As you can see, these are chapters summaries, I probably need to read them again but screw it, it's 6 am now and I just want to upload them before going to sleep.
And even after reading them again and updating this draft, you guys will probably have some questions so feel free to ask me.
And one more thing...
Give me power stones, I would like to get on the power ranking once xD.
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1
We start off where we left off in the previous chapter, The group is split up, Tanaka, Zarestia and Hugo manage to escape Beli Hainelga. After the fact that the loop was resettled and Zarestia was almost a goner, Tanaka reconciled with her and promised her that he was not planning on abandoning her and Hugo, that what he told Tristan (Him turning himself in) was something he wasn't planning to follow through with, he tells her that he understands that him keeping secrets is frustrating but he would come clean once it's all finished.
After that confrontation, the two of them start walking down the mountain and they stumble upon an Odglass church. Along the lines, Zarestia introduces herself as the great spirit of wind (They bicker about it for a bit, the reason she did that because Nora said that the people of the kingdom value and respect spirits a lot) so Tanaka then reluctantly introduces himself as a spirit art user, the people inside welcome them and provide with food and water, and they continue conversing with the head of the church.
But of course, I think half an hour in, Tanaka feels dizzy and that's because the people of the church put drugs inside the food and the water. Zarestia launches an attack on them, but all the fuckers have that seal that grants high resistance against magic and curse arts. They stab Tanaka and kill Zarestia, and Tanaka hears this at the end before he dies, "Such blasphemy would not be tolerated." "There is no great spirit other than our benevolent mother Odglass."
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2
The following loop resets before Tanaka is about to about drink the water and he stops, Zarestia is about to start eating too but he stops her, the head of the church asks him what's the matter, and Tanaka proceeds to throw the cup of water on his face.
"What's the meaning of this!?"
"Fuck you! Putting sedatives in the food you creep! and Surrounding this place with tens of fighters."
"Heretics should be executed, that is our duties to serve the only great spirit, our benevolent mother Odglass! Great spirit Zarestia? Such blasphemy will not be tolerated."
(They are also following the kings orders to eliminate all other spirits, leaving only Odglass alive (Although no one knows where she is))
"If there is anyone who is being blasphemous, it's non other than you."
"Huh?"
"Odglass is a very chill person, a little weird but I'm certain she hates this creepy worshipping bullshit."
"Get their heads!"
(Tanaka grabs Zarestia hand and tells her that they should get out of here, (He tells her that they shouldn't fight them because they have that weird seal that blocks magic) So they both fly and make a hole through the roof, they shoot arrows at them but Hugo blocks them, the moment they get out of the roof, Zarestia turns the church into a rubble and drops it on their heads.
They are forced to get down on the ground because of the weather and they start running, Hugo warns them saying that several people are tailing them and are going to get caught. And it's true, several paladins are tailing them on dire wolfs, an arrow is shot at them, Hugo forms a barrier to block it but it goes through and hits Tanaka in the shoulder (Apparently the head of the arrow is made of a gemstone that absorbs/negates magic, I'm pretty sure I found a similar one on the re zero wiki)
Tanaka winces in pain, and that pisses Zarestia off, she dispels the Blizzard for a moment but what follows confuses her, and she sees all the paladins, the dire wolfs and the people of the church lying on the ground unconscious. Then from another side of the forest, she sees a girl appearing from behind the tree. Purple and pink eyes with purple pupils, she also has pointed ears which makes her an elf. Her attire is bit revealing as it consists of a short black sleeveless dress. She adorns herself a crimson red rose on her left arm, a dagger wrapped around on her hips, and a small gold locket around her neck with a purple bow as a choker.
With a thud, Tanaka looked besides him and saw that Zarestia also fell unconscious. No one was responsive, not even Hugo, and as Tanaka met the girls eyes, he also fell asleep.
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3
The following chapter shows what happened to Tristan and Nora, after they dropped in the river, they managed to get away from the monsters and met this girl, this girl guided them somewhere (Guided them isn't correct, she implanted thoughts in their heads and once she got them to her destination, she put them to sleep and went to find Tanaka) Her abilities are called dream arts.
In any case, back to the present as Tanaka was put to sleep. The girl is now inside Tanaka subconscious and another girl appears beside her, orange eyes with blue pupils, and as an elf, she also has pointed ears. She has long green hair with a ponytail on her right side. Her attire consists of a short white cloak with a green diamond-shaped pattern in the inside, a white and brown dress that is like a huntress wears, and white high-end boots.
