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???: [――When you talk to me, look at me properly!!]
The moment he was struck by the intense kick unleashed, an alarm blared inside Aldebaran’s mind. The cause of that alert had been the kick itself, alongside various factors surrounding it.
Firstly, the sheer force of the kick had incurred tremendous damage, leaving him astonished at the absurd length of the leg that had punted him, thinking “From here to there is all leg!?”. The tip of the icy slipper worn on the kicking leg bore into him, smashing past his stone chestplate and placing him in a serious bind; the ice had begun to freeze over his chest, causing his sternum to creak.
But, the greatest reason for that clamorous alarm was the fact that she had hit the bullseye on him with piercing words leaving him no room for excuses.
――Look at me properly, she had said. And priorly, you look lonely when you talk to me, as well.
Aldebaran: [――Hk.]
Honestly, it was shocking that she had correctly guessed the complex emotions Aldebaran harbored.
He was not so conceited as to think he had done a good job of hiding it, but he had arbitrarily assumed that she was ignorant to these sorts of subtleties. But, on reflection, she was simply bad at harboring ill will towards others, though alert to such malice stemming from those others. ――She had been born into this world a silver-haired half-elf, so that was only natural.
Aldebaran: [The tuition fee cost a damn fortune… hk.]
Just below where the frost had begun to erode the abdomen of Aldebaran, as he spat those words out in frustration, clinging was an ice-made man modeled after an odious individual.
The ice-man obstructed his movements, and so, grabbing its head with a stone left arm crafted through magic, Aldebaran mercilessly ripped cranium from torso. The cries of its sculpture audible as an “Ahhh!”, the decapitated body of the ice-man shattered in a ruthless manner, its ice scattering to the ground.
Not only did they look the same, even the ease with which they died was spot on.
Aldebaran: [There, you take it!]
Emilia: [Kyaa! Geez, that’s awful!]
Unlike the shattered body, the decapitated head was attempting to bite him, so he threw the ice man’s head back towards the woman who had been chasing him―― Emilia. After glancing back at Emilia, who caught the head before her body as if it were a dodgeball, Aldebaran looked down at his stomach.
The frost began to spread from where the kick had landed, and as things were, his entire body would end up being frozen in ice――,
???: [If that happens, you’d be done for, uncle. You know what to do, don’t you?]
Affixed to a pillar of earth, topside down, was the spectator feasting his eyes on the clash between Aldebaran and Emilia―― Roy Alphard, grin stretching from one ear to the other, hinted at how Aldebaran ought to deal with the ice.
He had no need for advice from a Sin Archbishop. Without needing to be told, Aldebaran grit his teeth, gouging his own abdomen with the tip of his sword as it began to freeze over. Through feverish pain and spilling blood, he forcibly closed up the wound, an inch away from having been a seppuku, with stone, evading the bad ending of being encased in ice.
His vision flashed bright red in agony, and the heartfelt, jovial laughter of Roy grated on his eardrums with “Ah-haha~! That’s it!”.
Emilia: [――Hk, such a painful countermeasure.]
Aldebaran: [Oioi, you ain’t giving me any other choice. “If you don’t like pain, then yield and be frozen in ice.” You’ve gotta have some awareness that that’s the sorta attack you’re using, Lil’ Miss.]
Emilia: [――. Yes. I think the same thing. But, don’t get the wrong idea, Al.]
Aldebaran: [Wrong idea?]
Emilia: [You can’t withstand using the same method that you used for your stomach for your entire body, can you?]
That was a declaration of her intent to assail his body with the same blows she had delivered unto his abdomen.
As if to substantiate that, the heartrending grimace of Emilia’s beautiful face lost its harshness, and white fumes began to blow with a cool wind in the vicinity of the Prison Tower. As white powder snow fluttered down to encoat the war theatre, in his chilly fingers did Aldebaran feel the gravity of Emilia’s seriousness.
Aldebaran: [This is the part where I’d wanna say that you’re cute even when you’re angry, but honestly, it’s just plain terrifying. Besides…]
As Aldebaran cracked a joke, the atmosphere creaked before him as the head of the ice-man clutched in Emilia’s arms began to regenerate its body. As if to say “Here’s a new body!” instead of “Here’s a new face!”, the ice-man completely recovered in just a few seconds, making an appeal of his good health by doing stretches. [1]
That meaningless, incendiary liveliness was a faithful recreation of the original, and so truly annoying.
Aldebaran: […You’ve got him down to even the finest details, it’s disgusting.]
Emilia: [Your way of complimenting’s the same as Ram’s. It has a reputation among everyone at the mansion, they all think it’s reaaally just like him.]
Aldebaran: [Heh. Though, he himself must have been the only one to react with an unpleasant face.]
Emilia: [How did you know?]
Aldebaran: [I get it. It’s the face he’d wanna not see the most.]
At his reply to the simple question, Emilia’s widened eyes tensed in anger. She may have thought he was speaking contemptuously, but it truly was Aldebaran’s unreserved opinion.
In the first place, if she was going to make someone out of ice, it would have been better to use a more reliable, strong outer appearance―― for example, someone like Garfiel, as a model, and yet she had chosen Natsuki Subaru, of all things.
Thanks to that, Aldebaran had been able to destroy the ice-man with zero reluctance.
Aldebaran: [If it’s a soldier, shouldn’t you have used the most reliable guy as a model?]
Emilia: [――? But that’s why I used Subaru as the base?]
Aldebaran: […I see. Shouldn’t have asked.]
Sticking his tongue out inside his helmet, Aldebaran felt as if he had eaten a bitter bug.
Even more so than the damage he had received from being kicked, the mental damage from speaking face-to-face with Emilia like this was incredibly draining.
For Aldebaran’s Authority, for the maintenance of his Territory, a stable mind was indispensable. Despite that, Emilia was the very character that defined the meta of easily disturbing Aldebaran’s mind.
Aldebaran: [Damn piece of shit.]
In all honesty, encountering Emilia here had been outside his calculations.
After returning to the Kingdom from Vollachia, Aldebaran had controlled the party headed for the Pleiades Watchtower to his convenience. Of course, he had grasped that Emilia and Otto would head to the Royal Capital, but he had intended on quickly retrieving Roy and departing the Royal Capital safely before trouble could be encountered. ――To think the rug would be pulled out from under him by a Zodda bug.
Aldebaran: […I guess the one who started this string of bad luck, would’ve been Lil’ Miss Felt.]
In order to engage Reinhard in his worst possible condition, in the Augria Sand Dunes, Aldebaran had deliberately made use of Flam’s Divine Protection at the Tower, having her inform her little sister of his betrayal. As a corollary of that, Reinhard had appeared at the Sand Dunes, and an ambush had been prepared by Felt’s group―― Felt had not kept that information to herself.
It was a state of emergency in which her allies at the Pleiades Watchtower had been wounded, and the Divine Dragon, which was supposed to be the protector of the Kingdom, had submitted to the enemy, so she had done well to display such a composed ability to make decisions. He had thought it might have been another suggestion from that Valga Cromwell, but to that notion he had to shake his head.
Felt was someone whom Priscilla had recognized as an adversary. Her caliber to be Monarch ought to be praised with sincerity.
Either way, Felt had chosen the best course of action amidst high pressure circumstances, and so Emilia, having received the information from her, would not put it to waste.
Consequently, his escape from the Prison Tower had been obstructed, leaving him with the worst-possible present, facing off against Emilia.
Aldebaran: [――――]
To his fore, Emilia slotted her hands into gloves of ice while standing beside the aggravating ice-man who had taken the Gear 2 pose, and she casted a gaze of vigilance over Aldebaran.
In her amethyst eyes could be felt a strong ardor, as if to say that she would not lose no matter what Aldebaran might do, but even without all her vigilance, there were not many things Aldebaran could do.
He had been fending her off with swords of rock that mimicked her Ice Brand Arts, calling it Earth Brand Arts, but the effectiveness of the weapons each of them made was a difference of day and night. Their respective staminas were not even worth comparing, and neither could Aldebaran create reliable soldiers of earth.
Moreover, it tormented his heart to bring harm unto Emilia, let alone wound her psyche. ――This was the fatal flaw that the being known as himself had been furnished with since birth.
To make matters worse, Emilia’s techniques, specialized in capturing people alive, had the worst affinity for Aldebaran’s Authority.
Ergo, now that the ones considered to be the greatest obstacles to his plan, Natsuki Subaru and Reinhard, were out of the picture, Emilia would be the natural enemy of Aldebaran―― excluding one other person, she was his worst “enemy”.
Aldebaran: [Regardless――]
No matter how he analyzed the situation, he could not find even a single good ingredient and wanted to cry, but not once had he experienced a precedent of his complaints breaking through such an impasse.
If he could not forge a decisive blow through his own merits against the opponent who was unconsciously countering him, he would have no choice but to rely on outside help to end this. ――And then, it happened right when he was about to play his trump card.
――Piercing the cumulus, he bore witness to the Dragon descending upon the Noble District.
Aldebaran: [Are you serious.]
As it sliced down through his vision, Aldebaran unconsciously muttered.
Beyond the foggy white sky, currently drawing a line of pale blue light descending through the sky, was “Aldebaran”, planned to be Aldebaran’s trump card. If it was headed to the Noble District with such vigor―― to where he had kept Yae and Felt on standby, then it was very likely its objective was to rescue them.
That was to say, a being that Yae could not deal with alone had been dispatched to the Barielle Villa.
Since “Aldebaran” had intervened immediately, Yae’s survival would have been fifty-fifty. ――At the same time, it meant that Aldebaran would be unable to borrow a hand from “Aldebaran” in his predicament.
Aldebaran: [Are you serious…]
With the same words, Aldebaran became even more keenly aware of how much worse his situation had become.
He could try to redo with his Authority, and call “Aldebaran” to himself before Yae and Felt. But, if he did so, Yae, without any reinforcements, would likely succumb to the unidentified enemy.
Neither Yae, nor Felt, could be described as essential to Aldebaran’s objective.
They could not, but――,
Aldebaran: [SHIT!]
Relinquishing his chance to swallow the poison in his mouth, Aldebaran cursed out.
Using “Aldebaran’s” draconic aura to dispel the cold wave Emilia had used to put the entire field under the control of her snow, thus allowing for a safe withdrawal from the battlefield, had been the trump card of Plan A. Now that he could no longer use that, he would have no choice but to urgently enact Plan B.
And, in order to execute Plan B, he would have to hurry and think of a Plan B.
In the meantime――,
Aldebaran: [You see that, Lil’ Miss? At this rate, my partner’s gonna rampage through the Royal Capital――]
Emilia: [I was told that I’m not in charge of worrying about over there!]
Emilia resolutely charged at Aldebaran, the latter wishing to prolong his time to think.
While sensing beyond the wall the assault of “Aldebaran”―― the Divine Dragon, Emilia’s courage to trust in her allies and ignore it was simply far too much. That alone was likely proof that she had faith in the person who had concocted this strategy, but this was not something a person could do just because they were told.
Thus, the fact that it was the best possible move against Aldebaran made it all the more unbearable.
