Arc 5 – Chapter 22, “A Casual Response”

 

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This is not a professional translation. Some mistakes, both grammatical and logical, are inevitable. Also, be advised that translators have a predisposition for personal preference and the names and terminology may differ at times from what was used in the anime or is used in the fandom at large. Think of these documents as an extremely
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Could this be called aerial warfare?

Reinhard had leapt toward Sirius, knocking his opponent from the tower and sending her flying through the sky.

Sirius: “Hahaha! Ah, how impressive you are!”

As the heroic figure flew toward her, she raised her voice, ecstatic, and waved her arms about. Accompanying that motion was the piercing whine of her chain unraveling from her wrist.

That fully extended chain could now be used as a whip, although its merit as a weapon was based more in intimidating appearance and violent sound than convenience. Someone who chose to wield such a weapon was clearly out of touch with common sense.

That iron snake had undoubtedly tasted the blood of more than just a few people, and, at this moment, was partaking in a routine hunt, attempting to crush its prey with its iron jaws, the whistling wind it created resembling applause.

But even that blunt snake, who could approach the speed of sound, was clueless.

— In this world, there existed a human existence that exists in the same sense as that of Sirius that departed from its usual course.

Reinhard: “A chain, how troublesome.”

Hearing the sound of the chain entering the fight, the Sword Saint frowned and gave a troubled mutter.

In the midst of such an intense battle, he seemed be giving the slight grievance that better suited the atmosphere of a brief break between classes.

Sirius: “Hahaha!”

Sirius, on the verge of panting, revealed her passionate smile to the spectators.

Surely, that was inevitable. However, the reasoning behind Sirius’s delight was mysterious. Whether it was because of desperation, or whether she was genuinely happy, one face was clear to all the spectators.

This was a situation that only Sirius would have laughed in.

Reinhard: “——”

Sirius flew upwards, and Reinhard pursued her from below.

With Reinhard as her target, Sirius delivered a quick, precise blow. Even facing that oncoming chain, Reinhard didn’t reach for the sword hanging at his waist.

If his words from long before were true, it wasn’t that he didn’t intent to draw his sword, it was that he couldn’t. Reinhard’s legendary sword would only allow itself to face worthy opponents.

In that case, he was condemned to be unarmed while fighting that horrible freak. Even Reinhard, who Subaru had the utmost trust in, would have to undergo a bitter struggle — perhaps he would even fail to live up to Subaru’s expectation, in a show of human weakness.

If so, then that trust would soon be broken.

Aiming her second strike at Reinhard’s, a high-pitched voice spoke up.

Shock waves and sparks danced at the scene. To Subaru and the other spectators, lightning seemed to flash through the sky.

The ability to accomplish that kind of witchcraft was precisely the proof that Reinhard transcended the boundaries of human skill.

Reinhard met the chain head on, lifting a slender leg to defend against it.

That attack was so surprising that it would have elicited a laugh. After that impact, Reinhard turned attention to wrapping his foot with the chain, moving it to suit his own will.

The movement itself was nothing too special. Reinhard had met the approaching chain with his right leg, and wound it around his foot in a makeshift weapon, using it to open an immediate follow up.

In only a moment, he’d easily alternated between offensive and defensive.

Needless to say, not everyone could keep up with the fight. Only the handful of people with combat training could follow those rapid, continuous attacks.

In that moment of understanding, there was an impulse to laugh. Subaru gave a long sigh and relaxed his shoulders. Fortunately, Reinhard was a comrade, so those thoughts were unnecessary. If he were the enemy, then Subaru’s shoulders, knees, and bladder would have all given out.

Sirius: “Haha, hahaha! AHAHA, HAHAHAHA!!”

Sirius laughed loudly, her right arm spinning wildly like a tornado.

Since her left arm had been captured by Reinhard, she could only resort to using the right one. However, although the whistling snake tore through the sky, flying from every direction, it was blocked by the chain on Reinhard’s right foot, creating a high-pitched whine and a shower of sparks.

