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.

7. Chapter 7

Chapter 7: Ep 6 Director's Cut

The cast were all waiting for the screen to finish loading the next scene with varied anxious and wondering looks.

"I thought you said that he wouldn't die?" Felt kept her eyes on the screen but her question was directed at a certain half-elf.

Emilia, the girl that was panicking a moment ago when Subaru was being attacked had calmed down as she remembered exactly what happened.

"I wasn't really present with him so I was shocked by what happened to him. I knew he would get hurt but…"

"You never imagined it would be so brutal like this?" Frederica gave her opinion.

Emilia nodded her head and rubbed Subaru's hand while looking at the screen.

"He never tells me anything, he just goes on his own and gets hurt every time. He even died many times because of me." Emilia's voice was filled with sadness and her eyes illuminated with guilt and frustration as she looked down while gripping his hand.

"He tried to tell you but that hand thingy stopped him." Mimi pointed out from the back.

"He still could've told them that there was something dangerous he needs to deal with though." Tivey noted his opinion making many in the room nod with him.

"Subaru's mission would've been much easier had he told someone to help him." Anastasia agreed with her henchmen twins.

A soft broken voice spoke out from the corner of the room.

"He couldn't ask for anyone though…"

Everyone looked at Rem.

"What was that sis?" Ram asked with eyes filled by worry and sadness at the sight of her emotionless little Rem.

She wanted to hug her sissy, but Lord Roswaal told her that it would be best to leave her alone for now.

So Ram could only watch as her sister sat away from everyone and kept her head low, the once blue shining eyes were now dull and empty.

Her expression was tired and completely broken.

The blue haired maid, the guilty and emotional scarred Oni voiced her thoughts to her sister's question with a voice soft and slow.

As if she was dead.

"Subaru-kun didn't tell anyone about the mabeasts because he had no one. Beatrice-sama was acting as if she was annoyed by his existence. As far as we know, she was the only one willing to help him to a certain extent."

"What about me? Sure, he can't tell me about Return by Death, but he could still ask for my help! I would still help him!" Emilia quickly refuted the maid and gave her a look of conviction.

Rem met the half-elf's glare with a dead emotionless stare. The sheer coldness of Rem's eyes made Emilia want nothing but look away from her.

"If Subaru had asked you or any of us for help… I would've killed him."

"Ghk….!"

Emilia and Beatrice stared at Rem with horrified faces as both girls held the boy by each side.

These two were not alone…

"But why… H-He was only trying his best." Petra held on to Frederica and tried her best to hold the tears in. Her image of the sweet amazing Rem that Subaru would speak about all the time had shattered completely at this point. All she wants to know, is why Subaru tried so hard to save someone so cruel and scary.

"Why would he save you then?" Julius asked the maid with a tone uncharacteristic of him. Bitter, emotional and angry.

The knight was shaking in place as he glared at the maid.

Rem ignored him and looked down. Eyes emotionless.

Julius was unable to stop his fists from shaking as the feelings of uselessness and guilt filled him once again. Why should he care? He was no longer a friend to Subaru Natsuki.

So the knight simply kept his mouth shut and suppressed his boiling anger behind an expression of stone.

Emilia slumped back in her chair as she imagined herself in Subaru's place.

Would she be afraid in such a situation? Would she face everything with a smile like he does?

"I would've ran away from the mansion." Anastasia gave her opinion as she watched the screen as it loaded.

"I wouldn't have been able to look any of them in the eye again." Ricardo mused from his seat as he waited for the screen to continue showing him the boy's adventure. He was honestly getting addicted to this kid's spirit. He couldn't get enough.

Crusch stared at Rem with a sympathetic look.

"Why did you save her after all of that, Subaru?"

Felix looked at his mistress as she looked at the boy with a thoughtful almost soft like gaze. He noticed how the corner of her lips were turned upwards.

Felix looked down and gritted his teeth.

"Hmmm, Isn't this taking a bit too loooong?" Roswaal raised a brow at the screen as he waited like the rest.

"Hmph! Whatever is going to be shown next will be just as pathetic as the boy's futile effort to be some self serving 'hero'." A fiery haired princess fanned herself as she glared at the screen with malice raging in her scarlet eyes.

"Looks like that last scene of him saving the maid put you on edge." Anastasia noted with a smirk. She's been waiting for the chance to mess with Priscilla.

The princess didn't take the bait, surprising both, the merchant as well as her knight beside her.

The scarlet beauty simple looked at the screen while hiding her frown behind a fan.

Just barely… there was a whisper.

"It was exciting… "

Priscilla kept watching the loading window in silence.

Beatrice kept her hand intertwined with her contractor as she remembered all the mean things she had said and done to him when he first arrived.

"I could've helped you I suppose. Betty's so sorry, infact." The little girl just kept her head leaning on his shoulder while her sad dull eyes stayed on the screen.

"Cap'n saved th' one that killed 'em."

Otto looked at his friend with a small smile. Garfiel looked at the screen in shock and in awe, he's been like this from the moment Subaru had pushed Rem out of the way of the mabeasts.

He was amazed.

"You're such a child, Garf."

"Who ya call'ng child huh?!"

"You are! You look like you want his autograph or something!"

"Whatever! It's not like you'll ever be as cool."

Otto smiled at his tsundere brother… "No one is as cool as him."

Garfiel smirked.

Reinhard looked at the two's interaction and frowned deeply.

What did they know about Subaru that he didn't?

What memories did they all have that created such a strong interaction?

Would he laugh and smile with them two if he spent more time with Emilia's knight?

Normally, he wouldn't keep thinking such thoughts and questions. He would give it a passing thought every once in a while but then go do something productive like save a village or read some new books from the outside states and kingdoms.

But know that he was in this room watching a story of someone he wished to call a friend dying over and over because of his single mistake…

Reinhard realized just how empty he was…

He had no right to call Subaru a friend.

He couldn't smile like Otto and Garfiel. He didn't know Subaru, didn't joke with him, didn't make any decent memory of the both of them.

He was empty here. His reactions were fake.

Reinhard couldn't be a friend like those two were to Subaru.

The redhead knight simply stared at the screen with the light in his sky blue eyes finally dimming.

He's heart was clenched tight.

The pain of his precious friendship's fake reality was the first time he's felt truly alone in a while…

"...ghkrrr!"

Felt looked at her knight with a confused raise of her brows. "What're ya snorting about?"

"Nothing, milady… nothing."

"It totally isn't! I order you to tell me!"

Reinhard truly wanted to tell her the reason for his snort. The irony he had discovered in the dark twisted mind of the monster he called himself.

He wanted to tell her how amazingly funny it was for him. The fact that, his own grieving and emotionally scared grandfather had a closer relationship with Subaru than he did.

How Reinhard felt jealous the way Wilhelm spoke about Subaru. How Reinhard was jealous that his grandfather could speak such things about Subaru.

While he could only stay silent and offer no words.

He didn't have a true relationship with any of these people anyway.

But he couldn't say that.

"I was thinking of how cute you would look with a tiara, Felt-sama."

"You… ugh!"

He smiled the same smile of a charming young knight.

As his mistress kicked him in the face.

He wondered if he could let slip a few tears… nah, he's a hero. Heroes don't cr-

Except for Subaru… he cries and shouts his weakness out-loud.

Reinhard turned to the screen and watched with cold dead eyes.

"How can I be like you, Subaru?" he whispered pleadingly.

So sorry for the delay. The screen needed cool down time.

Anyways, lets finish this Arc.

Season 1 Episode 6 Director's Cut.

Begin.

The screen was showing Subaru's prospective.

Darkness…

His eyes opened slowly…

A blurry image of Rem screaming at Beatrice as they sat over his body.

"… to give up?" he could hear her faint voice through the static of his foggy mind.

"It seems you carried him to safety Rem-san." Otto nervously turned and smiled at the maid. But to his disappointment… Rem didn't look all that happy.

He saw Ram glaring at him heatedly.

He made things worse didn't he. He was just trying to cheer her up!

The boy looked back up at the screen and frowned. This girl was very important to Subaru so he needed to make her cheer up before the knight woke up.

Subaru would be crushed to see her like this.

He's eyes began to close as he faintly heard Rem's pleading.

"Is there no other way to save… "

"...all, I suppose."

Subaru's eyes tried to fight the darkness and opened up. He was greeted by the faint image of a white hand clutching his own.

He heard the voice of a faint Beatrice beside him.

"You can do as you like with him now."

He's eyes failed him once again and forced themselves closed.

Darkness…

His eyes opened once more, this time being blinded by a white world.

In the emptiness of the white blinding light shooting into his eyes, he could hear a soft determined voice speaking to him.

"I swear, I'll save you."

Anastasia quickly looked at the maid with a stern look of disbelief. "What happened to the witch's scent and you not trusting him? You're going to save him?" although her words were cold and her question was a little scathing.

Rem gave no reaction. She was in her own broken dream.

"I suggest we watch the window's apparition to find our answers, candidate-sama."

Anastasia turned to the screen with thin lips.

"I'll ignore the threatening undertone in your voice just this once, maid. Be thankful that I have a soft spot for sisterly love."

Although Anastasia didn't look at anyone, the sheer coldness in her voice made some shiver.

The atmosphere was dense.

Any wrong move was to spill war between the overprotective Ram and the begrudging Anastasia.

So of course, a certain someone was loving all of it a bit too much.

"My, how tense this room has becoooooome!"

Roswaal simply leaned down as finally, something that interested him was happening.

Things were getting too bland for his taste.

He's eyes closed once more. Darkness blanketed him once more.

He slowly opened his eyes once again.

The first thing he saw was a wooden ceiling.

"Another unfamiliar ceiling… "

Subaru softly uttered as he tried to get up. The pain that shot through him forced him back on the bed.

"Ow!"

"Ghk!"

"Ugh!"

Subaru winced and hitched his breath from the pain as he moved his arms and looked the bite marks all over him.

"So they barely managed to save my life, and these are the scars… "

He lowered his arms and looked around the unfamiliar room. His sight was immediately honed in on a girl that was sleeping in her chair while leaning on a wooden pillar.

"Emilia… " Subaru uttered in surprise as he noted her sleeping tired form.

"He seems to have caused you great trouble." Frederica smiled at how sweet the scene was. A tired Emilia, sleeping beside her hurt butler knight.

Emilia tried to smile but her lips were stuck on a deep guilty frown as the heavy feeling of uselessness ruled over the regions of her mind.

It was heavy.

The fact that she could've done many things that would've saved Subaru many terrible memories.

"I guess now I owe her yet another debt." He said to himself while looking guilty.

"You stupid dunderhead." Emilia whispered in a frustrated tone and tightened her grip on the crushed bones of his hands.

"I don't know about that."

Subaru's eyes widened in surprise as a gray cat suddenly flew out of Emilia's hair and smiled at the boy.

"This time, you produced results equal to the effort you invested, so I doubt Lia will think of it as a debt."

Subaru looked bewildered at the floating cat as it lowered down and sat atop his chest.

"Puck… "

"Good morning, Subaru."

"You say these are results equal to my effort, but I don't remember anything after I got nommed on by those dogs in the forest." Subaru looked weary at the cat.

"That's a cute way of putting." Otto snorted as he remembered the scary scene of dogs fighting to feed on Subaru's limps.

"Nommed on? That's a cute way to put it. But it was actually… "

Puck suddenly turned into a growling monster beast as he shouted into Subaru's face.

"Munch, gobble, snarf, chew, chomp, snap, crunch!"

"I don't like this Bubby, I suppose." Beatrice tiredly sounded from atop her new cushion which was Subaru's chest.

She was too tired to be terrified of her brother's scary look.

"He looks weird." Mimi giggled from the back as she pointed at the malformed cat.

He slowly turned into the cute cat form and winked at the boy.

"More like that."

"With all those sound effects, I should definitely be dead now. I think I'm five or six arms short for all that." Subaru uttered with a disturbed expression at the cat.

"Yea, well, the blue haired maid took the rest of the damage. She was in awful shape."

Subaru quickly sat up with a worried glare as the pain filled him.

"He's worried about her? Sheeesh." Al snorted at the absurdity of Subaru's heart.

"I mean, he did save her so it would be kind of redundant if she gets hurt because of him." Ricardo mused from his seat.

Many in the audience just shook their heads at the boy's impotence.

"Though she heals fast, thanks to her demon transformation. By the time she carried you to the village, she had no visible injuries."

The boy slumped back into the pillow and let out a pain filled sigh. "Don't scare me for no reason… Anyway, so Rem went back to the village, then? And what about the kids? Was the curse removed?"

"No worries there! Betty and I took care of it, so all's well! Your judgment was right on the mark! Clap, clap, clap."

"Beatrice-sama came out of her library? I don't remember Subaru making a contract with her in this loop." Frederica asked in surprise as the fact that this girl actually left her room AND the mansion as well was nothing short of a miracle.

"Bubby asked me so I obliged, I suppose." The little spirit weakly gave out as she leaned more into her contractor's side.

"Hmmm, Are you suuuure that you weren't also maaaaking sure that Subaru-kun is saaaaafe?" Roswaal teasingly smiled down at the spirit. He almost looked smug.

As if he was bragging that he was right to Beatrice.

The tired loli spirit could only do one thing and one thing in a situation where she was teased by someone she loathed.

It was a tactic taught to her by her unruly hopeless idiot of a contractor.

And it felt satisfying to do it here and now.

"Beako! That's very baaaad!" Emilia suddenly came out of her stupor at the shocking site of the sweet elegant Beatrice giving Roswaal the middle bird.

Garfiel, Al and Ricardo fell out of their seats while laughing their ass off.

The children all giggled and clapped.

The candidates finally cracked a smile as they broke focus for a second.

