Subaru natsuki was inside a store browsing through the manga section.
"That's how they rope you into the story." Subaru natsuki said as he shut one of them and placed it back onto the shelf. Subaru was a young black haired male, he wore a black, white and orange tracksuit. He was of an unremarkable build.
Subaru walked over to the counter with a pack of gum, a bag of chips, and some candy in his hands. The cashier put them into a bag and handed them to him. He paid for them and left the store.
Subaru had the strangest feeling, it was as if something crazy was about to happen. 'I need to stop spending all nighters' Subaru thought as he looked around, everything was weird looking. Everything looked blurry and strange.
"…I love you…" Subaru heard a female voice say, he brushed it off as himself just hearing things.
'Man I really need to get home quickly.' Subaru thought as he rubbed his eyes, when he opened them an incredible sight appeared before him.
He was in what seemed to be a medieval city, there were large crowds of people walking around, some had bunny ears, fur, etc.
"Ehhh, wait a minute, I got isekaied?" Subaru was ecstatic at this fact. He started jumping up and down. He immediately began to explore the city.
"Hey man no humans allowed." A Demi human said grabbing Subaru and throwing him out of a bar. Subaru didn't really care that much.
"Hmm I guess I'll be one of those protagonists that slowly but surely gets stronger." Subaru said as he walked through the city. He got himself into quite a lot of trouble, accidently going into a women's restroom filled with Demi human women. Subaru quickly ran out of the restroom.
Eventually he found himself at a market district. There was a man with green hair selling apples. Subaru decided not to buy anything and walked away.
Subaru found himself in an alleyway, he sat down on a set of stairs, laying down his bag.
"Hey man cough up everything you got right now." Subaru looked up. There were 3 people, a large fat brown haired man, a guy who looked like a snake and wore rags with a collar. There was even a tiny little guy that had brown hair and strange clothes.
"I don't have anything I could offer you guys. But if you want a fight I'll gladly give it to you." Subaru stood up and walked towards The three men. The men were scared of Subaru, probably because he was casual about possibly fighting three people at once.
"Now I've got a question for you guys. Which one of you wants the first beating." Subaru said as He popped his knuckles. The thugs seemed unwilling to fight him, or so Subaru thought.
The big thug tried to swing down on Subaru with a wild haymaker, Subaru was able to dodge it and rushed forward punching the man in the jaw. The man fell to the ground seemingly unconscious. The next one to try to attack Subaru was the tiny one, Subaru kicked him in the face and sent him flying into the alley wall.
Subaru prepared to rush down the middle guy when suddenly he pulled out a knife. 'If this is the first battle I'll have to face there's no point in holding back.' Subaru thought as he grabbed the knife out of the man's hand. There was a shallow wound on subarus palm since he grabbed it by the blade.
"Now what? I've taken away your weapon." Subaru chuckled but was taken by pure shock. Subaru had slashed at the air with the knife. The knife seemingly dissapeared into a blue and white hole. The hole disappeared . Before Subaru could find out what that was, he felt something cold sink into his gut. The man had pulled out a knife while Subaru was distracted and stabbed him in the gut.
Subaru fell to the ground rolling around in pain. After an extremely long 20 seconds of pain, Subaru heard a female voice.
"What are you doing to that man." A white haired girl said as the thug ran away.
"Stay with me your gonna make it." The lady said placing her hands to Subarus gut. Subarus eyes closed. He had died…
"Damn it please don't die on me." The girl said as a flying cat floated midair beside her.
"It's no use emillia he's already dead. You tried your best." The cat said as Emilia let out a few tears. She had been unable to save this person from a horrible fate.
Subaru opened his eyes and found himself infront of the apple merchants stand. He grabbed at his stomach as he fell to the floor. A tall red haired man in white clothing noticed the commotion and walked over to see if Subaru was okay.
"Sir are you okay?" The man asked extending a hand to Subaru, Subaru grabbed the hand and was lifted off the ground and onto his feet.
"Wow your super strong man, I'm fine i just felt a little ill for a bit there. I should be fine." Subaru said bowing to the man.
"By the way apple merchant, how many times have you seen me?" Subaru questioned.
"This is the first time I've seen you." The merchant responded. Subaru scratched his chin, deep in thought.