Every spark dancing in the blue sky, was accompanied by a metallic instrument whose sound permeated the square, in a whirling performance of red and yellow.

A strike, another blow, but during that period, Reinhard had further closed the distance between himself and Sirius. Soon, after exchanging an array of blows, he’d reached her.

Sirius: “How unexpected! You’ve actually reached this point! Amazing!”

Reinhard: “You’re very adept. I find it a shame that you’ve committed yourself to evil.”

In those moments, the two exchanged words the way they did attacks.

Reinhard quickly pulls back his right leg and thrusts his left hand with aligned fingers. Sirius greeted it with a powerful swing of her arm, the undulating chain diving at Reinhard with exposed fangs.

Although that chain was made of steel, Reinhard had used his own hand as a blade and cleaved it in two.

In the past, Subaru had witnessed the perfect splitting of disposable wooden chopsticks — a party trick. If Reinhard were to partake in those performances, he could split a steel blade like paper. He was the very portrait of beautiful swordplay.

The severed portion of the chain was propelled by the attack’s momentum into the clocktower,

the violent collision shattering one of the building’s walls. The sight of smoke and the rubble crashing into the square shook Subaru out of his trance.

He’d been completely fascinated.

Reinhard and Sirius’s fight, no, Reinhard’s fight, had entranced him. Whether envy or fear caused fascination was another matter entirely.

Subaru: “Leaving her to Reinhard is fine. Then, I…!”

He couldn’t continue to dawdle here, blindly ogling the fight and waiting for an outcome.

Subaru squeezed through a gap in the crowd, running to the opening of the tower. Lusbel, who had been scheduled to be part of Sirius’s speech, had probably been abandoned in the clock tower when he responded to Reinhard’s inability to withdraw.

Saving him would ease Subaru’s worries.

Just in case, so that if Sirius got away from Reinhard, Lusbel’s safety would be guaranteed. Subaru climbed anxiously up the spiral staircase, again tasting that dark, damp air.

The tower was much brighter than it had been fifteen minutes ago, thanks to the light flooding in from the walls that had been broken by Sirius’s chain.

After safely ascending the spiral staircase, Subaru found the bound Lusbel on the top floor. He’d been left face down on the ground, where his tears had pooled into a puddle. The child’s sobs touched Subaru deeply.

Subaru: “Lusbel! You’re safe now, don’t worry!”

Subaru tenderly took the chained Lusbel into his arms.

He ignored the warm torrent of tears as he returned Lusbel’s desperate, terrified gaze with his own reassuring one.

Lusbel: “Mmm!”

Subaru: “It’s alright, I’m on your side. And as for that monster, a reliable hero is fighting her right now. So, let’s take this time to get you out of here.”

Lusbel: “Mmm.”

Subaru spoke with the utmost sincerity. Gradually, the struggling Lusbel’s body lost its strength, and he faced Subaru with a tearful but clear expression.

After Subaru nodded in response to that inquiring gaze, Lusbel began sobbing anew, for a different reason than before.

Subaru: “Wait a second. Let me get this off of you.”

After gently touching crying boy’s head, Subaru started cautiously working on the chain.

From the shoulders to ankles, the chain was wound tightly, and he was also gagged with it. Subaru took care to avoid hurting the child as he unraveled it.

Subaru: “Well, I got it off. Can you stand up? If not, I can carry you.”

Lusbel: “D-Don’t worry, it’s… thank you… hk.”

Lusbel rose unsteadily to his feet, shaking his stiff legs, offering his gratitude. Although his face was stained with tears, he was still a strong child. Subaru patted his head again.

Then, as he pondered the intense battle taking place near the tower,

Subaru: “Staying here might actually be safer, but we should probably get out just in case. Can you walk? Are you hurt anywhere?”