Emilia: [Hiyah! Tei! Dudoh! Yah!]
Following her initial policy as if just having remembered, Emilia abandoned dialogue and unleashed a tumultuous chain of attacks.
The frost-clad fists fired off a volley of innumerable punches, smashing right through his hastily made boulder shield. Amidst the scattering debris, he caught the frozen spearhead with a prosthetic rock arm, only to discard it when the ice began to, and he leaped backwards. ――Thereupon, the ice-man had circled around, crashing into him with a Tie Shan Kao. [2]
Aldebaran: [Goh, ahh――!!]
On the receiving end of the secret Bajiquan technique, learned through imitation, Aldebaran was launched forward. Waiting for him there, Emilia transformed the lance of ice into a glacial mallet, resolutely holding it aloft. Pulling down her slender, supple arms, she unleashed a full swing of inconceivable might.
The atmosphere was pummeled by the frigid blow, laden with drive, and as soon as Aldebaran accepted that he would be unable to dodge it, he encased his entire body in earthen armor, leaving nary a gap―― the tremendous might struck him true.
Aldebaran: [――Hk!]
Unable to raise even cries of pain or screams, Aldebaran spun through the air.
He had defended against the ice eroding his earthen protections, but his defenses had provided no more comfort than if there had just been a handkerchief between himself and the weapon. His vision spinning wildly as he was blown away to a position unknown to him, he was caught by a strong impact, falling to the ground.
Roy: [Uhya~, that looked painful. Seems like the end of the road for you, uncle.]
With his hand down on the snow-blanketed ground, hearing the delighted voice of an onlooker from above him, Aldebaran realized that he had crashed into the pillar of stone to which Roy had been affixed. He had been sent flying ten-odd meters, and there was a grating pain in all the bones in his body. He had not even had the time to clap back with abusive language.
Aldebaran: [Shit…]
It was not desirable for Aldebaran to waste any more time on this.
Plummeting the temperatures around her, Emilia’s fighting style was a devilish method in which debuffs would accumulate over time in a manner akin to snow, and it was also possible that enemy reinforcements would begin to show up as he dawdled.
The more opponents that showed up, the level of difficulty in emerging triumphant would rise exponentially; he had become keenly aware of that in his battle against Felt’s faction. ――And, it was entirely possible that his “natural enemy” could be among them.
Roy: [Can’t really see because of the snow, but it seems things are getting tough over at the town too, doesn’t it~? Gonna try and call for help at the very top of your lungs or something? Uncle.]
Aldebaran: [Shut… the hell up. You… just keep quiet and stay――]
Roy, upside down, conscientiously piqued Aldebaran’s nerves as he was backed into a corner.
He felt his rage well forth, wondering if he should pointlessly die an additional death just to deck that grinning mug―― and beyond his indignation, what Aldebaran saw was the fluorescent hope of a Plan B.
Aldebaran: [If he’s me…]
Afar, from the sensation of the white haze being swayed, it transmitted “Aldebaran” being engaged in a raging battle.
Within the farthest extents of Aldebaran’s knowledge, there were not that many candidates capable of engaging in a fight to the death against “Aldebaran”, but he had no choice but to believe and entrust that victory to the Dragon.
And that which he had to believe in was not merely the Dragon’s triumph, but that “Aldebaran” must have also been laying foundations for the unbeknown Plan B while knowing that it could not assist Aldebaran.
In order to realize that unascertained Plan B――,
Aldebaran: [Roy! If you don’t wanna die then lend me a hand!]
Emilia: [――Hk! Al!!]
As Aldebaran shouted, Emilia widened her eyes, her voice honed in rancour.
At the sense of disbelief resounding through her voice, Aldebaran was astonished that his stocks still had the margin to be devalued after he thought they had already hit rock bottom when he released Roy out of the Prison Tower―― no, when he entrapped Natsuki Subaru.
Aldebaran: [But, if it’s necessary, then even the power of a Sin Archbishop is to be borrowed. Natsuki Subaru did the same thing in the Empire, yeah? What’s so bad?]
Emilia: [Even though you know it’s not that sort of problem!]
Aldebaran: [Guess so. I’m saying that while fully aware. Loathe me all you want.]
He was accustomed to being loathed by Emilia. ――A falsehood.
In truth, his position was that of not even ever being noticed, let alone loathed.
Emilia: [You―― hk!]
Upon Aldebaran’s response, ire flaring through her sorrow, Emilia created stakes of ice in the air.
Capable of magician-esque battling styles besides hand-to-hand combat utilising ice, Emilia pointed the floating ice stakes towards Aldebaran and Roy and avalanched them as though carpet bombing. Anyhow, though it was an expression of her intent to stop their wiles, Emilia’s rushed attack was intercepted by Aldebaran pulling off the ground like a carpet through magic, as though overturning tatami.
Roy: [Even if you ask for our cooperation, you see~.]
The ground rocked by the piercing impacts, this hurriedly constructed shelter of earth would not last much longer either.
Aldebaran’s concentration was torn in its maintenance, but despite being subject to the same predicament, Roy paid no attention to that whatsoever and crooked his lips in displeasure,
Roy: [As you can see, our limbs are fractured, and we have been prohibited from eating. So then, what are you telling us to even do? Or perhaps… you’re giving permission to eat that onee-san, is that what it means?]
Aldebaran: [Wrong. Neither am I letting you eat her, nor am I letting you go on a rampage.]
Roy: [Then what even is there for us to――]
Aldebaran: [There is. ――Spew it out.]
A low-toned edict, Aldebaran met gazes with Roy, who was upside down on the earthen spire shielded behind him, and connoted Gluttony a third choice besides eating or rampaging.
Roy rounded his eyes at the bid, then immediately smirked a broad grin,
Roy: [Geez, uncle, just how much do you know about us? It can’t be that you’re truly our real father, right~?]
Aldebaran: [If I’d brought up brats like y’all, I wouldn’t be able to live with all the apologies I’d have to give to society.]
Their relationship was one of forcibly compelling to listen, bound by a curse mark. Aldebaran’s attitude, in no manner intending to establish friendly relations, was yet welcomed by Roy with a licking of lips.
He was Roy Alphard, commanding the name of Gluttony, therewithal Bizarre Eating per his accord. How would a glutton whose mouth partook no matter what crude product, have evaluated Aldebaran? ――A useless thought regardless, he did not have the leisure to enquire.
Emilia: [――Stop!]
That instant, what smashed through the mud shelter was an enormous ice boomerang―― identical to the Flying Wing Blade used by the Empire’s Madelyn Eschart, it was thrown in, and through the opening of the piercing ice, Emilia charged towards them.
Aldebaran obstructed Emilia’s path with an artificial rock arm created to be a size bigger. His palm was covered from above in a manner akin to a baseball glove, thwarting her path with tenderness and certainty.
However――,
Aldebaran: [――Hk, a decoy!?]
Placing its hands on the glove of rock, the ice-man leapt over the obstruction through hand springs.
Acting as the vanguard and using herself as a decoy, Emilia let the ice-man proceed forward. He wanted to point out that normally between oneself and their creation, the role of being a decoy would be the other way around, but he had utterly fallen for it.
The ice-man vaulted over Aldebaran’s head and approached the pillar of earth. Shards of rock did Aldebaran create, pincering the ice-man to the sides in an attempt to shatter it to fragments, but――,
Aldebaran: [It’s harder than before!]
With elevated bone density, nay, glacial density, the sturdy ice-man’s new body repelled the shards.
Dismissing the obstruction, the ice-man stretched its arms towards the affixed Roy, drawing closer to hinder any action―― at that split second, its head bid its torso a tearful farewell.
Emilia: [What!?]
Having witnessed first hand the ice-man’s decapitation, Emilia shouted after slashing the rocky glove with a sword of ice.
She remained nescient of what had destroyed the ice-man, rebuilt in strengthened tenacity. ――To think it had been begotten by a steel thread spinning from the ring on Aldebaran’s right ring finger.
The silver thread glistening in the icy haze perforated through the ice-man’s defenses, decollating it. That which he mastered in the midst of his battle against Felt and the rest, a single finger’s worth of the Steel Thread Technique.
Art would bring bread. An instant subsequent to embodying that idiom――,
Roy: [――Given the choice, I guess this one would be the most amusing~.]
As he heard a voice lacquered in dour glee, Aldebaran―― nay, the world cried out.
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Instantly, that which had assailed Aldebaran, was a vomiting sensation of the soul.
Roy: [Oergh.]
He believed he had understood the principle. He had even managed to conceive of what would occur.
But, once it actually transpired, comprehension and imagination had been of no use whatsoever.
Neither unto flesh nor unto spirit, that was an onslaught unto Memories intangible.
Roy: [Oergh.]
There existed a phenomenon known as déjà vu, where during the first time one laid eyes upon something, they would feel as if it could by no means be the first time they were seeing it; currently, Aldebaran was―― no, every single person undergoing these effects, was experiencing something several tens of thousands of times more pronounced than déjà vu, a “regurgitation” that could not be ignored.
As evidence of that――,
Emilia: [――Ah.]
Spilling a husky breath, from Emilia’s hand fell a javelin of ice. Feebly dropping that which she had been ready to throw, its form unravelled, returning to Mana before it hit the ground.
Vehement turmoil flickering through her widened amethyst eyes, she fell to her knees on the spot. Gazing over her state of being, Aldebaran grit his molars, and leaped backwards.
Roy: [Oergh.]
A vociferous sense of disgust, there was. But, not enough to bring him to his knees.
The impact of “regurgitation” varied from person to person. A matter of course. Emotional attachments were to each their own. Between Aldebaran and Emilia, the ardor they respectively harbored towards those Memories differed.
Odious though he may be, Roy had made the appropriate selection. Accurately, he had selected Memories that had inflicted a great impact unto Emilia, while not going as far for Aldebaran.
Hence――,
Roy: [Oergh.]
Bearing the nauseating sensation of emesis, Aldebaran raised his hand aloft to the heavens.
The whitish haze of ice yet shrouded over the Royal Capital’s sky, obstructing him from regarding it with due reverence. However, there did Aldebaran believe that “Aldebaran” had laid the groundwork for Plan B.
――’Twas a boon of the combat experience they had acquired during their battle against Reinhard at the Augria Sand Dunes.
In that battle, Aldebaran and “Aldebaran”, fellows in whom dwelled the ego of the same man, had exercised magic through a shared magic signature―― they had assumed a system in which Aldebaran borrowed the Mana of “Aldebaran” to invoke magic, but it was the reverse this time.
The Plan B that “Aldebaran” had prepared above the clouds―― with a mechanism awaiting activation, it instead fell to Aldebaran to follow the magic signature, and pour in Mana to flip the switch.
A conception reached only because their egos were one and the same, the execution of a Plan B that had not existed prior――,
Aldebaran: [――Oergh.]
Subsequent to the invocation, bearing witness to the entirety of what “Aldebaran” had prepared as a Plan B, Aldebaran spilled out a belch distinct in essence to those that had come before, yet it still fell in line with Roy’s “regurgitation”.
Plan B, the entire picture of that was――,
Emilia: [No… hk.]
