I see that Satella is still by your side, hugging me and comforting you.  “Welcome Louis.”  She said, gently stroking my head and brushing my hair.  I notice that I am no longer in a dark void, but rather in a white and golden room.  "This is your 'checkpoint'. I will always be there when you appear to give you encouragement and advice. Now, let's try again. Shall we go?"  Said Satella, holding out her hand to me.

Save Point - Return by Death
Number of uses: 1

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I trust you, Satella!”

I unlock the door then head into Emilia's room.  However, very strangely, Rem is behind me.  Normally this shouldn't be the case, unless I had to unlock the door earlier than on the initial route.  This is my first loop so.  Speaking of which, I go back to change and come back later with a more presentable outfit as well as two swords.

I am perfect !  And then it's time to get a new one.  That's why I wear an indigo jacket and pants with gold on them and brown and indigo shoes.  Now just talk to Rem:

"Hi! I hope my smell doesn't bother you too much. If not, how are you?"

"Hello Louis! And no need to worry about your smell, it doesn't bother me at all! As for how I'm doing, I'm doing pretty well. I'm just going about my duties as a servant of Roswaal's estate.  Have you done anything interesting lately?”

I'm glad Satella's smell doesn't bother him at all anymore.  Indeed, the Witch Cult attacked her clan to the point of massacring them all, except Ram and her.  My hands spontaneously place on her cheeks when I see her corpse and then remember that she and Félix lost their lives during the initial route, so that I hug her while crying.

Surprised by my sudden, even passionate, embrace, she does not retaliate however.  Instead, she wraps her arms around my neck and hugs me.  She tries to comfort me:

"Shh... it's okay... it's okay... everything's okay now..."

She doesn't dare ask what happened, not wanting to awaken my traumatic memories.  Instead, she listens silently to me for any explanation.

"Rem....I don't want to lose you, nor Emilia, nor Ram, and even Roswaal, nor Reinhard, Felt and all the others"

“Shh… it’s okay… I’m here… I won’t leave you”

She continues to hold me tight, doing her best to comfort me in my grief and sadness.

After several long minutes, I slowly shifted and whispered to him sincerely:

"Thank you Rem! Thanks to you, I found the strength to continue fighting!"

Then I leave on these words outside

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We are the second day before the meeting of the three camps.  Indeed the first day after a week since I arrived here, Emilia and I left for the royal selection, then I was able to speak to Roswaal and Beatrice.  Then I locked myself in the room for the rest of the week in the original route, and only a large part of that day during this time loop.  Now that I think about it, why did I do...

Yes, it comes back to me!  Going for a week without first resting to survive and fight remains dangerous.  I therefore had to end up on forced rest;  which led to another problem: My muscles relaxed.

I arrive at the Karsten mansion to see one person in particular: Felix Argyle.

The garden of this house remains as large as ever.  I notice the presence of Wilhelm Van Astrea near the fountain.  I should go greet him.

Wilhelm turned to Louis, his demeanor unchanged but his facial expressions betrayed a bit of confusion.  “My apologies, who could you be?”  he asked with a tone of respect in his tone

"My name is Louis and I am the Chevalier d'Émilie, a member of the Émilie camp. I need to speak to Felix Argyle, please!"  I bow respectfully.

"Good meeting Louis, I apologize again for not recognizing you sooner. Felix Argyle, you say? He should be in the manor if I'm not mistaken" William gestures to the manor behind him.

"Thank you so much! You saved my life!"

"Don't think about it Louis, if you need anything else, don't hesitate to come see me. Felix is ​​a good friend of mine, I'm sure he would love to see you too."

"Heard !"  I smile at him then head towards my destination.

As Louis walks towards the mansion, he soon spots Felix sitting near the kitchen with a cup of tea in his hand.

"Hi Felix! How are you?"

"I'm purring fine! What can Felix do for you today, Louis-chan~?"

I ask him to take care of my wounds.  Before, I kept a lot of scars, so much so that when I incarnated, although I never kept them visible, just as my memories remained intact, the old wounds, except the one to the eye, ended up reappearing.  A huge mark from someone who was pierced in the stomach, my marks from swords which hit their targets, burn marks;  tons of scars adorn my neck.  Once in a private area, I take off my clothes and show him everything.

“Could you fix this please?”

Luckily for me, I wasn't injured once.  Thus, I will be able to heal from those of the past through my current manifestation.  *Felix looks worried as I undress.  "Oh my God, that's a lot of damage... you're covered in scar tissue, Louis-chan... it's definitely going to take a while to heal..." Felix said as he took out the bandages from under his skirt and removed them.  getting to work on my injuries.

“Thank you Felix” Thank you for what you do and believe me, I will not let you die.  No way.

"You're welcome, Louis-chan~...and please don't worry, I'm a catboy...we're pretty hard to kill" Felix smiled before returning to work on my wounds.

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The evil of revenge remains one of the worst things that exists but which I understand perfectly.  We are on the third day, and Julius offered me a practice fight.  At the same time, who told me to walk around with two swords?  Speaking of which, Emilia knows that I'm going to the Karsten's, and Julius also goes there to speak with Félix.  Between cats, we get along well, I suppose.  Also Betty insists on accompanying me because I quote:

"At least you can't die and leave me alone, I guess."

I sigh, still embarrassed by her presence even though she reassures me quite a bit.  Don't worry Beatrice, I'll win for you!  Without wasting time, my blade arrives in a second towards Julius and attacks his shoulder.

"Let's go !"

With a smirk he looks at me, while I am a little surprised by my speed.

"So you came to practice, right? Well, let's get started."

He brings his blade towards me and begins to attack my right side.  But, dodging him, I manage to touch his left shoulder.

"Wow, you didn't waste any time, did you? Looks like the time we spent preparing strategies wasn't wasted."

