Watching Emilia talking to the spirits has a very picturesque view, like if she was photographed at this angle, she could rival the painting of The 'Mona Lisa' back on earth. Subaru smiles like an idiot as he imagine himself appreciating Emilia's picture in a museum back on Earth like a refined gentleman
'Ah yes, this picture cuts quite the sublime aesthetic… umu'
The man known as Subaru chuckles at his own antics.
Sitting on the grass and watching Emilia, Subaru found his mind drifting to the previous day, how he rubbed his eyes and just appeared in another world, how he was beaten by the three stooges and how Emilia saved him, he bit down the pang of regret he felt that all those memories are only his now and no one else probably remembers them. He remembers dying… 3 times… it hurts, so cold, so painful that vocabularies fall short to describe it, but looking at the visage of Emilia talking to the spirits, Subaru can't say he regrets his actions. It's only right for the protagonist to save the heroine after all.
The ridiculous thought had Subaru snorting at himself "Just kidding…"
Ah it seems like Emilia is finished, Subaru stands up from where he had been sitting and walked towards Emilia as she walks his way as well with a look of concern on her face
"Subaru, are you okay? You were really hurt yesterday, should you be up so early already?" she chides him like a mother to a child, Subaru wants to argue he is not a child and she doesn't need to worry too much but he can't say Emilia worrying about him doesn't make him happy as well.
She starts fretting over him while touching every part of his body, trying to make sure he is physically okay.
You can't blame him for feeling tingles on his body, it's a perfectly normal reaction for an hormonal teenager like Subaru to get flustered by her actions, yes it's perfectly natural.
"Ah, Emilia-tan, I'm okay, I'm okay" he flexes his muscles to her "I actually feel even better"
She sighs "You're such a dunderhead Subaru, but I'm really glad you are okay…" She seemed to have more to say before she furrowed her brows "Emilia… tan?"
Oh, that's what she is worried about? "Well you see, from where I come from 'tan' is a form of endearment that can be added to names"
Emilia gains a look of understanding then as she goes to respond
*BOOM!!!*
Subaru can't tell what happened, one minute he is talking to Emilia and the next he is on his backside because someone seemed to have dropped from the sky and made a crater in the garden area, ah, he seems he forgot this is a fantasy world, looking around, Subaru noticed Emilia still standing and staring intently at the source of destruction, Subaru returns his gaze to the crater as the dust finally seemed to dissipate and he sees
"…E-emilia?"
Subaru is very confused and it can't be helped because the person in the middle of the crater bears a striking resemblance to Emilia, but while Emilia has long hair, he has short one, while Emilia looks very gentle, he looks like the type who says things as he sees them. The stranger gazes directly at Emilia with an expression that Subaru can't quite read and in the next moment he is in front of Emilia, Subaru quickly gets on his feets, he doesn't know what is going on but he won't let this admittedly handsome guy do anything to his Emilia.
"Hey! What are you…" was all Subaru could say before stopping himself because the stranger is now crying and trying to reach for Emilia's face with so much care and gentleness as if she would break if he was to touch her wrongly…
"…Lia? I-is that y-you L-lia?" He says and sobs at the same time. Subaru confusion only grows at this. Emilia tilts her head with a look of concern on her face and asks "Are you okay? Are you hurt?"
The look on the stranger's face resembles the one of someone who has just been told that the loli of their favorite anime is not a loli and is infact a child… Despair.
"You… you don't r-remember?" He whispers asks but before Emilia can reply, her crystal glows and Puck comes out while stretching and yawning in all his mighty glory. "So who are you supposed to be? Is this a new type of scam?" Puck asks playfully but Subaru can tell there is a certain edge to his voice, he doesn't understand Puck's reaction, but he can tell things are tense now.
The stranger looks at Puck for a few seconds and his face seem to pass through many expressions before settling on realization. His face darkens as he seemed to tremble, nope he is definitely trembling.
"I see… I see… It's you isn't it? You are the one, you did this…" the stranger whispers while still trembling quite visibly now.
Subaru can't tell what is happening anymore but he (Subaru) seems to be writhing on the floor while trying to breathe 'What just happened?' Subaru asks himself, 'Is this bloodlust?' 'Is it even possible for someone to have this much hostility? Just what did he figure out to snap like that?' For someone like Subaru who has lived all his life in modern day Japan, he has never felt something like this before but he knew instinctively that this stranger is dangerous.
Subaru turns his head while still trying to breathe to look at the direction of the inevitable altercation between Puck and this stranger, while trying to crawl on the ground and grasp Emilia to pull her away.
A guttural cry, the sound of the earth shattering, rapid wind movements, the feeling of temperature being sucked from the environment, these are all Subaru felt before he passed out and the last thing he heard was:
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO MY SISTER!!"
The world went black.