Rem walked through the entrance of the Mall/Supermarket. Having never seen anything like this, she wanted to explore.

It was common back in her world where marketplaces had stalls in which products/produce would be sold and stores would be lined up next to each other in separate buildings. But here, everything was all combined into one, it felt like to her. Perhaps by creating the idea of all these different stores in one giant building gave the illusion of shopping in one store after all. 'How ingenious,' Rem thought as she followed Naoko.

There were many wonders to behold around these parts as Rem couldn't help but hungrily stare with her eyes. Moving pictures in flat boxes, strange but pleasant and catchy music, flashing lights, but most of all, an endless array of culinary possibilities as she caught a glimpse of the Grocery section. Aisles and aisles of food products lined up neatly and strategically to catch the most attention.

Rem was snapped out of her amazement when Naoko spoke up. "We will do some grocery shopping later. For now, let's get you some new clothes."

Rem nodded as she followed Naoko in the clothing department. Rem inhaled the smell of clean fabrics, as she walked through the array of clothings, feeling and observing the different kind of fabrics there were. Indeed there were different kinds fabrics that she had never seen before as she felt the smooth texture of the polyester clothings and jeans.

"Rem-chan!" Naoko called out already holding a set of new clothes. "Why don't you try these out. I think they would look great on you," Naoko said while pointing to the dressing room nearby.

For the next twenty minutes, the two continued their clothing shopping spree as they settled with eight different set of clothes, a nightgown, and a pair of new converse shoes.

"Rem-chan, I know this will probably getting used to for you but our world is perhaps extremely limited on the knowledge of magic," Naoko explained as they both walked towards the electronic department. "We primarily rely on our science and logic as opposed to your world's magic."

Rem did notice the gap between her world and this in terms of technology and standards of living.

Within thirty minutes, Naoko had specifically picked and bought a blue razor flip phone, a laptop and tablet. She was determined to help Rem adjust to modern society as she began to explain the devices to her.

"This is called a cell phone. It sends and receives signals from local service areas and functions as a communicator, both close and long distances," she explained. "These two items are a laptop and a tablet. They can connect to a wireless internet service called wifi and allows you to access to a global database. This is perhaps one of the more important tools to own when living in the modern age."

Rem stared as the new devices as her mind was slightly boggling from the new conveniences. She listened in surprise and astonishment as many labors from her world would become obsolete the moment these came along. Courier mail/messaging would become a thing of the past as communication would no longer become a major issue, and great libraries and education would become secondary options thanks to technological advances such as this.

In her world, items like these would've been called a 'Metia' and would've probably fetched a extreme high price due to its exotic origins and unknown functions. But for a device like this to be common throughout the public must've meant life here was made to be convenient and busy.

Sure, there were some actual similarities between her old home and now. Just imagine replacing some modern conveniences with magic instead of logic and science. For example, time was told here by machines whilst time was told by magic color changing crystals back in her world.

Rem did felt a bit uneasy with all the strenuous shopping, especially most of it for her.

Naoko is sometimes known to be an air-head by both Subaru and his father but even she knew how Rem probably felt at the moment. "Don't worry Rem, I don't consider you a burden. After all you've done for Subaru, this is the least I can do. So please, don't feel discouraged and uneasy, otherwise you might make Subaru and I sad."

Rem eyes lit up with the mention of Subaru. "My apologies."

Not a day yet spent in this new world and she was already thinking about employment. But for now, she settled with the fact that she had to learn more.

The two continued on with their shopping spree.

At home two hours later:

Lunch preparation was just about finished as Kenichi accidentally burnt some meat as the two men hurriedly tried to hide his mistake dumping out the burnt food and make a new batch.

So far so good, they both thought. They suddenly heard the lock to the front door unlatching themselves.

Rem and Naoko had just arrived home. A small petite figure held a surprising large amount of items and bags as she walked through the front entrance while Naoko seemed dwarfed by her in comparison.

