Chapter 291 - My CO Stash #91 - Save sc.u.m.m.i.n.g? It's on my character sheet. by Xorn (RE:Zero/FateGrandOrder)

-Our Emilia-simping MC gets isekai'd to Chaldea as one of the 48 master candidates~ I went into this one without reading the synopsis and I got spoiled as I'm only following the anime and not the LN, but honestly it's okay- it's to be expected, it's pretty obvious with Subaru's broken save point like power!

Synopsis: Shortly after getting unceremoniously kicked back to Earth, Natsuki Subaru spontaneously combusts. A number of deaths later, he joins the Chaldea Security Organization. And then dies some more. Minor spoilers for RE:Zero LN, primarily pertaining to Subaru's later powerups. Rated: ??? Words: 14K Posted on: forums.spacebattles.com/threads/save-sc.u.m.m.i.n.g-its-on-my-character-sheet-re-zero-fate-grand-order.828712/ (Xorn)

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Chapter 1-3 (exceptional)

It's always sunny in Chaldea - wait, no, that's fire.

---Base sequence: human genome confirmed---Alignment: Chaotic-Evil

Welcome to the data center for the future of humankind. This is the Security Organization for the Preservation of Humanity, Chaldea.

Fingerprint, voiceprint, and DNA authentication cleared. Magical Circuit assessment -

---Warning:Severe ruptures detected within Magic Circuits. Depletion of Od will result in contamination of the Soul by Gaia due to Mana backflow. Please see Dr. Romani Archman for a more in-depth medical analysis.

---Warning:Excessive values of the Sixth Imaginary Factor detected within user.Signs of Daemonic Possession necessitate further scans.

---Attempting to quantify user's existence…

---Warning:User exists outside the domain.User appears to have been marked by a god from another universe.User's existence is heretical to the human order.User is a [Threat to Humanity].

Attempting terminat-

Hooo... Tf iyhpu ayltislz…

Username matched.You are recognized as a member of the primates.

Nice to meet you.You're our final visitor today.

Welcome to Chaldea, Natsuki Subaru.

***

The word that best describes the interior of Chaldea is "clean". Not a single blemish to be found on its spotless white walls and ceiling. Bright fluorescent bulbs ensure that no shadow is cast.

Well, that's the walls and ceiling, anyway. The floor might be filthy for all I know. All I can really say about it from my current position is that it's surprisingly comfortable. What's a little less comfortable is the small squirrel-dog creature that apparently decided to take a nap on my chest while I was unconscious on the floor. Slowly, I attempt to lift him off of myself.

...Oi, there's no way he should be this hard to lift. He's lying on me, and I can tell that there's no way he weighs more than a kilogram or two. And yet, even with both hands, I can't make him budge.

"Ah! You're awake then, Senpai?" a familiar-sounding voice says. A voice I haven't heard since the day oh so long ago that I was returned to Earth. The day the life I had built from zero in another world was ripped away from me.

My head wh.i.p.s towards her, so quickly that I inadvertently pop my neck a bit. That's going to hurt later, but more importantly, that voice is..!

She's a teenage girl, maybe a year or two younger than me, wearing a miniskirt, sweater, and tights - and, looking closer, it seems she's wearing a button-up shirt under the miniskirt that she's attached her red necktie to. Her left eye is purple - I can't see her right eye, as it's covered by her silvery-purple hair, but presumably it's the same color.

"Senpai? Is something wrong?" the girl asks. Listening more closely, there's definitely a difference between them, but...

Her voice sounds almost exactly like Emilia's. Not to mention the similarity in eye and hair color, and the fact that her hair is covering the same eye that Rem's did.

"...That's so unfair," I mumble, trying to hold the tears back.

"...Senpai?"

"...It's nothing. Your voice just sounded like someone I knew. That's all," I reply.

"Ah," she replies, and looks away for a bit. I feel kind of guilty now...

"Anyway, I can't lift this guy for some reason. Can you help me get him off?" I ask, motioning to the sleeping squirrel-dog.

"...Eh? Fou-kun? Why are you sleeping on…?" She asks. "Um, I'll try, but… Fou-kun can be really stubborn, so…"

She shakes the critter, but it doesn't move at all.

"So!" I exclaim. "I'm Natsuki Subaru, forty-eighth master candidate! Nice to meet you!"

