Theater Of Despair (Old WHDAAA) :)

Chapter 9: Ep 7 Director's Cut

Chapter 9: Ep 7 Director's Cut

"You all look quite ready." Anastasia mused as she walked out of her room and saw the entire cast sitting with hardened faces.

"Here, boss! I kept your seat!" Mimi waved to the merchant princess. From behind Subaru and beside Crusch.

"Whats gonna happen to the Cap'n in this one?" A blonde demi-human asked from his seat with a hardened look on his face.

"This is the third Arc... It seems that these Arcs revolve around Natsuki's greatest battles." Julius mused from the back with his elegant eyes empty and unfeeling.

The knight understood that somehow, this will contain his very first meeting with Subaru. The time he met the misguided boy that proclaimed himself a knight just to help the lady he stands beside.

Julius wanted to be his friend from then on.

He believed that he could at least have a comrade in the stubborn butler boy when he meet him.

But now he understood that the fault in that delusion laid solely on him.

Julius was not worthy of someone like Subaru's friendship.

He understood this. He accepted this.

But damn, does he hate it.

"So this will show the Whale, nayn!" Felix called from beside his mistress.

"We might get to see how Subaru-dono arrived to the information regarding both the Whale and Sloth." Wilhelm spoke in a grave tone with his expression stern and hardened as if he was going to battle.

The old man was prepared to see the boy he respect die once more.

"That's right! Natsuki-san led the excursions to both the great calamity and the Witch's Cult in the Margrave's domain!" Otto looked at the screen with the fear itching his expression as he thought about the possibilities the Subaru had lived through.

"So he truly faced them both?" Frederica asked with her heart clenching in sympathy for the boy as she knew how hard and terrifying it must have been.

"So this Arc revolves around those two? I guess we need to watch this and learn what big bro had to live through, huh Reinhard?"

"..."

"Rein?" Felt looked at the knight sitting beside her.

The Sword Saint was looking at the screen with a look of guilt and curiosity. "I'll finally get to see the penance of my monster that I saved by killing my grandma. Is also the one that kills my friend."

Reinhard whispered in a broken tone. The reason for his monstrous self and the only one capable of sharing the consequences of his greatest crime.

The whale that had shared the title of his grandmother's killer and the title of a monster will finally be seen by the kid that had suffered and shared those same titles with it.

Felt was worried just like her knight. She was afraid of what might've happened to her big bro. "I shouldn't have let him go." gritting her teeth, Felt scolded her self as she remembered how relieved she was once she had saw him in the palace.

Beside the little girl, was an equally transfixed Half-elf that was stealing glances at her knight's other side.

Where there was supposed to be a blonde little girl sitting beside Subaru and opposite from Emilia, there happened to be an Oni maid happily carassing her knight with a soft smile.

"Um... Rem, I-Isn't that Beako's chair?" Emilia asked pouting.

"Are you jealous?" Crusch, wanting nothing more than to think about something other than her fight with the whale and how it would've gone without Subaru quickly took the opportunity to make fun of the clearly jealous Emilia.