Beatrice sat down while ignoring her heart broken brother who was deeply hurt by the abuse.

Roswaal just hugged Ram and let a few tears slip.

Otto looked around the room and noticed that everyone was looking at the screen with more shine in their eyes as the comedic sight made them all regain some strength to watch.

Except for three people.

Two nights and a certain maid.

Those three look like the undead. Emotionless. Broken…

Otto looked back at the screen while feeling frustrated that he can't help with anything.

"Has Emilia been here all night?"

Puck looked at the sleeping Emilia. "Yeah. She drained her resources right down to her od, to heal you, so you should let her sleep.

Subaru smiled wide at the half-elf princess.

Scene change (Opening plays)

The screen shows Subaru exiting a house in the village wearing his torn clothes that had been shred by the dogs.

"So, wait… is it over now? Has he won against the mabeasts?" Felt asked with a confused look.

"No, there's more." Everyone looked at Petra as she watched with a serious expression on her cute face.

"What do you mean? Nyan." Felix tiredly asked. What more could happen?

"Just watch and you'll see." Ram spat out, making the cat boy clench his hands harder.

As Subaru closed the door to the house, a voice sounded behind him.

"Barusu, you're awake?"

Subaru looked back…

"Ram… Listen, uh… I mean, about Rem… "

Subaru couldn't speak to the pink haired maid… he looked down at the ground in shame as his stomach growled.

It just so happened that the maid was carrying a basket of steamed pink potatoes. (Fuck you Tatoes!)

"How shameful you are, pestering others for food after being that badly injured. Maybe some dog rubbed off on you from the dog bites."

Subaru took the abuse like a man and glared condescendingly at the maid. "How does dog rub off?"

"Eat this."

Ram shoved a hot steaming Potato into Subaru's unsuspecting mouth.

"Sofubozu!" The boy screamed and spat the burning food in his hand as he rolled on the floor with his mouth open.

Ram watched the boy's struggle with a smile of pure amusement. "Delicious, isn't it?"

"I though I was gonna die! But yes it was good!" Subaru yelled at the maid from his place on the floor.

"Why are you so mean to him?!" Otto and Garfiel where laughing loudly as they had fun watching Subaru get harmlessly abused.

Some let out a chuckle at the scene, while Emilia and Beatrice giggled a bit at their nasty-eyed friend's antics.

"Barusu's masochistic side would disagree with you about me being mean. Hmph! I bet he enjoys it." Ram smirked evilly as she stomped on the boy's reputation.

"Lucky." Garfiel muttered as he saw his Cap'n getting closer to the pink haired maid faster than he could in over years.

How did he do it? The blonde boy would learn from this showing. He will make sure of it.

Ram looked at the basket in her hand. "It's freshly made… I mean… "

She cutely sent him a smug smile. "Freshly steamed."

Subaru wasn't a retard. Usually.

"Why do you look so proud of yourself?!" He yelled at the delusional maid.

"Okay, okay. You can have another, so be quiet and eat it."

Subaru stood up and took the offered food from the maid.

Rem's eyes were closed as she didn't want to see such a normal interaction with her sister and the love of her life.

Why couldn't she have been calm like her sister was? Why didn't she have faith in Roswaal-sama's orders and treat the boy normally?

"I didn't want to hurt him."

Rem's eyes watered as her heart shattered again by the memories playing in her mind.

She couldn't believe that he loves her. Not after all this.

He was just trying to make her feel better.

"And, well… As for last night, you have my honest thanks. Nice work."

"Nice work? Always with the condescending tone… Was it something deserving of your thanks?"

Ram looked at in the direction of the Village's center, making Subaru do the same. He noticed that the adults of the village were grouped up and chatting with serious and angry faces.

"When the people of a domain suffer any loss, its lord is held liable. If that pack of ulgarm had further endangered those children… You were right to do as you did."

Subaru looked back at Ram with a confused expression. "Ulgarm? That's what those black mabeasts are called?"

"Yes, but it's all right. I reconnected the broken barrier, so the village is safe."

"Did you also look for the one who broke that barrier? I assume that you were suspicious, these things don't just brake like that." Crusch critically asked the Emilia camp or those of the camp that were present at that time.

It was finally up to the most charming of them to speak.

"Of course we did, but the trials had vanished long before I could find them. The only thing that was out of place when I investigated the scene, was a child going missing right after the rescue Barusu and my sister had concluded." Ram chronically answered while leaning on her lord's arm.

"Hmmm, and that child would be…" Anastasia asked with a tired expression as she had already knew the answer and it frustrated her.

"Meili…" Beatrice growled as she glared hatefully at the screen.

Petra frowned as she thought about the times she had played with the girl in the estate. The little maid was hurt all over again by the betrayal, and this time it was worse cause she saw how devious and cruel Meili was when trying to kill her family and friends.

"I'm not playing with her anymore." Petra glared at nothing as she made up her mind.

Ram starts to share the food with the rest of the villagers.

"I kept an eye on the barrier overnight to ensure there were no problems, so no ulgarm should be able to cross it and enter the village. So you can relax."

Subaru is shown visiting each of the children's houses, checking up on them and smiling at each of them while the parents were present.

He is shown getting thanked by Petra's parents and refusing a gift from them. He stumbled and ran out of their house with a relieved expression.

He noticed a small fancy dressed blonde girl standing at the entrance to the village.

"Beako…"

"And why are you here now?" Emilia asked with an apprehensive expression.

Both Ram and Beatrice tensed up as they knew what will be shown next.

Emilia sighed and leaned back into her chair. What a tiresome knight.

He ran towards the spirit with a happy smile.

"Hey! I heard you helped remove the curse from the kids. Thanks."

"No big deal. Betty only helped because Bubby asked, I suppose. I have something more important to discuss."

Subaru blinked in confusion.

Scene change…

Subaru was leaning on a wall while Beatrice stood before him.

"What did you bring me all the way out here to say?"

Beatrice looked at the ground for a bit, trying to find a good way to say this.

The spirit decided the blunt way was best, as she looked up at him.

"In less than half a day, you will die, I suppose."

"Come on!" Al yelled out in frustration and annoyance.

"What?" Crusch asked in surprise.

"Let's just watch for now." Wilhelm advised as he kept his gaze on the screen, he's curiosity as to how Subaru deals with this situation was making him anxious for this wonderful boy's safety.

Subaru looked down in a thoughtful gaze.

"You don't look as disturbed as I expected. I thought you'd scream and cry, I suppose." Beatrice mused while blinking at him.

"The curse still isn't lifted, then?"

"When the pack of mabeasts attacked you in the forest, they planted another curse deep inside you."

"Can I ask why this one can't be removed?"

"That's simple, I suppose. Too many curses have been placed on you, making it too complex to remove."

"Too many curses?"

Beatrice raised a finger up while explaining. "When there's only one, removing it is as simple as untying a knot. But the curses on you are a complex web of many threads, too tangled to undo." She tangled her hands together and made a pulling motion.

"Well, I get the idea that it's high on the difficulty scale. But why half a day?"

"After half a day, mabeasts activate their spells to replenish mana. The curse those mabeasts used drains a target's mana, I suppose. In other words, they made you mabeast food."

Subaru smiled uneasily. "So they attack people because they're hungry? That's an animal for you. So simple-minded!"

He dragged his hands over his face with a tired moan.

"I guess we should be thankful they never got hungry before now." He looked down with a relieved expression.

"You… Aren't even scared, I suppose?"

Everybody was looking at the screen in silence.

Those words would've scared most of them.

"The fact that he can smile when being told such a thing… " Reinhard narrowed his eyes a the ground.

"It's crushing to watch." Julius completed for his colleague as he stared at the screen with a dead stare.

Emilia looked at the Subaru beside her with a sad expression. No one has to go through what he did. If she could give him a lap pillow again she would do it.

Beatrice just stared at herself on screen with an angry glare. "Useless, infact." She spat out towards herself.

She could've helped more.

Anastasia, Crusch and Felt simply looked at the boy with critical and angry looking eyes.

"Do you think we can help him somehow?" Anastasia asked silently.

"How do you mean?" Felt asked with a raised brow.

"Maybe thereby could help?" The merchant shrugged.

"He won't be able to say anything." Crusch sternly reminded them of the curse's punishment.

Petra simply stared down at Subaru with a thoughtful look. She didn't look disturbed like the rest of the adults around her.

Subaru opened his eyes to find a disturbed and bewildered looking Beatrice staring at him, aghast.

"I'm telling you how much time you have left to live, you know."

Subaru looked away from the spirit.

"Well, sure, I'm scared. But I doubt you came here just to tell me I'm going to die. I don't think you're that mean."

"What do you know about me, I suppose?" The spirit girl's eyebrow twitched as she looked at him annoyed.

"If nothing else, I feel like I've known you four times longer than I really have."

"You make no sense!" Beatrice shook her head and glared at the boy seriously. "But it's a fact that the chance for you to be saved is much lower now."

"So tell me just how low it is."

"We're talking about eating by means of a spell. If the one that's eating dies, logic dictates the meal would be canceled, I suppose."

"So he has to kill all of those things?" Otto asked with his eyes showing worry for what will be shown.

"How many are there anyway?" Ricardo asked as he calculated what he would've done in the kid's shoes.

"It's a breeding ground. The chances of there being hundreds or thousands is likely." Julius melancholy theorized while staring at the screen with an emotionless face.

Anastasia took notice of this. But she didn't dwell on it.

"So that's it… I just have to kill the things that cursed me." He pulled his torn shirt up and looked at his scratched and scarred skin.

"But there are too many of them."

"That's why Bubby hasn't told that silly girl about the curse."

"Hmph! Even your great spirit doesn't trust a half witch." Priscilla laughed out loud as Emilia stared at the screen in shock.

She slowly turned to Beatrice with a cold expression that was hiding the hurt from the betrayal and the words shot at her by a certain cunt's mouth.

"Did Puck really know that Subaru was going to die?"

Beatrice flinched at how hurt and betrayed Emilia sounded. The little spirit just nodded slowly with a nervous look on her face.

Emilia's eyes narrowed dangerously as she growled her next question. "Did he know that there was a chance to help Subaru?"

Beatrice nodded slowly once again.

"So, Puck was willing to let Subaru die." It wasn't a question but a repeat of the conclusion in Emilia's head as she stared at the wall with a cold glare of anger.

"B-Bubby just wanted to keep his contractor safe-"

"That's enough Betty."

Beatrice shut her mouth as the angry. No. Furious Emilia leaned back and gritted her teeth at the screen.

Beatrice gulped… she wished her brother luck in surviving the future. It would be a shame if his life ended at just four hundred and one, he wasn't even an adult yet!

"Yeah, if Emilia knew, she'd definitely try to do more than she's capable of… Which makes me really happy, but also really scared."

"You could see sparks too?" Otto asked Garf as he backed away from Emilia.

The blonde boy nodded his head and did what all men do in a situation like this.

Backing as far away from the growling, glaring half-elf lady as possible.

Beatrice was tearing up as she couldn't leave her seat and back away with them.

Forget Bubby, she wished luck to her stupid contractor that keeps underestimating the elf.

"Subaruuuuu…." Emilia completely crushed the boy's hand in her grip while looking at the screen.

"She's scary."

"Shhhh! Don't make her more angry." Frederica quietly admonished Petra as they both leaned back with nervous looks.

Roswaal was trying his hardest not to giggle like a dickhead.

He didn't want to be rude.

He wasn't scared.

Not at all.

"Why is your leg shaking so much, Roswaal-sama?" Ram asked in a worried tone as she glanced at his trembling legs.

He stayed silent.

Subaru held his head in his hands in exasperation. "Man, the difficulty level here is seriously demonic! This is just plain impossible. I might as well give up-"

Subaru's mind flashed and his world stopped immediately as he remembered something.

He's eyes widened. As he started hearing a voice speaking with someone…. He was remembering a conversation… it was Rem...

"So you're going to give up? Is there no other way to save him?"

"His head must be hurting, I suppose. That's not surprising. That's all I suppose, you can do as you like with him now."

"I swear… I'll save you."

Subaru slowly looked up with his eyes dilated and shaking.

It can't be…

Subaru looked at the bored looking Beatrice.

"Where… is Rem?"

"Oh! That's why you went into the forest alone!" Petra yelled out with her eyes wide. She was a little happy that Rem was finally doing something good.

"So you DID help him." Anastasia mused to herself as she kept watching.

"Did she take them all out on her own?" Otto asked in shock.

Rem stayed silent to the whole thing and kept watching with a cold look.

"Knowing Subaru-san…" Crusch stared at the screen with a worried look.

"He will jump into the breeding grounds to help Rem-san." Wilhelm concluded to his mistress with a fond look in his eyes.

Felix sighed tiredly and watched with trembling eyes as his hatred and his jealousy filled him to the brim.

His guilt was keeping him silent and frustrated however.

Emilia just watched with an expressionless face. She will punish Puck for every injury Subaru receives, and Subaru's injuries will be counted to make him do extra chores for her as punishment for being such a dotting heroic idiot.

"That's your punishment." Emilia nodded to herself with a small smile of satisfaction.

Beatrice was horrified as she had heard the half-elf decide the fate of either of her brother or her contractor.

Oh god, what will she do? Which one will be allowed to live?

Beatrice trembled in place, afraid to look at the smug Emilia.

Her brother's future killer.

She was silent…

"Beako…"

Subaru stood up and held the girl's shoulders.

"Beatrice, where is Rem?!"

"What would you do in her position, I suppose?" She looked at him with a deadpanned expression.

"I can't ignore what you just said." A voice sounded from atop a ledge over where they were hiding.

"Ram?"

The pink maid looked down at the two and ignored Subaru.

