The royal selection begins amid open class prejudice and hostility toward Emilia’s resemblance to the Witch of Envy. Felt initially refuses her candidacy, but Rom invades the chamber trying to rescue her and is captured. To save him, Felt agrees to participate and declares that she intends to tear down Lugunica’s corrupt system. When nobles insult Emilia, Subaru publicly proclaims himself her knight. His boast also disparages the kingdom’s trained knights, provoking Julius and humiliating Emilia after she specifically asked him to stay away. Julius challenges Subaru to a wooden-sword duel and defeats him brutally, exposing the gap between Subaru’s self-image and actual ability. Emilia visits while he recovers and decides to return to the mansion without him. Subaru refuses to accept her choice and cannot explain the deaths and sacrifices that shaped his devotion. Frustration turns into cruelty: he insists Emilia owes him for everything he has done in timelines she cannot remember. Emilia recognizes that his help has become entangled with his need for validation. Unable to trust or understand him, she ends their relationship, leaving Subaru isolated by his own pride.
Episode 14
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Subaru remains at Crusch Karsten’s residence for treatment after Julius’s beating and Emilia’s departure. Ashamed of his weakness, he trains obsessively with Wilhelm but makes little progress. Reinhard apologizes for the duel’s consequences and explains that Julius damaged his own standing to contain the insult Subaru directed at the knights, yet Subaru refuses reconciliation. In the city, the fruit seller describes public fear of Emilia because she resembles the Witch. Crusch and Felix urge Subaru to stop wallowing and repair the relationship honestly. Rem then senses through her bond with Ram that something is wrong in Roswaal’s territory. Subaru insists on returning despite warnings, while Rem secretly leaves first to protect him. He hires the merchant Otto Suwen for a desperate night journey. Near the domain, Otto’s ground dragon refuses to proceed, forcing Subaru to continue alone. Hooded figures silently surround him in the darkness and vanish without explanation. At dawn he reaches Arlam Village and finds its residents massacred. The mansion grounds are equally silent, and Subaru discovers Rem’s body, realizing that his attempt to return has come far too late.
Episode 15
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Subaru searches the devastated mansion and finds Ram, the villagers, and the children dead. An unnatural winter fills the estate, and a colossal presence tells him that he arrived too late before the cold kills him. Resetting at the capital’s fruit stall, Subaru collapses into a nearly unresponsive state. Crusch and Felix find no physical cause, and Rem escorts him toward the mansion. Witch Cultists ambush their carriage. Rem fights fiercely, but Subaru is captured and taken to their leader, the Sin Archbishop of Sloth, Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti. Petelgeuse recognizes the Witch’s scent on Subaru yet condemns his catatonia as false madness. Rem attacks the hideout and is crushed by Petelgeuse’s invisible hands. After the cult departs, the dying Rem drags herself to Subaru, frees him with magic, tells him to live, and dies after confessing her love. Subaru carries her body through the slaughtered village to the mansion. There, the gigantic transformed Puck mourns Emilia and decapitates Subaru for failing to protect her. Back at the checkpoint once more, Subaru’s grief finally becomes focused hatred toward Petelgeuse and the cult.
Episode 16
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Knowing the Witch Cult will attack in three days, Subaru seeks military help from Emilia’s rival candidates. Crusch refuses because Subaru offers no reliable evidence or political benefit and is clearly driven by vengeance. Priscilla tests his dignity by jokingly ordering him to lick her foot; when he complies, she rejects him for displaying desperation without loyalty. Anastasia draws information about Crusch’s activities from him during a seemingly friendly negotiation, then explains that successful bargaining requires understanding what the other side wants. Having failed to secure an army, Subaru decides to evacuate the village himself. Applying Anastasia’s lesson, he purchases Otto’s unwanted oil stock in exchange for the merchants’ wagons and cooperation. Subaru and Rem begin the return journey with the convoy, but a dense fog covers the road. The White Whale, a legendary mabeast, appears overhead. One merchant vanishes, and everyone except Subaru forgets the man ever existed, revealing the creature’s terrifying ability to erase its victims from memory. The planned rescue is now trapped between the Witch Cult ahead and a monster capable of removing people from the world behind them.
