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Emilia walked down the hallway, her head hung low, feeling a sense of loneliness. She has great friends in Subaru, Beatrice, Ram, Garfiel, Otto, Frederica, Meili, and Petra, but when she looks at her knight having fun with people from other camps she feels… envy.
She turned the corner and entered the living room and saw her knight sitting on the couch sewing.
“Hey Subaru”, her usual enthusiasm gone, and she sat beside her knight.
“Good morning Emilia-Tan!”, he got ready to hit her with his daily energy and flirting but withheld his tongue when he noticed the state she was in.
No words were spoken for a few seconds, the silence in the air getting thicker.
“Subaru, I was wondering, what is your secret for making friends?”
Subaru just paused, That's what she was worried about?
“Like for example how did you and Garfiel become besties?”
“Hmm, well we beat each other to the ground.”
“Oh, what about you and Otto?”
“He beat me to the ground.”, he answered with zero hesitation acting like it was normal.
“HUH”, Emilia could not help but yell these were odd ways to make friendships.
“Before you ask I will just say the rest, with Rem I got nommed on my dogs, for Ram also got nommed on by dogs, with you I got sliced by the bowel hunter, Reinhard saved me from getting beaten by thugs, Felt also sliced by the bowel hunter.
“That is extremely violent are you okay?” Emilia asked worriedly.
“Emilia-Tan is already going into consolation mode, I am truly blessed.” Subaru wiped away manly tears.
“How about the others, surely not all your friendships started that violently”, Emilia smiled trying to bring some hope to Subaru.
“Well let's see, with Crusch I got beat up by a whale, with Julius I got beat up by him and Petelgeuse, with Anastasia I got beaten up by the whale, with Ferris I got beaten up by the whale and Julius, with Priscilla I almost got beaten up by thugs again, with Meili I once again got nommed by dogs and got attacked by Elsa, with Roswaal I got bullied by Echidna, attacked by dogs, attacked by archbishops, attacked by him, attacked by Garfiel.
Subaru had a contemplating look, he did not even want to think about his failed loops too, because if he could he would tell Emilia about it for hours.
“I really need to make some better friends”, he shook his head sadly.
Emilia nodded her head and a light bulb appeared above her head, “I GOT IT”, a mysterious glint appeared in her eyes.
“Thank you Subaru, I am going to make some friends.” She waved goodbye while sprinting down the hall.
“Uh, I don’t think I helped out that much but I'm glad.. oh she already left.”
“Oh well,” he picked up his sewing equipment to keep working on Meili's doll until...
“AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH”, a loud scared shriek was heard, following that was the sound of property damage.
“I should probably go check that out..”, he put the doll he was sewing down and ran towards the trouble.
Meanwhile, Emilia skipped down the road heading to the Crusch Manor, she remembered that all the Royal Candidates were meeting up for tea time and this was the perfect chance to become besties with all of them.
She kicked down the door to the manor and walked past all the staff who had many questions for her.
“Why is it always the damn door”, one of the staff members fell to her knees. This was the third time this month.
First when Felt struggled to open the door, and somehow Reinhard pulled out dragon sword reid against it slicing it into pieces, then when Priscilla destroyed the door because it was jammed once again, now the elf just did it for god knows why.
She walked through the mansion until she reached a door, punching it and sending it flying a few meters into the backyard causing all the royal candidates to yelp.
At a random table, Crusch, Anastasia, Felt, and Priscilla were drinking tea until the distraction occurred.
“Oh hey big sis”, Felt was the first to greet her.
“Glad you could make it Emilia-Sama, shall I pour you a cup of tea?” She broke my damn door, act calm take deep breaths Crusch.
“Yes I would appreciate it, thank you Crusch-San.”, Emilia sat down while the Duchess poured her a cup.
“So yeah that's how I got this pair of shoes”, Anastasia finished telling the story about her sacred shoes.
“I am also wearing shoes”, Emilia tried to join the conversation.
“I… can tell”, Anastasia gave a slow confused nod.
Darnit, my conversation skills are still bad.
Priscilla took another sip of her tea, “This tea is worthy of mineself, I will have you tell me the recipe later Duchess.”
Priscilla smiled at her, prompting Felt to also give the tea a test.
“It's alright I guess.”
“Of course, a gutter rat would not know how to truly enjoy the taste of fine tea.”
“I’ve had it with you bitch”, Felt yelled getting ready to put the baroness in her place.
“ENOUGH”, Emilia slammed her hands on the table standing up, everyone backed down with either shock or fear clear on their faces.
“Are ya’ feelin' alright Emil-”, the merchant princess tried to make sure she was alright but was interrupted by Emilia screaming, “YOU GUYS ARE MY BEST FRIENDS” while smiling at all of them.
All the candidates just looked towards each other, but before they could say anything Emilia yelled, “JUST LIKE SUBARU TAUGHT ME I WILL MAKE YOU ALL MY BEST FRIENDS THE RIGHT WAY.”
“Emilia what are you talkin’ bout-'', she was cut off when she blocked Emilia's fist with her face getting sent spiraling into the Crusch manor.
"WAAAAAAAHHHHHH", she yelled crashing through all the walls of the mansion.
“Anastasia is now my best friend”, she said to herself remembering how Garfiel and Subaru’s showdown at the Sanctuary was after they fought they became friends.
She then turned towards Felt, the ex-thief screeching like a cat trying to run away only to run face-first into a wall of ice when she tried to escape.
“My other best friend felt”, she picked up the poor girl by her arm and leg lifting her above her head.
“WAIT WAIT WAIT BIG SIS I’M YOUR FRIEND.”
“Become my best friend!”, she raised her knee and slammed Felts back down across her knee doing the bane-breaking Batman's back move.
"AGHHH", Felt screamed in pain, then went unconscious, she did not feel like dealing with this.
“Emilia-Sama what is the meaning of this”, Crusch yelled wincing as she definitely heard a few bones break from that move.
“Hohohoho… it seems like the half-wit is finally showing her true roots, no matter mineself shall eradicate her.”
Priscilla began to summon her sword, but Emilia quickly grabbed the Baroness by her hands.
“You are also my best friend, and I know you’re only mean as a way to tease me!”Emilia smiled brightly at her.
She then began to spin around holding the baroness by the hands as she spun.
Faster, and faster and faster and faster.
“HOLY”, Crusch yelled as all she could see was a white, red, and orange tornado.
“P-please stop... I'm going to h-hurl..”, Priscilla's face was turning green, and Emilia obliged, stopping instantly, however, Priscilla was sent hurling into the sky so fast that she lit on fire as she was sent somewhere across the kingdom.
“Emilia…”, Crusch stood facing her, “It seems I will have to be the one to stop you!”, Crusch yelled, running at Emilia.
Emilia rushed at her as well, and when they met in the middle they both punched each other across the face.
While Crusch's punch did hurt Emilia a lot, elven strength was just built different.
Emilia rubbed her swollen cheek, wiped her bloody nose, and looked at the unconscious Crusch.
Emilia smiled now having four best friends, she then sat back in her seat ready to take a nap.
“Barusu stop being pathetic and pull me out.”
“I'm trying Nee-Sama, what even happened to you.”, Subaru yelled while trying to pull Ram out.
Ram would not be telling Subaru that Emilia punched her through the first floor's ceiling, so now she had her head poking through the second floor and Subaru was trying to pull her out from the first floor.
“You better not try anything perverted Barusu or I'll make you wish you were dead”, even though Subaru could not see her face he knew that the sheer amount of glare she was releasing could actually melt him literally.
Subaru sighed, thinking his talk with Emilia must have had something to do with this, “Emilia, please don’t do anything stupid.”