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.

8. Chapter 8

Chapter 8: Ep OVA 1 Memory Snow

A little girl with drills was looking out of her door at the large theater room.

"Have you slept well, I suppose?" The girl said to her company as they stood beside her and looked at the dark room.

"Hm? Um, yes. I slept really well thanks for asking, Beako-chan. Have you-"

"If you're asking if Betty slept well last night then the answer will have to be a fat no, infact."

"...You were having nightmares too, huh."

"What a stupid question, infact. Of course, I had nightmares after I've been forced to see my greatest shame on that window."

"You're not alone you know."

Beatrice stopped staring at the theater from the doorway to her room and looked at the beautiful half-elf that stood beside her.

"You've been blaming yourself too, I suppose?"

Emilia's amethyst eyes were filled with sorrow for a moment before she shook her head and gazed into the dark theater room.

"I'm the reason he suffered so much. I'm the one who made him go through this pain and horror on his own."

Beatrice raised a brow at the girl as Emilia continued speaking while staring into the darkness.

"I know he couldn't tell me anything because of… well, this power of his… But… I reaaaally want to help my knight!"

Emilia was clenching her robes with trembling hands...No. Her entire body was trembling in place as she glared at the floor she was standing on with a guilt ridden glare of disdain.

"I should've done more." Emilia sniffled as she thought about all the moments he's been fighting on his own.

"All alone… From another world… Dying time and time again… To save me… To help me… and yet he keeps waiting for me to tell him I love him!" Emilia was full on glaring hatefully and uselessly at the floor as her tears ran down her pouting cheeks.

"He's an idiot!"

Beatrice was now looking at the elf with a wide eyed expression.

Emilia was still glaring at the ground with her fists shaking manically as she continued to talk trough her sobs.

"A wonderful stupid dummy that's not cutely silly or amazingly brave at all! I hate him! I hate how he didn't just run away from me the first time he died! How he still saves me and all of us after all the pain he went through. I hate that I can't think of anything else to blame him about since he's been so good to me. I want him to still be with me. I want him to love me more!"

"What a child you are I suppose." Beatrice shook her head at the elf.

Emilia glared at the spirit and ignored her tears. "Yes, I know that this is a reaaaally selfish wish. But… I don't care!"

Beatrice stared at the girl with a confused look.

Emilia wiped away the tears and stared into the dark room once more as she leaned on her own door way.

With a determined look that showed off as if she was glaring through her beautiful facial features, Emilia sounded her the conclusion to her feelings.

"I don't care… I want to learn more about what I had done to him. This pain… No one should go through such pain on their own."

"You'll have to fight the jealous one, I suppose."

"I'll die for him."

"He will follow, infact."

"… Then I'll help him through the pain."

"Lap pillows and cutesy smiles won't be enough help, infact."

Emilia gazed down at the unimpressed spirit once more with a look of pure determination.

"I want to show him my love for him. I won't lose him to death again."

Beatrice just stared at the half-elf girl emotionless.

"Is that what you think is best for him? After we neglected his pain and mental instability? Do you know that he might have died more times during the whale hunt and the sanctuary troubles? Do you think that you can take that pain from him?"

As Beatrice stared at Emilia with her own eyes tearing up as her uselessness and guilt crushed whatever heart she has in her spiritual body.

Beatrice was just as confused as this guilt ridden half elf was.

"Betty… Wants to help him too, infact."

Beatrice glared at Emilia and let her cheeks be spoiled by the tears running down.

"He's Betty's Subaru! I should've been the one to help him through this pain!" Beatrice hugged her arm tight as she began sobbing. No longer was she an elegant being. Just a little girl crying for her incompetence.

Emilia slowly lowered down and hugged the little girl.

"He couldn't tell us Beako. Sure, we could've made more efforts to help. But we chose to respect he's privacy."

"You don't get it, I suppose…" Beatrice whispered through Emilia's shoulder.

The half-elf leaned back and quickly caught on to Beatrice's ominous tone. "Why are you avoiding my eyes, Beako?"

Emilia narrowed her eyes in suspicion as she leaned closer to stare the little girl clearly.

"What do you know that I- we don't?"

Stern, commanding, demanding, ordering.

"Never would I've imagined that you could take such a tone with me…" Beatrice looked away, refusing to meet Emilia's eyes.

Emilia quickly gripped the girl's chin and softly moved her head to look her in the eye once again. This time, Emilia's eyes were less warm and more sharp and scary.

"Please tell me. What have you seen?"

Beatrice trembled in place, whimpering as she looked down.

"I-I… I can't I suppose." Broken and defeated her voice was, which immediately set flame to Emilia's curiosity.

"Why?" Emilia softly asked as some warmth came back to her tone and glare.

"B-Because S-Subaru made Betty promise…"

Emilia slowly hugged Beako into her chest and patted the little girl's head. "Shhhh… "

"I-I wanted to help… H-He said that Betty couldn't understand him and that H-He would do it alone… I tried to stop him… But he keeps ignoring Betty."

Emilia stayed quiet as the little spirit hiccuped and sobbed in her hug. She tightened her grip around Beako and tried to give the little broken girl all the love she could.

She could understand one thing from the hitched ramblings of the despaired spirit girl.

Emilia now knew… Subaru was doing something, very, very stupid.

"How much were you going to suffer alone? My poor knight." Emilia softly sighed and continued to hug Beatrice in between the doorways to both of their rooms and in the entrance to the inactive theater.

Reinhard knew something was wrong with his lady.

Much to his shame, he hadn't noticed that Lady Felt was too quiet at the end of the last viewing.

That meant that he has failed a very important task as her knight.

It wasn't his fault however, as Lady Felt would surely understand how busy he had been with his thought-

Who was he kidding? He was a failure of a knight! How could he be so disorderly and discomposed like that?!

"Yo, Reinhard! Come on into the room quickly I don't have all day."

…

He's lady was sooo amazing! How she just forgives he's laziness like an afterthought was evidence of how big heart her heart was!

"I'm here to serve you, Lady Felt-sama, future Queen of our belove-"

"Yeah, yeah, whatever! I want to talk to you about what we saw in that room."

Reinhard sighed tiredly and looked at the ground. What they saw… was too much to process.

"What are your thoughts on it?"

Reinhard looked up and noticed that his lady was now sitting on her bed and looking at him in expectancy.

"… Your beautiful scarlet eyes look like they're scheming something milady."

The great Sword Saint immediately caught the flying boot sent his way. He was expecting it.

"Don't change the subject, Idiot! I'm serious here, what do you think about everything?"

Noticing the sad glint in her eyes, the knight simply dropped his smiling facade to look at the floor.

"It was… a lot to think about."

Felt nodded and looked down at her dangling legs with a disturbed expression that made the saint want nothing more than to delete everything from her memory… he probably could…

"I don't know how he does it…" Felt softly murmured.

"Forgive me for not understanding Milady… Does what?"

He didn't need to ask whom.

"How he keeps smiling after all of that! He died, Reinhard! Died! And not just some simple and clean deaths. These were painful! You could see hell reflect in his eyes."

"Felt-sama…"

"*sob*… Big bro was dealing with so much pain and that Witch won't let him talk about it to anyone… "

Reinhard couldn't do anything here. He was at a dead end.

What do you do when your liege begins crying over the painful life of someone you considered a friend?

Hug her?

Cry instead of her?

Emotional support wasn't in the manuals dammit!

"… I want to help him."

Reinhard felt alarmed immediately… "That tone you're using… what are you planning Felt-sama?"

He dreaded the answer.

Felt finally looked him in the eye… with the most determined fire burning in her scarlet eyes he had ever seen.

"What do y-"

"I want to save him. I want him to be by my side and keep him away from that creepy clown guy."

Reinhard stared at his mistress in sheer disbelief.

"M-Milady… You know that Natsuki Subaru is a knight under the Mathers name. Not to mention, he's Emilia-sama's chosen Knight. Putting that fact into account and who Emilia-sama is. Subaru would be a royal knight serving another candidate to the throne. You can't ha-"

"I don't care. I want him to serve under my employment. I don't want to make him my knight but I can at least get him where he won't be killed."

Reinhard just stared shell shocked. "Where is this coming from, Milady? Why are you so determined to-"

"Because I'm being greedy."

"What?" Reinhard was just dumbfounded.

"I've had nothing for almost all my life… I've suddenly been thrown into this stupid race for a kingdom I hate and want to destroy against my will and now that I look at it, I wouldn't have had to enter this race if it wasn't for big bro!"

Felt smirked at her knight.

"I want him to take responsibility and help me through this."

"But he wants to be with Emilia-sama!"

"Than we make her our partner."

At this point, Reinhard was just confused.

"Excuse me, Milady but… Nani?"

Felt had a diabolical smirk on her face as she laid out her plan.

"You heard what that clown wants to do right?"

"Of course I did, I would take him to the block if I could!"

Reinhard answered on impulse as he remembered that clown's words. The holy dragon that gave his family so much and protected the world from so many threats.

It wasn't just treason to want to kill him, it was a sin.

Reinhard wasn't really angry or offended but he did feel a strong urge to punish that man for his crime.

It's his code.

"But why do you care Felt-sama? You said that you want to destroy this kingdom and rebuild it… even though it's a bit extreme to put it like that but I'm sure that you have a meticulous plan that would achieve the desired outcome with out any unnecessary dama-"

"Yeah, yeah! Anyway, I want you to arrest that guy once we get out of here."

"But… "

"But what?" Felt asked with a cute tilt of her head. "He just committed a treasonous crime didn't he? Why can't you arrest him?"

"I can and maybe I will… but… he sponsors a camp that rivals yours to the race for the throne. People might think that you're lying."

"Not if we get big sis to join our camp."

Reinhard looked apprehensive. "I don't think that's something you can do Felt-sama…"

"Of course we can! If big sis wants to be the king so bad then we tell her that we two can run the kingdom together."

"We can't do that, Milady! And why would you want the Emilia camp to enter ours anyway?"

Reinhard tried not to pull his hair at his lady's stubbornness.

Felt looked indentured. "Haven't you been hearing anything I was saying? I'll take big sis into my camp because she won't be able to participate in the race."

"What are yo-!"

Felt smirked as Reinhard's face contorted to that of shocked understanding.

"Y-You want me to jail the sponsor of the Emilia-camp. Without funding and status to impress the royals, Emilia-sama wouldn't be able to stand infront of the council."

Felt smirked and nodded her head. "With that, I will offer Big sis a chance to join my camp and have her help us get to the throne."

Reinhard's eyes were as wide as saucers as he began thinking of anything to stop the horrible idea.

"B-But Emilia-sama has her own reasons to be the king."

"Right. Equality for everyone and an ideal world for all. That's exactly what we're doing so she would be able to achieve everything she wants even if I was king. She just needs to be in my camp."

"… And Subaru will follow her to your side, making him fulfill your wish and stay to help you since Emilia-sama works for you."

Reinhard looked at his lady with a face that wrote his sheer awe at the cunning mind.

Naturally, Felt threw her shoe at his face.

He was expecting that one too.

"Subaru won't be able to leave his friends behind." The knight tried to argue.

"We take them in as well."

Reinhard looked down and shook his head at the memory of Otto and Garfiel laughing with Subaru.

"Why are you so against the idea?"

"I'm not." Reinhard weakly protest underneath Felt's questioning glare.

"Then why do you want to stop me? You were gonna execute the clown on the spot a few hours ago. Why is it different now? You're going to punish him when we go outside this world right?"

Reinhard closed his eyes and nodded.

"Then Big sis's camp would've lost the sponsor anyway! So why can't I make what I want happen?" Felt whined for an answer.

Reinhard looked away from his lady and his face dropped in shame. How could he do such a thing to someone he respected and wanted to be his friend.

He wants to help Subaru with everything. He wants to be an Otto to Subaru. He wants a friend.

How could he place Subaru in such a position? Have the boy be forced to trust Reinhard and treat him with respect just because Felt-sama had 'helped' Emilia's camp.

Reinhard wanted a friend not an associate.

"I don't think I'm a good enough friend to have them trust m-"

He stopped the flying pillow coming at his face.

The knight looked at his smirking blonde mistress in confusion.

"What did I tell you?"

"What do you mean, Milady?"

Felt dropped from the bed and walked until she was staring up at him.

"You can be big bro's friend. You can have a friend. I want him as my friend as well."

Reinhard almost choked when Felt hugged his waist.

"I told you before… Be greedy.

For a second… the Sword Saint almost shed tears.

"Glad you guys could join me for a drink, our host seems very generous in regards to luxuries and beverages."

Anastasia smiled and drank some tea while rubbing her beloved fur scarf that seemed to be moving on its own for some odd reason.

The purple haired merchant smiled cheerfully at her silent camp.

"I hope you slept well, Anastasia-sama."

"Mhm! I slept like a log! I hope that all of you did as well?"

Anastasia was met with varied uncomfortable looks.

She just closed her eyes and nodded.

"I figured you wouldn't. After everything we just saw."

"Why are we here, Boss?" Ricardo impatiently asked as he noticed the scheming look on her face immediately.

"Right, lets get down to business…" Anastasia placed her cup on the table and looked at the members of her camp that were present.

Julius, Ricardo, Mimi and Tivey all waited patiently for their boss.

Anastasia rubbed her scarf and smiled innocently at them. "I have come to a decision that might change the course of history as we know it."

"What do you have in mind boss?" Tivey asked as curious as the rest of the crew.

The merchant princess patted the boy's head and winked at him.

"Before I tell you all what I have in mind. I want to know what you all thought about these 'viewing' sessions we've been embroiled in."

Silence was all that she was met with.

The twins were for once quite as they looked at each other with confused and sad looks as they remembered what they had seen.

Ricardo simply closed his eyes and watched the memories play with an unreadable expression.

Julius simply leaned on the wall with his arms crossed and his head lowered so that his face was hidden behind his purple hair.

"Is this about Subaru?" Julius asked in his usual elegant tone.

"Course it is. We've been watching his life in our world ever since we were transported here." Ricardo snorted and finally opened his eyes to look at his lady.

"Right you are! I want to know what you all think of the boy now that we know his dirty little secret." Anastasia remained cheerful as she asked her band of clearly effected soldiers.

"I think that he's awesome!" Mimi nodded in excitement.

"I think that he's scary." Tivey nervously rubbed his arm and looked away from his sister.

"I don't know what this is about, boss. But I'll tell you that I respect the boy even more than I did after the whale hunt. That's for damn sure." Ricardo declared with his chest puffed out as he felt the rush of excitement flow through him.

Anastasia looked at her silent knight.

Not moving or showing a reaction on his facial features, Julius simply looked up at his mistress and showed her his usual expression of elegance and patience.

His golden irises were so dull that they almost lost color.

"I believe that he's trouble."

"What does that mean?" Ricardo asked with a slightly offed look.

The usually well processed knight just looked like he was lost in thought. As if he was looking for anything to justify an answer.

"Natsuki Subaru is sponsored by a treasonous character and he has ties with the Witch of Env-"

"Tell me the truth Julius-kun~"

The purple haired knight clicked his tongue and looked at his lady as she smugly grinned at him.

"You know, bad mouthing someone just because you're upset with them makes you look really petty."

Her eyes critical and her smirk sharp… she had caught him.

Julius's expression finally gave out and turned into a little scowl that showed how uncomfortable he was.

Anastasia didn't care and continued. "You're upset because you have doubts about Subaru-kun. And that makes you think that your friendship with him was a lie or was fake since the start. That upsets you because your feelings are all confused."

"How can you read me so easily, Milady?" Julius slouched and gave in to his master's assumptions.

He couldn't understand what he wanted. He wanted to be Subaru's friend. He wanted to be someone he trusts. But he's doubts and feelings are making him feel unworthy to Subaru's friendship.

"You and your knightly pride." Ricardo sighed tiredly and looked at his lady.

"So, what's this all about?" The dogman asked.

"I would like you all to understand an idea I've had for a while in my head. Do you guys feel anything when Subaru dies?"

Julius and Ricardo just looked down with grimaces while the twins' faces contorted to those of horror and shock.

"Of course all of us do. Who wouldn't feel horrified and disturbed at such scenes?"

Anastasia nodded her head and slowly rubbed her fur coat.

"I think that Subaru-kun is really useful… I want him."

Hearing the greedy tone made everyone rigid in place.

"What do you mean?" Julius asked in surprise.

"He has other worldly knowledge that could cause an effect like Hoshin's rain but in Lugunica. He has an ability that can control time itself to save everyone. He has ties with the witch and he manages to remain free from her influence as well as the Witch's Cult. Heck, I believe that the boy could be the biggest thorn in the cult's side at the moment."

Anastasia looked at her camp with a smirk. "I want him. I need Subaru Natsuki in my camp."

Julius's breathing hitched while Ricardo and the twins just looked at their lady like she had grown a second head.

"Thank you for taking the time to speak with me."

"Not at all! Crusch-sama could ask anything of me and I'll deliver, Nyan!"

"It's my pleasure to take part of your time, Crusch-sama."

A green haired duchess smiled at her two loyal knights.

One a cat boy and the other an old man in butler uniform, the two knelt before her and waited for her orders.