'Something is seriously wrong with this guy, he lied about feeling ill, should I try to help him? No he might not want to share what's making him feel so bad.' The red haired man was deep in thought.
"Hey man what's your name?" Subaru asked snapping him out of his trance.
"Oh my name is Reinhard van astrea. What might yours be?" Reinhard questioned. Everyone in the crowd was shocked by this name, Subaru took notice of this.
"I'm Subaru natsuki, it's nice to meet you Reinhard." Subaru outstretched his left arm for a handshake, Reinhard shook his hand with a firm grip.
"Well if your feeling under the weather Id be happy to have you rest at my manor." Reinhard said with a hearty smile.
"I think I'll be fine, if I need you I'll seek you out, well it's about time I got my rematch." Subaru said as he walked away. Reinhard was confused on what he meant by rematch. Reinhard also took notice to the fact Subaru lied about being ok.
'So it seems I have a time related ability, I'm guessing if I die I go back to a checkpoint, I think the checkpoint is random. That other thingy where I made the knife dissapear was pretty strange, maybe I can make it reappear.' Subaru mustered up all his strength and focused in.
"Cmon knife come out." Subaru said but nothing happened. 'I guess I'll figure out how to do it later.' Subaru walked back into the alley, he waited for the thugs to appear again.
"Cough up your-" the middle thug was cut off by subaru.
"Cough up your valuables and we will let you live right?" Subaru mocked them.
"If your gonna fight me then come on. I don't have all day for you guys." Subaru said as he rushed in, punching the big guy and knocking him on his ass. Subaru kicked the small guy and rushed the middle thug. The thug pulled out his knife and Subaru quickly disarmed him again, he held the knife and was about to slash at the thug when that blue and white rift appeared again swallowing up the knife. The thug pulled out his second blade. Subaru knew he would do this already and disarmed him of the other knife by grabbed his wrist and twisting and squeezing it till he let go. The man fell onto his butt.
"Careful you might hurt yourself if you play with knifes." Subaru said as he picked the knife up from the ground, the blue rift appeared again swallowing up the knife.
"Don't be a cocky bastard." The big thug said as he and the other two thugs got up preparing to jump Subaru.
"Out of my way fellas." A young blonde girl in ragged clothing said as she rushed past the scene.
"Anyways you guys don't stand a chance against me, just give up." Subaru said as he took up a boxing stance. The thugs were about to charge in when suddenly they stopped.
"Out of my way." A white haired girl yelled as she ran past them, she jumped onto the top stair behind Subaru.
"Hey lady, get out, it isn't safe for you." Subaru said, keeping his eyes glued onto the thugs.
"I'd say you're in more trouble than I am." The girl said as a floating cat appeared from a green crystal on her neck.
"What do you say we even out the odds Lia?" The strange cat questioned.
"A spirit arts user. We can't fight her!" The thugs retreated out of the alleyway. Subaru lowered his guard and turned around
"Thank you for the help-" Subaru was completely speechless at the girl's beauty, she wore a white and purple dress. Her hair was snowy white and her eyes were amethyst.
"Now sir did you happen to see my insignia?" The girl questioned.
"Hmm, I'm guessing the blond haired girl who ran through here has it." Subaru said
"Do you know where she went?" The girl questioned.
"No but I can help you look for her." The girl was bewildered at Subaru's eagerness to help her.
"You have no obligation to help me." She responded but Subaru shook his head.
"If it weren't for you I'd be toast, I got to pay you back. I hate being in debt." Subaru said smiling.
"My name is Subaru Natsuki. What is yours?"
"Hmm, my name is satella." The cat was unhappy for some reason.
"Satella is a beautiful name." Subaru smiled warmly. Satella cringed.
After a while of looking around they wound up in a street, there was a crying green haired child sitting down up against a wall.
"We should help her find her parents." The girl said and Subaru nodded. She approached her.
"Hello young lady are you lost?" Satella asked in a gentle voice. The child was clearly scared of her. Subaru had looked closer and saw that Satella had elf ears. ' I guess people don't like elves in this world, I wonder why.' Subaru walked up to her with something in his hand.
"Wanna see a magic trick?" The child was confused.
"See this coin?" Subaru held out a 100 yen coin.