Lusbel: “My right hand, just a little bit…”

Lusbel frowned and obediently presented his wound to Subaru.

On his outstretched right hand was a sharp laceration that had clearly been made by a snake-like weapon. Seeing the blood oozing from the wound, Subaru contorted his face in discomfort.

Subaru: “Bastard, tying up such a small child, and even doing this to him.”

Lusbel: “No, no. This just suddenly… suddenly hurting when I was tied up.”

Subaru: “Suddenly?”

While he had been tied up, Subaru registered distractedly.

At least, Subaru shouldn’t have hurt him in the process of unraveling the chain. His movements had been cautious, and if Lusbel had suffered so serious an injury, Subaru would have noticed.

— A terrible, ominous apprehension rose in Subaru’s heart.

Subaru: “…at any rate, we can’t stay here. Let’s go.”

Subaru took Lusbel’s uninjured left hand and led him to the bottom of the spiral staircase, to the exit of the tower.

When Subaru returned to the square, he heard,

Crowd: “—Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!”

The mob had plunged into a frenzy, eagerly awaiting the execution of that captured freak, calling for vindication.

Eyes filled with bloodlust, mouths twisted in snarls, howling for murder.

Endless abhorrence of evil. Incredulous aversion to the unnatural. Wanting to be rid of the presence of an enemy who wasn’t physiologically acceptable. This emotion was one of murderous intent.

And what was this called?

— This was known as Wrath.

Crowd: “—Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!”

A crowd of complete strangers stood side by side as comrades, moving toward the same goal.

Crowd: “—Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!”

Their very hearts united in that moment, facing the spirits of good and evil.

Crowd: “—Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!”

Choosing to be united, pushing that limit, that was—

Crowd: “—Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!”

Sirius: “Joining feelings into one… this is surely Love, correct? Well, there is no doubt that this is a scene only Love could achieve, don’t you agree?”

Rather than devising a scheme, Sirius murmured in her usual voice.

Sirius had been pressed to the side of the tower by the hero. The surrounding crowd eagerly cheered for the death of the unnatural person, and knowing that their Sword Saint had the power to kill the abomination.

The desperate Sirius seemed to have lost even the chain has on her left hand. If both hands were unarmed, she had no way to defend against Reinhard’s knife-like hand.

This was clearly a dead end — however, Sirius wore her usual placid smile.

Reinhard: “Are there any last words you want to say?”

Sirius: “Thank you. Then, allow me to offer you an piece advice. The other archbishops may not be as docile as me, so if you want to ask their last words, you might suffer for it.”

Reinhard: “— I will keep that in mind.”

In the face of Reinhard’s warm kindness, Sirius spoke a calm statement. Reinhard nodded in compliance and stepped forward, ready to execute her with the blade that was his hand.

Crowd: “—Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!”

As the voice of the crowd grew in intensity, Sirius’s fate had been sealed. This was obvious, so why?

Standing at the entrance of the broken tower, Subaru felt a throbbing chill threatening to break his heart.

Why? What did that mean? He desperately wanted to speak, but his mouth couldn’t move. Once he began to speak, Subaru knew what he would say.

Subaru certainly would join the loud cries of “kill her!”

Sirius: “We know each other. Mutual humility. Mutual recognition. We forgive each other. That’s exactly the correct form that Love should take.”

Ignoring the subdued Subaru, Sirius continued to preach her rhetoric.

At first glance, she seemed to make sense, but, taking into account that Sirius was saying so, that proposition and the atmosphere itself turned unpleasant.

Reinhard: “——”

Reinhard seemed to have made the same judgment as Subaru.

There was no longer any meaning in letting Sirius speak, so Reinhard moved forward. However, just before Reinhard reached her, Sirius smiled and held her arms into the air.

Immediately, accompanied by a crackling sound, chains were ejected from the cuffs of her coat. Those chains were fired through her sleeves, and then wrapped around the tower as Sirius began to fly once more.