Crusch had a smirk on her face that was only reserved for when she was planning a cutthroat policy that would further her plans according to her ideals.

"I can see you two are well rested so forgive me for my haste but I need to get to my point quickly."

"What's so urgent, Nyan?"

Crusch crossed her long leg and rested her chin on her knuckle while looking at the wall.

"What do you think the other camps are doing at this moment?"

The two knights simply stared at the maiden, knowing that she was thinking her thoughts outloud and not actually talking to them.

"They're probably thinking of ways to take advantage of the Emilia camp's weak position of having their privacy taken."

"For what Crusch-sama?" Felix asked with his eyes confused.

"To find out a way so that they could obtain Subaru-dono." Wilhelm concluded his master's thoughts with a grave sounding voice and a small scowl on his face.

"The boy's powers and abilities are really valuable and his amazing loyalty to his friends is admirable. He has been through so much and I have a hunch that he will be facing many more threats because of his scent."

A cat boy tilted his head in confusion. "Ummm, What does it have to do with us?"

Crusch smirked wide at her knight. "If the Emilia camp has this king maker within their ranks then it would only make since that the rest of the camps start fighting over him."

"Are you saying we should take advantage and take them all out?" Wilhelm asked with a clearly disappointed tone.

Crusch smiled amusingly and shook her head. "What we need to do is to strengthen our alliance with the Emilia camp and make our two camps integral to one another. That way, if something does inevitably happen to them, we can be the first ones to help them and make them trust in us. That way, no matter what other camp that comes after Subaru-san, he would still be by my side."

Crusch was smiling wide as she knew something big was gonna come and she wanted to see what this very reckless and wonderful man would do to get through the trouble.

She was amazed and at awe that this boy went through so much on his first outing in their world. No one had to go through such pain.

But the fact that he made her feel like this with his smiled was just so much more delightful to her.

She also wanted to help him and protect him from the various monsters and uncontrollable happenings such as a revenge sick maid.

Wilhelm looked apprehensive at first but he couldn't disobey. He supposed that Crusch was better to take hold of Natsuki-dono rather than the others.

God knows that his battle hardened heart was couldn't handle any of the boy's death scenes.

It was horrifying to watch…

"I don't get it… why do you need him that badly?"

Wilhelm and Crusch looked at the angry and sad looking Felix.

"Why do you care what happens to him when he let you live with your memories gone?" Felix scowled at the floor while looking at his lady's booted leg with disdain.

"Felix… Subaru-san, is very important… I want him to be mine. There is not a winning chance to anyone if Subaru wasn't in their teams. That's why we need to make plans to counter act immediately."

Wilhelm and Felix looked at one another and then at their smirking Lady.

"My, my! What a precarious situation I find myself in!"

"Could you stop joking around for a minute?! This is serious! Everyone is gonna try to counter act the camp's sponsor now that you're motive of treason was revealed to the most loyal knights in the kingdom. Natsuki-san is going to be their ultimate goal."

Otto sweated as he talked with the magi clown himself.

"What is boooothering you Otto-kun? Aren't you suppooosed to be our beloved interior affairs minister? These things are supposed to be your job."

Otto slammed his hands on the table and stared Roswaal in the eye.

"You need a plan and quick! If you fall, all of us fall too."

"We got ta keep Cap'n away from the rest." Otto smiled at his friend as Garf glared the clown from his position, leaning at the doorway of the room since he didn't want to get infected with retard clownism.

Garfiel and Otto were both angry and amazed with how their brother managed to get through such an experience and trauma. Garfield was also even more attached to Subaru now since he saw how much pain and suffering he had to go through.

Someone like that deserves his loyalty.

Otto was just trying to make things stable and orderly since he had managed to understand that this will show Subaru suffering again and again. He really hated that his brother was dealing with this alone while he watches like a moron.

"Okayyyy, so what's your plan again?" Roswaal asked as the two boys glared at him.

"You look as wonderful as ever." A voice laced with sarcasm sounded in the large darkened room.

"Sorry, sister. I know we haven't spoken in a while. I managed to be selfish again and ignore you completely." A hoarse and tired voice replied with a sad undertone.

"No, No. Forget about it. I'm glad you're taking the time to help yourself where I couldn't help you."

"I-I'm so sorry sissy."

"*Sigh* How many times do I have to tell you that what you felt on that night wasn't your fault? I don't blame you for anything and I'm positive that this idiot doesn't blame you either." The voice sounded stern but also pleading.

"I-I know that he forgave me in some form. B-But I need to speak with him about it. I want to know what he really thinks of me…" The voice sounded broken.

"*Sigh* As you wish… I just want you to smile more, Rem."

Rem's tired lips formed a small sweet smile at her worried sister.

Ram sighed a third time and moved to sit on the chair where Roswaal was most likely going to sit next to.

As her sister went to sit down, Rem was left alone with her thoughts and the darkness around her.

She could still see it on the black screen.

The way he cried when he learned that she was the one that had killed him.

The way he pushed himself to the extreme just to help her.

The he was dying, mentally and spiritually because of his power.

This dark power that burdened her love and forced him to have a connection with the people she hated most in this whole wide world.

That power, the Witch's power… was the one that had saved Subaru's life from Rem's unjustifiable crimes.

Satella, the dreaded Witch of Envy, the sole reason for what had happened on that night. When she lost her parents and found out about her selfish disgusting self as she smiled upon Ram's broken horn…. This monster…

Was more deserving of Subaru's love than Rem.

"Don't look like that."

Rem forgot the hellish heartbreak she was swallowed in and looked behind her to find a pouting little maid glaring at her with fierce blue-belle eyes.

"Y-You're… Petra-chan, right?" Rem softly asked since she recognized the girl as one of the kids in the village. She never expected to see any of those kids working at the mansion let alone this young.

Petra shook her head and pointed at the maid with a cute determined glare.

"You can't deal with this on your own, Rem-san!"

The Oni's eyes widened at the little maid's stern tone.

The sound of an elegant giggle startled Rem out of her surprised revere.

A blonde maid with green eyes and a toothy unnatural smile stood behind the little maid and faced Rem.

"F-Frederica-san?"

"You've been busy, Rem-chan."

The beastwoman locked eyes with Rem and smiled softly. "You should listen to dear Petra-chan over here. You can't sit down and look like the entire world hates you. That's insulting to all of us, especially to Ram and Subaru-sama."

Rem's eyes widened in surprise as she stared at the two maids.

"She's right Rem-rin." A startled voice came up from behind the maid and made her face the direction of the screen.

From the room's hallways, Emilia and Beatrice walked up the isle and stood infront of Rem.

"E-Emilia-sama!" Rem bowed down to the half-elf and bit her lip in nervousness and fear.

She was afraid of what Emilia will do to punish her.

"Raise your head and look me in the eye, please." Although her tone was soft, the surprisingly commanding undertone wasn't lost on Rem.

When did Emilia become so… leader like?

Rem looked up to be met with Emilia's soft smile and gentle eyes. The maids heart gave a flutter as she felt some kind of motherly warmth overcoming her.

"This… is what Subaru feels like when he faces your smile." Rem whispered in astonishment.

Emilia tilted her head in confusion. "I don't know what your talking about but I'm glad you're feeling a little better."

"Hmph! She better be! Betty gave up her precious Subaru for too long to make her stable enough, I suppose!"

Rem and Emilia looked at the angry slightly disheveled looking spirit girl as she trotted to where Rem was sitting and looked at the boy they've all been suffering the past few hours for.

Subaru Natsuki, laid on the same chair. Not moving an inch from his spot. He's expression was the same. Even though he had a tear stained sweatshirt and a clearly messy hair from all the girl's petting him. Not to forget the clearly damaged hand that's been gripped by Emilia's strength.

The boy just slept soundly, unaware of anything around him.

"Does he sleep like that often, Beako-chan?" Emilia softly asked as she and all the maids stood behind Beatrice.

The previous librarian shook her head and softly held his hand to start taking the poisonous mana from his broken gate.

"He sleeps only when Betty is with him, I suppose. He has nightmares all the time, infact."

Rem and Emilia both looked away from the boy and closed their eyes in guilt and frustration.

"I don't think Natsuki-san would like that look on your faces, Emilia-sama, Rem-san."

Both girls turned to meet Otto's soft glare aimed at them.

The merchant simply shook his head in disappointment at the two. "You're not the only ones who feel shitty about not helping him, but we couldn't do a thing back then since we didn't know. You can't keep blaming yourselves like this."

The two girls simply looked at the ground with forlorn expressions.

How could she forgive him when she put him through so much just because she liked the feeling of his special treatment?

Emilia simply refused to meet he's eyes.

How could she ever look the boy in the eye after she had caused him such horrific memories?

Rem gripped her newly fixed dress and trembled in place.

Now, Otto doesn't punch girls in the face, He's not Kazuma. So… a little intervention needed to happen.

Roswaal punched both Emilia and Rem in the face.

"Let's be beeeest friends!" He announced cheerfully as the two were discombobulated.

{*Cut! Cut! That's NOT what happened! So sorry! * }

Emilia and Rem simply refused to let go of their guilty hearts as they faced the boy they loved with their backs turned.

Otto sighed in frustration as he begged for a way to help the two.

He looked at his brother, which was looking just bothered as the two were by he's own complete incompetence.

Garfiel was content with just glaring at the floor with his fists shaking. He couldn't help his friends. He couldn't save his captain.

And now he can't even cheer these girls up for Subaru?

"Mine amazing selfs is pathetic." The ragged warrior looked down and clenched his rough teeth in anger.

"Now, young man. That's not a manly look."

Everyone looked behind them and was met with a smirking green haired duchess.

"Crusch-sama?" Otto quickly decided to take the leading rule to speak for his distraught friends.

The green haired duchess stopped infront of the Emilia camp with her knights standing right behind her.

"You needn't be so hard on yourselves like this. We're here to watch Natsuki-sama's life and find out about the mysteries that revolve around him. We just need to help the boy through the pain and make up for all the mistakes we made." Crusch declared to the surprised band infront of her with a stern tone and a confident grin.

"My, oh my! You're really working it in regards to your roooole as our partner, candidate-sama." A cheerful Roswaal suddenly entered the group gathering infront of Subaru and below the screen. He was smiling the same fake and unsettling smile he always wore.

Crusch only gave him an annoyed glance before she started moving to sit down.

"Um…"

Crusch smirked up at the clearly bothered Emilia. "Problem? I needed a change of setting."

Emilia relented and shook her head. "No, its okay, Crusch-sama."

"Thank you, Emilia-sama."

Crusch smiled and leaned in her seat. The one right behind Subaru. She was much closer to the boy now. Emilia felt a little offed at this but she didn't want to seem immature.

"You can sit beside my seat I suppose." Beatrice grunted at Rem in her usual way.

Rem smiled at the spirit with surprise and nodded her head. "Beatrice-sama is so cute."

"...Ghk! You know what? Don't set beside me, I suppose!"

"Isn't she so cute?! I just want to keep hugging her!" Emilia agreed with Rem and ignored the blushing little spirit.

"Ohhhh what's this? I see some of you have already staked your claim over him, huh?" A cheerful voice filled the theater as a certain purple haired merchant princess entered the room with her knights and mercenaries coming in behind her.

Crusch managed to cool her taunting smirk as she glanced at Anastasia with a cool expression.

"I don't know what you mean. It's more comfortable here." The duchess couldn't help her amusement seeping through into her tone as she watched the eyebrow of the usually cool princess twitch.

Anastasia wasn't one to give up a chance though, and here is why Crusch cursed Wilhelm silently for the very first time in her life.

For you see… As Crusch was setting right behind Subaru's row, Felix took her right side to sit.

Why was she upset with the old butler? Simple.

Because Wilhelm chose to sit beside Felix's right side.

Not her empty left.

Which meant…

"Mhm! You're right Duchess-san! This is a reaaaaally comfortable place to sit."

Crusch simply smiled pleasantly to the merchant sitting right beside her.

"I'm glad you see my point so clearly."

"Um, excuse me! What the hell is going on in here?!" A loud voice proclaimed in shock.

Everyone turned to see Felt glaring at the collection around her big bro with Reinhard standing behind her.

As Anastasia's camp began sitting in a striaght line at their mistress's left side, Ricardo and the twins began greeting Otto and Garfiel and the girls that were sitting before them.

"Why are you all so close together now?!" Felt demanded as she stepped closer before the huddled three camps.

Subaru was surrounded by girls. He was fucking swimming.

He had a very on guard Emilia clutching his jacked up hand with her eyes on the girls sitting behind her.

He was her knight!

Parallel to Emilia, Beatrice sat on his other side, full on glaring at the women around her contractor.

To Beatrice's left, was a very jealous glaring Rem. Sitting right beside her was Otto and then Garfiel.

Roswaal took the seat right beside Ram, Frederica and a very angry looking Petra on the third row at the top.

On the second row, Crush was sitting right behind the sleeping boy with her two knights setting to her left.

To the duchess's right side was Anastasia and her own camp sitting in a line parallel to that of Emilia's camp.

With Julius sitting behind Rem, since Anastasia was sitting behind Beatrice. Ricardo sat behind Otto and the twins sat behind Garfiel.

Felt looked at this arrangement and decided that there's one way to solve this.

"Hmph!"

The little girl huffed and stomped angrily to sit right beside Emilia and below Felix's placement in the row.

Emilia simply looked at the little girl with a bewildered face.

Reinhard quietly took his seat beside his mistress. He didn't think much about the fact that he was directly infront of his grandfather.

He ignored that fact. He refused to acknowledge it.

Wilhelm looked at the red mop of hair before him and closed his eyes… from guilt.

As the camps began conversing with one another, the leaders of said camps were all staring at the boy out of the corner of their eyes.

The war had been declared by all of them at the same time.

Emilia was just confused why so many people wanted to get this close to the screen but she guessed that a lot of them had issues with their vision.

She couldn't help but feel the urgent need to clutch Subaru tightly with both hands as if he was going to be snatched away.

She wasn't alone as Beatrice was indeed clutching her contractor and Rem was gripping the handles to her seat as she pouted in anger at the unfair seating change.

Otto and Garfiel just facepalmed as the entire plan they've made was useless as Subaru's fate was now held by all these powerful women.

"We were supposed ta move in and take em!" Garfiel growled out.

Otto shook his head and hid behind his hand. "I was too worried about Emilia-sama, and Rem-san's metal condition to start the plan."

"Ya're right! 'T's all your fault, not mine." Garfiel nodded his head and smirked proudly while leaning back in his seat.

Otto sighed and looked back to find a most infuriating sight.

Roswaal was giggling in his palm while pointing at the merchant.

Naturally, Ram joined in and fake mocked with her master at Otto's failed plan.

Otto just ignored them and looked at the black screen. Gripping his fists hard.

Roswaal had been against the plan from the start, saying that it won't work. But Otto challenged him on it and now he was paying the fruits of his choice.

By having a smug Roswaal aimed at him.

Joy.

"Hmm, Isn't this interesting, princess?"

"Quite while you're licking my boot, Aldebaran."

"Sorry, Milady."

"I said quiet!" Priscilla stomped on his naked face, hard as she watched the show happening before her.

The fiery haired princess was sitting on the third row right in line with Wilhelm and Felix.

She was looking on at the gathered camps with a bored look on her face.

"I don't care if they think he's some king maker. I have the power of fate with me, the entire world was designed for me."

The princess fanned herself and scoffed at the idiocy of the candidates below her.

Their line of thinking was too narrow.

"A boy like that… A boy that simply has a good heart. That's who they're fighting over? What a shameful farce this is!"

"P-Princess please!"

"Quiet, Aldebaran!"

Priscilla stomped her knight harder and glared at the mop of spiky black hair she could glimpse at from her place.

The hair of one sleeping self proclaimed knight.

"All that power and all that fame. Yet, all he does is follow that half witch around." Priscilla clicked her tongue and fanned herself while gazing at the screen thoughtfully.

"Why is he like this? Why isn't he taking advantage of his blessed protection?" The princess asked the question that's been plaguing her hours before the last viewing had even finished.

"I wouldn't call it divine… I mean, it being given by the witch and al-"

"I said quiet and keep licking!"

* CHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

Everybody looked up at the screen as it suddenly lit up and began loading a scene into it.

I see you're all well rested. I'm glad that you didn't take long for this viewing is going to be a long one.

"Um, may I ask a qu-"

Go ahead.

Otto yelped and nervously looked up at the screen as it was the source of the voice. He thinks.

"Why are you doing this? To us I mean. Why show us Subaru's secret? Why keep him asleep? Why not let him explain himself clearly now that the witch isn't here monitoring him?"

Otto was gazing at the screen with a determined look that showed how much he cared for his friend.

All of the camps around him were looking the same infact.

I'm showing these events for you all to understand the sheer importance of this boy's placement in your world.

I want you all to help him before… well, something really dangerous happens.

I won't elaborate further on that.

But I can tell you this. Subaru's coma state must remain constant with the events of the viewing. I know that I said he wakes up in the beginning of Arc 4 but it seems that trouble had reared its ugly head because of what I'm doing here.

For that, Subaru can only wake up at the very half point of the fourth Arc.