Sensing an intense torrent of Mana, Emilia’s lips quivered, still down on her knees.
She was not standing, however, with her visage raised, her amethyst eyes managed to grasp it. ――Floating in the sky of the Royal Capital, was a rocky mass around a hundred meters in size.
It was a sense of scale that seemed as though some small hill had been unearthed in its entirety and raised up. Though Aldebaran had never encountered it, this might have been the same feeling that people had given accounts of experiencing when beholding the White Whale from nearby, overwhelmed by witnessing such a mighty thing skybound.
Either way, the intent of “Aldebaran” in elevating that rocky mass to the sky was obvious――,
Roy: [Oergh.]
The next instant, there resounded a report of the sky shattering, stemming from numerous cracks fissuring through the rocky mass, as was apparent to all who had noticed the abnormality in the aether.
The hill-sized mass split into boulders numbering around ten or twenty, and at that rate would continue down towards――,
Emilia: [NO…!!]
Foreseeing that outcome, Emilia reprimanded her trembling knees, and stood up.
She had surely understood. Even if it had fractured into pieces, if the heavy boulders, each bigger than ten meters, were to fall, there would be a great amount of damage to the city, leaving a large number of casualties.
Thus, the only way to avert that, was for people capable of preventing it to go put a stop to it.
Aldebaran: [Even now, I’m going at this with the intention to not let a single person die. That’s why…]
Emilia: [――Hk, Al!]
Aldebaran: [I trust you to not let even a single one of those fall onto the city.]
Forcing a selfish, one-sided request upon her, Aldebaran disregarded Emilia’s voice, shrill with fervent emotion, and ran up the earthen pillar to secure Roy.
Akin to the foul odours emitted from the anal sacs of a frightened weasel, the ice-man, once again reduced to being merely a head, rolled over in one last ditch effort to impede him, but Aldebaran mercilessly crushed it underfoot, and removed the affixed Sin Archbishop from the spire.
Roy: [You’re quite the nasty guy, uncle.]
Responding not to Roy’s superfluous words, Aldebaran carried that small body on his shoulders, and ran.
With nary a glance back at Emilia with whom he had been doing combat until a moment prior, as fast as his legs would carry him.
Emilia: [Al! You can’t! Don’t run away… AL!!]
He could hear Emilia’s heartbroken appeal, but no attacks were issued to halt his steps. Naturally. All of her strength was now being fully diverted to the purposes of saving people.
Were she able to just pursue Aldebaran here without thinking of the consequences, she would have an easier time living her life. Undoubtedly, if she had been a person capable of that, it would have been a salvation for both Emilia and for Aldebaran.
But, Emilia did not give in to selfishness, and by wielding her magic to save people, she had ended up letting Aldebaran get away.
Emilia: [Don’t go! Return Subaru, return Beatrice――!]
In concert with the heights of those emotions, sounds of glaciation could be heard in the sky loud and clear.
Aldebaran invoked the protrusion of the ground beneath him, and with that as a foothold he surmounted the wall enclosing the Prison Tower, withdrawing from the white battlefield made manifest by Emilia. With legs still unhalting, he ran, and ran, and ran.
Roy: [She’s crying, you know~, that onee-san.]
A fact ignorable had it not been delineated, the detestable Sin Archbishop deliberately did delineate.
The tearful voice rending his heart, Aldebaran continued running, never halting his feet. At this moment in time, hoping only for all his accomplices to be present at the point of regroup, he continued to run.
The torrent of boulders meteoring down upon the Royal Capital was intercepted by towers of frost that sprang up one after another, preventing harm from befalling the city.
Neither to the enkindling perpetrator, nor to the stalwart savior, to nobody did it bring glee.
Merely――,
Roy: [――Ah~, thank you for the treat-!]
Only Bizarre Eating, licking his lips to surfeit the acrimonious joy and saccharine sorrow, was smiling.
Translation Note:
[1] – 新しい顔よ “Here’s a new face!” is a reference to popular Japanese cartoon Anpanman, who gets new faces. His uncle typically says this when presenting him with a new face.
[2] – 鉄山靠, Iron Mountain Lean, or Tie Shan Kao is a short range Bajiquan (八極拳) technique involving crashing into an opponent and striking with the side and/or back of the body. Bajiquan is also known as Hakkyokuken or Eight Extremities Fist, and is a Chinese martial art using explosive short ranged power.
Your stars were bad
Your stars were bad
Aldebaran: [If I’d brought up brats like y’all, I wouldn’t be able to live with all the apologies I’d have to give to society.]
They were made by laughing gas…..
Your stars were bad
I think it’s Subaru’s memories cuz they were still eaten by spica and he remembered everything by reading his own books
There was in fact no Plan B One-Step® in this chapter.
So did roy release Julius’s name finally?
It could be Julius, Rem, or even Joshua, as far as I can think. Any one of those would probably have a bigger emotional connection to Emilia than Aldebaran. However, her reaction is so profound that it’s probably Julius or Rem.
Does roy even have access to Rem? Since Ley died we still don’t really know how all that works.
He did seem to not recognize Subaru when meeting in the Priestella. Suggesting he doesn’t have Rem’s memories.
So I’d go with Julius or Joshua as well.
Roy could have eaten parts of the names and memories Ley released at the Tower. If we guide our theories by what’s happening here, that would explain why Rem is awake, but still amnesiac and cut from the world.
Wouldn’t he have been too busy overridden by Reid then though? I think Lye only released rems name and her memories are with spica probably.
i think it would be weird to find any consistent meaning of quviering and crying of this so called “emotional attachment” when it was used as a mere plot device to justify Emilia’s , i personally find it disrespectful in compareson where she found subaru who was about to be killed by Todd in arc 7 and her reaction was so non chalant where it would shake a normal persons soul thinking if i was a second late subaru would be dead , so emotional connection to quiver and shaking knees with this julius guy is meh.
They’re obviously Rem’s memories
So, what? Did he eat them when Ley released them, at least partially? That would explain why Rem woke up, yet is still disconnected from herself and the world…
I mean lye released them but they didn’t go anywhere at the same time? (Rem never got her memories back only the emotions attached to them and no one else got their memories of rem back after arc 6 either)
Well, Rui had access to those memories in OdLagna so it’s possible to assume eaten memories go into the same pool. Like having one stomach and three mouths.
Although Roy didn’t attack Subaru on sight, it may also mean that Ley called dibs on him, given how obsessed he was to reunite two lovebirds in his belly.
Hear me out, how about Crush?
I think you’re right. Just from a story telling perspective, Julius and Rem are bigger payoffs that probably won’t happen until the end of the arc. He wants to tease us readers with the knowledge that it can be done, so someone we have less of an attachment to, i.e. Crush, makes perfect sense.
It’s subaru’s memories
It’s subaru’s memories
It has a strong enough impact to make her quiver and cry, tbh it’s either rem or Pandora (julius’s name was taken around 3-4 months before this and they’re not close enough to make her cry) pandora made Emilia forget all about her. After the trial at the sanctuary, just as she forgot regulus (either since it was a long time ago or Pandora using her authority to get rid of his actions making Emilia forget what he did to geuse) she could’ve also forgetten all about her but now she remembers everything
it’s either rem or Pandora
i want to say pandora, but I don’t see how that works. Hell, I hate the answer being rem since they weren’t even close. They didn’t have ANY relationship until subaru showed up. Hell, rem hated emilia. How the hell could emilia have a strong attachment to rem? It feels forced and not believable.
Emilia is just a really sympathetic person so the memories flooding back could make her sad she forgot them in the first place, that being said its probably julius
What makes you think she doesn’t remember Pandora? Maybe I missed something, but I don’t think that’s the case?
I thought the reason she forgot Regulus was because he was described as having a very generic face? Maybe I’m wrong idk
She didn’t remember Pandora in arc 4 iirc, but that was because her memories were sealed by puc, not eaten by gluttony.
Again, iirc, my memory is kinda bad.
pandora erased herself from emilias memories among other things whch is why puck had to seal them until she was able to handle piecing it all together, its possible pandora sent the memories to od lagna where rui ‘processed’ them and now roy somehow has access as the last ‘real’ bishop of gluttony
So what did Roy regurgitate?
the plot
Another convenient Ex Machina. Comments were betting on either Crush or Joshua since Rem and Julius are obviously the carrot dangling on the proverbial stick
i have way too much questions
many*
I wonder how Al knew of the person that Roy spat out
High chance he also isn’t affected by gluttony, subaru is immune by either having an authority (low chance since clind has one and he never mentioned her in any Short stories but he mentions ram) or being from another world
The text literally says he is remembering. To remember, you need to have forgotten, no?
Like it says:
“Aldebaran was […] experiencing something several tens of thousands of times more pronounced than déjà vu, a “regurgitation” that could not be ignored.”
And
“Roy had made the appropriate selection. Accurately, he had selected Memories that had inflicted a great impact unto Emilia, while not going as far for Aldebaran.”
So he was affected by Gluttony. Al didn’t remember the person Roy was spitting out.
Of course he’d most likely heard of Rem’s or Julius’s situations though. Like literally most people anywhere near the election.
More likely it’s the fact he’s from earth that he’d remember (if he doeas). When Subaru’s memories were eaten, it kept his memories from before being isekaid intact.
he’s not from earth though, and he didn’t remember Julis bro
Key point you somehow addressed and missed at the same time: Al lies we don’t know if knowing Julius after gluttony was one of them or not as he didn’t really interact with him on screen after arc 5 other than saying “don’t know him”
My guess is it was Crusch, possibly Julius. No way we’re getting Rem back this quickly, he’s gonna tease her coming back until the end of the arc for sure. However Al knew both Crusch and Julius, but Emilia was on significantly more friendly terms with both of them.
Emilia: [Your way of complimenting is the same as Ram’s. It has a reputation among everyone at the mansion.
Oh god. That makes cringe like crazy.
A part of me wants julius’ name to be spit out? How the hell did Roy gets rem’s name? It never got explained ever. When did lye give roy rem’s name, let alone ANY of her memories? I’m so confused. By the logic, did lye and louis also have memories of julius alongside his name?
Roy has the same powers as lye and rui which means he can also transfer memories between the gluttony factors (it would also explain why both rems memories and name didn’t actually come back in arc 7 when she woke up as well if rems name and memories is split between all 3 of them because she STILL doesn’t have those back even though lye released them and rui self destructed into a new person)
1) Gluttons can spit out the name they ate, and Al can make them do it? That’s a plot hole. I’m sure Tappei made that up in this volume. Based on Al’s personality, he should have said it. The author writes him as a good person who does a hard job. He never does evil for the sake of evil. He’s generally friendly towards people. He hates the Cult. Based on Al’s benefit, he should have said it. It would help Priscilla in her fight for the throne. Ram decided in Arc 6 that there was no such way. Because Lye didn’t try to bargain for his life by promising to return what he ate before he died.
If there was no such a way then what was the point of capturing Roy alive in arc 6? They all knew it was a possibility.