I continuously attack it 12 times in 0.46 seconds.  Without my Emperor's Cloak, I am much faster than before.  However, I'm going easy on him to see how well he can survive.

As I attack him relentlessly, he fails to block them all, with a few of them hitting him directly in the shoulder and hip.  However, he manages to dodge enough of them and counterattack.

"That was a good display of speed. But it won't be enough to win. Let's see how you do with me in full offensive mode."

And as he speaks, he launches his own series of attacks on me, meant to give me little chance to breathe.  I dodge easily then counterattack this time in 0.000000000000000045 seconds.

"You were saying ?"

"Uh? What is that?"

He remains surprised as I avoid his attacks and counter so quickly that he doesn't even have time to see me move.

"You're really fast, and that's really impressive, in that case let's go even further!"

He then rushes towards me, while being accompanied by a sword of fire which he throws at me.

"Can you escape this attack as easily as before? You lose."

I succeed, then I disarm him, then I make him fall to his knees before bringing my two blades closer to his neck forming a cross.

"Too slow !"

While he's on the ground, he looks at me with a smug face.

"It's not over yet.... I still have a card up my sleeve!"

And with that, he brings back to him the sword of fire as well as a sword of water and he decides to attack me again relentlessly, forcing me to defend myself and taking the opportunity to disarm me..  .. And eventually he would manage to grab me by the neck, forcing me to surrender and ending the match.

"And the winner is: Julius Juukulius! Good effort for this short time, I had a lot of fun training with you."

Except I'm smiling, since the thing he attacked was an afterimage.
Poor you !  You attacked the wrong person!  The real me knocks him out in 0.00000000000000001 seconds.

In truth, I stood behind him from the start of the fight.  I just went quickly to attack him from the front and then return to my post.  When he wakes up, he looks at me with a surprised look on his face.

"Haha, you're joking, right? You must be joking."

As he stares at me for a few seconds, he can do nothing but admit defeat.

"I have to admit, you were faster and smarter than me. Well done!"

"So this is what it means to be a true sword saint? I need to train even harder. You have proven your genius."

He stands up and holds his hand out to shake mine.  I offer him my handshake;  which sealed our training as well as our friendship.

After that, I come near Wilhelm to stay close to him.  I sense in him a desire for revenge that has caused disastrous things to happen, although less than dealing with the tantrums of Minerva, the Witch of Wrath.

"Are you okay? You don't seem to be feeling well..."

I know he saw my fight against Julius and how I beat him with ease.

Wilhelm, lost in thought, looked up at me as his mind raced trying to put all the dots together.  There was something about me that piqued his interest, he couldn't help but think that this wasn't my original timeline.

He decides to let the cat out of the bag after a few seconds of silence.  “My apologies but… you’re not from that era, are you Louis?”

"How did you guess?"

“Let’s just say I’ve spent enough time in this life to be able to tell when something’s out of place and you’re out of place.”

Wilhelm spoke quietly, as if trying not to attract attention.  He didn't want me to panic but at the same time he was curious as to why I was here.

"Actually, this is my first loop. In the main timeline, you all died at the hands of Petergeuse so I cut off my head and reappeared two days ago."

This... Wilhelm was speechless for a few seconds.  What he had just heard defied all sense of logic and yet, somehow, it made sense to him.  "I'm...sorry to hear that Louis. That's why you're here."

As he said this, he couldn't help but feel guilty.  For some reason a heavy weight had landed on his chest, he was having a hard time processing this information, in fact he was still trying to.

"Hey... You're mad at Hakugei. Did that thing take something or someone from you?"

"That's true, that's certainly the case..." he replied in a monotone voice.  A dark air permeated the area.  He still couldn't tell me the truth.  What would I think of him?  He couldn't risk making me angry.

He decided to tell a half-truth for now.  "Hakugei took someone close to me. And you, what have you lost Louis?"

“My whole clan, including my twin brother.”  I decide to play it cash.  This event changed my life forever, even more so when I regained my true memories.  But that's another story.

"..." What could he say.  He had lost so much and now I said he had lost even more.  He was so focused on not telling me the truth that he didn't notice the cold sweat running down his face.

With all the effort he could, he swallowed and replied, "My wife."

"...." I place my arm on his shoulder and nod tenderly.  "We will destroy this monstrosity! I promise. We already beat it in the initial timeline so we can do it again."

These words from Louis sounded like music to his ears, they were full of hope and conviction.  For a moment, Wilhelm's demeanor changed as a wide, genuine smile appeared.

"We will save them Louis even if it takes countless loops, no matter how many resets we have to do, it can be done."

"You are absolutely right."  I smile happily at him then I stop and admit "There's something I need to tell you. You're an Astrea so you deserve to know" I whisper in his ear.  “I am Iluso Magician Omni Terrera”

Wilhelm's ears perked up at the sudden whisper, the information revealed surprised him a little but it was nothing he couldn't handle.  He gives me a warm, warm smile.  “Well that says a lot about you, you remind me a lot of an old friend.”

His voice was calm and collected, he had complete faith and trust in me at this point.  “Your secret is safe with me.”

"Thank you very much and I trust you. In honor of my past friendship with Reid, I had to tell the Astrea family."

Wilhelm's heart felt at ease knowing that his secret was in safe hands.  "I'm glad you did Louis, you managed to gain my trust and loyalty in just one day. Reid was quite the individual person, wasn't he?"  There was an air of nostalgia in his voice as he named his ancestor, rather his wife's ancestor.

“He’s not a paragon of virtue, that’s for sure, but he was the simplest person I’ve ever met.”

"That's the beauty of Reid, he was a simple guy but one of the most capable men I've ever known. The fact that you remind me of him is a compliment. Now go talk to Felix!  "