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Japan/ Tokyo/ Lugunica High/ 2013/ 2nd day of school/ Camp room
Subaru gently felt out the shape of the cookie in his hands as he tried to find the best angle to bite into it. The cookie was a lemon one, lemon was a flavor he would always consider superior to chocolate despite whatever Felt might want one to believe. Despite Felt's preferences Subaru could already see her trying to subtly take the cookie from him occasionally move her hand over only for him to swipe it.
"No you cannot have my cookie Felt for the last time." Subaru remarked grumpily as Felt let out a rather small pout from Felt and earning her a faint giggle from Rem who was eating her own home made baked cookies in the side lines.
As Subaru hears Rem and Felt Devouring their respective cookies he continues to eye his while Ram gives him a rather annoyed look at his now minute long contemplation on the best way to eat the cookies she and her sister Rem had made for the camp. The weird clown art teacher dude who was supposedly the camps sponsor and who had also brought the art club into the Emilia camp was no where to be spotted.
Subaru didn't exactly consider that a bad thing, especially how much of a fool Subaru had made himself out to be by his remarks towards the clown teacher. Subaru still found it rather odd clown make up or at least make up that made someone look like a clown was the mans choice of aesthetic. Then again its not as bad as the things Subaru consumes on a daily.
"Sooo good." Subaru hears otto remark in the background as he devours his cookie as crumples of it fall off the Japanese Germans lips. Federica, a member of the art club and now partial cleaner of the camp room briefly elbows him and causes Otto to cough out more pieces of cookie before scolding him for making a mess of his portion of the floor.
It is then Subaru realized he had been staring at his cookie for over 2 minutes and it was most likely best to start eating it now less he earn more glares from both Rem and Ram for seemingly refusing to make their cookies. He gently takes a bite of the cookie savoring its lemon flavoring as he takes another bite and then another devouring the cookie in about 5 seconds.
"Hey, that's pretty good." Subaru remarked with a grin......He hoped none of those girls or Otto got the reference.
All hope is lost when as expected Felt got it pretty quickly and began to smirk but then Ram! Ram of all people begins to grow the biggest grin imaginable. In fact it the biggest grin he will probably ever see grace the tsundere's face.
"What are you fucking gay?" Ram and Felt remark in a sing song voice.
"Natsuki!" Emilia and Rem yell out at the same time their voices panicked and utterly surprised.
Subaru starts to laugh a little as his eyes trail to both a grinning Ram and Felt who are currently joining him in laughing their asses off much to the chagrin of Rem and Emilia who scold them about guessing another person's sexuality. These girls........Subaru things as his gaze travels to both Felt and Ram.....One of them will be his wife one day and his children will see her as a goddness.....
He is snapped out of his temporary trance of amusement and fantasizing while Felt and Ran smirk in triumph at managing to annoy several members of the camp. While the chaos of Subaru's referencing dies down he gently looks over at one of the manga Ram has. It is a rather thick and large blocky book with plenty of vibrant yet unexpectedly girly colors for someone of Rams demea-No wait she has died her hair pink, why in the world was Subaru thinking she wouldn't be into girly stuff.
Subaru silently swipes the manga besides Ram who is to busy arguing with her sister while Felt shoots him a "Are you serious look" to which subaru gives his best friend a simple shrug at his temporary thievery. He reads through the books title "The Bosses maid is a Maid, Rice ball, and goes to the orange high school night club". The title shows a very girly girl who is in a maid costume striking a pose. Long title and typical girly manga cover but Subaru's seen longer so Ram hasn't matched his power level yet.
Still this manga is one he has never heard about or its series if it has one. This means it's probably out of his demographic or absolute shit. He once more looks over Ram, he can't tell if its the former or latter just by looking at her so he'll have to ask about this later. He gently places the manga next to Ram who is still arguing with Rem however their argument has developed rapidly into something complete off topic.
Ram however swiftly turns her head towards him coming to the realization he had peaked into her precious manga.
"If your going to judge Idiot Baru (A nickname she had developed for him from day one) you can walk out that door." She remarked with a typical tsundere huff.
"I-I wasn't judging....I just took a quick look thats all." Subaru briefly says stuttering over his words.
"Don't lie Baru I can tell by your expression you where thinking either bad or naughty things about the cover." Ram teases and huff's a bit annoyed. "Still consider this a lessons straight from Ram, don't judge a book by its cover. In fact..." Ram trails up before getting up from her seat.
Subaru watches as she stomps over to the large closet at the end of the camp room. This must be it......The closet of his dreams, the manga closet Felt had been referring to. Subaru practically bounds after her followed immediately by Felt as he makes his way over to Ram. She with some effort sliders open the closer door revealing 3 large shelves stacked with series after series of manga. Subaru doesn't get the chance to fully admire it as Ram practically thrusts upon him a book to read.
The book is unceremoniously shoved into Subaru's hands as he briefly takes a look at the cover. It reads "Nichijou" or "My Ordinary Life". The cover shows several students sitting at their desks while a deer of all things is sitting on one of the desks. The girl on said desk the deer is on has her face obscured by the deer. Subaru briefly flips through a page and begins to read it before his attention goes back to Felt and Ram.
"Ram if you wanted him to get onto more girly stuff you should have shown him parfait-" Felt begins with a mocking tease only for Ram to immediately shoot her down.
"Nope! Idiot Felt that is your manga stop projecting." Ram remarks annoyed as her face goes somewhat red.