They caught the criminal and took him into custody. They had no reason to kill him. Subaru offered, but Anastasia said it was senseless cruelty. In the 6th arc, it was established that it is possible to return only if this particular archbishop dies immediately after he has eaten. After a few hours, the food will be digested. You can also read the book of the dead to remember. Ram clearly understood that the archbishops could not do this. Otherwise, Lye would have tried to escape. I’m 100% sure what Al would say if he found out. I’m 90% sure what Echidna would say.
It is 100% a plot device with the only purpose of letting Al get away, just like most of the stuff they come up in this Arc. Everything is way to convenient even for someone with the authority Al has and i guess it has to be like that since in a world with so many overpower beings theres no other way to keep the whole plan on track.
Tappei is asspulling so hard now it’s becoming ridiculous. It’s obvious that he’s making things up on the fly which is really really bad and is making me worried about the future of the series about if’s actually well planned or randomly made.
What are you two even talking about? Do you actually understand what an ‘asspull’ or a ‘plot device’ is? It just sounds like you’re stringing random words together and hoping it somehow makes sense
one would question your common sense if after reading such slop of contradiction you think plot device and asspulling is is irrelevant
Don’t mind him, he lacks media literacy.
You sound like a greasy redditor. Alright, enlighten the class on all the “slop of contradiction”
“‘Come up in this arc,’ you say? AFAIK, ever since Arc 7. Todd, for example, was conveniently avoiding death.
he didn’t even need to use his authority once against emilia. really was easy mode.
He had 702 attempts in the battle with Emilia. That’s about the same number of times Subaru died in 8 arcs. But by his standards, he really didn’t use the authority.
Error, 295.
He can make Roy spit out a name cause of the seal he drew on him a few chapters ago.
It’s the same seal Roswaal carved into himself at the end of arc 4. So Roy spat out the name cause the alternative was dying in a fire for no reason.
Lye did not spit it out under threat of death. Louis became a good person and renounced her past. But she did not spit it out. It was said earlier that names are digested in the stomach and then cannot be restored.
Digested as in he gets things /powers/memories from them
Never did it explicitly state that they can’t vomit the name
Hell it’s the worst feeling ever for them as i remember
I need more chapters xD i have sone weird feelings about this very mixed either way xD
No. They instantly gain all the skills and memories of those they have eaten. When the food is digested, it becomes impossible to return. It was said.
When is this confirmed as a cannon?
End of arc 6.
Sorry but can’t find it…
I don’t remember this
Didn’t Lye vomit up part of Rem that he ate in Arc 6?
It seemed like that happened in the LN and I only read that recently
She didn’t get her name and memories back, she came to her senses from Volcanica’s light magic. He is the strongest user of this magical element in the world. Lye, not Roy, ate Rem.
The simple answer is that either the name isn’t being restored (that something else is happening), or that it is possible in this case. I don’t see why this is difficult for people to apparently understand.
Of course it’s hard for them to understand or keep up when new contradicting info kept being made up, retconning old info on the fly
not really. the seal agreed upon was to not eat someone without his permission. not to follow all his orders.
You’re absolutely right that the theory you’re referring to is presented in arc 6. Re:Zero often shows things through the lens of unreliable narration, shifting perspectives, or limited character understanding — so treating any one camp’s theory as absolute fact is a misread.
Tappei intentionally misleads readers at times — not because he’s trolling, but because that’s how mystery and perspective-driven storytelling works. But it only works if readers are careful and media-literate enough to recognize the line between theory and canon.
So yeah, thank you for bringing that up. More people really should reread the source before doubling down on interpretations, especially in a story as layered and deceptive as Re:Zero.
There are TOO many disproving things in arcs 4-8 for it to suddenly turn out that Gluttony can return what you ate. I still hope that Roy just did some kind of psychological attack using memories. This is not the case with Hoshin no Isekai, where we really didn’t know anything for sure. We have to make too many assumptions. Echidna had some kind of plans for many moves ahead that involved Rem in a coma. Lei chose death over surrender. The characters made the wrong theory. Louis couldn’t figure out how to use the ability. Al not talking about it… No, I can’t. Not that. I think Satella is as evil as the characters think. I think Sirius is not Fortuna. I can provide evidence for that. I can’t think of a reason for Al to remain silent. The author declares that 2 + 2 = 5.
Now I am curious about those disproving things you are talking about. Can you elaborate more to enlighten me? Ley didn’t choose death, he chose to flee and vomit a lot of things on his way out. You all ‘re assuming too much too soon. The mysteries in Re:Zero are meant to connect eventually — dismissing things now just because they don’t fit your theory isn’t media literacy, it’s impatience. Tappei’s still cooking, wait for the full picture.
1. Louis became a good person. She is ashamed of her past. She does not return the names and memories. 2. Lye realized that he was going to die. Ram expected that if it was possible to return what he ate, he would do it so as not to be killed. He will not return. 3. Returning the name of Emilia and coming up with a theory and digesting food. 4. Echidna tried to gain Subaru’s trust, but did not do a very simple thing for this, which does not harm her. Here are 4 things that 90% imply that Gluttony cannot spit out a name. 5. Al hates the Cult and what they do. It was beneficial for him to say that it is possible to return the names for Priscilla. He did not. This already clearly indicates that it is impossible to return the name.
dont think its the same rui
She has the Authority of Gluttony and can use the powers of those her brothers ate. Her powers are still the same. How can she not be Louis? Even if she is not Louis, it doesn’t matter, she should still be able to do what Roy does.
1. Spica clearly didn’t know how to do it and honestly, her nature is still a mystery. If she gets all her memories back from the time she was an archbishop, she would have talked like a normal person by now.
2. AND AS I READ THE END OF ARC 6 AGAIN. You misinterpret what Tappei trying to convey here.
“If he had been concerned about the lives of his siblings, Ram might have considered showing him a bit of mercy. Instead, he used them as bait to deceive her in a desperate bid to keep himself alive.
He probably didn’t know how to return what he had eaten. If he did, he would have offered it for a chance to save himself. But he had not. Of course he received his just deserts.”
What we should interpret from this is that there might be a way to vomit up the memory but even the gluttony users don’t even know how to do it.
Thank youuuu
So many crappers who can’t read crappin on Tappei…. Thank youuuuso as i was saying it is not that he can’t it was never confirmed
Woooo
Didn’t you just argued earlier about how everything is a misdirect, what if that too was just a theory and in truth was always impossible? Granted it probably isn’t the case cause otherwise Rem and Julius story runs into a dead end but that further proves how the story has effectively no stakes even without Al’s fixation on his Pacifist run plot convenience
3. It is a freaking theory, nothing canon.
4. The same Echidna who likes to toy with a little spirit for fun in 400 years. WE SIMPLY DON’T KNOW WHAT HER TRUE OBJECTIVE IS AND AUTHORITY USERS TEND TO NOT INTERFERE WITH EACH OTHER.
5. I don’t even know what you are talking about here.
It really comes down to impatience — the story isn’t over yet, so stop pushing these misinterpretations as fact. That said, I do think you bring up some interesting points, and I’d actually like to discuss more. I just think your conclusion feels way too rushed and it will bring benefits to those mindless readers trying to dunk on an unfinished work as you can see in this comment section.
1. She can use the powers that are needed for the plot, but not the ones that would hinder the plot? Convenient. 2. Roy can do something that Lye can’t? How so? They are telepathically linked and have the same powers. 4. Original Echidna loved Beatrice. She wanted to protect her. Clone didn’t. She tried to gain Subaru’s trust and deceive him, and she also wanted to help him. Both desires imply that it would be logical for her to tell him. 0 effort on her part. Echidna fought Hector, Echidna sealed Satella. 5. Al knew how to return the names of the Gluttony victims. Al is a good person. Al abandoned Echidna’s mission for Priscilla. Al doesn’t talk about how to return the names of the Gluttony victims. That would have helped Priscilla win.
I hope Roy didn’t return anyone’s name.
Well, cause I can’t reply directly to your comment. I will reply here.
1. At the end of the day, if Tappei doesn’t come up with a good explanation. Then I am at your side on this too.
2. It looks like that something that can only be achieved at this moment so we have to wait til more explanation comes in.
4. Or she just wanted to have more fun to play around and the nature of “castle dream Echidna” hasn’t been revealed yet. Or we know is that she is not the real Echidna.
5. The same thing I say again and again, his motivation and identity are the main crux mystery of this arc. I don’t think revealing those details all at once would do anything good for the story.
1, 2, 5. I’m right until Tappei comes up with a logical explanation. If he does. 4. We have several scenes of Echidna and Beatrice at the Sanctuary in Arc 4 and the side stories. It’s obvious from them that Echidna really cared about Beatrice. She wanted Beatrice to have friends, she was worried about her, she hired a teacher for her. Beatrice was deeply depressed over Ryuzu’s death and asked Echidna for the order to commit suicide. Echidna was going on a very dangerous mission. She refused to take Beatrice with her and risk her. She wanted Beatrice to be safe and come to terms with her loss. Beatrice is not a toy to her. I admit that the Echidna of the Dream Castle might have some secret plans. For example, Subaru visiting the Watchtower.
Can we stop thinking to our biases. If think it’s a plot hole because you just always think the first thing/thing you’re thinking at the time is correct.
It’s pretty simple as well so hopefully it’s easy for you to understand.
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Aldebaran has had this plan in the back of his mind for a long time He’s been jealous of Subaru for forever he was just waiting until he had a reason to hate Subaru and initiate this plan. He hasn’t said a lot of things, he didn’t say because potentially it’d be useful in the future.
2) Al clearly learned that from Echidna. Based on her personality, she should have told Subaru. She always answers questions by bragging about her knowledge. If she doesn’t answer, it means she hates the person. Or she needs to keep it a secret for some reason. She doesn’t dislike Subaru and Rem, she had no reason to keep it a secret. If you look at it from the perspective of her benefit, she should have said it. If you think she wanted to make Subaru a slave (I disagree), then it’s useful to gain his trust. If you think she wanted to help Subaru, she should have said it.
She has many reasons to keep secrets and lied many times in ARC 4. But she was more interested in the result than the pact , except Satella the other witches were only “dream constructs” like Reid . she could have supressed them.
Echidna is proud of her knowledge. She was called the Witch of Wisdom by commoners in life. Unless she has a good reason to lie, she answers questions with pride. She enjoys teaching people. The reasons to lie or not answer are benefits or a bad attitude towards someone or something. Her benefit is to tell Subaru. To help or to turn into a slave. What reasons does she have for not telling? What reasons does Al have for not telling? Lye did not return his name even under the threat of death, but Roy did so without hesitation. I’m sure the author just recently came up with this. Name the reasons for the three of them to remain silent. I think the 6 Witches of the Sanctuary are clones that were formed through the process of separating the witch factors from their bodies by Satella.
Echidna lying for no reason is a common knowledge among the witchs remember. And did subaru even ask her about gluttony in the first place? She want subaru not help him with whatever he want, not to mention that she detest emilia so ofc she wouldnt spit any shit to help them. Her reputation in life seem to mostly make connection or to manipulate ppl, like how she help the village just to turn it jnto the santuary. Everything is to her benefit, dont mistake that for kindness
I doubt she’d hold information if asked directly. Echidona lies by omission, but won’t say a falsehood.