"What trouble? What's going on out there?" Reinhard quickly pointed out as he was truly disturbed that some entities were giving this guy a tough time.

He was pushed into a chair and forced away from his sacred duty to kick clown ass by this guy. So the Sword Saint was reasonably worried.

The others looked up at the screen with worried and curious gazes as well.

Well, lets just say that there are really powerful fellows that want me dead now.

Infact, I'm holding two of them off as we speak.

"W-Who are they?" Petra asked in fear that someone might actually break in and force them all to either die or forget about this.

Just a lonely little elf that's screaming LET ME INNNNNN! As she throws hands towards me with a beautiful pout on her face.

And a wannabe Rick Sanchez that thinks he is smart because he forced a scorpion girl to sit in a dust tower for 4 centuries.

Oh, he's also screaming, LET THEM OOUUUUUTTT! While firing scorpion lasers at my face.

He seems upset that I ruined his game.

"W-What game?" Emilia was shaking in place as she heard the voices of the two demon like beings screaming through the screen.

The game of watching Subaru suffer and die of course! He's a missed up little man that doesn't know how to care for Scorpion lolis.

"What are we doing now?" Julius asked as he wanted to move on from the very disturbing conversation.

"Subaru-kun… Who is it that's hurting you?" Rem looked at the boy with sadness in her eyes as she learned that someone was actually watching this happen to her hero and were having fun with it!

Emilia slowly leaned closer to her knight while gripping his crushed hand with hers nonchalantly prepared to crush it further.

(By the way, she doesn't know that she had crushed the boy's hand.)

Don't worry, I can take them on so you don't have anything to fret over.

Unless a fucking holy dragon shows up which means that there will be trouble.

A few of the cast's eyes widened at that statement.

Anyway, back to our routine. You'll all be watching an interlude between Arc 2 and Arc 3.

This one will be longer than the previous viewings so feel free to have the restrooms open as well as a food and drinks table.

"Can I ask a-"

Go right ahead.

Emilia was a little taken aback by the voices eager tone but she soon shook out of her revere to ask a daunting question.

"I-Is Subaru… going to die in this one?"

Everyone stopped and stared at Emilia in surprise.

She asked what they've been dwelling on.

Emilia kept a brave face as she stared at the bright white screen.

You'll have to watch and see.

Before anyone could protest that this wasn't an answer.

The screen suddenly changed scene and activated the next viewing.

OVA 1: Memory Snow.

Begin.

"It was a fearsome battle…"

As Subaru's voice sounded through the window, some words were played in Lugunican language.

"Why is he talking like that?" Felix asked in confusion.

Subaru is shown walking into the mansion…

Rem's mace runs across the screen behind him and a loud crunch could be heard as the screen turned red.

Rem grimaced and looked down in guilt.

"We were cursed by an unknown force… "

"Seems like he's retelling his adventure." Ricardo said as he read the subtitles.

"Why is he speaking in that weird tone?" Felt asked in clear frustration.

Subaru is shown sick and in pain.

The screen changes to show a horde of red eyed dogs, attacking.

"We experienced an invasion by a herd of Ulgarms… "

"Is it another language?" Otto asked with interest.

"It sounds weird." Mimi whined as she couldn't understand anything without the written words.

"All languages sound weird." Tivey retorted to his sister as he listen to the words and read the letters on screen.

The boy was clearly interested in the language.

He was on the same boat with a certain Sword Saint that was having too much fun trying to write Subaru's strange words through Lugunican text.

Across from the excited Sword Saint however, there was a certain frustrated looking Half-elf princess glaring at a certain smug looking Loli.

"Beakoooo…" Emilia growled poutingly and tightened her grip on the boy's hand to relieve some of her frustration.

"What is it, I suppose?" Beatrice smugly toyed with her hair drill while smirking and humming to herself.

Otto quickly caught on to Emilia's frustration and understood why.

"Goddamn it!"

"Fuck's wrong?" Garfiel asked suddenly as he was surprised by a pissed off looking Otto glaring at Beatrice.

Garfiel was too busy noting how cool Subaru's language was.

"Beatrice-sama! Did Subaru tell you about this language as well?!" An enraged Otto asked in jealousy, making the rest of the viewers, Curious or jealous all look at the little smug girl.

"Drown in your jealousy. Hmph!" The little girl held her head high as she gloated the fact that she knew more about this weird knowledge from another world and the fact that she was closer to Subaru with such knowledge in everyone's faces.

Like Emilia, Rem and Otto… Reinhard felt jealous for the very first time in his life.

He wanted to know more!

The screen changed to show Subaru being towered over by a giant dog.

"We engaged in a mortal combat with the Bossgarm."

The screen shows Subaru victory posing over the dead Ulgarm boss.

"He seems to think that he's the one that achieved victory." Julius ignored the strange language being spoken and just read the text.

"Barusu's ego and pride are the reason for his pathetic self." Ram snorted at the image on screen.

"He did a lot to help though…" Petra defended.

"Yeah but if it wasn't for Roswaal-sama then he would've been dead." Felix retorted with little malice at the disingenuous way Subaru portrayed the story.

"I guess he feels deserving of praise since, y'know… he died multiple times." Felt pointed out dully.

Emilia's eyes widened at this as she thought about her fight with him.

"Oh, no…." The half-elf whispered in despair as she thought about the fight with this new information she was learning through the screen.

"Then, when the well deserved halcyon days had come, the threat of the Ulgarm Mabeast was gone, and the village was saved for good…"

The screen shows images of the villagers happily playing and living their lives.

Then it showed an image of Emilia with her back turned…

"But, I'm yet on a mission…"

"This language is annoying." Priscilla growled in disgust.

"'T's so cool!" Garfiel watched with stars in his eyes at the foreign words.

"What mission is that I wonder?" Reinhard asked in eagerness to learn about more of Subaru's adventures, and hoping to the dragon that his friend won't die or get hurt too much.

Although it's futile since trouble seems prone to the boy. Reinhard with a conflicted mindset.

Subaru is shown standing in the middle of the forest overlooking the village wearing a… something that Fashion Police would've gladly arrested him for.

"What's he doing?" Ricardo snorted in amusement.

"Is that his idea of a disguise?" Felix tilted his head in confusion at such a stupid idea.

"A secret mission that I have to execute without being noticed by anyone…"

"What are you doing now?" Emilia asked exasperated and pouting at her knights habit to run in trouble.

Subaru stands up and looked at the village with a serious and determined glare.

"The preliminary inspection of my date course with Emilia. "

"Uh.. oh… " Emilia blushed guilty and embarrassed that she doubted him… in all fairness she had very good reasons to.

Rem felt a little hurt that she wasn't the one her love was working hard for, but she still found it endearing and cute how far he was going to make this date perfect.

'Much better than mine… at least he won't die at the end of it… I think.' Rem thought in gloom and fear as she still didn't know if he dies here or not.

"Awe~ He's going so far to make this date perfect!" Frederica gushed and kept an eye on her little apprentice to see what the reactions this jealous girl would give.

Subaru walks into the village thinking his disguise was slick.

"Subaru!" Petra managed to foresee Subaru through his disguise.

She must be a powerful detective, he thought.

Subaru walked passed the kids and hoped that Petra wouldn't out him by her amazing detec-

"Subaru, what are you doing?"

Damn, Another kid also had amazing deductive skills. He needed to walk faster.

"What's with this outfit?"

Subaru walked faster. They were just too smart. His outfit was amazing. He was smartly disguised.

Sadly, Subaru's journey was intercepted by the kids jumping him and puling on his shitty disguise.

"Top secrecy my ass! Can't even call it a disguise if you saw through in less than 5 seconds!" Subaru shouted in despair as the kids began tattering the disguise.

Many in the audience chuckled and some girls giggled.

"Did he really think that was a good disguise?" Reinhard asked a little disappointed and dumbfounded at the thought process.

"Hmph! Stupidity is a really pitiful disease." Ram snorted at the pathetic sight before her.

"Oh, com'n! I thought 't was good." Garfiel nodded his head in agreement with his Cap'n's disguise.

"Subaru-kyun needs listens on how to disguise himself better, I bet that he doesn't even know how to dress himself in a girl's clothing. Nyaan!" Felix proudly boasted about his ability and feminine charm.

At those words however, for some reason…

"This is odd…" Anastasia raised a brow as she watched half of the Emilia camp fall on their ass in laughter.

"What's funny?" Otto asked the three laughing girls sitting around he's sleeping brother.

Rem and Beatrice were just holding their stomachs and couldn't answer him. Emilia managed to wave her hand dismissively while trying to hide her giggles in Subaru's shoulder.

"Why are ya laughing?!" Garfiel asked in anger and frustration as he looked at the chuckling Roswaal and the giggling Ram.

"Did Natsuki-sama… actually try to dress like a lady?" Crusch asked with her eyes sparkling.

Emilia nodded and snorted some more.

Otto, Garfiel, Ricardo, Al and even Julius immediately imagined how he would look like in such clothes… All of them began laughing.

Except for Garf… he was disturbed how sexy he's Cap'n looked.

"I would pay money to see that…" Anastasia sighed in sadness and hoped that the screen could show it. Honestly she was too curious now as to why these people were laughing so much… it must have been something embarrassing!

"What mission are you talking about?"

"What top secrecy are you talking about?"

"Caught ya!"

"Can't you see I'm busy now? Go somewhere else! Also, you'd better not interrupt me on the day of my date!"

Petra, who was smiling from the side as the kids played tug of war with Subaru's limps, suddenly perked in curiousness. "Date? What is a date?"

"A date is a lover's little happy embarrassing and secret pleasure!" Subaru explained while he fought off the kids hounding him.

"Happy and embarrassing? What's that?"

"If it's a secret then tell us too!"

"Those kids are the best!" Otto and Garfiel chuckled like children at their friend getting bullied by those kids.

"Hey, hey! Stop it! Could you give me a hand here please, Petra?"

The little pouting girl just turned her head away from the man cheating on her. "Hmph!"

"What's with this reaction?" Subaru was shoved by the kids.

"Somebody is jealouuuuuus!" Roswaal teased from his seat.

"Oh, let her be! She's in love!" Al defended with a loud laugh as he saw the blushing face of the little maid as she wished the ground could do her a favor and swallow her.

Emilia looked a little saddened by this as she never understood what love really is and her she was, looking at a girl that was younger than her express her feelings and understand them.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! Over here!

Subaru was taken through the forest by the excited children.

"This our secret place!"

The kids took the boy over to a large plain of varied colored flowers.

"It's wonderful."

Subaru gazed at the plain with awe visible in his eyes.

Emilia smiled softly as she remembered the place.

"So that's how he found it… He did tell me the kids were the ones who found it but-"

"He really took you to a place like this?" Anastasia asked while staring at the scene before her a little jealous.

"I want to go there!" Felt huffed in jealous anger. "I get stuck in a big ass castle with scary looking men all over the place and big bro starts taking big sis on the best of adventures and the prettiest of places… You suck Reinhard!"

The red haired knight just hung his head low in shame at not being as accommodating as Su-

"Told you, you're not the Lolimancer." Julius teasingly said with a small smirk further drowning Reinhard in his annoyance and shame of not being good with his lady as a certain black haired boy.

'Am I just built different?' Reinhard asked with his face expressing what we smarty people call. Philosophical Gayness.

Scene change…

Rem is looking at a pelted pink flower in the garden.

"Nee-sama, look at this flower. " Rem called to her sister as she was tidying some bushes.

"What could have happened to it? Even though it had just bloomed… "

Rem touched the flower, which made it fall on the garden.

"Well, well, look what we have here."

The two maids looked up to find their lord had knelt and picked the dead flower from the ground while looking at it with a thoughtful expression.

"Roswaal-sama?"

"At this crucial time, and while we were busy with the royal selection's preparations, it seems like we got ourselves a rather trooooobulesome guest." Roswaal looked as the petals flew in the air with an uneasy expression.

"What happened after that? What does that mean?" Felt asked the lord sitting behind her.

The Emilia camp's eyes all widened in excitement as they remembered exactly what happened.

Scene change…

Beatrice is reading a book in her library when suddenly something makes her look up from her book.

"Huh?"

Scene change…

Emilia is looking out of a window with a look of concern on her face as she watched a window be covered in ice.

* Crack*

The window covered in ice shattered before her.

"What was that?!" Mimi asked in fear.

Crusch and Anastasia looked at Emilia with demanding gazes. The half-elf just smiled pleasantly.

The two shrugged and watched on like the rest of their parties.

Title card:

Re: Life in a different world from zero

Subaru is shown standing in a white void with his back turned to the window.

As he slowly turns around, a shadowy smoke overcomes the white plain and covers Subaru's entire being.

As the boy turns around to look at the source of this darkness,

He was met with the demonic black hand of the Witch.

He could do nothing but watch as the hand lunged towards his beating heart.

"AHHHHH!"

"What's going on?!" Garfiel shouted in anger when he saw the black hand of the witch. He wanted to jump into action immediately.

If he looked at the others, he would've found many of them glaring at the screen from the knights to Wilhelm as well as Crusch and Anastasia. Emilia, Beatrice and Rem had shocked and fearful expression for the boy.

Subaru immediately sat up from his bed and breathed heavy breaths of much needed air.

As he finally slowed his breathing, he sighed in relief. "Just a dream, huh?"

Rem's eyes widened in understanding. "Oh… Subaru-kun was having this nightmare, huh?"

"Have you seen him struggle to sleep like that?" Frederica asked, making Emilia and her camp look at Rem with surprise.

The maid nodded her head. "Rem tried to help Subaru-kun… But…" Seeing the maid falter in place as she gripped her skirt hard, Emilia slowly looked away from Rem and to the little girl that was sitting on the other side of her knight.

"Beako-chan…"

"What I suppose?" Beatrice coldly asked as she looked at the screen with a forlorn expression.

"You sleep with Subaru every night… Does he…"

"Betty has told you before… He only sleeps peaceful when she's with him on the bed. He always squirms and shouts. Betty knows the reason now like you do, infact." Beatrice didn't look smug or proud at the fact at all. She just looked at the screen with no emotion. Just gripping her contractor's hand.

"Why does he suffer all alone?" Otto clenched his fists as did the blonde boy beside him. Unable to help their brother out.

Emilia just leaned back in her seat defeated as she noted another aspect of Subaru's life that's been causing him great pain and suffering since he met her.

She couldn't help but clench her hand around his while feeling the guilt of giving him nightmares and not helping him or caring to take notice of him. She couldn't help but keep wanting his affection after all she has done to him.

"Selfish…" Emilia growled at her self while keeping her side as close to her knight as she could. The boy that had suffered hell to save her.

"How did you know about his nightmares?" Ram asked with her eyes narrowed in suspicion.

Rem blushed and looked down.

"Are you okay, Subaru-kun?" A worried Rem asked from beside his bed.

"Yeah, don't worry-"

"Rem!? Why are you sitting besides me like it's natural for you to be here?"

"Rem! Why on this dragon forsaken world would you want to look at trash first thing in the morning?!" Ram yelled out at her sister's strange habits.

"What were you doing, I suppose?" Beatrice asked in anger that her position taken by a maid.

"Where you watching him sleep?" Al asked in a weirdly giddy tone.

"Stop it guys! There's no way that Natsuki-san would capture her heart that quic-"

"It's almost time to start working, so I was restoring my energy by watching Subaru-kun's sleeping face!" Rem smiled wide at the disturbed boy.

"Lucky son of a bitch!" Garfiel shouted as he held his hair in pure agitation and disbelief at how lucky his Cap'n was. Otto just stood there slack jawed.

Rem blushed deep red as she noticed the stares from Emilia and Beatrice.

Ram just shook her head while Roswaal giggled in his hand.

The rest just carried on watching, knowing that it was a private moment.

"Just what kind of energy is that?!"

"More importantly, what was that dream about?" Rem changed the subject as the boy tiredly got out of his bed.

"Er… It's more of a nightmare that will come true if I speak about it… Don't worry about it."

Subaru suddenly shivered in place and quickly hugged himself. "Hey, Rem. It's a bit cold today, don't you think?"

"That's right, it may be a bit chilly this morning. As expected of Subaru-kun, such keen insight!"

"She's soooo in love." Ricardo whispered to his lady, making Anastasia shrug her shoulders a bit.

"I ship 'em with the elf gi- OW!" Al was cut off from supporting his ship by a boot slamming his helmeted head to the ground.

"Quiet Aldebaran." Priscilla stomped on his head while fanning herself as she watched.

'Why did she stop me?' Al thought to himself as he felt the boot move away and allowing him to sit back on his chair.

"Well, anyone would at least recognize cold weather..."

Scene change to Subaru and Rem working in the kitchen.

"Yesterday's weather was that muggy too… what an extreme change of weather in just one night… "

Subaru looked Rem as he peeled some Potatoes. (Say it with me kids! F-U-C-K TATOES!)

"Don't you change your maid outfit seasonally? Must be hard for you, with such light outfit… "

"Once the real ice season begins, I do change into my winter maid clothes. They're thick, and there's cotton stuffed in them, so they're very warm."

"Given this cold, don't you think it's better to change into them? If it's so hard for you to ask, I can ask Roswaal directly for you."

