Re:Lyra-Starting Life in Another World (Re:Reader-Lyra Edition)

Chapter 14: Stakeout

Chapter 14: Stakeout

Waking up to the feeling of sunlight on her eyes, Lyra finally arose. It was the dawn of the second day.

Lyra headed downstairs to eat breakfast. She had also made conversation with some of the mansion's fellow residents.

Lyra had asked Beatrice how her library was organized (to no avail, unfortunately), complimented Rem's cooking, asked Ram why she was considered the older sister despite being twins, and as she was finishing up, had been asked again by Emilia how her gate was and if she still hadn't noticed anything odd.

Returning to her room, Lyra self-studied to minimal advancement.

You know, Subaru himself said I could ask for help if I needed and I just can NOT, for the life of me, remember how to write these glyphs when used in this context..so...guess it's time to go ask for help now!

Getting up, Lyra went to Subaru's room and knocked on the door.

Lyra: Subaru? Are you in there? It's Lyra.

Subaru: Oh, hey, Lyra! Need something?

Lyra: Yeah. I do. Could you please show me how to write the glyphs for…

After being let inside Subaru's room, Lyra had noticed that all the books that Subaru had grabbed last night had appeared to have already been read through.

Lyra: You sure got through those books pretty quickly.

Subaru: You know why?

Lyra: Yeah. It's...

Lyra & Subaru: ...because there's nothing else to do.

Subaru: Exactly. I'm getting burnt out on this already. It's like I'm hitting a wall in terms of improvement.

Lyra: That means you should probably take a break. Speaking of, wasn't the goal of this perma-guest siesta supposed to be dedicated to looking for clues and investigating?

Subaru: It was, at least in theory, but I've searched the entire mansion and found nothing. I'm at a dead end when it comes to both studying, AND figuring out a solution to  our fourth-day-problem...

Lyra: Maybe you really SHOULD take a break and regroup your thoughts. Wanna go for a walk around the garden area?

Subaru: If you think it'll help, I'll give it a go.

After walking down the stairs and down the back steps of the mansion,and before walking out into the back garden area of the mansion, the two stopped to see Rem beginning to trim the lawn.

The thing that had caught Lyra's eye was the height that she had set the blades of the lawn cutter at compared to the actual height of the grass that was currently being trimmed.

Normally Lyra had to take two passes over an area, taking about half the height she wished to take from the grass each time. Setting it that low right off the bat would have been a monster for Lyra to push, requiring lots of strength, so surely for Rem it would be—

Lyra: How is she doing that?!

Subaru: What? What do you mean?

Not responding to Subaru, Lyra waited as Rem brought the lawn cutter back towards Lyra and Subaru's current direction and waved to get her attention.

As Rem made her way over, Lyra called out to her.

Lyra:  Good afternoon Rem. How's the lawn doing?

Slightly perplexed by Lyra's casual form of address, Rem stopped to see what Lyra had to say.