Los
Los awoke with a strange feeling in his stomach. He looked around, but nothing seemed amiss in his room, so he got up and got dressed.
He stepped outside and looked around again. It was a little cloudy, and there was a slight chill in the air, but nothing seemed amiss except...
Quiet.
Los looked around, confused, as he walked through the Sanctuary.
"Ey! It's you!"
Garfiel had been walking around as well and bumped into him.
Los looked at him, confused. "Where is everybody?"
Garfiel smirked. "They left this mornin'. Villagers and Subaru, that is."
Los's eyes widened. "He left Emilia?! Wait—Shit! I have to go after them!"
As he said this, something caught his eye. A single snowflake drifted down and landed on his shoulder. The two of them looked up.
"Huh? It don' snow here," Garfiel stated bluntly.
Los looked at him, a growing sense of dread filling his body.
"Indeed, it seems this weather is magical in nature."
Ryuzu Vilma stepped out from the trees.
Los grimaced. "Roswaal."
Garfiel looked at him, confused. "Why would the other guy do this? He likes the cold or something?"
Los shook his head. "It would be hard to explain, but you need to get everybody to the safest place you know as fast as possible."
Garfiel tilted his head. "Wh—"
"JUST DO IT!" Los was gritting his teeth with rage.
Garfiel bit his tongue and nodded before heading off with Ryuzu to gather the villagers.
Los, on the other hand, headed out to face the White Rabbit.
Subaru
Subaru thought about the events of the last day.
Roswaal had called him in and told him that he had buried the Witch Cult to massacre the village. Subaru would have told Los, but Roswaal had warned him that if he attempted to tell anybody, he would be killed.
This was due to a convoluted pact he had been tricked into.
Roswaal had been gracious enough to explain:
"Yoooou agreed to help Emilia, correct? You solemnly vowed. Because of this, if you tell Los about this and I find out, I will kill Emilia. Therefore, since you know this, telling Los will be equivalent to harming Emilia, which would break your oath and make your soul forfeit."
The clown smiled.
Subaru returned to the present. He clenched a fist and made another vow.
"Someday, I'm gonna kick that clown's ass."
"What was that, Natsuki-san!?" called Otto, who was driving the carriage Subaru rode in.
"Nothing, Otto!"
Subaru thought back to another thing he had been told, this time by Ram.
"If you worry about confronting Frederica, you should go to Beatrice and tell her exactly this: 'Roswaal said to ask the question.' When Ms. Beatrice hears you say those exact words, everything will change. That's what Master Roswaal said to me."
Subaru thought about this, but since Rem was still at the mansion, he hoped he wouldn't need Beatrice.
He held up a blue crystal given to him by Garfiel—he was supposed to give it to Frederica. He looked it over before safely stashing it back in his pocket and leaning back in his chair to get some rest.
Los
He arrived in an open field.
He had talked to Sekhmet earlier and told her to get to Subaru before something happened, so hopefully, things would go alright.
But for now, he had to focus on this.
A pair of red eyes rose above the crest of a snow-covered hill.
Los grimaced as countless more pairs of eyes also appeared, covering as far as the eye could see.
He crackled with red energy as he aimed to destroy all the Rabbits at once. A fan of energy blasted out from his palms, leveling the landscape.
He lowered his arms, and as the dust settled, he clicked his tongue.
A single rabbit stood unscathed.
He crackled with black and white energy. A pure red attack had travel time and would be too slow to stop the rabbit from duplicating. But with this, he could remove the space the rabbit occupied and instantly kill it, ending the threat.
He took aim and released the attack.
However, nothing happened.
His eyes widened as the single rabbit exploded into millions.
The wave of rabbits came crashing down on him for a moment while he collected his thoughts.
He crackled red again and blasted the rabbits off him, but it was no use now.
The rabbits were everywhere—and they were aware that if they attacked from one direction, they would all die. So they swarmed in all at once, forcing Los to constantly defend himself, wearing him down.
He didn't know why his attack had failed. If it had worked, he would have ended the rabbit in a mere moment.
However, it was not to be.
The rabbits collected themselves, constantly shifting and duplicating.
Los drew his sword.
Its infinite mass collided with the surging theoretical infinite of the rabbits.
Unfortunately for them, the rabbits were only theoretically infinite.
And they were blown apart.
Yet all around him, the rabbits still swarmed.
He attempted to fly up, but a pillar of rabbits grabbed his legs and pulled him back down to earth.
(Heh heh... bunny ladder.)
They gnawed on him, sending him into excruciating pain with no way out. He slashed and exploded, but there was no way this would end.
"SEKHMET! WHAT'S GOING ON?!"
"I'm going to Subaru right now, but I doubt this loop is salvageable."
Los grimaced in grim acceptance and continued fighting.
Subaru
Subaru stepped out from the carriage and walked into the woods.
He had to go to the bathroom, as unpleasant as it was to admit. However, he was almost at the mansion, so he wasn't too bothered by this minor setback.
He looked around until he saw a suitable spot—a nice clearing surrounded by dense foliage.
He smiled and jogged lightly toward the clearing.
Then—
He tripped on something and faceplanted.
Silently, he cursed himself for being careless.
He looked behind him to see a long purplish rope.
His vision clouded slightly.
A sharp pain erupted in his stomach.
He touched it, then brought his hand back to his face.
His vision refocused.
Dark crimson blood covered his fingers.
He gasped and choked on a mixture of bile and blood that surged up from his stomach.
Blood pooled beneath him.
And then he heard a voice.
"You promised, didn't you? To take good care of your entrails until we met again."
He looked up and saw her out of the corner of his eye.
Elsa Granhiert.
The Bowel Hunter stood above him, licking her lips.
Before she could strike again—
She was ripped off her feet by something Subaru could not see.
She crashed into the ground in front of him.
A massive force seemed to push down on her.
She looked at Subaru, her smile never disappearing—
And then the force crushed her into a fountain of blood.
A second voice spoke.
"Tsk... This is not ideal. I suppose I was a bit too late. Nevertheless, since I'm still here, there is time to do this."
A hand touched the small of his back.
Something was removed from him.
"Well, you are still dead, but now you can tell Los about Roswaal when you get back."
Subaru's vision faded at last.
And the familiar sensation of being pulled back in time filled him once more.