The Maiden's Gospel

All right, it's Re:Zero time again this week. Already episode six! Looking forward to this week too!

Starting with a commercial break again!

Last time, Subaru made it back to the mansion, only to trip over his own intestines... that's where we left off.

This caption... could it be, the OP...?

Subaru was cut open and died. His restart via "Return by Death" begins, but the reset point is right after Subaru's "Trial."

My memory's a little fuzzy, but I believe this is the first "Return by Death" in Arc 4.

Because the starting point is now fixed to right after the "Trial," his meeting with Ryuzu-san and the light talks with Garfiel and the others will now happen every night.

"So you lied. Die."

Last time, Subaru didn't reveal that he had taken the "Trial" or that he had cleared it, but this time he shares the information he got from Echidna. That's because he's trying to create a different flow from last time.

"I'm against anyone other than Emilia-sama taking the 'Trial'" is actually quite a shocking objection when you consider that Subaru's proposal this time was prompted by Garfiel's own remarks in the first place.

Emilia's personality is such that she won't just say, "If Subaru will do it for me, can I ask you to?" You could call it putting the right person in the right place, and that sounds nice, but when she starts thinking, "Then where is my proper place?" it's not so easy for her to hand her role over.

"I hate Roswaal. But it wouldn't be amusing to incur Roswaal's displeasure either." That's the difficult position Garfiel is in.

"That fickle one" really can be called Subaru's natural enemy in an unexpected way. Right now, she's someone who starts saying things differently from last time, which means she neutralizes Subaru's weapon of "fixed information about the future."

"How ridiculous. What if Ram did it and Roswaal-sama's injuries got worse?"

"I had no choice but to throw Ram far away and use her as a decoy" is actually a pretty sound strategy. Garfiel says, "Like I'd fall for that," but he'd probably fall for it. But after that, both Ram and Garfiel would become your enemies, so it's better not to do it.

Last time, the event where Garfiel handed over the shining stone didn't happen, so Subaru shamelessly asked for it. Ram immediately picked up on that and chimed in from the side, a true master of consideration.

Last time, Subaru was so afraid Ram might have forgotten that he couldn't even say Rem's name, but this time he told Ram about her on the way back to the mansion. Thoughtful as she is, Ram didn't interrupt, and she surely took it seriously.

This time they returned to the mansion several days earlier than last time. One of the people whose safety was uncertain due to Elsa's attack was Petra, but she and Ram properly got to meet face-to-face.

While Frederica was away, if Ram really had discretionary authority as the mansion's maid, the sense that things could go either way between her properly doing the job and not properly doing it is incredible.

In episode 3, "A Long-Awaited Reunion" was a subtitle that included Ram and Roswaal too, but seeing Ram and Rem together in one place like this... how many episodes has it been, really...?

On the way there, Ram was told about Rem, and while she properly understood that the girl with a face so much like her own was her little sister, she stayed behind in the room in order to grasp that reality for herself. Trying to fully know all of what she felt would be tactless, even for the author.

Facing Frederica, who seemed to be one of the people behind everything, Subaru thought he was stepping into a high-stakes showdown, but it turned out to be a letdown.

Even while saying, "It seems Barusu has no regard for his life," Ram drinks the tea Frederica brewed without a moment's hesitation.

Ram and Frederica have known each other ever since Ram was brought to Roswaal's mansion, so they've been acquainted for about ten years here as well.

She finally makes a proper appearance: Elsa-san at last.

Petra is captured by Elsa and taken hostage, but the first thing out of her mouth isn't "Help me!" but "Run!" That really shows her nobility.

Ram hears about Rem's existence from Subaru, but even if she can rationally judge that Rem was "someone important," she can't think of her as "the most important other half in the world" the way the Ram who remembered her did. This is where the discrepancy between those with memories and those without them is born.

Frederica's hands and feet turning beastly is "partial beast transformation." Frederica is a feline demi-human, specifically a panther woman. It's the kind of thing that makes you want to say, "A panther woman, nice."

Y-you are... the jet-black king of the forest... Guiltylaw...!? It's... it's all over!!

Don't fall for Ram's taunting, Guiltylaw!

I read somewhere that if you pull it out around "Three, two...!" you won't tense up weirdly from putting in too much force.

Including Petra, the residents of Arlam Village have gone through just about the worst experiences after Subaru and Rem.

Subaru is battered by the shock, his consciousness fading. The sequence is: he's caught up in the collapse -> Ram finds him -> entrusts him to Patrasche -> while Patrasche is carrying him away, a mabeast catches up, so Patrasche throws him into the mansion to let him escape -> then Petra, just an arm.

"Because your return was earlier than planned."

Frederica, Petra, and even Patrasche are taken down, and Subaru understands that he himself is about to die. At the very least, he tries not to let Rem die before he does... but just when he thinks he's burst into Rem's room, that room is actually... that.

And yet again, there was no OP or ED...! Ending on sponsored Petra at the end is just cruel. The oni here is Ram...

By the way, I think Ram killed Guiltylaw.

Taking what happened last time into account, Subaru tried returning to the mansion one move earlier, only for the other side to act one move earlier too. So then, what will Subaru and Beatrice do...!? And that's it for this week! See you next week! Thanks as always!