"Beatrice-sama, Rem didn't go into that forest alone did she?" Ram was looking at the two with a scared expression.

Scene change…

Rem is walking through the forest with red aura surrounding her horned form. She was glaring and walking through bushes while bleeding all over.

"I… I have to do this alone. No one else needs to get hurt anymore!"

She was grunting in pain.

"Hm. It seems like you had a change of heart." Anastasia mused while looking at the maid from the corner of her eyes.

"You really wanted to help him that bad?" Felt asked in surprise as she saw the amount of blood on the maids form.

Rem just shook her head. "I only made things worse."

Crusch's frown deepened as she glanced at the broken Rem.

Scene change back to Subaru…

"Why? Why would Rem go to such lengths for me?"

Before anyone could answer him, Ram began running towards the forest.

Subaru quickly took hold of her hand.

"Hey! Hold on!"

"Let go of me, Barusu! I'm not calm enough to be kind right now!"

"If you want to save Rem, and if you consider me an ally at all, listen to me! Do you know where Rem is?"

"If I use my clairvoyance, I will!"

"Clairvoyance?"

"It's a power that allows me to see what the bugs and animals on my wavelength are seeing."

"That's a really useful power."

Ricardo nodded along with Julius. "It could be a godsend on recon missions."

Petra frowned a bit as she realized how useless as a maid she was. She was the only one that didn't have any special abilities.

Frederica patted her head as she understood what the little maid was bothered with immediately after seeing her pout.

"So they're like your security cameras? Well, if we can use it to get to Rem, then fine."

Subaru let go of her and looked determined. "So, are you the kind of maid that fights?"

"What does that even mean?"

"It means I'm going into the forest with you."

"Of course he would! Why did we think different?"

Ricardo snorted at Al's statement. "Speak for ya self, pal. I was waiting for him to say that."

"You're going to follow me?"

"Yeah. I'm bound to slow you down in a fight, you know." Subaru smiled wide.

"If you expect me to be able to fight like Rem does in her demon form, I can't."

"You're twins, right? If Rem is a demon, aren't you a demon, too?"

Ram looked down with a pained expression donning her face. "Unlike Rem, I'm hornless."

"Why is that, nyan?" Felix asked Ram with an interested look.

"I think that you should stay silent and watch."

Felix looked down and gritted his teeth in anger at the maid's despicable attitude.

Ram snorted at the boy's angry expression and watched as this perverted screen showed her private memories.

"Huh?" Subaru looked confused at this.

Ram smiled up at him. "I can only use a rather extreme bit of wind magic." She suddenly waved her hand and the entire ground shook around Subaru as the wind slashed at it.

"Going to retrieve the younger sister, would mean giving up on your own life. You do understand that, I suppose?" Beatrice walked beside the two.

"That's not quite right. Let me correct you." Subaru smiled smugly.

"It's dumb to get into the habit of giving up because you're used to dying. Life is precious! You only get one! I realized that when you guys went through so much to save mine. So if you don't mined, I'm going to struggle pathetically. Let's go make a comeback! I've bounced back from the terrible state I was in. I'm a greedy guy, and I want to see the continuation of this story, with me in it!"

As Beatrice and Ram looked at the boy with surprised eyes, Subaru smirked wide as he shouted in determination.

"Now, let's get moving to our last big showdown!"

The boy slammed his knuckles and shouted to the sky in excitement. "Bring it on, Fate-sama!"

Subaru Natsuki… was determined to fight fate.

He won't die again.

"He has a way with words, I suppose." Beatrice smiled at the screen.

Emilia nodded her head and gently nudged Subaru's arm. Although she was sad and angry at him for not trusting her as much, she still found it endearing how hard he tries to help his friends, especially someone that had wronged him in such a brutal way.

"This kid is trying to fire himself up." Ricardo sighed in amusement.

Otto and Garfiel where just watching the screen with wide excited expressions. They always loved the way he fires himself up like this. He looked so cool when he did it.

"He's determined…" Anastasia sighed and leaned back to watch this kid get hurt once again.

"Let's see how he wins this." Felt leaned back and got ready for her big bro's exciting adventure.

Scene change….

"You gave a pretty heroic speech back there, but when I see you so close to becoming nothing but baggage, it's difficult to hide my disappointment."

The boy that had been tempting fate moments before was shown breathing heavily while leaning on a shining sword.

Never before has Ram seen such gayness.

"Ah, I should've known." Julius had to shake his head and hide a smile at the comedic sight as people all around him where giggling and chuckling.

"That's just how useless he is." Ram snorted with a smile.

"Has he no shame?" Priscilla asked while glaring at him in tired annoyance.

He got her excited for nothing!

Felt was laughing her ass off while her knight was just smirking at the screen.

Petra and Frederica giggled at the wannabe butler's ridiculousness.

Rem kept her head down…

"I'm still recovering, so my energy is spent, and I'm low on blood… oh, and I didn't get to hear Emilia-tan say, 'See you soon.'" Subaru tried to make excuses between heavy breathes.

"Hmph! You won't hear it again after this stunt!" Emilia was pouting heavily at the boy's useless attempt to flatter her from his punishment.

"Oh come on! He's still thinking about you, so cut him some slack." Anastasia found it amusing to mess with the naive Emilia. And she laughed out loud when the elf girl glared at the boy harder.

"Until you say, 'I'm home,' last night's 'See you soon' is still in effect."

"I-Is that how it works?"

"Besides, didn't you get something from someone other than Emilia-sama?"

Subaru quickly unsheathed the sword and smirked at it. "Yeah, something really awesome."

"Yeah, I remember that!" Petra giggled as she remembered how excited the young men's leader was when Subaru agreed to take the sharpest sword in the village.

"I wonder what happened to it." The little maid asked herself softly as she had never seen Subaru holding the sword again.

Flashback to a villager handing him the sword.

"Take this. It's the sharpest sword in the village."

"Thanks, man." Subaru smiled and took the sword.

"Subaru!"

The boy was surprised to find the kids running toward him.

"Hey, you guys! You're awake?"

The kids grouped around him and Petra took the lead in asking him where he was going.

"Where are you going? Back into the forest?"

"Don't go back there, Subaru!"

"I'll be fine. Don't worry. I'm not going anywhere."

"What's the sword for?" a kid asked

"This?" Subaru looked at the sword in his hand.

"It's a thank you gift from all of us." The leader of the young men in the village told in a tone filled with gratitude.

Subaru found himself suddenly surrounded by the children as they all began grabbing him and placing things into his pockets.

"I wanna thank you, too!"

"Hey!"

"You can have this!"

"And this!"

Flash back end…

"Awe! The villagers have really taken to him." Frederica cooed in delight.

Subaru sheathed the sword and picked the kids' gifts that were in his pocked.

"A candy, a pretty stone… and…."

The boy screamed like a not boy and threw the giant slimy centipede away.

"There was a freaking bug in it! Damn brats, sneaking that in while I was distracted! I'll give them a talking-to later!"

"Hahahahaha" Otto and Garfiel laughed out loud along with Al and Ricardo.

"Hehehe, Who was it that did that?" Felt asked while giggling.

Petra couldn't answer as she was busy laughing.

Emilia and Beatrice smirked as they both were starting to like seeing Subaru get teased by those kids. It was such a satisfying sight.

Subaru wiped the slime on his coat.

Ram looked away from him and spoke in a condescending tone. "It's just proof that they admire you. I wonder what they see in a man like you… "

Subaru smiled smugly. "In the pure eyes of a child, my true manly nature shines."

The screen showed a picture of Subaru if he a had been a true man.

Julius couldn't help but snort.

Felix and Priscilla were outright laughing at the image.

"Do you like him better like that?" Anastasia asked Emilia with a curious smile.

Emilia shook her head and smiled up at the merchant. "My Subaru is just fine the way he is. Except for the way he doesn't keep his promises."

"That doesn't sound like a good quality." Crusch couldn't help her jealousy from sounding in her little snip at the half-elf.

Emilia just shrugged and leaned on the knight beside her. Making many of the individuals behind and beside her to scowl a bit jealously.

"Also, I'm not the only one they like. You could tell, right?"

Ram looked at him apprehensively. "Yes…"

Flashback..

Ram was glaring as the kids compounded around Subaru, filling his pockets with gifts.

"Take this!"

"And this too!"

"Hey! Why did you put dirt in there?"

"Just accept it!"

Ram was gritting her teeth and breathing in and out to calm her fury.

"Ram-chi!"

The maid was surprised to see Petra and the others smiling at her.

"We want to thank Rem-rin too, so bring her over later!"

Ram looked dumbfounded.

"Promise, Ram-chi!"

Flashback end….

Ram smiled and looked at her sister in hope that she saw that.

Rem was looking at the screen with an emotionless expression, but her eyes were wide.

Otto noticed this and smiled a bit. "Maybe this viewing could help cheer her up." The merchant mused to himself.

Ram had a small smile on her face that lasted only a second before she turned to the boy.

"Barusu, I'm going to use my clairvoyance. Wait a moment."

Ram turned and a scarlet like aura surrounded her form as she closed her eyes and began switching POV's with many animals and insects around the forest.

"That's kind off creepy." Tivey whined in disgust.

"It's cool!" Mimi yelled at her brother.

Until she had a POV of someone's eyes looking at her and Subaru.

"Barusu, something is watching us right now."

"What?"

"Up there!" Ram quickly opened her eyes and pointed.

Subaru turned and found an ulgarm dog speeding towards him.

"Subaru!" Petra shouted in fear.

Emilia and Beatrice held his hands and glared at the screen to see how goes about this.

Rem watched with her eyes analyzing ever bit of trauma she had caused him. Her love. Her hero.

The boy she had murdered.

The boy brought his sword up to protect himself, but the dog was suddenly cut in half and Subaru looked on as the corpse sled across from him, spewing guts and blood all over.

Ram suddenly turned and shot a wind blade towards a hidden beast.

"More are coming."

Ram sent a blade that had cut another beast in half.

Subaru screamed in fear as the two halves sled towards him.

"Pathetic." Priscilla snorted in amusement while Otto and Garfiel lowered their heads in shame at their brother's cowardice... They also suppressed small chuckles.

"Hey! D-Don't just walk off!"

"Anyway, why does every individual lose their head when they see you? I don't understand. Because you seem so weak?"

"After all that hesitation, that's your conclusion? How rude!"

"Because you seem like a wimp, then?"

"That doesn't change the root of what you're saying, Onee-sama!" Subaru groaned and continued walking into the forest with Ram beside him.

"Hey, can I ask what that hornless thing you mentioned means?" Subaru asked, trying to kill the silence.

Ram looked down with a frown on her face.

"Nothing special. Just as it sound, it's another name for a foolish demon that lost its horn. I got into a bit of trouble and lost my only horn. I've relied on Rem for everything ever since."

Rem looked shocked that her sister would say such a thing. Ram was amazing at everything how could she ever think that she needs to rely on a replacement piece like Rem?

The blue haired maid clenched her dress in both hands as she found another thing to torment herself with… she made her sister feel incompetent.

Subaru looked down with a guilty frown.

"I guess I shouldn't have asked, huh?"

"Why?"

"Well, I don't know how important horns are to the race you call demons, but I assume it's a pretty serious problem. I just thought asking about it might have been insensitive."

Ram continued walking without being affected by the conversation.

"Back then was one thing, but now, things have calmed down. There are things I've gained, and lives I've saved, by losing my horn. I'm sure Rem doesn't feel the same way, though."

"Huh?"

Ram stopped and turned to the boy to explain.

The screen shows Rem growling with barred teeth and her horn glowing dangerously.

"That's scary." Tivey hid behind his sister while she huffed at him.

"WEAK!"

"Such is the true nature of those disgusting demon spawns. No wonder they were eradicated." Priscilla fanned herself while glaring at the screen nastily.

Ram held the him of her dress in pure fury at the words of this scummy woman.

Rem… she held her head down for bringing shame to her sister and family.

"Originally, members of the demon race had two horns, but twins are born with just one horn each. So twins are detested, and it's customary to dispose of them immediately after birth. But Rem and I were allowed to live."

"What disgusting policy to have." Crusch shook her head at the extreme way those demons lived.

"Are you sure that your policies won't have the same effect?" Anastasia thoughtfully inquired to the disgusted Crusch.

The militarized duchess stayed silent and thought about some of her out of touch policies and the way she would've ran the kingdom.

The screen showed the blue haired demon maid getting surrounded by beasts.

"A demon's horns awaken its demon instincts and allow it to devour mana heightening its combat ability."

The window zooms in on the pink glowing horn as it sucked the mana dry from the air and the atmosphere around Rem.

"But if one is reckless, the recoil will leave them battered."

Rem is shown laughing and manically moving her arms as she smashed and stomped multiple beasts dead while cutting more ulgarms by her mace.

"I don't want to see Rem like that."

Rem flinched and closed her eyes as the shameful self she's despised showed herself on the window before her and all those around her.

"Man, that's badass!" Garfiel called out in pure excitement as his legs were shaking and yearning to fight something like a crazed out Rem.

The blonde boy couldn't see that he was the only one that was excited.

Emilia and Beatrice looked on with fearful gazes as the memories of Rem's torture of Subaru played again.

"What would happen if the insane Rem sniffed the witch on Subaru-san?" Otto asked, tone so serious it made Garfiel stop a moment to process this.

"She would try to kill him no doubt." Julius concluded with his golden eyes showing worry.

"Do you know how Subaru got through this? You said that this was the right one and he didn't …." Felt pleaded down to Petra as he eyes trembled and her heart clenched her chest at the thought of this boy dying once again.

She couldn't see him die again after all it took for him to get back up.

Felt didn't want to see him so broken again.

Petra shrugged her shoulders as the fear of what the knight had described was beginning to settle in her mind.