The girl with the purple hair is Lilac and the girl with the green hair is Shion. (Btw they are both cannon characters that haven't appeared in the anime, they just appeared in a side story as they joined Omega's party (Echidna)) Anyway, the two girls start searching inside Tanaka's subconscious, they are surprised at how vast it is (Since he was only a human) and most memories were hard to access. And they momentarily freeze as they began hearing some words.
Some context: At an unknown point in time and for unknown reasons, two separate souls, Shion and Lilac, came to possess the same vessel. When the two souls first confronted each other, they were in conflict and fought for control over their shared body. However, one day, that changed, and they now share their body peacefully, speculating that, having entered another person's dream, they were deeply affected. As time passed, they came across the dream someone with speech quirks, someone who spoke with English loan words, and ever since, they have been searching for the person whose dream they entered in order to fill the void that lingered in their hearts.
Anyway, they start hearing those words, and head directly towards that memory and then someone blocks them, it's Cepheus who blocks them and pulls them to castle of dreams.
They are confused at first because they found a person inside the subconscious (Not a memory but an actual person), at first they thought it was Tanaka because it would make sense to someone to intercept them if they could use dream arts as well. But they dismiss the idea when they see that the person in front of them is completely different.
Lilac asks him, "Who are you, what happened to that guy?"
"He's a sleep and I'm all you have now."
At that declaration, they come to a conclusion. Two souls, the same vessel, Cepheus and Tanaka were exactly the same as them.
Shion then asks him about that person, the one who spoke those words. And Cepheus just tells them to get the fuck out.
"Forget asking nicely, we will get all the information that we need forcefully."
"Audacious pests dare to stain my sanctuary."
(In summary, he beats them up and kicks them out of the castle of dreams)
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4
The following chapter, Tanaka wakes up, and he hears a loud voice.
"What the hell is the matter with that guy!"
The same girl he saw before he fell unconscious, he saw her again but now talking to herself, full of frustration.
Once he's awake, he finds Zarestia right besides him and asks him if he's okay, Tanaka checks the arrow injury and tells her he would be find. Nora and Tristan were present there as well, and it seems that they were inside a hideout.
But before they all start talking, Lilac quickly pushes through as she sees he's awake, she tells them that she will talk to him first, she asks him on the spot, "What the hell is the matter with that guy?" Tanaka is confused and asks, "What guy?", the girl adds the description (White hair, blue eyes and even describes the castle of Solitude) which takes Tanaka's full attention.
"WAIT!"
"How the hell did you know about Cepheus?"
"We met him in that grassy domain he's in, with the table in the middle. We entered through the Art of dreams."
"You managed to enter the castle of Solitude? Wait did you say we? Who else was there with you?"
"Ah, Shion come out, I know you want to talk to him the most."
Then the other girl manifests and start talking to Tanaka, she is way more friendly and enthusiastic, she also uses English words but in the wrong way.
The conversation then starts from whether Tanaka knows the person who uses those words and he says that he knows a lot of people who use them but not like that.
Then it shifts to another topic, "You and that guy are like us."
"Two different souls that reside within the same vessel, you and that guy. Me and Lilac are also like that, we share the same body."
"Wait! It's not the same... This is my body and has always been mine"
Tanaka did lent him his body sometimes but that was it, Cepheus was someone he wished to never interact with, he was like an annoying pest who latched into him.
Then Shion asks Tanaka to let them talk with Cepheus again, then Cepheus voice echoes inside his head.
"I'm not letting those mongrels enter my castle again."
"Mongrels?"
Tanaka mutters out loud in confusion.
"Did he just call us mongrels?"
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5
The following chapter, Tanaka and the group discuss what happened, Tanaka explained that he made a contract with Zarestia because he absorbed the light sphere, and came up with some excuse as to why he made a contract with Hugo. Because of the reconciliation Tanaka had with Zarestia, she didn't press him too much about it because she now trusts him and she knows that he cares about her and Hugo as much as she does.
Nora then introduces Coatl, a pastor and a former Itinerant Preacher of the Gustekan Church. He is one of the few individuals she kept in contact. Three other individuals were also there, Macallister Parkin, Zank Metley and Mikli Yulitô.
Coatl was a former member of the church and the other three are former temple knights, they all forfeited their jobs after the recent events.
They ask Tanaka if he's in a contract with Zarestia which he confirms, they then state that him bringing spirits to the kingdom at these times is the worst thing he could do which pisses Zarestia off, they continue explaining that Vague Adgard is crazy and that he's coming out to hunt all the spirits in the kingdom, he even appointed serial killers as paladins and gave them blessings (That temporary immortality) in exchange of purging any spirits they find in their way, Tanaka then says, "We have no intention of making any contact with the Mad Prince. We have someone we would like to meet and then we will leave."