"My hero is so thoughtful." Rem uttered with a warm smile on her face.

Making her sister snort from the back.

"He probably wants to see you change."

"Perv." Felix agreed with Ram, making his mistress sigh in exasperation.

"Nee-sama and I are used to it, so it's okay. It's not worth bothering Roswaal-sama with it."

"Well, if you say so… By the way, where is Nee-sama?"

"Yes. Nee-sama is sleeping in a bit, as it seems she doesn't want to get out of her bed with morning being this cold."

Subaru stopped peeling the Potatoes (tatoes is a very shitty name!) and glared at Rem.

"Even though you just said you were both used to the cold! I can't accept this! Be it cold or hot weather, I'm going to teach Nee-sama that she can't lead a shut-in life here!"

Subaru took off the apron and stomped out of the kitchen. "Let's go Rem!"

"But, Nee-sama is also tired from her day-to-day chores, so it's okay if she oversleeps on cold days-"

"Let's go, Rem!"

"Yes! If you say so!" She let go of her chores and followed with a smile.

"I no longer love you."

"Sister!" Rem looked at the upset Ram with tears of heart brake in her eyes.

"You didn't defend your sister's reputation from a pathetic waste of life's smear campaign."

"But Sis, Subaru-kun just wants to spend time with you!"

"I don't want to spend time with trash like him!"

Roswaal just loved where he was sitting. He loved it.

Everyone else just watched the two argue with amused smiles.

Scene change to a very, very disgruntled looking Ram glaring at Subaru as he swiped with his room.

"There's so much dust left, clean it again. You're really useless, Barusu." Ram coldly ordered as she glared at the boy.

"Tipsy." Al and Ricardo snorted while Petra and Frederica giggled as they never saw Ram this agitated.

"Just because I forcibly pulled you out of your bed, how long do you intend to hold a grudge?"

"Hmph!"

"Can't you fix your mood yet?" Subaru stepped towards her but was tripped by something.

"Huh? Ram, it seems like there's a hatch here. Do you know what's in there?"

"No idea."

Subaru moved to open the hatch.

"Stop Barusu. What if insects pop out when you open it? Wait till I step out and lock the door."

"Why do you have to lock it? Anyway, it's too late."

"I love their dynamic together!" Anastasia called out while giggling with the rest of the theater.

Subaru opened the hatch and found a bunch of stored glass bottles.

"Oh, this is… There are many of them too. Are all of these alcohol?"

"Now that you mention it, I remember hearing something about Roswaal-sama's grandma being a heavy-drinker. These probably belonged to her."

Subaru looked up with a creeped out expression. "Ros-chi's grandma? Can't even imagine it."

"What's that suppooooosed to mean?" Roswaal asked with a fake glare.

"He means she's creepy as fuck." Garfiel answered politely.

"But if they're that old, these bottles should be pretty refined, right?"

"Even if living every day is painful, you shouldn't drink, Barusu."

"I won't drink!"

As the two were conversing over the bottles of wine, a beautiful half-elf came into the room.

"Subaru, Ram!"

The two looked back to find a smiling Emilia leaning on the door way to the room.

"I heard rustling coming from here, so it was you two after all."

"Emilia-tan!" Subaru called out at the smiling elf-girl.

"What are you doing here?" Emilia asked in amusement.

"I was warning Subaru from turning to alcohol, even if life was harsh for him." Ram answered simply, making Emilia look at Subaru with a heartbroken look.

"Is… that so? Subaru, you should have told me if you're having it rough."

"Haha, What were you going to do if he really did that?" Felt asked as she and the others laughed at the way Ram had framed him.

Emilia looked down in thought and nodded her head. "I would've-"

"Given him a lap pillow?"

Everyone just laughed at Julius's interruption and the way Emilia pouted at him.

"It's not like that! I won't drink nor will I run away! I'm still a minor to begin with, so I can't even drink! I can't even peek at underground websites yet without a legal guardian!"

"Don't even…" Otto warned the little devil as she smugly held her head high, making Emilia and Rem glare with pure frustration at how much closer Beatrice was to Subaru than they were.

"I won't tell you, infact." The girl said in a smug tone, pissing everyone that was curious off.

"C'mon, Beako-chaaaan!" Roswaal yelled from his seat.

"You're not allowed to ask anything of me, infact."

Roswaal looked down in sadness.

Beatrice kept her smile and her tough look but on the inside she was freaking out… Subaru hadn't taught her about underground websites. He didn't get to that part.

"I don't really know what you mean by undergroud websites… But in the Kingdom of Lugunica, the legal drinking age is fifteen."

"Seriously?!"

"If you want to watch this underground website thing, I wouldn't mind accompanying you as your legal guardian."

Subaru quickly blushed and hugged himself. "So kind! E.M.T! Emilia-tan, mesmerizing angel! However, an angel shouldn't do such a thing."

Ram was looking between the two with a look of pure boredom.

"Speaking of which, how do you handle alcohol? Drunken Emilia-tan must be so cute!"

"Sorry, I don't really understand what you're saying. However, I have never drank alcohol before."

"What a shame, we could've made tomorrow's date an adults' date… Drinks in one hand, in the flower fie-" Subaru stopped what he was talking about as soon as he noticed the all knowing disgusted glare Ram was sending him.

"Crap, it was supposed to be a surprise."

"Oh… Tomorrow was our date… " Emilia looked down with a guilty expression.

"Yeah, can't wait for tomorrow! I'll wake up early and prepare a packed lunch."

"Y-Yeah, I'm also looking forward to it." Emilia gave a nervous smile to the excited Subaru.

"I hope the weather clears up tomorrow. Speaking of which, Emilia-tan, aren't you cold with that outfit?"

"Eh? Cold? I'm not cold at all! Rather, don't you think it's reeeeally warm today?" Emilia began fanning herself and talking really quickly and nervously.

"Why are you acting so weird?" Felt asked from her place beside the half-elf.

Emilia sighed and watched herself with a disappointed look. "Just watch."

"What's gotten into you, Emilia-tan? You're acting weird suddenly."

"That's right! I have some stuff to do. Reeeeeally urgent stuff. See you!" The half-elf quickly ran out of the room.

"He! Urgent stuff, that's what you say when it's not that urgent. It means that Barusu is a being even lower than Emilia's trivial stuff."

Ram smirked smugly at the embarrassed butler. Subaru turned to her with a sweating and worried expression was trying to change into a confident one.

"Of course not! I'm sure she's just so excited for tomorrow, so she's-"

"Hahahahah!"

"You two are so good together!"

"I love it!"

Ram almost threw up at Ricardo, Al and Otto's remarks. Her and trash?! She was a noble maid!

"Why are you so mean to him, Ram-chan?" Emilia asked as she giggled.

"That's just how charming my sister is, Subaru-kun lets her do whatever she wants because he has a big heart that's accepting of others." Rem said with a smile.

"Or… he's just a perv."

Otto and Garfiel laughed at Felix's muttering.

Scene change…

"Water bottles: Check. Bread for lunch: Check. The date's plan: Check. Handkerchief: Check. And lucky boxers: Check."

"Also, Alarm: Set." Subaru smiled as he closed the phone in his hand.

"He set his Metia to wake him up by making a loud noise at a point in time he set to be early in the morning, Infact." Beatrice explained while looking at her fingernails and raising her eyebrows up and down to piss a certain Otto off.

"A loud noise… " Crusch and Felix looked at one another…

"So it was an alarm." Felix uttered as he looked at the ground.

"Then he had other means of knowing about the whale and not just have the location told to him through the metia." Crusch detected glumly.

"Subaru-dono had faced the whale alone… and lost." Wilhelm concluded with his eyes narrowed and his hand clenching the armrest tightly.

The Crusch's camp mused alone as the others were too busy watching Beatrice and Otto argue.

It had donned that Subaru will die again.

Crusch and her knights continued watching with the information weighing heavily upon there hearts.

Meanwhile, someone else was watching with a heavy heart.

"He was sooo excited! And I was just worried about myself." Emilia crushed the boy's hand once more as she vented her frustration by squeezing his bones into dust with her strength.

How could she be so blind to this boy's struggle?!

The boy quickly turned off the lights and dived into his bed to sleep.

Turning and changing positions multiple times, Subaru finally sat up on his bed with a conclusion.

"Ah, can't sleep. Oh, that's right! I know how to sleep!"

Subaru quickly lay back and covered himself with the cover.

"1 Puck, 2 Pucks, 3 Pucks… Wait a second, I'm having a violent deja vu… I feel like something similar happened… And then I was cursed that night… "

Images of when he had died in the hallway in one of his past loops played.

"He's not cold or unfeeling towards his deaths." Julius noted with cold dead eyes.

"You would?" Ricardo snorted and looked at his colleague with a stern glare.

The knight kept watching, composed, and emotionless.

Rem looked down in guilt as the rest of the Emilia camp winced at the memory.

"I shouldn't say it! Forget about Puck! I'll just… "

The distraught boy slowly closed his eyes and smiled softly.

"1 Emilia. 2 Emilias. 3 Emilias."

"Looks like he has a default." Frederica chuckled at the sweet scene.

Emilia pouted a little at her stupid knight's sweetness. He makes her feel so special and she has offered him nothing!

Talk about a high maintenance knight.

Subaru quickly sat up with a wide smile on his face. "Is this heaven! Crap, I also did this before… Guess I have to think of another solution… "

"1 Roswaal, 2 Roswaals, 3 Roswaals… "

Subaru sat up once again with a hand on his face as he tried to forget the horror he just witnessed. 3 clowns.

"I'm guessing that was hell he saw." Felt winced sympathetically.

"Roswaal-sama, you'll chock if you laugh so much."

Roswaal waved at his maid as he held his stomach and tried to keep his laughter in check.

Sighing, the boy noticed his breath was visible from the cold temperature of the room. "Will the date go well with this cold…? Just when the kids went out of their way to show me that flower field, I hope it isn't withering… "

Subaru quickly covered himself and closed his eyes. "No, tomorrow will certainly bring good weather. It'll be okay. I'll believe in that… "

Subaru slowly closed his eyes…

Darkness…

"He seems to be more on guard." Anastasia noted with pity filled eyes.

"Anyone would. That kid will never be the same after what he's been through." Julius emotionlessly muttered, making Rem and Emilia clench their hands and look away from the boy.

"At least the worst is done." Mimi called out in enthusiastic glee.

Some shook their heads with haunted looking eyes.

They didn't believe it.

The screen slowly lights up to show Subaru's sleeping form in the darkness having a light from the sky above him beam and fill the world with magnificent sparkles.

The beautiful sounds of choirs playing a strange tone was heard over the screen.

As the beautiful music played around Subaru. Four majestic angels with wings slowly fluttered down and pulled the boy's covers off.

Only one problem with these beautiful majestic baby angels…

"AAAAAAAAAAHH!" Petra and Mimi screamed for dear life as they witnessed a sight so messed up, it needed what we call, Jesus.

While the rest were just laughing their ass off. All the candidates and their camps were just laughing, even Wilhelm was giving chuckles into his fist.

Roswaal was just on the floor, rolling.

They all had Roswaal's head.

The baby Roswaals slowly grabbed the sleeping Subaru and began flying with him.

The screen showed Subaru's content face as the music played around him while he flew.

"Huh?"

Only for him to wake up and find that,

1 There was no baby Roswaal angels that were probably representing his deepest desire, darkest desires in life,

2 The music playing wasn't some heaven sent choirs that were used in Viva la vada but actually it was his phone's alarm playing the theme song to his favorite anime show, and finally,

3 The world around him would've been better as a void of darkness instead of the frozen atmosphere around his room. His snot was frozen from how cold it was.

"It's so cold! I'm gonna die!" Subaru shivered in place as he sat up.

Everyone stared at Emilia as she looked down in guilt at the state her knight was in. "I should have warned him." she muttered to herself angrily.

"You weren't the only one who knew what was going on, infact." Beatrice sighed and wished she could help her contractor.

"What's happening?" Anastasia asked in suspicion.

"Just watch, I suppose."

Slowly, the boy opened the door while covering himself with the blanket.

"It's gotten even colder than yesterday, what's going on?" Subaru looked around the hallway, shivering.

"Huh?"

He found a little librarian looking out of a window.

"Beatrice."

The girl quickly turned and looked alarmed.

"What are you doing so early in the morning?"

"N-Nothing! It's none of your business, I suppose."

"Suspicious!" Mimi shouted making many nod.

"By the way, don't you think it's very cold in here? I have a date with Emilia-tan today, is it going to be okay?" Subaru looked up at the ceiling of the hallway in worry.

Beatrice started walking away from him with a bored expression. "As if I care about that. Betty is busy right now. I have no time to play with you, I suppose."

"I'm not asking you to play with me or anything. Anyway, it's easy to catch a cold during this period, so be careful."

"Awe! He cares about Betty-chan!" Petra dotted at her hero's nature.

Beatrice just glared at herself on screen.

"How hard is it to treat him just a little nicer, infact?" She growled at herself.

"I'm not that careless for you to worry about me, I suppose."

"Rather than worrying about you… If you catch a cold, finding you would be difficult, so I would feel bad for Rem if the rice porridge she made you went cold. You should at least rest in your bed when you catch a cold!" Subaru waved at the spirit with a smile.

Beatrice quickly turned around and looked at him with a pissed off expression.

"Just why do you have to lecture me about the what-if results of this scenario, I suppose?! Anyway, I'm very busy right now, don't make me repeat myself, I suppose?!"

Subaru was thrown out of the window.

"Beako!" "Beatrice-sama!"

Beatrice just facepalmed as she was glared at by two girls in love with the boy she had contracted with.

"How hard, infact?!"

Scene change…

Subaru and Rem where both cleaning the marble floor with their wet brooms.

"So, is that why your date with Emilia-sama was canceled?" Rem asked as she wiped with the boy.

"Postponed, not canceled. It would be a waste if the cold ruined our long-awaited date. Emilia-tan… "

Subaru remembered the strange scene that happened to him that morning.

"You're right! It may be better if we postpone it! Since you know, it's this cold, and I know how much you were looking forward to it, and I was the one who promised you, but of course it's not just because I promised you or anything, I too was looking forward to it, but since it's this cold, we have no choice. Yes!"

Subaru looked haunted as he remembered the sight of Eminem Emilia, rapping and waving her arms around as she spat her new song's lyrics at his face.

Rap Goddess. (استغفر الله)

"Meanwhile, her Somehow relieved face is still bugging me… " Subaru said to himself.

"Did you really think that was convincing?" Anastasia asked with a ludicrous look on her face.

"That wasn't even close to convincing Garf." Otto pointed at his friend while looking at her in disappointment.

"Yeah- Wait!"

Emilia just turned her head away from them. She didn't want to be mean but she knew what she was doing. Subaru was wrapped around her finger because of her silver tongue's words.

"I think postponing it is a wise decision. On the off chance you became stranded in this bad weather… "

"Stranded? That only happens on snowy mountains." Subaru suddenly started freaking out.

"Wait a second! Could it be THAT thing?"

"What thing?" Rem asked in confusion.

"What's going on?" Felt asked in worry as the rest watched with rapid attention.

Subaru began shouting with his eyes wide. "During our date, a snowstorm strands us, so we take refuge in a mountain hut where we share each other's warmth!"

Subaru began hugging himself lewdly. "A happy, embarrassing and heart-throbbing situation!"

"Got it! I will take care of warming you!" Rem intercepted with a smile on her face.

"Hold on, you're taking another character's role here!"

"That's genius, Cap'n!"

"HAHAHAHA!"

"What a lewd man this guy is?" Julius flinched at the unknightly behavior.

"I'm not sure I understand… Does he just want a hug so bad?" Emilia asked in confusion.

Beatrice shushed the outraged Anastasia as the merchant was about to explain just what that meant to the innocent Emilia.

Subaru calmed down and smiled to Rem. "Realistically speaking though, it's not like a snowstorm would pop out of nowhere, nor could the temperature drop that quickly… "

He placed the broom in the water bucket to continue cleaning.

But…

"Just now… I heard a crack."

"It seems like the bucket's water is starting to freeze."

"Ehhh?" Subaru was astonished.

"Just how cold was it?" Ricardo whistled.

"Must have been freezing." Otto shivered just thinking about it.

Scene change…

Subaru is shivering in his ice covered dorm with his hair, eye lashes and even snot running from his nose frozen in icicle shape.

He slowly turned his head around and found snow and ice covering his lamp chair and table.

"Okay! What's going on?!" Felt asked unable to contain herself.

"This doesn't seem normal at all." Reinhard supported his mistress with a bewildered look.

"Please just watch. Incase you're wondering, I don't see anything that's different from our memories of the event yet."

"So that means their won't be any-"

Garfiel quickly placed a hand on Otto's mouth and shook his head.

Don't remind them about the deaths.

"No matter how you look at it, something is wrong here!" Subaru screamed in bewilderment.

The scene changes to show Subaru shivering while holding a cup of hot drink and being covered in a blanket.

"I'm really sorry. I should have come to warm you, but I couldn't leave Nee-sama like that… " Rem apologized while looking at the shivering Subaru.

