As Rem discovered her new feelings after the mabeast ordeal, she became fully aware that her mind was taken by a hopeless virus, the figure who couldn't leave her thoughts, and how it was easier to count the time when she wasn't thinking of him, whether asleep or awake, she was always thinking of him.

Rem thought to herself: "Rem, have you always been such a frivolous oni?" isn't it too much? To Rem, the one having the same illness was nee-sama, Ram. Rem and Ram's feelings are the same, and yet Rem cannot imagine Ram being so unrestrained with her emotions running wild.. "As expected of nee-sama, she is great."

Rem and Subaru took a break off work, and sat together on the sofa enjoying tea and snacks. Noticing that the snacks were finished, Rem asked if he wanted more, and Subaru agreed as it was very good.

Rem said, Alright. 100 plates or so, would that be enough?

Subaru immediately cut in. 2 or 3 were enough.

Rem: "Right, I shall prepare them now. If Subaru-kun is gone during the preparation time, I might be sad."

Subaru: "I won't do such a thing, how about we make a promise!"

Rem: "Alright."

Rem raised her long awaited pinky towards Subaru, and abruptly said "hair, cut" without understanding why.

(After the mabeast ordeal, they had been making promises left and right since Rem is comforted by the thought of promises that lead to the foreseeable future)

Subaru: "Yeah, there was a promise like that in the past, could you help me now?" Even though it was a very simple promise, it was important to Rem.

If there must be a reason... Rem to herself : "This is the first promise I have with Subaru-kun"

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"Subaru-kun, it's no good. My hands can't stop trembling."

~small chit chat~

Rem: "Subaru-kun, letting Rem take care of your body, does it cause no discomfort?" She asked abruptly.

Rem realized "Ah, so this is why I'm trembling, he saw my oni nature in the forest. All those days of observing him as an unstable element in the mansion, if my own cautiousness got out of control, I would have killed Subaru-kun." So why, why is he sitting there so unguarded, smiling at me?

Subaru: "Rem. in my country, there was a tale called [The King with Donkey Ears]"

~explaining the story to Rem~

Rem: "Eh?"

Subaru: "There's a horn on Rem's head!"

Rem: "!"

Subaru: "The king was ashamed of his donkey ears, so he executed all those who exposed his secret, Rem, are you ashamed of being an oni?"

Rem: "No, not at all. I may have had some regrets in the past, but not anymore."

Subaru: "Would you be unable to forgive me, who exposed your secret?"

Rem: "No, my identity as an oni, there's nothing about it to hide."

Subaru: "So then! There's no problem! If you won't harm me because of the oni issue, I have no reason to be afraid of you."

Rem: "Ah, but -"

Subaru: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, I learnt that a long time ago. It's my fault that I had forgotten, but now we're even, right?"

Subaru: "So, how's your trembling hands now?"

Rem: "Ah.. They're not trembling anymore."

Subaru: "So please give me a handsome hairstyle, the kind that would let Emilia-tan fall for me!"

Rem smiled: "Subaru-kun is always charming."