Episode 17
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The White Whale pursues Otto’s wagon through the fog. Rem decides that only a sacrifice can buy Subaru time, knocks him unconscious, and remains behind to fight. When he awakens, Otto has no memory that Rem existed. Subaru realizes the whale is attracted to his Witch scent, but panic overwhelms the merchant, who throws him from the wagon to save himself. Patrasche later returns alone and carries Subaru toward Roswaal’s territory. Villagers find him and bring him to the mansion, where Emilia and Ram have no memory of Rem. Enraged by another person being erased, Subaru tries to reveal Return by Death to Emilia. The unseen penalty does not kill him; instead it crushes Emilia’s heart, leaving her dead in his arms. Beatrice teleports Subaru and Emilia’s body outside rather than granting his request for death. Petelgeuse and the cult gather around them, delighted by the tragedy. Puck assumes his monstrous true form and confronts the cultists as Emilia’s grieving guardian. Subaru has again reached an impossible ending: Rem has vanished from memory, Emilia is dead because of his confession, and the world is beginning to freeze.
Episode 18
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Puck annihilates Petelgeuse and the nearby cultists, then freezes Subaru as punishment for allowing Emilia to die. Subaru returns to the capital checkpoint stripped of confidence and hope. He takes Rem away from the others and proposes that they abandon everything, flee Lugunica, and build a quiet life together. Rem admits that she has imagined such a future, but refuses because the man asking is surrendering rather than choosing her freely. Subaru then exposes the self-loathing beneath his bravado: he has wasted his life, failed every person who trusted him, and believes his only qualities are weakness and empty talk. Rem answers by describing the Subaru she has witnessed—someone who saved her, gave her a future, and continues standing after terrible pain. She confesses that she loves him while accepting that he loves Emilia. Her faith allows Subaru to separate his failures from the possibility of acting differently now. He asks Rem to help him save Emilia, defeat the cult, and begin again. Renewed by her answer, Subaru declares that his life in this world will restart from zero.
Episode 19
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Subaru returns to Crusch with a genuine proposal rather than a demand. He offers valuable mining rights in Roswaal’s territory and, using knowledge from previous loops, the exact time and place the White Whale will appear. His mobile phone becomes a supposed timing device, while his Witch scent can serve as bait. Crusch recognizes both the opportunity and Subaru’s sincerity and agrees to an alliance. Anastasia also commits her mercenary force, the Iron Fang, because eliminating the whale benefits commerce and the royal campaign. Wilhelm reveals that his wife, the former Sword Saint Theresia, was killed by the creature and that he has spent years awaiting revenge. Subaru and Rem join the combined army at the Flugel Tree, where he meets Ricardo, Mimi, and Hetaro and prepares Patrasche for battle. The soldiers trust a prediction only Subaru can explain, making the plan dependent on his credibility and willingness to stand before the monster. At the appointed moment, the White Whale emerges from the night exactly as promised. Crusch orders the attack, and the long-planned hunt begins with Subaru at its center.
Episode 20
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The allied forces illuminate the battlefield and unleash coordinated magic, artillery, and aerial attacks on the White Whale. Subaru and Rem lure it into position while Wilhelm repeatedly leaps onto its body, cutting deeply in memory of Theresia. The monster remains airborne and releases a dense fog. Subaru recognizes that the mist erases people and even memories of their existence, but the warning comes too late for many soldiers. To redirect the whale from wounded troops, he invokes Return by Death without explaining it, strengthening the Witch’s scent and drawing the creature toward himself. Wilhelm and Ricardo’s unit continue the assault, yet the battle deteriorates. Ricardo is badly injured, and Wilhelm is swallowed after confronting the enemy that defined his life. The surviving troops begin to lose formation and confidence. When the fog finally parts, their despair deepens: three identical White Whales float above the battlefield. Subaru must determine whether the creature has multiplied, created illusions, or concealed another ability, while the exhausted army faces three targets after barely surviving one. Their carefully prepared advantage appears to have vanished in a single moment.
