Re:Zero Watching Him Die Again and Again

Chapter 3: Ep 2 Director's Cut

Chapter 3: Ep 2 Director's Cut

"W-What in the hell just..." Ricardo couldn't summon a true end to this question. More so anyone from the people sitting around him in the theater. A placate sense of inability and confusion settled amongst those who were to rule the greatest kingdom someday. Even the so-called great knights and hands beside them were just looking at the darkened screen with a sense of helplessness at the previous scene.

"That is impossible!" A purple-haired young knight shouted in confusion, breaking the silence filling the room as the other royals voiced their own outrage over the past death of Natsuki Subaru.

"It should be impossible for him to be able to do such a thing! Defying death is one thing... but outright going through it and getting back is another power entirely." The glasses-wearing twin known as Tivey contemplated with fear etched on his face.

"It seems your little prediction was wrong, Crusch-sama." The soft-voiced merchant queen lamented rigidly, owning a soft glare towards the screen as she conversed with one of her far away rivals to the throne. "The boy seems to have more going on with him." Anastasia said with an enchanted widening of her eyes, gleaming from what was a small glare of focus into a look of pure curiosity and enlightenment. "This boy has something about 'em... Something to be wary of." She thought to herself in silence as her mind tried to make sense of the boy's sudden revival back to life before her eyes.

Her curious thoughts and question didn't seem to resonate with the royal Duchess she had invoked, as the green-haired lady clad in a blue-military uniform wasn't exactly as entranced by Subaru's death/revival state and was more so immediately making mental checks in her head to come to a passable conclusion...

"He... His death." Felix whispered beside her with a long look of horror that stretched from the screen to his own master sitting beside him.

"His death was too real not to be true, Crusch-sama." The knight spoke as if he was shivering, clearly disturbed from the scene.

"Not to mention that the boy seemed to have memorized things that happened to him before he was murdered." Wilhelm suddenly added in, his eyes narrowed to their highest form. The old man looking ahead towards the sleeping young man with sympathy and commiseration.

"There's no doubt about it," Crusch cut her two knights off with a completely self-indulged tone as if she was in her own world looking at her knees with clenched fists and a focused glare. "Natsuki Subaru is somehow returning through time with every instance of death he encounters." the duchess' words loomed over the room, making all glance at the boy in fear.

"This... Shouldn't be real... It can't be!" A gray-haired boy wearing green robes and clothing announced his own disturbance with a shout of disbelief, standing and turning to face the limp body of his own brother in arms, "Natsuki-san!" Otto called scrupulously with a look of expectation on his face. As if he was expecting a clear answer to suddenly come from his brother. "This cannot be it! We have been through so much together, he can't just have gone through that and not tell us about it!" As the usually cool-headed Otto turned towards the rest of his group, he was only looking more and more agitated as if he was on the edge of breaking. Fists by his side and teeth pursed, he was clearly losing control over the entire situation.

"S-Subaru-kun's death... It must've been real... his pain was too... real." A blue-haired girl clenched herself around the back seat to the one Subaru was laid on. Her head turned away from everything and facing a wall as her tears dried after a long cry. Her own voice whispered in grief. The state of the girl clearly indicating that she had lost faith in holding up any appearance or conversation with the people around her as she was lost in her own world, one where she was killing a certain cruel cold-blooded assassin over and over and make her scream.