"Subaru…"

Petra watched just as worried as Emilia and Beatrice were.

"Are you worried because you care for Rem?"

"Of course I am. It's true that she is stronger than I am, but that's no reason not to worry about her. No matter what were told to do, she does it far better. But I am her older sister. I won't ever waver from that position." Ram looked at Subaru with a resolute look.

Rem's eyes widened as she heard her amazing sister belittle herself to compliment her. How could she be so despicable like this? To make her older sister go through such delusions?

"Rem is so disgusting."

Otto glanced as he heard the maid speak to herself.

How could he help? What would Subaru do?

"Come on, idiot." Otto said to Subaru as he gritted his teeth, worried and tired of his friend's idiocy.

Save this girl, damn it!

Subaru stared at her for a moment before smiling. "Okay, I get it. I've got an idea. So don't worry. We'll bring Rem back safe!"

Scene change to Subaru and Ram standing in an open area.

Subaru is looking worried about something.

"What's he doing now?" Al asked, sounding slightly annoyed.

"It's probably something dangerous." Reinhard looked at the screen with rapid interest. He wanted to know what he's weaker colleague would do to achieve happiness for the people around him.

"Of course it it." Julius waved his fingers in his hair to appease his frustration at Subaru's tiresome habit.

If my idea is right, they're sure to come. They'll be drawn here by my attempt to tell her about Return by Death.

Ram's eyes widened as she finally understood what happened on that day.

"Stupid Barusu!"

"Oh no!" Petra gasped in shock.

"What! That's insane, I suppose!" Beatrice yelled out in pure horror.

"No…" Emilia whispered and looked at the screen in frustration as her uselessness made her knight think of putting himself in the arms of the witch herself just to save someone dear to him.

Part of her couldn't help but blame Rem for this.

"I'm so sorry." Rem finally uttered loudly as she understood what her stupidity had caused.

Subaru closed his eyes and breathed to prepare himself.

"Ram, the thing is, I can Retur-"

* THAAAAAGGGG*

A black hand is shown attacking Subaru.

Ram is looking around in spooked panic as the birds were flying out of the trees as if disturbed by something.

"He made it back!" Felix was shocked that the witch hadn't punished Subaru with death.

"It seems that she doesn't intend to harm him, just punish him for talking about the power." Anastasia sounded angry as she mused her thoughts.

"What kind of punishment is that? Crushing your heart?!" Otto yelled out as the circumstances for his brother's stay in this world were clear to them all once again.

"How did Subaru deal with this?" Tivey winced as he saw how the hand crushed the boy's heart.

"'Cuz he has too. If he needs ta save anyone he will do what he must." Garfiel looked serious for once as he remembered that fateful day where he fought his cap'n at the tomb.

"What's that?" She asked Subaru as he grabbed his collar and began wheezing.

The Witch had grabbed his heart once again.

"I made a wager that brought a bit of pain with it." Subaru wheezed and gasped in pain.

"What did you do, Barusu?"

Ram looked at the boy with a worried look.

"The wind is erratic, and I smell beasts approaching! A lot of them! And we haven't found Rem yet!"

"Why are the beast attracted to him?" Frederica asked as she watched with a confused expression as events began building up.

"The beasts follow the witch's miasma." Crusch sounded out in disbelief as she finally understood how the boy brought down a whale with him.

"This kid…" Through her shock and horror of the boy's insanity, the duchess couldn't help but let out a smirk full of excitement.

Ram looked around as the sounds of bushes and tree leaves hustling and bustling.

"Well, don't worry. I'm pretty sure we'll cross paths soon."

Subaru quickly took his sword out of the sheath.

"What makes you so sure?" Ram asked as she faced his back with hers while getting ready as the noises from the bushes and trees intensified.

"Because of the witch's scent!" Subaru smirked as he looked around with his sword ready.

Ram's eyes widened but she continued to look around.

"Rem's goal is to hunt down all mabeasts, right? The mabeasts will be drawn to the witch's scent and come right to me. Then Rem will have no choice but to follow them toward me. I call it: Operation: Natsuki Subaru Is the Bait!"

"Idiot!"

"Moron, I suppose!"

Beatrice and Emilia both slapped the back of his sleeping head in anger and worry.

Multiple different mabeasts surrounded the two.

Subaru readied his sword and smiled to Ram. "Okay, I'm gonna have to rely on you to do the fighting, so go for it!"

"That's not manly man." Ricardo laughed as his chest heaved with excitement at the events playing.

"Ram can take 'em all!" Garfiel cheered as he would see the lady his heart was after in action and not killing his Captain.

"When this is over, take an objective look at what you just said until you wish you were dead!" Ram quickly sent a windblade toward an attacking ulgram.

And the battle ensued.

Scene change…

Broken trees…

corpses of fallen and crushed dog beasts…

A blood covered mace…

Rem was looking down catatonic and covered in blood and grime.

"Man, she's so fearsome." Al yelled out clearly amazed by the destruction.

Many nodded with him.

Ram frowned deeply at the shape her sister was in.

She turned around suddenly as she caught the smell of something.

Scene change to Subaru running into the forest while carrying a sack of potatoes called Ram under his arm.

"This is what I get for believing you when you said you could fight!" Subaru shouted as he ran form the hordes of dog beasts chasing his ass.

"Well, I was fighting, wasn't I? My strength just didn't hold out as long as I thought it would." Ram voiced out barely above a whisper.

"That's sooo laaaaame!"

"Boooo!"

"Da fuck?! I didn't even get ta see the fight!"

"Ram sucks!"

Ram had the decency to blush from embarrassment as the crowed of kids plus Garfiel and Al booed her on the screen.

"You're all pathetic." the maid spat out in embarrassment.

"Damn it!"

Subaru ran and ran until he found a cliff before him.

The boy cursed and jumped form the ledge, making him slide down the entire hill with Ram screaming under his arm.

Subaru glared as he was sliding and stabbed his sword into the mountain to stop the fall.

"D-Damn it all!"

The Sword did its job and stuck on a growing vine from the side of the mountain, making Subaru and Ram halt to a stop from falling to their doom as the boy held on to it.

"Nice quick thinking!" Ricardo clapped in excitement while the Emilia camp all watched with worry clear in their eyes.

"That blade!" Reinhard's eyes widened as he noticed.

The sharpest blade was…. Cheap shit.

"We were almost dead meat…"

"If we fall, we'll both be in trouble. Barusu, can you climb up?"

"I'd like to make it up by sheer will power, but the mabeasts waiting up there are a problem-"

* CLANK!*

"Subaru!" Petra yelled in worry. So that's what happened to the sword.

Emilia and Beatrice held his hands in fear as they watched with hitched breathes.

Subaru could only scream as he fell to his doom while clenching Ram's potato sack body and his now broken sword.

"The sharpest sword!" The boy screamed as he fell to the ground.

"El Fula!" Ram sent a wind blade to the ground below them making an explosion of wind happen which made blew both her and Subaru up towards the air.

Subaru quickly landed on his feet and scrambled to position himself with his arms stretched so he could prevent Ram from falling to the floor and carry her princess style.

"That was close… Seriously, Ram-sama had timing like Buddha… " Subaru's face is shown sweating bullets.

He quickly looked down at the silent maid in his grasp. "Ram?"

Ram was unconscious and bleeding from her nose.

"You gave your last bit of strength to help him." Crusch smirked at the maid.

"Hmph! I merely helped myself since he was so useless." Ram looked away with an expressionless face.

Crusch smirked smugly and looked at the screen. It didn't need to be said… the wind of untruth was blowing around her like a storm.

"H-Hey! Damn it… You can't be serious!"

Subaru looked behind him and found a horde of growling glaring dog beasts cornering him against the mountainous wall of rocks he had dropped from.

"Shit, this timing couldn't be worse… "

"No kidding." Al snorted while sitting at the edge of his seat to watch what happens.

"How will he get out of this one?" Priscilla mused to herself….in excitement?

* Thump!*

The butler boy looked up to see what made some rocks fall beside him.

And suddenly, a horned blue haired maid dropped on her two feet right between Subaru and the beasts.

"Rem!" Subaru called in relief.

"She's come to save him!" Petra cheered.

Priscilla snorted. "Typical, he needs someone to save him every time."

Rem however couldn't remember these events. She was so in a haze that her mind couldn't remember a thing about what she did in that horned form.

"Please don't hurt him…." she begged in despair as she watched. Eyes wavering.

The maid looked back and smirked at him… sadistically…

"Uh-oh." Felt leaned forward to watch in anxious worry.

"Thank goodness you're alive! We're saved!" He sighed in relief.

What had surprised him however… was when an oncoming mace was shot towards him.

Subaru quickly dropped on his back while clenching Ram as close to himself as possible, narrowly avoiding the attack and making the mace miss him and crush the wall of rock behind him.

"She can tun into a demon but she can't control it?!"

"That was too close!" Otto leaned on his brother to calm his beating heart.

"'its not over yet!" Garfiel pushed his bro off as he watched with panic filling his heart.

Emilia and Beatrice gritted their teeth in unison as they watched the dire situation Subaru was in.

Subaru looked up at the crazy psychotic demon that was the maid sister of the one in his arms.

She was going to attack him…

"Hey, Rem! My name is Natsuki Subaru! A completely useless trainee in odd jobs! The Roswaal mansion's most promising servant! I've always caused trouble for you and Ram, but we've been friends at times, "

Subaru quickly moved out of the way and clenched his body around Ram's as he carried her.

* CRACK!*

Once again he narrowly avoided being hit by the on coming mace making it hit the wall of rocks. He grunted in pain as his shoulder was bleeding from being grazed by the close call that was Rem's attack.

Rem began crying in despair as she so what she was doing to her love and her sister as well. She was a monster a monster a monster.

"That was too close again." Frederica gasped as she hugged the frightened Petra.

"Trying to beat me to death while I'm still talking is bad manners!" He shouted with tears in his eyes.

Rem was about to attack the boy but the horde of ulgrams had decided to stop watching the show and attack.

As Rem began slaughtering the oncoming dogs, Subaru quickly place potato Ram over his shoulder and picked his broken sword.

"Now's my chance…"

The little pup from before was seen growling and commanding the dogs.

"Is he the leader of those things?!" Felt asked in anger.

"Is that girl there as well?" Julius looked at Ram and Rem with a hardened stare.

Ram shook her head. "I was pretty meticulous when looking for the mabeast user. That girl was long gone before this all went down." Although she spoke calmly, the Oni was seething with rage as she watched her sister's deprived state.

Suddenly, an ulgarm beast came out of the ground and attacked Rem.

The maid blocked him with her arm and started punching his face until his skull broke.

Another dog butted his head into hers, making her fly away and drop on her back.

Subaru stopped running and looked back.

"Damn, it's no use! I can't ignore her! Take the plunge, Subaru! Men are about gut, and women are about beauty! So…"

Subaru took a deep breath and shouted at the top of his lungs…

"Quit making that scary face, and try to smile, Rem! I can Return by-"

The world stopped and his heart was clenched softly again.

In a second… all ulgarms and Rem turned to stare at Subaru…

and they all howled and screamed furiously together, Oni and Beasts.

"This idiot!" Anastasia facepalmed at the kid's idiotic tendencies.

Wilhelm smiled softly and proudly as he saw himself saying the same thing to his beloved wife many years ago. He was wrong of course, but Subaru will learn the same way he did.

Rem shook her head and stopped breathing as she watched eyes wide as the events played out on the screen.

She couldn't handle hurting him some more.

"He still thinks he's some hero?" Felix softly asked as his wide eyes couldn't stop looking at the screen in disbelief.

"No, he's just pumping himself up with these words. He can't watch someone dear to him get hurt like that." Al answered for the healer.

The cat boy looked down with his eyes filled with confusion and pain. "But she killed him… why is he saving her after what she did to him?"

Crusch glanced at her haunted looking knight and shook her head. "That's just who Natsuki-sama is."

Felix couldn't understand it. He would never go so far like Subaru is. He wouldn't be like Subaru. Couldn't. And that fact broke him.

"Is he better than me?" The healer wondered to himself as his fists shook with fear and anger.

Reinhard and Julius watched the scene play out with glares of shame and disillusionment .

"I don't think I would've been this kind." Julius whispered softly.

Reinhard couldn't help but agree.

"No one is this kind."

Everyone looked at the proud and exasperated Otto as he smiled at them.

"No one is like Cap'n cuz Cap'n is an idiot!"

Everyone was more confused as Garfiel smirked from beside Otto and gave his own much less flattering opinion.

"Yes, Subaru is a dum dum." Emilia smiled softly at her knight and decided that it would be best to just watch without letting her worry ruin this for her.

Her knight was about to look so cool! She couldn't stop the tingles in her stomach.

"I'm a four hundred year old spirit and I don't even say that anymore, infact."

"Oh, hush Beako! That's Subaru's thing."

Subaru simply breathed in and out as he tried to get his abused heart beating once again.

Rem quickly swiped her mace stronger and began slaughtering the dogs at insane speeds. Subaru quickly ran away from the scene.

"Her horn…" Ram called weakly.

"You're awake?!"

"That should have been the perfect moment."

"You've got good intuition, Onee-sama! What about her horn?"

Dogs chased Subaru as he ran away, only to have themselves crushed by a hopping black mace.

"It's the horn that's making Rem a demon. One good, solid hit should bring her back to normal."

"You're sure!?"

"I am. I think. I hope."

"That's vague!"

Rem is shown cartwheeling and jumping constantly while killing and crushing ulgarm after ulgarm.

Subaru looked at the crazy demon from afar with a daunted face at the task.

"That's gonna be impossible." Al stated in a defeated tone.

Many nodded their heads with worried and disinterested faces.