She intended to escape — but just before she could, Reinhard stomped on the ground. Shock waves spread upward, like an explosion.

His hand struck at her in a smooth, upward motion. In that moment, Sirius’s life would end.

Crowd: “—Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!”

And that result, will be prompted by the crowd’s cry.

Subaru’s heart spiked with fear. Driven by a sudden impulse,

Subaru: “REINHARD!!”

He yelled the hero’s name, but, falling under the sway of the crowd,

Subaru: “—KILL HER!!”

Reinhard slashed.

A clean line swept neatly from Sirius’s left shoulder to her right flank.

That exquisite cut was so sharp that there was a delay of several seconds before Sirius’s body could react. Finally, the blood in her body noticed the wound, and her body collapsed as blood began to spray.

Sirius: “… Ah, this gentle world.”

Her internal organs spilling out, Sirius’s body was cleft in half.

Her upper body continued soaring upward, pouring blood and intestines through the air, while her lower body, left in place, became a fountain, sprinkling blood through the square.

This was hell come to earth.

No one could bear to look straight at that horror. However, no one looked away. No one could look away.

Reinhard: “…it can’t be.”

After landing, Reinhard uttered a stunned mutter.

Subaru saw that his blue eyes were shaking with grief, a desperate shadow enveloping his fair, handsome face.

— And then Subaru could see no more.

Subaru: “——”

Subaru, and the rest of the crowd, lay scattered in the square that had turned into a pool of blood. From their left shoulders to their right sides, everyone had been clearly bisected.

Subaru: “——”

Blood and viscera spilling out, Subaru’s consciousness didn’t have time to understand what was happening before he was pulled into the embrace of death. Just before that happened, he felt something else.

A boy’s left hand, holding on to his own, whose owner had also been cleaved enough, squeezed tightly, looking to Subaru for salvation.

He seemed to have felt that somewhere before.

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Liliana: “After the song ends and they chat again, shouldn’t we prepare food and drinks for them? Indulging in sweet snacks will certainly create a mood that will close the distance between them, don’t you think so?”

Subaru: “——ghk!”

Beatrice: “Ow! Ow, that hurts! It hurts in fact, SUBARU!!”

Blinking rapidly, Subaru was surprised by what he just heard.

The sudden switch in consciousness had him clinging to Beatrice’s hand with the same vice grip that he’d been making before his Return by Death.

Beatrice tearfully kicked Subaru’s leg after suffering from that sudden atrocity, who recoiled in pain and loosened his grip on her hand.

Liliana: “W-W-W-Why did you do that? Why would you attack Beatrice-sama’s lovely hands so suddenly? You’re going to ruin then… but it’s okay, I… I-I’ll kiss them and make it better for you, ha… haha.”

Beatrice: “It’s alright, I suppose! That’s quite gross, in fact!”

Beatrice flushed with panic as Liliana grabbed her hand. She ducked behind Subaru. Even if he had injured her hand, her trust in her partner had not diminished.

Emilia: “Subaru, are you alright? Just now, you suddenly turned pale…”

Subaru: “E-Emilia-tan…”

A concerned Emilia had joined his side, reaching a hand to his forehead. Subaru saw himself reflected in her amethyst eyes and breathed a sigh.

He’d come back.

He patted his shoulders and chest, which had been nearly bisected. His abdomen was cut, and his head had been smashed. Although Subaru was confident in his experience with deaths, this had been his first real beheading. Taking precedence over pain was a sense of astonishment and loss, the knowledge of his Death tugging at Subaru’s spirit. This was a death that Subaru, who was commonly subjected to them, could accept.

Subaru: “Why, can’t I find a simple conclusion…”

Once again catching up with the memories he’d inherited memory, this Death taught him the reality of Sirius’s power.

Although he hadn’t registered much pain, the sense of loss and shock hit Subaru one after the other. His partial understanding of the phenomenon grew.

