Ep. 10

Summary

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Garfiel commands the Ryuzu clones to attack Satella, but her shadows annihilate them and kill him. Subaru resists the miasma long enough to stab himself and reset. Back at the checkpoint, he verifies that Emilia remains sane, then investigates the Sanctuary rather than rushing to another death. In an abandoned laboratory, he finds the original Ryuzu Meyer suspended within a crystal. The elder Ryuzu explains that Echidna created copies of her during an immortality experiment and that anyone invited to the tea party becomes an Apostle of Greed with authority over the clones. Subaru uses the information to build trust with Emilia, encouraging her to rely on him without surrendering her own agency. He then departs early for the mansion. Garfiel tries to intimidate him, but Subaru’s belief that Echidna confirmed unlimited retries makes him disturbingly fearless. At the mansion, he evacuates Frederica, Petra, and Rem before Elsa arrives and enters the forbidden library. Subaru confronts Beatrice with new confidence, but her despair and contractual obedience remain difficult to penetrate. His apparent mastery of the loop has produced progress, yet his reduced fear of death signals that he is beginning to treat his own life as an expendable resource.