Rom:"what is it kid?,you don't seem that surprised?"
Saying so,Old man rom directed at him a frowny glare.
Subaru,not wanting to be hit by a club anytime soon,afixed his face into a normal smile and spoke while standing up,although a bit wobbly.
Subaru:"you kidding? i'm definitely surprised! shocked even!"
Subaru is difinitely shocked,yes,but he was more so excited about the prospect of isekai than anything else.
But i can't really tell them that can i?
It is a common rule in every isekai anime to never let out the secret about them being from another world to anyone,and he shall diligently follow through such rule.
Though he could not understand the reason behind such rule before,he can now follow through that rule without a sliver of doubt,mainly due to him realising that the other worlders are more probable to think that he was an insane person than an actual guy who got transported from another world.
Subaru:"it's just that i think i know what happened to me."
To this rom raised an eyebrow to question subaru.
Rom:"you know?,hell,what kinda life have ya been living kid?."
I'm pretty sure it's not what your thinking but it's not pretty.i mean i can't just say i was some kind of shut in loser now can i!
And so subaru energetically pulled a fist to his chest and exclaimed.
Subaru:"A cozy and middle-class life! thats the life i lived!"
Sighing,rom rubbed his bald head devoid of hair gently before taking a seat next to the table subaru leaned on for before and took out a bottle of booze.
Felt:"middle-class what does that mean? well if its anything cozy then you must be a noble! maybe i can get quite the loot and become rich if i steal from ya!"
Felt teasingly remarked at subaru with a Mischievous grin,but subaru who was assuming them to be his kidnappers just before was not even close to understanding that he was being teased,and instead of groaning or teasing back he tried to sway her from stealing from him.
Subaru:"wa—wait felt!,thats a very dangerous way of thinking!,don't you think it's a bit evil to steal from someone you just met?"
Felt:"So what? i met most of the people i steal from on the day and time i stole from them."
Subaru:"completely busted!"
Subaru seriously started to panic,his first few minutes—twenty minutes? Of being isekaied was already weird,but being mugged on the first day is just too much!.
As subaru thought of a way to persuade felt into not mugging him,felt took notice of the pure obliviousness of subaru and decided to reveal herself.
Felt:"relax already,i was just joking. You seem broke anyway."
Subaru took a relaxing sigh and was finally ready to start his first day in....where the hell was he?
Good job not getting mugged subaru,but what now?
Stoping subaru from thinking any further,Rom questioned subaru of his previous words while gulping down an entire bottle of booze,some of it streaming down his chin while he talked.
Rom:"what does middle-class mean any way? i lived for a long while now and even i don't know what tha means".
Talking and drinking anything Alcoholicis a recipe for disaster! You're gonna die young at this rate!...or is it old?
Subaru put a hand on his chin and started stroking it while looking up in the air thoughtfully.
Felt"why are you doing that?,you don't even have a—"
Subaru:"alrighty then,it's very simple really."
Felt who was asking him a logical question was cut off by subaru himself so that he may explain what the term middle-class meant to the small class,which caused felt to pout.
Subaru:"i'll just use my lifestyle as an example since it's easier for me..and you too of course!"
Subaru shamelessly protested against what he had confessed while waving his hand around.
Subaru:"so,my family isn't really rich enough to buy what ever the hell we want but we can still live pretty comfortably,and my dad is really popular around the neighbours,so maybe my dad being a celebrity is the closest thing to being anything like a noble"
Subaru finally stopped his speech about the middle-class life and put his hands on his hips with a proud smile aimed at the ones present at the loot house.
As Felt was about to say something,subaru seemed to have gotten struck by some kind of realisation and started speaking again.
Subaru:"i mean seriously,if you ever get a hand on his phone and looked at the amount of contacts he has,you would be too shocked to say anything,thats what happened to me anyway."
Felt bit her lip and glared at subaru while stomping her foot.
Felt"now what the hell is this phone!?,is this somekind of middle-class talk or something?,anyway who cares!,if you have a comfortable life then leave the loot house and go home now!"
Pointing towards a door,Felt tried to hasten subaru's departure and when he did not move she was about to push him out by going behind him,but was stoped by subaru's loud ass scream.
Subaru:"STOPU!,stopu!"
Which stopped felt from acting on her intentions.
Felt:"now what does that mean? wait are you insulting me!"
Subaru:"wait!,it means stop or wait a minute,stop getting the wrong idea!"
Rom:"can you kids stop screaming already!"
