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

Chapter 104: Do You Enjoy Flowers?

A/N: Hello everyone! Thank you all for your responses last chapter to my question! I'm very glad to hear everyone's reception to Algol was well received. I had them planned into the story since the dawn of it's inception, but I figured just giving the reader a spirit right away was too cliche. I'm also glad everyone is onboard with the reader not being some sort of magical prodigy. While he's a bit more adept for a beginner, he's still clearly a novice and inexperienced, not to mention his body isn't entirely used to using magic yet, having come from a non-magical world.

I have big plans later on for Algol, so I hope you'll all continue to them.

Anyway, here's this week's chapter! After this next chapter (105), the next two were some of my absolute favorite to write ever. I hope you all will enjoy them.

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Chapter 104: Do You Enjoy Flowers?

Subaru: He's... He's really dead, isn't he?

As the Sword Demon meticulously cleaned his bloodied sword with a white linen, Subaru and Felix inspected the deceased Archbishop as he laid on the ground, cut clean through his abdomen as if an ill-aimed guillotine had been the culprit.

Felix: As the Kingdom's best healer, I can very much assure you he is dead.

Worried the Archbishop would spring back to life, the two young demi-humans took a closer look at the madman's belongings. With a few wry comments from Subaru about looting the dead, and an apology to Wilhelm for using such underhanded tactics, the Sword Demon told him to pay it no mind, as his "honor had been tarnished a long time ago."

But with Tivy finding the black book the Archbishop had been reading out of just prior to his death, Subaru mentioned what it was.

Tivy: Huh?! Meeew! I touched it!

Tossing the book aside as if he were stained from it, Subaru picked it up and flipped a few pages before turning it to Felix.

Subaru: Hey Ferris, this might be a few grades over my reading level, can you tell me what this says?

Felix: Ahh!! Don't just point that thing willy-nilly!

Shielding his eyes from the sight, Felix acted just as repulsed as Tivy had been from touching it.

He's a healer right? Isn't he not supposed to be squeamish around stuff?

Finding their reactions odd, YN felt Rem hold his hand tighter.

Standing off together in the shade while Subaru and the others looked for any clues or information, YN and Rem decided to remain uninvolved.

Subaru: This book can't be that dangerous...

Felix: Subawu, you really shouldn't try and do something as stupid as read a Gospel!!

Certainly disturbed by it, it was Wilhelm who stepped in to explain that a Gospel was the sign that one was a member of the Witch Cult, and that they revere the books as holy scripture.

Thumbing through a few more pages, Subaru gestured to YN nearby, knowing he probably didn't have the same stigma everyone else had about reading it.

Subaru: You wanna take a crack at reading it?

Taking a step forward, he was kept in place by Rem's firm hand hold still. Hesitant, Rem remained in place as YN looked back at her, a worried look on her face.

Accurately guessing why she was this way, YN posed to her one simple question.

YN: Will it upset you if I try to read it?