"So you sisters were warming e-each other? I can feel my temperature increasing 3 degrees just by imagining this godly situation." Subaru shivered and gasped as his breath turned into ice.

"You would like to see that, wouldn't you, Perv." Ram snorted while her sister blushed heatedly.

"Oh, Subaru-kun. You don't look so good is there anything wrooong?"

"Nothing in particular, I'm just freezing here! No matter how you look at it, this weather is abnormal!" Subaru retorted to the smiling clown wearing lord that had entered the kitchen.

"My, my, you're such a crybaaaaby. With enough pride and composure, one's presence of mind is all you need to face the cooold… "

"Don't see myself being convinced by someone wearing those fluffy clothes, though!" Subaru yelled out as he glared at Roswaal.

"At this rate, this cold might turn into a murder attempt!"

Subaru sniffled and began snorting into a handkerchief that was held infront of him by a dutiful Rem.

"Hmm." Roswaal looked at the door with a smile. "Indeed, guess I can't leave it anymooore… "

"The way you put it… Do you have any clues? If the cause is some kind of winter Shogun hurry up and defeat it! I beg you, Sensei."

(Konosuba reference is shown.)

"A Shogun is a fictional monster in Subaru's world." Beatrice noted to the confused in the crowed around her.

"He's world seems boring if they make this much fiction." Tivey noted to himself.

"Didn't you see those Kars! They looked so cool! I want to live in a world like that."

Garfiel nodded his head. That Mimi girl had such good taste.

"Subaru-kun, is it that you can't handle cold weather?" The eccentric clown asked his employee.

"During the winter, I complain about the cold. During the summer, I complain about the hot weather. During spring, I complain about being sleepy. During autumn, I complain about matsutake mushrooms' price. I'm just your everyday normie."

"Understatement of the decade." Al snorted along with Felix and a bored looking Priscilla.

Subaru began snorted into Rem's waiting handkerchief.

"Are you curious about the outside?"

Subaru looked confused at Roswaal's question. "Well, I'm a bit worried about shoveling the snow off the village's fields… "

"Seems like you get along well with the villagers, espeeecially the kids."

"That's just a coincidence. Besides, I'm not fond of those selfish, rash creatures called kids. But, they went and got attached to me, so I had no choice."

"I pity them." Ram huffed while Petra giggled.

"I'm gonna tell them what you said." The little maid teased, knowing that she won't get an answer from the sleeping boy.

"Yeah, yeah. That's what you caaall a Tsundere." Roswaal winked in amusement at the struggling boy as he sniffled and snorted once again into the smiling maid's waiting wiper.

"Sniffle! Ouch, my nose hurts! Sniffle! Sniffle! This is bad!"

"It will be okay! I will take care of Subaru-kun's sniffles!" Rem excitedly assured.

Emilia huffed, upset that she was the one that had caused him to be this close to Rem and made him sick.

"Anyway, don't worry, this weather's only spreading up to the mansion's vicinity." Roswaal said as he began walking away from the two.

"And just why is that?!" Subaru asked in confusion.

"To prevent this cold from spreading further, two people have been running around dealing with it. " Roswaal turned and smiled mysteriously.

"Two?" Subaru looked at Rem questioningly.

"It's neither me, nor Nee-sama."

"Which means that the suspect's identity is clear, no?" Subaru thoughtfully inquired.

"Thus, I don't even have to explain who's behind this cold, dooo I?" Roswaal smiled in confirmation.

"Snitch." Emilia grumbled as she understood how Subaru found out she was the source behind this.

"Let's see the truth behind all this." Crusch mused as she leaned back to learn of the suspicious circumstance filling the mansion, once again.

Scene change…

We can see the three standing at a door that had a fog running from under it.

"Emilia-sama. Sorry for bothering you so early in the morning. Do you have a moooment?"

"Roswaal?" Emilia's voice could be heard from beyond the door.

"Err.. Err.. wait a second! Okay?"

"Suuuubaru-kun." Roswaal pointed at the boy, to which the butler nodded and moved to open the door.

Only to suddenly step back while holding his hand as soon as he touched the golden handle of the door.

"So cold! What the hell is this?! Emilia-tan! Are you okay?!"

"Heh? What? Subaru is here too?" Emilia asked in panic.

"Yes I'm here! But more importantly, don't you have something else to say?!" Subaru yelled at the door accusingly.

"Something to say…? Something to say…? Good morning!"

"Hmm, hmm. Properly starting with a greeting, that's a well behaved girl- That's not it!"

"I'm opening the door! If you're changing, then thank you!"

"Thank you? Not sorry?" Emilia questioned ludicrously.

"What a gross knight you have~" Anastasia teased cheerfully.

"He's fun to watch." Crusch snorted at Subaru's antics.

Julius, Felix and Reinhard had to clench their fists as they saw how unruly the boy was. They needed to teach him some rules of the knight's code. Not just for appearance but for his own safety if he was met with a larger much more powerful knight waiting to kill him for breaking a rule.

Felt and Priscilla just laughed at the scene.

Emilia looked down in shame at how ludicrous her knight was. "Pervert." The half-elf muttered in sadness.

She was blushing a bit too.

Subaru opened the door and was met with a room filled to the brim with ice and an oncoming storm hitting him in the face.

"It's freezing! What is going on here?!"

"Y-You shouldn't do that! Barging into someone's room before getting the permission to enter, that's rude!"

Emilia was seen holding her hands out to hide the source of this strong windy current flowing all over her walls.

"Right! That's reeeally rude!" Emilia waved her arms and looked at the three with a panicked expression.

"I think I understand what's happening now." Wilhelm mused with a hand on his chin. Many of the magic users and the candidates nodded their heads.

"Er… Uhm… Hey! Go out and try again!" Emilia yelled and blushed from embarrassment as the wind continued blowing stronger.

"'Tis what Emilia-tan is saying, but what's the mansion owner's say on the matter?" Subaru asked the lord behind him.

"Permission: Graaanted." Roswaal happily agreed.

"Roswaal!" Emilia shouted in betrayal as Subaru stepped into her windy room.

"So, the cause of this cold is?" Subaru stopped infront of her.

"Cause? What cause? I have no idea… well, maybe just a little bit… But I don't know!" Emilia continued with her genius manipulation of Subaru's peasant servant mind.

But then a voice from behind her stopped her cruel treatment of her servant's simpleness.

"It's okay, Lia. It doesn't seem like we can hide it longer anyway."

Emilia sighed and turned to the source of all this wind with a pout. "Puck, you idiot! I was just a step away from deceiving them!" She admonished her spirit for ruining her fun in playing with the mind of her servant.

"No you weren't, I suppose."

"You weren't fooling anyone, Emilia-sama." Crusch shook her head in disappointment.

Emilia just huffed. They didn't know what they were talking about! She was perfectly close!

"No, that wouldn't have happened in a hundred years." Said servant lied through his teeth to protect his pride.

"Liar." Emilia muttered and making Felt look at her with a raised brow.

Subaru leaned closer to see what was causing all of this… and found a tired looking Puck, covered in a small blanket and sleeping on a small pillow, emitting this godly amounts of wind and snow out of nowhere.

"Hm… I'm sorry. I've caused you trouble. Please don't get mad at Lia and Betty, they were just covering for me." Puck smiled at the boy apologetically.

Scene change to a shivering Ram that was glaring condescendingly at a certain cat as she stood to the side while the mansion residents sat at the huge dining table.

"Hatsumaki? What's a Hatsumaki? Don't you mean Hatsujouki?"

(TL note: Hatsumaki is literally Magic/Release/Period. It is a made-up word that's similar to Hatsujouki, which is why Subaru is confused here. Hatsujouki means Mating season.)

"I'm not an animal, so I don't have a mating season. What a rude thing to say~nya!" Puck licked his fur like an animal.

"Your answer troubles me, in more ways than one… " Subaru looked at the cat with an unconvinced stare.

"It's a phenomenon that only affects a few beings, those possessing potent magical energy. A person's magic power highly depends on their Od's attributes. In that sense, its output is very restricted." Rem explained from her lord's side.

"Od… Is it something different than mana and gates?"

Ram glared at Subaru as she tightly hugged her blanket while shivering in place. "Not knowing what an Od is… I'm really starting to doubt your common sense. You've reached unprecedented heights of shallowness and impudence, Barusu."

"Nee-sama is even harsher than usual today. Is cold weather your weak-point?" Subaru looked at Ram with a concerned expression.

"Strong and weak points are purely subjective things, I don't look at life from such a narrow-minded point of view. Don't spout such nonsense. Go kill yourself please."

"That last part was unnecessarily cruel though?!"

Ram winced a bit as she heard how harsh the last remark was. Judging by the uncomfortable looks she was getting… everyone was thinking the same thing.

"This conversation isn't going anywhere if I leave it to you two, I suppose… Since I have no other choice, I'll explain it to you." Beatrice sighed and began explaining from her spot at the table.

"Od is the vessel of magical power, a device that stocks the magical energy extracted from the gate, I suppose."

"Oh, oh, a vessel that stocks the magical energy… Go ahead, please continue." Subaru smiled and nodded his head.

"Your way of speaking irritates me." Beatrice growled and continued in disgruntlement.

"Anyway, an excellent Od can deal with a considerable amount of magical energy, I suppose. However, any vessel has a limit."

"Once that limit is reached, the Od will over with maaagical energy. Before that happens it's necessary to let it out." Roswaal continued the explanation.

"To let it out before your stomach explodes… " As Subaru worded out his conclusion, Beatrice began sipping from her drink.

"So basically, just like constipation."

And Beatrice quickly did a spit take that was as refined as her spirit form.

Slamming her hands on the table, the cute girl pointed at the ignorant servant before her.

"Choose your words carefully, I suppose!"

But as he was stared at by the sheer noble anger of the magnificent spirit-sama that was Beatrice, the arrogant swan turned his head to Roswaal and continued speaking.

He ignored her.

And that moment…

Is when Beatrice, the great spirit knew…

This boy… was lesbian as shit.

(Note: To the ones who are of the LGBTQ community and to those of you who have actual taste in comedy… buckle the fuck up. You guys are gonna suffer my cringe in this story. I'm sorry in advance. We in this together.)

"So basically, Puck releasing his magical energy gas is causing this cold."

"Yes, that's right. I'm sorry for hiding it… "

Emilia bowed to those at the table.

"What a troublesome constipation relief method… Is this a periodic thing?"

"Hmm. Once per year I'd say. When I was living in the forest with Lia, I moderately relieved myself, but ever since coming here, I've been behaving myself, I guess this was its recoil. Teehee!"

"Teehee my ass!"

"That's a bit too powerful for a Hatsumaki." Crusch wondered with a surprised look on her face.

"Hmph! Bubby is a great spirit like myself, infact!"

"So now we know why this strange phenomenon is happening all of a sudden." Reinhard nodded his head and watched with great interest since he's abilities forced him to have very poor affinities with spirits great and small alike.

"I'm also interested in how he deals with this powerful Hatsumaki since my buds can grow and possibly cause the same problem." Julius wondered as he leaned back and watched with great interest.

"Bet number six, and yes I'm keeping count, Subaru-kun makes something otherworldly to deal with this problem. Those who were present are not allowed to vote." Anastasia hummed as she raised her hand along with her cam and Crush's.

Felt snorted "I bet he will just leave the house until kitty is done." Reinhard followed his mistress.

"Oh, you're joining?" Crusch asked with a small smirk as she noticed Priscilla's hand was raised along with her other hand forcing Al's up.

"Be thankful that you have my luck on your side, Commoner." The princess snorted and looked at the screen.

"Oh, he's warming his way into her heart." Anastasia cheekily uttered to the candidate beside her.

The duchess smiled warmly and leaned back to watch the screen also. "That he is."

"If letting out your magical energy is necessary, then I won't complain, but, why the sudden change during the last 3 days?" Subaru wondered while looking at the ice covered room.

"I was doing it slowly at first, but I had more mana piled up than usual, and no one was complaining about it getting colder, 'Huh, can I go wilder?' Alright I'll give it a shot! 'Everyone is surprisingly gullible.' And that's how it went." Puck shrugged his shoulders with a smile.

"What a sloppy work!"

"For a great spirit of Bubby's level, no matter how much magical energy much he releases, it isn't enough, I suppose. Out of respect for Bubby's fur, stop impudently petting it like that, I supp- Sniffle."

"You too have a runny nose! More importantly, you made that barrier to confine the cold weather because you were afraid of being discovered, right? Answer me honestly." Subaru tapped his table and demanded from the sniffling girl.

"She started blowing her nose!" Subaru mocked.

"I have no idea what you're talking about." Beatrice turned away from him.

The silence that filled the room after was broken by a very nervous Emilia.

"Y-You see, Puck and I are reeeally sorry about this… But… Puck's Hatsumaki should be over soon… isn't that right, Puck?"

"Yeah. If you let me do it at this pace, it should be over in 2 more days."

"If we let you do it at this pace, you'll have to deal with my and Ram's frozen corpses by tomorrow morning."

Subaru then turned to the guilty looking elf girl. "By the way Emilia-tan, aren't you cold, dressed like this? I want to see Emilia-tan in her winter clothes!"

"Pervert, Subaru!" Emilia was much mature now than she was back then, so she understood that her knight wanted to some candy of the eye Ram is always talking about when she stares at her lord's ass.

Rem actually smiled happy that Subaru had asked her too to change into winter clothes, meaning that she's on the same wave length with Emilia in his mind.

"You know that I have a contract with Puck, right? W-Well, thanks to Puck's magic, my body temperature is kept in check… Which is why, even in this cold… Yes… I'm fine." Emilia looked down and closed her eyes in guilt.

Subaru looked at Puck with a pleading expression. "Don't you feel bad for causing you daughter this much trouble? Let's find another way."

And suddenly, the butler boy stood up in alarm. "Oh! That's it!"

"This is it!" Anastasia clapped excitedly.

Crusch leaned forward with a smile of endearment as she too was excited for the boy's solution to this problem.

"We don't have to stay inside the mansion! While Beako confines the cold within her barrier, we just have to spend our time outside the mansion."

"That's Subaru-kun for you! Rem is impressed!"

"Right now, the weather outside is neither cold, nor hot-"

Scene change to Subaru and the girls standing at the open mansion door. Watching as it rained extensively outside.

"Damn! I lost another bet." Ricardo shook his head.

"Upupup, It's not over yet~" Anastasia shook her finger and had an expression of pure amusement.

"This rain won't let up anytime soon, I suppose."

" Why?!"

"I guess camping outside is a no-go… " Emilia said in disappointment.

"Wait! If we use a tent… "

"Suuubaru-kun! Were you planning to let me, the mansion's master sleep outsiiiide?" Roswaal stood threateningly at behind the boy.

"T-then, can't you do something about it with your magic? Something like… a fireball you fire at Puck, and then Bam! The cold gets evened out!"

"It would be hard to control that… If my hand were to slip even a little bit, the mansion would be engulfed by a sea of flames…"

"What's with this above there's raging water, below, there's raging fire kind of situation… "

Then, suddenly…

"Oh! Got it! Above, there's raging water, below, there's raging fire!"

Emilia looked at the screaming Subaru in bewilderment.

"What do you mean?"

"It's a famous riddle in my homeland. The answer to it is: The Bath! Which means that, to overcome this freezing cold… "

"To overcome it…?" Emilia asked in determination.

"Using all the mansion's magic fire stones, we'll heat the large public bath's water! And then, for 2 days, we will carry on with the Operation Hot Springs! How does that sound?"

"That's Subaru-kun for you! Rem is impressed!"

"Nice!" Al nodded his head and wished that he was with them.

"Unfortunately, that won't be possible."

Everyone turned to the shivering Ram. "Why?!"

Scene change to Subaru's eye's twitching as he looked at the shit show before him.

"This is… Mayonnaise…" The boy stared at the large bath that was filled with ungodly amounts of white sludge.

"What's… that?" Priscilla asked in disgust.

"Is that the new foreign sludge that makes food more delicious." Felix pointed.

"I recall eating it near the villages around Costul. It was really amazing. I never thought something could enhance food taste." Reinhard nodded his head and smiled at the memory of the new food he tasted in those villages.

"How did you come across such a recipe?" Julius asked the camp.

"The villagers said that the recipe was shared by the half-elf's helper." Reinhard recalled and then it hit him.

"So it's a luxury from another world… Subaru-kun is really resourceful." Anastasia bit her lip as she thought about the earnings she could've had if she had bought the recipe and distributed it.

"Hmm, Mathers estate has had a looooot of good opportunity's using Subaru-kun's recipes." Roswaal mused from his seat.

"You mean he has more foods like that?" Anastasia asked with interest in her eyes.

"Mhm! Subaru's delicious weird dishes always make you smile." Emilia held her cheeks as she remembered the foods Subaru had cooked for her.

"You think he can make us something?" Felt started grabbing her stomach in hunger.

Anastasia just fumed in her seat.

"Yes. I was doing my best making this for Mayo lovin' Subaru's sake!" Rem answered proudly, "The other time, "

The maid remembered the time a naked Subaru ran into the bath without noticing that it wasn't water he was jumping in.