1. By the way, you’re right. Subaru didn’t ask Echidna that. For some reason, the author is obsessed with making sure the characters don’t try to find out anything and don’t want to tell anyone anything. That’s one of the problems with the plot. Subaru never once wanted to know who transported him or why. It took Subaru several weeks of living in the mansion to find out that Beatrice was a spirit. It took even longer for him to ask his lover why she wanted to become queen. Subaru STILL doesn’t know that the world is flat. Subaru has no desire to tell anyone that he’s from another world. Not a single one of Subaru’s friends has ever asked him where he came from. No one cares.
Too many stupid questions that already have an answer so i will just focus on the one in discussion rn. Subaru did ask echidna about the authority or witch cult but i dont remember how that went, just that he didnt gain any useful intel. He did get something out of daphne since she herself creat the 3 great mabeasts but otherwise most conversation with echidna just end with him being emotionally manipulated or half ass info. She is literally a waste of anyone time to talk to unless she come for them specifically
1. She let him say goodbye to his parents. 2. She calmed him down when he was eaten by a Rabbit. 3. She let him talk about RbD and cry it out. 4. She taught him to value his life. The Second Trial and the demonstrative indifference to Beatrice were for this. 5. She called Daphne to ask about the Rabbit. 6. She told WN a lot of important information that Subaru wasn’t interested in. If he had memorized and analyzed everything, he would have understood 2 things. First, Roswaal wants to kill Volkanika and make them all criminals. If he had clarified one major inconsistency in Echidna’s words, he would have realized the second thing. Going to the Watchtower at 5/6 won’t work because of the Sage’s absence.
1 is the trial and not her intention
2 and 3 is to build his trust, dont forget that she went right to badmouth envy after the crying and blame her even though she totally understand what would happened if envy didnt give him rbd. She almost got him if wrath wasnt so meddlesome
4 is envy word to him that he should value his life and there will always be someone cry for his death
5 she lie that only 1 witch at a time which later make her not as believable anymore
6 roswaal is obsessed with echidna and knowing that is enough for subaru, with the seal on and eveyone constantly monitor him, he cant do much
1. The first trial was different for Garfiel and Emilia. They were just watching a movie while discussing what was happening with Echidna. For Subaru, it was completely different. 2, 3. Yes, but it was still very useful for Subaru. 4. After Subaru left, the witches said that Echidna was trying to make Subaru reject her offer and teach him to value his life. 6. Roswaal didn’t give up on his plan at all. He said it outright. He will still go kill Volcanica. He just won’t kill Subaru and his comrades in the process. In Arc 8, he thought that Subaru’s comrades would attack him when he started to implement the plan. Echidna explained the reason for this to Subaru and hinted that the sage is not Shaula.
4 if subaru accept echidna offer there then you already know that what if where echidna make him die everytime just to see different result right? If the other witch said that then echidna is even more dangerous than they thought.
Arc 8, roswaal probably just want to comfort otto since subaru is really out of this world so its not the people around him fault that they cant keep up
IF stories are just fanfiction. Echidna wanted Subaru to not agree to her proposal, and that’s canon. At the beginning of the Greed IF, Echidna was happy about what was happening, and then Subaru started dying much more than she wanted, and she started to feel sad about it. Subaru made all the decisions himself, she didn’t force him. Echidna is the only witch who did more good than harm in life. Roswaal without Otto thought that he would fight Emilia when he went to kill Volcanica. He didn’t say anything like that to Otto. Echidna told Subaru that her body was being held in a dream by Volcanica. Roswaal told Subaru that he wanted to reunite with Echidna. Subaru himself chose not to think about this time bomb.
2. Subaru’s comrades know that he was transported to another place twice by the devil, but they don’t care. The Emperor of Vollachia knows that shadows came out of Subaru and destroyed the city, but he doesn’t care at all. Beatrice knows that Subaru gets information about the future after the witch’s scent intensifies, but she doesn’t care. Subaru knows that Al’s memories of Earth = his own memories, but he doesn’t care. These are not all such cases. It annoys me. I have long argued that before this volume it was impossible to return what was eaten by the Gluttons. But in fact, in the plot, the norm is that the characters resist attempts to find out anything with all their might and do not want to say anything. Perhaps I was wrong.
Yup it’s called plot convenience. Characters act dumb and uninterested when it’s needed or otherwise the plot would break so the author won’t give a chance for the characters to ask important questions. One of the major flaws of re zero and it proves that in reality re zero actually isn’t as well written or well thought out as some people think it is. If the mysteries of the story can keep stay as mysteries only thanks to the convenient nature of the plot and characters then it’s not a very good mystery in the first place.
Satella and witch of envy apparently loves subaru , especially the with of envy personality and would literally posses power to break the seal when secret of return by death is out but these yandere entity would never react when subaru gets close to other women , when even a normal person gets jealousy , let alone embodiment of jealousy
I don’t think that’s a problem. My headcanon is that they consider all people in the world to be pathetic bugs. She sees Subaru’s potential romances as playing with ants. In the 4th arc, she completely ignored Subaru’s cries that he loved Emilia and Rem. But she got angry when he said he was ready to love Echidna. Apparently, 400 years ago there was a love triangle between Flugel, Satella and Echidna.
The witch tried to attack the mansion in arc 4 because she saw them as the people who holds subaru’s attention , these sloppy justification make the narrative cheap and quite frankly insulting to others intelligence, since satella is described as honest and pure and witch of envy is a yandere , “i don’t consider subaru kissing other woman as trivial because they are bugs”, when the entity is defined as embodiment of jealousy,meh
Those aren’t valid by any means and such justification simply makes the narrative cheap, the massive plot hole is there because it tried to use Satella and her love as a some poor line of code to enforce the condition without questioning why , and such justification are also quite insulting to othrs intelligence
I’m sure that a lot of time passed between the good Satella and the destruction of the world, and she became very evil. First, she accepted the witch factor and went to the witches, and then she completely went crazy. She had some tragedies that will be revealed to us later. It is known that Satella destroyed half the world, not WoE. It was said that she would have destroyed the whole world if she had not been defeated. Her best friend was Typhon, who killed her father and everyone in her hometown. When she came to the tea party, she did not notice anyone except Subaru for about 5 minutes. She was able to notice Minerva only after she came up to her and started screaming in Satella’s face for a long time. The witches said that they only hate WoE, but are afraid of WoE and Satella.
Everything boils down to “i am simply not going to notice other people” for the plot
If life has driven you to the point of deciding to destroy the world and then you’re locked away in complete solitude, you won’t be sane, right? I really think Satella is incapable of perceiving other people besides Subaru, and WoE views them as cockroaches. Satella’s mind is at its most degraded. WoE doesn’t consider the girls Subaru has relationships with to be a worthy threat. Both will mumble “Aishiteru” incessantly even if Subaru is having sex at the time. WoE already considers Subaru to be hers. There’s a huge amount of stupidity in the plot for the sake of the plot, but I don’t think this is one of them.
then who was having conversation with subaru in arc 4 about relying on other people , and in arc 6 it was repeatedly said that witch grab his heart and won’t let him look at any one else , in arc 4 “every drop of blood, sweat , saliva is hers” why did she not like when petelguese soul breached what was hers and threw him out , i think you should objectively asses your confirmation bias, you try to take advantage of the words “messed up” ,”twisted” because they are vague and hazy ” she is just so twisted she does ‘X’ ” and talk in absolutes,
the secrecy of RBD was for the plot if he told everyone Emilia and others won’t let him use it and the stakes and shock value would be low.
In Arc 4, Satella saw that Subaru was in pain and comforted him. This does not mean that she cares about his friends. In Arc 6, when was that? I do not remember a single time when WoE punished him in Arc 6. Yes, WoE believes that Subaru belongs to her. She showed in Arc 4 that she does not consider Rem and Emilia a threat, they are cockroaches. The only threat is her ex friend. Petelgeuse came to Satella’s house, she drove him away. She did not kill him, that is, it was Satella. She did not recognize him, always looking after Subaru. At this point, he had been fighting Subaru for several cycles. Satella almost does not perceive other people. I did not deny that RbD’s secrecy is for the convenience of the plot. For this and because of the possessive feelings of both personalities.
3. Echidna was famous not for intrigue and manipulation. She made magic a science. Before her, people cast spells instinctively. After her, people began to study magic, she made a great contribution to the development of the world. Roswaal did not even come close to her achievements and her skills in 400 years. She never showed interest in politics, although she interacted with all the outstanding people of her era and could, if she wanted, enter the government of any country. Echidna was completely altruistic at first, then she got close to the witches and became callous and not good, then she helped kill the witches, gave up her ambitions and became softer. Her clone in the Castle of Dreams was created just during the period when she was callous.
4. Although even then she is better than all the other witches. She created the Sanctuary not only for profit. Before the Great Disaster, the discrimination against demi-humans was much stronger than now. The inhabitants of the Sanctuary were saved by Echidna and were very grateful to her. Ryuzu admired Echidna and voluntarily sacrificed herself. Although, if Hector had come later, this would not have been necessary. They knew that they would not be able to leave the Sanctuary later. But they were afraid to leave before the activation. To leave it, they only need to watch 3 movies about the outside world and not cry. It does not look like a prison. For 400 years no one could, only once every few years someone tried. People were fine with it, they didn’t want freedom.
she dint said anything due to the plan she enacted with Al. and also, since she knows the future it must be subaur needed to go to the tower and vollachia before being able to get rem back.
Honestly do we even know which Echidna he learned it from ? Maybe og Echidna and Tea Party Echidna (if they truly are different/one is a clone or smth) have some slight varying knowledges
We know for sure that Al was trained by the same Echidna that Subaru interacted with in Arc 4.
Maybe he spat out Al’s name and caused Emilia to see some memories. Makes sense as to why he always acts so familiar with these people but no one seems to reciprocate.
That wouldn’t make sense since Al is remembering this person too
who did he even spit out bro, Tappei please chill on the cliffhangers
Is it just me that using Subaru’s image in that disposable manner where , crushing and walking all over is highly disrespectful , if it were my family member mother father or anyone i would never use it , it gives the enemy to taunt you like putting head in your close one liking beneath your feet , and this emilia doesn’t even take any offense , it’s messed up
if it was her mother Fortuna’s image would she be this casual
Knowing Emilia she probably didn’t think that far. To her having more of a good thing is fun, and Subaru makes a good model for her. When you draw something, you get better the more details you keep in mind. It’s probably the same with sculpting a construct from memory.
