On the journey back from defeating the White Whale and Witch Cult, Subaru discovers that Emilia and everyone else have completely forgotten Rem. The cause is revealed through the attack on the returning forces: the Sin Archbishops Regulus Corneas and Lye Batenkaitos overwhelm Crusch and Rem, devouring Crusch’s memories and Rem’s name and memories. Rem is left comatose and erased from everyone’s awareness except Subaru’s. Desperate to undo the disaster, Subaru kills himself, only to awaken after the ambush, proving that his new checkpoint has already fixed the tragedy in place. At Crusch’s manor, the amnesiac Crusch struggles to understand the alliance she once formed, while Felix angrily proposes ending it. Subaru, Emilia, Wilhelm, and Crusch ultimately agree to continue cooperating despite their losses. Subaru then sits beside Rem and confronts the possibility that Return by Death cannot restore everything. Emilia finds him grieving and offers quiet comfort. The episode closes with Subaru renewing his promise to wake Rem and recover the life that Gluttony stole from her.
Episode 2
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Subaru, Emilia, Otto, and the unconscious Rem return to Roswaal’s mansion, where Ram has recalled the former maid Frederica and recruited Petra as an apprentice. Frederica explains that Roswaal, Ram, and the evacuated villagers are staying in the Sanctuary, an isolated settlement protected by a barrier. Subaru questions Beatrice about Petelgeuse’s Gospel, but she refuses a direct answer and tells him to seek knowledge in the Sanctuary. Frederica supplies Emilia with a crystal said to grant entry, though its reaction during the journey unexpectedly separates Subaru from the others. He awakens alone in the forest and briefly sees a pink-haired elf girl before following her toward ancient ruins. Inside, Subaru is drawn into a strange sunlit field and meets Echidna, the Witch of Greed, who casually invites him to tea. Her appearance contradicts every fearful image Subaru associates with witches, yet her calm curiosity is unsettling. While Emilia’s group searches for him outside, Subaru realizes that the next stage of their journey is tied not only to Roswaal and the trapped villagers, but also to a witch who appears to know far more than she reveals.
Episode 3
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Echidna explains that Subaru has entered a mental world containing her soul and serves him tea made from her bodily fluids, then probes his knowledge and intentions with amused curiosity. Before releasing him, she grants him permission to face the Sanctuary’s trials and removes his memory of their conversation until he leaves the graveyard. Subaru wakes in the ruins and is immediately attacked by Garfiel Tinsel, the Sanctuary’s aggressive guardian, but mentioning Frederica halts the fight. Reunited with Emilia and Otto, Subaru meets Roswaal, Ram, Garfiel, and the elder Ryuzu. Roswaal reveals that the barrier confines mixed-blood residents, including Emilia, and that it can only be dissolved if a qualified person clears three trials. The villagers are effectively being held to force Emilia’s participation. Emilia accepts the burden, but her first attempt leaves her terrified and unconscious. Subaru follows her into the graveyard and is accepted as another challenger. Instead of facing an enemy, he awakens in his old bedroom in Japan, apparently restored to his former life. His father enters with familiar energy, while Subaru’s memories of Lugunica temporarily recede, beginning a trial centered on the past he abandoned.
Episode 4
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Within the first trial, Subaru relives his life as a shut-in with his parents. His father Kenichi remains cheerful and attentive, but notices that Subaru is avoiding school and hiding behind jokes. During a long walk, Subaru remembers how childhood praise for being Kenichi’s son became a burden. As his achievements stopped standing out, he tried increasingly reckless behavior to preserve attention, lost his friends, and eventually withdrew from society rather than admit he felt ordinary. Subaru finally tells his father that he wanted his parents to give up on him, while also confessing that people in another world now accept him despite his failures. Kenichi responds without judgment and assures him that a parent’s love is not a debt the child must repay. The next morning, Subaru dresses for school and shares breakfast with his mother Naoko. Her small habits and unconditional concern make him realize the trial is an illusion and that he may never apologize to his real parents. He leaves home after promising to return, then reaches an empty classroom. Echidna waits there, confirming that confronting his parents and accepting their love was the past he needed to overcome.
