(Rem x Reader) Re:Reader - Starting YOUR New Life in Another World

Chapter 98: Separate Ways

Chapter 98: Separate Ways

Returning, the moment YN's mind was thrust into his body, time resumed, but just like each time he'd Returned before in these series of loops—

YN: *Cough* *Cough*

The tea going down his throat had once more caught him off guard.

Rem: Ah! YN-kun? Was the tea still too hot or was—?

Stopped in her tracks every time she said that, Rem knew what had just occurred.

Keen to keep her from crying though, YN stood up as quickly as he could, water in his eyes from his coughing still as his chair fell over backwards. Embracing the blue haired oni in his arms, he kissed the top of her head.

YN: Rem... Rem. Rem!

With the maid's face buried in his chest, he gently stroked the back of her soft and smooth hair.

YN: —everything is fine now! You did everything you could Rem, so please don't feel like you failed.

Preemptively answering her, YN let her face emerge from his chest to answer. Only a few tears had made it down her face before he had embraced her.

Rem: —B-But why is YN-kun crying?

Using his hand to wipe away the tears he hadn't realized that had begun to be shed outside of the ones he had from coughing, he explained.

YN: I'm just relieved to see you again.

Steadily, YN embraced the oni again. With his hands on the exposed part of her back, he felt the warmth of her skin, just as it should be. He then reached for her hand, and held it tightly as he broke from the embrace.

YN: Rem, we should probably go somewhere we can be alone. I have a lot to tell you.

Rem: Of course. Rem is very happy her YN-kun has remembered his promise to always keep her by his side when these things happen.

YN: You're always the one I'll go running to after these things happen.

Leading him off by the hand he held of hers, Rem guided YN to the nearby unused bedroom in the guest quarters in the Karsten Manor he had returned to.

***

For the longest time, it seemed as if the two had only spent time holding and embracing each other, not saying a word. While they needed to speak to each other, it seemed less important at that moment than just feeling each other's presence.

At the drop of a hat for Rem, with this Return, it definitely felt as if something had changed between them.

Rem instinctively felt a deeper connection of their hearts for one another. She couldn't explain how or why it was suddenly this way. Maybe it was the way YN had run to her. Maybe it was the way he held her.

But something was definitely different. And thankfully, not in a bad way.

As Rem was a maid very attentive to detail though, she knew they had things to discuss, so choosing to break the silence between them with a kiss, she started inquiring about the past loop.

To say the least, Rem was hurt by all the horrific things she had learned YN had to go through with his last three deaths.

She could tell how much it had hurt him to see her own body mangled as such.

Again like last time too, her sense of guilty satisfaction returned hearing that, YN now too, was a victim of the Witch Cult. But since she had told him of it in a previous loop, he directly asked her about it now.