Recaps

At the victory banquet, Farsale and Echidna discussed the witches and their next move, while Farsale gave Hoshin a new cane and examined a relic resembling part of a smartphone. Farsale then announced that the group would seek the Divine Dragon Volcanica’s help against the Witch of Vainglory.

• Farsale asked Echidna about the witches and confronted her about secretly arranging the Watergate City flood, which she admitted doing to save its people and bury Typhon’s Pride Factor.
• Satella and Flugel helped Hoshin through the banquet, and Farsale gave him a replacement cane for the one damaged in battle.
• Hoshin identified a mirror-like relic as one of several pieces with counterparts in Kararagi and the Vollachian Empire, and Farsale gave the collected pieces to Flugel for safekeeping.
• Farsale announced that the group’s next objective was to meet the Divine Dragon Volcanica and seek a way to oppose the Witch of Vainglory, as well as end the war between Lugunica and the Vollachian Empire.

In White Sand Town, Vigel met Natsuki Subaru, a traveler from another world who had endured repeated deaths and restarts. After hearing Subaru’s story, Vigel agreed to leave town with him and lead their journey toward Kararagi.

• Vigel tried to earn money by telling a merchant a false fortune, then discovered the merchant had paid him with counterfeit coins.
• Natsuki Subaru asked Vigel for food and offered to help him, explaining that he had arrived from another world and could return to a save point after dying.
• Vigel recognized Subaru’s account as possibly true and invited him to share dinner in White Sand Town.
• Subaru proposed traveling to Kararagi, and Vigel agreed on the condition that he would lead their team.
• Vigel recorded Subaru’s star pattern as a blank space, while a shooting star crossed the sky unnoticed.

Subaru traveled with Vigel toward Kararagi, taking the name Flugel, until Vigel’s prophecy failed and a witchbeast attacked them. Vigel abandoned and struck Flugel, but both were killed, leaving Flugel’s final thoughts filled with regret.

• Vigel explained that Subaru needed a local name to travel through the Vollachian Empire and named him Flugel.
• Flugel and Vigel traveled for seven days, with Vigel using his Divine Protection of Prophecy to predict conditions and dangers.
• In a narrow valley, they passed two unusual travelers, and Vigel discovered that his prophecy could no longer predict the travelers or the roads ahead.
• Flugel persuaded Vigel to take the left road despite the prophecy, and they encountered a witchbeast.
• Vigel tripped Flugel and tried to escape, then struck him with his astrolabe when Flugel grabbed his ankle.
• The witchbeast tore Flugel apart, while Vigel fled and later fell into a crevice, where the beast killed him as he regretted abandoning Flugel.

After returning to the moment he first met Vigel, Flugel changed their encounter by asking to travel with Farsale and Reid toward Kararagi City. When Vigel’s memories of another loop surfaced, Flugel protected him from a mabeast’s explosion, and the two became friends before setting off together.

• Flugel approached Vigel, Farsale, and Reid and asked to travel with them to Kararagi City.
• Farsale revealed that he was the incognito thirty-fifth king of Lugunica and explained that the first hero had left mirror fragments resembling Flugel’s phone.
• Reid swiftly defeated several powerful mabeasts, while Farsale killed a scorpion mabeast whose pincers Vigel tried to collect.
• Flugel tackled Vigel away from the scorpion’s explosion and suffered severe burns protecting him.
• Vigel recalled memories of killing Flugel in another loop, and Flugel asked him to be his friend.
• Farsale invited Flugel and Vigel to continue toward Kararagi City with him and Reid.

Flugel and Vigel reached Kararagi City, where Flugel met Satella and helped her with a merchant before Echidna warned that the Witch of Melancholy was hunting her. The Melancholy Fiend attacked their hiding place and killed Echidna, Hoshin, and Satella as Flugel and Vigel were overpowered, leaving the outcome of the encounter unknown.

• Vigel identified Kararagi City, and Farsale parted from Flugel and Vigel to visit the council hall.
• Flugel spent Vigel's savings to stop a merchant from forcing Satella to pay for a broken jar, and he and Vigel introduced themselves to her and Hoshin.
• Echidna arrived, recognized Flugel as a person from another world, and warned that a deadly pursuer was hunting her.
• Echidna pulled the group into a wooden house as the pursuer passed nearby, but the Melancholy Fiend broke through the wall and attacked them.
• The Melancholy Fiend crushed Echidna, struck down Hoshin and Satella, and pinned Flugel and Vigel as Flugel reached for Satella before darkness engulfed them.

