the bat and started smashing the place where she was stood. Elsa jumped high and the air to dodge the strikes, leaving Rom to crush and break the chairs and tables she would jump off of.

"This is my first battle to the death with a giant!"

"Quiet, little girl! I;ll grind you up and feed you to the rats!"

Subaru and Felt watched as Rom and Elsa engaged in a battle of strength versus speed as the dark dressed woman dodged and jumped out of the way of the old man's impressively strong hits.

"This is bad!" Subaru looked worried as he knew that Elsa was merely toying with the old man.

Felt however was confident. "Don't worry. there's no way Old Man Rom will lose."

As she said this, she watched in horror as Old Man Rom tried to attack Elsa with another aimed strike.

"TAKE THIS!" But before he could land the hit, Elsa attacked him with her blade, cutting his arm clean off his shoulder.

"Old Man Rom!" Felt shouted in despair as his arm fell near her.

The old man struggled with the pain as his blood covered the floor.

"Damn it!" Rom charged at the lady, "At least I can take you with me!"

he was met with a smile and raised hand that held a broken glass.

Elsa stopped his charge by merely stabbing the old man in the neck by his own glass.

"Thank you for the milk." Elsa smiled sadistically as the man bleed from the wound on his neck.

Rom fell on his back, dead.

"Oh lord." Julius grimaced at the killer's cruelty.

"PLEASE RUN! PLEASE!" The little girl cried and begged that no one else dies as she hugged Reinhard.

Elsa bowed and placed the broken cup she stabbed him with on the floor. "I shall be returning this."

Felt stood up from beside Subaru with a glare so heated and scary. "You bitch… How dare you?"

"Oh? It seems you have more courage than your friend there." Elsa pointed at Subaru in clear amusement.

"But if you resist then you might as well get hurt."

Felt wiped some of Old Man Rom's blood from her face as she glared at the killer. "Like you don't intend to kill me either way, you psychopath!"

Elsa is shown toying with a purple blade. "If you move around, my hands might slip. I'm quite rough at handling blades you see."

"Sorry you got caught up in this." Felt looked at the scared Subaru.

"I…" Felt didn't hear him as she unsheathed a dagger and run at Elsa with insane speed she could barely be seen.

As she the girl turned into a gust of whirling wind around her, Elsa smiled with amusement. "Blessing of the wind."

Felt stopped and swiftly derived a downward slash at Elsa….

But the killer simply avoided the blade by a hair with a smile.

"How wonderful. I can see you are loved by this world. I envy you!"

Elsa simply turned around and made a slash that cut the little Felt in half right before Subaru's eyes.

"No…" Whilhelm slowly looked over towards his grandson. He watched as he winced in pain and a tear appeared in his left eye. He wanted nothing more than to hug Reinhard and console him. The boy has been through too much because of his mistakes.

Reinhard just hid his lady in his embrace and kept her from seeing the rest. He failed. He failed… I failed... I failed.. I failed!

Please…...dream.

Let it be a dream.

"The old man and the girl have fallen, yet you aren't moving." Elsa turnedaround to meet the cowering boy.

"Have you given up?"

Subaru is shown struggling to stand. "D-Damn it…"

He glared at the killer, though a bit of fear was shown.

"No, wait Subaru, please!" Beatrice watched with tears running. What the hell had he been through.

"Ah you finally stood up. It's less fun since you took so long. But still, not bad."

Elsa and Subaru stand off with her smirking and him scared out of his wits.

that's why he suddenly yells and charges at her with his fist raised. Elsa simply hits him with the hilt of her blade breaking his nose and kicks his stomach making him roll away from her for a few feet.

"But it's no use. I can see you are a novice, and your movements are rough. You have no blessings or techniques. I had hoped to squeeze wisdom out of you, but you lack that, too."

Subaru starts to get up. "Shut up! I do have my pride! After you've put me through all this…" Subaru lets his nose bleed and glares hatefully at the killer.

"Barusu, you idiot! Run! This is no time for such a useless thing like pride!" Ram, once again quick to belittle him, began to shed tears.

Elsa notes this. "I do acknowledge that you have extraordinary determination. If only you could have done that sooner, things must have gone differently for these two."

Elsa looks at the dead bodies of Felt and Old Man Rom. She then licks her lips as she stares into Subaru's raging eyes.

"It doesn't matter about me! Run!" Felt uselessly screamed.

But then he remembers the past time he was here. When it was night. When Emilia died beside him. He remembers where he was bleeding last time.

His expression lights up as he gets an idea.

"What're you doing now Subaru?" Crusch noticed his look and watched carefully.

"I think it's time to end this." Elsa excitedly spoke as she charged at him.

"I shall send you to meet the angels."

"Subaru!" Petra screamed as the scary nightmare woman attacked him.

Subaru readies himself in a fighting stance with a look of patience on his bleeding face.

Elsa charged and swiped her blade in a sideways slash towards the area of his guts.

Subaru changes his stance before she hits him and narrowly misses the blade that was about to cut him in half by an inch.

Before she could react, Subaru spins and delivers a really hard kick that actually lands and pains the killer.

"He used the previous life to attack her." Anastasia watched with wide open eyes at the scary situation this useless boy got in.

"It won't be enough…" Julius closed his eyes. He couldn't. He couldn't.

He can't.

"Ah… I certainly felt that one." Elsa smiled with a creepy blush on her face.

She stares. With a smile.

Subaru… looks down.

His bowels. They were cut open.

"My god…" The old butler simply looked on with a heated and wrathful glare. If Elsa wasn't already dead, she'd be Wilhelm's next hunt. He would put her in more pain then he did the Whale.