That is, this time, the cause of death —

Subaru: “Disgusting…”

Needless to say, he had long understood.

Subaru was beheaded and killed this time exactly the same way that Sirius was. In other words, to put it bluntly, Subaru went through the same deathmatch as Sirius. Looking back thirty minutes before the first reincarnation, Subaru only saw Lusbel’s death in joy and then he died. The previously unknown cause of death had now been identified.

— Sirius could transfer Deaths if anyone died in her vicinity.

Not just brainwashing with emotional changes. Even changes that occurred in the body could be shared. It wasn’t merely brainwashing, but bodywashing. Or could it be called soulwashing?

In other words, killing her meant killing all of the people in that square.

Subaru: “What to do?”

Defeating Sirius using brute force could be achieved by calling Reinhard.

Only, that would come at the price of the life of everyone in that square. In that case, the result would be no different from Sirius’s intended atrocities.

Summoning Reinhard was nothing more than a concise and easy-to-understand solution at first glance, but it was, in actuality, the wrong answer. In this case, what could he do?

Subaru: “Call Reinhard, and tell him to take her alive…?”

That was unlikely, but perhaps not impossible.

Since Reinhard was capable of killing Sirius, he should also be capable of detaining her. The problem was that if she were caught alive, there would be no way to end her spiritual control.

Subaru had come in contact with Sirius and Lusbel, and had gone mad and died. If that insidious, insane infection were to be repeated, then capturing Sirius would be fruitless.

If she were killed, the everyone would be buried with her.

If she were caught, there was a possibility that she’d spread her contagion.

Just existing made her a threat to others, she was this kind of bomb-like existence. She truly deserved her title of Sin Archbishop.

Subaru: “What else?”

Unable to find a breakthrough, Subaru found himself in a dilemma.

If Reinhard were called, he would surely be able to kill or restrain Sirius. Was that okay, ignoring the possibility of falling into madness?

Subaru: “——”

Time was passing even as Subaru pondered.

Seeing the silent Subaru, those around him all appeared uneasy. Whether to keep them from worrying or to keep them in the dark, Subaru had to offset that impression.

He hurriedly changed the expression on his face and announced,

Subaru: “Ah, right. That is… yes, I suddenly felt like I’d puke up the grilled meat from this morning. My chest was a bit uncomfortable.”

Liliana: “Ah, I see, I see. I, too, often feel nauseous, which is accompanied by a lot of gas…”

Subaru: “Stop right there. No matter how you act, you’re still a girl.”

Subaru interrupted Liliana’s jokes with a smile and turned towards Emilia. Seeing that, Emilia lowered her gaze.

Emilia: “I’ll believe Subaru since he says so, but… this is a special case, okay?”

Subaru: “Mm, thanks… then, I’ll go buy desserts, as Liliana suggested. Emilia-tan, please continue to enjoy the song.”

Thanks to Emilia’s kindness, Subaru was able to make an announcement after his wavering. Then, holding Beatrice’s hand again,”

Subaru: “Beako. Come shopping with me. Let’s take a walk and banter like we always do.”

Beatrice: “What are you suddenly — Mm. I understand, in fact.”

Beatrice cast aside her usual attitude when she saw Subaru’s face. To put it more appropriately, she accepted his offer after noticing his pleading expression.

Subaru took a confused Beatrice’s hand and ran from the park for the fourth time.

This time, rather than leaving Beatrice behind, he’d bring his reliable partner with him. Even though he had yet to reach any kind of breakthrough.

Priscilla: “—Hmm.”

— Staring at the retreating figures of Subaru and Beatrice, the red-clad woman watched the duo with a thoughtful expression.