Episode 5
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Echidna congratulates Subaru for clearing the first trial and reveals that two more remain. He wakes beside Emilia, who has failed her own trial and is overwhelmed by fear. Puck’s unexplained absence deepens her insecurity. Ryuzu confirms that the trials are the only lawful way to remove the barrier, while Garfiel opposes efforts that might destabilize the Sanctuary. Subaru confronts Roswaal about his absence during the Witch Cult attack and learns that Roswaal deliberately allowed the crisis to develop so Subaru could gain credit and become indispensable to Emilia. Furious but focused, Subaru negotiates the release of the Arlam villagers while Emilia stays behind to continue challenging the graveyard. Garfiel privately suggests that Subaru clear the trials in her place, an option Subaru begins considering after watching her suffer. Subaru then returns to the mansion to investigate Frederica and protect Rem. The building appears deserted, and an uneasy silence replaces the usual household activity. As Subaru searches the corridors, Elsa Granhiert suddenly emerges and stabs him through the abdomen. Her return confirms that the mansion faces a scheduled attack, linking the Sanctuary’s political trap to a second deadline Subaru must somehow solve.
Episode 6
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After returning to the graveyard checkpoint, Subaru immediately comforts Emilia and proposes taking the remaining trials himself. Garfiel reacts with hostility, while Emilia interprets the suggestion as proof that Subaru doubts her. Subaru changes tactics and asks Roswaal for permission to inspect the mansion early, bringing Ram with him. During the trip, Ram experiences faint emotional reactions to Rem despite having no conscious memory of her sister. At the mansion, Subaru reunites Ram with the sleeping Rem and presses Frederica about the crystal that transported him. Frederica insists an oath prevents her from explaining. Elsa appears holding Petra hostage, forcing Subaru, Ram, and Frederica into a desperate rescue. Frederica transforms into a powerful beast to confront Elsa, while Subaru and Ram retrieve Petra and Rem. Their escape route is then blocked by a mabeast controlled by an unseen tamer. One by one Subaru’s allies are killed, leaving him unable to save either the household or Rem. When Elsa corners him, Subaru dives toward Rem’s bedroom but passes through a door into Beatrice’s forbidden library instead. He survives the massacre only because Beatrice chose to pull him away, a selective rescue that fills him with horror rather than relief.
Episode 7
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Subaru angrily demands that Beatrice return him to the mansion so he can die and reset, but she restrains him. He notices a black book resembling a Witch Cult Gospel and accuses her of following its instructions. Beatrice finally breaks down, insisting that her actions and centuries of waiting are dictated by the book. Elsa finds the library and kills Subaru before he can understand more. In the next loop, Subaru again offers to complete Emilia’s trials and privately consults Garfiel and Ryuzu. Repeated deaths strengthen the Witch’s scent around him, causing Garfiel to identify him as a possible cultist. Subaru is imprisoned and left alone for days, unable to protect the mansion or explain his knowledge. Otto unexpectedly frees him and reveals that he and Ram have prepared an escape. Subaru cannot understand why a merchant with no obligation would risk his life. Otto bluntly answers that Subaru is his friend. The declaration forces Subaru to recognize how little he values relationships that are freely offered to him. Rather than another tool or dependent, Otto becomes the first ally Subaru can involve because of mutual trust, opening a path away from his habit of carrying every loop alone.