It was shown how an angry Subaru covered in white goo was yelling at a confused Rem intangibly.

"Subaru-kun got mad at me for there not being enough Mayo. So this time, I filled the large public bath!" Rem proudly turned around and leaned forward with her head presented to Subaru.

She looked like an eager Puppy.

"I wouldn't mind it if you praised me." Rem smiled and awaited her head pat.

"Are you an idiot?!" Subaru yelled at the happy maid.

Rem suddenly got an epiphany. "Shoot! The mayonnaise is frozen!"

"That's not the problem!"

"But don't worry Subaru-kun. Once it melts, the flaky mayonnaise will turn into bath-water!"

"Just stop please! The mayo lovers of the entire world will curse you!"

"Oh my spirits! This the best day of my life!" Otto laughed with his bro in rejoice as they finally had a good story to tell their children about uncle Subaru in the future.

"She looked like an eager pup." Frederica clapped her hands at how cute Rem looked.

Rem just blushed from embarrassment. "You seem to have your heart out on your sleeve." Crusch smirked at the maid.

Scene change to Subaru and Ram sitting beside a fireplace.

"It's this cold even right beside the fireplace… "

"Without this fire, everyone here would freeze to death. Wanna try it." Puck cheerfully offered.

"Like hell I would! Meanwhile, rather than relieving your magical energy over two days, can't you fire a strong spell in the sky or something like that?"

Puck just smiled innocently. "Does that mean you'll give it to me?" His smile turned into a nasty evil witch like grin. "The permission to destroy this world, that is."

"Yeah right!" Subaru replied in anger.

"Just kidding."

"I doubt he has that kind of power." Julius snorted at the spirit's confidence.

Crusch and Anastasia noticed how both Beatrice and Emilia looked away from the screen and at the ground at the same time.

Both candidates nodded their heads to one another.

"That cat needs to be watched."

"I doubt he has such power since he lost to the Elsa girl… but in case something happens…"

Crusch nodded in confirmation.

"Does this Hatsumaki problem only affect Spirits? What about Ros-chi and Beako?"

"In my case, I keep it in check by using my magical energy everydaaay." Roswaal shrugged and then looked at Ram with one eye open and a small smile. "I also have my daily business to take care off."

The shivering Ram blushed deeply and looked away from Subaru embarrassed.

"What does Ram have to do with your daily… oh… Forget it, I don't really want to know."

"Knowing the actual context behind his words doesn't make them any less creepy." Otto shivered as Garf nodded his head and glowered in anger.

"Betty uses her magical energy to manage the Forbidden Library and for my Door Crossing, I suppose. Right right! Lately, I've also been able to send a big-mouthed human flying." Beatrice smiled in pride.

"Yeah, that's cute okay." Subaru disinterested and bored moved on, making Beatrice pout angrily.

"You're so cute!" Petra and Frederica giggled, while the knights were astonished at the way Subaru had dismissed a great spirit just like that.

"What about you two?" Subaru asked Rem and Emilia. "Do you also have a mating seas- I mean a Hatsumaki?"

"Only a chosen a few possess the exceptional qualities needed to induce a Hatsumaki." Rem answered the shivering Subaru.

"Seeing as I'm not much of a magic user myself, I'm also not concerned by it." Emilia waved her hand slowly but then began explaining in alarm of seeming boastful. "But I have quite the experience because of Puck. That's why… I'm sorry about this… "

"Emilia-tan's self-deprecating tone is off-charts today. Then Puck, when was the last time you used magic to your heart's content? Enlighten us please."

"If we're talking lately, it may have been when I fought that woman in black in the capital. I even ran out of Mana back then."

"As if we could invite such a terrifying enemy again! Die from having your belly opened, or freeze to death, what kind of extreme situation is this?!"

"Other than that, it would be when Roswaal came to pick up Lia in the forest. It's embarrassing but I feel like I caused quite an uproar at the time." Puck rubbed the back of his head.

The screen showed a forest that was filled with snow get thrashed completely as spiky ice pillars shot out from the ground at a flying Roswaal.

"Aaah, that was truly stimulatiiiing. Engaging in a magic battle of that level maaay also have been a first for me."

Roswaal is shown dodging icicle after icicle from a smirking Puck.

"I was just surprised because you suddenly came without prior notice. Hahaha"

Puck began dodging the many fire balls from Roswaal.

"We duked it out all day and niiiight."

Roswaal and Puck fly towards one another.

"How did actually go, Emilia-tan?"

They both collide and fly in different directions.

"I heard they had to re-draw the map of the region afterwards."

"Okay, that's not good! The you're my rival, that's why I have to beat you! Plan is declined!"

Roswaal is now on the ground as opposite to an angry Puck.

"Ehhh?"

The two began charging their own attack with so much mana I thought this was Dragon ball Z.

"Ehhh? My ass! Don't alter the map with your fights! Apologize to C. Columbus!"

"C. Columbus-san, I'm sorry. Was this okay?" Puck cutely smiled.

The collusion of both attacks turned the entire forest into a flaming plain.

"W-What the hell?!" Ricardo whistled loudly at the fight.

Emilia frowned deeply at the viscous way Puck was fighting.

"That cat managed to hold his own against the greatest magic user?" Al also whistled impressed.

"So that's what happened at the northern border! It's been causing an uproar in the royal guard ever since the explosion happened."Julius quickly added this to the list of things he needed to arrest the clown lord for.

"Cat-sama is so scary!" Petra shivered in place.

Otto nodded with the maid's statement as he shook in place. "We have so many powerful people on this team I feel small."

Garfiel simply patted his brother's back. "'T's alright, man. You're at least stronger than the maid."

Otto looked at the blonde with a small smirk. "You saying that didn't scare you?" The merchant asked knowing full well what the answer will be.

"Pfft! I can take both of 'em."

Scene change…

Subaru, Rem and Emilia are inside a room filled with logs of wood the were neatly placed all over it.

"In any case, we shouldn't let the fire go out." Subaru wiped his brow as he placed another stack of wood on the cart.

"I'm reaaally sorry." Emilia apologized from where she was standing. "When I was in the forest with Puck, there wasn't anyone who would have been troubled by this, so I didn't think his Hatsumaki would be such a problem."

"Hmph! A half witch's place. Out of sight and out of mind."

Emilia ruffled her knight's hair as she ignored the insults being thrown at her by the fiery princess.

"No one asked ya!" Garfiel glared hatefully at the lady. He hated people that judged based on appearance. That's the reason why he's people were stuck in a fucking mud hole for centuries!

"No. I won't let you apologize further. I'll do something about it. There's no such thing as an endless fight. There's no such thing as an endless rain." Subaru stopped doing weird poses and looked up in thought.

"Right. Rain… Late at night, rains turns into… No wait, even if it's not late at night, as long as it's cold enough, rain turns into ice."

"Subaru? Did you get another funny idea?"

"That's Subaru-kun for you! Rem is impressed!"

"I feel that this is it." Crusch mused while leaning forward excitedly.

"Wanna bet on it? Between you and me." Anastasia rubbed her hands together in excitement to extort the duchess.

Crusch raised a cocky brow. "You think you've got him figured out?"

The merchant smirked and looked haughty at the boy before her. "A merchant has to know their assets full capabilities."

"Deal." Crusch smiled sweetly while twitching her eyebrow in anger at the way the merchant was speaking about the boy.

Subaru quickly halted the two and looked stern. "Those expectations of yours are jumping the gun, also, you're way too impressed, however,"

Subaru smirked in rich pettiness. "I finally got it. Not just a makeshift solution, but rather, a peaceful, interesting, funny and fun way of overcoming this Hatsumaki problem… "

The two ladies waited with serious faces of anticipation. "What could it be?"

"A tradition of my homeland. A festival! Let's grandiosely squander all of Puck's pent up mana! Named: Roswaal Mansion's ChikiChiki snow festival, 1st edition!"

"That's Subaru-kun for you! Rem is impressed!"

"ChikiChiki snow festival? Is the ChikiChiki part… necessary?"

Title card:

1st edition ChikiChiki snow Festival Roswaal Mansion Arlam's Villagers

The mansion is shown as a giant cloud hanged and snowed heavily over it.

Subaru is shown with a weird shaped crown on his head and carrying a torch that was made out of ice like the clown, holding it up in the air while carrying a book.

He was posing as Lady liberty from America.

"Why does he look like that?" Garfiel asked in confusion.

Al was laughing his ass off from some reason.

"He managed to make everyone in the village to come?" Frederica asked in disappointment that she wasn't there.

"The falling snow paints our hearts and the mansion in white. White, stretching as far as the eye can see. Nevertheless, just as there's no such thing as an endless night, there's no such thing as eternal snow. Bid the cold weather goodbye, for it is Roswaal Mansion's out season snow festival!"

The screen shows that the mansion and the gardens were now completely covered in snow.

Subaru was standing on a pillar over the villagers that had come wearing winter clothes and watched him as he excitedly announced.

"Hey! Who wants to go to New York?"

The villagers and the kids just looked at the boy in confusion.

"New York?"

"Da fuck's a New 'Ork" Garfiel asked with star's in his eyes.

"Can we eat that too?" Mimi asked with tilted head.

"Man Subaru has the coolest foods!" Tivey whined.

"Pathetic, infact!" A smug Beatrice huffed and continued her agenda in pissing off an Otto an Elf princess and a certain Oni maid.

"New York is one of the greatest cities in Subaru's world infact. Buildings as tall as the royal castle made of steel and glass span the entire land. A place were every culture and tradition in the world reside in harmony and chaos at the same time."

As the girls and the Otto around her fumed at the knowledge, the candidates and the knights looked at the spirit with wide eyes.

"J-Just how cool is Cap'n's world?!" Garf asked in despair as he never heard of something so awesome in existence.

The kids decided to go with it and help the boy. They cheered yes.

"Do you want to go to New York, no matter what it takes?"

All the villagers just cheered in sheer confusion.

"New York, where's that?"

"It's a town of Subaru's homeland, he said."

Petra answered with a smile.

"It's a town whirling with love and lust, he said." Another kid answered.

"Whirlpool!" A kid cheered.

"The rules are simple." Subaru held a finger in the air for the excited mass before him.

"By creating a snow sculpture, everyone's creativity and imagination will be put to the test. The winner gets a special prize."

"Oh, that's clever!" Felt and Crusch clapped their hands at the plan.

"By using this contest, he gets the cat to empty his mana to make snow for the villagers… Shrewd. But it's a good idea." Anastasia muttered with an upset look as she refused to look at the smug smirking duchess beside her.

'Why did I have to sit so close?!' Anastasia lamented her luck as she had to endure the smug aura around the winner of the bet that was sitting right beside her.

The merchant queen will make this boy pay! No one dares to put her in such a position!

"Can we go to New York?" A child asked making Subaru smile sheepishly.

"My bad, that won't be possible. However, we prepared prizes comparable to, or even better than going to New York! Well then, fight for victory!"

Everyone shouted in excitement.

Scene change….

"Nevertheless, a snow festival… The idea never crossed my mind." Emilia smiled warmly beside her servant as the two looked at the happy crowd playing in the snow.

"Well, if you can't hide it, you might as well use the commotion to make it into a festival."

Emilia grinned and excitedly turned to the butler. "I too, will keep my nose to the grindstone to create an amazing sculpture."

Subaru smiled nervously to the candidate. "Keep my nose to the grindstone, nobody says that anymore… "

Subaru smiled and looked at the crowed… His eyes widened when he couldn't find something.

"Huh?"

"What's he looking for nayow?" Felix asked bored out of his mind.

Scene change…

A quiet library with a small girl reading a book on her stool.

The doors opened…" Oh, Beako: found."

Not so quiet anymore.

"Oh, he wanted his loli to be present." Ricardo nodded his head accepting this as fact and chuckling at the blushing and pouting Beatrice before him.

"Looks like Subaru always thought of you, huh?" Emilia smiled at the spirit girl.

Beatrice smirked smugly and nuzzled into his chest. "Hmph! He's Subaru's Betty, infact. He better be a good contractor that looks to please Betty, I suppose."

"Hey, it all went well, thanks to you widening the barrier's range a little bit."

"It sure has gotten busy in here." Beatrice growled.

"While I was at it, I should have extended the barrier up to the forest so you could hold a festival in the village, I suppose."

"That would've caused trouble for the villagers. Besides, it would ruin my first date with Emilia-tan, since our secret flower bed would wither, right?"

"Yeah right. That's none of my business."

"Rather than that, Beako, you're not participating? You don't have to hold back."

"I have no idea what you're talking about, I suppose. I am very busy. Shoo shoo."

"You didn't seem to want him around that much." Reinhard noted nervously the great spirit's harshness.

Beatrice just looked down and held Subaru's hand tightly.

Felt kicked her knight in the shin.

Subaru smiled wide. "C'mon, don't be like that. It's also important to play outside every once in a while, especially for children." Subaru stepped closer behind the spirit's back.

And placed a small snowball on her head.

Beatrice shrieked.

"Bueno Aires!" A screaming butler could be seen flying out of a window.

Magic~

"He deserves it."

"Yes, he does." Julius nodded with Felix as he scowled at the treatment of the great spirit Subaru has convicted.

Meanwhile, around them, everyone was chuckling and laughing they ass off.

"What a stupid way to help someone get out of their shell, just like Barusu's birth."

Subaru landed on a small snow pile that was close to where the kids were playing.

"Oh, it's Subaru!"

"There he came, Subaru!"

"You shall know a world of white terror!"

(Ha, Rabbits, Ha)

The kids began howling Snowballs at the downed butler.

"You guys sure are lively in this cold. However, one day, you'll notice… "

Subaru slowly got up menacingly and put all the children on guard.

"That the ones being toyed with, were you…"

*Splash! *

"Hahaha!"

The kids laughed as Subaru's villainous monologue was interrupted by a pile of snow that covered his entire upper half.

"Say what?" Puck winked at the snow covered Subaru as he prepared another snow ball with his magic.

"I take it back!" Subaru yelled and began removing the snow.

"I love that cat!" Garfiel declared as he watched his brother get teased with a glamorous smirk.

Otto simply looked at the screen with a serious face. A single tear flowed down his cheek. It was… so beautiful to see Subaru get teased so intensely.

An excited Petra came up to the butler carrying something in her hand.

"Subaru! Look at this! I made it with snow!"

"Oh, a snow rabbit!"

"Hehe, isn't it cute? Is it well-done?"

"Good job! Good job! Well then, Let's add some decorations! Look…"

Petra was smiling widely at the now decorated rabbit. The little girl rubbed it excitedly against her cheek."Amazing! It turned into a rabbit! It really did!"

"Grrrr!" Petra growled and shook in her seat with righteous anger.

"What's up with her?" Al asked.

Frederica shrugged.

"I'm also getting pumped up, seeing you this happy. Alright! Let's upgrade it even more!"

"Add a tail and some wings… And a missile, a transforming body, a cockpit, a caterpillar track… "

"Wait… wait please!" Petra tried to save her rabbit from the molestation.

"How's that? Flying-Mega-incinerator-Snow-Rabbit-Des-troy-er-Weap-Gah!"

Petra had shot the molester in the face with a snowball.

She carried the now mechanical looking rabbit and huffed away from the butler.

"Oh so it was Subaru-kun that made that work of aaaart!" Roswaal concluded with eyes wide.

"You're a cheater!" Emilia, who was still miffed at the lose that day glared at Petra.

The little maid just huffed and muttered something about it looking not cute at all.

Subaru wiped the snow away while watching her leave. "Seems like Petra was more of a Realistic-Robot person than a Super-Robot person… "

The screen pans up to reveal Beatrice as she watched Subaru from the mansion's windows with the snow ball he placed on her head beside her on the ledge.

"Good grief, he's really an outrageous person, I suppose." She uttered while looking at the boy annoyed.

"Subaru might have wanted to play with you, I think."

"Huh?" Beatrice looked at the floating cat as he smiled at her.

"Well, I also want to do so if possible… "

"Bubby…" Beatrice looked surprised.

Scene change…

Emilia was patting her ice sculpture with a wide smile as she wore her hood. The half-elf princess looked beside her when she heard footsteps.

"Beatrice…!"

"It's only because Bubby insisted, I'll join you for just a little bit. Be thankful, I suppose."

Emilia smiled at the spirit loli. "I too won't lose!"

Scene change to Subaru and Puck walking around while looking at the people making ice sculptures.

"Everyone is doing a pretty good job, don't you think so?"

"Yeah, but it's a bit of a shame that all the designs are realistic. It may be because the villagers aren't familiar with the concept of characters. There are lots of castles and animals."

Subaru and Puck stopped at a really huge statue.

"Oh… This is really well done…?" Subaru stared with a haunted at the extremely well done ice statue of Bossgram.

"Hot damn! It looks like the real thing!" Otto exclaimed.

"How did that not win?!" Felt asked in outrage.

"Thank you very much, Subaru-sama. This ulgarm is my proud sculpture." The leader of the young men smiled proudly with his shovel on his shoulder.

"Just because it's freezing now doesn't mean I won't get hot under the collar seeing this! This isn't remotely funny! Impact-wise, it's definitely to my liking. And I definitely want to reward your effort… But! For not being mindful of the judge's emotional scars, I give you a 7."