"My my, you weren't exaggerating when you said she was strong Subaru," she said witnessing Rem's Oni strength for the first time as she effortlessly carried about 80% of the items herself and set them down to the side.

Rem sniffed the air.

"Rem smells burnt meat," she said nonchalantly.

'BUSTED!' the two men thought as they gauged Naoko's reaction, her glare piercing their forms.

"To clarify, it was all dad's fault," Subaru said, quick to throw his dad under the bus, earning him a comedic glare from Kenichi while Naoko was now tugging on Kenichi's ear.

Rem couldn't help but smile. It's been a long time since she felt just at home and happy. For too long had she always held an unemotional persona as the head maid of the Roswaal mansion. But the more time she spent with Subaru, she felt that facade slowly chip away as she could finally be true to herself.

The family soon settled down and began to prepare the table.

"Subaru, be a dear and get the Mayonnaise," said Naoko as she passed out the plates.

Subaru nodded as he nostalgically walked to the fridge and pulled out the all too familiar jar. Good old-fashioned Japanese store-brand mayonnaise. He was tempted to stick his finger in to sample but decided against it as he brought the jar to the table.

"Ah… Mayo," Rem remembered her time back in the Roswaal mansion where she and Subaru experimented with a variety of ingredients to recreate the so called Mayonnaise Subaru mentioned. It was a long and hard effort in the mansion's kitchen but eventually became a success. It surprised everyone living there and mayonnaise became a big hit as Roswaal himself ordered to have a large batch to be stored away for later use much to Ram's displeasure of making since Rem was unable to due to a certain event.

Originally Subaru used the idea of making mayonnaise as a way to boost Rem's self esteem but in the end, the plan horribly backfired as she became traumatised by the white gooey substance which resulted her in getting a scolding from Subaru back then.

"Oh! Rem, have you tried mayonnaise before?" Naoko asked Rem who slowly nodded but hesitantly.

"Thanks to Subaru and our hard work, we both managed to recreate mayonnaise and it became extremely popular back in the Roswaal Mansion," she explained still looking visibly uncomfortable from the mayonnaise.

"Is there something wrong?" Naoko asked. "Is it perhaps you dislike mayo?"

Rem shook her head. She honestly did enjoy Mayonnaise, but the trauma that came from it was overbearing as she remembered that certain event from the Mansion.

Subaru grimaced at the thought of that certain memory as well. All the perfectly good mayonnaise… He didn't think Rem would take his figure of speech literally at the time.

"That.. might be my fault.." Subaru admitted as he told the story of Rem filling the Bath house full of Mayo thinking Subaru would've died if he didn't swim in Mayo. It was a figure of speech that he didn't think Rem would take seriously.

Naoko and Kenichi sat there mouth agape but soon began to laugh their asses off.

"Whelp. Can't beat that I suppose," Kenichi said in between laughs.

"While we are a family of Mayo fanatics, we can't make the darn thing if our life depended on it," Kenichi admitted. "Even Naoko got tired of her failed attempts and just settled on store-brands."

Naoko sighed in exasperation. It was true. Not even she could manage to prepare mayonnaise fit for consumption.

The family continued their lunch and exchange light hearted dialogue which mostly consisted of both Kenichi and Naoko pleading to Rem to help prepare mayo for their household from now on.

Roswaal Manor:

Emilia sat at the edge of her bed, viewing the night sky. Puck yawned, getting ready for bed as well.

"Something the matter Lia?" he asked.

Emilia continued to look outside her window. "I don't know Puck, maybe I was a bit harsh on Subaru at that time…" she said remembering the last time they met.

"Ah still thinking about that? Just let it go. It's for the better I suppose," Puck yawned once more. "Goodnight Lia," as the spirit disappeared into Emilia's gemstone.

Emilia once more looked out her window at the full moon. She just couldn't shake the feeling of something has gone awry as she finally made her way to her bed and throw over her sheets.

