Re:Magi-3

"First of all, I would like to apologize for calling you a pedophile. I have overreacted." I said with a sigh as I placed the cup of tea in my hand on the table.

After my very much wrong, but still hilarious, accusation against Reinhard; the Sword Saint somehow managed to explain himself and how he had no such intentions towards Felt in the midst of attacks from all sides. Leading us to sitting in a small cafe where he could continue to explain himself.

"Hey kid, how about apologizing to this old man whose weapon got broken because of your misunderstanding?" Rom asked as he sorrowfully looked at the remains of his club by his side. Turns out a wooden club against a legendary sword, even if it was still sheathed, did not have good chances against.

"I only apologize to cute girls and people with enough power to be a threat to me." I scoffed as I raised my cup to my mouth, uncaring of the glare the old giant was sending at my way.

"That's no good, mister Aladdin. You should properly apologize." Emilia huffed at me with an adorable pout on her face and a not so adorable spirit glaring at me by her side.

"If someone as adorable as miss Emilia says so, then I guess I have no choice." I said with a sigh and turned towards Rom with the most sincere expression I could make.

"Mister Rom, I am very sorry that your pathetically weak and brutish looking weapon was destroyed in a clash against Reinhard's clearly superior sword."

"...I hate you." Your hatred fuels my existence!

"Who cares about all that, what do you mean about me being a royal candidate damn it?!" Felt yelled, her patience for small talk was rather lacking, just like her height.

"My apologies, allow me to explain." Reinhard said and then started info dumping.

He told us about how the former king and his whole family had died to a mysterious illness roughly a year ago. Then about how the dragon tablet, a prophetic magical relic given by the divine dragon Volcanica hundreds of years ago, had declared that a new king would be chosen from between five candidates. Candidates who would be known by the effect they had on dragon insignias.

"So since the stupid thing that big sis ended up losing..."

"You stole it."

"...reacted to me, I have to be a part of this Royal Selection thing?" Felt asked with a frown on her face and Reinhard nodded with a smile.

"That's right."

"Don't screw with me!" Oh, she's not calm. Not calm at all.

"After all the shit we had to deal with because of the way those useless snakes with overinflated sense of entitlement, you expect me to become one of them?!" And now even Reinhard looked kind of uncomfortable.

"Felt..." Huh, the old man looked uncomfortable as well. And so did Emilia and Subaru by my side. Puck didn't look like there was anything wrong though, as a matter of fact the Beast of End seemed to be amused with the short blonde's reaction.

Oh well, might as well end this.

"Then get rid of them." I said and then everyone's attention was on me. 

"Huh?"

"You have a problem with the useless nobles that don't help the people? Here's your chance to do something about it. Become the king and get rid of them." I said with a smirk as I shrugged, unbothered by the uncomfortable look Reinhard was giving me.

"Mister Aladdin... I am not sure that's how..." But then the strongest knight was interrupted by the short blonde.

"No no. I like the way he's thinking. Tell me more man." Felt said with a smile and a thoughtful glint in her eyes.

"As I said, become king. Then you can find out who is useful for the people and who isn't. Take away the positions of those who are not useful, and if they resist; you are the king. You can just have them, you know." I said as I punched the palm of my hand, an act that seemed to make Felt very happy.

"Heh, when you put it like that, this selection thing doesn't sound so bad." She chuckled.

"Any chance you would help me do that?"

"Unfortunately, I can't." I said with a sigh and turned towards Emilia and Subaru.

"I will be very busy with my new teaching job."

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Natsuki Subaru had to admit, this day had been far different from what she had expected. Admittedly her expectations was to simply go to a grocery store and buy some snacks, not exactly too hard to be surpassed. But she definitely did not expect just appearing in a fantasy world out of nowhere!

She was kinda embarrassed to admit it, but she had been quite excited at the start. Who wouldn't? Any Japanese teen must have imagined having an isekai adventure at least once, getting their cheats that would allow them to have a leisurely life in a beautiful world. Those had been Subaru's expectations as well, especially after meeting a super beautiful angel like Emilia-tan!

And then she died.

Even now, she could still feel the phantom pains from her gut where that maniac with knives had stabbed her. The cold feeling in her body and the feeling of Emilia-tan's hand that was getting colder and colder in her grip. It was horrifying.

And then she woke up at the moment she had arrived in this world.

Return by Death, that's what she had decided to name her power. It wasn't exactly the kind of cheat she had been hoping for, and had a horrifying requirement to work, but knowing she had anything was somewhat nice. Though that nice feeling hadn't stayed after getting gutted by the psycho again and again.

She wasn't sure what was it that she had done that caused Aladdin to find them but she wasn't complaining, that was for sure. The handsome mage had destroyed the psycho, even if he said that she had survived and ran away, and managed to save her life and the life of Emilia-tan. He was awesome.

And then he said that he was going to teach her and Emilia-tan! Something about the technique he used to save them causing them to obtain a whole new magic system, she didn't really understood the complex details like that but both Emilia-tan and Puck seemed amazed by it so it must be impressive.

Now, he was sitting beside her as they waited for Emilia-tan to go and talk to some 'Ram' person that had came to the capital with her and would take them to Emilia-tan's home.

"Hey, Subaru."

"Hmm."

"There is something I wanted to ask." Aladdin said while looking at the sky.

"Sure, ask me anything you want and I shall give you the answers you seek!" She said with a smile as she put a fist above her chest, hopefully looking cool.

"Okay, how many times have you restarted this timeline?"

...huh?

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AN

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