Subaru is the last kind of person who would care about that, and if anything him being so reliable is precisely because he has managed to overcome challenges in spite of not always doing so in a pretty manner. If you think this is disrespectful, that’s your decision to make, but neither Emilia or Subaru or anyone else related to them I think would agree with you on this – so you’re imposing your own personal opinion onto something that has nothing to do with you.
if i crushed the head of ice sculpture and put it under my feet and taunt you how would you feel , it allowed the enemy to taunt you which a person definitely should take personally , subaru’s virtue to not care is his personal virtue , emilia’s virtue should be to protect his dignity , because she won’t like if anyone crush her puck and mother beneath , it sends a message to stop employing there image in such a manner , you not caring it your personal opinion and the level of respect towards others dignity . because it personally would never use my partners image if someone did that because they won’t like it most importantly i won’t like it , also you don’t get to speak for everyone related to them
Well you wouldn’t….hekl i would even use my dog (ice sculpture) mother father anyone… I’d probably try to upgrade them so you can hear them (idk how)
And that’s coming from a weirdo
Emilia does it cause she CAN rely on subaru which is MASSIVE
Emilia would tell you that it’s an ice sculpture and not a real person…so why would she be hurt? You’re thinking threw the lens of society
Ofc no one today (proobs) would oike using their family as battle sculptures
Don’t forget Archi he was swallowed by the snake. Since Arc 5 Louis mentioned she sees all the memories of what her brothers ate they all could lead to the same place. Maybe those who were eaten by the 3 great witch beasts and are forgotten go to the same place too.
“This was the fatal flaw that the being known as himself had been furnished with since birth.”
^-Does this confirm that Al is a perfected Lewes version of Subaru? Could it be that Subaru is also an even more perfect version of it?
I’m getting that vibe too. My half-baked theory is that Flugel was the original, real Subaru who was summoned to this world. He lived, went on some grand adventure with Satella et al, and then died and returned to Od Lagna. Al and our “Subaru” are both copies of the original made by Echidna centuries later, by manipulating the original’s essence still in Od Lagna, to fix whatever mistake caused Satella to become the Witch of Envy and almost destroy the world. I would love for someone to poke holes in that though.
What if Pandora appears at the pleiades watchtower and takes away reinhard’s sword saint status like she did to Theresia. Satella would then win against reinhard and the whole world would be in chaos.
pandora didnt take away theresias dp, it was reinhard that took her dp
So is this the end? For this skin
Fraudmilia should help her husband fraudhard out, at least then their fraud energies might cancel out and they might have a fighting chance
You forgot old man Fraudhelm
Fraudfelt ruined Romji’s plan and if she didn’t Al would already be captured so she’s definitely the most fraud and useless one.
Al is the biggest fraud, we all know his plan is going to fail and he’s probably going to die too
Fax my brother spit it out. Not to mention his ridiculous plot armor.
If Al’s goal here is to chuck Subaru into to forever hole. I wonder what’s preventing Al from making Roy eat his name so he has a free route to make it there without anyone intervening?
Remember Rui? She couldn’t eat Subaru’s name because there was something preventing her…
I think he meant Al name
you cant eat people twice. Louis said that in arc 6 when she tried to eat Subaru again by manipulating him into thinking that he was a bad person before.
If I’m completely honest, I don’t like this fight at all for the simple reason that Al is having all the power of the script on his hands. Emilia could easily freeze everything in an instant, there is absolutely nothing Al could do against her, but they decided to nerf emilia and make her fight face to face and only freeze with physical contact, bullshit. I know Al losing here would be bad for the script, but that being the case I would have preferred this fight to be left for later or not happen at all.
This arc is full of plot armor and it sucks. Aldebaran used to be among my favorites but now i hate him for his bs plot armor.
Al’s (and Subaru’s) power is literally plot armor. He can redo anything he doesn’t like. I think Tappei is just choosing not to waste words describing every failed loop, and in the next chapter we’ll get a line like “4,739,265, that was the number of times it took Al to escape Emilia, and every one broke his heart” or something like that.
Not meaning to spoil, but the next chapter is out and this is exactly what happened
No it didn’t why are you making things up?
Its possible Emilia is trying to beat Al without full on freezing him because she needs to interrogate Al on the location of Subaru and Beatrice. Not saying that is the case though for sure though.
>Emilia could easily freeze everything in an instant
When did she do that ?
Is there any instance of her actually pulling that off during a fight ? Because there’s been quite a lot of moments where
“instantly freezing” would’ve been hella useful (Elsa, Rabbits, Sirius, etc…)
idk ask subaru what Emilia told him, about why she didn’t do it against Elsa literally at the beginning of the series. Or maybe you can ask regulus’ ex-wives. Or better yet, her people in the Elior Forest
Was she referring to insta freeze or the blood flowers with Elsa ? We never saw her use her insta freeze power in battle, it’s very likely she doesn’t have full control with it which is why she opt for a gradual lowering of the temperature instead of an instant one. It’s just fandom assumption that she can easily control her insta freeze, especially in battle.
Regulus wives was not instant in the slightest she was actively trying to control herself so she could do it quickly and didn’t kill them in the process
yes. in arc6 her absolute zero freezes the entire area in an instant. it was canceled out by volcanica man breath. but now she could have used it
These fanboys don’t question anything they don’t use logic, for them it makes sense. Even if we can clearly tell this is an asspull and convenience just so Al can escape and keep the arc going otherwise everything would’ve ended here but that’s clearly not how the arc was planned which is why this needs to happen.
Emilia can’t just “freeze everything in an instant,” if that was true she wouldn’t have had countless battles in past arcs where she isn’t doing that. Even if it was, it might risk killing or harming Al and that’s not what Emilia wants. How is it “nerfing” someone for them to display abilities consistent with their displayed abilities throughout hundreds of chapters? I will agree that Al’s abilities are overpowered of course, but considering Subaru’s powers are pretty much equally overpowered at their core I don’t really think that’s really a problem on its own.
I think Al was reading the book of Death by Natsuki Subaru. His behavior has changed a lot. He became a completely different person: from the characteristic behavior with Emilia to the phrase “I will do everything without killing”. I understand that he doesn’t want to hurt anyone, but before that, he was ready to drown the city at Priestel, which could lead to more victims. This is in stark contrast to his current actions.
P.S.: I hope my thoughts are well founded. Otherwise, the plot twist “Al = Subaru” will seem strange and wrong.
If Al read Subaru’s book, then Satella would have attacked earlier, instead of when Petra read it later. So if he did read it, then the only explanation as to why Satella let him get away with it is that Al = Subaru.
He couldn’t use himself to activate the Satella card bcz ‘she would ignore him as always’ (smth like that). That’s why he put the book in Subaru’s backpack so it could be found by either Petra or Meili
So Aldebaran: is friends with a witch, has the ability to possess a dragon, can control Satella for no reason and actually defeat Reinhard, who is supposed to be super OP, and can somehow magically win any and every fight he gets into by ending his life?
On top of that, the plot lets him get away with it hook, line, and sinker. People hate him but no one can ever touch that Aldebaran being Aldebaran. It’s okay that he messed up everyone’s lives and traumatized them, he has a sad past!
I’m gonna be the first to say it, Aldebaran is a Black Hole Gary Stu who is ruining the entire series with the way the plot bends to his will now. Had to get it out there.
Ngl both Subaru and Aldebaran are gary stus in some ways but especially this arc Al is undoubtably the most annoying one in that regard. Subaru was becoming too much of a gary stu with everyone around him starting to glaze and dixkride him, he even made a huge harem for himself like every other generic self insert power fantasy isekai protag but Al somehow surpassed even Subaru in terms of being a power fantasy character. Re Zero lost its appeal arcs ago man… I feel like it’s only getting worse and worse with each arc to the point i genuinely may even think that the series peaked in arc 1. Even 2 and 3 had a bunch of problems such as harem elements getting added.
Re:Zero is completely wasted on you. Are we even reading the same series? Do you even know what a Gary Stu is
Yes i do. Subaru is bordering on being a gary stu and it’s undeniable. He’s somehow a super smart strategist even if he’s just a regular 18 year old teenager without any political or military kmowledge and yet no one can do anything without his involvement cause for some reason once he’s out of the story everyone becomes incompetent.
People with years and years more experience than him act incompetent and dumb so he can solve everything to be the cool guy that the audience can self insert at the end.
This happened in arc 3 with how dumb Crusch (someone who has so much more experince in politics as she literally was raised that way as a duchess) acted. Like how she literally was gonna lose to the white whale and so her and her camp’s existence was literally gonna get erased.
This also happened in arc 6 despite Anastasia/Eridna being there as someone much smarter than him + Julius,Emilia and Ram being much stronger than him. Conveniently they all depended on him to do something with his plans otherwise they were so stupid to the point they couldn’t do jackshit to survive without him according to the plot. Also the girls fall for this bland looking and weak ass cause he’s the audience self insert so they should get the satisfaction and wish fulfillment of how despite being an introverted,weak loser otaku like him they too can get to make some bitchez fall in love with him if they had a power like rbd in this isekai world. I mean come one now, he has like 6 girls or something in love with him by this point.
Emilia, Satella, Rem, Petra, Echidna, Shaula and the story ain’t even over yet. So there is always thr chance, time and room to make his harem get even larger as the story goes on…
Of the mentioned characters, only Petra and Rem ever could be counted as “harem members”. Rem is now basically a different person and Petra is just an infatuated child. Emilia does not understand un-familial love, Shaula loved not Subaru but the image od her master she projected unto him, Echidna was scheming to get what she wants, Satella is insane and her feelings are impossible to understand.
Re:zero is NOT a harem story so stop the cap. Don’t mistake just any positive female relations with romantic love
Dude, no. That is not what a Gary Stu and you’re clearly trying to re-invent the actual meaning of it to justify your petty bias. A Gary Stu is literally an infallible character in the narrative who can do no wrong, is liked by virtually everyone, and has no flaws to speak of. Subaru is hella flawed, weak, makes several mistakes and is frequently called out on it, has numerous people who dislike or outright hate him (whether they are allies or enemies). And his relationships and feats of intellect were forged from torturous attempts of trial and error. To call Subaru a Gary Stu after all of the Hell that he went through to get to this point is absolutely asinine and you’re clearly talking out of your ass.
Some people just can’t seem to think for more than a few seconds. They see a character they don’t like and want to complain about them enough that they will just make things up to justify feeling a certain way. It’s how children behave – a lack of emotional maturity – so it’s nothing to be surprised by. It happens in real life too all the time when talking about politicians or public figures or so on – most people don’t hate someone because they had good reason to, they decide they hate someone and then justify it afterwards instead.
What are Subaru’s flaws really? He’s super smart apparently, extremely competent and his determination is unmatched by anyone (maybe other than Al).
“is liked by virtually everyone”
Umm, is that not the case with Subaru? Only villains don’t like him, even an asshole who’s rude to everyone else like Priscilla started liking him later on in arc 7/8.
“makes several mistakes” nearly all of those so called mistakes are inconsequential. If you disagree can you point out a mistake he did that he couldn’t revert it back?
Being physically weak alone can’t prevent you from veing a gary stu, especially since in Subaru’s case it doesn’t even matter as long as he has rbd he can solve any problem without needing strength
I read the entire series until this point in the series. Short stories, manga, anime, all of it, LN, WN.
Aldebaran should be unable to dominate or even do anything to the more powerful beings, yet he can. It annoys me that he gets away with everything now. I love this series but until the Al thing stops, I’m not reading any more. It really turned into a bashing fanfiction in canon all of a sudden with the warping of Al’s personality.
That’s all. Hope you all enjoy it. I’m gonna get into another series until it gets better again.