After a satisfying lunch and multiple attempts to urge Rem to get over her Mayo traumatisation, the family began to clean up after themselves. Subaru and Rem took the liberty of doing the dishes while Kenichi wiped down the table and Naoko swept the floor.

Rem happily washed plates and utensils standing by the one she adored most. Subaru simply scrubbed the other dishes with a sponge with a somewhat blank look on his face and a small smile.

Never would he have ever imagined the day where he would return on home, he thought over and over again. Perhaps it was fate that he ended up back here he thought. But in the end he knew that people should not simply expect everything to go their way in life.

In the past loops, he knew Emilia was in danger of the Witch Cultists as she had died in every time loop thanks to them. He sought to prevent those events from ever happening but in turn had to sacrifice something great in order to achieve his goals. But now… he was home. Nothing he could do.

He contemplated on the realisation when he first saw his hometown and broke down in tears knowing he has failed. It was only thanks to Rem was he able to pick himself back up and to move forward despite his failures. Like she said, 'It's easy to give up… But it doesn't suit Subaru' .

Thanks to those words, he come towards to the conclusion that maybe his actions may or may have not lead to a difference in the future. He may never know at all. But all he can now do is keep moving forward, not alone however, as his mind drifted to the girl next to him. He had come to terms with the past and accepted them.

He now had to focus on the present.

"Something the matter Subaru-kun?" asked Rem as Subaru snapped out of his daze. "I-It's nothing," he replied as they both finished the task at hand.

The next hour was spent readying the guest room for Rem and both her and Subaru dusted off some bed sheets. The only things in the room was a bed, cabinet/mirror, a clock, a closet, and night lamp. A very basic room. But it was more than enough for Rem at the moment.

Subaru began to start teaching her the language of his country on paper as he remembered his lessons from the other world. Having Ram, Rem, and Emilia teaching him the written language of their world helped him immensely on translating the language of her world to Japanese Kanji. There was a lot of work to be done, he thought as he knew how complicated the written language barrier can be at times.

Subaru pulled out some notepaper and a pencil and began translating the basics of each language and relating them to one another. It was a little confusing at first for the both of them but Rem manage to make at least some progress thanks to Subaru's help.

Rem marveled at the neatly lined white parchment and the wooden pencil as she was very more used to a different kind of material and an ink quill for writing. With this pencil, you could erase mistakes and write more haphazardly than you could with an ink quill, she thought.

For the next few hour while Rem began practicing her writing, Subaru took the liberty of setting up her laptop and tablet.

'Mom is really is going all out for her it seems,' Subaru thought as he booted up the system and began set up for the new devices. It wasn't exactly top of the line products but it was very reliable in terms of usage as it contained a decent processor.

"Hey Rem, what time is it?" he asked while momentarily connecting the devices to the wifi.

Rem face held a confused look. "I do not know how to tell time in this world Subaru-kun," she said.

Subaru mentally slapped himself for subconsciously asking that question. "Ah sorry about that. You see, in this world we tell time by just looking at the sun and moon like normal people," he joked as Rem pouted from his teasing.

"Haha sorry sorry…" he apologized. "We tell time through a device called a clock."

"C-clock?" she repeated hearing this new term.

"Mhmm.. It's a small mechanical device that keeps track of time," as he pointed to the mechanical clock hanging on the wall nearby.

To Rem it looked a little strange but even she could probably tell what the hands and symbols on the clock represented.

Subaru explained that his world, much like her's, used the 24-hour system as well to represent a day. Each hour representing one entire rotation around the clock with the large hand and a small indent with the smaller one.

He explained with the mechanical clock, you cannot tell whether it was the morning or afternoon so you would have to look outside beforehand and know. To tell a more accurate time, people turn to the digital clock as Subaru took out his phone to show her what a digital clock looks like.

He was thankful that for some odd reason, numbers stayed the same in his world and her's.