Flugel returned to a point before the Melancholy Fiend’s attack and tried to save Satella and the others by organizing an ambush. The attack wounded the Fiend but failed to stop him, and Flugel died again as Satella and Echidna fell.

• Flugel awoke after another return in time and found Farsale and Reid had already left, so he gathered Vigel, Hoshin, and Satella to warn them about the Melancholy Fiend.
• Flugel led the group to Echidna’s wooden house and convinced her that the Fiend was coming, then they planned an ambush in an abandoned mill.
• Echidna and Satella attacked the Fiend with magic while Flugel used Shamak, and Hoshin and Vigel struck him as he staggered.
• The Fiend’s wounds healed rapidly, and he crushed Hoshin and Vigel with gravity before killing Satella and Echidna.
• Flugel died beside Satella and wished to return to a time when Farsale and Reid were still with him.

After dying twice, Flugel returned to the marketplace and gathered his companions to defeat the Melancholy Fiend in an ambush. The group learned that Pandora was rewriting history, and Satella comforted Flugel and agreed to keep seeing him as he waited for her feelings to develop.

• Flugel returned to the marketplace, told his companions about his previous loops, and led them to find Echidna before the Melancholy Fiend arrived.
• Flugel organized an ambush at the old mill, where Vigel, Echidna, Satella, Hoshin, Reid, and Farsale helped wound the Melancholy Fiend and drive him away.
• Echidna revealed that Pandora, the Demon King's daughter and Witch of Vainglory, was rewriting the world and erasing the history of the hero from four hundred years ago.
• Farsale, Reid, Hoshin, Vigel, and Satella agreed to join Flugel in resisting the threat to the world.
• Flugel confessed to Satella that he had fallen for her and wanted to save her and his companions; Satella thanked him, asked him not to stop looking at her, and promised to remember and wait for him.

After his defeat, Hector confronted Pandora over her erasure of the hero and the Demon King, then left her palace. In Kararagi, Flugel and the others prepared to travel north toward the Divine Dragon Volcanica as they investigated the world's alteration.

• Hector returned to Pandora's palace and accused her of erasing the hero and the Demon King from the world.
• Pandora claimed she was correcting the world's mistakes, and Hector left rather than remain beneath the sky she was rewriting.
• Flugel blurted out that he thought about Satella day and night, apologized when she took offense, and learned about the distant waterfall where the Divine Dragon Volcanica lived.
• Satella resolved to stop Flugel from abusing Return by Death, and the two silently agreed that his life should not be treated as a tool.
• Flugel, Farsale, Echidna, Vigel, Hoshin, Reid, and the others gathered at the mill and set off on a new journey toward the north.

Ubilk showed the group memories from the Sky Curtain revealing that Shaula mistook Natsuki Subaru for her master, the Great Sage Flugel, and naming the four-hundred-year-old Curtain Light Project. The group absorbed the revelation and resolved to reunite with Subaru, while Al questioned how Pandora’s influence had shaped the events around them.

• Ubilk’s astrolabe displayed Subaru meeting Shaula, who clung to him and identified him as her master, Flugel.
• Shaula said she knew Reid and Volcanica, while Anastasia and the others realized the silver coin’s Sage depicted a man unlike her.
• Ubilk identified the scene as the earliest trace of the Curtain Light Project, and Otto connected it to Flugel, Vigel, and their plan to save Satella and defeat Pandora.
• Vincent questioned whether Ubilk had verified his account, while Petra and Emilia reacted to Subaru’s past connection with Satella and Emilia resolved to keep striving for his love.
• Garfiel vowed to avenge Subaru, Ram urged the group to reach him, and Priscilla warned that force alone could not defeat Pandora.
• Al questioned whether Pandora had manipulated his teacher’s guidance and concluded that Subaru’s plan had freed someone and altered the expected course of events.

Pandora’s power and refuge weakened as the returned Flugel disrupted the plans she had woven over four hundred years. At the Pleiades Watchtower, Subaru learned that it was a great library and began facing its trials while trying to protect his companions and find answers for Rem.