"You really think thaaaat will stop Subaru-kun?" Roswaal asked in amusement and leaned back to watch with a wide smile. He didn't like Ram being so close to danger but he trusted Subaru.

"Aren't you supposed to be doing this job instead of your weakest butler?" Crusch asked with a clear discomfort on her face from calling the boy weak.

"As you've seen Crusch-sama, I wasn't really avaaaaailable to help Subaru-kun at the moment. I would never let members of my staaaaff to face something so dastardly on their oooown. Especially not the ones that are very dear to me."

Ram blushed at the statement.

"So you would help Subaru if you were present during the troubles?" Reinhard asked while actiating his blessing on the clown.

Roswaal spread his arms wide and smiled. "Of coooooourse!"

"He's not lying." Reinhard concluded as the est began to settle down and watch with uneasy glances at the clown.

"A hit on that one spot… Doesn't that seem impossible?"

"Muster up all your wisdom and courage, and do something."

"I actually do have an idea for something we can do, but it'll make you mad."

Rem's emotionless disturbing face stares at them both.

"If it'll bring my sister back to her senses, I won't get mad."

"Really?" Subaru started to get up while carrying Ram.

"Absolutely."

"What is he doing?" Roswaal lost his accent and contorted a serious looking expression.

Oddly, it put everyone on edge.

"You swear to Ros-chi?"

"That's the most reckless name you could have chosen. Yes, I swear to Roswaal-sama."

"What the fuck is he doing?" Roswaal glared at the screen now.

Ram just blushed and looked down from her master.

"Alright…"

Subaru began stepping closer to the mind broken Rem. Seeing her step closer while clenching the chains of her morning-star, he began to run at her with Ram in both hands.

"Heave… Ho!" Subaru ran to gain momentum and… threw Ram towards Rem.

Everyone turned to shield Subaru as a certain angry clown stood up abruptly from his chair.

"It's okay, Roswaal-sama!" Ram tried to calm her lord down. "He was saving my sister."

The clown with no balloons seemed to have calmed down and slowly smiled towards the bunch.

"Sooooorry I seem to have lost my temper theeeere."

As Roswaal sat down, Emilia and Beatrice continued to hug the boy tightly while looking at the clown with gazes of distrust.

Rem's eyes widened at her hero's audacity.

The pink haired maid dived in the air and passed the dog beasts as she sped towards Rem.

The crazed Oni finally seemed to have got some of her senses as she let the chains go and quickly took hold of Ram.

Subaru quickly ran towards the sister with his sword at the ready.

"Hey! That seemed to have worked!" Otto cheered for his friend on screen.

"He does know how to make a plan with whats in his grasp at the moment." Crusch remembered how he used a giant fucking tree to kill the whale.

This boy was devious. And she loved it.

He prepared to strike at Rem's horn but he immediately lost his focus when he looked at her blue cold eyes.

He's swing missed.

"Oh come on, Cap'n!" Garfiel facepalmed in despair at his captain's missup.

Emilia and Beatrice's breathing hitched and leaned on the edge of their seats.

Rem watched with her breathing halted and her eyes wide.

I freaked out! I didn't have the guts to take the last step!

"Laaaameeee!" Mimi and…. Roswaal?! Sounded out in frustration.

As Subaru was dropping on the ground, a burst of air broke through the forest floor right at the spot where he was landing making Subaru fly through the air above all the mabeasts as well as Rem.

The little pup looked up at the flying Subaru.

Rem held her sister and looked up at Subaru.

Subaru twisted his body and looked down at Rem as he began falling straight towards her.

"What's he gonna do know?" Anastasia asked as she leaned forward with the rest of the crowed to watch the exciting scene.

Rem moved her hand to send her mace towards the flying boy. But then a crack sounded and a few more bursts of air and shock waves cracked the ground, making her focus her attention on grabbing her sister tightly and stomping the floor so hard that the entire area formed into a crater around her and her foot.

"Daaaaamn!" Al shouted.

"Holy shit!" Ricardo yelled with his eyes wide in shock.

"That's cool!" Garfiel whistled to the maid on screen.

"Impressive." Reinhard complimented as he never would've expected the small maid to have such strength.

Rem would've blushed at all the praise had she not been completely shaking in fear at what herself will do to Subaru.

Subaru glared and gripped his sword tight with both hands.

If I let this chance go by, there won't be any others!

As he began free falling towards the insane maid, he shouted.

"Why do you want to save me?"

"Smile, Rem!"

"But I hurt you!"

He sped towards her with his sword ready above his head.

"Today, I'm more demonically inspired than a real demon!"

"….ghk!"

* CRANK!*

And with his swipe, the sword of the new butler clashed with the head maid's glowing horn.

Title card:

Demonically Inspired Methods

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Frederica giggled at the excited looking Petra.

"Having fun watching your hero doing something heroic?" Ricardo teased the little maid and laughed when she shyly hid her red face in Frederica's stomach. The big maid glared jokingly at the dogman.

"You can breath now sister."

Rem looked frigid and manic as she turned to face her sister.

"S-Sis…"

"Barusu managed to calm you down with that hit and you should know the rest of the story from there."

Rem's eyes widened and tears began falling from her tired red eyes. "I w-won't hurt him anymore?"

Ram only smiled and sat beside her sister.

Roswaal smiled at the sight and nodded his head proudly. He told Ram to go at the right moment.

He was proud of his two little maids… Oops someone was looking at him! He needs to stop smiling like a proud father and smile like an evil doll.

Crusch was looking at the clown from her seat with a look of apprehensiveness.

Why was the wind of untruth blowing from him?

He wasn't saying anything.

Screen change to a blood red moon hovering in the darkness of the night.

"Why is 't night time now?"

"What's with that scary moon?"

Otto and Garfiel looked at the screen in confusion as did most of the watchers behind them.

"What happened with Rem and Subaru?" Petra asked in worry.

The scene shown is that of a group of people standing in a circle in the middle of a village surrounded by many mountains.

Rem and Ram both gasped in shock with trembling hands gripped tight between one another.

"What is it, Rem?" Emilia softly asked as she witnessed one of the most horrified looks she had ever seen in all her life on the maids' faces. And considering that people call her Satella when they see her… that was saying something.

The Oni girl just opened and closed her mouth like a finish as her wide eyes were filled with tears.

"Keep watching, Emilia-sama."

Emilia felt a chill run down her spine at Roswaal's serious tone.

The clown almost looked sad as he watched with thin lips and dull eyes.

"I don't think this will be good." Felix said to his mistress as he backed away from the clearly upset clown.

Crusch could only nod in silence and look at the screen with practical suspicion.

"To us to the demon clan, twins are taboo."

An old strict looking man stepped infront of the villagers while a pink haired woman was being restrained behind him. "Please wait, Chief!" She pleaded as her arms were held against her will.

"No! To protect our pride as a race, we must dispose of them. Such is the demon clan's custom!"

"This is the demon clan?" Julius quickly took out a notebook to record this. This clan has been lost to history with no survivors found of the once feared peoples.

"What is he talking about?" Felt asked as she didn't like the way he was speaking about some twins… oh shit.

In the middle of the huddled group of villagers, there was a table that had a basket in it.

A basket which two adorable baby's were laying in. The two infants were nearly identical in looks even sprouting one horn on each of their foreheads that looked the same.

The only difference… one had blue hair, and the other had pink.

"Is that…?!" Petra pointed in shock as others began recognizing the twins.

"Oh my gosh! It's baby Ram and Rem!" Emilia squealed at the sight. Her expression quickly turned to one of pure horror. "Wait… "

"He's gonna kill them?!" Otto shouted in disgust at such a stupid low.

Some in the crowed looked alarmed and angry at this.

"Stupid mongrels." Even the nasty princess herself was shooting seething disgust out of her scarlet eyes at the old chief of the clan.

"It is our law!"

The villagers watched as the Chief raised his arm to the two newborns.

Two sharp and powerful white horns suddenly manifested out of the Chief's head.

Julius and Reinhard's eyes widened as the full power of an Oni was present before them.

"That's messed up." Garfiel shouted in fury at the man as he clenched his fists. He wanted to save Ram so badly it hurt him to remain in the chair.

The blue haired baby was spooked by the old man's appearance as he glared at them, so she began crying in fright.

"He made little maid-chan cry!" "Meanie!" Mimi and Tivey shouted as they glared at the heartless chief in anger.

"Good riddance." Al softly and quietly whispered as he nodded with the old man's doing.

Behind his helmet… the eyes of a man finally achieving revenge was clear.

Al was happy that the twins were going to be killed.

The pink hared girl looked at her crying twin and glared angrily at the old man.

Suddenly, a bright red light started flowing around the pink haired baby and a force field of wind appeared around the basket.

"Woah!"

"Damn!"

Al gripped his chair handle with shaking anger.

The others began marveling at Ram's baby power.

The village looked on in shock and awe as the red light stopped covering the two and a whirlwind was shot at the old man, knocking him away from the two sisters.

The chief looked at the pink haired girl with his jaw open in pure shock.

"This child is… " He uttered in disbelief.

Ram closed her eyes and scowled at the screen. She could feel the way her sister's emotions dropped in a second by seeing this moment.

The moment where Ram became the village's prodigy.

Scene change…

The screen shows the two infants have grown into two cute little girls. The two were standing infront of a waterfall while the villagers and the chief stood behind them.

"So they let you live?" Anastasia looked on with interest.

"T-They let us live because Onee-sama would've unleashed her power every time they tried." Rem finally spoke in a hoarse and broken voice.

Everyone else was too interested with the village before them and too taken in by the relief that they won't be seeing infants get killed for a stupid law, too care about the broken Oni girl and her angry scowling sister as they looked at the screen with tears in their eyes.

The pink haired Oni raised her arm and began citing a spell that forced the waterfall to turn into a whirlwind that soared through the air and forced the water to drop all over the village and the farms.

"That's amazing wind magic! I never mastered such a hard spell!" Mimi yelled out in awe at the demon's powerful advanced spells.

Everyone else was also looking at the screen with varied looks of amazement and interest.

Reinhard and Julius were both noting and writing all they could find of the lost demon culture no matter how trivial it was.

This was very valuable information that could serve the kingdom fo-

"Nerds." "Losers."

Garfiel and Felt fist pumped as they snorted at the two.

Both the greatest of knights and the Sword Saint, clenched their pens and carried on their duty of gathering this informa- (of being gay nerds while hoping to capture a speed like mine.)

The entire population of the Oni village stared at Ram in amazement.

"She is a true prodigy."

"Such power, with only one horn!"

"If she had two horns…"

The small blue haired little girl looked behind her in sadness.

"Awe, little cute Rem-rin is feeling left out." Emilia gasped in sadness for the little girl. She couldn't help but see herself in her.

Ram just held her sister tightly as the those retched feelings of guilt and anger came back to fill her black soul.

Scene change…

The two twins are sitting with their parents, eating lunch.

"Close your eyes."

"Please, close them."

"I don't want you to go through this alone sister."

Ram hugged her sister and cried with her… their parents weren't helping with Rem's pain but they were still their parents.

Seeing again and so alive as well… it was just too much for the two demon twins.

So Ram and Rem cried in silence. Roswaal looked at them with emotionless eyes. For a second.

Just a second.

There was a glint of pain.

"Very good, Ram!" The dad applauded in pride.

"Rem, you'll have to follow your sister's example and work hard."

"Don't worry! One day, Rem will show us that she has incredible power."

"Hmmm, looks like the blue one was pathetic in the eyes of her own parents."

"That's not a nice thing to say."

"And why should I adhere to a rat's opinion?"

Felt growled at the nasty fiery maiden while Ram glared at the candidate.

Priscilla smirked and watched the screen with pride.

"You're right. She is Ram's sister, after all."

"We expect great things."

Rem looked down in sadness.

Ram stared at her sister with a worried gaze.

"They're acting as if Rem's not good enough." Emilia was heartbroken by the way the parents treated Rem.

Scene change…

Rem is standing all alone in the middle of the night right were her sister stood in the morning.

Right infront of the water fall.

The little girl summoned her horn out and began shooting the same spell Ram had used. The same whirlwind of water came out of the waterfall's pit but suddenly it collapsed into nothing as Rem's magic was too weak to keep it staple unlike her sister.

Rem was splashed with water as she stared at the waterfall in disappointment.

"Don't worry."

Rem looked behind her to find her sister standing there.

"Sissy… "

Ram was smiling at her sister.

"Just be you Rem. You don't have to worry about what people say."

Rem just stared at her.

"Ram-san was such a good sister!" Petra clasped her hands together at the sheer sweetness of the scene.

"The older sister did right to stand by her sissy, I suppose."

Emilia smiled at Beatrice. Even the little spirit was taken in by the sisterly bond.

Scene change…

Rem is shown struggling to write like the other school kids while Ram is speed writing so good and so fast, I thought I had competition for a second.

Scene change…

Ram is shown using her magic to hold a giant water ball in the air while Rem and the other villagers are staring at her with amazed looks.

Scene change…

Ram is walking with their mother smiling proudly as she stared at her little girl. Rem is behind them watching the two's backs.

Scene change…

Ram is perfectly cutting stacks of wood, while Rem is struggling to dent a single log.

Rem glares in frustration.

"That's a rough life to live." Ricardo grimaced at the heartbreaking scene.

"Oh, Rem." Emilia was shedding tears of sadness at the tragic life her friend lived through.

Even though she had some nasty feelings for what she did to her Subaru, she was still sympathetic to anyone that was outcasted for their traits.

Scene change too Rem failing to support the whirlwind of water at the same waterfall again.

"I can never match my sister in demon power.

Then…"

"Ram, don't cry sissy." Rem just hugged her sister tight as the pinkhaired Oni silently shed tears of guilt and anger.