 

56 thoughts on “Arc 5 – Chapter 22, “A Casual Response””

  1. The thumbnail for this chapter I dont remember that happening in the anime so could you tell me the episode.

        1. And while I am grateful for the artists for portraying me in their light. I much rather have it not be with the splatter of blood over the screen, haha.
          As a knight, I cannot condemn myself if I were to. . . bring death. . . . amongst. . . the innocent. . . bystanders—

          what… what have I done?
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  2. If the trigger for her authority is a strong emotional reaction to something, then it explains Subaru’s first and third death. Where the first death was an emotional reaction of joy? (I can’t find the right word for their feeling) towards Lusbel, and the third emotional reaction of malice towards Sirius. But I can’t seem to understand what emotional reaction linked Lusbel and Subaru during the second death.

    1. You’re kinda off on the first death…
      1) Death cuz Lusbel fell to death causing everyone else to go splat as well
      2) Death from infinitely increasing insanity
      3) Death by cleaving

      1. Don’t worry one person called Reinhardt survived because he is blessed by God and is immortal and has a divine blessing that revives him so he didn’t die after he killed Sirius

        1. I can’t tell if you are joking or if this is a spoiler… but what I think is he didn’t die because he can resist the power of Sirius, hence he was unable to connect with her resonated death with the crowd

  3. what should i that bitch is just weird not insane as pettelguess but still .
    and i think course will be ask emillia to go to inn explain the situation to assemble everyone and then stayed behind with members to come up with a solid strategy in mean time tell reinhard hold off her to get time and then everyone was heir then do something

    only flaw i think is we don’t know how to defeat her

    1. work on your grammar. But that situation does not work considering this time there is only 15 minutes between Subaru’s death and his return point. There’s literally no time. If they had a few hours even, Subaru would actually have a better solution since he’s quite a strategist when he needs to be.

    1. Of course not Reindhart has “Power” that’s it. The Witch’s Cult Authorities aren’t just a bunch of laser beams that blast people or something like Dragon Ball. Rather they have abilities that are more ‘devious’ or like “Rules” in a sense, where they impose Rules on themselves or the world that grant them victory, much like certain Espers from the Toaru series. For example, Regulus Corneas’s body is covered in frozen time, meaning that nothing outside of time can hurt him. and by freezing time on other objects, they can travel through other objects like armor without fail, such as using mere Rain to destroy his opponent or flicking a rubber band at them. It’s not like any of this involves using mana or punching somebody with the force of a bullet. It’s these Bishops that are the most troublesome and terrifying because there’s never a conventional way to beat them. Even Ben 10, the most op super hero in existence thanks to the fact he has nearly every super power would easily be beaten by Wrath. heck, the Hulk would be beaten by Wrath.. Superman would be beaten by Wrath. Thanos with all six infinity stones would be beaten by Wrath. Having the ability to impose Rules on the world or Rules and Conditions on the fight itself is far more overpowered than being able to fire destruction from your own body.

      1. You are correct in that it is difficult to simply beat her into submission without a similar type of beating happening to the source of that beating, or people within her authority’s range. However, that doesn’t mean even if she imposes rules on the fight that she cannot be defeated.

        In your previous instance, if it was Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet (MCU or comics version) she could never impose rules on their fight because any one of the gems could put at stop to it. Assuming that Thanos had the Infinity Stones from “this” universe, while Sirius’s power might be an arbitrary 10 in rules “strength”, the Infinity Gauntlet has a rules strength of infinity, it’s rules break hers, she can’t win. Thanos could even use a non rules solution to win, I.E. restricting the space her ability functions in, then kill her from a distance such that it doesn’t affect anyone other than her.

        She likely also couldn’t win against a superior magic user, or certain divine protections even in her own world. I.E. I doubt Satella would be affected by her, given their differences in magical power. If it were me, and I could choose my own powers to fight her, that’d be easy, the “full power” of Touma from the Toaru series you mentioned, and the powers of Squirrel Girl from Marvel. Now I have fully controlled power negation, which means her power does not work against me, and I am luckier than anyone in the universe, the actual power Priscilla claims she has but doesn’t. There’s now no scenario in which she can win, I can punch her to death, and there’s nothing she can do about it. I’m also so lucky that probabilities say I have 100% chance to win, she can’t win, nor even affect anyone else with her authority, not even in infinite tries. That’s something not even Subaru can overcome with Return by Death.