• Pandora blamed Flugel and the Sky Curtain for draining her power, recalled how she had manipulated the world’s history, and fell asleep while watching Flugel with Shaula.
• Subaru’s group climbed the Watchtower, where Shaula explained that its original purpose was the Pleiades Great Library, a place containing the knowledge they sought.
• Subaru and Ram entered the green room and found Rem and Patrasche; the room’s spirit healed Patrasche but could not wake Rem.
• Subaru left Rem in Ram’s care and learned that the group had been unable to solve the library’s trial on the third floor, so he agreed to inspect it.
• Subaru privately asked Shaula not to harm him or his companions, and she accepted his request as a new order from her master.

Subaru and his companions entered Taygeta’s trial, where he solved a star-pattern puzzle by recognizing Orion and selecting Rigel as the hero’s brightest moment. The Sky Curtain audience saw the solution as evidence that Flugel had left clues for his future self, while Emilia promised Subaru he would no longer have to bear the burden alone.

• Subaru entered Taygeta and found a white space filled with floating monoliths; the trial asked him to touch the most brilliant moment of the hero destroyed by Shaula.
• Subaru and his companions learned that touching the wrong monolith reset the trial, while Shaula could not remember the hero she had supposedly killed.
• Subaru suspected that Shaula referred to the constellation’s scorpion rather than the woman, then used Beatrice’s Murak magic to view the monoliths from above.
• Subaru recognized Orion’s constellation among the monoliths and touched the one representing Rigel, clearing the trial and transporting the group to a library room.
• The Sky Curtain audience discussed how Flugel had planted clues for his future self, and Emilia said Subaru could keep moving forward without knowing he was Flugel.

Subaru and his companions opened Taygeta, a vast library whose books let certain readers experience the lives of people named on their covers. The book about Typhon overwhelmed Subaru, and Julius’s experience of Balleroy’s life exposed conflicting accounts of the former general’s death, leaving the group to wonder how long it would take to find the truth in the library.

• Subaru solved Taygeta’s star riddle, revealing a huge library that Beatrice recognized as a trove of knowledge.
• Subaru opened a book titled Typhon and experienced the Witch of Pride’s origins before Emilia helped him recover.
• Julius experienced a book about Balleroy Temeglyph and explained that he had killed the former Vollachian general in a duel during a failed coup.
• The group inferred that the books contained the pasts of people their readers had met, and Anastasia pointed out that the library held countless such volumes.
• Vincent learned that the Sky Curtain’s account of Balleroy’s death contradicted his memories, while Julius and Halibel headed toward the Empire to help Subaru.
• Madelyn questioned the Sky Curtain’s version of Balleroy’s death, and Flop wondered what role Vincent had played in the rebellion.

Subaru spoke with Meili about her past and learned that she had no interest in finding her birth family, while the others reflected on how he and Emilia treated her. The group then abandoned their search through Taygeta’s vast library for the moment, and Anastasia uncovered Shaula’s secret rules for guarding the tower, leaving them with a clearer but dangerous set of restrictions.

• Subaru asked Meili when she became an assassin, and she explained that her adoptive Mama had raised her for the work after witchbeasts kept her alive as an abandoned baby with a Divine Protection.
• Meili said she did not want to read about her birth parents, and she teased Subaru after Emilia called him her very important knight.
• Priscilla, Garfiel, Petra, and Emilia watched the Sky Curtain and discussed Meili’s place in the mansion and Subaru’s efforts to understand and treat her normally.
• Subaru and Emilia gave up on searching Taygeta’s books for now, and Julius proposed bringing a survey team from the kingdom to help explore the library and find the way upstairs.
• Anastasia inferred that Shaula was bound by secret rules, and Shaula admitted she had to kill challengers who left the tower before completing its trials.
• Shaula listed the tower’s restrictions, including that challengers could not leave, abandon or break the trials, disrespect the library, or destroy the tower.

Vincent, Otto, and Garfiel suspected Shaula had concealed a fifth tower rule, while Emilia found the hidden staircase to the second floor. Subaru touched the sword that began the next trial and summoned Reid Astrea, who required Subaru to gain his permission.

• Vincent and Otto concluded that Shaula had deliberately hidden a fifth rule, and Garfiel suggested she wanted to keep Subaru from leaving.
• Emilia reasoned that the tower’s creator would hide the stairs somewhere unexpected, leading the group to find them in an empty room on the fourth floor.
• Subaru and the others climbed hundreds of stairs into a white room, where they found a sword embedded in the floor.
• Subaru touched the sword and heard the trial’s demand: gain the permission of the fool who had reached the Heavenly Sword.
• Reid Astrea appeared before Subaru, and the others recognized him as the first Sword Saint and one of the heroes who had fought alongside Flugel.