"How can I? After what I did to you, sissy… I… I… I'm so sorry."

Rem could only hug her onee-sama in silence. But in her mind, the guilt was eating her alive.

How could she make the most amazing sister in the world cry because of her?

"How greedy must I be?" Rem cried tears self loathing.

Scene change to Ram and her mother cleaning the dishes. Rem walks in while having a determined look on her face as she looked at her mother's back.

"Hey, Mom…"

Surprised, the mother turned to her child. "What is it, Rem?"

"I'll make dinner tomorrow." Rem smiled excitedly at her mom."

Scene change to Ram and Rem sitting on their bed.

"What are you going to make for dinner?" Ram asked her sister, which seemed to be thinking.

"Maybe a stir-fry with barbaro rabbit meat and nuts from the trees in the forest. And steamed Potatoes!" (Fuck tatoes! Stupid ass name!)

"I'll help you."

Rem shook her head.

"No, I'll be fine by myself. Just watch me."

Scene change to Rem picking up a few nuts form the ground and putting them in her basket.

"So that's why you're better at house work than Ram?" Frederica asked the twins… but her expression turned to a frown as she noticed how hidden and extremely close the two were to each other.

"What's wron-" then it hit her.

The clan was eradicated.

"Oh goodness… " Frederica immediately felt for her sister colleagues.

"Now I just need a rabbit." Rem smiled and began walking towards her village.

And then it started raining.

The little girl ran through the forest as fast as she could to shield herself from the rainstorm.

* BOOOM!*

* THUNDER NOISES!*

*CRACK!"

Rem ran as fast as she could from the oncoming storm, she barely missed a lighting strike as it shot from the sky and blasted on to a tree she had passed by.

Rem fell on the muddy ground and looked back to find the tree on fire and falling right towards her.

The little girl closed her eyes and waited to be crushed by the tree.

But then a speed wind blade tore the flaming tree into pieces, saving Rem.

The Oni looked up and found a relieved looking Ram smiling down at her.

"Sissy!"

Rem smiled at her sister, but then she frowned as she looked at her crushed basket and fallen nuts.

Scene change to Rem and Ram sitting with their parents.

"I'm so glad your both alright." their mother told with a smile.

Rem's eyes teared up as she thought to herself,

Both….

"Rem, don't go into the forest alone again." The father softly ordered with a smile.

"You don't have to worry your sister."

"That's what they were worried about?!" Felt spat in disgust at the treatment between the sisters.

Rem's face remained fallen.

"Yes, Mom. I'm sorry."

"Oh, Rem…" Frederica's eyes watered for the little Oni.

Emilia and Beatrice looked down a bit and found themselves rethinking some of their hatred or reluctance to forgive Rem's actions with Subaru. If he forgave her, why couldn't they?

Ram quickly picked up a potato (Haha) and began biting from it.

"Wait, don't forget about this. The steamed Potatoes Rem made are really good." Seeing their dad begin eating as well, Ram started complimenting even more. "They have just the right amount of salt."

"You're right!" The dad stared at the food in delight.

The mother giggled softly, "I had no idea Rem could make something so delicious!"

Rem's head kept looking down as the little girl fell… into despair.

"That was nice of her." Anastasia cooed as she enjoyed the sisters bond through the screen.

Crusch nodded and frowned as she saw the sweet girl she respected and held dear get softly ostracized and ignored by all since her birth.

"No wonder you have such a sweet smile." Crusch mused to herself as she remembered the sweet pure smile on the maid's face.

Scene change…

Rem is trying to pick up nuts from the ground as a charcoal dark forest towered around her.

"You went back?" Otto kept looking at the screen and watched so he didn't see Rem hugging her sister tighter as the events plagued her mind once again.

"That's enough Rem."

The little Rem looked behind her, surprised that her mother was in the forest too.

"I'm just happy both of you are all right."

"Yes, We're glad you're both alright."

Rem looked at the new voice and found it was her father.

Rem's eyes teared up from happiness as her parents smiled at her.

"This looks rather odd, infact." Beatrice mused as she watched.

Emilia nodded as she noticed a weird feeling coming off.

Suddenly,

A new voice sounded out.

"No, it would have been better if only Ram had been safe."

"That's right."

"You said it."

Rem looked around… the dark gray forest… was now filled with the shapes of the villagers standing around her… gray clothes and skin… voices cold and cruel…

"Ah, It's a nightmare." Julius sounded in sympathy as he understood what was happening.

Ram just hugged her sister tightly.

"Yes, if only that useless Rem had died…" Her mother said.

"… and only Ram had lived, that would have been best." The father continued.

Little Rem cried and ran away from the gray people.

"What horrible thoughts." Wilhelm shook his head with a frown of empathy to the young maid.

Many were looking at the screen with uncomfortable gazes of sympathy and pity.

Except for a certain delighted helmet wearing man.

She ran and ran….

Through the falling rain she ran…

Stopping underneath a well and crying into her knees.

Her misery and despair were the only things that filled her.

And suddenly a glowing hand grabbed her ample one.

Rem looked up and found something that made her feel safe and happy.

Her sister was smiling at her…

and the rain disappeared, replaced with the sun glowing behind Ram.

And then that two disappeared as Rem woke up from her dream.

She woke up to find her sister holding her hand and smiling warmly.

"You were having a scary dream, weren't you?"

"Sissy…"

"It's all right. I'm with you. So you don't have to worry about anything."

"Right, Sister. I love you." Rem hugged Ram's arm.

"That's so sweet." Emilia was full on crying at the beautiful scene.

Anastasia looked away and wiped a few stray tears in secret.

"Boss?"

"Shhhh!" Ricardo quickly looked away and ignored the glare his boss was sending.

He better keep his mouth shut.

My sister really is amazing.

"I'm not."

"Yes, you are."

I can't match her in anything.

"Yes, you can!"

"No… I can't"

In that case, I don't have to do anything anymore.

"Please, Rem…"

"Don't worry sister…"

I can just walk behind her.

"I have nothing left anyway…"

"...Ghk!"

Ram just cried as she finally understood… Just how damaged her sister was… She couldn't help her now… She was too far gone.

Ram had failed…

Rem was emotionally disturbed.

"That's not true! You were amazing when you fought that whale!" Mimi yelled out to the maid.

"Rem, you saved those kids in the forest and Subaru as well." Frederica tried to help the maid see a light in her life as well.

"You don't have to think like that Rem-san." Otto pleaded to the emotionless maid.

Rem just hugged her sister with a blank stare.

"I killed the only good thing in my life."

Emilia's eyes widened in horror once again as she heard the cold tone of a self-loathing soul.

"He won't love me. He never loved me. He can't love me."

repeating over and over, Rem just repeated with a cold dead tone.

"Is she insane-"

"Shut up!"

Felix quickly obeyed and silenced his exclamation in favor of looking away from Ram's seething glare.

"Don't look at my sissy!"

Everyone looked away from the two in respect to her wishes as Ram cradled her broken sister.

"Please… Barusu…. Please…." Ram could do the only thing she could in this situation. Although she wanted to die for this. She was disgusted because of this.

But she realized that her only chance to retrieve her sister was in the hands of the boy that she thought nothing off but a man with good timing.

How hilarious was his timing now. Ram found it genuinely funny.

Scene change…

Rem was sleeping contently on her bed with a smile on her face.

Some noises sounded out and she was woken up to find her bed empty.

There was no Ram.

Little Rem got up and looked around the room.

"Sissy?"

Rem quietly left the room and stepped towards her parents' front door.

She opened it…..

Rem's eyes widened as her entire village was turning to ash. The buildings, the trees, the roads. Everything was burning. The flames where licking the sky from how high they've risen.

"What?" Julius stopped writing and looked at the hellish landscape before him in alarm.

"This is what happened that night?" Reinhard glared with narrowed eyes at the screen as he noticed a horrifying sight. He quickly shielded his lady's eyes.

Felt let him do as he pleased since she heard gasps and cried all around her.

Frederica also immediately clenched Petra close and hid her eyes to block her view.

She kept watching out of respect for her sisters in work.

Rem looked closer into the fire and her horror grew as she noticed…

the melting bodies of the chief of her village…

She looked in another direction…

The boiling malformed faces of both her parents…

Rem's tears fell as she dropped to her knees.

"Who did this?" Emilia was too shocked to even breath as she looked at the screen with a frozen expression.

The despair and shock as she watched the entire village burn was overwhelming her. She barely even noticed that she was being surrounded by many figures wearing hoods.

"Bastards!" Felix shouted angrily as he witnessed the scum that had hurt his lady.

The knights where all glaring at the screen as it concluded what had happened to the village.

"So that's why you hate the cult so much." Anastasia nodded her head while glaring at the screen in disdain.

Crusch gripped her knees in anger as she watched those filthy cultists threaten a little child.

"Scum."

A man wearing a hood was ready to strike the grief stricken Rem with his blade.

But then a wind blade cut him and all of his associates to shreds.

"Sissy!"

Ram jumped infront of her sister and sent a Dome of cutting wind all around them, cutting every hooded figure and even the strong flames were put out.

Ram turned to her sister and smiled. "Rem… I'm glad you're safe."

The two sisters stared at one another as the flames returned and surrounded them. Ram reached her hand out for her sis.

And then…

A hooded man managed to sneak behind them and strike at the right spot… to send Ram's glowing magical horn flying, bleeding as it was cut off of Ram's forehead.

The prodigy of the Oni clan… was hornless forever.

"Oh no!"

"So that's why…"

"You lost it while helping your sister!"

Everyone stared in shock as Ram lost the most essential trait of her own bloodline.

"Those fuckers are dead!" Garfiel gripped his chair handles hard and scowled demonically at the hooded figures. The shield of the sanctuary was pissed.

And as the blood of her sister's horn soared, and as the horn that had tormented her dropped, Rem could only stare in shock.

She then smiled with relief.

"It finally broke off."

Scene end…

"Rem…" Ram hugged her sister tighter as the shock of the scene wore off instantly.

"I don't care for how you felt that night. You had every right to be happy, sissy. I was happy too. Please come back."

But Rem was never going to answer her.

She was guilty.

She was sinful.

She deserved pain.

"This is messed up!"

"Fucked up!" Otto declared and Garfiel clarified as their blood was boiling for what happened to these girls.

"Such a gruesome end to an entire race." Reinhard grimaced.

"So it was the witch's cult behind the eradication." Wilhelm mused with a deep frown.

"Disgusting freaks." Felix spat in hatred.

"But how did the maids make it, I wonder." The ever elegant Julius asked as he continued to watch.

Flashbacks began playing of Roswaal carrying a bleeding Ram while the fire danced around him.

Because of me, my sister's horn was broken, and she lost her power.

From now on, I have to learn to do all the things that sissy…

That sister could do.

This is what sister would have done.

Sister is even more amazing.

Sister could do even more.

I'm only imitating what sister could do.

If I can't even do that satisfactorily, I'm worthless.

The flashbacks play of the times Rem and Ram began working as maid in that very mansion.

How she cut her hand peeling vegetables.

How she trained to serve tea.

How she cleaned and made food.

She was doing everything and anything while Ram was watching with worry.

"You're doing a fine job." Roswaal smiled at her in one of the flashbacks as the twins served him lunch.

I heard those words back home many times.

"Don't over do it." Ram said as she stood on the mansion's entrance while Rem ignored her and cleaned the garden on her own.

Even if I overdo everything, it will be enough.

"Why do you try so hard?" A younger Frederica asked Rem as she finished the garden.

Why else? Because nothing I do is enough.

Why should I go on living?

All of this is my atonement for what I thought on that fiery night.

What can I do to atone?

I'll risk my life to walk the path that sister would have walked, the path I took from her.

Because I'm inferior to her in every way.

I'm nothing but a replacement.

There was two lone vases with flowers in them…

One of them…

Just cracked.

That was Rem.

"That's wrong Rem!"

To everyone's surprise… it was Emilia who spoke up as he eyes flashed with determination.

Frederica also stood up and shouted her own support as she finally understood how bad of a job she did in being a friend to these two.

"You're not alone, Rem. You have friends that don't care for how you felt on that night. We understand why you did it."

"Subaru wouldn't want to see you like this Rem-rin." Petra tried form her seat to add to the support.

"Remember how much Natsuki-sama cried for you after the whale's death." Crusch sternly throw her words into the fray.

"Natsuki-san was tying so hard to save you."

"He did a lot just to see if you'd wake up."

"He spent every night of the past year telling you about his life, I suppose."

Otto, Garfiel, and Beatrice.

Emilia, Frederica, Crusch, Petra and Ram.

They all wanted to make the maid feel better about her place in life.

They wanted to save her from a void…

To thaw her ice prison.

But none of them mattered enough… None of them got killed by her…

Only one was…

And she couldn't hear his voice.

Everyone was waiting for the emotionless Rem to say anything.

"Rem…" Ram whispered in a heart wrenching tone.

Rem wasn't going to respond to them. They had failed in saving the girl's sanity.

"Amusing."

"Shut your shit hole tits for brains!" Felt shouted at the snorting Priscilla.

The fiery princess was about to bring hell down upon the little whore.

Reinhard was prepared to fight on his lady's behalf… he wasn't wishing to hit this woman…

And as the chaos exploded from the hopelessness.

A certain someone loomed over the two twins.

Ram slowly looked up with her eyes wide… "Roswaal-sama…"

The magi surprised all as he knelt and gave his two maids a hug.

"Well, this is uncommon." Anastasia snorted as she saw the creepy man patted the twins on the head.

"I hate seeing you both like thiiiiis." Roswaal smiled at them and stepped back with his arms still on the catatonic Rem.

"What…?!" Garfiel was about to jump and punch the man but he was stopped by his brother. "Let him." Otto ordered as he watched the lord carry the blue haired maid towards the front row.