"Um, likewise! Mash Kyrielight, nice to meet you! And this strange creature is Fou-kun. Usually he doesn't like being around humans other than me, so I guess this makes you his second caretaker, Senpai. Congratulations!" She says with a stunningly pure smile.

...Mash-tan is cuuuuute!

"Roger! You can count on me, Mash-tan!" I say, giving her a thumbs up.

"Thank you, Senpai. Although, with you in that position…" She says, scratching her cheek.

"Heh. I guess it's hard to look reliable when you're pinned to the ground by a small animal, huh?" I chuckle.

Suddenly, Fou wakes up, springing to his feet, and scampers away.

"And there he goes, huh?" I ask, standing up.

"Yes, he does that sometimes. Just wanders around," she says with a small smile.

From behind me, I hear footsteps, and I turn to see - is that Robert E. O. Speedwagon!?

"Ah, there you are, Mash. That won't do, you know, wandering about without permission…" He says with a smile and nearly closed eyes. Hang on, "without permission"? Are these guys keeping cute Mash-tan as some kind of prisoner? That's no good, you know! Don't make me die at you a whole bunch, Chaldea! I'll do it, don't test me!

"Oh, someone's already with you? You're…" He mutters, and as his eyes fall over me I feel vaguely uneasy. Ugh. Magi give me the creeps. I've died for their shitty experiments enough times, thanks. Still, I put on a brave face and smile.

"Natsuki Subaru! Master candidate forty-eight! Nice to meet you."

"Oh! You're that one with the absurdly high master affinity!" he says, snapping his fingers. "I knew I'd seen your face in our files. Really, it's a shame you didn't apply earlier. If we'd had the time to give you proper training, we might have been able to replace Gut with you!"

He laughs, and Mash gives a faint chuckle. "Oh, by the way, if you do meet Beryl, don't tell him I said that. He'll probably try to kill you if you do." If this Beryl guy wasn't presumably a magus, I'd assume he was exaggerating, but that sounds exactly like the sort of petty bullshit a magus might murder me over.

"R-right." I say with a nervous chuckle.

"Well, it's nice to meet you Subaru-kun. I'm Lev Lainur, one of the technicians here at Chaldea. We're a bit low on time, so let's hurry on over to the command room. The director is about to give the orientation."

***

Chaldea's director is a real piece of work. If I had to compare Olga-Marie Animusphere to someone, it would probably be… Priscilla Barielle. She's got the same "the world belongs to me" kind of vibe. That being said, she doesn't seem quite as confident as Priscilla… well, that's to be expected of someone without that woman's unique set of blessings, though.

The upshot of this is that the orientation is something like fifty percent magibabble and fifty percent her trash-talking all the candidates in some sort of attempt to bully them into line. All the verbal assault makes it a bit tough to pay attention until she finally gets into explaining our big problem.

A singularity. Someone has been messing around with time travel, and if the distortion in Fuyuki City in 2004 isn't corrected, modern humanity will cease to exist.

Well, that explains why I keep spontaneously combusting around two hours from now. I'm not sure how they keep failing to fix it, but this is definitely the reason it's happening. Well, you know what they say - if you want something done right, do it yourself.

A few hours later, all forty-eight master candidates - along with Mash, for some reason? - are loaded up into the so-called "coffins". Not exactly the best name for a device that's supposed to keep people alive.

Yeah, it's not as big of a surprise as it should be when the entire rayshift room explodes.

My coffin is one of the two closest to the explosion, and I'm catapulted out of the thing, sent flying across the room. Well, my upper half is, anyway. The coffin neatly severed my waist from my upper body as it folded under the pressure of the blast. I arc through the air, organs trailing out behind me like a spark trail from a demented firework.

Time seems to slow down as through the glass of the command room, I see Olga-Marie Animusphere's horrified face as her flesh and bone is melted into a fine red mist. I see the various technicians reduced to charred corpses, embedded with glass, surviving the fire only to be turned into swiss cheese by shrapnel. Lev doesn't even have time to react - he's still smiling at our successful launch even as his body is reduced to ash.

Finally, my dying torso hits the ground with a wet flop, bouncing once, twice, before lying still. It really hurts. It hurts so much. I've had worse, but this is up there in the top twenty at least. Doesn't help that I can feel the fire licking at my waist, cauterizing my wounds. It's going to take a while for me to finally die.