Yeah it sucks now, too bad.
this is the same as saying subaru shouldnt be able to do anything against the more powerful beings of the world. al is basically subaruing it right now. als taking the “the only outcome against subaru is defeat” saying to a fruition.
Can Subaru fight head-on against Garfiel, Flam, Reinhard, or Emilia? Aldebaran literally defeated an Archbishop… Subaru is only a tactician
Al can’t fight head-on against Reinhard or Emilia, he literally was overpowered and in both cases only managed to basically escape by using the massive power of a dragon to compensate. Subaru would have allies and help in any reasonable fight as well, so that’s not fair to bring up. Subaru also has in fact defeated Garfiel before – maybe not on his own or in a direct fight, but that’s irrelevant.
Al can’t fight Emilia just because of his psychological problems, because he loves Satella. Subaru and Al’s Authority purposes are completely different. Subaru’s is a radical change in the situation. Al’s is victory in battle and negotiations. You’re not complaining about the archbishops winning, right? Al’s Authority is a combat Authority. Ezzo equated Al with the archbishops and witches. Al has been fighting in the arenas for many years. His experience and skills are MUCH superior to Emilia’s. The problem is that ReZero’s combat system is very unfair, you have to be born correctly for strength. With his Authority, he is invincible to Emilia. He ran away using a human shield because of problems in his head.
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Al can’t fight head-on against Reinhard or Emilia, he literally was overpowered and in both cases only managed to basically escape by using the massive power of a dragon to compensate. Subaru would have allies and help in any reasonable fight as well, so that’s not fair to bring up. Subaru also has in fact defeated Garfiel before – maybe not on his own or in a direct fight, but that’s irrelevant.”
It’s relevant. If Subaru based his plans around fighting on his own, or stalling by fighting like Aldebaran does in this arc—even by abusing Return by Death—it would only result in failure.
And you came to that conclusion? You might have to revisit the short stories, WN, LN, etc., if that’s what you initially thought. It’s a matter of reading comprehension. – Oda
Its okay to not to like him but there’s no need to lie a bunch to justify that dislike. Wasn’t friends with a witch, didn’t posses a dragon, can’t control satella, and best he could manage was injuring rein with every advantage and raw power second to a group that can be counted on two hands across all of known history. Your putting those things in such a bad possible light they become viable evidence to argue that you haven’t read the series. According to you i, in real life, a normal person. Have decent odds of befriending a witch and could certainly “posses” a dragon, and control satella. Thought the “possession” would require being dead.
Yeah I don’t know if these guys read with eyes closed or whatnot.
I can see you can’t read properly: 1 al cannot control Satella, Satella is attacking whatever happens to be nearby because someone (Petra) read a unknown (subarus) book of the dead, 2 al didn’t do shit to the dragon himself he made it read a book until its mindset became the same as his (it ignores him if felt orders it to tho), 3 he can’t defeat Reinhard even slightly that’s why he had to stall until Petra found his trap (Subarus book of the dead)
I’m taking a very interesting bet.
Those were Subaru’s Memories.
They’re eaten in Arc 6, but Subaru isn’t given his memories back from gluttony, but rather relives them through the book of the dead, meaning that gluttony would still have his memories.
Assuming they are reliving those memories as they are spat out, Emilia would suffer a lot learning about Subaru’s deaths, while Al is already used to dying and wants Subaru gone for good.
Holy shit. You’re right. I forgot his books of the dead were how he got his memories.
We don’t really know what happened in Od Lagna when the two versions of Arneb fought each other. Or how one of them got a physical body, aka Rui-Spika. But the Witch attacked as soon as she appeared.
No idea why the Witch didn’t follow through after getting scorched by Dragon, it’s way more persistent now that Petra holds the copy of Subaru memories.
My theory is that Spica either swapped places or possessed the Green Room’s spirit.
Maybe Volcanica has some special property?
Otherwise could be due to the fact that Volcanica isn’t there to guard against her anymore
I like this interpretation, but tbh, I think it’s implied that Roy is releasing the memories of someone that Emilia and Al had forgotten up until this point, because it talks about “every single person who was experiencing these effects” and to me it seems like they’re recovering memories, not gaining them
probably not happening as that would mean satella is now going to kill not only Petra but also Emilia while rampaging across the entire continent on the way. not a great plan for a no_kill run.
In my opinion, Aldebaran should have lost from the first fight with Garfield and the mage from Felt’s faction. No matter how many times Aldebaran resets or how many tricks he uses using Earth magic and other magic knowledge, he is still human at the end of the day, just like subaru. Garfield managed to fight the 32-insect monster(whatever his name), old vicious man Olbart and a huge legendary dragon and still making it out alive and victorious, yet he losses to just a few shenanigans of Aldebaran just because he can “react” in time to Garfield attacks because he wound up the same 5-10 seconds earlier over and over again, which is very unrealistic. Put a nerd to fight with a boxer or taikuando fighter and the nerd will lose every single time, no matter how many times you repeat.
I don’t understand why people think Al is weak just like Subaru, he was literally parrying Arakiya’s attacks in arc 7 and she’s way stronger than Olbart and Kafma
so we reading with our eyes closed now. al knows he cant beat them fair and square, so he fights them dirty. did you read what he did to garfield? he hit his weak points, exploited his feelings, seperated him from that little dwarf cunt, used his surrounding by tipping over the bookshelfs like dominos and using the tight structure of tower. also, his “return by death” aint the same as subarus, it is quite literally like a save point in a darksouls game. plus, the dude was trained by echidna to not be mentality restraint as easily. it doesnt matter how strong you are, unless youre reinhard, you aint surviving a stone shard explosion detonating inside your mouth.
Shhhh, you don’t want to expose that Re:Zero LN fans don’t actually pay attention to what they read unless it fits their confirmation bias.
Garfiel is such a fraud for not even managing to beat Al lmao
didn’t al use volcanica to help him
Garfiel lost to Kaffma in his human form in under 30 seconds. He was also killed by Olbart nearly ten times in less than ten minutes if Roswaal hadn’t saved him. During the fight against Mizoria, who had as much sense as Garfiel, Garfiel was also empowered by a strengthened authority and still died about five times in that theatrical scene they showed until he accepted the authority of greed and asked Heinkel for help.
Korgan, who didn’t even have one percent of sense, would jump in the middle of the fight and go after the animals and kill them, saving Garfiel. Elsa also had no interest in killing Garfiel.
By the way, if a regular person faces a professional boxer, after being hit 300 times, that boxer would crush them.
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Aside from that, please don’t pay too much attention to Garfiel’s dialogues where he keeps saying, ‘I’m amazing, I’m amazing, I’m amazing,’ or ‘We’re amazing,’ etc. He’s just a foolish child, or at best, a wild animal (though this was Lamia’s description, and she kind of got it right).
In summary, Garfiel is not a special person; he’s just a great warrior.
He’s just a dumb meathead but he’s not even all that good at being that lol. He still has a long way to go to get even close to the level of the actual strongest characters.
My wish is for it to be a memory of REM
Who cares about your wish? What matters is who makes more sense than who you want it to be.
amen
We’ll find out who it is later. Is this the end of the volume or will there be another few chapters?
So is the other person he does not want to meet petra? It does say it’s a she so which female character does Al not want to see?he already had encounters with her so doubt it maybe not petra…..who could it be tho?
maybe its because now petra has “subaru” with her, if the clone theory is true, which lets be fr teppai aint even hiding it anymore, it makes sense why “subaru” would be a problem
“Moreover, it tormented his heart to bring harm unto Emilia, let alone wound her psyche. ――This was the fatal flaw that the being known as himself had been furnished with since birth.”
Clone theory confirmed?
He could have received a copy of Subaru’s soul as an adult and considered that moment his rebirth. That’s what I think.
I have reacently gotten around to read the SS, and leaving aside the stories where they meet Liliana Masquerade and Kiritaka before even the clash with the White Whale (Rem’s heavy involvement in the events may have canonically retconned that), there was this story about right after Al became Priscilla’s knight where he uses his Authority but it looks nothing like we know (the conditions of use are very strict and what it does is trap the target into a simulation where death is reverted constantly, most likely happening faster than real time and seemingly physically affecting the victim, who remians trapped until the psyche breaks, at least in the “aggressor pattern”).
Has that been retconned or does Al’s authority have extra levels?
That is the other version of Al’s authority. If I recall correctly, he can choose which version to use.
I also see that the usual version works in a completely different way from RbD (even if outwardly they look similar), because not only can he choose savepoints, he only creates one BoD that gets updated with each cycle, instead of getting one book per death like our Subaru.
let me guess… roy is going to be killed at the end of the arc, isn’t he? Louis is going to be the only sibling that has a redemption arc. Sigh… god. Please tell me I’m wrong.
What if Al has long since been eaten by Gluttony? The name of the arc is Light of a Nameless Star. It would explain why the Archbishop’s think the seat of Pride is open even though he clearly posseses the authority. This could have happened a long time ago before the events of the series beginning. This Arc seems to want to focus on Roy, memories to an extent specifically the books of the Dead, and Felt, someone else who’s name we know is a falsehood.
I think it makes sense but why was it more effective on Emilia than on Al himself. I don’t think it justifies the fact that he’s seen all sorts of shit.
This makes…. surprisingly a lot of sense
thanks for the translation.
Welcome to the Re:Zero fandom cycle. This is the ever-joyous period where the “fans” make baseless, knee-jerk accusations about the writer’s alleged lack of competency because they’re only capable of making surface-level observation because of emotional reasoning and conveniently forget that this is still a developing story where we are intentionally left in the dark and are given bare scraps of information to keep us guessing until all of the clues inevitably align near the end of the arc.
Ah, what a time to be a Re:Zero fan.
I swear some of these people in the comments have just skimmed the whole story.
Reminds me of some Rem fans saying Tappei removed Rem from the story so he could develop Emilia Subaru’s relationship yet even when he had the chance to do that he didn’t do anything in arcs 4-6. These people don’t understand that Tappei already has a rough draft of the things that’ll happen in the story so he just wants to go through all of those slowly, everything will happen when the time for them comes. It’s like complaining how Pandora hasn’t showed up after arc 5 so it must mean that Tappei doesn’t know what do with her and that’s why he’s delaying her appearance. This is the kind of logic these people who criticize Tappei uses. They don’t realize they’re impatient and all the things will come together once the story ends. That’s how you write a mystery story anyway
Going by their description, they clearly don’t. Hell, Subaru only has three girls that have romantic affection for him(Emilia, Rem and Petra). Shaula only liked him because she reminds him of his master(who could still be him as Flugel, but I digress, Echidna wants to use him to satisfy her curiosity and who the Hell knows what’s going on with Satella. Everyone else in the series has their own love interests or are just plain uninterested in Subaru romantically. Subaru only ever outmaneuvers people intellectually due to information gather via RBD and his own out-of-the box way of thinking(and the poster completely ignores how he relies on others’ input to establish his plans). So yeah, Re:Zero is wasted on people who don’t want to engage in critical thinking.
So yeah, Re:Zero is wasted on people who don’t want to engage in critical thinking.