"Yes?" She was wondering what he was about to do. Subaru closed his palm around the coin.
"Watch, I will make it disappear." Subaru used sleight of hand to hide the coin in his sleeve. He opened his palm and the coin wasn't there.
"Wanna see where it went?" Subaru asked and the child nodded. Subaru reached behind her ear and made it look like he pulled a coin from there.
"Magic!" Subaru said as the girl cheered up, she stopped crying.
"Here you can have this, make sure you take good care of it." Subaru dropped the coin into her hands.
"Now let's find your parents." Subaru and Emilia walked holding the child's hands.
"Momma." The girl said as she ran to a woman. The woman picked her up.
"Let's go now satella I think i have an idea of where the thief could be." he said as they walked off.
"Why exactly are we in the slums Subaru?" Satella questioned him.
"The thief was wearing ragged clothing, she must be somewhere in this district." Satella was amazed at Subaru's brilliance.
It was dark outside so Subaru snagged a lantern off of a lamp post. Satella looked at him annoyed. They arrived at a bridge after a bit of walking.
"Let me communicate with the lesser spirits." She said as small orbs of light surrounded her.
"Wow." Subaru watched in awe at the beautiful sight. Eventually the spirits left.
"They told me she passed by here, she went into a loot house." satella said.
After a bit of walking they found the place the spirits told her about.
"I'll go inside first, if it's dangerous I'll yell." Subaru said as he opened the door.
It seemed to be an old bar filled with many strange and unique items. Subaru heard something strange squishing from below his feet.
He pointed his lantern down. Subaru was horrified at what he had just stepped on. It was blood, Subaru followed the trail until he bumped into something, he shined light on it and almost threw up.
There was a massive old man horrifically mutilated. Subaru tried to shine light back on the entrance, but a blue and white rift appeared again swallowing up his lantern.
"My my my it seems you found out what I've done, I'll have to kill you. I wonder what color your entrails will be." A female voice pierced through the silence. Subaru tried to call for help but he felt something sharp slice open his throat, something sharp sliced open his stomach as well. Subaru rolled around on the floor in agony. Subaru slowly died, the pain was unbearable but only one thing was on his mind.
'I'll come back, I'll be prepared next time though.' Subaru shut his eyes. He was dead.
Subaru opened his eyes and fell to the ground yet again. Reinhard helped him up again. Subaru repeated the same conversation with Reinhard.
"Hey Reinhard?" Subaru asked
"What is it Subaru?"
"I was wondering if you could help me with something." Reinhard motioned for Subaru to continue.
"Actually, never mind. I wouldn't wanna trouble you with it." Subaru said as he began walking away. 'I can't burden someone with fighting that monster at the loot house, I've got to take her out before she hurts anyone else.'
"Take care Reinhard, also if you see a white haired elf tell her I'm going to retrieve the insignia for her." Subaru looked away as he walked.
'What does he mean by monster at the loot house, I'll have to follow him.' Reinhard read Subarus' thoughts and tailed him from behind.
Eventually Subaru arrived at the door to the loot house.
"Hello anybody there?" Subaru knocked on the door loudly.
"What's the password?" A scruffy old voice came from the other side of the door.
"I've got money." Subaru shouted as the door swung open.
"That wasn't the code but I'm interested." A massive old man said beckoning Subaru to come inside.
"I heard one of your clients is going to secure a very precious item today, I will be willing to pay a hefty sum for it." Subaru sat down opposite of the old man on a bar stool.
"Hmm, I see. Well in that case you can wait here until my client gets here." The old man said
"Names Subaru by the way." Subaru chuckled as he watched the man down an entire bottle of alcohol. The man was about to throw it into a trash bin
"Wait, can I see that bottle?" Subaru asked, confusing the man. The man handed him the bottle. Subaru swung the bottle in one swift motion . The bottle was swallowed up by a blue and white rift. The old man was intrigued by this, but decided not to question it.
"My name's rom." It took a few hours but eventually they both heard a knock at the door. The person knocking was forced to answer the code rom issued. The blond haired lady walked in immediately, noticing subaru.
"Who's this guy?" She questioned.
"I've come to purchase the insignia you have." Subaru responded bluntly.