Above my head, I can hear the automated announcement rambling some stuff about the rayshift, but that doesn't really matter right now.

A few meters away, I see Mash, everything from her waist down pinned beneath a massive slab of rock. She's still alive, for now. Unfortunately, I've been flattened before - something on that level is definitely unsurvivable.

It really doesn't matter. The most sensible move would be to accelerate my own death so I don't have to suffer any longer. She won't remember this after the reset, after all.

But… as I look at her, lying there, crying. I just can't bring myself to abandon her.

Luckily, I do have a way to accelerate my transport. In the time since I returned to earth, I got a bit better at using the authorities I inherited from the Archbishops that I had killed. And so, forming a pair of extra hands with my [Invisible Providence], I crawl over to Mash and flop myself down next to her.

"Yo, Mash-tan." I say with a forced grin.

"...Ah… Senpai… Y-your legs are…" she mutters, eyes widening.

"Don't worry. It'll be alright. Just think about different things for now, okay? Like, do you have any dreams for the future, Mash-tan?" I reply. As I do so, I activate the authority I got from the Archbishop of Greed, using [Cor Leonis] to siphon Mash's pain into myself. Ultimately, it doesn't change much - luckily for me, most of her injuries are on the half of my body that was severed, so I can't actually feel the transferred pain.

"Mm. That's… alright. I think that, one day, I want… to see the outside world. I grew up inside Chaldea, so I've never been able to go anywhere else." She says with a faint smile.

"Alright. We'll go there together, okay, Mash-tan? Everywhere you want to go. I promise," I say, forcing out another smile.

"Mm." She replies with a smile and a nod. "Senpai… I'm cold. Can I hold your hand?"

"Yeah."

I grasp her hand tightly, and she closes her eyes, her breathing slowing.

Mine is too, and pretty soon I can hear the whispers of the witch as darkness shrouds my vision and her hands reach out for me. There's a faint dragging sensation, and then...

A/N

1. The readings at the beginning are influenced by the Witch tagging along with Subaru. Which readings are influenced, and to what extent, I'm leaving to reader interpretation.

2. The gibberish in the middle of the login process is a caesarian cipher that decodes to "Ahhh... My brain trembles..."

3. Mash sounds like Emilia. This is a voice actor joke(? Does it count as a joke if half of its existence is to make Subaru suffer?).

4. Subaru may be subconsciously treating Mash as a replacement Emilia. This is definitely unhealthy behavior, and I don't recommend doing such things in your own life.

5. Did they get rayshifted, or did Subaru die? Who knooooows! (I'm leaving it open until the next chapter to give myself wiggle room).

6. This story may or may not be an excuse to give filler servants a chance to shine. Eric Bloodaxe may actually kill someone in this story.

7. I haven't decided who Subaru ought to summon if he ever manages to get to Fuyuki. That's why there's a poll at the top, of servants I figured might work as compatibility summons! If there's a tie I'll roll a die or pick my favorite or something.

Chapter 2

You seem trustworthy.

I lurch in place, muscles spasming a bit and eyes shooting wide open as I'm thrust back into my body. In my ears I can hear the echoes of something - a crooning, haunting song, as if from the mouth of a banshee. My heart clenches up as the witch's miasma settles around my frame.

"Fou!"

The faint pressure on my chest increases as Fou jumps to his feet - it seems my reset point finally changed again. I've been looping back to the day of my return to Earth for a while now, but that seems to no longer be the case.

From his perch atop me, Fou kicks his feet a bit and shakes his fur like a dog trying to dry off, his nose crinkling. That's the [Witch Factor] for you.

"Fou kyu!" he yips angrily at me.

"Hey, I don't control it, so don't blame me." I say, shaking my head as the critter scurries up to my shoulder, allowing me to sit up. Huh, is he less heavy when he's awake? That's odd.

"Ah! You're awake then, Senpai?" Mash says from behind me. "I don't really see why you'd sleep in the hall, though… could it be that you're the type of person who can't sleep unless he's on a hard bed?"