"Are you surprised? I opened your belly when we passe by one another. This is the one thing I excel at."

Subaru tries to hold his guts in place as he falls on the floor and bleeds out of the cut belly he now possess. As his blood forms a pool on the floor around him, Elsa takes delight in stepping closer and kneeling beside him to watch as his soul was leaving his body.

She removes a piece of his cut clothing just to see his innards. "Ah as I thought. Your guts have such a lovely color!" she smiles sadistically.

Subaru struggles to stay conscience as he looks up at her through pain filled eyes.

It hurts… it hurts… it hurts… it hurts

"It… doesn't hurt? In pain? Do you want to die?" Elsa teases.

Die? Am I dead? Am I still alive? When will I die? When will I die?

"Slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly…" Elsa is smirking down at the dying boy.

I'm scared… i'm scared.

I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die

"Yes, you're slowly losing body heat… Your slowly growing cold… "

As the window shows Elsa's smirking face, Memories of all the previous events that lead him here played out. It was as if his life flashed before him.

Until…. Darkness.

Oh… I'm dead.

Emilia cried. She just cried.

Hugging her Subaru and crying like a little child.

The other Camps were either crying with her, or looking at her in pity.

Rem and Beatrice simply remained frozen with tears and stunned expressions staring at the black screen.

What were they watching? Why were they being shown these things? Exactly how much suffering did this boy endure?

A faint voice. A blurry image.

"What's the matter, boy? You look like you've seen a ghost."

"It's…" Otto began to realize what was going on.

Subaru is shown to be in the same place as before. Infront of the fruit stand with the same man saying the same thing. The boy looks up with a yellow face.

"Boy? You okay?"

"ah… I have no idea what's going on anymore." Subaru fainted as the man looked on with shock.

Subaru was splashed with water in the face. He quickly opened his eyes and looked at the man.

"Are you okay, boy? Here forget the money. Just take these." the man was worried for Subaru as he handed the boy an appa and a cup of water.

Subaru was about to take them but then he noticed someone walking behind the merchant.

Subaru stood up but fell on his knees from the weakness. He stood up again and ran after her.

Emilia.

"Wait! P-Please wait! Wait! Satella!"

"NO! Please no! Why did I tell him to call me that?!" Emilia looked at the screen in shock as her tears ran deep.

What did she do to this boy?

How many times has this happened?

as he shouted this, everyone on the street looked at him with shock.

"Please don't ignore me! Dying and not doing what you said were my fault! But I was desperate!"

Everyone was looking at him with wierded out looks and shocked expression.

"I went back to the loot house after that, but I couldn't find you…"

everyone was looking with wide eyes.

"I'm sorry for only thinking of myself." he smiled at her.

"I'm glad you're all right, Satella."

"Poor kid…" Al just looked away from the scene. The boy didn't even know that he was earning the ire and hatred of every demi-human on the street.

The silver-haired elf looked back at him with an intense glare.

"What are you thinking?" she said in a heated tone.

Subaru recoiled in surprise. What?

Everyone was looking at them as she spoke with him.

"I don't know who you are but don't call me by the name of the Jealous Witch! What are you thinking?!"

Subaru just looked confused now.

His reflection in her eyes. Her reflection in his.

Title Card:

"The End of the Beginning and the Beginning of the End."

Credits song: Stylix Hylix.

Episode 1 Directors cut end.

Emilia just stared at the black screen in shock at the situation she had put Subaru in.

"I wonder why he still helps you after all that?" Anastasia asked softly as she wiped some tears away.

"So this is how he accomplished all of his achievements… what a disgusting power." Priscilla looked away in distaste.

"Subaru-kun… died." Rem simply looked catatonic at the screen.

Beatrice hugged her Subaru's side.

"Did he die in the sanctuary too? Did he g't killed by mine amazin' self?" Garfiel simply rocked in his chair, beginning to cry at the possibility.

Otto simply looked down with a haunting look on his face as he remembered all the threats Subaru was dealing by himself in the Sanctuary. God, how many times had he died.

The Emilia camp was in shambles. Words could not express the various emotions filled with pain, anger, and regret looming around them.

Crusch's camp was defeated as they saw a very dear friend in such a situation. Felix may not have shared the same sentiment as Crusch or Wilhelm. But, it still hurt him to watch someone go through that pain.

Felt's camp was just broken, Felt was still crying into Reinhard's embrace while he sat there stoic, clearly hiding his shock.

Anastasia's camp was simply… deeply saddened by this. Subaru was a hero in the eyes of Ricardo and Mimi. Julius stood there as elegant as ever, trying to hide his anger. While he would be the first in line to chastise Subaru for his idiocy, he was still a knight. His instinct to protect those who could not protect himself was tarnished with his inability to help a victimized Subaru.

And the Priscilla Camp wasn't affected at all, save for Al who felt remorse for his bro.

"Let's see where this power takes him." Priscilla glared at the screen in disdain.

The screen activated once again.

Episode 2…. Arc 1 continuation….

Start.

God. Please end this.

I need a few hours of rest. It took me ten hours to right the episode. the ten hours were just for the episode. JUST THE EPISODE! I couldn't even write the reactions yet. I think i fucked the characters up.

HOW THE FUCK DO I WRITE GARFIEL! HE HAS A SEXUALLY ASSUALTED SPEAKING PATTERN.

Episode 2 coming next. be patient with me.

Please.

Falls off his chair after hitting the uploud button* Sweet dreams, me.