(Rem x Reader) Re:Reader - Starting YOUR New Life in Another World

Chapter 144: Identity Crisis

A/N: This chapter features art by @RelpamaKun on twitter! So if you're an FFnet reader, you'll need to look at WP or AO3 for the art.

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Chapter 144: Identity Crisis

Sat in a fancifully ordained, and expansive tea room, YN watched as the many members of this estate and the Emilia Camp flooded in after he had gone ahead into this place at the suggestion of all who had been present for the... discovery of their latest guest.

For now, everyone who had left the Sanctuary was to take up residency in the Miload Mansion temporarily as Roswaal's main estate was readied. With the previous Mansion's destruction in the events following Elsa's defeat there, it was still hard to believe that the place where YN had fatefully met Rem and spent so much time with her in, was gone.

It'll never be a place we can go back and visit... —To reminisce...

The abandonment of the Mansion also meant its gardens too, and the time YN and Rem had spent there in their earliest days of knowing each other.

It was with a heavy heart that YN had looked upon the ashes of the Roswaal Mansion, having to pass it and Arlem on their way out of Sanctuary. Fate, it seemed, wished to rip away everything that reminded him of Rem.

In rare form though, his mind couldn't be troubled, as the reason everyone was beginning to filter into the tea room now for this impromptu meeting was to discuss the one that was currently sitting on his lap, just as Beatrice was on Subaru's just one couch over.

Freely swinging her feet as they dangled off YN's knees, the pink-haired elf, seemingly, his contracted spirit, had a rather carefree and bubbly outlook in her new consciousness and vessel of sorts.

Algol, the lackadaisical white spec of a Yang spirit that YN had secured a contract with had somehow come to be in possession of one of the many Ryuzu clone's bodies, specifically the one in fargone Loops that Subaru had dubbed 'Pico.'

With Rem's pink hair clip still in her bangs, Algol watched the room begin to fill with her wide eyes of cerulean. To YN, this happenstance was still completely unfounded. After all, Algol's sudden introduction was still fresh, happening only earlier this very day.

While the need to depart Sanctuary had been drawing close to reach the Miload Mansion by sunset, the call was made by Roswaal that this business would need to unfortunately be sorted out later, but would be top priority once they had arrived at their destination. It was also at Emilia's advice that Algol should simply ride with YN, alone, in his 'dragonless carriage.' Given how this was uncharted territory for her in terms of knowledge about spirit arts, she suggested this simply so Algol wouldn't get potentially overwhelmed.

Algol: —Aniki.

Looking to the person who's knee she sat on, Algol had chosen this title to refer to YN as in their solitary car ride together. He had tried during that drive to better understand just how Algol had ended up in this situation, but far too much was this pink-haired elf's curiosity about himself and the many other things in this world that were so new for her to answer any of his inquiries. —Even if he could get the word in.

However, since arriving, and with Subaru telling him the discussion regarding Algol would happen simply as soon as everyone could gather in the tea room, YN was able to easily get Algol to understand what was about to happen. Reassuring the small elf that all the people she was going to meet were also going to be her new friends too, she seemed not the least bit worried. In fact, she seemed to understand the need to have a cool-headed demeanor about this.

As YN was simply staring off into space now, as his mind continued to go over half a million things at one time, a small tug was had at his shirt by an even smaller hand, trying to get his attention.