I turn to look at her, standing and stretching as I do so. "Nah. While I've gotten used to sleeping in all kinds of weird places, my favorite was actually a fluffy Western-style bed that I used for a while." The beds at Roswaal's manor were really something else. Honestly, I wouldn't put it past the guy to have invented some kind of spell to make them that fluffy. He sure as hell had the time.

"Anyway, sorry if I got in your way or something. That weird scanner thing at the entrance knocked me out cold." I say with a chuckle.

"Oh! Yes, I've heard it can do that to people who don't have much experience using their magic circuits… still, I suppose that makes you the newest Master candidate?"

"Yes! Master Candidate number forty-eight, Natsuki Subaru, reporting for duty!" I say, giving a mock salute.

"Fou!" protests the little dog-squirrel as he scrabbles to maintain his perch on my shoulder.

"Oi, you're the one who chose to sit up there. What did you expect, for me to just not use my arms?" I retort.

"Huh. Fou-kun is being really friendly with you, Senpai. Did you have some kind of treat stored away in your pockets for him?" Mash asks curiously.

"No, he just decided all on his own that I'm his seat now." I say with a shake of my head. "Well, it's not like I'm not used to it. Just about every animal I've met has either decided that they love me or that they want me dead on first sight. Glad it's the former with this little guy."

I pet his head a little, and then his head abruptly snaps to the left as he gives a little sniff. A split second later, he leaps to the floor and scurries away. "...And there he goes. What a strange creature." I mutter.

Mash gives a small smile. "Yes, he does that sometimes. Just wanders around."

From behind us, I hear footsteps. "Ah, there you are, Mash. That won't do, you know, wandering about without permission…" says Lev.

***A brief introduction later, Lev makes to lead us to the command room. But… Now would probably be the best time to try the direct approach, right?

"Professor Lev. Mash. Can you hold up for a second? I have something important to tell you guys." I say.

Lev glances at his watch. "We've got a few minutes to spare. What's the issue, Subaru-kun?"

I sigh. This is going to be a tough sell. "Listen, I know this will sound crazy. And absolutely can't share how I know this. But… someone has planted a bomb - or maybe multiple bombs - in the command room. They'll go off just before the Rayshift, and kill just about everyone in the room."

Lev's squinting eyes snap wide open with shock. Mash jumps a bit as her eyes also widen. She starts to open her mouth to speak, but Lev cuts her off.

"Mash, go inform the director. We can't afford to take chances with the future of humanity. I'll take Subaru-kun to an interrogation room." He orders. Oi, I already told you I can't share much information, though.

"R-right! Um, please don't be too hard on him, Professor. I can tell, Senpai isn't a dangerous person."He nods. "Hurry, Mash."

"Right!" She says, and runs off towards the command room.

Lev turns to me, giving a light sigh. "Well, this was unexpected. Now then, Subaru-kun..." His eyes glow a sickly yellow, and my mind goes blank.

***

Warm liquid is sprayed across my face, the scent of copper flooding my nostrils as I snap out of my trance. I rapidly assess my surroundings. What..?

I almost vomit as the sight in front of me registers in my brain. At first, I had thought I had been moved into some section of the facility with red hallways. But that wasn't the case. No, this red was…

The corpse could barely be called a corpse. It had been flayed to pieces, muscle and skin stripped from bone, organs mangled and split open. And lying across the whole mess, a tangle of translucent blue threads, only barely visible. Not quite here, not in the same way the rest of the body is.

During my attempts to find out the source of the worldwide spontaneous combustion of all humanity later today, I had at one point been kidnapped by a Magus. A Necromancer, to be precise. He took great pleasure in explaining how magic on earth worked to me, even as he extracted my magic circuits from my flesh.

Anyway, as a result of that mess, I could identify the blue threads scattered across the hallway. The witch dissected Lev Lainur, removing every single magic circuit from his body. He had gone and hypnotized me into revealing the secret of [Return by Death], and she'd torn him to pieces in response.

Even as my mind whirls, trying to find a way to explain this to Mash-tan and the Director, I hear a voice emanate from nowhere. "Ugh. We had anticipated action from the Counter Force."

Lev's magic circuits swirl, spasming and coalescing into a dark red sphere, hovering in midair. No. Not a sphere. An eye, with a cross-shaped pupil. "But to think it would go this far… to draw in a god from another world. No, not even a god. That being… she's closer to the [Beast] of another world, isn't she?"

