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The shadows circled the two of them.
He groaned and curled his fist.
“My name is Natsuki Subaru.”
He uncurled his fingers and brought them to the centre of his chest.
“Entrusted by Julius, believed in by Beatrice, forgiven by Echidna, loves Rem, and desired by you, Emi—”
“—Wait, wait just a second.” Emilia interrupted Subaru.
“Huh?” He tilted his head. The shadows around them stopped moving—sort of paused, for lack of a better term.
“Loves Rem?” She confirmed.
“Oh, I figured that was my goal, Emilia-chan.” The amnesiac man shrugged. “I mean, that is what we are here for, right?”
“No, no. You love me, Subaru.” Emilia reiterated. “You told me you rejected Rem—”
“—That must have been [Natsuki Subaru] not me! I mean, I like you too, Emilia-chan; don’t get me wrong—but like, think about it: It makes sense. ”
“No, Subaru, I can assure you that does not make sense. You love me; I reeeeally do.” Emilia groaned.
At that time, the shadows around them began to swoosh away, and the place began to stop collapsing.
“Like this is why Ram must have been disappointed that I didn’t have my memories. She knew about my devotion to Ram.”
“While it is true that we came here to save Rem, and you wished to see her again—”
“See! You agree with me.”
“No, that’s not—”
“—I love you.” Another ethereal voice graced their ears.
The voice kept getting closer and closer, “I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you—”
“Oh, hey, ghost lady! If you refer to me, I actually love Rem.” Subaru reiterated.
The ‘ghost lady’, who looked rather like Emilia, ended up standing to her side.
“Ooh, are you twins?”
“It doesn’t matter.”
“I love you.” The ghost twin lady, in that goth baddie outfit, reiterated.
“And again, I appreciate it, goth ghost lady, but I love Rem.”
“Huh?” The two ‘twins’, as Subaru now perceived them, tilted their heads.
“Why is it so hard for you to believe me, ugh!”
“Master, you don’t make any sense.”
“Yeah, Natsuki-kun, I think it’s rather obvious how much you did love Emiia.”
“Subaru-kun, Betty is worried you’ve not only lost your memory, but your mind too, I suppose!”
“You don’t love the half-devil chic—holy shit, there are two of them now?” Reid stated as he walked to meet him.
Shaula, Echidnanastasia, Julius, and Beatrice also all entered with Reid just at that moment. Their injuries and deaths have ceased to be reality because Natsuki Subaru made a rather baffling statement.
“Patra Patrasche!” Said Patrasche, as she walked in from the place dragons normally walked in from.
Nobody was concerned about how much they were all, in fact, very much alive. It was more about Subaru’s baffling comment.
Well, even before losing his memories—Subaru did care for Rem. It was not entirely a lie to tell he loved her. Even still.
“I like Emilia. BUUUUUUUUUUUT I love Rem over Emilia.”
“Huh?”
Huh indeed.
Two short twins walked out.
“Subaru-kun.” One of Lye or Roy said.
“Well dammit, where even are all you people coming from?”
“Subaru-kun. You literally said ‘I love Emilia.’ when we–Rem had spoken out one of the most beautiful confessions to you.” Roy of the Glutton said.
“Naaaaaaaaaahhh—.”
“No, Subaru-kun, you are being unreasonable. We quite literally have her memories—”
“NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH—”
“Alright, this is rather annoying at this point. Perhaps this shall help the case.” Lye pulled a certain something out of his body and spit it out: Rem’s name and memories, to be specific.
A few minutes of silence pass by. Internal HOLY SHITS for people as people remember Rem.
Ram walks out with a wheelchair. “Ram is Ram,” Ram confirmed. The wheelchair has Rem on it. She is awake and shit. “Rem is Rem.”
“Where are all of you even coming from?”
“I am Rem,” Rem said.
“Rem! I love you!” Subaru declared with his arms wide open.
“What the fuck, Subaru-kun?” Rem exclaimed, baffled at the declaration. “Are you alright, Subaru-kun? Rem loved you because you loved Emilia more—”
“What the fuck, Sissy?” Ram stopped the wheelchair abruptly.
“Now is not the time, nee-sama.” Rem punched Ram in the neck with an uppercut to shut her up.
“Well, Subaru is currently amnesiac, Rem.”
“Ah, I see. That is unfortunate.” Rem sighed; she turned her head towards the archbishops. “The two of you do your thing.”
“You know what, you’re right. We should have done this from the start.” Lye nodded; he signed to Roy, who also nodded.
“Rui or Louis, whichever spelling you prefer, just leave Subaru alone for the time being.”
“Aight bet.” They mentally heard the voice of their sister.
Natsuki Subaru’s memories returned.
“Julius, Beatrice, Emilia, Rem, Ram, Shaula too—capture them right now.”
“Shit.” Both of them said.
Without much of a fight, Roy and Lye were captured. Reid and Satella left to mind their own business since they got bored. The tower healed itself, so Shaula was vibing herself too.
“Huh, so I guess I do love Emilia after all.”
“Knew it.” Emilia pulled her elbow down to celebrate in a fashion Subaru taught her sometime a few or so months ago.
“Wow, Natsuki-kun, your plan was rather… masterful,” Echidnanastasia commented.
“I agree,” Anastasia said, taking control of her own body back again, facing no issues.
Subaru chuckled. “We have a phrase where I am from to describe these events… All according to Keikaku—that means plan.”
Anastasia nodded, having her curiosity satisfied.
“Well, this was worth getting arrested for, Roy.”
“Yeah, not gonna lie, Lye, we have achieved the peak of our lives,” Roy added on.
Before anyone else could say anything else, Emilia had raised her voice, “Before we get three arcs of stagnation, I will tell you I love you too, Subaru. Become my wife.”
“Aight bet—wait, wife?”
“Yeah, you said it—can’t take it back anymore. You are my malewife.” Emilia declared assertively.
“I still love Rem though.”
“Reeeeeeeeeeeeally, Subaru?”
“Believe Me, I Love Rem!” Subaru declared earnestly to his fiancée.
“Hmph, then don’t do that, you dunderhead.”
“Uh, I can’t just not stop loving someone?”
“Fine, sucks to be Rem, since you are mine.”
“Indeed, Emilia-sama.” Rem nodded, happily accepting the arrangement.
“Well, I’m bored of the desert; let’s leave now.”
“Alright, bet.” Everyone said.
They said goodbye to Shaula and left the tower peacefully. Rules no longer mattered in the tower, apparently. Felt became King; and that was that.
The End
Actually, the Gluttony duo, feeling bored and redeemed, decided to release Crusch’s name.
THE END.
“Hold it, what about my name—” Shut up, Julius; this fic isn’t about you. Julius sighed.
THE END!