Chapter Summaries

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.