"What…" I mutter. "...Professor Lev, is that you? Are you-?"

The eye growls. "Lev is, for all intents and purposes, dead. And as I cannot persist without his body intact, I will have to make use of your ability."

...Wait, is this guy about to-!?

"Incineration Ritual: Flauros."

I don't even see the attack coming. There's no projectile, no sign of heat. Simply, for a brief instant, my vision is filled with flames. And then there's darkness, and the whispers of the Witch as she reaches out for me. There's a faint dragging sensation, and then…

Chapter 3

Sometimes, video games are informative.

I shudder as I'm shoved back into my body again. It's still a bit disorienting, waking up on the floor like this. Not counting my suicides to try to get back to Lugnica, I reset to the point of my return to Earth somewhere around twenty times - it wasn't exactly easy finding Chaldea. To start with, I didn't even know magic was a thing on Earth until I got assassinated by a Magus for revealing the existence of magic in a desperate bid to get people to pay attention to my warnings about the event I call [Apocalypse Conflagration].

That is, 4:27 PM, July 30th, 2015.

The day and time the world ends. The day and time every human being on the planet suddenly spontaneously combusts. The day and time Chaldea's command room explodes.

The day and time Mash Kyrielight dies a painful death.

...All that aside, the point I'm getting at is that I'm badly out of practice when it comes to short [Return by Death]s. The day I returned to Earth was the same day I left - January 24th, 2014 - and that gave me a solid year and a half between my "save point" and [Apocalypse Conflagration]. I've had plenty of time to get used to being given time to think things out, and now I'm struggling to keep everything straight.

And so, after a brief introduction to Mash, Fou, and Lev that goes about the same as the two before, while I'm sitting in the command room and listening to a briefing from the Director that I already heard in my first loop, I start to think.

...Let's start with what I know.

One: [Apocalypse Conflagration] happens at the same time that the command room explodes. Considering the globe that Olga Marie said showed the future of humanity turned into a big fireball after the explosion, I'd say that's solid evidence this singularity thing is the cause.

Two: The command room explodes. Why? [Apocalypse Conflagration] causes people to spontaneously combust, not structures. At least, not from what I've seen of the three seconds my vision continues after it begins. And furthermore, Mash and I were killed by injuries due to the explosion, not the spontaneous combustion.

Is Chaldea Terminator-proofed? Do they have some system preventing [Apocalypse Conflagration] from affecting those inside the facility? It would make sense for an organization with the ability to travel back in time to fix timeline shenanigans to have proofed itself against said timeline shenanigans. But, whoever is responsible knew about that, and sabotaged the facility with bombs. That would make sense.

To begin with, if Chaldea can travel back in time to fix the damaged past, that also implies that it can travel back in time to damage the past. That provides the method for the culprit. Or, one half of the method, anyway. They still had to figure out a way to set every human being on the planet on fire from within a small Japanese city in 2004, but I'll just chalk that up to magic and move on.

Three: If it's local sabotage, are the explosions from magecraft or from bombs? They came out of the floor, so it had to be one of the two, but I can't tell which. Does it matter which? The end result is the same, and my first action should be to figure out a way to get everyone out of the command room regardless. Which brings me to…

Four: Getting people to believe me without telling them about [Return by Death]. The key problem is that a magus like Lev can just hypnotize me and force me to blab, so-

My thoughts are abruptly cut off as a hand impacts my cheek.

"Ow! What-?" I start

"Oh don't you dare start acting innocent now! Staring off into the distance and ignoring everything I was saying, are you looking down on me?" shouts Olga Marie Animusphere.

"Ah, sorry, it's actually-" I start to explain myself, but she cuts me off.

"Ugh, I don't want to hear it. I can't even stand to look at your face any longer. Someone get this idiot out of here!"

***

"Sorry about that, Senpai. I totally forgot, the Simulator in the entrance tends to make people sleepy. I should have made sure you weren't going to pass out before you went to sit down," Mash says apologetically.

I shake my head. "Don't worry about it. In the first place, it wasn't drowsiness or anything like that, it was-"

"Fou!" yells a small white blur as it latches onto my face.

"Oi! Get off me! Ridley Scott will sue, you know!" I shout as I grapple with the squirrel-dog.