Episode 8
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Otto and Ram urge Subaru to escape immediately, but he first confronts Roswaal about Beatrice. Roswaal explains that her book is a Tome of Wisdom rather than a Gospel and claims Subaru can save her by declaring himself “that person.” Garfiel interrupts, forcing the group to flee. Ram stays behind while Otto and the villagers help Subaru cross the barrier, but Garfiel pursues and kills them before catching him. Subaru escapes the Sanctuary’s boundary only to be teleported by Frederica’s crystal. When he wakes, the Sanctuary is deserted and buried under unnatural snow. A swarm of tiny white mabeasts attacks; Subaru is devoured alive by the Great Rabbit in one of his most agonizing deaths. After resetting, the trauma leaves him barely functional until Echidna draws him into her tea party. She reveals that she knows about Return by Death and that the taboo preventing disclosure does not apply in her realm. For the first time, Subaru describes his loops, deaths, and helplessness to someone who can remember them. The relief shatters his composure. He weeps in Echidna’s arms, finally receiving acknowledgment that his discarded lives were real and that the pain he carried alone had value.
Episode 9
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Echidna identifies the creatures that ate Subaru as the Great Rabbit, one of the Three Great Mabeasts, and summons other Witches of Sin to answer his questions. Typhon, the Witch of Pride, tests his guilt by shattering his body; Minerva, the Witch of Wrath, heals him through furious compassion. Subaru then meets Daphne, the Witch of Gluttony and creator of the White Whale and Great Rabbit. Her warped logic treats victims as food and predators as solutions to hunger, but she reveals that the Rabbit is drawn to concentrated mana and cannot truly die unless every individual is eliminated. Subaru leaves with useful knowledge, only to find the Sanctuary swallowed by black shadows. By repeatedly attempting to reveal Return by Death, he has provoked Satella’s manifestation. She has consumed nearly everyone and advances while declaring her love for him. Garfiel rescues Subaru briefly, but the darkness devours the Sanctuary and Roswaal calmly accepts death, expecting Subaru to restart. Satella’s overwhelming affection begins eroding Subaru’s mind as he is absorbed into her shadow. The loop transforms the mystery of the Sanctuary into a direct confrontation with the being who granted his power, showing that even seeking help can bring catastrophic punishment.
Episode 10
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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.
Episode 11
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Subaru takes Beatrice’s Tome of Wisdom and discovers its pages are blank. Beatrice explains that Echidna ordered her to wait in the library for an undefined “that person,” and after four centuries of isolation she now wants that person to end her life. Elsa interrupts, and Subaru tries to escape with Beatrice, but Meili and her mabeasts have already slaughtered the evacuees. Beatrice seemingly kills Elsa, only for the assassin to revive and stab her from behind. Beatrice uses her final strength to teleport Subaru to the Sanctuary. He arrives in a snowstorm and finds Emilia broken after repeated failures and Puck’s absence. Garfiel accuses Emilia of causing the weather, but Subaru realizes Roswaal engineered it to attract the Great Rabbit. Confronted, Roswaal kills Garfiel and Ram and reveals his own Tome of Wisdom. He cannot remember loops, yet the book has taught him that Subaru can redo events. Roswaal intends to force Subaru into choosing one person above everyone else, recreating his own obsessive devotion to Echidna. The Great Rabbit consumes the unresisting Roswaal. Subaru reaches Emilia, who kisses him with vacant affection while the rabbits devour him, ending a loop in which every available choice has been poisoned.
Episode 12
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Following another reset, Subaru seeks Echidna but is thrust into the second trial: visions of worlds that may have continued after each of his deaths. He witnesses friends grieving, investigating, or blaming themselves beside his abandoned bodies. The possibility that Return by Death leaves real timelines behind destroys the emotional defense that allowed him to treat suicide as a tool. A comforting Rem appears, but Subaru recognizes inconsistencies and exposes her as Carmilla, the Witch of Lust, whom Echidna sent to stabilize him. Echidna then offers a contract: she will share her knowledge and guide every loop until Subaru achieves his desired future. Before he agrees, the other witches reveal the cost. Echidna’s curiosity would lead him through countless unnecessary deaths, and she shows little concern for anyone’s suffering. She admits that “that person” was never predetermined, making Beatrice’s centuries of waiting an experiment. Subaru rejects her contract. Satella enters the tea party and asks him to value and save himself. Her arrival turns the gathering into a dispute over whether Subaru’s power should serve an outcome, a witch’s curiosity, or the life of the person forced to use it.