Suddenly, Rem gently perks up from behind Subaru. In fact Subaru was sure that if Rem wanted to snap his neck at that moment she could have easily done it and he would have never noticed until it was to late. He had, in his short amount of time in the Emilia camp, come to realize how stealthy Rem could be when she wants to and sometimes it was at Subaru's expense considering how many times the blue haired timid girl jump scared him by complete accident.
"Rem wonders if you two have considered if Subaru does not want to read manga." Rem says timidly earning her an immediately glare form her sister and a rolling of eyes from Felt.
"Rem who are you to say what Idiot Baru likes or doesn't like. Plus I serious doubt a simplton like him would enjoy reading whatever convoluted stuff you're into." Ram remarks with a jab at both Subaru himself and Rem.
"Hey, hey, Hey. I'm open to knew things if Rem wants me to read something of hers its fine. Though admittedly I prefer manga over regular books." Subaru says trying to break away at the tension. Ram lets out a smirk of triumph after hearing Subaru's preference though Subaru will admit he is not to comfortable showing Ram any time soon the type of manga he usually reads....
It is from the background that Subaru sees Otto waving him over and pointing to the rooms exit. Subaru briefly considers staying to further defuse the argument but with the 2 sisters moving back to arguing again Subaru uses this as a chance to slip out. He is unsurprisingly followed by Felt while Emilia realizing their motion gives them a small goodbye and smile.
"Right now where to Otto?" Subaru motion to the grey haired boy when he reaches the door.
"Well there's this really nice place on the-"
Japan/ Tokyo/ Lugunica High/ 2013/ 2nd day of school/ Rooftop/ POV:????
Before Reinhardt had known it lunch period had rolled around. And as per usual a crowd of Students was trying to and failing miserably at keeping themself subtle is following him. While Reinhardt was to most students in the school rather intimidating, he did have his select descent sized groups of fans. That group on occasion often times impeded his efforts to be left alone.
Swiftly and deliberately Reinhardt manages to lose the crowd and push through them in an intersecting hall before making the walk up to the 2nd floor of the school through the side stairs. He then takes the hall to his left once he reaches the top and walks to the end up it taking another pair of stairs up as he dodges through some crowds of students going to their respective camps or clubs.
Despite this its night and day the difference between the amount of students in the 2nd floor and 1st floor of the school. Even if one accidently bumped into one of his bruised shoulders. He could probably count the amount of students actually out in the halls by now with just 2 hands, before the amount decreases to just one hand.
He wouldn't ever wish for it to be any different. The Red headed German felt the sun greet his face as he reaches the top of the stairwell and open the door to the roof. He gently shuts it behind it before pulling out his phone. His father, Hienkal who is head of security in the school has once more informed him he's leaving him in the care of Wilhelm.
In fact as Reinhardt makes his way to the roofs edge and looks down at the school parking lot he sees his dad, irresponsibly leaving his shift via car to go drink his sorrows away at some nearby bar or something. Reinhardt lets out a small sigh as the fall wind gently hits him and he lets out a brief shiver. Its getting this cold already? Or maybe he's being a bit to dramatic.
He gently opens his backpack, its an old one, despite wanting to work at an after school job his dad doesn't want him to. Its funny....His dad claims he hates him yet he can't let Reinhardt leave his sight. Reinhardt shakes his head a bit as he text's his Grand father Wilhelm that his dad has left him once more in his care. As typical his grand father doesn't respond even though Reinhardt knows for a fact he saw the text.
Gently unpacking his homemade dinner from his lunch box, which is really just the half of the lunch he didn't eat, Reinhardt gently takes a bite as he begins to eat. His brief silent period of contemplation and peace is interrupted by a door opening. Reinhardt slowly perks his head up as he spots a 12th grader, around his age or a year younger poking his head out followed by a grey haired 12th grader and then trailing just behind them what he assumes is either a really short 11th grader or a 10th grader. 11th or 10th grader being a girl with golden like hair.
"Damn your right Otto the roof is pretty neat, I mean its kinda plain but the potted plants in the corners adds some aesthetic-" The Jet Black haired one speaks as he gently makes a camera symbol at one of the potted planets in the roof walls corners. He hasn't spotted Reinhardt yet however his compatriots have and the Grey haired on gawks in suprise.
It isn't every day you accidently bump into the schools fencing champion. Reinhardt had actually lost count of the amount of times he'd won fencing matches, championships, and really anything related to physical activity. The black haired one turns over and spots him flashing him a rather calming grin as Reinhardt awkwardly waves back.
"You eat your food here?" The back haired one asks casually and Reinhardt nods, while the grey haired one continues to gawk a bit.
"I mean pretty cool spot if you asks me. Names Natsuki Subaru and you would be?" He trails off. Reinhardt's face immediately goes from his usual calm and stoic look to bafflement. He did not expect to meet someone who didn't know or hadn't heard of him.....It was rather calming and neat to be exact.
"T-that's Reinhardt van Astrea, H-he's the sword saint do not speak to him with such casual language. I'm sure he has better things to do than talk to us..." The Grey haired one perks up only to be elbowed playfully by the Gold haired one.
The black haired one now known as Subaru simply looks back at the Grey haired one in befuddlement "He doesn't look like a Saint. Also what kind of name is that?" He asks confused.
Thank you Reinhardt can only think. While some part of him finds the name flattering another part of him hates it because of the pain he caused for his grandafather.
"Oh and on the point of not wanting to talk to us, lets see about that Otto. Hey you wanna chat bro?" Subaru says to the Grey haired one now known as Otto before turning to give Reinhardt a beam.'
"I'm ok with small talk." Reinhardt says with a small stoic smile.
"See Otto, nothing to worry about!" Subaru says playfully before turning back to him "By the way what is that your eating."
The conversation spirals from there.