"Booo!" Felt and Mimi were outraged at the judges ruling.

Scene change…

Emilia is smiling at her statue in pride. "Hmm, this is quite the result."

* SPZZZZZZZZZ*

Emilia couldn't believe her eyes when she looked at the source of the sound.

Beatrice was making her ice statue with her magic.

"You shouldn't be doing that!" Emilia admonished with her hands on her hips.

Beatrice ignored her and continued to cast her magic on the snow. "I wasn't written anywhere that this isn't allowed."

"No is no! The use of magic is forbidden. Cheating is a bad thing to do. You should grasp victory with your own hands." Emilia smiled smugly at the spirit.

Beatrice pouted and began using her hands to refine the sculpture. With a glare on her cute face.

Emilia just watched her with a smile.

"You really seem naive when you say all that." Anastasia mused as she kept her eyes on the screen.

"I don't care." Emilia surprised everyone by her boldness as she replied to Anastasia and looked at the screen without glancing back.

Crusch smirked at the stunt merchant.

Scene change to Subaru and Puck walking around the myriad of many snow statues and art pieces.

"What an amazing view." The butler said with a smile.

"Regarding this festival's grading, who's going to do it?"

Subaru pointed at himself as he smiled at Puck. "I, Ros-chi, and village's chief as a masked judge. If the judge's face comes to light, people might try to buy their rank through bribing him, after all."

"Is there anyone who would go to such lengths for the special prize?"

"Well, it's a one of a kind gorgeous prize, brought by yours truly." Subaru smirked in pride.

"Oh. You're being very generous, even though it's not your own problem."

"Yeah, why would he go so far?" Tivey asked in pure confusion.

Julius and the rest of the candidates shook their heads.

"Emilia-tan was troubled by it, and incidentally you as well, of course I'd help you."

"That part of you, I personally, you know what… " Puck winked mysteriously at the boy.

"I can't understand what you mean when you talk in riddles like this."

"Was I really?"

"Subaru-kun, check this please. It's a collaboration between me and Nee-sama."

Subaru turned to find Rem and Ram standing infront of a statue that was covered under a cover.

"Rem and Nee-sama… so you weren't just helping, you also participated?"

"Oh, Barusu, Nonchalant as you are, seems like you couldn't help but be attracted to our super artistry skills."

"Putting aside the way you made me look like a moth attracted to light, yeah I came yo see you. Ram participating in this extremely cold festival… What's going on here?"

"Are you suggesting that I should stay holed in my bed while Rem and the others are out playing in the snow?"

"That was an unnecessarily offensive way of putting it, but I get it, you didn't want to be left out?"

"Saying that I absolutely wanted to play with Nee-sama, I forced her to come." Rem happily told from beside her smiling sister.

"Don't you feel any guilt making your little sister say that, Nee-sama?"

"Being able to feel Rem's love this close up makes me superior, be jealous." Ram smirked smugly.

Subaru grinned back and looked at the towering statue covered by a white cloth.

"Ram and Rem. A piece of art embodying both's skills, power, and sisterly love." Ram smirked up at the statue.

"Yes, following Nee-sama's instructions, and using what little power I have, we probably created the best sculpture." Rem grinned proudly as well.

"The fact that Nee-sama only watched was just exposed, right?!" Subaru called out the pink maid on her lazy antics.

"So, what's its name?"

"Yes! It's called the wonderful Subawaal-sama sculpture."

"I can see the end result just from the name!" Subaru retorted as he looked on with dread.

"Well then… " Rem quickly peeled off the cover and revealed… What. The. Fuck. Is. That?

"Kill it!" Garf jumped out of his seat and swam underneath it.

"Kill it with fire!" Ricardo swam beside him.

"Kill it with an axe!" Al dived underneath his mistress's seat.

"It's disgusting I suppose." Beatrice shivered in place.

Anastasia and Crusch just shrugged as they didn't find it that creepy.

As for Felt… she was just looking at the screen in boredom.

Julius just snorted at the ugly look on the statue and Felix was outright smirking at it.

Reinhard couldn't feel anything in particular about the weird looking art piece. He was just… built different.

"Our opinions were split, since Nee-sama wanted to make Roswaal-sama, and I wanted to make Subaru-kun… "

"And so, this is the result of the common-ground we agreed on."

"None of you caved in here, did you?!" Subaru asked, highly disturbed.

"Well, well, what might you be doing, gathered here?" Roswaal suddenly walked up and looked at the statue instantly with a rigid expression.

"And this would be?"

"Roswaal-sama, what an embarrassing sight to show you, but please take a look at this." Ram showed off the statue.

"It's our collaboration work. It might be true that we're part of your household, but please give us your sincere opinion." Rem looked at her lord with excitement.

As Roswaal looked at the statue with a face of uncertainty and disgust, Subaru just sighed in exhaustion.

"Then… Unfortunately… you get a 5." Subaru announced while holding five fingers up.

"Aaand?" Ram innocently posed fro the boy with her finger guns out.

"That's it! It won't change! I'll be praying for your success in your future endeavors!" Subaru yelled at the maid.

Ram gasped and stepped back with her eyes wide in shock. "Im-Impossible… "

Rem quickly looked at her lord with a pleading look. "What about Roswaal-sama?"

The clown had finally smiled at the two maids and held his hands up to give the score.

As he raised seven fingers in the air, Ram and Rem had stars in their eyes… only for those stars to burn as Roswaal had duped them and held only four fingers up with a smile.

"4 point!" Ram fell on all fours in shock.

"Tehehehe~"

"Don't laugh! *snorts * It's not appropriate!" Frederica tried to keep herself straight as she admonished Petra.

"By the way, 4 points out of?" Subaru looked at the questioning cat.

"10 Points. There are 3 judges, so the total would be out of 30."

"The quality isn't baaad, but… It's just creepy." Roswaal shook his head in disgust.

"The concept shouldn't have been wrong… it must be because of the Subaru component in it!" Ram punched the snow beneath her as she gritted her teeth.

"This isn't right! For the sculpture embodying my and Nee-sama's ideals to fail, something must be wrong here!" Rem tried to comfort her sister.

Scene change to a happy looking Emilia walking around and scanning the crowds with her eyes until she found what she had been looking for.

"Oh, Emilia-tan!" Subaru turned as he saw the hooded princess stop behind him.

"Mine is nearly finished, and Beatrice seems to be doing her best. It isn't done yet, but would you like to come and see?"

Emilia slowly looked up to find… the thing. (Shivers)

"Wh-What's this?" she asked while staring at it in pure awe.

"Emilia-tan, don't tell me… Do you actually see the charm in this sculpture? Could it be that we're the ones behind our time?!"

"It reeeally gives off a weird vibe… "

"I know right?" Subaru was suddenly hugged by a kid.

"Subaru! Come here!"

"We also made a sculpture!"

Emilia watched with a smile as Subaru was dragged off by the kids.

"Check it, Subaru!"

Infront of him was a crudely statue of him doing his favorite pose while wearing a cape.

"Oh, you too made a sculpture of me."

"They really do admire him." Reinhard smiled, happy that his friend was getting recognition that he needs.

"My hero had made an impact on their lives. He deserves it." Rem smiled warmly.

"You're the one that had saved them though. You were the one supposed to have a statue made for." Felix snorted making Julius glare at him.

"Stand beside it."

Subaru quickly posed with the statue parallel to him. "Like this?"

"Something is off?"

"The real one's eyes are scarier!"

"Scary eyes!"

"No they're not!"

A kid began editing the snow face of the Subaru statue.

"Give him scarier eyes…" Slowly the kid accidentally tore the snow head off.

"It came off!"

"It fell!"

The kids began laughing at the accident while Subaru cried in despair. "That's not funny at all! It's a bad omen!"

Emilia and Puck just laughed with the kids at the poor boy.

"I like those kids." Julius smirked brightly at the scene.

"I do too!" Otto nodded his head as he enjoyed the way they treated Subaru.

"I can see why they like him so much though." Anastasia tapped her lip as she smiled.

Scene shows many different moments of the villagers playing around in the snow, while some refined their sculptures.

The kids are shown playing with snowballs and teasing Subaru.

Roswaal is conversing with several villagers.

Rem is laughing with her sister.

Beatrice is working hard on her statue.

Emilia is smiling wide at everything happening around her.

Everybody was happy…

"He's plans are always so fun!" Felt kicked her knight again as she saw how much fun everyone was having while she was stuck reading boring shit.

"I wish I was there." Garfiel whined.

Scene change…

"For my score to be 9 after I worked this hard, I find that weird. Even Beatrice got 7." Emilia is shown pouting as she looked at the two statues before her.

"It might have been a difficult event for you and Betty. By the way, what are these you guys made?"

"Just as you can see, both are Puck." Emilia smirked proudly at the statue she made.

Puck sighed. "So it was me…"

"It is a bit bland, but I think it's reeeally well done."

"I'm a bit afraid of knowing how I look in your eyes, But it might have been too artistic for normal people that they couldn't understand its charm."

"That's no where near close." Mimi called out.

Emilia ignored her and held her head high. They don't know true talent. Subaru himself would be worshiping the statue if she told him too.

Actually, Subaru is kind of biased now that she thought about it…

"Is that so… The winning girl's Snow Rabbit is really well done, no matter how you look at it." Emilia looked at the Snow Rabbit destroyer that Subaru had made for Petra.

"It even deserved Roswaal and old man's high praise. But I found it weird that Subaru, who was in such high spirits, stayed quiet… "

"Hm, because he's the one that made it." Anastasia looked at the sculpture with critical eye.

"I'm curious what all of these machines look like in real time." Julius mused as he analyzed what Subaru created.

"Subaru never told me he could make such pretty things! I bet it's a fun toy from his world." Emilia pouted at the unfairness in treatment her knight was showing her.

"No comment from me, however, the special prize intrigued me a bit."

"Me too. Subaru's homeland's Corn potage chips… was it?"

The scene changes to Petra smelling some chips from the bag Subaru had given her. She slowly put it in her mouth and stopped with wide eyes.

"Delicious!"

She began sharing it with the other kids.

"Was that it?" Mimi asked the little maid.

"Mhm! It was the greatest thing I've ever tasted!" Petra held her cheeks like she did on the screen.

The screen changes to Emilia and Puck as various spirits began glowing around them.

"These snow sculptures will surely melt by tomorrow, even though there are so many of them… it's reeeeally a shame."

"That's what snow is about after all. Nothing can maintain its shape eternally. Nothing less, nothing more."

Emilia smiled as she looked around at the statues.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

Emilia looked up to see a butler waving from the balcony.

"The banquet is starting!"

Emilia giggled. "Mhm, I'm coming!"

Scene change….

"Eh… I hereby thank all of you for participating in the Roswaal Mansion's Snow Festival. And, thank you for your hard work! When all is said and done, I also enjoyed it. Next year, when Puck's Hatsumaki comes, let's also hold a snow festival. Let's make it even wilder next time!"

Subaru was standing in the dining room before the mansion's residents as they all watched him with wide smiles on their faces while he held his glass of apple juice up.

"That being said, cheers!"

"Cheers!"

The window pans to show the mansion's residents enjoying themselves and feasting on the banquette before them.

Subaru is watching his friends having a good time with a smile on his face.

"Good work, Subaru-kun."

Subaru looked beside him to find a beaming blue haired maid.

"You too. Must have been rough for you, helping around with everything. I'll make sure to make it up for you later."

Rem smiled and clicked her glass with his. "Don't worry about it. In return, I'll be helping myself to Subaru's sleeping face longer than usual tonight."

"… "

"…"

"Okay, that's creepy!" Felt yelled out in outrage.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Rem simply replied.

"But… Rem-chan, you can't jus-" Emilia tried to talk to the maid that's been creeping on her Subaru but got interrupted.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Heh? Didn't you just say something weird?"

"Not at all. I didn't say anything weird." Rem smiled innocently as if she didn't admit that rape was gonna happen.

"By the way Subaru-kun, how do you handle your alcohol?" Roswaal held two bottles and smiled at the boy.

"Your cheeks get red just from smelling it, " He turns his head and winks at his with a subtle blush on his cheeks as he whimpered. "Tonight, I don't want to go back home." The blushing lord huskily whimpered to Subaru.

(I fucking knew he was gay! SubaruxRoswaal confirmed! I'll add him to the harem!)

"And you blurt out such thiiings?" Roswaal quickly changes his expression and continues being his true self.

"What is wrong with you man?" Al asked as he shivered.

Roswaal shrugged and continued watching with a smile.

The Emilia camp just watched with bored faces. They were too used to his bullshit.

"So that famous line you hear at mixers also exists here… I haven't really drank alcohol before."

"Oh… judging from your personality, I definitely thought you'd be the type to put on airs and try to get your hands on some viiiceful luxuries."

"He does seem the type." Crusch sighed as she adjusted herself on the seat.

Suddenly, a very stern looking Emilia stepped infront of Subaru while raising her finger in the air admonishing her butler.

"Alcohol isn't something children should drink, you won't grow taller if you do so."

"Just saying, I'm not that childish as far as breaking the Kingdom's laws! I turn 18 this year, so I'm an adult! An adult!"

"Adults don't make such a fuss though. So you were 17… That's reeeally unexpected… I thought you were younger. "

"Just for reference, how old did you think I was?"

"1- 12! 13! 13!"

"That's even younger than Felt! And there wasn't much of a difference even after you corrected yourself! Rather than that, what about you?"

"He does seem really young." Anastasia noted with a bewildered expression.

"Right?" Felt nodded her head along.

"I am not 13. I have never drank alcohol before but I'm of age."

"I didn't doubt that, and if Emilia-tan was 13, I'd become a criminal."

"Why is that?"

Subaru turned away from his mistress with a blush on his cheeks.

"That's… because Emilia-tan is so cute I'd want to commit a crime… "

"Speaking of alcohol, Puck shouldn't drink."

Several males winced while all the females giggled in delight.

"Poor Subaru, I suppose."

"My hero is very brave."

"Barusu's useless even at flirting with someone as socially inept as Emilia-sama."

Emilia sighed and ruffled the boy's hair with an annoyed pout. "You're embarrassing me, Subaruuuu!" She pulled a bit to make him wake up.

He gave no reaction.

"You're pretending you didn't hear that?!"

"But of course. Alcohol is the evil drink of adults. I'll take care of drinking every last bit of alcohol that shows up in front of Lia. Shoo! Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!"

"C'mon, it should be okay for tonight, right? Since we found all of this old liquooor in the cellar." Roswaal poured a glass and presented it to Emilia. The half-elf took it and stared at it for a second….

Scene change to a very tipsy Emilia eating some cookies without minding the crumbles being dropped on her chest.

"What's up, Subaru? Your face is reeeally weird. What's more, there are so many of them- that's not fair!" Emilia wobbled and pouted with red hosed cheeks as she stepped closer to the blushing butler.

"This is soooo Embarrassing!" Emilia blushed at herself and covered her face in her knight's chest as the people around her began laughing.

"Subaru, we're going to hog all the sweets with everyone!" Emilia tripped in her wobbly steps and tumbled on her butler to the floor.

"E-Emilia-tan, that's no good… you got crumbs all over the place…"

"Alcohol is delicious. Keeping it a secret from me all this time, that's not fair… " Emilia glared and held the boy's arm while her chest was pressed against his.

Subaru just blushed deeply.

"You'll kill the boy, Emilia-sama." Wilhelm chuckled in amusement at the young man's situation.

"Everyone is secretly, secretly, secretly doing things behind my back… hehehe."

Emilia slowly leaned down and rested her head on Subaru's thigh.

Subaru just went rigid and screamed at the sky. "Gah! This girl is so cute!"

"Subaru-kun."

Subaru immediately stopped and faced the clearly jealous looking Rem.

"Ohhhh, somebody is jealouuuus!" Roswaal mused, having the time of his life.

Rem blushed and smiled warmly at the scene.

"Yes, what is it, Rem-san?"

Rem instantly bit his shoulder.

"Chomp."

"It hurts…? Rem-san. Could it be that you're weak to alcohol?"

"Don't make fun of me please, Subaru-kun Subaru-kun Subaru-kun." Rem pouted at the boy.

"That's 3 times the usual… "

"I'm always putting up a front since we have an important job, but we've got a fun job today, so I'm letting loose. So it's all Subaru-kun's fault." Rem laid down and rested her head on his other thigh.

Subaru nervously patted and rubbed the maid's head.

"Purrrr. Purrrr. Purrrr. Purrrr. Purrrr. Purrrr."

"Are you a cat?" Subaru smiled.

"They're soo cute!" Petra squealed in delight as the two on screen smiled pleasantly.

Meanwhile,

"Lucky son of a-"

"How did he do thi-"

"I want to be in that po-"

"Cap'n has guts!"

"Natsuki-san is just so lucky right here." Otto cried tears of shame at how Subaru made all the women around him fall for his charms.

"Though, as far as I know, demons are depicted as being able to hold their liquor."

"It is true that demons, as a clan, are strong to alcohol." Subaru's answer came from a pink haired maid sitting on the table and watching him pat her sister's head.