He taught her how to read both the Mechanical and Digital clocks as she noted that this way was perhaps more accurate than trying to read time in her world through magic crystals. To her understanding from knowledge of her own world and this one, Wind time was 12am-6am, Fire time was 6am-12pm, Water time was 12pm-6pm, and Earth time was 6pm-12am, therefore starting a new day. She quickly understood the concept and read that it was currently 6:04pm.

'Almost time for dinner,' Subaru thought.

Earlier Rem asked to help make dinner but Naoko somehow convinced her otherwise that she should take more priority studying instead and to leave the tasks up to her.

"Oh! I just remembered Subaru-kun," as she dug through her pocket to retrieve something when she saw Subaru's phone.

She pulled out a rectangular blue device. It was her own cellphone.

"Naoko-Sama said that this is Metia, just like Subaru-kun's," she said showing Subaru. "She also mentioned something about numbers," she said a little confused.

"Right. People with cellphones may contact other people or locations with phones as well," he began explaining. "We use numbers to identify our individual devices and input other numbers to contact other people in this world," as he took Rem's phone and began punching in his number and dialed as moments later his phone began to ring.

Rem was obviously impressed with this device. Now she can contact Subaru whenever she wants she thought.

Subaru handed the phone back to her. "I saved my contact in the phone's memory so you can call me at any time."

Rem smiled at the prospect but got suddenly startled when the phone vibrated in her hands. "Subaru-kun, what do I do now?"

Subaru held his own phone in his hand. "I just sent you a text. It's basically like I sent you a small letter," he explained as he motioned Rem to flip open her phone to read the message.

She flipped it open as a menu popped up and showed her a small window with some Japanese texts on them. "Hel…-lo?" she tried her best to read it with what little knowledge she had just learned.

Subaru grinned, "Correct. You're much smarter than you say you are Rem," he said while Rem simply enjoyed the praise. He began to teach her the basics on how texting works and combinations of numbers you have to press to get a simple letter out. It took a little but Rem managed to submit her own text in which Subaru's phone vibrated as well as she simply responded with a 'hello' as well.

"Not bad for your first time," Subaru said as they both grinned.

Rem was originally his first "date" and is now the first girl he ever exchanged his number with.

...

"Subaru-kun, a stalker watches us," Rem said as he looked at the semi-closed door entrance to her room.

"How harsh of you Rem-Chan," Kenichi joked as he opened the door scratching his head. "I came to tell you two dinner is just about ready but couldn't help myself to listen on you two," he said unashamed of his eavesdropping.

With that, the three made their way to dinner.

Back in Lugnica:

Wilhelm Van Astrea was often a man of few words and more action. For over a decade, his sole wish was for the death of the White Whale and to enact his revenge for stealing his beloved wife, Theresia Van Astrea, the previous sword saint. He gazed down the horizon of the ocean, unable to do anything. Somehow, he felt a little more empty. It was possible the Whale got lost in the endless void of the great falls, but that did little to convince Wilhelm of its defeat. His thoughts drifted to the strange young man who was the sole reason this entire event transpired. He was the reason Wilhelm was given the opportunity to avenge his fallen loved one. But now… he was gone too… also taken by the blasted white whale.

"Subaru-dono… Forgive me…" the ex-knight turned butler muttered to himself.

Nearby Roswaal L. Mathers conversed with Lady Crusch as to what transpired in the past few hours. He looked very distraught at first when hearing what happened but calmed down. His arrival was rather brief as he came to confirm the news he received and promptly left.

Dinner was rather uneventful and brief as they simply had stir fried beef mixed with assorted vegetables and rice as the family talked about current events and future plans. It was decided that teaching Rem more about the world would become a rotated task as the family would take turns tutoring Rem, much like how Subaru went through at the Roswaal Mansion in his first week. Dinner was finished quietly as once again the couple washed the dishes while Naoko and Kenichi tended to the other clean up duties.

The two eventually made it back to the guest room to continue Rem's studies and to teach her more about this world. The rest of the day went by without a hitch.