"How did you know I have an insignia?" The girl questioned.
"Word travels fast." Subaru responded, propping his head up with his arm.
"And what are you willing to pay for it?" The girl questioned.
"I've got some interesting items, Subaru reached into his left pocket and pulled out his flip phone. He flipped it open.
"What's that?" Both of them questioned him . Subaru snapped a picture of the two of them.
"It is able to freeze a moment in time. It's called a flip phone." Subaru showed the picture of the two of them. Subaru placed the phone into roms Hands. rom walked over and stood behind the bar
"Be careful with it." Subaru said
"Well I'll be damned, that's a metia, and it looks pretty rare too." Rom said
"I'd say this could very well sell for a few holy coins." Rom continued inspecting it but Handed it back to Subaru when he heard a knock at the door.
Suddenly the door was broken off its hinges. Satella rushed in and materialized floating ice crystals. She pointed them at Subaru, rom and the blond haired girl.
"You set me up, you bastard!" The girl yelled at Subaru.
"Wait what. He isn't on your side." Satella questioned.
"I came here to retrieve the insignia for you." Subaru said but satella didn't quite believe him.
Subaru noticed a woman with a blade behind satella.
"Cat spirit shield her!" Subaru shouted as the woman's strike was blocked by an ice shield. Ice crystals appeared above satellas head and the cat flew out from behind her neck.
"Good thinking man, well it's time to put this prick in her place." The cat said as he shot a barrage of ice sickles at the woman. Subaru got a better look at the woman, she was wearing a black dress and cape, her dress exposed her sizable chest, she had black hair and wielded a purplish black blade.
"Hey girl you should get out of here right now, we will hold her off." Subaru said as he picked up a blade lying on a shelf. This time the blade wasn't swallowed by a rift. Old man rom grabbed a club from below the counter nearly 5 times as big as subaru.
"We will jump in if she looks to be in trouble." Subaru informed Rom of the plan.
"Hey don't ignore me I'm not gonna leave you guys." She said.
"You are the youngest one here. I'll provide you with an escape route, just run and don't look back." Subaru said patting her on the head
"how do you know that I can't be much younger than you." She roared like a lion. Subaru chuckled.
"I'm 18." Subaru laughed at the shocked expression on her face.
"you need to live a life that shows more on your face."
The assassin was dancing around dodging every ice sickle thrown at her.
"You're quite skilled for a woman." The cat said while releasing a barrage of ice sickles. The woman dodged and parried them with her blades. She was about to rush in when she realized her right leg was frozen to the ground.
"Well it's time to end this, goodbye woman." The cat said as a massive line of ice shot towards her. Tons of dust was kicked up by the attack.
"Did he get her?" Subaru was about to celebrate.
"I'm afraid they didn't." The assassin said, standing beside the wall of ice. She attached a block of ice to her foot because her high heel was destroyed.
"I'm sorry Lia but my time is up, wake me up if you need me, I will come to your aid." The cat said as he disappeared.
"Now I get to play with the girl." The assassin smiled rushing in. The assassin struck her.
Satella formed an ice barrier in front of her right before impact. The strike broke through the wall and hit her , she was sent flying behind the bar .
"It's Time rom." Subaru and Rom rushed in.
"Oooh two against one this will be interesting." She said as rom tried to swing at her, she dodged easily but backed away due to Subaru's advancing on her. Roms club smashed into the ice wall shattering it into pieces. Subaru stayed near roms side. Subaru and Rom were working well as a team, however the assassin was dodging them easily, but Subaru pressured her with his constant advances, and she couldn't attack Rom due to Subaru's aggressiveness.
"Now get out of here!" Subaru shouted as the blond girl rushed to the door.
"No you don't." The Assassin pulled out a small dagger and tried throwing it at her, Subaru moved in front of it and tried to parry it. However Subaru missed the blade by an inch. It tore into Subarus stomach and caused Subaru to spit up blood.
"Now we can go all out." Subaru said as he spit out an unhealthy amount of blood. 'C'mon I can keep going, it doesn't hurt that bad.' Subaru pulled the blade out of his stomach and slashed the air with it. The blade was swallowed up by a rift.
"What interesting magic you have, young man, your guts must be a pretty color." The assassin giggled.
