The atmosphere was tense around them, Pleiades knew that he would need to explain things carefully in order to not let any misunderstandings happen.

Beatrice: Hey, boy.

Pleiades: What? And don't call me "boy"!

Beatrice seemed to ignore his request as she asked her question.

Beatrice: It would be in your best interest to explain what happened, Betty only knows that there was a fight happening here, I suppose.

Everyone's eyes looked at Pleiades, expecting answers from him.

Pleiades: Well, before that we should atleast get seated somewhere, right?

Despite the likes of Ram looking impatient, everyone agreed. So they went towards the dining area to sit down and discuss what happened.

Once they had all made their way towards the dining area, they all sat down. Although what was interesting was the fact that Reinhard had sat down right next to Pleiades.

They had put Rem on the floor against a wall to lie on, directly opposite of Reinhard so that he could react in time if the maid woke up and tried anything again.

After a moment of silence Pleiades began speaking.

Pleiades: I guess I should start telling my story then, right? So I woke up in need to go to the bathroom, but on the way there I got attack by Rem.

Emilia: Huh? Just like that? But...Why would she do that...?

Pleiades: Well, she kinda told me why. She thinks that I'm the Archbishop of Pride, so she attacked me.

As Ram heard this, she instantly relaxed and looked....Dissapointed towards Rem?

Ram: I see now, I guess this should have been expected.

Pleiades looked curiously at Ram as she seemed to realize something.

Ram: My sister is rather protective of me and has a strong hatred against the Witchcult, so it should have been obvious that she would do this.

Pleiades: So you knew that she might do something against me, and yet you still let her come anywhere near me?

Ram: I expected Roswaal's orders to be enough to stop her, but I guess that I underestimated her hatred towards the witchcul-

But before she could finish speaking, Pleiades interupted her.

Pleiades: You know, I'm not showing it right now, but...I'm really fucking angry right now.

With just mere words the atmosphere in the room became tense.

Pleiades: Let me tell you something, maid.

He made sure to say the word "maid" with extra venom in his voice.

This behaviour of his surprised everyone in the room, usually he seems so unbothered by anything.

Only Reinhard has seen him become this angry when he found out that he was labeled as the Archbishop of Pride.

Pleiades: If I didn't have this power of mine, do you know where I would be right now?

Ram remained silent, indicating to Pleiades to continue speaking.

Pleiades: Well, I should be more accurate, right? If I didn't have my ability, the walls of that hallway would have a nice red color on them with pieces of a human brain on them.

Emilia especially seemed shaken up by his words.

Pleiades: Now I'll let you guess something, who's head would be coloring the walls of this mansion if I didn't have my ability?

Ram remained silent for what felt like forever before answering.

Ram:...Your head....

Then Pleiades started clapping with a sarcastic tone of voice.

Pleiades: Woooow, congrats. You want a medal for figuring that one out? Maybe Roswaal might give you a raise for your intelligence.

At this point he was starting to get on Ram's nerves, not like it mattered since he knew that she wouldn't do anything.

Pleiades: But do you want to know what pisses me off more than the fact that my head was almost turned into a painting for your wall?

Once again the maid remained silent as she awaited his answer.

Pleiades: The fact you tried to justify your sister's actions by saying "oh, she's protective. Oh, she hates the witchcult ooooh so much"

Emilia looked honestly shocked at how Pleiades was acting.

Pleiades: And judging by the way you spoke about her hatred of them, you guys probably have a sad ol past with the witchcult right?

Ram looked confused as she remained silent, but she still nodded.

Pleiades: Honestly, I couldn't give a flying fuck about whatever you guys went through.

This single statement shocked the entire room, especially Reinhard.

Pleiades: And you might say "oh but mister Pleiades, they have a sad past, so it's okay for them to attack innocents" Well, let me tell you something about your sister....From the small information I have on them, they are honestly barely worst than your Sister.

The last part of his sentence seemed to finally get to the pink haired maid.

Ram: Don't compare my sister to them!

Pleiades: Why not? They apparantly murder innocents for the Witch of Envy, right? Well, I bet your sister was thinking that it was okay to kill me because I did it for my sister.

Ram looked just about ready to strike towards Pleiades.