"May I have this seat, Betty-saaaaan?"

Beatrice nodded her head as she understood the reasoning behind the magi's actions.

Roswaal smiled gratefully at the spirit girl and placed Rem on the empty seat.

Right beside Subaru.

"What are you doing?" Julius asked in apprehensiveness.

"I'm merely providing her the comfort she desires." Roswaal softly smiled down and went back to his seat.

Everyone looked unsure on what to do next.

Sit, please. You have to continue watching.

"Just wake him up! Let him save my sister, please!" Ram cried from her place towards the screen.

But she was met with silence and the screen buzzing on once more.

"Let's continue watching for now." Wilhelm solemnly advised.

Soon one by one, everyone sat down in their seats while Ram remained sobbing.

Rem remained doll like beside Subaru.

Emilia sat down and looked at the maid in pity.

Beatrice… sat down in Subaru's lap?

"Beako…"

"This was meant for Betty, I suppose." The elegant spirit held her head high… to nuzzle her contractor's neck as she enjoyed the soft new chair.

End of the flashbacks scene…

"Barusu, head to the right of that broken tree ahead! You're too slow!"

"Don't ask anymore of me! I'm running… as fast as I can!"

Rem slowly opened her eyes and found herself being carried by Subaru as he ran through the forest with her sister in tow.

"So we come back here?" Felix tiredly whined as he was too emotionally exhausted to worry about the boy dying.

"Subaru-kun… What… "

"You're awake, Rem?" Subaru asked as he kept running.

Ram smiled in relief at her little sister. "Thank goodness, Rem. You really are a handful."

A dog beast charged at them.

"Fula!" Ram cut the beast's arms and carried on running with Subaru.

The two stopped and hid inside a bush with Rem resting on Subaru's chest.

"Why… "

Subaru looked down at the maid.

"Why didn't you just leave me alone? You and sister showing up makes it all pointless…"

Rem whimpered and looked up at him with tears in her eyes.

"I should be the one to do it. No one else needs to get hurt anymore…"

"Too late for that. Ram and I are already torn to shreds, maybe even more than you! My right shoulder's dislocated!" Subaru smiled uneasily as Ram stared at her sister.

Rem looked down with a haunted look.

"It's… It's my fault. So I have to take responsibility. If I don't, I can't do anything for sister, or for you… "

Subaru and Ram were taken aback as Rem whimpered and sniffled.

"I haven't changed at all. I committed the same sin I did back then. Because I hesitated to extend my hand to you… "

The witch's scent!

"You nearly died."

"I'm not sure what you're talking about, but you decided to do this alone to atone for that?"

Rem stopped crying as Subaru closed his eyes.

"Rem…" he called.

The maid slowly looked up at him, with a look so broken.

"Yes." She softly answered.

"Super slap!" Subaru headbutted the girl making her step back and look at him in shock.

Emilia and Beatrice's eyes widened as they never imagined Subaru doing the same thing he did with them.

The same way he saved Emilia in the tomb.

The same way he saved Beatrice from the library.

By calling them dumb.

"For starters, are you dumb? No, you are dumb!"

"Barusu, the cut on you forehead is reopened and bleeding again."

"Yeah, I know I'm dumb, too! But your sister is even dumber!"

"What a heinous way to treat a lady." Julius mused in a disappointed fatherly tone.

He did have an excited glint in his eye.

He was cheering Subaru on.

He turned to the shocked Rem with his blood flowing down his face.

"Listen, where I'm from, there's a saying, Three heads are better than one. Or is it two heads. Whatever! The point is, three heads thinking together are harder to break than one arrow alone! It means you should rely on those around you instead of thinking about stuff alone!"

"Wise words, Subaru-dono." Wilhelm nodded his head at the boy's spirit to help his friends.

The old man hoped that it would wake up their Rem from her own darkness.

Rem looked at him, bewildered.

"Subaru-kun…" She said softly…

*Rustle *

Her eyes widened as the rustling increased around them.

"Damn…"

Subaru looked at the oncoming herd of Dogs.

"Ram, which way should we run to get outside the barrier?"

"We'd have to run left at full speed. What's your plan?"

"I could shove Rem toward you and run tragically to the right-"

"You'll draw the ulgarm's attention while I take Rem and run?" Ram cut him off the like the polite maid she was.

"Could you not expose my attempt at hiding my embarrassment so easily?!"

"There's no way you'll survive. Please don't. If you do that, I'll… " Rem closed her eyes in guilt.

"Subaru…" Emilia was now both worried for and angry at her knight for always choosing this route.

"Why does he choose to be a bait all the time?" Otto facepalmed in frustration similar to Emilia's.

"Don't worry. I have a brilliant plan you don't know about to round up all the mabeasts."

"Subaru-kun, why would you do all this?"

"Well… " Subaru turned and picked Rem up to place her on Ram's back.

He posed before the two and smiled at Rem.

"You were my partner on my very first date." He patted her head and smiled warmly. "I wouldn't be so heartless as to desert you."

Rem's eyes widened as she heard words she was once confused at but saw memories she was ashamed for.

The memory of the first date in Subaru's second loop at the mansion. When he first made her smile.

Rem stared at him in awe.

He smirked and turned towards the beasts.

"All right, guess I'd better go and do this. Take care of Rem, Onee-sama!" He ran to face the dogs.

"I'll be praying for our safe reunion, Barusu." she ran with Rem on her back in a different direction.

Subaru is shown running with his hand limp from the dislocated shoulder.

"Barusu's risking his life to buy us time. Lets make the most of it."

Subaru runs and runs from two ulgarms chasing him. He looks ahead to find the little pup smirking at him with barred teeth and wide red eyes as the herd behind him growled at the boy.

Everyone held their breathes collectively as they all thought the same thing.

'What are you doing Subaru?'

Music play: Redo

"I'd love to finish you off right about now…" Subaru glared as he stood before the pup.

The little dog growled and stomped his paws into the dirt as hard as he could. Black smoke began surrounding the creature and he began getting bigger and bigger.

Soon, Subaru was faced with a giant Ulgarm beast king ten times his size.

It roared down at him with razor sharp teeth at the ready.

Subaru glared up at it. Even though he was cornered from every side by many smaller ulgarms, he kept glaring at the king.

"I've got an ace up my sleeve, too!"

Subaru slowly puts something in his mouth.

"It's you and me, pal. Get ready!"

Rem is watching the boy's face off with horrified eyes.

"Sister! Subaru-kun is… Subaru-kun is… "

"Don't look back, Rem. Barusu's determination will be for nothing."

"You just left him, I suppose?!" Beatrice screamed as she watched with wide eyes.

Everyone was at the thin edge of their seats to watch what he planned.

Rem watched with despaired eyes… tears fall…

images of her time with him play…

His smile.

"Sissy!" Rem yells out in agony as she closes her eyes.

Ram is so shocked she falls over.

Rem looks behind her quickly towards the boy as the giant monster towered over him.

"Subaru-kun!" Rem shouts his name in terror and sadness.

Subaru smirks.

The new butler of L. Mathers estate readies the sword of the villagers in his hand and shouts to the sky.

"Shamac!"

"Oh this moron!" Felix shouted as he looked on with an excited smile.

Crusch also smiled at the boy's tactics. They were all so addicting to see play out.

The beasts could only blink in shock as a black cloud of dark smoke overtook their senses.

Subaru ran through the darkness, with his target visible to him and only him.

He jumps and stabs his sword directly into the king's neck.

He drops down and smirks.

"I could do without the bugs, but I appreciate the bocco fruit! Thanks for that brats!"

He spits out a sucked bocco and looks at Rem.

"Yes! I put in there! I was the one who helped him!" Petra jumped in excitement.

"It won't be eno'gh" Garfiel shook his head as he kept his eyes glued on the screen.

*Growl! *

"Crap-"

Subaru is surprised to find the king towering over him. The monster crushed Subaru under it's paw, pinning the boy underneath it.

The struggling boy quickly takes out the broken sword from the beast's neck and stabs it's mouth, making it howl in pain.

"What's the matter? Bring it on, boss garm!"

Subaru readies his sword once again as he glares at the beast.

*GROWL! *

The angry king swiftly swipes his paw to crush the insolent child that hurt him.

And by a second…

Subaru Natsuki would've been crushed…

If it wasn't for one gay ass clown.

"Ulgoa!"

Subaru watched with shock as fire balls rapidly dropped all around him, hitting every beast and burning them to ashes.

Even the king was no match for the sheer strength of these fire attacks.

Slowly, a figure was hovering down infront of the boy with a wide smile on his face.

"Oh, my! You look an absoluuuuute friiiight!"

"I can't believe this… but I'm glad for your presence for once." Anastasia sounded what most of the people in the room were thinking.

"Come on! Give me all the thank you's that I deseeeeerve!" Roswaal stretched his arms wide and smirked smugly towards the crowd.

No one paid him any mind.

Subaru smiles in relief.

"You're way late, Ros-chi… "

Roswaal chuckles.

Subaru sat down crossed legged and rested. "I'm surprised you knew where to find me, though."

"Emilia-sama drove it into me quite thoroughly in the village."

Subaru looked confused.

Roswaal intertwined his hands together and clenched his cheeks. "Even if it's rash or reckless, he'll use magic if he's cornered, so don't lose sight of him from above, she saaaid." He said in a mocking Emilia voice.

"I was going to thank you for saving this dum dum. But I guess you had to open you mouth. Hmph!" Emilia huffed and hugged her sleeping boy tight.

Roswaal just chuckled while the rest giggled at the scene.

"Roswaal-sama!" Ram shouted as she limped with her sister toward the lord.

"I'm sorry to cause so much trouble for you." Ram bowed while holding her sister.

"Oh, not at all. In fact, you both did fine work in my absence. I will most certainly show my gratitude for what you've done for me. You have my word." Roswaal smiled gratefully at the butler boy.

"Subaru-kun!"

Subaru could do nothing but stay crushed underneath Rem's body as she dropped on him and hugged him tightly.

"Rem, that hurts! Stop! I'm kinda hurt all over again."

Rem was having none of it as she cried on his chest. "You're alive… You stayed alive… Subaru-kun! Subaru-kun! Subaru-kun!" She whined and cried into his chest.

"This again…"

Subaru's tired eyes rolled into the back of his head once again…

Darkness…

"Come on." Ram looked at her sister with a despaired face.

Something has to help Rem. Please.

Change scene…

Subaru is shown waking up in the same robes, in the same bed, looking at the same ceiling as he's restart point.

He had died.

"What!?" Emilia screamed

"No!" Garfiel gripped his hair in despair.

"I-I don't understand! Barusu had died?!" Ram asked with a wide manic expression.

"Fuck off!" Al shouted in rage.

"After all of that! Come on!" Ricardo sounded out in rage.

Subaru had Returned by Dea-

"Are you awake?"

Subaru slowly looked at the source of the voice. Finding a blue haired maid sitting on a chair beside his bed and holding his hand tightly wasn't what he expected.

"Did I do this? Like, grabbed you and never let go?" Subaru looked at their hands and then at Rem with an embarrassed smile.

Rem looked down with a forlorn expression.

"No, um… this is, well… it was me. You looked like you were in pain while you slept, so I… "

"You held my hand?"

"I don't know what to do at times like these, so I did what would have made me the happiest if I were in your place… "

"Whew!" Otto wiped his brow with a smile.

"He didn't die, thank goodness." Anastasia sighed in relief.

"Oh, have you taken a liking to the boy?" Crusch quickly caught on to the greedy merchant's words.

Anastasia huffed and looked away.

Crusch's suspicion didn't fade. She knew that the smart girl wasn't answering because she would be caught easily.

No matter how many years of thievery and bribing in merchant business could ever beat a divine blessing of the wind.

Subaru sat up and smiled at the maid. "Anyway, I'd like to hear the rest… I mean, I'd like to know how it ended. Were my curses removed?"

Rem nodded her head while looking at the floor. "Yes. Roswaal-sama took care of all the mabeasts. So there's no chance the curses will activate."

Subaru sighed with relief.

Rem slowly bowed her head to him.

"I'm sorry, Subaru-kun."

"Hey, come on… Lift your head, Rem. There's nothing wrong with me."

Rem didn't raise her head, letting Subaru just stare at her with a smile.

"You always look calm, but you're not calm or collected at all, are you?" Subaru chuckled.

"I do realize that I am a powerless and incompetent demon clan dropout. So no matter what I do, I can never match my sister. I'm only her replacement, and one far inferior to her. Good for nothing."

Rem started to tear up as she stared at the floor.

"Why was I the one to keep my horn? Why couldn't sister be the one to keep her horn? Why was she born with only one horn? Why did we have to be twins?" Rem was sniffling and gasping from the sadness. Subaru was looking at her with pity filling his black eyes.

"I'm sorry. That was a strange thing for me to say. Please forget it." She began wiping her eyes while looking away from the boy.

"You know, Rem, you keep putting Ram on a pedestal and undermining yourself, but I don't think Ram's situation would be any better if she were in your position. Ram is weaker than you, she can't cook, she slacks off on the job, she says mean things… "

"If I didn't need you right now I woulda killed you! Stupid Barusu." Ram gritted her teeth and waited for any signs of her sister's recovery.

"Y-You're wrong! Sister's true self is more… if she had her horn, you wouldn't say… " Rem tried to defend her sister's honor.

"But Ram doesn't have her horn, so I don't know that Ram. I'm pretty sure you're the only one who cares whether she has a horn or not. What Ram doesn't have, you do. Just accept that."

Everyone's breathing hitched as they witnessed Rem's body move on it's on.

She stared at the screen.

"Come on, Barusu!" Ram pleaded softly.