        Anyways, she’s strong, and has annoying powers, but she’s not invincible. In fact I’d argue she’s one of the weakest Archbishops.

    1. If Liliana can draw the people’s attention with her song then reinhardt could kill wrath without repercussions.

  4. In Fairy Tail, there is a character named Meredy who has basically the same power as Sirius. I never realized how painful it could be to fight against that power until now.

  5. There’s a solution:
    1. have reinhart capture Sirius
    2. have lots of people transfer mana to subaru, and let beatrice drain it directly from subaru (since beatrice can only get mana from subaru)
    3. Beatrice use the mana to cast Al Shamac on Sirius (since al shamac transfer the victim to an alternate dimension, it is a movement spell, it doesnt cause death or physical damage to the victim, the people connected by the magic of sirius will not be affected because its a movement spell, we know this cuz if sirius’s magic DOES connect movement, then everyone wud have also flew up when reinhart sent sirius flying)

    there are a few flaws in this strategy:
    -there must exist a person who can transfer mana for step 2 (but this is a fantasy world and theres so many types of magic, it is quite likely for this condition to be satisfied)
    -we need to assume sending sirius to an alternate dimension will cut off her spell connection with the people (if it didnt, that would mean her spell connects even through dimensions, which is op so i think this is quite unlikely)

    1. Well, another condition is that Subaru needs to hold all the mana flow. You can think of it as a pipeline: if a enormous pressure go through, the flow will end up breaking the surface that, in this case, is Subaru’s body. We also have to assume that many people contain as much mana as the collected by Beatrice during 400 years, no forgetting the necessity for passing it in a matter of minutes, or even seconds before tragedy would occur.

  6. If this arc gets animated we are gonna have 3 deaths in the span of 2 episodes. The first one would probably end an episode, and the other 2 would take up an episode.

  7. Holy fucking shit… I feel so dumb for thinking Reinhardt would work. She can even resonance DEATHS? WHAT THE FUCK DO WE DO THEN?!

    1. With whose mana? Beatrice needed to stockpile power for 400 years to do this, and it left her completely taped out. Right now, all she has to work with is one year worth of mana from Subaru, who is noted to have a rather low output on that front.

  8. Holy sh-… Idk why, but I felt like I’m gonna puke for a sec. Though to be honest… I kinda expected something like that to happen. Right when everyone started screaming: “KILL HER!!”, I started suspecting something to go wrong. Sadly I didn’t quite realized WHAT will go wrong. Anyways… I’m taking a breather after this twisted sh*t…

  9. The moment when the people on the square start yelling “KILL HER!” I felt instantly scared, I was like ‘oh damn, oh damn, something’s gonna happen, and it’s not good.’ and as expected a bad thing did happen. Man, i seriously need to take at least 15 minutes break from reading Re:Zero i feel dizzy.

  10. I doubt that except Reinhardt is there anyone from the inn who can withstand against her authority

  11. Wow. The author really declared ~sadism~ huh. 15 minutes countdown to death straight out of a year’s break, forced sharing of emotions and death in as brutal ways as possible, and topped off with scarring the past loop’s all-powerful Sword Saint Reinhard van Astrea. Sheeeshhhh!!!!

    On a side note, I think the incredibly short 15 mins is because to keep living, all Subaru has to do is just not go and try to rescue the kid. In arc 4 it was established that RBD only cares about Subaru and no one else. Now we’re really experiencing its brutality.

  12. I started reading from Arc 5 now that I’ve finished the existing anime episodes, this is really good. Even now in the beginning there are some awesome chapters and interactions with characters.

    Also the Authorities are pretty unique, in that they’re not always physical. That’s pretty cool, in fact

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