Julius and Anastasia fought Reid, the Sword Saint posing as a “stick swinger,” but were defeated before Emilia challenged him. Emilia exploited Reid’s lecherous distraction to make him move and pass the trial, while Subaru and the others remained challengers as Reid prepared to face the next person.

• Reid appeared on the second floor and announced that the challengers had to obtain the permission of the fool who had attained the Heavenly Sword.
• Julius challenged Reid, but Reid caught his sword with chopsticks, overpowered him, and broke his blade; Anastasia collapsed after exhausting herself with heat-ray attacks.
• Emilia fought Reid with Icebrand Arts and proposed that making him take one step would count as passing the trial.
• Reid groped Emilia with his chopsticks, and she struck him on the head with an ice gauntlet, making him move and pass her.
• Reid admitted Emilia had won but announced that Subaru, Beatrice, Julius, Anastasia, Meili, and Ram had not passed, leaving the trial ongoing.
• In the Sky Curtain, Garfiel, Al, Halibel, Julius, Vincent, Otto, Emilia, and Priscilla discussed Reid’s fighting style and Emilia’s victory.

Subaru and the others learned that the second-floor trial required each person to face Reid Astrea, and Julius returned alone to challenge him after his first defeat. Subaru found the badly injured Julius and supported him down the stairs, while the Sky Curtain’s viewers recognized the despair behind Julius’s persistence; Petra’s reaction remained unfinished.

• Reid rejected the group’s attempt to count Emilia’s success as everyone’s, then ended the trial for the day and sent them away with a display of murderous intent.
• After the group regrouped on the fourth floor, Shaula recognized the Master Swordsman as Reid Astrea, the first Sword Saint, and they hurried back to the green room.
• Subaru found Julius missing and discovered him fighting Reid again; Reid defeated him and sent Subaru back with the unconscious knight.
• Julius woke while Subaru carried him downstairs, identified Reid, and learned that Emilia had passed the trial.
• Julius insisted on descending alone, but Subaru refused to leave him and supported him down the stairs.
• The Sky Curtain’s viewers watched Julius’s defeat and persistence, while Otto, Garfiel, and Petra hoped Subaru would help him recover.

Subaru discovered that Echidna had taken control of Anastasia’s body, and Julius reluctantly accepted the truth while struggling with his own sense of failure. After deciding to read Reid’s Book of the Dead alone, Subaru woke in the green room with his memories gone, leaving his companions and distant witnesses to wonder how he would face the tower anew.

• Emilia ordered the wounded Julius to rest, while Subaru, Ram, Beatrice, and Shaula discussed Reid’s trial and Shaula’s willingness to wait centuries for Subaru.
• Subaru found Echidna on a hidden terrace and learned that Anastasia remained unconscious while the artificial spirit controlled her body; Julius overheard their conversation and confronted them.
• Echidna revealed the truth to Julius, who lowered his sword and agreed to trust her for now, though he feared being seen as an inadequate knight.
• After speaking with Ram, Subaru decided to search Reid’s Book of the Dead alone, despite his promise not to wander off, and later woke with his memories missing.
• Emilia, Beatrice, and Patrasche found Subaru in the green room, where he mistook his circumstances for being summoned to another world; witnesses across the continent reacted to his amnesia and watched the Sky Curtain.

A Sky Curtain showed Subaru waking with amnesia in another world, where Emilia and Beatrice tried to reassure him and reintroduced themselves. The viewers reflected on how far Subaru had changed from the boy who once ran from hardship, while Emilia and Beatrice vowed to help him recover and never leave him alone.

• Subaru learned from Emilia and Beatrice that he had known them for over a year but remembered nothing about them or the Water Gate City.
• Subaru noticed strange black markings and scars on his body and concluded that much had happened since he left a convenience store in Japan.
• Emilia tried to stay positive, and Beatrice changed from distress to her usual stern manner after Subaru admitted he needed help.
• Subaru introduced himself again and asked Emilia and Beatrice for their names; they told him who they were and that he was Beatrice's contractor.
• Vincent, Otto, Petra, Garfiel, and Priscilla considered Subaru's former tendency to flee and the courage he had shown since arriving in their world.
• Emilia promised to help Subaru remember her, and Beatrice vowed to stay with him even if he forgot her.