Before felt had left she saw the blade hit Subaru in the stomach, she ran for five minutes straight calling out for help, eventually she bumped into a tall red haired man. She fell onto her butt.
"Lead me to the problem." Reinhard said.
They were holding their own against the assassin but she managed to get behind the old man and was about to stab him in the neck. Subaru quickly deflected her strike, however it was still stabbed into Rom's back, he fell to the ground unconscious.
'Shit I can't take her alone! Wait, no it's not a matter of whether I can or can't win, it's a matter of doing it." Subaru's eyes shined with resolve. He tried to slash at her but she easily dodged away. He tried rushing her again but she appeared behind him, wrapping her free arm around Subaru's neck, and plunging her knife into his back.
'Shit I'm gonna die if I don't do something, I need something, anything.' Suddenly several blue rifts appeared behind the assassin, they shot blades at her, she used her cape to block them, but a rift opened above her head and sent a bottle crashing into her face.
She let go of Subaru and Subaru turned to face her. She had several small cuts on her face and one of her eyes was pierced by the shards of the bottle.
"Well well, it seems I underestimated you." She rushed towards Subaru almost faster than he could react, slashing open his stomach. Subaru was able to lean back to minimize the damage.
"You are quite the amazing prey." She was about to pierce Subaru's throat with her knife when suddenly a loud boom was heard, the room was covered in dust. The dust dissipated as Subaru recognized a familiar figure, Reinhard was standing there illuminated by the moonlight.
"My my I'm so lucky getting to fight such extraordinary prey." She said as she turned away from Subaru.
"I shall stop you here and now bowel hunter." Subaru threw a sword to him. Reinhard caught it midair.
"Thank you Subaru." Reinhard smiled.
"Why won't you use that sword on your side, sword saint?" The bowel hunter questioned.
"It can only be drawn when it is facing a worthy foe. It's an upsetting judgment for me as well." The bowel hunter ran across the walls, ceiling and floor, bouncing everywhere.
She jumped toward Reinhard trying to stab him, he easily deflected her blow and she jumped back onto a wall. She kept trying to kill Reinhard with this strategy however he kept parrying.
Satella got up from the bar and rushed towards the old man. Her hands started glowing as she began using what Subaru assumed to be healing magic.
"Once I'm done healing him, tell Reinhard he can let loose." Subaru didn't understand how this correlated with Reinhard letting his full power out, but he decided not to question it. Eventually Rom's wound was all patched up.
"Do your thing Reinhard!" Reinhard nodded.
"Let me show you the swordplay of the astrea family." Reinhard said as he lifted the blade up, the blade began glowing and grew larger.
Reinhard delivered a destructive blow breaking the loot house apart. when the smoked cleared the blade Reinhard had was disintegrated
"Did you get her?" Subaru heard something behind satella, he quickly jumped in between the bowel hunter and satella, absorbing the full blow to his chest, his guts fell out of his stomach. The bowel hunter retreated.
"I'll come back and next time I'll kill all of you." The hunter said before jumping out of the ruins of the storehouse.
Subaru walked around the loot house picking up all the weapons and placing them in the rifts. When he collected them all he fell onto his back.
"Well I guess this is where it ends." Subaru chuckled as his vision went blurry.
"You aren't gonna die on me." Satella said as she used healing magic to patch up Subarus wounds.
"He fought bravely to the very end, he was a true warrior." Reinhard said, walking towards them. felt got in between the two of them. She had snuck into the loot house after the fighting was over.
"Big bro isn't dead yet." She said sobbing. She reached into her pocket and pulled out the insignia handing it to satella, it glowed in felt hands before she gave it to satella. Reinhard grabbed her wrist and started dragging her off.
"Let go of me you brute." Felt tried to peel his fingers off of her wrist to no avail
"I cannot overlook this." Reinhard said as he dragged her out of the loot house.
Subaru woke up in a strange room, in front of him were two girls in maid outfits, one had blue hair while the other had pink hair.
"Sister, our guest has awoken." The blue haired girl said.
"It seems he has." The pink haired one said.
I did this entire chapter in one sitting so if it's bad I apologize
grammer checker did me dirty so I had to go through it again myself, reread the chapter if you want to better understand it.
