3rd person POV:
'I'll follow the same path like my first loop while keeping the changes to the minimum.'
Subaru thought, following the 2 maids into the dressing room, walking up to the dresser he grabbed the jacket from his previous loop. But this time, he was stopped by red haired maid.
"That won't fit you, barusu. It appears nothing here will fit you except the robes. Rem, altar that one for him."
"Yes sister."
Ram said while around the dress and checking the clothes before asking rem, making Subaru a little confused due to the change in behavior and actions.
'This... did not happen in the previous loop. Something changed.'
He thought, worry and confusion mingling with his thoughts.
"Well... what about my measurements? Should I remove my top?"
Subaru asked, hoping to steer the loop in the original direction from the past one, only to get shot down by ram.
"We'll measure you later."
Ram replied, walking out of the the room with her blue haired twin, not sparing him a single glance.
'Okay... everything has gone to shit. What happened?'
"Huh, wha..?"
He mumbled, utterly dumbfounded from the changes that did not occur in his previous loop.
"Follow me, barusu."
Ram said, turning her head slightly and glancing at him for the first time since they arrived in the room.
'Finally, Something that I remember!'
"Are you going to show me around the mansion?"
His mood instantly brightened tho he didn't show it outwardly but still feeling glad, thinking that finally things were returning to how he remembered.
"That can wait, you'll help me with my work first."
'...or not.'
He sighed with exhaustion, dejected and followed her out of the room.
*****
'This whole loop is fucked. Nothing is going like the previous run.'
He thought, sitting in the warm bath, runes glowed dimly on his body before fading.
There was a black fingerless glove covering his right hand and forearm reaching upto his fingers, covered with leather and bandages of similar shade with five ornate golden gems on the base of his fingers, giving them a similar resemblance to rings.
Thin silver chains were attached to the jewels that ended up connected to the silver bracelet resembling a serpentine beast Coiling around his wrist, biting its own tail.
The glove looked simple but it hummed with a power incomprehensible to those who never witnessed its true force.
'It's like preparing to fight a monster, creating strategies around its weaknesses only for it to be a Mutant, making the whole strategy useless since it either developed new powers, shed its weaknesses or simply became so strong that it became impossible to exploit them.'
Sighing with disappointment, subaru let his body relax in the water, adjusting to all the changes his body went through from the runes.
"Hi there! May I join?"
Roswaal asked, standing butt-naked behind him with the only thing saving the readers from getting flashed being subaru's head.
"Why ask for my permission? It's your mansion, you can do whatever you wish to. Ros-san."
Subaru said closing his eyes and relaxing further in the warm water, already beginning to adjust to the runes carved into his body.
"Why, you don't seem to understand. Yes, the bath is my property... but as part of my staff, are you not my property, as well?"
Roswaal said, gently grabbing his face and turning him around. Subaru opened his eyes to see Roswaal kneeling at the foot of the bath, looking into his eyes.
"I do not swing that way, Ros-san."
"No hesitation at all!"
Subaru's reply came fast and blunt making Roswaal smile in amusement before he too entered the giant bath that resembled a pool more than a bath.
"This is turning out different from what I'd expect, too."
Subaru mumbled with a tired sigh, frustrated at the sudden chain of events that did not occur in his previous loop.
"I do not know what's bothering you, but life is full of things that don't go your way."
Roswaal said after a few minutes of comfortable silence.
"By the way, do you think you'll be able to get along with ram and rem?"
He asked with his eccentric tone laced with curiosity and amusement, his eyes staring at him as if he found the most amusing thing in the world.
"I really haven't spoken to rem much yet. But I suppose I get along fine with ram. She maybe a little strict but I can tell she's a kind person. Tho, i do wonder how she works as a maid."
Subaru's mind went back to the previous loop and remembered how bad ram was when doing her work and how rem fixed everything.
"Well, rem covers the things ram is unable to do. As sister they must help eachother. In that sense, I think the two of them are getting by quite well."
Roswaal said, a hint of pride slipping out from his eccentric persona.
"Ram is really knowledgeable about the work but her skills can't follow her brain while rem is the complete opposite, she is able to perform any task with basic guidance. They really do cover eachother's flaws."
Subaru said as he remembered his time with the two maids before he died of unknown reasons.
"Well, I'm starting get a little dizzy from the heat so I'll be taking my leave now."
Subaru said, getting out of the bath, his body still adjusting to the added resistance and gravity.
"I must say subaru-kun, your physique is quite impressive. I've met knights who would kill for such toned muscles."
Roswaal commented, glancing at subaru's well defined back muscles. Every contour of his muscles fit perfectly together created from countless hours of training.
"Why thank you, i spent most of my life keeping my body in shape as a protector, now please enjoy your bath."
With that said, subaru left roswaal alone. Grabbing the towel he brought along and began to dry himself off.
He walked up to the door and opened it but was startled by a mop of pink hair.
"WHAT THE-"
Due to shock, he instinctively made the mental command, causing the black glove to expand into thin strands of fabric that woven itself on top his muscular frame, covering his entire body and revealing itself to be the black shroud.
"Your all covered, I'm glad. I did not wish to see something insignificant this early."
Ram said with a straight face making his eyebrows twitch from annoyance.
'Now that's just crossing the line. Like master like servant. Both are shameless perverts.'
"Why are yo-"
He tried to ask only to pause mid sentence, his eyes looking at the towel and undergarments in her hands.
"... don't tell me that thong-... are you here deliver Ros-san his garments."
"No. I was only waiting to help Roswaal-sama put on fresh clothes."
He stared at her blankly, eyes flickering between her emotionless face to the clothes in her hands.
"I'm sorry to tell you that I've finished my bath, so I won't be changing."
She said in her usual monotonous tone but this time, something snapped inside him, the frustration building in him due to the inability to figure out about his death and something unknown that made him lash out.
"I'm a priest! Fear the lord a little, dammit! Also, wouldn't it be too awkward if you dress a grown ass man?!"
Subaru said, irritation lacing his voice but it was replaced by surprise at the sight of ram's poker face turning into one of anger.
"I will not condone disrespect toward Roswaal-sama. Next time, I will use force."
"Fuck this. I'm out, if I stayed any longer I might die from losing too many brain cells over this stupidity and shamelessness."
Subaru's blood pressure was still high. It hasn't been that long since he activated the runes making his continuously thinning patience even thinner.
So, he simply decided to not waste his time and focus on actual important things.
'Weird people with weird fetishes. Thank God they didn't currupt emilia. Probably puck's intervention, I should thank him for protecting her innocence.'
"By the way, barusu, do you have plans after this?"
He stopped, turning to look at her with a raised eyebrow.
"Why? You want to dress me aswell? But Yes. I have to do some things before retiring to my bed."
"No. I do wish yo touch at all. Then please wait in your room. I'll come later."
'What does she want now? What was the point of even asking if she would still come either way? I can't even read their emotions due to how dense Roswaal's aura is around his close proximity.'
"Uhhh... sure, I guess?"
He agreed, not wanting to waste anymore time and continued on the way to his room.
'I'll have to prepare for the 4th night. My bag still holds some of the relics from the church. Lets see if there's anything useful.'
With that thought, his eyes hardened. Filling with determination.
'I am going to live through this. No matter what. I have a date to go on, after all.'