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IRZ: ALTTC Chapter 2
🕑 Added 2025-04-02 11:07:51 +0000 UTCChapter 02:. Beyond the Great Waterfall and the different possibilities
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"So, the story ends here, huh?"Natsuki Subaru muttered to himself while flipping through a manga in a convenience store...
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"Subaru!"
"Subaru-kun!"
"Darling!"
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A gray screen projected Natsuki Subaru's shadow. He was holding a book in an unknown room. Then, Natsuki Subaru put down the book, looked at a couple reflected in the glass, took a breath, and placed the book on the shelf.
"I still don't want to eat natto after all..."
With that, Subaru put down the paper box he had picked up earlier and grabbed a strange bag and another paper box.
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"This... feels a bit familiar."
Emilia felt a sense of familiarity looking at the bag, and Ram nodded in agreement.
Subaru mentioned that it was something called corn potage flavored... what? There was also something called tonkatsu ramen flavor, which was even used as a reward for sculpting a snowman when Puck was in his mana frenzy.
"Could this be..."
Emilia blurted out, and Roswaal added:
"Subaru's—hometown."
Subaru had said that his hometown was from a Far Eastern country, which everyone found strange, since the Kingdom of Lugnica was already the easternmost point. Beyond that was the Great Waterfall, so many people thought Subaru came from—
"The other side of the... Great Waterfall."
Beatrice muttered to herself.
Before they knew it, they were sitting back in their chairs, their attention once again focused on the gray screen.
Both Rem were curious about what the hometown of their beloved was like.
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"That'll be 363 yen."
The person behind the counter said to Subaru.
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"It seems he's—buying something,"
Roswaal said.
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Upon hearing this, Natsuki Subaru reached into his pocket and pulled out a small notebook? Then he took out coins from the notebook's crevices.
It seemed these were the currency of Subaru's hometown.
"It's an early Showa ten-yen coin..."
After paying, Natsuki Subaru picked up the bag and walked out of the store.
As he walked down the street, a tall, four-legged, strange creature ran past at high speed.
Subaru didn't seem to find this creature strange and continued walking forward a few steps.
"Well, yeah, it's weird if my eyes don't feel strained after being cooped up in my room playing games all day."
It seemed Subaru's eyes were strained just now. He reached out and rubbed the corner of his eye, and in just a moment...
The world in Natsuki Subaru's eyes began to change. It gradually ceased to be the world Natsuki Subaru knew and instead became familiar to the viewers here.
"Huh? What's going on?"
Subaru's voice was calm with a hint of confusion, as if he hadn't realized what was happening yet.
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"So that's how Subaru came here."
Puck, the small cat floating beside Emilia, made his signature androgynous voice.
"This is truly... interesting—"
Roswaal's lips curved into a mysterious smile as he said this.
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"This doesn't look fake at all... Could it be... that means..."
"Is this the 'summoned to another world scenario?!'. " Subaru's voice echoed in a corner of the Kingdom of Lugnica.
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"So why did Subaru come here in the first place, I suppose?"
Beatrice pondered, but before she could dwell on it, a bewitching voice came:
"Ara? Where is this?"
It was a tall, languid-eyed beauty with waist-length hair tied up, wearing a black cloak, and skin that was extraordinarily white. Against that skin, her extremely red lips stood out even more.
"Elsa!? Aren't you dead!?"
Emilia was incredibly shocked. Indeed, the bewitching woman was the Bowel Hunter, Elsa Granhiert, who had fought against Emilia's group many times.
Elsa looked at Emilia, slightly surprised:
"You... the beloved of my beloved. If I were to kill you, my beloved would surely be even more excited when he kills me."
Elsa said things that were hard for everyone to understand, speaking to Emilia in a still bewitching but seemingly emotionless tone, while also taking out a kukri blade from her bosom.
"But for the sake of my beloved's wish, I can only wait until you obtain the throne..."