"Since I was a child, I've often participated in liquor tasting with the adults."

"You just confessed to minor drinking… the color of your face and your speech really didn't change though… "

"Of course. We're forged differently. *Hicupp *"

"Guess today's gain would be the lesson not to carelessly let girls drink alcohol… " Subaru looked at the two girls sleeping on his legs with content smiles in worry."

"I wouldn't go as far as saying that." A Roswaal said from his place on the table as he showered puck in some hot water.

Subaru looked around and was suddenly worried.

He scanned the room until he found a certain blond girl sitting all alone on the balcony.

"Why do you hate crowds this much?" Crusch asked the little girl with sincerity.

Beatrice stayed silent and watched.

"Beako, that girl… Let's see, I'll go annoy her a bit. Emilia-tan. I'm sorry, but I'll be leaving Rem in your care."

Emilia slowly sat up and gave a dizzy smile. "Hm, gotcha! Come here, come here, Rem."

Emilia gave a hum of content as she rubbed her cheek with the sleeping Rem.

"You're reeeally cute."

Frederica and Petra squealed in delight as both Emilia and Rem blushed heavily and looked away from each other. Beatrice sighed in boredom at these peasants that think they had anything on her cuteness.

Otto and Garfiel cursed Subaru's name as he got to enjoy such a wonderful sight.

Julius and Reinhard looked away from the scene as it was a candidate and possible future queen that was having this embarrassing moment. They did chuckle a bit however.

Wilhelm was already looking down with a small chuckle as he wished to see Subaru's face at that moment. The young lad was probably bleeding up a fountain from his nose.

Felix and Crusch watched the scene with sparkles in their eyes.

Anastasia snorted and giddily stored this in her mind.

Subaru looked at this heavenly scene with a blush. "I want to take a pic of this."

"I'll burn it into my memory." Ram smirked as she watched the holy sight of a drunken Emilia hugging and cuddling an equally drunk Rem.

Subaru walks out and stands right beside Beatrice.

"Don't stand there alone. Being left alone makes you want to get away, right?" Subaru offered a glass of juice.

"That's a baseless accusation, I suppose. And it's none of your business."

"Don't be like that, drink."

Beatrice moved to take the glass.

"This isn't alcohol, it's pure apple juice." (Heh! You thought I was gonna write appa there didn't ya? Well think again. Because… FUCK APPAS TOO!)

"Don't treat me like a child, I suppose. Of those present here, I'm the second oldest after Bubby."

"Just how old are ya?!" Garfiel exclaimed.

"Hmph! What an uncultured cur! That's not something you ask a spirit, I suppose!"

"That's mean, Garf-kun!"

"Apologize to Beatrice-sama kindly, Garfiel-kun." Rem and Emilia stared sternly at the boy.

Otto supported his brother as the blonde looked like a dropped kitten.

Subaru suddenly gasped. "Emilia-tan and Rem are getting even more intimate than earlier."

Beatrice pouted heavily and glared at the starstruck boy.

"You came here just to be this rude, I suppose?!"

"No, it's not like that! It's not that Emilia-tan and Rem are in a position that would steal any guy's heart at all, but I just want a camera!"

"Let alone convincing me, you're not even coherent!"

"Well, I may not know how old you really are, but I can tell that drinking alcohol doesn't suit your looks. Here let's toast."

Subaru clicked his glass with hers and began drinking the juice. The two stood in silence.

"There are lots of stars… Alright, then I'll tell you a lovely story, seeing how you're lounging around. Each shining star has a name and anecdote to it, for example, that overly self-conscious star shining there, that's the North star. If you ever get lost, rely on it, for it points towards the north."

"Is that real?" Felt asked in awe.

Reinhard shook his head, also at awe of such a thing existing.

"That way is the south, the opposite, I suppose."

"Ah, then that M, those stars lined up in the shape of an M are called Cassiopeia."

"I don't know what an M is, nor do I see any shape there."

"What are you doing, Barusu?" Ram walked up with a sleeping Rem and a tipsy Emilia on her back.

"Oh, you too listen to this. It's about the stars in the night sky."

"Star-sama!" Emilia shouted with a smile.

"Alright!" Subaru stood straight and looked lost in thought. "Waiting for the right timing… Everyone, Let's aaall- " He did a pose and flicked his fingers at the girls. "Search for Subaru."

"…"

"… "

"…"

"Okay, that's kind off sad." Felt looked at the boy in pity.

Emilia just patted her knight's head.

"You need to give him enough attention, Emilia-sama." Crusch admonished in a stern tone.

Julius looked at the interaction with a bewildered expression. "They're treating him as if he was a pet." the knight could not believe his dragon forsaken eyes when Anastasia-sama began patting Subaru's head with a giddy expression of her own.

"What the hell?" Ricardo asked with an appropriate shocked face as his boss joined in.

"Wait wait wait! Don't pity me! Don't scorn me! It's not like that! Subaru is my name, but I was just named after a star's name!" Subaru blushed in embarrassment.

"Naming you after a twinkling star… Your parents did something cruel to you… " Beatrice looked down in pity and despair.

"Let alone shining, you're not even noticeable, all the while holding a star's name… How pitiful." Ram looked saddened at his revelation as she held Emilia and Rem.

"Don't mock me for not living up to my name in this roundabout way!"

"It's okay, don't worry. Stars are the symbol of hope, so you still have hope left. " Puck suddenly flew up in a cup.

"You're enjoying yourself way too much!"

"He's surrounded by sadists." Al laughed at the teasing.

"Nah, Cap'n is the type to give the best reactions." Garfiel nodded his head in delight.

"Then he takes it out on me!" Otto fumed as he finally discovered the source of his blight.

"Look look! There's so many snow spirits!"

"Woah, amazing!"

The entire sky was lit up with small spirits glowing all over the statues that had been built by the villagers.

"That's a really awesome sight." Otto fumed in place for not being present at such a moment.

Petra wished she was still in the mansion at that moment.

The candidates and Knights all watched in awe at the scene.

As if the entire plain of snow was covered in small glowing sparkles and glowing orbs.

Subaru looked at Beatrice with a smile as he noticed the wondrous look on her face.

"How was it?" Beatrice looked up at the smiling butler.

"Wasn't the snow festival fun?"

Beatrice looked at the beautiful sight of the light orbs flying all over the place.

"It wasn't bad… I'll leave it at this, I suppose." The small spirit loli looked content with just staring at the crowd of lights with an expressionless look.

Puck smiled at his little sister and flew out of his cup.

"Alright, using the Mana left, let's share the snow with the capital's people!"

The cat flew up and struck a beam of light into the night sky.

The screen shows the snow icicles falling over the capital's citizens.

Priscilla and her knight and servant are looking out the window.

Crusch is watching an excited Felix as he points at the window.

Wilhelm is caressing a black ground dragon that we all love as he looks at the snow.

Anastasia and her crew can be seen looking up at the sky as it snowed above them.

An image of Reinhard chasing Felt with a regal dress in hand could be seen.

The Appa man's family could be seen smiling at the snowy sky.

Old man Rom could be seen alone in the slums as it snowed.

The three stooges are looking at the sky while laying in a dark alleyway.

A bewildered Otto could be seen with a large dragon as they looked at the snowing sky.

"So that was you guys?" Mimi whispered at awe and shock at the sheer power presented.

Much like the others around her… she couldn't find the words to describe the wonderful scene.

And… an image of hooded people kneeling before a green haired man that was reading a book.

"...Ghk!" Julius gasped and gritted his teeth at the sight.

"Witch cultists?" Rem glared hatefully at the bunch.

"I-It's the scary man!" Tivey hid behind Ricardo in fear.

Emilia and Beatrice looked away unable to look at their friend that they had lost a long time ago… they couldn't see him… not like this.

Garfiel just glared hatefully as he prepared himself to jump in and… do… whatever he could to help! His captain won't die again!

The man's mouth could be seen… Smiling menacingly at the snow.

The screen returns to Beatrice watching the crew from inside the room, as they stood on the snow filled balcony.

"My, my, " Beatrice turned around to find an amused Roswaal smiling a knowing smile. "Have you had enough of your tryst with Subaru-kun?"

"Keep your jokes to your outfit, I suppose. That's not even funny."

"Geez, you're not hooonest with yourself. This is your share."

Beatrice stopped walking towards the door as Roswaal held a glass of alcohol and ice.

"Must be harsh, not being able to take a sip on banquet's niiight."

"I won't, I suppose."

"Out of consideration for Subaru-kun?" Roswaal grinned mysteriously.

"Don't get the wrong idea, the reason I don't drink isn't that kid's say on the matter, I suppose. I was told so by Mother, a long time ago. That's all there is to it."

"Your mother is a very good one, Beako-chan!" Emilia smiled warmly as she remembered Mother Fortuna.

Beatrice looked down and sighed. "She had her moments I suppose." She uttered emotionlessly.

Beatrice turned her head to look at the happy butler that was speaking with Emilia.

"His opinion has nothing to do with me, I suppose."

Subaru is shown happily smiling in content with Emilia, Ram and Rem staring at the flying spirits.

Scene change…

"Maybe we should have consulted Subaru about your Hatsumaki from the beginning. That way, we wouldn't have had to fret about hiding it."

"That's right. However, you shouldn't grow up as a child who leaves everything up to other people. Even if it's too much for you, you should give your best until you become sure of that, right?"

"Yes, I know."

"Very well."

Emilia could be shown speaking with Puck as she brushed her silver hair.

"Do you remember what Subaru said at the banquet?"

"If I have a Hatsumaki next year, let's hold a snow festival again. Normally, it'd be an annoyance, but that kid really seems like he can turn it into a festivity."

"That part of Subaru, for some reason, I reeeally feel that about it. "

"I know right, I also feel that about it." Puck smiled in amusement as Emilia looked out the window.

"What are you two talking about?" Felix demanded but he was met with a smug elf zipping her mouth.

"Next year…? I have no idea what will happen that far in the future."

"For things to go as you want them to be, I'd love that. When that happens, let's leave aside whether what Subaru said will happen or not."

"Are you opposed to the snow festival?"

"Of course not. I quite enjoyed it, and you seemed like you had fun too, but I can't know if the Subaru staying by your side one year from now will be happy or not. "

"What does he mean by that?" Otto asked sternly as he watched with analyzing eyes.

Garfiel shared the same sentiment with his brother, infact. Julius and Wilhelm narrowed their eyes.

Something seemed off about this cat.

Emilia looked down in guilt.

"His belly's wound, and the Mabeats' bites, that kid's scars are all the result of your actions. I know that you're not one to forget that, but you have to keep it in mind."

"Yes."

Emilia kept her head down as she fought the urge to run into her room and cry.

As images of his deaths played. Of his suffering. Of his nightmares.

Emilia was guilty of his scars and so much more.

"I'll make it up… I promise, Subaru." Emilia wiped the few tears and continued watching.

With a determined face.

"But it would be nice if we were able to hold a snow festival next year. Besides, no one could lead the festival other than Subaru."

"Y-Yeah, you're right." Emilia dropped her guilty expression and smiled. "Yes. I also hope that."

Puck just looked at he with a sad frown.

"Is something wrong?"

"No, nothing." Puck smiled and waved at her as she left.

"I don't like that cat." Felt declared making Emilia pause and look at her with surprise.

"I agree." Anastasia frowned at the suspicious behavior.

Emilia just looked down and decided that they were entitled to their own opinions. They didn't say anything wrong or demeaning about her father so it was fine.

Subaru can be seen waiting with a blush on his face and a stupid wide smile as he held the basket.

"Did I make you wait?" Emilia asked as she arrived.

"No, I just arrived." Subaru took a moment to admire her smile.

His blush deepened. "Well then, shall we go?"

Emilia smiled in content. "Yes!"

And the two walked out of the mansion's grounds.

Extra scene.. ( watch?v=CcfrahkdGmM)

Subaru and Emilia are walking through a grass field with Subaru holding Emilia's hand as she walked with her eyes closed.

"Emilia-tan, are you okay? Do not open your eyes!"

"Geez, you don't have to be careful all the time. I'm okay." Emilia sighed in frustration and walked with her date with eyes closed.

"Well, honestly I can't stop worrying."

"But you said that this was a date, right?"

"If you walk with your eyes closed then the impression will be different. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a surprise. We've almost arrived."

Subaru stopped walking and smiled at Emilia. "Are you ready?"

The princess turned to him with a smile. "Yes."

"Alright then, here it is!"

Emilia slowly opened her eyes…

A beautiful plain of mashed colors, blending together as flower petals flew around her and Subaru from the many beautifully covered plains.

It was a sight to see.

Emilia gasped in shock and watched with her eyes tearing up.

"What do you think? Although I didn't do anything, it's a landscape I wanted to boast about."

"You're lucky, Emilia-sama." Rem softly smiled with a few tears falling from her eyes.

Emilia smiled warmly and softly held her knight's hand. Feeling much better than before.

Emilia beamed wide at Subaru and leaned closer to him in excitement. "It's very beautiful! I'm really happy! You really are a good boy, Subaru!"

"Nice one Emilia-sama. Even if he was charming you need to remind him of his place as your dog." Ram nodded her head.

Emilia facepalmed at her self and her stupid child speak as many around her oofed and giggled.

Subaru just smiled and turned his expression into one of acceptance. "I feel like I'm being misplaced. But since you're here, I want to give you a present from me."

Emilia looked at the boy in confusion as he picked something up from the ground and placed it atop her head.

"This is… a crown of flowers?"

"Yeah. It may be far from the real spark but… let's say it's an exercise for when you're a queen right? I would love to give you accessories full of jewelry but for now that's all I have."

"A gift for me… " Emilia stood with her face shell shocked at the boy before her.

Subaru began to panic. "Is it messed up… if you don't spend money on a present. What about you as a man?!"

Emilia just smiled warmly. "Thank you, Subaru."

the boy blushed and waved his hand. "No, no, I'm the blessed one here. I got to see Emilia-tan in a field of flowers!"

"Sorry, I don't know what you're saying."

Subaru chuckled in embarrassment.

"Let's have a date like this again."

Subaru held his chest as his face turned red. "The killing phrase… E.M.T! E.M.T!" Subaru fell into the flower bed.

Emilia just giggled and smiled at the boy she had bewitched. "You're a naughty boy, Subaru!"

End scene…

OVA 1 Memory Snow. End.

"..Interlude. End."

Many clapped their hands while the others began stretching around.

"That was tiresome." Otto sighed in boredom.

"Thank goodness it was fun to watch and not something serious." Frederica fanned herself in relief.

Thanks for being patient and watching this through to the end.

I'll offer you an hour of rest before we start watching again.

"What will we be watching, if I may ask?" Julius raised his hand politely.

"It better not be another waste of my time like this last one." Priscilla warned with a bored tone.

Yes you may, and you'll be watching the beginning of the third arc of Subaru's adventure in your world.

"Is the third arc the one where Natsuki-sama fights the whale?" Crusch asked in an eager tone.

You'll have to watch and see.

"That's really troublesome, I suppose." Beatrice sighed and got up from her seat.

"Beako-chan, Where are yo-"

Beatrice stared at Emilia.

"We all need a moment to rest and get ready, infact."

Everyone looked at the small girl that took the front of the room and glared at its occupants.

"Get ready for what, nyan?"

Beatrice's eyes narrowed and few tears could be seen in the corners.

"Wait for the next time… Subaru dies again, I suppose."

Everyone's breathing hitched.

"… Third Arc. Begin."

Episode 7… Arc 3's Intro…

Start.

Oh my god! This is finally done! I'm alive!

Holy moly this was so boring to write! I tried my best not to seem repetitive but this was a long drawn out movie.

This is 27,000 words! Can you believe this shit?! The movie script was about 13,000!

I hope I did you all justice. Thank you for the support and the feedback on all platforms.

As for what I said last time. I've come to a decision.

Natsuki Subaru won't wake up until the end of season 2.

listen to me… I've had a genius idea.

Okay, listen to this.

Subaru won't watch the second season with the gang. He will stay asleep.

Don't worry about him messing out on the backstories and flashbacks with Roswaal Hector Emilia Garfiel and stuff… he will react to them on his own when I wake him up but before that…

I'm going to make him wake up in the What if chapters.

And the cast will have to watch in horror as their Subaru watches the What if's

they will react to the what if's and to their own Subaru's mind break.

Until finally after the greed if (Not doing Gluttony cause it's much later in the anime.) The broken Subaru and The horrified cast reunite once again… this time… the boy's awake.

Hope you like it.

OH, one more thing… Please tell me what you thought about the chapter and what you liked as well as the things that you thought were wrong about this one.

Thank you all again… Now please wait… As I deliver you… Episode 7… Arc 3's beginning.

God this chapter will suck ass to write. I hate this Episode so much!

But don't worry… I'll give it justice…

"You won't get away with this!"

"Oh, but I have little Author-chan. I've finally made the pillow mine and mine alone."

"I'll get you for this… I will get my pillow goddammit!"

"Shhhh, You'll wake me up, Author-chan~ muhahhahahaha."

"Give me that pillow! JOOOOOOSEEEEEEEEFFFFFFFF!"