Episode 21
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The sight of three White Whales breaks the allied army’s morale, but Subaru studies their movements and notices that each shares the same injured eye. He concludes that two are weaker copies controlled by the original, which is staying safely above the battle. Subaru rallies the soldiers by refusing to accept despair as a reason to stop. Rem launches him skyward on an ice platform so he can taunt the true whale and amplify the Witch’s scent at close range. As the monster dives after him, Rem catches Subaru and carries him toward the Flugel Tree. The army uses magic and explosives to cut the enormous trunk at the planned moment, crushing the whale beneath it. Wilhelm emerges alive and delivers the killing assault, avenging Theresia and causing the copies to disappear. With the legendary mabeast defeated, Subaru immediately turns toward the Witch Cult attack that will soon strike Arlam Village. Crusch and Anastasia provide knights and mercenaries despite their casualties. Wilhelm, Felix, Ricardo, Mimi, and others join the operation, while injured soldiers and Rem remain behind. Subaru then discovers that Julius will also fight under his command.
Episode 22
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Subaru and Julius exchange bitter remarks but acknowledge their previous faults, forming an uneasy partnership before entering Roswaal’s forest. Subaru approaches Petelgeuse alone and uses his Witch scent to convince the archbishop that he may be the missing Sin Archbishop of Pride. When Subaru cannot produce a Gospel and insults the book, Petelgeuse loses control. That distraction triggers the ambush: Mimi and Tivey destroy the hideout, Wilhelm kills Petelgeuse’s body, and separate units hunt the cult’s ten subordinate “Fingers.” Victory proves premature because Petelgeuse transfers his consciousness into another Finger. The possessed cultist uses invisible hands to kill soldiers and capture Subaru until Julius’s small spirit distracts her and Wilhelm strikes. Subaru blames himself for the casualties caused by incomplete information, but Wilhelm tells him leadership requires continuing despite painful mistakes. Merchants move toward the mansion and village to begin evacuation, and Felix urges Subaru to reconcile fully with Julius. Before he can do so, a blue mist isolates him from the column. Ram appears above the road beside unnatural blue flowers, and the plants suddenly attack, suggesting that the cult has prepared another hidden defense.
Episode 23
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The blue flowers ensnare Subaru inside an illusion, but Ia, a minor spirit Julius secretly assigned to protect him, breaks the spell. Julius frees the rest of the force, and Subaru confronts Ram, who believes he abandoned Emilia. After the misunderstanding is resolved, Ram helps convince the distrustful villagers to accept evacuation. Felix discovers that one merchant is a concealed cultist, but the spy detonates himself and knocks Subaru unconscious. When Subaru wakes, additional Fingers have attacked, confirming that Petelgeuse can move between compatible bodies. Wilhelm is badly wounded fighting the final host until Emilia arrives and freezes the attacker. The immediate battle ends, but Ia suddenly withdraws from Subaru. Realizing that the spirit sensed a new possession, Subaru runs away from Emilia and the evacuees. Petelgeuse takes control of Subaru’s body, using him as the next vessel. Subaru resists internally long enough to beg Felix and Julius to kill him before he can harm anyone. Felix initially tries to stop his heart gently, but Petelgeuse prevents it. Julius reluctantly delivers the fatal blow. Emilia hears the distant impact, unaware that Subaru has sacrificed another life to protect her.
Episode 24
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Subaru resets to the strategy meeting after the White Whale’s defeat, gaining a final chance to correct the cult operation. He explains that Petelgeuse survives by possessing prepared Fingers and restructures the plan to eliminate every vessel before confronting the archbishop. Wilhelm visits Emilia as Crusch’s representative, confirms a temporary alliance, and arranges Arlam’s evacuation. Disguised beneath a cloak, Subaru meets Emilia and warns her of the attack without demanding trust or gratitude. The merchants receive a deliberately delayed timetable, exposing the cult spy when he reports false information. Subaru’s allies also rescue Otto, whom the cult had captured. Subaru then enters Petelgeuse’s hideout and pretends he wants to undergo the ordeal required to become Pride and serve as a new vessel. When ordered to present his Gospel, he reveals a captured communication metia instead, signaling the ambush. Subaru flees with Petelgeuse and the remaining Fingers in pursuit. Mimi and Tivey eliminate the vessels, while Subaru leads the archbishop toward the cliff where he once chose death. Julius joins him there. By sharing his vision with Julius, Subaru allows the knight to perceive and counter Petelgeuse’s invisible hands.