Rom silenced both subaru and felt from getting into an heated argument to which felt huffed and turned away and subaru slanted forward in a defeated way by letting his shoulders fall.
Felt:"so why did you stop me then?."
Subaru slightly smiled from her using the word he used but soon it faded away as he started explaining his situation.
Subaru:"i know i said i know what happened to me but if it is what i think it is then i can't go back,maybe never and nobody can come for me either."
Felt's frown weakened after hearing what subaru said,old man rom gave subaru a pitiful side-eye.
Felt:"you can't go back nor can someone come for you? where the hell were you born? some kinda prison for middle-class people or something?"
Subaru quickly denied her statement.
Subaru:"no of course not! it's probably one of the most free places there is! maybe a little too free sometimes..."
Subaru really didn't want get into just how much freedom they get.
Subaru:"but seriously it's just that no one can go there and no one can come here thats it. um..maybe there are some exceptions but you get the point."
Felt:"seems suspicious to me...what about you old man rom?"
Rom hearing his honourary grand daughter, assumed a thinking position,and yet he could not stop himself from taking some gulps of booze from his bottle until it was completely depleted of the alcoholic substance.
in the meanwhile subaru unable to wait in suspense decided to do all he could to help him out to make a decision that best suited subaru's needs.
Come on you guys are the first people i met in this world,i gotta have someone to teach me things! thats how the plot is supposed to go right!?
Subaru clapped both his hands slowly with a small thump and bent forward with eyes shut tightly to punctuate desperation.
Subaru:"i literally have no idea where i am and i might as well be the most un-informed guy around,so please just let me crash at your place for awhile and until i get well-informed!".
Whilst begging subaru's eyes shot open and shook for a single moment before relaxing along with it a small smile rose.
You know,i am probably the protagonist...but that doesn't mean i should just see them as guides or stepping stones for some grand destiny...
Subaru slowly straightened his back and unclasped his hands.
They can be what i never had...
With a smile and confident face subaru proposed his right hand forwards towards the both of them and said.
Suabru:"you know what?,i'm totally hopeless."
Subaru's words caused confusion upon felt and rom,due to the words being a contrast to the confident face held by him.
Subaru:"and to this hopeless person's eyes there are two people insight for help."
Upon saying those words subaru pulled the hand that was meant for a handshake back until it was next to his face in a chop position.
Closing his right eye he asked.
Subaru:"So,do you mind lending a helping hand for a friend?"
My friends.
I know it's a bit flawed isekai choreography,but i just want to be friends with them and if it means going homeless then so be it.
Though that's probably the dumbest heartfelt thought i ever had and i don't even care.
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Both the duo of giant and child showed surprise in their faces but after turning their heads towards each other,they both end up bursting forth with resounding laughter.
Subaru:"oh come on! you don't have to laugh at me! i'm sorry for being corny ok!"
A flustered subaru instantly regretted using such a corny line,even the ones in his mind.
The amount of cringe i feel might actually kill me! Is this some kind of secret debuff!?
Felt:"Ha!ha!..ha..no,it's not about that bro."
With a toothy smile felt looked at subaru and then turned towards the old man who also adorned a small smile on his face.
Felt"so old man rom,what do you think? should we let him stay?"
Rom:"well,the kid doesn't seem like a bad guy,but either way he ain't bad company."
With an even brighter and toothy grin,felt met face to face with subaru almost shining like gold,subaru harbored a guess that it was caused by her blond—actually very yellow,too yellow to be just blond—hair.
Felt:"well you heard him!,welcome to the business!"
Hearing this subaru sighed once more.
In just the few moments from me being here and now,i don't even know how many times i sighed.
Felt:"seriously,this old root tree is becoming too old to be entertaining or funny anyway."
Rom playfully glared at her audacity to say such things,despite him agreeing with her.
subaru:"yeah! he might become too senile to even speak if he drinks as much as he is now!"
Both of them laughed at their own jokes before it was cut short by the man in question.
Rom:"are the both of you in a conspiricy against me or somethin!".
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Felt:"so,when are we gonna start teaching you how to steal?."
At that moment subaru who was drinking the watered down milk offered by old man rom looked like he was told the most ridiculous thing in the world
Subaru:"what! of course we won't! my mom imprinted into me with utter diligence to never steal from anyone."
Subaru answered.
Felt:"so what else are you gonna do?,don't tell me your gonna laze around all day or something."
Saying so felt sat next to him and was offered some milk by rom which she looked apprehensively at and asked.
Felt:"hey old man rom,this isn't watered down right."
Rom:"just a little."