Subaru struggled to adjust to his memory loss while his companions prepared to conquer the Pleiades Watchtower. Ram’s disbelief gave way to grief over Rem, and the Sky Curtain’s observers reflected on how much Subaru’s memories meant to her and Rem.

• Subaru met Ram, Shaula, Meili, Julius, and Anastasia, who revealed that Echidna was inhabiting Anastasia’s body while Anastasia slept.
• Ram accused Subaru of pretending to have amnesia, then broke down and pleaded with him to tell her everything because she feared he would forget Rem.
• Subaru returned to the group, learned Julius considered him a friend, and heard Emilia encourage everyone to keep moving forward despite their troubles.
• Subaru declared that his missing memories did not mean they were doomed, and Emilia reassured him that he was still Subaru before the group began breakfast.
• Otto, Petra, Garfiel, and Beatrice explained that Ram had feared Subaru would forget Rem, while Rem and Flop watched the Sky Curtain and hoped Subaru would overcome his ordeal.

Subaru searched the Taygeta library for clues and tested whether he had retained any abilities, only to realize how little he could do without his memories before falling from the tower’s spiral staircase. As the Sky Curtain showed his apparent death and devastated Emilia and Beatrice, Puck awakened through Emilia’s magic crystal and reunited with them.

• Emilia, Beatrice, and the others searched the Taygeta library while Subaru waited, unable to read the Books of the Dead or help with the investigation.
• Shaula reassured Subaru that he was still her Master, and Subaru privately tested his strength, magic, and whip skills, finding no special abilities and feeling useless without his memories.
• Subaru wandered toward the spiral staircase, lost his footing, and fell down into the darkness before passing out.
• Otto and the others watched Subaru’s fall on the Sky Curtain, while Emilia and Beatrice broke down in grief and blamed themselves for leaving him alone.
• Puck emerged from Emilia’s magic crystal after the Sky Curtain’s Mana restored his core, comforted Emilia and Beatrice, and explained that the Sky Curtain had helped awaken him.
• Puck greeted the group, briefly reunited with Emilia and Beatrice, then returned to the magic crystal to rest after expressing hope of seeing Subaru again.

Subaru woke in the Pleiades Watchtower’s green room and realized his prophetic dream had accurately shown how his companions would react to his memory loss. After overhearing their doubts and falling from the spiral staircase, he was left questioning who he was without his memories; in Guaral, Emilia and the others watched the Sky Curtain and argued over their trust in him.

• Subaru woke beside Emilia and Beatrice, learned he had been found unconscious in Taygeta, and told them he had lost his memories.
• Subaru recognized that the repeated events matched a prophetic dream and kept the ability secret while testing whether the dream’s predictions were accurate.
• Ram, Shaula, Meili, Julius, Echidna, Emilia, and Beatrice reacted to Subaru’s amnesia, and Subaru confirmed that their responses matched his dream.
• Subaru overheard Echidna and Ram question whether he could be trusted or relied on without his memories, then fled in distress.
• At the spiral staircase, Subaru’s mind and body reacted to the Authority of Gluttony, and he fell while questioning his identity without his memories or past.
• In Guaral, Emilia, Garfiel, Ram, and Beatrice responded to the Sky Curtain’s vision, while Otto discussed Satella and Subaru’s secret ability, Return by Death.

Subaru woke from a vision of unbearable pain, panicked at being touched, and fled until he encountered a terrifying swordsman and was driven toward another collapse. As people watched the Sky Curtain reveal his suffering and regret, Reinhard identified the black shadow as Satella and persuaded Felt to travel with him to the Vollachian Empire.

• Subaru woke screaming, recoiled from Emilia and Beatrice, and ran through the tower in terror of pain and death.
• Subaru encountered the red-haired swordsman, who tormented him with a wooden stick and kicked him toward the stairs; as he fled, he regretted leaving home without answering his mother or washing a cup.
• A black presence declared its love for Subaru and inflicted further agony before worried footsteps approached him.
• Otto, Petra, Emilia, Ram, Garfiel, Julius, and others reacted to the Sky Curtain, with Julius accepting blame for making Subaru feel distrusted and alone.
• Reinhard identified the black shadow as the Witch of Envy, Satella, and resolved to investigate Subaru’s Return by Death by traveling to the Vollachian Empire with Felt.