As the tension of the room skyrocketed, there was only a mere trigger left for the entire room to become chaos.

But then someone opened the door to the room.

Roswaal: Now thiiiis is an interesting turn of events~

Emilia: H-Huh? Roswaal? What are you doing here?

Roswaal: Emilia-sama~ It's slightly difficult to not hear the commotion down here, although i've been here for a while now. Aaaaand I believe I've heard enough to uuuunderstand what's happening~

But Pleiades seemed to only sneer at the words of the magician.

Pleiades: So you were eeves-dropping us?

Roswaal: Weeeell~ I didn't want to interupt you in the middle of speaking.

Pleiades rolled his eyes as he noticed that Beatrice started speaking up.

Beatrice: Can we continue this now? Betty is getting bored of this annoying conversation you two are having, I suppose.

As everyone relaxed a bit the tension in  the room went down drasticly, but there was still some left with Roswaal here now.

But the tension would go back up with one single event, the awakening of the blue haired maid.

Reinhard stood up as he noticed the maid beggining to wake up from her slumber.

As the maid got up she opened her eyes and noticed that everyone was staring at her, but there was one person staring at her that caused her great anger.

Pleiades.

She stumbled a bit as she tried to get up quickly and attack him, but she was stopped by the voice of one person.

Roswaal: Thaaaat's enough, Rem.

Rem: But Roswaal-sama! He's a witchcultist!

But before Roswaal could respond, someone else spoke up.

Beatrice: If that's the case, then you must have strong evidence to support that claim, isn't that right maid?

Rem swallowed her own saliva before speaking.

Rem: He smells of the Witch, he has the Witch scent on him!

Beatrice: And?

Rem: Huh?

Beatrice: Having the Witch scent means nothing unless he has a Gospel on him.

Depsite Beatrice's words, Rem didn't seem to be backing down.

Rem: But Roswaal said it himself! He is the Sin Archbishop of Pride!

Roswaal: Noooow~ Please don't try to twist my words, Rem. I only saaaaid that he was accused of beeeing a Archbishop. That didn't mean that heeee actually is one~

But before Rem could respond, Pleiades asked a question.

Pleiades: Wait...so one of the reasons you attacked me was because I smell bad...?

Suddenly, Pleiades burst out laughing, surprising the room's occupants.

Pleiades: *wheeze* You seriously...haha...Would have just killed anyone because they smelled bad....? Ha! You're honestly no better than a murderer.

Rem glared daggers at him, it didn't really matter much to him though.

Reinhard: If I may interject...

Up until now Reinhard had been completely silent while staring at Rem, making sure to stop her if she tried anything.

Pleiades: *chuckle* Yea sure, go ahead Rein.

Reinhard: I myself have already confirmed Pleiades-sama's innocence back when I first met him. He also fought against the Bowel Hunter to protect Emilia-sama despite not knowing who she was back then.

Everyone listened carefully to the Sword Saint's words.

Reinhard: So I believe that along with the evidence that Great Spirit-sama presented, Pleiades-sama has no involvement with the Witchcult.

Rem grit her teeth as she couldn't think of a way to respond to the Sword Saint.

Beatrice: There is one thing that interests me about that boy though.

All eyes turned towards the Great Spirit, wondering what she meant by that.

Beatrice: How did you get labeled as not only part of that cult, but also as one of it's leading figures?

All eyes then turned towards the black haired young man and the Sword Saint.

Roswaal: I waaaaas wondering about thaaaaat toooo~ I don't believe that that ruuumor is true, but I aaaaam still curious as to how it started~

Pleiades: Well, me and Reinhard have theorized that this power that I hold may be similar as to the one that Archbishops use. It's called an Authority.

There was a long silence after his words, until....

Rem: I KNEW IT!!

Rem tried reaching for her morningstar, but she noticed that it wasn't there. So she decided to use magic to wipe out the Witchcultist-

Roswaal: REM, STOP!!

With none of his usual accent present, Rem stopped shocked at the fact that Roswaal screamed that out loud.

Roswaal coughed a bit before speaking.