Anyway, by the end of the chapter, Tanaka finds Macallister Parkin corpse and immediately later, someone stabs him from behind and kills him.
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6
Given the fact that Coatl has the most shady past, he tells Zarestia to keep an eye on the couple as well. He's the one Tanaka guard against the most. He follows him around until he suddenly finds him dead. As he questions what the heck is going on, a palm engulfs Tanaka's face with nails surrounding the tips, the nails have drugs but Tanaka is awake, he can't move but he feels every bit of pain, his face gets peeled off, a glove with attached razor blades to peel off the faces of his victims.
In any case, that death is so fucking traumatic that Tanaka the moment he resets, he starts digging his nails into his face but before he accidentally pokes his eyes, Cepheus pulls him into the castle of Solitude. And there, all the phantom pain disappears.
As always, he and Cepheus bicker temporarily and then Cepheus starts complaining that Lilac is trying to forcefully enter the domain, Tanaka says, "Just let them in, what's the big deal?" Cepheus then responds saying, "Under normal circumstance, you wouldn't be here either, I would rather not allow other annoying pests in."
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Then the scene skips to where Tanaka is laying down on the bed sleeping and someone enters the room, they put on gloves with sharp nails and start approaching him, the person opens his palm and hovers it over Tanaka's face, but then suddenly, Tanaka opens his eyes and swings his arm in a vertical motion, a wind slash strikes, he put in so much mana in that attack that, the culprit arm, the roof, the tip of the mountain, all got sliced.
The culprit then screams in pain and Tanaka gets off the bed and faces him.
The culprit was none other than Macallister Parkin, or rather as his face starts getting peeled off, revealing another person, a young man in his early twenties with moderately long ashen-colored hair.
Zarestia then rushes inside his room quickly, the other two knights
His name is Trellock and he's another famous serial killer from Gusteko who targets people whose faces he yearns, destroys their faces, and removes the mask of their "persona". He uses them to "become" like his victims and employ their personalities.
The truth was that, Macallister Parkin was dead long time ago, and the person in front of Tanaka was another serial killer, another one that was recruited by the mad prince, that's why he had the sealing and the blessing of the temporary immortality.
Tanaka then exclaims, "What the hell is this? The 80s? Why is this country full of Ted Bundys and Jeffery Dahmers?"
Then all sudden, Tanaka hears Hugo's voice panicking and he forms a large barrier protecting everyone, as the something hit the hide out and it collapsed.
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The scene then changes as Tanaka, Zarestia and the two knights emerge from the rubble, thanks to Hugo's barrier, they managed survive that strike.
Tristan shielded Nora and the others as well, (Lilac and the pastor). Apparently, the paladins from the church caught up to them which makes Lilac say that they woke up from their sleep faster than expected.
"Well it doesn't really matter, I will just put them to sleep again."
But of course, that doesn't work twice because they aren't stupid, on top of their banners, they have some sort of a spell Deconstruction field that disables dream arts.
Overall, they are screwed, they are surrounded by tens of paladins, that have semi immortality, high resistance to magic attacks, and it's impossible to flee like before he did (Zarestia was able to fly with him, but there were multiple people with him now. Control aside, they could easily strike them down with multiple targets in the air).
In any case, Tanaka creates an ice fence to take cover, trying
The head of the church is with the paladins and he says something along the lines, "We have you completely surrounded, just accept your fate with some dignity."
As the paladins continue striking the ice fortress, they suddenly stop as a figure appears on top. that figures looks down on the group (Tanaka and the others) and says, "Sorry to keep you waiting, Nora-Chan." Nora looks up and her eyes shine as she speaks up, "Halibel-Sama!"
Some of the paladins starts mumbling, "Halibel? That Halibel the admirer of the Kararagi states?"
Tanaka then opens like a circular window on the fortress, where the paladins can see his face, he then laughs and says, "Hahaha, you guys are so screwed now!" (And yeah, I'm referencing Bruce Banner from the Avengers: Infinity War scene)
The head of the church then tells them to not back off as they still have the numbers. Halibel then kills one of the Paladins, but unlike what they expected, he didn't revive.
Then Halibel hits them with, "For the past few months I have spent here, I have studied those so called blessing." "After striking the target using the flow method, in a specific locations, it's possible to block the blessing from reaching the damaged organ."
"In other words, you will all die once, like everyone else."
Seeing themselves at a disadvantage, they all retreat.
As the situation finally calms down, the group finally get out of the ice shelter. Nora rushes and hugs Halibel, and the chapter ends with the scene of Tanaka facing Halibel.
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Next chapter, I shall go to upload like a normal chapters like a normal human being.
The next chapter will be called My Name Is Kazuki Tanaka.