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3rd Pov
'Here I thought I am her best friend' he felt slight sour, having been given the same treatment as original Subaru.
'Well, she did hesitate, not to mention Roswaal has been pulling strings, if not for him Emilia would let me participate more in her tasks' he thought, however he wasn't particularly sad.
'Whatever! I will see what happens tomorrow, this is also an opportunity to meet Priscilla' he said.
He wanted to confirm the personality of Prisicilla, one of the candidates in Royal Selection and examine how different or similar her personality was to the original timeline.
He ordered his Wind Spirit to search for a woman with orange hair and crimson eyes.
While quasi-spirits like Lesser spirits couldn't communicate verbally, they could transmit their emotions and had a certain sense of self.
Thus, they could do some simple tasks, soon he reached into an alley and saw the three thugs trying to corner Priscilla.
(A/N: They are courting death XD)
"Do you want to mess up your pretty face?" said Gon.
"Yeah, if you don't want to ruin that pretty face of yours, you better give all the money you have," said Chin.
Kan meanwhile nodded.
"Don't make such a racket commoners… Truly foolish people pick up a fight for most of the foolish reasons, though I guess it is expected from wastes like you" she smirked while insulting them.
Three of them fumed in anger hearing their insults.
"Oh man, didn't I told you last time to give up on stealing and earn money in an honourable way?" suddenly they heard someone's voice and the thieves turned back to see Subaru.
"Huh? Who the he- wait a minute! You are the same guy before then! Who beat us all three!" Chin said shocked, stepping back.
"What should we do?" Kan asked looked at Subaru in fear.
However, before they could react, Subaru moved his body a blur and three of them were thrown away like a sack.
"Damn it! Run!" Chin said as he stood up groaning in pain and ran away, followed by the two.
"There, they are gone" he said as he looked at their backs and turned towards Priscilla.
"Do you expect mineself to praise you peasant? You only made it less enjoyable for me" she said while holding her fan.
"I guess it's called a basic decency to thank someone- Though in this case it should have been them to thank me for saving their lives" he said with a smirk.
"Ohooo, you knew? Not bad peasant" she smirked and then continued.
"The world is designed to operate the best way for me… So, it can only mean that you are meant to be my servant!" she declared proudly pointing her fan at him.
"Huh?" Subaru looked at her confused.
How the heck it went from zero to hundred out of nowhere?!
She summoned her Yang Sword and slashed towards him; Subaru's eyes widened as he barely dodged her strike.
"Hmm… Not bad, rejoice peasant! I shall give you a chance of serving mineself!" Priscilla said with a grin while unsummoning her sword.
"No thanks, also slashing at me… You are too full of yourself" he said glaring at her, his right hand on the hilt of his sword.
"Hmph! I was just testing you, if my servant cannot dodge a casual attack from me… Then they aren't worthy of even carrying my shoes" she said as she stepped forward.
Her eyes suddenly fell on the Appas which he was holding in his paper bag.
"What is this peasant?" she asked, as if forgetting her earlier actions.
"Great! I have met a blind woman" he snarled and her eyes narrowed.
"Apologize peasant, my magnanimity has its limits" she said with a small glare.
"Nope, I won't and for your information it's an Appa" he said.
"Lies! Appas have white flesh! You can't fool me… To think you will try to fool me with such a blatant lie!" she said dissatisfied.
"Oh really?" he smirked and kept the bag of Appas beside him, took an Appa and threw it upwards and drew his swords then in a beautiful arc he strikes.
Then he caught the Appa, which was now peeled, and cut into several pieces.
Seeing this Priscilla's eyes shined a bit.
"Hmm, so you were speaking truth… Indeed, you are destined to be my servant" she smirked.
"Nope, I won't be your servant… In fact I won't be anyone's servant- I am King of mineself and love my freedom very much so thank you" he said putting a piece of Appa in his mouth and chewing.
Priscilla's eyes narrowed before she sighed and said "Whatever, the world works as I desire. I am sure you will soon come to me wanting to become my servant, while wagging your tail"
'If she wasn't a Royal Candidate I would have given her the taste of my E-rated fists' he thought with his eyebrows twitching.
"My Lady! You are here!" Alderban said as he entered the Alley with Emilia beside him.
"Oh, Emilia you are here" Subaru said as he looked at Emilia and she pouted a bit.
"Didn't I told you to wait outside? I had to search for you!" she said dissatisfied.
"C'mon, I am not your servant" Subaru said and she flinched.
"Ahh, I am Sorry Zero" she said bowing her head.
"Hmm, you waited for me where I would be, I commend for your dedication Al" Priscilla said suddenly garnering their attention.
Emilia quickly hid behind Subaru seeing another Royal Candidate while Priscilla smirked.
"Let's leave Emilia, and man you better control your master otherwise she might go murdering people" Subaru said to Al who nodded somewhat absentminded.
"Fufu… Zero, I will be waiting when you swear your fealty to me" Priscilla said waving her fan as she looked at the standing carriage.
Emilia flinched and tugged Subaru's sleeves and asked "What is she saying Zero?" her voice contained nervousness.
"Nothing, just some nonsense of a narcissistic woman" he said an Al stood in front of him.
"It's not nice to insult my Lady in front of me" he said to Subaru while with narrowed eyes under his helmet.
"Whatever, Hey Miss Orange hair here catch!" he said throwing the cut apple to her and she caught it, looking at him somewhat confused.
Then she smiled "I see offering mineself this sweet Appa to cur favour with me… I will be more pleased if you were to kneel before me"
Subaru rolled his eyes in exasperation 'What will she think if she knew, I threw the apple to her as I wasn't going to eat it and didn't want to waste it either?'
(A/N: He is basically using her as an organic dustbin XD)
Priscilla put a piece in her mouth and nodded satisfied- Ignoring that he had literally used a sword to cut it and got up in the carriage.
Alderban took the reins and drove the carriage away.
"S-So Zero, she is…" Emilia looked at him with hesitation, Priscilla's earlier words have put doubt in her mind.
"Oh! If you mean by the fact that she is one of the Royal Candidates… Then yes, I know" he said and her doubts intensified and she became silent.
'Does Zero want to leave me? Why? Because I am a half-elf?' she thought in desperation, Zero after all was her first and her only best-friend or even friend if we stretch.
"I confirmed her personality… In simple words she is actually Gilgamesh- just replacing the word Mongrel with Peasant or commoner in her speeches" he joked though he knew she wouldn't get the reference.
She nodded and soon they arrived at the inn and thus the day passed.
To be continued...
(A/N: GIVE ME ALL OF YOUR POWERSTONES!)