Felt If (Re:Zero)

Chapter 6: Another One

Needless to say, today was perhaps the most chaotic day in Subaru's life. Practically everyone in the manor was panicking and worrying for Subaru as Felix was trying his absolute best to remove the curse Subaru had. Felix was the best healer in all of Lucinica according to Reinhard and even he was having difficulties removing this curse.

"Hey, what exactly would this curse do to me? I know you said I could die but how exactly?" Subaru asked as he was lying down on the bed.

Felix was very invested in inspecting Subaru and was constantly trying to just pull the curse out of him. He's been at this for half an hour already. "That's impossible to nyow. The curse would have to activate for us to even get an idea. Nyow stay still, I think I got it nyow."

A strange black mist emitted from Subaru's hand. It did this a few times already but every time Felix tried to grab it, it'd constantly slip out of his hands. However, this time around he grabbed it firmly and yanked that sucker out. After the black mist faded away, Felix let out a loud sigh of relief.

"Whew. I don't nyow who did this but they really nyow their stuff. I have never seen such a complex curse in my life." Felix stretched a little after that hard work was finally over.

Subaru sat up in the bed he was operated on. "So you said curses aren't usually like this?"

The cat boy shrugged. "Nyot really. It could be as simple as a little tug or as difficult as a hard yank. That curse you had was very slippery. The only time I've seen it do that was if there were countless curses on someone."

Subaru blinked. "Wait, so I was cursed a whole lot of times?"

Felix shook his head. "Nyot at all. You only had one curse. That's why I found it weird that it was so hard to get out. Honestly, you're very lucky you had me today. Any other healer would say it would be best to put you out of your misery!"

Subaru shuddered at the very thought. "W-Well thanks for saving me once again, Felix. Would you have any clue who could've done this?"

Felix nodded. "Yep, that's very easy actually. Anyone that made any physical contact with you between my last checkup with you and nyow."

Well, there's no way it could be anyone in the manor so it definitely had to be someone during one of his outings, Subaru thought. During Subaru's first outing he recalled only carrying Felt. He didn't remember too much other than that as that happened before his return by death checkpoint. As for the second time when he visited the tailor, he did bump into several people. That was during the time when Reinhard left to see what the commotion was all about. Oh right, and finally there was the nice shopkeeper. But it couldn't have been him as he didn't seem suspicious in the least.

Subaru suddenly jumped, his thoughts being completely interrupted as his ear was gently nommed by Felix. "Subaru-kun, you sure seem to doze off a lot. That was actually why Reinhard called me up here in the first place you nyow."

"S-Sorry about that, I was trying to remember who touched me but it could've been anyone. Yesterday I was bumping into a lot of people."

Felix let out a sigh. "That's a shame. That means we can't rule out who this shaman could be."

"Hey wait, where can I find you if I get cursed again?"

Felix shrugged. "Wherever my lady needs me. You shouldn't rely on me to do everything you nyow. I'm nyot always gonna be there to fix up every scrape on you. I'm only here today because I had a very small opening in my very busy schedule and I'll have you nyow I'm pretty late nyow because of your carelessness."

"Sorry about that, I guess I'm just a high maintenance patient. Don't worry though, I'll be sure you're the first person I go to when I get into trouble again." Subaru smiled and gave Felix a thumbs up.