Re:zero - Commanding Power in a Familiar World

Part 5 Lust

"The blue Oni" ran to the kitchen door. Just before she could open it, the door, and everything in the door disappeared. Leaving it an empty stone room.

Y/N: "Sooooooooo, what brings you to this neck of the woods?"

Y/N walked towards the invader. Said Person scraping across the stone just to escape the man.

Y/N: "Better yet how?"

They cornered themselves and covered their faces.

Rem?: "I'm sorry! I-I didn't mean any harm."

Y/N kneeled down in front of her, furrowing his eyebrows.

Rem?: "I-I just w-wanted to help! I'll never come back, I-I s-swear!"

Y/N looked at her blankly.

Rem?: "W-would you please stop looking at me l-like that?!"

Y/N: "How do you look like Rem?"

??: "Heh?"

The invader stared back blankly.

Y/N: "I know you can use your authority to look like others people wish to see. But you don't actually possess your authority anymore, so how exactly are you using it?"

??: "O-o-oh... I-it's because your m-mind connects to E-Echidna's Castle of D-dreams."

Well that's an earth shattering to learn... And yet it feels like this wasn't the first time he's heard this.

Y/N: "So, what brings you here-"

Gowther seeing his assistance no longer needed, left in an instant.

Y/N: "-Carmilla?"

Carmilla: I-I wanted to c-check on y-you.

Y/N: "That..... Doesn't tell me anything."

Carmilla slightly shrunk down into her disguised self.

Carmilla: "W-we met in p-previous loop.

Y/N: "Right. You're not affected by the resets."

Y/N fully sat down, facing the still disguised Carmilla.

Y/N: "This has been going on for a while, hasn't it?"

Carmilla nodded.

Y/N:"...How?"

It wasn't possible with everything he knew...

Carmilla: "T-t-the back door..."

Y/N:"......The what?"

Carmilla: "Y-you called it the b-back door."

The gears in Y/N's head began to turn.

Y/N: "...That feels like something I would say. And does feel like I've said that..."

Carmilla:"..."

Carmilla buries her head into her scarf in embarrassment.

Suddenly, Y/N's mouth feels warm, he puts his hand to his mouth and Carmilla perks up in concern.

Y/N: "Well that's odd why does my mouth feel so warm?"

Y/N: 'Not just warm it almost feels like my mouth is bur-"

His eyes shoot open as he sits up in his Futon.

Y/N: "GPMH!"

His mouth was burning from a freshly steamed potato.

Ram: "Oh, you're finally awake N/Y. I couldn't wake you up normally, so I had to resort to... another measure."

Ram was standing to his left, holding a basket of more steamed potatoes.