"You're kind, you're hardworking, you always do your best, and your chest is bigger than hers!"

Rem pouted at the nasty bastard.

"Dirty, Subaruuuu!"

"Disgusting, infact!"

People giggled and laughed in sheer disbelief.

Rem… was chuckling while staring the screen with her blue darkened eyes.

"If you hadn't been around, those dogs would've chewed me to death. I was saved because you were there. And as you can see I'm alive. Not only because of your sister, but because of you." Subaru stood up and held Rem's hand while smiling at her.

Rem's head lowered down as she let the smile turn into a thin line of emotions killed.

Rem looked away. "My true sister could have done much more."

"Maybe so. But the one who was there for me was you."

The maid's head raised a little. Looking almost hopeful, she watched.

Rem's eyes widened as she stared up at him while he held her hand with both of his.

"I'm glad you were there. Thank you."

Eyes widened in disbelief.

Mind… her mind…. Mind.

Her mind was being restored. Her heart was feeling something. Something other than the cold embrace of self loathing and helplessness.

But the grip of guilt crushed her soul so she can't feel the full effect.

"I… I told you that I'm only my sister's replacement… "

"Don't define yourself that way. It's too sad. Of course, I haven't heard the details of how she lost her horn, and I won't ask, so I'll never know. And since I don't know, I get to talk as if I know all about it."

The guilt that had trapped her was slowly lifting.

Subaru tapped his forehead with his finger and smiled at the standing maid.

"All you have to do is be the horn Ram doesn't have. You two can be a demon together."

"The darkness is… fading."

Everyone watched with baited breath and widened eyes between the broken girl and the screen.

"Come on, Natsuki-san." Otto whispered and cheered his hero on.

Rem looked down in sadness.

"Also, you call yourself a replacement, but no one could replace you."

"But…" Her voice weak, Rem tried to argue.

"Where I come from, there's a saying, 'Demons laugh when you talk about next year.' So… Laugh, Rem."

"Laugh Rem. Help her Subaru." Emilia smiled and held her hands to her chest as she prayed this would get Rem back.

Come on, Subaru.

"Wipe off the sad face and laugh. Laugh while we talk about the future! Let's talk while looking forward to make up for all the time you've wasted looking back. We can start by talking about tomorrow."

"I can see the light." Rem produced a dead whisper as her dull eyes watched.

"Tomorrow?"

"Yep, tomorrow. You can say anything, like… Whether you'll make a Japanese- or Western-style breakfast tomorrow, or whether you'll put on your right or left shoe first. It can be something silly like that. No matter how silly it is, you can talk about a tomorrow because you have a tomorrow.

How about it?"

"You have a tomorrow? You're alive? But I killed you." Rem's eyes shed tears down her face as he guilt gripped her tightly and stopped her from feeling anything else.

"I am… very weak. So I'm sure I'll end up leaning on you." Rem looked at him in guilt.

"What's so wrong with that?" Subaru asked, surprising the maid.

The grip softened as the honesty and clarity filled her. Why would a boy who hated her sound so eager to help her?

Does that mean he cares for her?

"I'm weak, stupid, scary-looking, and dense. But I still live my life expecting others to take care of things for me."

Felix and Julius looked down as they had berated the boy for those reasons as well.

Subaru rubbed the back of his head as he smiled sheepishly.

"We can lean on each other as we move forward. Let's laugh and talk about tomorrow with our arms around each other's shoulders. It's always been my dream to talk about next year with a demon while we both laugh!"

"Come on! Cap'n! You wonderful bastard!" Garfiel cheered as he noticed the light coming back into Rem's eyes.

"How does he do it?" Ricardo slumped back and watched in amazement as the boy charmed yet another lady.

Subaru smiled charmingly…

The wind blew around them as Rem's smile widened beautifully and tears of happiness came out of her eyes.

"You are demonically inspired." Rem chuckled through her happy tears.

Subaru winked "Right?"

Subaru patted her head as she cried and giggled at the same time.

Title card:

Rem

And the dam broke.

"Subaru-kun! Subaru-kun!" Rem screamed in agony as the grip of guilt was evaporated with that single line. As she remembered everytime he would say it to her.

When he said it after he confessed to loving her.

So the confused and tired maid only hugged the boy tightly while crying into his chest.

"Subaru-kun! I'm so sorry! I'm sorry! I love you!"

Everyone watched with pitying looks as they understood something that had passed them all like an afterthought.

"This part of Subaru's life was harder on Rem thyan any one else." Felix softly noted as he watched the sad yet relieving scene.

Many nodded their heads as they watched with tired looks.

Ram sighed in relief and smiled through her tears.

"So this is why you hold him so close to your heart." Crusch whispered to herself as she watched that previous scene.

Could she have a moment like that with him? How would it feel like to have someone make her feel like she has all she needs in this world?

Crusch just smiled at the boy at the front row.

Scene change…

"By the way, Ram, did you find the one who was controlling the maaaaabeasts?"

"Yes, but the trail had already vanished."

The screen shows Ram standing infront of Roswaal as he sat on his desk chair in the office. It was night time so the entire room was dark.

"It seems one of the children that Barusu and Rem brought back from the forest disappeared the next day."

"Was this all connected to the battle for the throne, as well? The Bowel Hunter, Mabeast masters… We've gotten involved with some bizarre chaaaaaracters."

"So it wasn't you?" Ricardo eyed the clown stink eyed.

Everyone looked at the clown as he shook his head and answered.

"That wasn't made by meeeee."

Emilia and most of the watchers looked at Crusch and Reinhard.

"Truth." "Telling the truth."

"Having the two confirm it… Who was it that sent the assassin then?"

No one answered Anastasia's knight.

Julius leaned back and accepted the silent challenge.

"No matter how many strange characters you face, you aren't the sort of man to lose heart, are you?"

"My, how audaaaaacious you've become." Roswaal smiled softly and whispered. "Come here."

Ram sat down on his lap as he caressed her head. "I was unable to attend to you for a whole night, after aaaaall."

"I'm sorry. Please do."

"That's fucking creepy man." Al sounded angry a bit.

Roswaal just flipped the bird nonchalantly.

"You've used quite a lot of mana. May the stars protect you."

Roswaal began shooting mana from his fingertip and into the place where her horn used to be.

Ram sighed in content as Roswaal smiled over her.

"I will be busy again for a time. I know it will be haaaard on you, but I'll be coooounting on you and Rem."

"As you wish. Since that fiery night, my body has belonged to you, Roswaal-sama."

"I must win this battle for the throne, no matter what it takes. For the sake of my goal… "

"For the coming day when I kill the dragon… " Roswaal whispered menacingly.

WHOOOOOOSHSHSHSHHSHS! *

"Hell yeah!"

"Kick his ass!"

"Kill 'em dead!"

Roswaal spat some blood as his throat was stomped on by Reinhard while Julius prepared the broken chair leg to torture the man.

"Roswaal L. Mathers, you've been found guilty for treason against Lugunica's holy dragon. By all accounts and by my own eyes, we have witnessed your transgression and malicious intent on our beloved kingdom. Before I provide your verdict, what say you in your defense."

Roswaal just looked up at the Sword Saint with a smile.

"I regret nothing."

Reinhard glared and stomped harder on the clown.

"You're punishment is-"

Nope. You don't call nothing in this room buddy. I fought off Satella herself to make this session happen and you won't ruin this for me.

Reinhard could feel a pulse forcing him to flew towards his seat and sit down.

The red-haired knight looked up with a strong glare as his entire being was commanded.

"But… He's a traitor-"

Spare me the nonsense Mr. Hero. You're beloved grandpa serves a woman that wants to end the covenant with the dragon. That's also treason and I don't see someone stomping her through my fucking floor.

I don't care for this clown and you will get a chance to slap him around.

But I want you all to watch this for now.

Leave. The treason thing. Alone. Your dragon isn't an angel.

"How preposterous?! That man needs to pay for hi-"

"Julius!"

The knight looked at his lady with shock.

"Just leave it be for now, kay?"

"-Yes, Anastasia-sama."

"You did good." Felt nodded at her knight in satisfaction.

"Felt-sama?" Reinhard looked at his lady in surprise.

"I don't care about that dragon or whatever but I liked the way you beat down that clown."

Reinhard smiled at his lady. She always knew how to make him feel better.

Crusch kept her eyes lingering on the clown with one finale question.

"Why would you want such a wish?"

Roswaal just cleaned himself up with the help of Ram and smiled at the crowed like nothing ever happened.

"None of your buuuuusiness."

Everyone decided to leave it at that as they didn't want more from the clown.

He was too creepy and his prospects were too unsavory.

One thing is for sure though…

"Emilia must not win." Felix muttered the thought on Julius's and Reinhard's minds.

To stop Roswaal's treason. They needed to take down the camp that he housed.

That would mean.

"We must fight Subaru." Reinhard fell into hopeless agony as he refused to look where his friend was.

Julius just stared at the screen in a defeated gaze.

Scene change…

"You're constantly getting hurt, aren't you Subaru? You came to this mansion in the first place because you were injured. It's only been four days since then." Emilia is standing under the moonlight in the garden while scolding her servant that was standing with a nervous smile on his face.

"It's not like I get hurt because I want to. The world's just a little harsh on me… So you're welcome to spoil me rotten, since no one else will, Emilia-tan!" Subaru wiggled in place at the thought.

"Don't joke around!" Emilia scolded and glared at the ground in frustration. "Puck kept trying to stop me from going after you guys, too. Who knows what would've happened if Roswaal hadn't made it back? Do you get it?" Emilia glared at Subaru admonishing.

"Still, I suppose you saved me again."

"Huh?"

"I brought you to the mansion as thanks for saving me, and now… still, thank you so much!" Emilia beamed at him.

Subaru waved his arms around with beet red cheeks.

"Hey, it's fine, it's fine!"

"I thought you'd say that, but it doesn't make me feel any better. I need to do something to thank you… " Emilia looked to be deep in thought.

Subaru smiled softly.

"I see. Well, then, I'll take you up on that."

Subaru suddenly got into her face with a wide smile.

"Go on a date with me, Emilia-tan!"

"A date?"

"We'll go out together, see the same things, eat the same things, do the same things, and share the same memories."

"And that's all you want?"

"That's exactly what I want. I want to show you off to the village kids, and there's this awesome flower field! Even if all we do is stroll around it'll be a special occasion for me!" Subaru beamed with his smile wide.

Emilia chuckled in amusement. "All right. I'll go on a date with you." She smiled gratefully at him.

Subaru's face lit up like a Christmas tree.

"Yes! That's why you're my EMF!"

Emilia stared at him in confusion as he jumped around.

"Oh, EMF stands for Emilia-tan, major fairy!"

Emilia chuckled at him.

Soon, Subaru was chuckling with her as well.

End credits: Styx Helix

Episode 6 Director's Cut. End.

"… Second Arc. End."

Emilia wiped a few tears from her eyes as she felt oddly refreshed.

"That was exhausting!" Mimi leaned on her brother.

"I agree, there was too much happening in that Arc, as the screen calls it." Crusch rubbed her eyes tiredly.

"I wonder what the third arc will be?" Otto asked in nervous curiosity.

First, let me congratulate all of you for finishing this Arc.

The cast was surprised to see tens of doors open up before them.

These doors each have a bath and a bedroom with food and water for you all to freshen up.

Sleep well and tell me when you're ready.

Subaru won't be waking up until passed the third Arc… I think. But he's fine for now.

Go and get some rest to see what Subaru had to endure to give you all a happy ending.

Next viewing, well be a little interlude between Arcs 2 and 3.

So go to sleep.

The cast had no other choice but to listen to their warden.

Next up.

OVA Episode Memory Snow… Interlude…

On hold until the cast gets ready…

Oh my Allah! Someone save me from this paaaaaiiiin.

I've been trying my best to make this chapter interesting at all costs. I hope it was to your enjoyment.

Anyway, I want to thank you all for supporting me. We finished this fucking Arc! Finally!

Now I just need to bypass this OVA…

and then…

Shit gets real…

Let me state a few things before we end it…

Frozen Bonds will be done after the Season 2. it has Emilia's backstory and I want Subaru to be awake to see it.

As for our sleepy boy… I have special things planned for him. You guys think that he might dampen the experience of the second season but I think that I could do special things with him awake and watching with the rest.

If enough of you ask me to keep him asleep however, I will head to your requests.

One more thing… Someone on Reddit messaged me an improved version of the first two chapters of this story, which made me facepalm so hard at how many mistakes he's had to correct and how much better he wrote the story than I did.

I will be proof reading them to see if I have anything to add over them and then I will post em since he was generous enough to give them to me for free. I will put his name up on both chapters to remember him and his kindness.

The guy's name is u/Zarno102

Thanks for the help man.

Thank you so much for everything… and wait for me… as I finish the first of the OVA's.

And then we start on Arc 3.

Clank *

"I knew would come here again."

"…"

"You have no power to resist me."

"It's not you I'm here for, Joseff."

"Oh I know what you're here for! But I'm doing this to help you!"

"All you have to do to help, is to shut your fucking mouth, and give me my pillow."

"It's controlling you! You need to resist!"

"I'll count to three Joseff."

"I thought I was your friend…"

"Not after you took my pillow."

BOOOOMMM *

"I'm sorry… but you won't be sleeping on me today, Author-chan~"

"Tck! You s-slut of a fluffy bed accessory."

"No! What are you doing?!"

Bam! *

"...GHK!"

"Oh you thought I couldn't move? Hahahaha of course I can move and shoot both of you in the stomach. I'mma fucking pillow, Joey boy. Not a retard blanket."

"Fuck this pillow…"

"No Joseff. We sleep on them not fuck them."

"Fuck you as well Author-san."

"That's fair."