Felt begrudgingly took a sip of the offered milk,soon after she instantly smacked the cup on the table and started gagging.
Felt:"yuck!"
With some milk streaming down her lips which she rubbed off with her arm felt started glaring at Rom.
Felt:"A little my ass!,i don't even know if it's just a watered down milk or some kind a sewage water."
Rom:"just be grateful that i'm even giving you anythin,where would you get actual milk anyway?"
Felt:"the capital probably has tons of it.wait your not telling me to start stealing milk now are you!"
As the two argued on,subaru pondered the question asked by felt.
It isn't that he can't do anything per say,with his knowledge from another world subaru could become a renowned inventor,or he could sell mayonnaise even.
Wait do they have mayonnaise?
As he thought of that,subaru realised he didn't even know what era this world resembled.hazarding a guess he would say it follows the typical isekai trope and was a medieval era world.
As they say online,i'm going to have to "touch some grass" don't i?
The problem subaru currently faced was how he would start.As in,what will he do to gain money or whatever currency this world had from basically scratch.
After pondering for a while subaru finally encroached on a precipice of an idea to begin his journey as a merchant.
Subaru:"i don't want to loiter around here and do nothing."
Hearing him,both giant and child stopped arguing and turned towards him to give him their attention.
Recognising it,subaru smiled and held a finger up as if explaining to a child.
Subaru:"so i have decided to mainly be a merchant or inventor,i don't know what you would call what i want to do but either way for now i decided to do a minor job outside the slums to gain some money first."
Both felt and rom promptly nodded to him and felt questioned him of the job he would be occupying.
Subaru:"well i happen to be pretty proficient in sewing,so i plan to be a seamster,you have seamsters right?"
Felt looked at him questioningly with a hint of pity.
Felt:"i don't know bro..if we base that off your clothes i don't see you being that good."
Subaru looked at felt as though what she said was blasphemy.
Subaru:"Hey!,this is my favourite track suit and besides this is more for exercising than for a normal walk!,and my mom and dad approved!"
The pity radiating off of felts face was palpable,her face scrunched she looked as though in her sight was a beaten puppy.
Subaru groaned in horrer when what felt was thinking was made clear to him.
Subaru:"it's not just my parents damn it!".
Felt:"what ever you say bro..."
Saying so felt turned her face away from him emanating sheer pity,to which subaru slumped face first onto the table,whining.
Subaru:"Come ooonnnn...."
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After further discussing about subaru's occupiable occupation the trio decided to postpone the discussion to tomorrow.
As the evening came subaru's place of resting was brought into discussion to which subaru nonchalantly stated that he would sleep at felt's house.
After a long argument every one agreed,not until felt had called subaru a deplorable pervert heaps of times.
And now they stand at the entrance of the loot house,starring at the sunset subaru was contemplating his life in his new world.
Whereas felt was glaring at him,flushed beat red.
I just realised,i spent my entire day in another world in a bargaining shop filled with stealed goods talking about sewing and making it my job.
With a defeated face subaru whined in his head.
This is not the isekai life i expected when i got summoned to this world!.
Better yet!,where is the cute girl who summoned me! it can't be felt i know that for sure.
As he whined in his head,beside him the still flustered felt mumbled a 'deplorable pervert..',hearing this,subaru decided to make things clear with her.
Subaru:"hey,i'm sorry for crashing at your place,even i would not want to sleep in that place,it's creepy you know!".
Saying so whilst pointing at the loot house, subaru turned towards felt to see her listening to him with a calm face now.
Subaru:"and this 'deplorable pervert' thing...i for the love of god am not into little girls!,so you don't have to worry about me trying anything alright.
Hearing subaru's words,felt who was supposed to be relieved,was for some unknown reason even more agitated.
Subaru:"now what?."
Asked subaru in a tired manner.
Felt turned towards him with a scowl before stomping the ground saying.
Felt:"i'm not a little kid!,i'll turn fifteen this year!"
After revealing her age to subaru,felt had hoped that he would finally stop annoying her,but after looking at subaru she was surprised.
Hearing felts exclamation,subaru stood unfazed,to felts annoyance,he was even more nonchalant than before.
Subaru:"see?,i'm about to turn eighteen this year,so you are a kid."
Saying so subaru proudly placed both his hands on his hips and stated to felt who just stared at him surprised.
Subaru:"i see how your calling me bro,so since i'm way older than you,from now on you can call me big bro subaru!,how about it?"
Subaru extended a hand to her,but felt remained unresponsive for a full minute before finally opening her mouth.
Felt:"What."