Roswaal: Apologies~ It appears that one of my staff members isn't listening to reason. Pleiades-sama~ I'll allow you to chooooose any punishment against Rem of your own choise. No matter what it may be~

Rem: But, Roswaal-sama I-

But then Ram put a hand on her sister's shoulder while whispering to her not to make it worse than it is.

Pleiades: Any punishment, huh...

Pleiades looked around to see everyone's reaction to the words Roswaal told him.

Beatrice didn't look like she cared much as she looked like she just wanted to go back to her library.

Emilia: Had a confused and worried look on her face.

Reinhard surprisingly looked content at this outcome as he awaited Pleiades's answer.

Rem looked completely in disbelief at the situation.

While Ram looked at Pleiades with pleading eyes, probably begging him silently not to punish her by death.

Pleiades looked onto the roof of the room, wondering what he should do.

At first he thought about executing her, but there could be multiple problems with that.

If people found out, someone might try and spin the story to "The evil Archbishop of Pride executed a poor maid for a small offence! No one vote for this bastard!"

It could also complicate his relationship with Emilia, he wanted to know more about his rival, so it probably wasn't a good idea to execute a maid of her sponsor.

Then there's Ram, he can tell by Ram's eyes and body language that she cares alot for her sister. So executing her might just make Ram go down the path of revenge and repeat this situation.

Also, killing isn't something Pleiades wants to do anyways, even if that someone tried to kill him.

So, Pleiades decided on his punishment. It wasn't enough, but he didn't want to cause any problems down the line.

Pleiades: First of all, I would like to set some conditions. Whenever i'm here, I don't want her anywhere near me, I don't even want to be in the same home as her. So just send her away for a while whenever i'm here.

Ram looked relieved, his response implied that he wouldn't execute Rem.

Pleiades: And lastly, I want an extra book from you, Roswaal.

Roswaal: Is that really enough? Oh well~ Very well! I shall grant youuuu your wish, I dooooo owe it to you~

Pleiades: Hold on, there is one more thing I want to do. Rem.

Rem flinched as she heard him call her name.

Pleiades: Come stand here with me.

His words confused everyone in the room, but Rem had no choise but to follow his orders.

They stood infront of eachother with Rem trying her best not to glare at him.

Pleiades: Now, close your eyes.

Rem: Huh-

Pleiades: Just do it.

No one had any idea what he was up to, but once again Rem did what he told her to do.

Pleiades then reeled his arm back....

*BAM*

And he punched Rem straight in the face, sending her flying quite far.

Everyone in the room looked shocked, even Beatrice....Actually, everyone except for Roswaal...

Ram instantly ran up to Rem to help her up and check for any injuries.

Pleiades: Sorry about that, I usually don't resort to senseless violance, but you annoyed me just enough to make me want to do it.

Reinhard:...Pleiades-sama, are you sure this is enough? She might still-

Pleiades: Rein, this was my choice. Don't worry about it.

Reinhard didn't look convinced, but he simply nodded his head as he listened to his lord.

And so it was decided that Rem would be send away for the duration of his stay, Pleiades tried going back to his room to get some sleep, but Reinhard was insistant to guard him while he slept. So it was difficult for him to fall asleep.

About 2200 words.

I know that a lot of people don't like it, but I plan to introduce some Oc's into the story.

Now first of all, their not really Oc's since I'm planning to simply use other characters from diffirent media, a lot of you will probably recognize them when you see them.

Now why am I planning to introduce them, you might ask? Well Pleiades will need to have some members in his camp and I don't want to simply use the same characters that the Felt camp had.

And I can't really choose characters from Re:zero, since they need to fit the following...

1: Be in Lugunica.

2: Be willing to join the royal election.

3: Somehow be convinced that Pleiades isn't a cultist.

4: Be qualified for a position in the camp (This one kinda isn't neccesary, now that I think about it.)

5: Make the story more unique.

There isn't really any character that fits this criteria.

For those that don't like Oc's (their not really Oc's but whatever) though, it probably won't happen in the next 2-3 chapters, since I'm planning for Pleiades to start recruiting before the Royal election, but after the events of arc 2.

And if you can guess from what media it's from, you get free internet points.

(For any of those that want to guess, it could be from an anime, but it could be from a show or even a game)