Elsa continued to say things that others couldn't understand, and then put away the kukri blade.
The sub-zero atmosphere warmed up slightly, and Emilia lowered the hand she had been preparing to cast magic with.
"Her beloved? Wish? What was she talking about?"
Even her employer, Roswaal, couldn't understand. Rather, he couldn't figure out why Elsa was alive again.
Of course, they didn't know that only Elsa and her beloved knew about this matter, that sentence.
The words that Elsa had heard surpassed any love confession, spoken by her beloved, Natsuki Subaru: "I really want to kill you. Not today, nor tomorrow. But, I will kill you someday."
"Ah, Elsa is here too. Where is this?"
"Meili?"
Elsa responded.
Meili's addition exacerbated the severely unbalanced gender ratio of the scene.
"Ah, it's you, the one who stole Big Brother's heart!"
Meili said, pointing at Emilia.
It was strange. Meili should have had more than just this reaction to seeing Elsa, who was like her older sister, dead, and her attitude towards Emilia was also very distant, even though they had become half-companions in the Sage's Tower. It seemed that the biggest possibility was...
"They, like that Rem, are existences from different possibilities, I suppose..."
Beatrice said softly.
"Ara? This is..."
"It's Big Brother!"
Elsa noticed the big screen, and Meili quickly added.
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"That's what I'm going to say... I'm going to make you deeply regret it!"
On the screen, Natsuki Subaru's shout drew everyone's attention again. Natsuki Subaru used all his strength, and with a right punch, he knocked a strong man to the ground, then jumped up and kicked another man unconscious.
"It seems my stats in this world are indeed very strong! As soon as adrenaline is secreted, I can definitely win—"
But in an instant, Natsuki Subaru immediately knelt down and begged for mercy when facing one of the men with a knife.
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"Subaru!"
"Subaru-kun!"
"Darling!"
Emilia, Beatrice, Rem, and Natsuki Rem all shouted, filled with concern and worry.
After all, if it were the current Subaru, he could use Invisible Providence to get rid of him, but the Subaru in the scene couldn't do it.
In the chaos, Subaru was constantly beaten by the three men.
This made them realize how fragile Subaru was in this world, but this boy still protected them again and again...
"Rem will kill them!"
Rem said angrily.
If one of them was there, they could immediately protect Subaru, but unfortunately, they could only watch—
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"Get out of the way, get out of the way, get out of the way! You guys over there, you're blocking my path!"
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"Huh? I seem to have stolen the insignia and was running away at the time, but why is big bro here? And being beaten up by Rachins, Gaston, and Camberley."
"Felt-sama."
The former rogue, now the fifth candidate for the throne of the Kingdom of Lugnica, Felt, and the knight of knights, Reinhard van Astrea, had just arrived here.
"Ah, even Reinhard..."
Emilia covered her mouth in surprise, unable to imagine what kind of existence could forcibly teleport this red-haired superman here.
"Emilia-sama and everyone, although it's sudden, it's been a while."
The red-haired superman Reinhard placed his hand on his chest and gave an elegant bow.
Reinhard also saw Subaru's embarrassing state just now. Although Subaru's physical fitness was indeed poor compared to him, and it was normal for such a thing to happen, Reinhard was heartbroken to see his friend being treated like this but unable to step forward to protect him, but fortunately, next...
"But if Julius were here, he would probably be disappointed by his friend's actions."
Reinhard thought.
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"That's enough, villains."
At this moment, a silver bell-like voice interrupted everyone's thoughts, causing everyone to refocus their attention on the screen.
Author Note:
The focus of this book is on the audience's analysis of the story unfolding in the screen (such as what a character did and why the audience speculates they did so), commentary, interesting interactions, and emotional reactions (both positive and negative). In short, the focus is on the audience.
There won't be a lot of psychological descriptions in the viewing section, because the viewing section is from the audience's perspective. The audience can only watch, but can't read minds, so the main psychological descriptions are on the audience's side.
