Kingdom Hearts: Saving Life in Another World

Chapter 54: A hand towards hope

Subaru had finished making the speech, looking a bit unsure on whether or not he did a good job. As he was having some self-doubt in himself, he turns towards both Emilia and Beatrice to notice how surprised they were. He looked around to see everyone looking at him with a surprise and proud facial expressions.

"Natsuki-kun." Anastasia spoke to which Subaru mistook this as her being annoyed for his failure to make a good speech.

"Uwaha! I'm sorry! I'll do better next time!"

"Why're you apologizin'? Strang child."

"Huh?"

"It's a strange thing to say to a strange child, but, Natsuki-kun, did you..."

"Hm?"

"Did you use to be a con-artist back in the day or somethin'?"

"What's with that baseless accusation all of a sudden!? As you can see, I'm just a normal everyday student...or actually, in a certain sense, I'm not even a student!"

"Ah, no no...I didn't mean that in a bad way. I was just trying to say that the way you spoke was exquisite...how you cast them into despair only to lift them up again, simply an impeccable use of rhetoric."

"Rhetoric? The hell are you talking about? I blanked out right away and didn't even know what I was saying. All the letters on the cheat-sheet got blurred together and I couldn't remember a thing after I gave up reading."

"Yeah, you pretty much skipped our draft. You can't imagine how I felt when right off the bat you started sayin' things that had nothin' to do with what we discussed...but it seems I needn't have worried myself."

"I'm still very sorry about that! But generally, wasn't it more or less in line with the notes? I mean, if it was that bad, you would've stopped me, right, Anastasia-san?"

Subaru looked at the notes in his hand, the cheat-sheet he had forgotten about during the most crucial moment when trying to clear away the anxieties of the people in this city. Anastasia continued to speak to Subaru with a surprised tone of voice,

"I don't know how to put this but Natsuki-kun, your speech didn't even touch on anythin' in the notes. I mean, none at all."

"Eh?" Subaru spoke in a surprised tone of voice. He had thought that at least he read some of the words from the beginning part of the speech yet hearing that he used none of it really threw him off. This caused him to be completely thrown off by this yet before he could say anything, Wilhelm began to speak.

"It is has Anastasia-sama said, Subaru-dono. Your broadcast didn't contain any of the things we discussed beforehand. In particular, the part that was supposed to have been revealed at the start, about your accomplishment of slaying the White Whale and the Sin Archbishop of Sloth towards the latter half. Although it was very concerning, I think you did a pretty good job."

"Huh? How? I mean if I hadn't said my accomplishments then I would just be some random guy to them?! Maybe I should have start over the speech."

"Start over? Why?" Felix asked with a curious facial expression, uncertain why Subaru would say such a thing. This prompted the cat boy to say in a praising like voice,

"Nya thought it was amazing, Subaru-kyun!"

"Uh?"

"Although you did forget your notes, you showed an amazing ability to communicate and inspire others. Even though I am the Sword Saint, you have done a lot of great accomplishment than I have, such as defeating the White Whale, Sin Archbishop of Sloth, and you were the big key in defeating the Sin Archbishop of Greed."