Mash giggles. "Don't worry, Senpai. As far as we can tell, Fou-kun is not an alien spider creature. He just enjoys jumping onto people's faces - well, usually he only jumps on my face, but he seems to have taken a liking to you as well, Senpai."

Fou scurries around the back of my neck and settles on my shoulder. "So it seems," I say with a forced smile. "Anyway, since I've been left out of the first mission… um, what should I do with myself?"

"...I'm not really sure," Mash replies. "We didn't have any protocols for something like this."

I chuckle. "Really? With the Director's personality, I'd have thought kicking out Master candidates would be expected."

"Mm… well, the previous director was supposedly a much more agreeable person. I haven't had much interaction with either myself, though." she says with a small shrug. "For now, I guess I can lead you to your room - but after that I've got to get back to the command room."

"Ah, come to think of it, you're not one of the Master candidates… what kind of job do you do, Mash-tan?" I ask. After all, if it's at all possible, I'd like to find a way to keep her out of the command room when the bombs go off. I'm almost certain that this loop is a bust, but that doesn't mean I want to let her get hurt if I can stop it.

"Well... I'm currently the only successful result of the Demi-Servant program. That is to say, I'm one of the two Servants already summoned by Chaldea - at least on paper," Mash says nervously.

"On paper?" I raise an eyebrow.

"Yes, well, in theory the summoned servant was supposed to possess me, allowing them to permanently manifest. But the servant instead chose not to retain control of my body" She says with a shrug. "I think they saw it as inhumane to remain in control."

"You think!?"

"Um, yes. Anyway, that means I'm not actually very useful as a combatant, but presumably whoever was summoned will transform me from human to demi-servant when that becomes necessary."

"Are you a magical girl!?"

"I... suppose that's not inaccurate." She says, trailing off and glancing away. Then, her posture straightens again as she locks eyes with me. "Anyway, I'm technically a member of the A-team, so I'll have to hurry back afterwards, but I should have time for a quick trip to the dorms if we're quick about it, senpai."

"Oi, the Director mentioned that those A-team guys are kind of a huge deal - if that's the case, wouldn't you be my senpai?" I ask as we start walking. I hadn't really questioned it before - Mash is younger than me, and it doesn't seem like Japanese is her first language - but if she's part of that elite squad including the Wodime guy everyone at Clock Tower was so hyped up about, she's gonna be pretty let down if she expects me to be some kind of helpful upperclassman.

"No, I'm not talking about our status as coworkers. Rather, you're more my senpai when it comes to 'being human'" she explains.

"...Being human, huh?" I don't really want to get too much into that one.

"Yes. Um, how should I put this… you seem very harmless." she says.

"I'm not sure if I should find that offensive or not…"

***

Of course, Mash isn't wrong. Natsuki Subaru is a weak person who can't do a thing without the help of his friends. Excluding [Invisible Providence] and [Return by Death], everything I can do relies on allies to help me out.

That's right. What I need is an ally. Someone who can get everyone out of the command room when the bombs go off, without me ending up hypnotized and blabbing about [Return by Death].

...Come to think of it, what was up with that, anyway? Lev had… something… living in his magic circuits. A demon, I think, given the reference to Flauros. Flauros is some kind of mythical demon, yeah? Shin Megami Tensei and Disgaea wouldn't lie to me, right? And if that weird eye thing was inside Lev's magic circuits…

...Is this that so-called "Demonic Possession"? Do I have to find a way to kick a cat demon out of Lev's body? Can it be kicked out of his body?

I contemplate these things as I watch Mash leave. My room is next door to the cafeteria, just a short walk into the dorms, so that'll be nice after I get a chance to advance past my first day here.

But for right now, considering there doesn't seem to be anyone else nearby, I guess I'll use Natsuki Subaru's special move!

I pull out my phone and call someone who's not completely clueless.

A/N

I'm back. It's been a month. I'd like to say I did something important in that time, but that would be a lie.

Bit of an introspective chapter here, with Subaru getting his thoughts in order. I'm not super proud of it, but it leads into actual plot progression, so there's that.

I thought about cutting after the call, but that would likely drag on the time to next update by another month at my current pace. Gonna put it out now in the hopes that I can get back on the horse so to speak. Current plan is to try to get the next one out by Monday. I've got things moving now so hopefully it comes easier.

To Spacebattles we go~!