Ah yes… the cheap copout argument people like you tend to use whenever someone critiques or makes the SLIGHTEST misinterpretation of re zero.
Nah, that’s pretty valid statement considering that people on this comment page are making broad assumptions about how Gluttony works (such as how it’s supposedly impossible to recover lost memories when the narrative is infamously unreliable, and it’s hinted that Rem would get her memories back in Arc 4 of Emilia’s third trial and Rui never refutes the possibility when Subaru demanded it of her near the end of Arc 6). Or how people insist that Al is just getting plot convenience when it’s been emphasized hundreds of times that he’s abusing the hell out of his Authority to set up his schemes and that the results have hardly been flawless. But sure, focus on the one thing that helps your argument.
So fucking based. They just can’t take any criticism at all even though we have real and tangible arguments on our side. They call anyone who even slightly dares to criticize the story a hater. I’m a fan of this novel and anime if i wasn’t i wouldn’t be following it in the first place but i gotta admit that it has lots of issues and flaws in it.
You have forgotten about Patrasche.
There are three edge cases that cannot be dismissed yet:
-We have yet to see if Beatrice’s affection for Subaru stems only from their partner status, if she sees him as family or if romance is involved.
-Spica’s too attached to him and it’s clear that he’s her most important person, but due to her quirk, we still cannot know if there are romantic feelings involved.
-We know that Tanza’s jealous of Beatrice due to jealousy, but we don’t know if she just regards Subaru as her second master or if she’s in love.
Just in case someone mentions Utakata, I believe it’s safe to say that she sees Subaru (and most likely Schultz) as “that pitiful little brother she cannot take her eyes of from and who would be utterly lost without her”.
Dude, you’re reaching at this point. Throughout the main series and side-stories, Beatrice’s affection for Subaru is pretty firmly depicted to be somewhere between a daughter and a little sister. She does not betray any notion of romantic feelings, nor has the narrative implied anything of the nature when we are already 2/3rds into the story. Spica is the same boat. Patrasche is intensely loyal to Subaru and while it’s occasionally joked about that she could be in love with him, it’s never taken seriously. It’s honestly astonishing that some people can’t understand that platonic/familial love is no intense than romantic love.
Good, I’m quite behind on the side stories. Also, please note that my original post was longer and had to cut a lot of nuances to get nder the 800 characters cap.
Originally, I included the hypothesis of Beatrice seeing Subaru as family (too long, had to cut), that Spica’s feeling may be imprinting (i.e. father figure/family) or caused by remnants of memories (too long, had to cut), not to mention that all of the direct questions of love were originally more nuences (along the lines of “if it’s familial love or there’s some romance involved”; too long, had to cut) and a couple more nuenced things (too long, had to cut).
The character limit is not conductive for speculation.
You can’t deflect the stuff involving Patrasche as just jokes my dude. If she was a human she would definitely be a love interest, the only problem preventing this from happening is like i said the fact that Patrasche is a ground dragon. If it didn’t matter if her loyalty was about romantic feelings or not then Tappei could’ve made her a male but chose not to for this exact reason. She’s another love interest that doesn’t have any way to win. Just like how Petra has no chance either cause she’s a kid and Subaru will obviously reject any advances she’ll make but she still has romantic feelings and that’s a confirmed fact.
It’s quite confusing that Al didn’t take his pill when he got hit by the kick, would it not be more beneficial to him to start over again?
He also didn’t update his simulation matrix, so he’s most likely banking on options that may be easier to enact compared with repeating everything since his last save point.
Um, I’m sorry, but how in the hell could anyone think Beako is into Subaru as a love interest?! It’s been strongly implied that she sees him like her surrogate dad or younger brother; it’s pretty interchangeable depending on the situation. And Spica seems to be instinctually influenced by her memories of Subaru and possibly Rem, but she still acts more like a daughter to him than an infatuated girl like Petra. Patrasche’s demeanor is more motherly than anything else, even if the narrative likes to joke about the possibility that she has a thing for him. There’s more than one type of love as Re:Zero is keen to remind us.
Idk how people think beako is in love with Subaru romantically, it’s obviously a family type of love.
Coping about how Re:Zero has become a generic harem, that’s funny.
Can we stop acting like Subaru is supposed to be dumb? Some of y’all in the comments are dissing Subaru saying he is just a 18 year old and shouldn’t be doing all the stuff he has done like he wasn’t stated to be a child prodigy. He was always smart he was just ignorant of the rezero world. He also was just naive about doing cruel stuff like in arc 7.
Also he’s physically 18, but with RBD he’s “lived” significantly longer than that. So it makes sense that’s he’s more capable and mature than a normal 18 year old.
I’m sure Subaru spent less than 2 months in the loops, and almost all the time was in the 2-4 arcs.
True he doesn’t even know what he’s talking about
And that is exactly what makes him a gary stu. He’s born pefect at everything somehow because he’s a “prodigy”. Petra is literally his female version so it’s kind of funny now with yhe stuff going on between these two. Perfect match of a gary stu and a mary sue lol.
Subaru was a child prodigy? He resembles people who get the lowest grades in school, but then open their own business and become successful. He has no desire to learn anything in this world except combat training. He has been the princess’s knight for over a year. His knowledge of the world he came to remains at the level of a peasant child, and he does not want to know more, he is not interested. In arc 6, there was a moment when it turned out that Subaru does not know that the world is flat. In arc 7, he did not know anything about Vollachia. In arc 7 or 8 (I’m not sure), he thought that Petra’s high knowledge is a disadvantage, and it is cool to not know anything, like Emilia.
He just doesn’t have high ambitions like other people in the rezero world. That doesn’t make him dumb just because he couldn’t care less about another country. He is obviously still learning new stuff since he doesn’t care enough to learn continuously in a sitting. Also I think he meant since petra is a child she doesn’t need to learn that much about the world compared to someone like Emilia.
Subaru is dumb like Emilia then? Makes sense, both have high levels of plot armor from the author though otherwise they would’ve been dead by thanks to their stupidity by now lmao.
subaru is not dumb like Emilia, maybe in terms of world knowledge but that is because he got summoned here. He is clearly capable as a strategist and commander shown in arc 7 & 8.
When did he strategize anything in arcs 7 & 8? You’re saying as if he lead an army and did some crazy military tactics like Napoleon or something lol. As a kid he did act as a good leader since in that infantilized state his confidence was off the roof like his childhood days but i didn’t see any “smart” tactics from him honestly.
Rom for instance is an actual strategist and did a great job this arc by figuring out Al’s ability by himself and if it wasn’t for Felt he would’ve won. Subaru did nothing like that,in comparison he seems dumb as hell.
Does Subaru know how to inspire and have leadership qualities? Yes. Subaru – strategist and tactician? No. He just committed dozens of suicides in every battle until the perfect result. Subaru 7/8 operated close to GreedBaru. The plot forced him to admit that lesson of the arc 4 was a mistake, he has no right to value his life. I’m not saying that he should have a huge amount of knowledge. The problem is that he simply refuses to know anything in principle. So he wants to make Emilia a queen and become her husband. It will be a king who will not be able to name more than 5 cities of Lugunica. And a queen who doesn’t know where babies come from.
Agreed with everything you just said. Subaru ain’t even that smart or a good strategist. Have no idea why some people glaze him to be as such when there is nothing to support that claim.
Eu ainda não entendi esse último perto do Roy…
Time to wait for the chapters to be build up again…
Honestly, y’all complain about everything. So what if he’s got a harem, y’all should be used to this trope in isekai by now. Al is using his Authority to redo thousands of deaths, so how he can be labeled a Gary Stu if we know what he’s capable of and who his Teacher is? Man’s was taught to die a single death 10,000 times, unlike Subaru. We saw him use hundreds of loops to regain his sanity. So what if Subaru isn’t some great strategist, he’s the heart of the group and his determination is his greatest trait. One guy said he can’t name five cities in Lugunica? lol y’all really care about that when he’s taken care of Sin Archbishops? I’m not saying the story is perfect but I’m not sure what people want from Re:Zero.
exactly what i’m saying, Al obviously isn’t gonna be as weak as Subaru when his teacher is echidna and why would it matter if subaru barely knows about the rezero world he is saving the country almost every wednesday. And he literally saved the world in arc 8 since the zombies were gonna go to the other nations too. Plus Subaru isn’t dumb, he made the plan to beat the white whale in a few seconds after he find out you only needed to kill one out of the three. He was a great commander in arc 7 & 8. He and Otto came up with the plan to liberate the sanctuary as soon as he got motivated by otto. Also why are we comparing Subaru to old man rom. Rom is a war veteran that is over 100 years old. And Subaru didn’t even get to fight Al since he sealed Subaru while he was talking to Beatrice.
You bring up great points also.
You’d be right if Subaru didn’t claim to be king and rule with Emilia. This is a problem. They’re both excellent at fighting. But if there are no enemies, then they will both be the worst rulers in the history of the country. And neither of them even thinks about it. At the end of the story, Satella will die, and we don’t know what will happen to RbD. If it disappears, Subaru will never be able to achieve anything.
That’s arguing hypotheticals and nonsense in my opinion. It doesn’t matter what he calls himself, reality will always kick his ass. The enemies you have often shows what kind of person you are so if they have no enemies, it means they saved the world plus as ruler, they’d have people like Otto, Roswaal, Anastasia and others with political influence and acumen to help them when they are ruler. RBD is a plot device so I wouldn’t put too much thought into how a king Subaru is gonna use it
Enemies aren’t the only ones causing problems. Subaru and Emilia are both extremely incompetent as the future king and queen. Emilia puts in minimal effort to improve. Subaru makes absolutely no attempt to prepare. It’s like he didn’t even think that making Emilia queen + becoming Emilia’s husband = becoming king. He’s extremely ignorant, and he’s proud of it. Anastasia is a competitor. A foreigner who will return to Kararagi if she loses. A terminally ill person with very little time left to live. Roswaal plans to become the enemy of the entire world, including Emilia’s camp, and then submit to the Witch of Sin. All of Lugunica needs to pray for Emilia to lose.
Kings tends to suck in general. that’s the main problem with bloodline monarchy, one generation being smart doesn’t mean the next ones aren’t terrible at their job.
doesn’t really matter if Emilia is bad at the job as long as her council/ministers are good and she is smart enough to listen to them.
Will she have experienced enough advisors? Roswaal doesn’t seem to be planning on participating in the government at all. He’s planning on reviving Echidna and then running away with her somewhere. Although I’m sure he won’t succeed. Of those who can do anything in politics, the only ones who will be Otto and Petra. Both are inexperienced. The Council of Wise Men will probably sabotage Emilia. Subaru shouting about how cute she is won’t help her in any way and won’t impress anyone. No enemies = Emilia and Subaru are just teenagers. Without queen is much better than Emilia is queen.
Alguém me explica o que o Roy fez na parte final do capítulo!!!!
Hm, no capítulo ele aparentemente vomitou um nome. Quanto ao final, acho que ele só estava saboreando a desgraça alheia
I see what you’re doing. Trying to make me emphasise with Al. Hell no, screw him. He chose this path, let him suffer
*empathise mb